This is a demonstration of incompetence in the company. I have, in the past, been the person who's job it was to secure a system after the firing of a guy who had "the keys to the kingdom". He was called in to the termination interview, and by the time he came back out, his windows and unix accounts was frozen and archived, his remote access credentials were revoked, his email was redirected, and his keycard was invalidated.
Between things like firesheep and things like this, it has reached the point where it is irresponsible to NOT be running private VPN and/or a HTTP ssh tunnel out of your device.
I have already discombubulated the TSA agents with my utilikilt. Maybe I will start wearing it more often, "regimental" style, and while wearing a gay pride t-shirt and a big grin.
If they are going to be thugs, I'm going to make it funny.
I have to wonder if they are also banning microwave ovens. The ISM frequency range used by WiFi is unlicensed because it is the same frequency used by microwave ovens, and so is full of junk and interference.
The whole *point* of "collective bargaining" in "labor relations" (read "unions"), is that they exclude other groups. The last thing any union wants is a competing labor source. They will use any means, up to and happily including violence, to get competing labor suppliers (which they call "scab") to either get with the program, or get out.
Again I ask "How is that 'Hope N Change' working out for you?"
Four years ago this would have unleashed yet another tiresome pile of comments about "Bush" and "The Republicans". I see curious silence, and even a reversal of position, on the part of the current president's fans...
I have to wonder why the key ever existed in human-accessable form in the first place. Controlled access key storage hardware devices, dating back to the venerable SafeKeyer and before, are well understood technology. In fact, Intel makes such devices. Why weren't they keeping this master key in one?
| In the past, Amazon has argued that it should not have to help support public services in states in which it has no physical presence.
I'm disappointed in the !nothypocrit tag and this piece of text in the story.
Amazon pays postage, just like everyone else who sends stuff thru the USPS, at the same public rates as everyone else. They *are* paying for this particular public service.
It seems to me that the editor is trying to spin the story, either for his own biases, or just to generate argument.
I've just read the GSfD documentation, and the API is exactly the same as that of Amazon S3, which has been comfortably used by developers and web designers for years now.
All the ACTA articles up to a year and a half ago made sure to say some varient of "The Bush Administration is..." but now its "The US trade representation delegation is..." instead of the more honest "The Obama Adminstration is...". Setting direction and lines in the sand for treaty negotiations of this magnitude come from the very top of the Executive Branch, e.g. from the President's desk, e.g. Barack Obama made this decision.
The MySQL software that was originally proposed to be closed source are portions of the online backup drivers. Each such driver has to be written in close cooperation with the developers of each storage engine. Well...
InnoDB already has an online backup tool, and even if/when they revise their tool to use this new API, it's still going to be theirs, open or closed, not the property of the MySQL Group.
Online backup of the engines for CSV, Blackhole, and Memcached doesn't even make sense. Archive already has a publicly available open source online backup tool.
Online backup makes sense for Maria, I don't see MontyW writing crippleware into his work.
How about MyISAM? I think that work is already done, but, the horse is already out of the barn, in that the online backup drivers for it are already publically available..
Looking even closer, the part that was going to be closed was not even the entire online backup driver set, but just compression and encryption. Any halfway competent developer would be able to hook in the necessary calls to azio, zlib, and openssl, and replicate the work.
So this is a big tempest over something that doesn't matter, and couldnt have happened anyway.
Plus, best practices for backup dont even use or want online backup. The Right Way to backup a real production MySQL instances is via filesystem snapshot, using something like LVM or ZFS.
As a small aside, the Slashdot headline of the original article was not entirely accurate. It wasn't the Sun executives who decided this. It was the MySQL executives. What that means, especially in light of the keynote speeches given by CEO Jonathan Schwartz and VP Rich Green, is interesting, and remains to be publically seen.
The software that was proposed to be closed source are portions of the online backup drivers. Each such driver has to be written in close cooperation with the developers of each storage engine. Well...
InnoDB already has an online backup tool, and even if/when they revise their tool to use this new API, it's still going to be theirs, open or closed, not the property of the MySQL Group.
Online backup of the engines for Archive, CSV, Blackhole, and Memcached doesn't even make sense, and even if it did, BrianA will flat out refuse to write crippleware into his own software.
Similarly, while online backup makes sense for Maria, I don't see MontyW writing crippleware into his work.
How about MyISAM? I think that work is already done, but, the horse is already out of the barn, in that the online backup drivers for it just went up on bkbits.
Looking even closer, the part that was going to be closed was not even the entire online backup driver set, but just compression and encryption. Any halfway competent developer would be able to hook in the necessary calls to azio, zlib, and openssl, and replicate the work.
