If you go to buy a car the sales rep (if he's worth any salt) has ALREADY profiled you. The way you talk, the way you dress, how you aproach him.. etc. He gets a VERY GOOD idea of how much you're willing to pay for the car.
Amazon is doing the SAME THING. Except instead of having a a person evaluate you it has a an algorythm based on your past habbits. What's wrong with that?
So you're a convinience shopper! You don't like to take the time to evaluate things.. FINE BY ME! U deserve to be charged more.. why? 'Cause you pay for the convinience. Get used to it.
It just seems like every one want's something for free these days.. well reality check.. NOTHING is FREE!
Well except for the fact that holding a phone to your head with one hand impares your vision.
I'm a big fan of states that don't allow cell phone use while driving. The laws in these states do allow using a cell phone with a hands free set.
I've personally witnessed 3 accidents in the last year where the person at fault was on a damn cell phone. ( i know, i know, personal experiance != statistical truth, but still )
I'm not sure if he was saing that a 3rd party vote was worthless. I thought he meant that if the 3rd party candidate didn't represent your views it voting for him in protest would be a waste.
And in the current political environment he would is right.
Personally I have yet to see any candidate that represents my views. Most of the time each candidate "claims" to represent one or two things I believe in and a whole bunch that I don't. Whom do you vote for in that kind of circumstance? The least bad one?
No no no, it was after she spilled the coffee that this info was found. Listen I believe she was in part responsible for what happaned the problems with this case that no one seems to bring are:
1. McD was heating the coffee at 180 degrees instead of 140 which is the "safe" limit
2. The management of that particular McD was incontact with the head office telling the head office that the coffee requirement was too hot and their customers were complaining. (The head office specified the 180 deg temp)
3. The woman only originally asked for McD to pay PART of her medical bill. She knew she did something dumb, but the severity of the burns were because the coffe was unsafe to even drink.
4. McD refused, and a fat lawyer got involved who uncovered the previous complaints as well ast the comunications with the head office about the temperature of the coffee.
5. Her lawyer sued.
6. She was awarded 10 million, Which was later put aside. (IE she never got it)
7. McD now heats their coffee to 140 degrees which is still DAMN hot. Go try some.
8. McD but this stupid lill warning on the cups saing "Contents are hot!" and fed the media about how people don't take responsibility for their actions.
9. A lot of people BOUGHT it.
The way I see it McD was at least in part at fault in this case. But THEY refused to admit it and it cost them.
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Yes there is a lot of I'ts not my fault I'll sue cases in this country.. this was not one of them.
Point being is that a LOT of companies are already using these tools and that majority of them do this with no intent to spy on their employees. But there have been many cases in the news about employees being fired for their "browsing" habits by various companies. Which only means that some companies ARE spying on their employees. And that boils down to how much do you trust your company?
Are u serious or being facetious? Ghod I worked as a sysadmin for 2 years and the job can burn a regular person out in under 3 months.
Yeah any joe schmoe can build a F1 formula racer after taking a class on changing the oil in his car and playing with legos when he was 3 right?
Please.. like the previous poster mentioned u have made your ignorance obvious with that post.
How about you try managing several hundread machines, running several thousand websites, add and remove hundreads of user accounts, configure routers, add pop and net connections for new customers. At the same time wardning off crackers, paying attention to security lists about the latest exploits and applying patches to said hundreads of servers.
How about checking those machines everyday for any signs of failing hardware, replacing it and having to deal with vendors that flatly refuse to acknowledge that 4 out of the 8 cpus in the sparc your company just forked out $60K for aren't working.
Then try doing this knowing that you are on call 24/7 and that you are guaranted to be woken up at 3 am to handle a service call by a user who screwed up their website and needs a backup restored NOW!
Besides that you're right a sysadmin's job is a piece of cake.
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I was being an ass in that post on purpose. And I infact do agree with your post. I was trying to point out that the people who are now complaining about "being left out/behind" are the same ones that did it to us geeks earlier. I don't believe we should all shaun them now in revenge, but it is human nature to do so. I just think the majority of those complaining are being quite hypocritical.
