Well, Obama is president. As head of the executive branch, he can always choose to not enforce a certain law, it is well within the perogative of the executive to ignore a law, and say something will be done "this way" instead.
Or this law X will not be enforced.
That is an intentional consequence of separation of powers, and the way the US government is structured.
As someone who has tested out ZFS on both BSD and Solaris, and is familiar with the subject, I can tell you quite plainly: The Solaris implementation is good and generally, the BSD / FreeBSD implementation sucks, is buggy, missing features (or key features are buggy).
The OpenSolaris implementation is mature, well maintained, performs well, and is up to date.
The FreeBSD implementation is immature, lags way behind OSol development, and seems to be unstable.
If you want a mission critical system running ZFS, FreeBSD is not an option, period.
ZFS is Stable on Solaris, and to a great extent on OpenSolaris and NexentaCore.
There may be some gotchas, in OSol, particularly if you use new advanced features such as dedup.
There may also be some performance gotchas with certain hardware in all implementations (e.g. 32-bit proc, less than 2GB of RAM), and if you use gzip compression.
Just because work has been done to port the filesystem to BSD, does not mean it has the same stability or performance characteristics.
It might have similar ones in the future, right now it does not.
I would call it "Alpha" quality, even if it is in stable versions of BSD, at this point.
Yes we have some influence in buying decisions with some bosses, but these bosses have sales reps from Oracle directly.
We have little bit more than "just some influence".
The "sales reps" now find themselves confronted with dead air, because we don't really much care what an Oracle sales rep has to say anymore, at least not until they do a lot of explaining in regards to their company's recent underhanded actions as of late.
You think these types of things don't effect customers?
Yes, but they rely on your trash can containing recyclables before a fine can be imposed.
Also, if they happen to see your trash can with a transparent bag full of soda cans and a transparent bag full of glass soda bottles on top, they might get suspicious anyways.
Government have some good options to impose financial penalties and still not make them class discriminatory.
They could use penalties against corporations such as:
$10 + amount equal to 10 x 5% of your top paid employee's wages + amount equal to 3% of the total of all your employees' wages + 5% of your gross receivables/cash flow for the year the offense occured + 1% of the maximum value of all assets held during the year that the offense occured + 1% of the value paid for all real property owned by the corporation
+ 5% of the fair market value of all real property rented by the corporation
+ 5% of the total assets held by all entities that hold shares in the company TIMES their proportion of ownership, if any shareholders are corporations, then that corporation's shareholders' assets are also included.
Then make a law piercing the veil of "limited liability", and allow shareholders to be liable for the fine, up to a certain percentage of their investment (amount they are liable for, above the cost of their share).
The FreeBSD "port" is more than just behind.
It is missing important functionality that was even in the version they ported. It also has some bugs and does not perform that well.
Performance is the big thing.
One of the advantages of ZFS is supposed to be its improved performance, in particular it is faster than UFS on server hardware of a large enough scale. But on BSD, ZFS is slow.
Issues abound with things like 'zfs recv' that "just work" on Solaris.
I am sure the BSD devs will do something to work out all these issues eventually, if ZFS support is to continue to be developed; however, it could take a long time for BSD to catch up.
ZFS is complicated enough and different enough from other filesystems that it is not likely to be able to simply be 'ported' or grafted onto BSD or any other OS and work well, without many years of work.
Meanwhile ZFS is stable on Solaris, performs remarkably when setup correctly compared to equivalent config on BSD, and works great.
The trash collector definitely has the right to collect your trash.
They can inspect it after collection but before combining it with other people's trash.
If they announce they will be sorting through it, and make sure every single resident is put on notice,
"SIGN this form", then it is not a privacy violation -- by submitting the trash for collection, you accept their terms.
Privacy violation is not possible due to the required consent of every person whose trash will be collected.
That's not a solution, because the cost in implementing all that stuff is larger than the benefit of increased recycling.
1st) Glass bottles are dangerous, they can break, people, esp kids, can hurt themselves.
Hard plastic bottles are expensive, require more materials to produce. Soft plastic is preferred.
They won't be re-used anyways, unless the consumer recycles the bottles -- so this doesn't buy anything.
