While I can sympathize with what they are trying to accomplish, I cannot for the life of me think of a reason why they think they can?
There's no way GA law can effect a site that's hosted in another state or country.
Don't they get it? No one government entity can hope to control the internet.
Not the US, not Korea, not China and sure as hell not Georgia.
I can hear it now. "But your honor, we passed dis here law thangy, and they went ahead and made it available to our childern." I do not suggest that this is how Georgians speak, but how the simpletons they must be would have little choice but to speak this way.
The children reached out to the service, pulled it into their homes. It's their PARENT'S responsibility to monitor their actions, not a company offering a service.
For God's sake ( I am a Christian, and will use my deity of choice, thank you), stop trying to legislate parental controls. It's up to the Parent to do this or not do this. period. BUTT OUT!
If you cut off the battery, the carjacker will just get out of the car and kick your fucking ass, take the remote and re-enable it.
If you use a device that cuts off the gas after x minutes, the carjacker is far enough away that typically they aren't going to come after you.
If you limit the speed of the vehicle, they may think there's something seriously wrong with the car and leave it. Or, then again, they may just get out and kick your fucking ass for the hell of it.
No need. When you're dealing with what people will do in such a complex subject, there are too many factors to add in.
ie How many of the people interviewed were on broadband, vs not on broadband? - Skew #1 How many were in the age group where it was supposedly rampant? - Skew #2 How many knew that downloading was unethical or illegal? - Skew #3 How many had transfer limits on their accounts? - Skew #4 How many were addicted to WoW, and had zero time to do anything else? - Skew #5
I'm certain you could add more to the list..
It's not just *large numbers*, it's also accounting for actual availability and capability.
If you factor in how many people are actually on broadband, then factor in how many households have people within that age range, then factor in how many of them know it's considered unethical at the least, illegal at most, then factor in how many have transfer limits - sorry - there's no way all of these and more that I didn't mention were included in the numbers.
I stand by my statement. Maybe you should think things through before just quoting the good old days.
And as everyone already knows, any study's results can be interpreted any way, if filtered properly.
So, until they've actually visited every house, business, hovel, wireless hotspot in the country, they CANNOT claim with ANY degree of certainty that their numbers are accurate.
As a matter of fact. I can declare without a study, and have the same level of accuracy.
Less than 2% of all Americans fileshare movies / music.
However, IMO, 100% of all MPAA and RIAA members are out for 1 thing and 1 thing only, to RIP OFF the consumer to pad their seats by thickening their wallets through underhanded, immoral and nearly (sometimes actually) illegal methods.
Personal responsibility (as well as Parental responsibility) is so 5 minutes ago.
Didn't you hear? Anything and everything you do is because someone else made you do it?
You are not responsible for your own actions, and you aren't responsible for your children's as well.
*Bullshit!* The American people sure like to think they can make a quick buck off of someone else as long as they can claim they were not responsible. Greedy bastards.
What I want to see are criminal negligence suits brought against the parents for letting them get online in the first place. I want to see parents brought up on child endangerment charges for smoking in enclosed areas (ie cars, houses) with underage children present.
Will it ever happen? Not as long as the boo-hoo snivel cry why me listeners are in charge.
Well, considering that the RIAA has in effect been treating most artists as slaves, with no effort to help them or improve their living conditions - in effect forcing them to work harder (by doing Concert tours) just to make enough money to live off of.
While not the extreme that you are describing, there are quite a few parallels to be drawn from your statement.
The main reason they are upset is that his mix tapes are probably being sold (if sold they were) by an independent label, outside of the RIAA, so they didn't feel they were getting their *DUES*.
Once the users can do the following, we'll start leaving them alone.
#1 ) READ the fuckign screens. Do what they say. Don't skips steps. Don't interpret them, they mean what they say - if you can't understand them, quit - you aren't qualified to do the job.
#2 ) When you break something, DON'T LIE about it. Say - I did X, and it's now fuxxored. It's the easiest way to get stuff fixed, and improves your credibility with IT.
