Since there is no BIOS in effect once the kernel is loaded, this is probably a better approach anyway. It could be a wonderful feature for power failures.
Power goes out. UPS keeps box up for a while. Battery slipping... Signal server to shutdown. Instead of going through taking all the services down and performing shutdown, everything in RAM is dumped to a swap partition. When power comes back on, kernel detects suspend dump, loads it, does a little housekeeping and it's back in business, way faster than a normal boot.
So what would happen if Walmart would own 90% of the market?
You have that backwards. what would have to happen so that Wal-Mart would own 90% of the market would require that 90% of the people buying music liked their prices, selection, service, or some combination thereof, better than everyone else. If they are holding back music that people want to hear, those people will buy it elsewhere. That's what competition is all about.
The uncensored version is simply not available in my country
There may not be an 'uncensored' version at all. Sounds to me like Sony made a business decision to only release one CD instead of two. Pity, because they could come out with an Exclusive Uncut Version and sell a second CD to hard-core fans.
Ultimately it's about compromise, between the Lander sisters' artistic vision, the suits at Sony, Wal-Mart, and the other distribution avenues, and fans like you. If you aren't willing to pay more for unfiltered cursing, then why should you expect any of them to deliver it? (True censorship doesn't allow all of you to bargain with each other -it decides that your tastes are irrelevant.)
What I also didn't know was that Walmart and others are refusing to sell those records, which seem to be a big deal, since Walmart alone makes about 20% of the US sales volume in records. So what happens can be described as censorship
Only if you don't know what the word 'censorship' means. When Wal-Mart chooses not to sell an album its management finds objectionable, that's exercising editorial discretion. They have the right to refuse to sell it, and you have the right to buy the album in uncut form elsewhere (there's this thing you might have heard of... the World Wide Web). It's censorship when measures are taken to prevent anyone from distributing the material...like requiring that CDs that don't have the appropriate DRM keys can't be played.
I live in KC, and remember thinking that the guys who designed the skywalks got a bum rap. They were designed for people to walk from one side to the other, perhaps to pause and check out the view for a few moments before continuing on their way, but not for a huge crowd to fill them, swaying in unison in rhythm to the music. I have a great deal of sympathy for the people on the lower skywalk and those underneath them both, but the ones on the upper skywalk contributed to their own injuries. I never saw any acknowledgment of this distinction.
you'll see that it was quite correct. The oldthink UK has always been part of Oceania. And, despite your feeble attempts to charge me with crimethinking by eliminating the word 'in' when you quoted me, the word 'in' has always been part of my original statement.
Any transcript that omits that word must be in error, and the appropriate Ministry of Truth agents will be disciplined for dereliction of duty for not having corrected this omission.
Drivers and most portions of the OS can and should be run in their own little sandboxes for both robustness and security
How do you figure? By definition, drivers have to talk to hardware. I suppose it is possible to write a kernel that virtualizes every bit of the hardware, so that drivers can run in userspace, but that just means that someone has to write a bulletproof 'universal driver' to do all of the virtualizing.
At the end of the day, something has to run in kernel mode, and whatever that is can crash the system.
NOBODY in their right mind would EVER opt-in to something like this
I don't get this. If you ask me for information, make no promises about what you're going to do with it,
and I willingly give it to you, what reason do I have to expect that you won't propagate the data? Isn't one of our Geek Holy Scriptures "Information wants to be free"?
Everybody on Slashdot has heard these arguments, so there's not really much to read.
Yes, we have heard them. What is refreshing is seeing a government official from a South American country (which we Gringos have been conditioned to think automatically means it's a dictatorship) 'get it' far better than our own government officials [emphasis mine]:
...the state archives, handles, and transmits information
which does not belong to it, but which is entrusted to it by citizens, who have no alternative under the rule of law
I wish the typical US Congressmen understood this as well.
They have got to be kidding, naming a project after the naval battle in WWII that turned the tide in the Pacific
Uh... you ever hear of the Midway division of Bally? You know, the folks who bought the US rights to Pac-Man from Namco (a Japanese company)? I always thought their name was based on the notion of a carnival Midway; I suspect that Namco's executives, if they even thought about it, either shared that idea, or didn't care so long as they got paid.