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>> It's especially hard not to when you used to be ostracized in school and now you're the shit.
I think that's the whole point. Majority of geeks were ostracized in school. The society threw us away, mistreated us and put us through hardships. We were show and learned how society treats those who are different. Now we're all grown up, now we ARE the shit. And what happens? The same society that turned THEIR backs on us when we were young is NOW complaining that we don't give a RATS ASS about THEM. Who is more arrogant here?
Let me get this strait.. I am wrong for feeling apathetic towards someone who beat the crap out of me 10 years ago. Mabey it IS wrong to feel that way, but it's what this society molded me into.
This is why geeks stay together. It isn't arrogance. It is because we as geeks share a common set of ideals and experiances. We can relate to each other much better then to the rest of society... because that society ignored us until we all of a sudden became important. And now we're being called arrogant and apathetic. I don't know about you but when I was in school the popular/mainstream people won't gime me the time of day. Now they're complaining that they are left out. What else can I say?
If they are going to assign an e-mail box to my address. What if I move. Now what? Will my physicall address be different but the PO office still drop my e-mail into 328EmlDrive@somecity.com?
This looks like a bad idea overall. What will they gain? There are already hundreads of FREE email accounts all over the net. Why do we need another one.. especially one that is subsidized with my tax dollars?
And if they sell the adresses to spamers it won't be usefull at all. Right now I have a 25/75 ratio of snail mail between bills(20%) and letters(5%) and junk(75%). And since e-mail is so much more convinient and cheaper to spam to I can see that hitting 1/100 in the e-mail version. (where 1 in a 100 messages are even worth reading) UGH!
And your point is? That you're bitter and can't move on?
Look one of my best friends was killed crossing a street with a go light for him on the croswalk when an asswipe in an acura decided to take a right on red without stoping! My friend was on a bike and got thrown through the a-holes winshield.. and the bastard that did it kept driving. (The cops cought him and he went to jail for 3 years.. yes ONLY 3 years for vehicular man slaughter.. he's out there driving somewhere as we speak )
That doesn't mean that everyone driving an Acura is an asshole? does it!? It doesn't mean that I have the right to go off an 'cause hundreads of dollars damage to peoples cars ( who most likely are good drivers and don't intend to hurt anyone ). or does it? Think about what your saying. Jackasses drive a lot of different cars. You just happaned to get hit by a moron in an SUV. Next time it might be an Acura!
-Ex-Nt-User
BTW: I own a Saturn for daily driving and A Chevy Tahoe when I go in the mountains. I wouldn't need the Tahoe if it wasn't for the fact that the Saturn doesn't work to well in foot deep snow or offroad trails.
The satelites would be launched using conventional rockets into space. Once IN space the would then use the plasma engines to position themselves. IE adjust orbit, pitch, roll.. etc. The plasma engine described in this article does not have enough power to overcome gravity.
I agree with you. But I think a lot of slashdoters are a bit confused.
Copyright infringement is taking someone elses work in it's entirety or part and copying AGAINST the authors wishes. If the author doesn't mind you copying and you do then it's NOT copyright enfringement.
And IDEA CAN NOT be copyrightable.An implementation of thet idea SHOULD be though!
If I come up with some amazing idea or programing algorythm I want to have the right to copyright it. (By this I mean I want to be able to copyright my implementation of it.. not the idea itself). I want the choice of how my idea will be distributed. If anyone want's to write their own implementation they should be free to do so.. as long as they don't COPY mine.
Remeber your liberty ends where mine begins. Too many people seem to think that their rights out weigh anyone elses. Get over it.
Small block writes that's where. UDMA 100 drives may not be able to sustain xfers above 35MB/sec but how often is your drive actually sustaining that rate? Not very often. A lot of the time it spends seeking to the next block.