2nd) More packaging increases the ability to sell. Packaging also protects the product against damage before it's sold.
If you limit the amount of packaging, more units have to be thrown away because they were damaged before the consumer got their product.
3rd) The burden of providing a 5yr warranty is excessively high, and prevents many products from existing in the 1st place.
The cost of this to commerce and technological advancement is much higher than a simple price increase.
Any politician to consider something such as this should be thrown out of office and made to live on the street, immediately.
4th) People like pretty boxes. If the population was in favor of demanding recyclable packaging, they would buy products packaged that way.
5th) "Grocery" bags are cheap bags and not suitable for taking out trash with.
6th) The population would never go for it, because they are bad ideas that would be a net harm to society. Politicians pushing for them would get voted out.
That's how democracy works.
They need to change it from a "fine" into forced compensation for the employees, for the number of days in advance the warning was supposed to be given in.
And secure it in the form of a lien against the company's and the company owners' physical property.
Great. Now we need to sue Oracle to stop distribution of Java.
The language is based on C and C++ technology.
C and C++ is our language? Don't like it. Don't use C.
Stop, Oracle. Go make another language now that doesn't infringe on our C technology.
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I believe Oracle will pursue even people who base their code on OpenJDK.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be sufficient to just include a copy of major pieces of OpenJDK in your software (whether they are enabled or increase the size of the final executable or not), in order for your entire codebase to benefit from the patent exemption?
However, the Java platform is GPL.
And Google may have even used Sun Java code, complying with the terms of the GPL.
So apparently the "GPL'ing of Java" is just one big fat farse, the code is not "free software" at all,
because the moment you try to exercise your right to modify and use the code to implement a new programming language,
you are "violating a patent"
Therefore Java is not free software.
And there is nothing for the community to celebrate about it having been GPL'd.
Yes, and the people running the disposal service have rights too, including the right to run their service they way they wish.
Only if they do not violate any laws in doing so.
If the collectors are an employee or operating on behalf of the government, then they have to follow the rules that the government is required to follow.
Just because the US Post Office has a right to run their service in the way they wish, does not mean their employees or contracters have a legal right to open the letter you sent to your brother,
read it, and assess you a $100 fine if you had too many speling errors, or they deemed your punctuation incorrect.
With the trash collection service, there is an expectation that your refuse is placed in the dump, not that the trash collector will root through it for things worth datamining and selling to large corporations to become part of "your file"
As in... smart trash cans that scan a bar code as you throw away an item, and automatically distribute it into the proper garbage chamber based on the identification of the item being thrown away.
As a site operator, isn't that just another way of getting 33 attorneys general after you?
They already went after paid expediting of abuse complaints.
If the AGs find a pay-to-post-a-comment site, with some offensive comments..
who knows, they might deem it as equivalent to "Pay not to have your post removed"
or "Pay to get your ocmments through the abuse filters"
No.... Google realized they are in competition against Apple and Microsoft, and need to align their business practices a little more with them to successfully compete, I guess.
For example, they need to start treating APIs as more precious, make sure to create lots of internal API Frameworks, use them in their own extensions, and flog any third-party who dare touch internal Frameworks.
$5 today, but i'm surely they are just testing the waters.... in a year or so it might be $99 much like what Apple mobile devs have to fork over.
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Well, Obama is president. As head of the executive branch, he can always choose to not enforce a certain law, it is well within the perogative of the executive to ignore a law, and say something will be done "this way" instead. Or this law X will not be enforced.
That is an intentional consequence of separation of powers, and the way the US government is structured.
Why bother with brain transplants? Let's develop a biological equivalent to a "floppy drive"
Something that lets the entire contents of your brain be dumped to a piece of a physical media, and then loaded into the brain of your clone.
Then once the clone is verified to be fully operational, the original HDD will be wiped
As someone who has tested out ZFS on both BSD and Solaris, and is familiar with the subject, I can tell you quite plainly: The Solaris implementation is good and generally, the BSD / FreeBSD implementation sucks, is buggy, missing features (or key features are buggy).