Do I have to be a full-on Conspiracy Nut to think that it's an interesting coincidence that the Anthrax Scare came along to make our elected representatives afraid to open mail from their constituents at the very time their kneejerk reaction would be to attack our liberties in the name of National Security?
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That is precisely why Open Source software is cheapest in the most economically-depressed areas. For the money that would otherwise go to licensing fees, you can hire and train lot of local talent to run things. And becasuse it's OS, they can learn it inside and out, instead of just learning the interface that has been exposed to them.
"The fact that this information was gathered through a search on Google.com, which is hardly considered by most people to be a hacker's tool, is especially interesting,"
Absolutely true, if you think about it. Google is most definitely a hacker's tool, but not a tool for doing what most people consider to be 'hacking', nor for that matter do most people consider google itself.
So you point to the link, right-click, copy shortcut (or whatever your browser requires), click in the Address field and paste the address in so that the akamai webserver doesn't know it's being Slashdotted. At the risk of sounding like Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy:
Of course because this was sent out on a friday, so this went on all weekend.
I have never been able to figure out why so many people pull this kind of crap. Obviously they were trying something new or different than usual. Otherwise the problem would have come up earlier.
Time-Warner Cable did this to me just last night. They 'sent out an upgrade' to the cable modems, and some of them didn't take. So the built-in DHCP server gave me a 192.168 address and I knew I was screwed. Tech support had me reboot everything, and it stayed screwed, at which point I was told I needed a new modem.
Of the handful of retail locations open today, the one I had a chance to get to before they closed didn't have any replacements (Hmmm. I wonder why they ran out? Could it be they had a few other people bring theirs in, too?) - at least that were working. Since tech support (including the guy who told me to go to that store) works upstairs from that particular retail location, I pointed out this fact and asked if there were any spares up there.
After much discussion via AIM between Customer Service and Technical Support, a friendly soul emerged from upstairs with 'their test modem', which I gladly accepted, knowing that it would therefore be in good order, which is how I found out about this 'update' thing.
Since only half of their retail outlets are even open on Saturday (with abbreviated hours) and none on Sunday, it seems to me like Friday night is exactly the worst time to send out an 'update' with the potential of breaking something.
leap seconds are not inserted every year, but "as needed"
Well, I don't recall saying that it was exactly every year, but that it seemed like it. Consulting with The Definitive Source On Such Things, I see that since 1972 there have been 23 Leap Seconds. That comes to an average of.766... ls/y - not exactly 1, but way closer than this effect is supposed to account for.
is more profoundly affected by tidal locking with the moon than fluvial effects
While the story itself says [emphasis mine]:
expect the length of an average day to increase by 11 millionths of a second per decade, corresponding to an overall increase of about one ten-thousandth of a second by the close of the century
Since the people who tend the atomic clocks have been adding at least one "leap second" each year for as long as I can remember (inserted as 23:59:60 GMT on 31 Dec, with the occasional extra at the same time on 30 Jun), it would seem that it would take tens of millenia before this factor is even a blip, much less 'profound'.
The article closes with this Burning Question:
How will the diurnal rhythms of animals and plants be affected in coming millennia? Only time will tell.
Is there any animal or plant with a rhythm that can be measured in nanoseconds? If so, why are we not using them instead of those atomic clocks?
I browsed the HDs of HPs in the store, saw that there was a 4-gig "Recovery Partition" with all of those.CABs in it. I asked the salesman if there was also a (set of) CD(s) in case the HD failed, and he said "no". I found this to be true of most new PC brands with XP installed, but the fine folks at Micro Center have their PowerSpec brand that uses a set of 2 CDs instead. Once I verified that this set of CDs would never require Evil Activation (so long as I don't flash my BIOS with a non PowerSpec image), I knew that I had something I could live with (especially with a 2nd HD to run other OSes from).