Since UDMA100 drives can burst at 100MB/sec writes that are smaller then the buffer size (typically 2 MB) are blindingly fast. Since the drive caches then writes to disk.. while the CPU is free to do other things.
You make a good point... and yes I have seen the listening booths. But the few they have only contain "popular" music. (AKA: What the Music industry WANTS you to buy)
Try finding me a booth that for instance has the latest 808 State CD in it. With Napster I grabed it last night and ordered a legit copy today, all from the comfort of my chair. That's what I call convinient.
So what you are telling me is that if I go off and make say 100,000 copies of The Latest Steven King novel and give them away for FREE. I'm NOT STEALING from him?
Even though those books cold have been sold by him for a profit making him money? Hello! I would be taking money right out of his pocket. If you don't think that's stealing you should really re-examine your definition of theft!
I hope some day you come up with an idea and or buisness and someone "Copyright Infinges" you out of buisness. We'll se how quickly your definition will change.
I'm sorry but I want to be able to make money on my ideas. I want to have the choice of either giving away something of mine.. or charging money for it. Don't tell me that "I" can't. If someone is stealing from me I will sue them!
I found the things store managers mentioned quite interesting. Why is it that a CD Store Owners/Managers don't blame Napster? Instead they're saing it's the high CD prices that are driving down sales on campuses. I'm sorry but forking out $20 for a CD is way too much.
On top of that the study is flawed big time.
1. Didn't acount for online CD sales? ( I've personally not bought a single CD in a retail store. I buy everything on line especially since I can sample most of the music )
2. They didn't compare in sales statistics for CD swap/resale shops which usually have very low prices on used CD's. ( From what I got from the article those stores have not seen any changes )
3. The biggest drop was BEFORE Napster came about. ( Hmm.. ok so why was there a big drop? )
The RIAA is simply looking for anything they can use as artilery to kill Napster. I've been using Napster for the last 2 weeks. I've downloaded over a 100 MP3 files... and most of them I don;t have anymore cause I didn't like em. I've also bought 6 CD in the last 2 weeks of music that people on Napster recommended to me and I got a chance to listen to it before buying. Without that I propably wouldn't have bought them.
You want to know why the RIAA is scared of Napster? Because consumers have more power. I can listen to ALL of the tracks on a cd to figure out if it's worth buying. Not just the 1 hit on a $15 CD that the RIAA thinks will sell the CD to 90% of the target audience. It means they have less control over their consumers. It means they can't manipulate us as they have in the past.
They're a dinosaur that deserves to die a quick death. And trust me it won't hurt the Musicians 1 bit as newer, smarter, better companies that "get it" take their place.
What I got from his message was that he compiled and installed the kernel.. but on reboot? his system was unusable.
I've now recompiled different kernels on various systems well over 100 times. ( Mostly for embeded PC use ) And frankly removing certain drivers or options in the kernel config will build you an unusable kernel. The kernel will hang on boot or do other "interesting" things if you actually get to the login prompt.
The point is that it's not easy to compile a new kernel if your're trying to customize it in anyway. It's a trial and error type of situaton.
Of course anyone who is messing with their Kernel should always make sure lilo has a stable kernel to fall back on. Install the new kernel but leave the old one around for emergency boot. Unless the new kernel happens to trash your disk:)
Nope it was Hustler that had all those legal troubles. And this matter has nothing to do with freedom of expression. They are not going after posters who are posting pictures of themselves. ( Which would fall under expresion )
They are going after posters who are distributing Penthouse Copyrighted material. ( Which falls under stealing )
Why is it that just because something is done online people automatically presume it's their right to do it? If you went out and bought say the New York times and then made 1000 copies of it and sold it or distributed it for free int the "real world", you would be arrested for copyright infringement. But it's ok to do the same online?
Look I applaud Penthouse for handling this the Right Way. They are going after the copyright violators, not the services those people are using, unlike the RIAA which is after the service providers.
Yes, that's true.. but would you really want even a few grams of plutonium scattered on your lawn?