#3 ) DON'T go trying to develop your own projects. Write up what you think you want to do, LET IT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT. It's their job, and whether you want to believe it or not, they KNOW how to do it - BETTER THAN YOU do.
#4 ) Quit trying to find ways AROUND the system restrictions applied to your computer. They're there for a reason. It's not YOUR computer, it's the company's. Get over it.
#5 ) It's NOT IT'S #1 responsibility to cater to your every whim, whine or complaint. There's approximately 2000 end users for every IT staff person, they potentially get hundreds of calls an hour for help, WAIT PATIENTLY. They'll get to you. If you keep calling for status updates, or complaining to management, it'll just slow down their response to your request.
#6 ) Don't write down your passwords... You have a brain - USE IT - that's what it's there for.
#7 ) Don't keep the CAPS-LOCK on... Proper grammar requires mixed case, as do passwords. It's amazing how passwords and logins work if you just leave the CAPS-LOCK off.
#8 ) Don't lie about having tried to log in multiple times when you call because your password is locked out. Understand that they can see how many attempts you've made, and sometimes, can see what you tried. These are just a few, but if you follow them, you'll find that your interaction with IT staff will be much easier and happier.
Remember - do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Not at the actual database layer, but in the field (or I guess column) layer - some of the programmers actually keep track of local time and tz - for what, I know not - I'm not a DBA, and thankfully don't have to wade through their reasoning.
Not that I'm suggesting anyone actually go out and implement this idea. As I own the IP to this idea, I would be horrified to see that someone had *STOLEN* it to implement this method....
I do not condone, nor do I recommend that this idea be implemented. Nor do I authorize anyone to make use of this idea.
If I understand correctly, BitTorrent works along the principal of multiple computers hosting the entire content, each distributing bits and pieces in a manner where the client can receive said content in as fast a manner as possible, rebuilding the original file from multiple partial streams.
Now, if someone were to come up with say, a method of taking a music file, or movie, breaking it up into hundreds of thousands (or millions) of pieces, only distributing 1 to 3 second bits of the file from any one source, how could you be accused of distributing the entire content?
Given hundreds or thousands of these sources, eventually the entire movie, song or album could be reconstituted, but not from any one source, and nowhere on any one machine was the entire source distributed to any other one machine.
If checksums were placed out for each *segment*, also on different sources, only valid content would be viable as part of the re-integration process.
As for re-distribution, all you'd ever give out is bits and pieces, again covered under fair use, never the entire file. it would be like taking every 300th frame of a movie, or every 30th millisecond of a song, and making it available. Pure giberish by itself.
When you buy a bootleg DVD, you are buying whatever someone put on there, be it a copy, or original content.
Now, when you play that DVD, you are streaming data, a small amount at a time. At no time, while playing it, did you have an *ENTIRE* copy floating around somewhere. All you've done in essence, is taken *FAIR USE* clips, and very neatly strung them together to where "ZOMG" you can *watch* the whole thing.
That.... was a joke, as was the line of bullshit that others fed the President. They told him it would reduce energy consumption? It's not going to reduce consumption, if anything, it will just increase energy consumption. What with all the goods that will have to be re-manufactured with new chips, plus all the overtime, burning the late night oil, patching all the boxes to make them work with the new standard. Then add in all the new hardware upgrades that will have to be purchased, or operating systems upgrades that will have to bought. It's all money wasted because either the hardware or operating system are out of support, have been for years, but worked fine - until this change, that now have to be replaced.
Cost savings? Where? All we're going to see is big companies that manufacture products (or sell oil related products) making more money, while everyone else has to spend more to keep things functioning properly, which in turn will increase costs for everything else, which in turn increases inflation, which in turn.... you get the idea.
Just another idiotic idea, stupidly implemented, and signed into law by someone who seems to have the comprehension of a 12 year old.
Have you tried to keep databases in sync across multiple timezones, without shifting the time simultaneously?
ie - for 1 hour, there's a 2 hour difference?
ehh.... sorry - thanks again - in this instance, both systems revert simultaneously.