The OpenSolaris implementation is mature, well maintained, performs well, and is up to date. The FreeBSD implementation is immature, lags way behind OSol development, and seems to be unstable.
If you want a mission critical system running ZFS, FreeBSD is not an option, period.
ZFS is Stable on Solaris, and to a great extent on OpenSolaris and NexentaCore. There may be some gotchas, in OSol, particularly if you use new advanced features such as dedup.
There may also be some performance gotchas with certain hardware in all implementations (e.g. 32-bit proc, less than 2GB of RAM), and if you use gzip compression.
Just because work has been done to port the filesystem to BSD, does not mean it has the same stability or performance characteristics. It might have similar ones in the future, right now it does not. I would call it "Alpha" quality, even if it is in stable versions of BSD, at this point.
Yes we have some influence in buying decisions with some bosses, but these bosses have sales reps from Oracle directly.
We have little bit more than "just some influence". The "sales reps" now find themselves confronted with dead air, because we don't really much care what an Oracle sales rep has to say anymore, at least not until they do a lot of explaining in regards to their company's recent underhanded actions as of late.
You think these types of things don't effect customers?
I pray that they do not be asses with Java.
They have already proven that they are.
Every one of us who visits this web site does at least one thing that is not in that list "Eat, Sleep, Watch TV"
We Read/Post things on Slashdot.
Yes, but they rely on your trash can containing recyclables before a fine can be imposed.
Also, if they happen to see your trash can with a transparent bag full of soda cans and a transparent bag full of glass soda bottles on top, they might get suspicious anyways.
Is that why companies don't have to collect sales tax when people buy from them who live in a different state than they do?
Even when the state the buyer lives in has a law that the seller must always collect sales tax?
Government have some good options to impose financial penalties and still not make them class discriminatory.
They could use penalties against corporations such as:
$10 + amount equal to 10 x 5% of your top paid employee's wages + amount equal to 3% of the total of all your employees' wages + 5% of your gross receivables/cash flow for the year the offense occured + 1% of the maximum value of all assets held during the year that the offense occured + 1% of the value paid for all real property owned by the corporation + 5% of the fair market value of all real property rented by the corporation + 5% of the total assets held by all entities that hold shares in the company TIMES their proportion of ownership, if any shareholders are corporations, then that corporation's shareholders' assets are also included.
Then make a law piercing the veil of "limited liability", and allow shareholders to be liable for the fine, up to a certain percentage of their investment (amount they are liable for, above the cost of their share).
The FreeBSD "port" is more than just behind. It is missing important functionality that was even in the version they ported. It also has some bugs and does not perform that well.
Performance is the big thing. One of the advantages of ZFS is supposed to be its improved performance, in particular it is faster than UFS on server hardware of a large enough scale. But on BSD, ZFS is slow.
Issues abound with things like 'zfs recv' that "just work" on Solaris.
I am sure the BSD devs will do something to work out all these issues eventually, if ZFS support is to continue to be developed; however, it could take a long time for BSD to catch up.
ZFS is complicated enough and different enough from other filesystems that it is not likely to be able to simply be 'ported' or grafted onto BSD or any other OS and work well, without many years of work.
Meanwhile ZFS is stable on Solaris, performs remarkably when setup correctly compared to equivalent config on BSD, and works great.
The trash collector definitely has the right to collect your trash. They can inspect it after collection but before combining it with other people's trash.
If they announce they will be sorting through it, and make sure every single resident is put on notice, "SIGN this form", then it is not a privacy violation -- by submitting the trash for collection, you accept their terms.
Privacy violation is not possible due to the required consent of every person whose trash will be collected.
That's not a solution, because the cost in implementing all that stuff is larger than the benefit of increased recycling.
1st) Glass bottles are dangerous, they can break, people, esp kids, can hurt themselves.
Hard plastic bottles are expensive, require more materials to produce. Soft plastic is preferred.
They won't be re-used anyways, unless the consumer recycles the bottles -- so this doesn't buy anything.
2nd) More packaging increases the ability to sell. Packaging also protects the product against damage before it's sold. If you limit the amount of packaging, more units have to be thrown away because they were damaged before the consumer got their product.