FYI: In the movie "The Peacemaker" a nuclear bomb is "disarmed" by removing one of the shaped charges. (Ends with a big bang.. but no nuclear detonation) Just wanted to point out that "some" hollywood movies have things right... kind of.
I can only speek from experiance.. but when I first started at my current Job writing software for manufacturing test equipment, Linux was a big NO NO! Management wanted to us Microsoft products ONLY! Today (Yes I'm working on a Sat) we are putting the final touches on mission critical tester that's running Linux.
How did I do it? Small steps. (And good Linux publicity in the press this year). I started writing software that would cross compile across Windows and Linux. Just to show that it can be done and done well. Then I started to push to get the software qualified as a backup plan incase the windows code was not stable enough. Once management started to see that the Linux version was identical to the Windows software and was 100% stable and saw they didn't have to pay the $250 MS tax for an NT license heads started turning.
Today Linux is our primary solution.. with windows a distant 2nd.
There is a way of doing this. (ALA OS/2 Boot Manager)
This requires that a boot loader partition usually about several KB to beinstalled in the system as the first partition. This boot partition contains the remainder of the boot loader. IE the main bootloader sits in the MBR and when called actually executes the MBR in the bootloader partition.
The bootloader residing in that partition can then be much more complex. IE Graphical/text menus et all.
The downside of this scheme is that you HAVE to install the bootloader partition first and then install any operating systems you want. Needless to say the OS/2 boot loader was wonderfull. (I still use it today to dual boot my Linux / Win98 box at home)
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I say HACK the damn thing, win the money and donate it to Ogg Vorbis or FSF! I see this as a great publicity stunt for FSF.
Can you imagine the RIAA first saing their crap got hacked then the media foinding out the money awarded went to pay for a competing technology!!!
Ex-Nt-User
If you go to buy a car the sales rep (if he's worth any salt) has ALREADY profiled you. The way you talk, the way you dress, how you aproach him.. etc. He gets a VERY GOOD idea of how much you're willing to pay for the car.
Amazon is doing the SAME THING. Except instead of having a a person evaluate you it has a an algorythm based on your past habbits. What's wrong with that?
So you're a convinience shopper! You don't like to take the time to evaluate things.. FINE BY ME! U deserve to be charged more.. why? 'Cause you pay for the convinience. Get used to it.
It just seems like every one want's something for free these days.. well reality check.. NOTHING is FREE!
Ex-Nt-User
Well except for the fact that holding a phone to your head with one hand impares your vision.
I'm a big fan of states that don't allow cell phone use while driving. The laws in these states do allow using a cell phone with a hands free set.
I've personally witnessed 3 accidents in the last year where the person at fault was on a damn cell phone. ( i know, i know, personal experiance != statistical truth, but still )
Ex-Nt-User
I'm not sure if he was saing that a 3rd party vote was worthless. I thought he meant that if the 3rd party candidate didn't represent your views it voting for him in protest would be a waste.
And in the current political environment he would is right.
Personally I have yet to see any candidate that represents my views. Most of the time each candidate "claims" to represent one or two things I believe in and a whole bunch that I don't. Whom do you vote for in that kind of circumstance? The least bad one?
Ex-Nt-User
Then they would have the right to cancel your rental agreement and take the scanner back!
It still does not give them the right to take my code away.
Ex-Nt-User
No no no, it was after she spilled the coffee that this info was found. Listen I believe she was in part responsible for what happaned the problems with this case that no one seems to bring are:
1. McD was heating the coffee at 180 degrees instead of 140 which is the "safe" limit
2. The management of that particular McD was incontact with the head office telling the head office that the coffee requirement was too hot and their customers were complaining. (The head office specified the 180 deg temp)
3. The woman only originally asked for McD to pay PART of her medical bill. She knew she did something dumb, but the severity of the burns were because the coffe was unsafe to even drink.
4. McD refused, and a fat lawyer got involved who uncovered the previous complaints as well ast the comunications with the head office about the temperature of the coffee.