One at 2AM, the other at 1AM - in this case, my office works out of CST, while the corporate is EST.
For what it's worth - almost everyone rolls their clocks back BEFORE THEY GO TO SLEEP, not at 2AM. But that's okay, I forgive you. It's not often that you get to one up another geek, so I'll let you have this one.
Sorry friend, but every OS in the world, that's used in the United States, that implements automatic time shifting due to Daylight Savings Time / Daylight Standard Time changes, has to be patched.
The reason being, the start and stop dates changed. Why? Because someone told GWB that it was a good idea, and that it would help in the war on terror. Who really knows for sure, unless he just bought stock in the consumer electronics companies that stand to make a killing on new replacements to devices that hardcoded the DST time changes.
Anyway, the only operating systems that won't need to be patched, are those that aren't automatic. This of course will require loads of admins to wait for 1AM, then push the time back to 12AM manually.
Now as to the SLAs vs patching.
If a business unit requires a very high SLA, then the servers should be clustered, and then it's a non issue. You just take down half the cluster, patch it, bring it back up, then take down the other half of the cluster.
If the business units expect high SLAs without Clustering, then someone needs to explain that it's not a good idea to make business decisions while smoking crack.
They are missing the costs involved with the following:
Missed deadlines because offshore programmers said "yes" which really meant "uhm". Botched programs because segments were distributed between groups which didn't communicate with each other. Botched programs because American English wasn't there first, and often second or third language they knew. Botched programs because they never really learned to program, they just memorized the answers to the questions.
Costs in having to re-write the crap code that's returned. Costs in having to examine the code line by line to make certain that back doors and other problems are not introduced (especially if the programming is for a government entity). Costs due to corporate customers getting pissed off because simple english grammatical issues crop up constantly. Costs to keep high bandwidth connections between off-shore programmers connected to local servers so that customer data isn't *officially at least* sent outside the continental US. Costs due to losing customers once they find out you've off-shored 1) Programming. 2) Technical Support. 3) Customer Service Costs incurred in re-staffing in the United States once you've realized your cost savings plan actually cost you an additional 3 to 5 hundred million in costs.
ZFS has been around for much longer, and used in production systems (at least internally to Sun for years - much longer than the latest ReiserFS).
Now, couple this with Sun's test lab, where they've subjected ZFS to MILLIONS of intentionally data disrupting incidents, such as - reformating hard drives in the pools, removing power from hard drives, writing random data to disks in the pools, pulling SCSI cables from systems, physically powering off the system, re-cabling the disks and boxes so that they are on different controllers, channels, scsi IDs, all without a single byte of corrupted data.
While not as widely used (yet), it will eventually become the de-facto standard in safe filesystems.
I've thrown all kinds of problems at it, and it has yet to lose a single byte of data. Add to that, taking snapshots every (x) minutes, you can look back in time as easily as reading a folder.
With RAIDZ2 in the latest releases, you can set up sets that can withstand the loss of 2 physical drives. If you couple multiple RAIDZ2 sets into a single pool, you've increased the redundancy even further. With plain old JBOD and multiple controllers, you can reach levels of availability that only expensive EMC/Hitachi/StorEdge systems have reached in the past.
It's opensource as well (although it's the Sun flavor at this time), and being worked on at www.opensolaris.org. I believe Sun is contemplating switching it to GPL at this time.
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While I can sympathize with what they are trying to accomplish, I cannot for the life of me think of a reason why they think they can?
There's no way GA law can effect a site that's hosted in another state or country.
Don't they get it? No one government entity can hope to control the internet.
Not the US, not Korea, not China and sure as hell not Georgia.
I can hear it now. "But your honor, we passed dis here law thangy, and they went ahead and made it available to our childern." I do not suggest that this is how Georgians speak, but how the simpletons they must be would have little choice but to speak this way.
The children reached out to the service, pulled it into their homes. It's their PARENT'S responsibility to monitor their actions, not a company offering a service.