So this is a big tempest over something that's not going to happen, and doesn't matter anyway.
Plus, best practices for backup dont even use or want online backup. The Right Way to backup a real production MySQL instances is via filesystem snapshot, using something like LVM or ZFS.
As a small aside, the headline was not entirely accurate. It wasn't Sun who did this. What the Sun CEO does in response to this, right on the heels of his keynote, remains to be seen.
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First post!
So now I'm a Sun employee. Interesting. No more BK at MySQL.
What all this means, I'm sure I'll be learning the hard way very soon.
If that's how you feel, why didn't you nominate them. Nominations and votes are not done by some secret cabal. Nominations are from all of the members/attendees of last year's and this year's WorldCon (2002 ConJose in San Jose, and 2003 TorCon in Toronto), and the vote is by members/attendees of this year's WorldCon.
If you don't join and vote, you have zero right to bitch about it.
You don't even have to buy a full membership and fly to those cities, you can just buy a simple voting membership.
The difference here, I think, is that the kind of work that is doable via telecommuting cannot be done by "child labor". I just don't see people keeping their preteen kids home from school to help the family do debugging runs, or site layout.
"and thereby provide protection for copyrighted content against unauthorized consumer copying" is false on it's face, since CSS does not now, and never has, provided any sort of copy protection for the DVDs. It just prevents you from "copying" DVD *players*.
I wish the judge and the press could see this point...
Wit Capital is a rightious corporation. Starting from a private offering of a microbrewery to fans of their beer, to creating an online market venue for owners of those shares, they basically invented and forced the US SEC to recognize, the intersection of the `net and the stock market.
>after all, CEOs, COOs, & others of that ilk >never seem to get fired
Not true. They get fired all the time. Thats part of why CEOs insist on golden parachute clauses, because if you think corps have no loyality to their Dilberts, they have even less to their executive management.
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This is a demonstration of incompetence in the company. I have, in the past, been the person who's job it was to secure a system after the firing of a guy who had "the keys to the kingdom". He was called in to the termination interview, and by the time he came back out, his windows and unix accounts was frozen and archived, his remote access credentials were revoked, his email was redirected, and his keycard was invalidated.
Free Speech was never a foundational principle for Canada. It's "Peace, Order, and Good Government".
Between things like firesheep and things like this, it has reached the point where it is irresponsible to NOT be running private VPN and/or a HTTP ssh tunnel out of your device.
Seventeen year old rapists and gangbangers are not "children".
We don't execute too many of them. We execute too *few*.
I have already discombubulated the TSA agents with my utilikilt. Maybe I will start wearing it more often, "regimental" style, and while wearing a gay pride t-shirt and a big grin.
If they are going to be thugs, I'm going to make it funny.
I have to wonder if they are also banning microwave ovens. The ISM frequency range used by WiFi is unlicensed because it is the same frequency used by microwave ovens, and so is full of junk and interference.
The whole *point* of "collective bargaining" in "labor relations" (read "unions"), is that they exclude other groups. The last thing any union wants is a competing labor source. They will use any means, up to and happily including violence, to get competing labor suppliers (which they call "scab") to either get with the program, or get out.
Again I ask "How is that 'Hope N Change' working out for you?"
Four years ago this would have unleashed yet another tiresome pile of comments about "Bush" and "The Republicans". I see curious silence, and even a reversal of position, on the part of the current president's fans...
I have to wonder why the key ever existed in human-accessable form in the first place. Controlled access key storage hardware devices, dating back to the venerable SafeKeyer and before, are well understood technology. In fact, Intel makes such devices. Why weren't they keeping this master key in one?
Incompetence on top of incompetence.
Well, I was planning on closing my Chase credit card anyway.
| In the past, Amazon has argued that it should not have to help support public services in states in which it has no physical presence.
I'm disappointed in the !nothypocrit tag and this piece of text in the story.
Amazon pays postage, just like everyone else who sends stuff thru the USPS, at the same public rates as everyone else. They *are* paying for this particular public service.
It seems to me that the editor is trying to spin the story, either for his own biases, or just to generate argument.
I've just read the GSfD documentation, and the API is exactly the same as that of Amazon S3, which has been comfortably used by developers and web designers for years now.
Why was this story approved?
All the ACTA articles up to a year and a half ago made sure to say some varient of "The Bush Administration is..." but now its "The US trade representation delegation is..." instead of the more honest "The Obama Adminstration is...". Setting direction and lines in the sand for treaty negotiations of this magnitude come from the very top of the Executive Branch, e.g. from the President's desk, e.g. Barack Obama made this decision.