5. Her lawyer sued.
6. She was awarded 10 million, Which was later put aside. (IE she never got it)
7. McD now heats their coffee to 140 degrees which is still DAMN hot. Go try some.
8. McD but this stupid lill warning on the cups saing "Contents are hot!" and fed the media about how people don't take responsibility for their actions.
9. A lot of people BOUGHT it.
The way I see it McD was at least in part at fault in this case. But THEY refused to admit it and it cost them.
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Yes there is a lot of I'ts not my fault I'll sue cases in this country.. this was not one of them.
Ex-Nt-User
How much do You trust your Boss?
Point being is that a LOT of companies are already using these tools and that majority of them do this with no intent to spy on their employees. But there have been many cases in the news about employees being fired for their "browsing" habits by various companies. Which only means that some companies ARE spying on their employees. And that boils down to how much do you trust your company?
Ex-Nt-User
That's one hell of a nice summary! But something tells me you will never convince that guy of what being a sysadmin is all about.
Are u serious or being facetious? Ghod I worked as a sysadmin for 2 years and the job can burn a regular person out in under 3 months.
Yeah any joe schmoe can build a F1 formula racer after taking a class on changing the oil in his car and playing with legos when he was 3 right?
Please.. like the previous poster mentioned u have made your ignorance obvious with that post.
How about you try managing several hundread machines, running several thousand websites, add and remove hundreads of user accounts, configure routers, add pop and net connections for new customers. At the same time wardning off crackers, paying attention to security lists about the latest exploits and applying patches to said hundreads of servers.
How about checking those machines everyday for any signs of failing hardware, replacing it and having to deal with vendors that flatly refuse to acknowledge that 4 out of the 8 cpus in the sparc your company just forked out $60K for aren't working.
Then try doing this knowing that you are on call 24/7 and that you are guaranted to be woken up at 3 am to handle a service call by a user who screwed up their website and needs a backup restored NOW!
Besides that you're right a sysadmin's job is a piece of cake.
I was being an ass in that post on purpose. And I infact do agree with your post. I was trying to point out that the people who are now complaining about "being left out/behind" are the same ones that did it to us geeks earlier. I don't believe we should all shaun them now in revenge, but it is human nature to do so. I just think the majority of those complaining are being quite hypocritical.
-Ex-Nt-User
>> It's especially hard not to when you used to be ostracized in school and now you're the shit.
I think that's the whole point. Majority of geeks were ostracized in school. The society threw us away, mistreated us and put us through hardships. We were show and learned how society treats those who are different. Now we're all grown up, now we ARE the shit. And what happens? The same society that turned THEIR backs on us when we were young is NOW complaining that we don't give a RATS ASS about THEM. Who is more arrogant here?
Let me get this strait.. I am wrong for feeling apathetic towards someone who beat the crap out of me 10 years ago. Mabey it IS wrong to feel that way, but it's what this society molded me into.
This is why geeks stay together. It isn't arrogance. It is because we as geeks share a common set of ideals and experiances. We can relate to each other much better then to the rest of society... because that society ignored us until we all of a sudden became important. And now we're being called arrogant and apathetic. I don't know about you but when I was in school the popular/mainstream people won't gime me the time of day. Now they're complaining that they are left out. What else can I say?
Ex-Nt-User
If they are going to assign an e-mail box to my address. What if I move. Now what? Will my physicall address be different but the PO office still drop my e-mail into 328EmlDrive@somecity.com?
This looks like a bad idea overall. What will they gain? There are already hundreads of FREE email accounts all over the net. Why do we need another one.. especially one that is subsidized with my tax dollars?
And if they sell the adresses to spamers it won't be usefull at all. Right now I have a 25/75 ratio of snail mail between bills(20%) and letters(5%) and junk(75%). And since e-mail is so much more convinient and cheaper to spam to I can see that hitting 1/100 in the e-mail version. (where 1 in a 100 messages are even worth reading) UGH!