3rd) The burden of providing a 5yr warranty is excessively high, and prevents many products from existing in the 1st place. The cost of this to commerce and technological advancement is much higher than a simple price increase. Any politician to consider something such as this should be thrown out of office and made to live on the street, immediately.
4th) People like pretty boxes. If the population was in favor of demanding recyclable packaging, they would buy products packaged that way.
5th) "Grocery" bags are cheap bags and not suitable for taking out trash with.
6th) The population would never go for it, because they are bad ideas that would be a net harm to society. Politicians pushing for them would get voted out. That's how democracy works.
They need to change it from a "fine" into forced compensation for the employees, for the number of days in advance the warning was supposed to be given in.
And secure it in the form of a lien against the company's and the company owners' physical property.
Avoid you getting fined for having the recyclables in your can
Great. Now we need to sue Oracle to stop distribution of Java. The language is based on C and C++ technology.
C and C++ is our language? Don't like it. Don't use C. Stop, Oracle. Go make another language now that doesn't infringe on our C technology.
I believe Oracle will pursue even people who base their code on OpenJDK.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be sufficient to just include a copy of major pieces of OpenJDK in your software (whether they are enabled or increase the size of the final executable or not), in order for your entire codebase to benefit from the patent exemption?
However, the Java platform is GPL. And Google may have even used Sun Java code, complying with the terms of the GPL.
So apparently the "GPL'ing of Java" is just one big fat farse, the code is not "free software" at all, because the moment you try to exercise your right to modify and use the code to implement a new programming language, you are "violating a patent"
Therefore Java is not free software. And there is nothing for the community to celebrate about it having been GPL'd.
It seems .NET is more open.
Yes, and the people running the disposal service have rights too, including the right to run their service they way they wish.
Only if they do not violate any laws in doing so.
If the collectors are an employee or operating on behalf of the government, then they have to follow the rules that the government is required to follow.
Just because the US Post Office has a right to run their service in the way they wish, does not mean their employees or contracters have a legal right to open the letter you sent to your brother, read it, and assess you a $100 fine if you had too many speling errors, or they deemed your punctuation incorrect.
With the trash collection service, there is an expectation that your refuse is placed in the dump, not that the trash collector will root through it for things worth datamining and selling to large corporations to become part of "your file"
I am sure anyone looking through your trash for recyclables will have suitable equipment.
Perhaps they will dump your trash down a chute while a camera captures images of the trash as it is flowing.
If they will cite for X% of recyclables, then they need a way to measure what volume of what material is what.
And a way of documenting that fact, so they can support the fine, when the perp tries to challenge the citation in court.
I'm fairly sure that an unrestricted anonymous waste disposal service wasn't guaranteed in the constitution.
No, but it's part of the social contract, one of the services government is expected to provide.
There is a reason we have trash collection, so people don't dump the trash themselves.
Into common areas, neighbor's property, ditches, etc...
And if you covertly slip your recyclables into some neighbor-down-the-street's can at night?
As in... smart trash cans that scan a bar code as you throw away an item, and automatically distribute it into the proper garbage chamber based on the identification of the item being thrown away.
non-Recycling fines sound like a great revenue opportunity for the city
As a site operator, isn't that just another way of getting 33 attorneys general after you?
They already went after paid expediting of abuse complaints.
If the AGs find a pay-to-post-a-comment site, with some offensive comments.. who knows, they might deem it as equivalent to "Pay not to have your post removed" or "Pay to get your ocmments through the abuse filters"
No.... Google realized they are in competition against Apple and Microsoft, and need to align their business practices a little more with them to successfully compete, I guess.
For example, they need to start treating APIs as more precious, make sure to create lots of internal API Frameworks, use them in their own extensions, and flog any third-party who dare touch internal Frameworks.
$5 today, but i'm surely they are just testing the waters.... in a year or so it might be $99 much like what Apple mobile devs have to fork over.
Right... but Apple doesn't charge you a $5 or more fee to have your extension submitted to their gallery.
They can accept or deny it, but you don't pay anything to Apple, it's free (currently).
Now what you may pay is webhosting; for your extension's website and download servers.