He's just yet another dirty Chicago politican, with the added advantage of a huge cohort of religious followers who made him the Obamessiah.
The MySQL software that was originally proposed to be closed source are portions of the online backup drivers. Each such driver has to be written in close cooperation with the developers of each storage engine. Well...
InnoDB already has an online backup tool, and even if/when they revise their tool to use this new API, it's still going to be theirs, open or closed, not the property of the MySQL Group.
Online backup of the engines for CSV, Blackhole, and Memcached doesn't even make sense. Archive already has a publicly available open source online backup tool.
Online backup makes sense for Maria, I don't see MontyW writing crippleware into his work.
How about MyISAM? I think that work is already done, but, the horse is already out of the barn, in that the online backup drivers for it are already publically available..
Looking even closer, the part that was going to be closed was not even the entire online backup driver set, but just compression and encryption. Any halfway competent developer would be able to hook in the necessary calls to azio, zlib, and openssl, and replicate the work.
So this is a big tempest over something that doesn't matter, and couldnt have happened anyway.
Plus, best practices for backup dont even use or want online backup. The Right Way to backup a real production MySQL instances is via filesystem snapshot, using something like LVM or ZFS.
As a small aside, the Slashdot headline of the original article was not entirely accurate. It wasn't the Sun executives who decided this. It was the MySQL executives. What that means, especially in light of the keynote speeches given by CEO Jonathan Schwartz and VP Rich Green, is interesting, and remains to be publically seen.
The software that was proposed to be closed source are portions of the online backup drivers. Each such driver has to be written in close cooperation with the developers of each storage engine. Well...
InnoDB already has an online backup tool, and even if/when they revise their tool to use this new API, it's still going to be theirs, open or closed, not the property of the MySQL Group.
Online backup of the engines for Archive, CSV, Blackhole, and Memcached doesn't even make sense, and even if it did, BrianA will flat out refuse to write crippleware into his own software.
Similarly, while online backup makes sense for Maria, I don't see MontyW writing crippleware into his work.
How about MyISAM? I think that work is already done, but, the horse is already out of the barn, in that the online backup drivers for it just went up on bkbits.
Looking even closer, the part that was going to be closed was not even the entire online backup driver set, but just compression and encryption. Any halfway competent developer would be able to hook in the necessary calls to azio, zlib, and openssl, and replicate the work.
So this is a big tempest over something that's not going to happen, and doesn't matter anyway.
Plus, best practices for backup dont even use or want online backup. The Right Way to backup a real production MySQL instances is via filesystem snapshot, using something like LVM or ZFS.
As a small aside, the headline was not entirely accurate. It wasn't Sun who did this. What the Sun CEO does in response to this, right on the heels of his keynote, remains to be seen.
First post!
So now I'm a Sun employee. Interesting. No more BK at MySQL.
What all this means, I'm sure I'll be learning the hard way very soon.
The percentage isn't small.
I used to think that most cops were honorable people in a shitty job.
Now I know they are shitty people in a shitty job that they enjoy making worse.
If that's how you feel, why didn't you nominate them. Nominations and votes are not done by some secret cabal. Nominations are from all of the members/attendees of last year's and this year's WorldCon (2002 ConJose in San Jose, and 2003 TorCon in Toronto), and the vote is by members/attendees of this year's WorldCon.
If you don't join and vote, you have zero right to bitch about it.
You don't even have to buy a full membership and fly to those cities, you can just buy a simple voting membership.
I would agree. When I turn out my lights and go to trog mode, my computer room is well lit by the CueCat.
The difference here, I think, is that the kind of work that is doable via telecommuting cannot be done by "child labor". I just don't see people keeping their preteen kids home from school to help the family do debugging runs, or site layout.
"and thereby provide protection for copyrighted content against unauthorized consumer copying" is false on it's face, since CSS does not now, and never has, provided any sort of copy protection for the DVDs. It just prevents you from "copying" DVD *players*.
I wish the judge and the press could see this point...
Does anyone have a URL to the prospectus. I cant find it on either Caldera's or Wit's website.
Wit Capital is a rightious corporation. Starting from a private offering of a microbrewery to fans of their beer, to creating an online market venue for owners of those shares, they basically invented and forced the US SEC to recognize, the intersection of the `net and the stock market.
Go read their story. It's pretty fun.
>after all, CEOs, COOs, & others of that ilk
>never seem to get fired
Not true. They get fired all the time. Thats part of why CEOs insist on golden parachute clauses, because if you think corps have no loyality to their Dilberts, they have even less to their executive management.