-Ex-Nt-User
And your point is? That you're bitter and can't move on?
Look one of my best friends was killed crossing a street with a go light for him on the croswalk when an asswipe in an acura decided to take a right on red without stoping! My friend was on a bike and got thrown through the a-holes winshield.. and the bastard that did it kept driving. (The cops cought him and he went to jail for 3 years.. yes ONLY 3 years for vehicular man slaughter.. he's out there driving somewhere as we speak )
That doesn't mean that everyone driving an Acura is an asshole? does it!? It doesn't mean that I have the right to go off an 'cause hundreads of dollars damage to peoples cars ( who most likely are good drivers and don't intend to hurt anyone ). or does it? Think about what your saying. Jackasses drive a lot of different cars. You just happaned to get hit by a moron in an SUV. Next time it might be an Acura!
-Ex-Nt-User
BTW: I own a Saturn for daily driving and A Chevy Tahoe when I go in the mountains. I wouldn't need the Tahoe if it wasn't for the fact that the Saturn doesn't work to well in foot deep snow or offroad trails.
um like the gopher protocol did this back way before 1989. I don't think we have anything to worry about here.
The satelites would be launched using conventional rockets into space. Once IN space the would then use the plasma engines to position themselves. IE adjust orbit, pitch, roll
I agree with you. But I think a lot of slashdoters are a bit confused.
Copyright infringement is taking someone elses work in it's entirety or part and copying AGAINST the authors wishes. If the author doesn't mind you copying and you do then it's NOT copyright enfringement.
And IDEA CAN NOT be copyrightable.An implementation of thet idea SHOULD be though!
If I come up with some amazing idea or programing algorythm I want to have the right to copyright it. (By this I mean I want to be able to copyright my implementation of it.. not the idea itself). I want the choice of how my idea will be distributed. If anyone want's to write their own implementation they should be free to do so.. as long as they don't COPY mine.
Remeber your liberty ends where mine begins. Too many people seem to think that their rights out weigh anyone elses. Get over it.
-Sebastian
Small block writes that's where. UDMA 100 drives may not be able to sustain xfers above 35MB/sec but how often is your drive actually sustaining that rate? Not very often. A lot of the time it spends seeking to the next block.
Since UDMA100 drives can burst at 100MB/sec writes that are smaller then the buffer size (typically 2 MB) are blindingly fast. Since the drive caches then writes to disk.. while the CPU is free to do other things.
Don't under estimate burst speed rates.
You make a good point... and yes I have seen the listening booths. But the few they have only contain "popular" music. (AKA: What the Music industry WANTS you to buy)
Try finding me a booth that for instance has the latest 808 State CD in it. With Napster I grabed it last night and ordered a legit copy today, all from the comfort of my chair. That's what I call convinient.
Ex-Nt-User
So what you are telling me is that if I go off and make say 100,000 copies of The Latest Steven King novel and give them away for FREE. I'm NOT STEALING from him?
.. or charging money for it. Don't tell me that "I" can't. If someone is stealing from me I will sue them!
Even though those books cold have been sold by him for a profit making him money? Hello! I would be taking money right out of his pocket. If you don't think that's stealing you should really re-examine your definition of theft!
I hope some day you come up with an idea and or buisness and someone "Copyright Infinges" you out of buisness. We'll se how quickly your definition will change.
I'm sorry but I want to be able to make money on my ideas. I want to have the choice of either giving away something of mine
Ex-Nt-User
I found the things store managers mentioned quite interesting. Why is it that a CD Store Owners/Managers don't blame Napster? Instead they're saing it's the high CD prices that are driving down sales on campuses. I'm sorry but forking out $20 for a CD is way too much.
On top of that the study is flawed big time.