For God's sake ( I am a Christian, and will use my deity of choice, thank you), stop trying to legislate parental controls. It's up to the Parent to do this or not do this. period. BUTT OUT!
If you cut off the battery, the carjacker will just get out of the car and kick your fucking ass, take the remote and re-enable it.
If you use a device that cuts off the gas after x minutes, the carjacker is far enough away that typically they aren't going to come after you.
If you limit the speed of the vehicle, they may think there's something seriously wrong with the car and leave it. Or, then again, they may just get out and kick your fucking ass for the hell of it.
It's got to be the biggest PMPle on the ass-end of the worst Windows release ever.
No need. When you're dealing with what people will do in such a complex subject, there are too many factors to add in.
ie
How many of the people interviewed were on broadband, vs not on broadband? - Skew #1
How many were in the age group where it was supposedly rampant? - Skew #2
How many knew that downloading was unethical or illegal? - Skew #3
How many had transfer limits on their accounts? - Skew #4
How many were addicted to WoW, and had zero time to do anything else? - Skew #5
I'm certain you could add more to the list..
It's not just *large numbers*, it's also accounting for actual availability and capability.
If you factor in how many people are actually on broadband, then factor in how many households have people within that age range, then factor in how many of them know it's considered unethical at the least, illegal at most, then factor in how many have transfer limits - sorry - there's no way all of these and more that I didn't mention were included in the numbers.
I stand by my statement. Maybe you should think things through before just quoting the good old days.
And as everyone already knows, any study's results can be interpreted any way, if filtered properly.
So, until they've actually visited every house, business, hovel, wireless hotspot in the country, they CANNOT claim with ANY degree of certainty that their numbers are accurate.
As a matter of fact. I can declare without a study, and have the same level of accuracy.
Less than 2% of all Americans fileshare movies / music.
However, IMO, 100% of all MPAA and RIAA members are out for 1 thing and 1 thing only, to RIP OFF the consumer to pad their seats by thickening their wallets through underhanded, immoral and nearly (sometimes actually) illegal methods.
I'd be willing to bet that they know the application better than you do, and that it's probably worse than they are reporting.
Exactly my point. Thanks for doing the right thing.
I was being quite sarcastic when I wrote the above.
Where have you been.
Personal responsibility (as well as Parental responsibility) is so 5 minutes ago.
Didn't you hear? Anything and everything you do is because someone else made you do it?
You are not responsible for your own actions, and you aren't responsible for your children's as well.
*Bullshit!* The American people sure like to think they can make a quick buck off of someone else as long as they can claim they were not responsible. Greedy bastards.
What I want to see are criminal negligence suits brought against the parents for letting them get online in the first place.
I want to see parents brought up on child endangerment charges for smoking in enclosed areas (ie cars, houses) with underage children present.
Will it ever happen? Not as long as the boo-hoo snivel cry why me listeners are in charge.
Well, considering that the RIAA has in effect been treating most artists as slaves, with no effort to help them or improve their living conditions - in effect forcing them to work harder (by doing Concert tours) just to make enough money to live off of.
While not the extreme that you are describing, there are quite a few parallels to be drawn from your statement.
The main reason they are upset is that his mix tapes are probably being sold (if sold they were) by an independent label, outside of the RIAA, so they didn't feel they were getting their *DUES*.
Uhm - didn't you mean "10 Forward" - with life-size Guinan cutout?
Crossing your realm boundaries again...
Now they'll NEVER resume Firefly... or make another movie...
Sheesh - Thanks guys and gals... You blew it!
=D
Technical merits - Great!
Choice of content - Damn you!
Once the users can do the following, we'll start leaving them alone.
#1 ) READ the fuckign screens. Do what they say. Don't skips steps. Don't interpret them, they mean what they say - if you can't understand them, quit - you aren't qualified to do the job.
#2 ) When you break something, DON'T LIE about it. Say - I did X, and it's now fuxxored. It's the easiest way to get stuff fixed, and improves your credibility with IT.