That's the key. I've been kicking around a protocol to allow two parties behind NAT firewalls to open a VPN connection. What this would require is multiple proxies willing to act as "switchboards". The two parties agree on one such to connect to, and it glues the two sockets together, making a seamless connection that can't be traced by ISPs or corporate IS based on port # (because the switchboards would, as you suggest, adapt to use different ports as necessary.
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Power goes out. UPS keeps box up for a while. Battery slipping... Signal server to shutdown. Instead of going through taking all the services down and performing shutdown, everything in RAM is dumped to a swap partition. When power comes back on, kernel detects suspend dump, loads it, does a little housekeeping and it's back in business, way faster than a normal boot.
Ultimately it's about compromise, between the Lander sisters' artistic vision, the suits at Sony, Wal-Mart, and the other distribution avenues, and fans like you. If you aren't willing to pay more for unfiltered cursing, then why should you expect any of them to deliver it? (True censorship doesn't allow all of you to bargain with each other -it decides that your tastes are irrelevant.)
album its management finds objectionable, that's exercising editorial discretion. They have the right
to refuse to sell it, and you have the right to buy the album in uncut form elsewhere (there's this thing
you might have heard of... the World Wide Web). It's censorship when measures are taken to prevent
anyone from distributing the material...like requiring that CDs that don't have the appropriate DRM
keys can't be played.
But this does explain why it's been very important for Linus to push MP in the kernel.
I live in KC, and remember thinking that the guys who designed the skywalks got a bum rap.
They were designed for people to walk from one side to the other, perhaps to pause and
check out the view for a few moments before continuing on their way, but not for a huge
crowd to fill them, swaying in unison in rhythm to the music. I have a great deal of sympathy
for the people on the lower skywalk and those underneath them both, but the ones on the
upper skywalk contributed to their own injuries. I never saw any acknowledgment of this
distinction.
feeble attempts to charge me with crimethinking by eliminating the word 'in' when you quoted me, the word 'in'
has always been part of my original statement. Any transcript that omits that word must be in error, and the
appropriate Ministry of Truth agents will be disciplined for dereliction of duty for not having corrected this omission.
a kernel that virtualizes every bit of the hardware, so that drivers can run in userspace, but that just
means that someone has to write a bulletproof 'universal driver' to do all of the virtualizing.
At the end of the day, something has to run in kernel mode, and whatever that is can crash the system.
After all, the UK is Oceania, isn't it?
rights to Pac-Man from Namco (a Japanese company)? I always thought their name was based
on the notion of a carnival Midway; I suspect that Namco's executives, if they even thought about
it, either shared that idea, or didn't care so long as they got paid.
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Scare came along to make our elected representatives afraid to open mail from their constituents
at the very time their kneejerk reaction would be to attack our liberties in the name of National Security?
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So you point to the link, right-click, copy shortcut (or whatever your browser requires), click in the Address field and paste the address in so that the akamai webserver doesn't know it's being Slashdotted. At the risk of sounding like Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy
Of the handful of retail locations open today, the one I had a chance to get to before they closed didn't have any replacements (Hmmm. I wonder why they ran out? Could it be they had a few other people bring theirs in, too?) - at least that were working. Since tech support (including the guy who told me to go to that store) works upstairs from that particular retail location, I pointed out this fact and asked if there were any spares up there.
After much discussion via AIM between Customer Service and Technical Support, a friendly soul emerged from upstairs with 'their test modem', which I gladly accepted, knowing that it would therefore be in good order, which is how I found out about this 'update' thing.
Since only half of their retail outlets are even open on Saturday (with abbreviated hours) and none on Sunday, it seems to me like Friday night is exactly the worst time to send out an 'update' with the potential of breaking something.
I browsed the HDs of HPs in the store, saw that there was a 4-gig "Recovery Partition" with all of those .CABs in it. I asked the salesman if there was also a (set of) CD(s) in case the HD failed, and he said "no". I found this to be true of most new PC brands with XP installed, but the fine folks at Micro Center have their PowerSpec brand that uses a set of 2 CDs instead. Once I verified that this set of CDs would never require Evil Activation (so long as I don't flash my BIOS with a non PowerSpec image), I knew that I had something I could live with (especially with a 2nd HD to run other OSes from).