1. Didn't acount for online CD sales?
( I've personally not bought a single CD in a retail store. I buy everything on line especially since I can sample most of the music )
2. They didn't compare in sales statistics for CD swap/resale shops which usually have very low prices on used CD's.
( From what I got from the article those stores have not seen any changes )
3. The biggest drop was BEFORE Napster came about. ( Hmm.. ok so why was there a big drop? )
The RIAA is simply looking for anything they can use as artilery to kill Napster. I've been using Napster for the last 2 weeks. I've downloaded over a 100 MP3 files... and most of them I don;t have anymore cause I didn't like em. I've also bought 6 CD in the last 2 weeks of music that people on Napster recommended to me and I got a chance to listen to it before buying. Without that I propably wouldn't have bought them.
You want to know why the RIAA is scared of Napster? Because consumers have more power. I can listen to ALL of the tracks on a cd to figure out if it's worth buying. Not just the 1 hit on a $15 CD that the RIAA thinks will sell the CD to 90% of the target audience. It means they have less control over their consumers. It means they can't manipulate us as they have in the past.
They're a dinosaur that deserves to die a quick death. And trust me it won't hurt the Musicians 1 bit as newer, smarter, better companies that "get it" take their place.
Ex-Nt-User
What I got from his message was that he compiled and installed the kernel.. but on reboot? his system was unusable.
I've now recompiled different kernels on various systems well over 100 times. ( Mostly for embeded PC use ) And frankly removing certain drivers or options in the kernel config will build you an unusable kernel. The kernel will hang on boot or do other "interesting" things if you actually get to the login prompt.
The point is that it's not easy to compile a new kernel if your're trying to customize it in anyway. It's a trial and error type of situaton.
Of course anyone who is messing with their Kernel should always make sure lilo has a stable kernel to fall back on. Install the new kernel but leave the old one around for emergency boot. Unless the new kernel happens to trash your disk
Ex-Nt-User
Nope it was Hustler that had all those legal troubles. And this matter has nothing to do with freedom of expression. They are not going after posters who are posting pictures of themselves. ( Which would fall under expresion )
They are going after posters who are distributing Penthouse Copyrighted material. ( Which falls under stealing )
Why is it that just because something is done online people automatically presume it's their right to do it? If you went out and bought say the New York times and then made 1000 copies of it and sold it or distributed it for free int the "real world", you would be arrested for copyright infringement. But it's ok to do the same online?
Look I applaud Penthouse for handling this the Right Way. They are going after the copyright violators, not the services those people are using, unlike the RIAA which is after the service providers.
Ex-Nt-User
Yes, that's true.. but would you really want even a few grams of plutonium scattered on your lawn?
FYI: In the movie "The Peacemaker" a nuclear bomb is "disarmed" by removing one of the shaped charges. (Ends with a big bang.. but no nuclear detonation) Just wanted to point out that "some" hollywood movies have things right... kind of.
I can only speek from experiance.. but when I first started at my current Job writing software for manufacturing test equipment, Linux was a big NO NO! Management wanted to us Microsoft products ONLY! Today (Yes I'm working on a Sat) we are putting the final touches on mission critical tester that's running Linux.
How did I do it? Small steps. (And good Linux publicity in the press this year). I started writing software that would cross compile across Windows and Linux. Just to show that it can be done and done well. Then I started to push to get the software qualified as a backup plan incase the windows code was not stable enough. Once management started to see that the Linux version was identical to the Windows software and was 100% stable and saw they didn't have to pay the $250 MS tax for an NT license heads started turning.
Today Linux is our primary solution.. with windows a distant 2nd.
Ex-Nt-User
There is a way of doing this. (ALA OS/2 Boot Manager)
This requires that a boot loader partition usually about several KB to beinstalled in the system as the first partition. This boot partition contains the remainder of the boot loader. IE the main bootloader sits in the MBR and when called actually executes the MBR in the bootloader partition.
The bootloader residing in that partition can then be much more complex. IE Graphical/text menus et all.
The downside of this scheme is that you HAVE to install the bootloader partition first and then install any operating systems you want. Needless to say the OS/2 boot loader was wonderfull. (I still use it today to dual boot my Linux / Win98 box at home)
Ex-Nt-User