#3 ) DON'T go trying to develop your own projects. Write up what you think you want to do, LET IT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT. It's their job, and whether you want to believe it or not, they KNOW how to do it - BETTER THAN YOU do.
#4 ) Quit trying to find ways AROUND the system restrictions applied to your computer. They're there for a reason. It's not YOUR computer, it's the company's. Get over it.
#5 ) It's NOT IT'S #1 responsibility to cater to your every whim, whine or complaint. There's approximately 2000 end users for every IT staff person, they potentially get hundreds of calls an hour for help, WAIT PATIENTLY. They'll get to you. If you keep calling for status updates, or complaining to management, it'll just slow down their response to your request.
#6 ) Don't write down your passwords... You have a brain - USE IT - that's what it's there for.
#7 ) Don't keep the CAPS-LOCK on... Proper grammar requires mixed case, as do passwords. It's amazing how passwords and logins work if you just leave the CAPS-LOCK off.
#8 ) Don't lie about having tried to log in multiple times when you call because your password is locked out. Understand that they can see how many attempts you've made, and sometimes, can see what you tried.
These are just a few, but if you follow them, you'll find that your interaction with IT staff will be much easier and happier.
Remember - do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Not at the actual database layer, but in the field (or I guess column) layer - some of the programmers actually keep track of local time and tz - for what, I know not - I'm not a DBA, and thankfully don't have to wade through their reasoning.
Considering that I've never purchased a bootleg dvd, illegally copied a movie, song or software, I think you'll have a very Very VERY long wait.
Not that I'm suggesting anyone actually go out and implement this idea. As I own the IP to this idea, I would be horrified to see that someone had *STOLEN* it to implement this method....
I do not condone, nor do I recommend that this idea be implemented. Nor do I authorize anyone to make use of this idea.
If I understand correctly, BitTorrent works along the principal of multiple computers hosting the entire content, each distributing bits and pieces in a manner where the client can receive said content in as fast a manner as possible, rebuilding the original file from multiple partial streams.
Now, if someone were to come up with say, a method of taking a music file, or movie, breaking it up into hundreds of thousands (or millions) of pieces, only distributing 1 to 3 second bits of the file from any one source, how could you be accused of distributing the entire content?
Given hundreds or thousands of these sources, eventually the entire movie, song or album could be reconstituted, but not from any one source, and nowhere on any one machine was the entire source distributed to any other one machine.
If checksums were placed out for each *segment*, also on different sources, only valid content would be viable as part of the re-integration process.
As for re-distribution, all you'd ever give out is bits and pieces, again covered under fair use, never the entire file.
it would be like taking every 300th frame of a movie, or every 30th millisecond of a song, and making it available. Pure giberish by itself.
Just a thought....
Actually, you're wrong. Imagine that.
When you buy a bootleg DVD, you are buying whatever someone put on there, be it a copy, or original content.
Now, when you play that DVD, you are streaming data, a small amount at a time.
At no time, while playing it, did you have an *ENTIRE* copy floating around somewhere.
All you've done in essence, is taken *FAIR USE* clips, and very neatly strung them together to where "ZOMG" you can *watch* the whole thing.
Notice I said "Signed into law" - I didn't claim that he made the law, or wrote it, just that he signed it - without signature statement I might add.
That.... was a joke, as was the line of bullshit that others fed the President. They told him it would reduce energy consumption? It's not going to reduce consumption, if anything, it will just increase energy consumption. What with all the goods that will have to be re-manufactured with new chips, plus all the overtime, burning the late night oil, patching all the boxes to make them work with the new standard. Then add in all the new hardware upgrades that will have to be purchased, or operating systems upgrades that will have to bought. It's all money wasted because either the hardware or operating system are out of support, have been for years, but worked fine - until this change, that now have to be replaced.
.... you get the idea.
Cost savings? Where? All we're going to see is big companies that manufacture products (or sell oil related products) making more money, while everyone else has to spend more to keep things functioning properly, which in turn will increase costs for everything else, which in turn increases inflation, which in turn
Just another idiotic idea, stupidly implemented, and signed into law by someone who seems to have the comprehension of a 12 year old.
Have you tried to keep databases in sync across multiple timezones, without shifting the time simultaneously?
ie - for 1 hour, there's a 2 hour difference?
ehh.... sorry - thanks again - in this instance, both systems revert simultaneously.
One at 2AM, the other at 1AM - in this case, my office works out of CST, while the corporate is EST.
For what it's worth - almost everyone rolls their clocks back BEFORE THEY GO TO SLEEP, not at 2AM.
But that's okay, I forgive you. It's not often that you get to one up another geek, so I'll let you have this one.
"(Patching for DST, Get a new OS...)"
Sorry friend, but every OS in the world, that's used in the United States, that implements automatic time shifting due to Daylight Savings Time / Daylight Standard Time changes, has to be patched.
The reason being, the start and stop dates changed.
Why? Because someone told GWB that it was a good idea, and that it would help in the war on terror. Who really knows for sure, unless he just bought stock in the consumer electronics companies that stand to make a killing on new replacements to devices that hardcoded the DST time changes.
Anyway, the only operating systems that won't need to be patched, are those that aren't automatic.
This of course will require loads of admins to wait for 1AM, then push the time back to 12AM manually.
Now as to the SLAs vs patching.
If a business unit requires a very high SLA, then the servers should be clustered, and then it's a non issue.
You just take down half the cluster, patch it, bring it back up, then take down the other half of the cluster.
If the business units expect high SLAs without Clustering, then someone needs to explain that it's not a good idea to make business decisions while smoking crack.
They are missing the costs involved with the following:
Missed deadlines because offshore programmers said "yes" which really meant "uhm".
Botched programs because segments were distributed between groups which didn't communicate with each other.
Botched programs because American English wasn't there first, and often second or third language they knew.
Botched programs because they never really learned to program, they just memorized the answers to the questions.
Costs in having to re-write the crap code that's returned.
Costs in having to examine the code line by line to make certain that back doors and other problems are not introduced (especially if the programming is for a government entity).
Costs due to corporate customers getting pissed off because simple english grammatical issues crop up constantly.
Costs to keep high bandwidth connections between off-shore programmers connected to local servers so that customer data isn't *officially at least* sent outside the continental US.
Costs due to losing customers once they find out you've off-shored 1) Programming. 2) Technical Support. 3) Customer Service
Costs incurred in re-staffing in the United States once you've realized your cost savings plan actually cost you an additional 3 to 5 hundred million in costs.
They almost always seem to zone in on the technically inept.
He could end up the CEO of the company that buys out your company..
Burning bridges, that sort of thing.
ZFS has been around for much longer, and used in production systems (at least internally to Sun for years - much longer than the latest ReiserFS).
Now, couple this with Sun's test lab, where they've subjected ZFS to MILLIONS of intentionally data disrupting incidents, such as - reformating hard drives in the pools, removing power from hard drives, writing random data to disks in the pools, pulling SCSI cables from systems, physically powering off the system, re-cabling the disks and boxes so that they are on different controllers, channels, scsi IDs, all without a single byte of corrupted data.
How many other filesystems can you say this of?
While not as widely used (yet), it will eventually become the de-facto standard in safe filesystems.
I've thrown all kinds of problems at it, and it has yet to lose a single byte of data.
Add to that, taking snapshots every (x) minutes, you can look back in time as easily as reading a folder.
With RAIDZ2 in the latest releases, you can set up sets that can withstand the loss of 2 physical drives. If you couple multiple RAIDZ2 sets into a single pool, you've increased the redundancy even further. With plain old JBOD and multiple controllers, you can reach levels of availability that only expensive EMC/Hitachi/StorEdge systems have reached in the past.
It's opensource as well (although it's the Sun flavor at this time), and being worked on at www.opensolaris.org. I believe Sun is contemplating switching it to GPL at this time.