Encryption crap?? Who really cares! Get some priorities here. Elected officials are worried about how to keep Americans from getting killed. Do you really think that anybody could give 2 shits right now what you think about encryption? Come out of your hole for a bit. Try to realize that the world does not revolve around you and your damn geek issues.
The point of these tools is to manage more advanced stuff like Sequences, constraints (including foreign keys), rollback segments, parallel queries, transactions, etc. etc. MySQL doesn't have anything much more advanced than very basic inserts and updates. What's the point of a tool?
Actually, the people who only knew MySQL really didn't know too mcuh about 'real' databases. These improvements are very important parts of 'real' databases (aka: Oracle, DB2) that have been around for at least a decade.
Well, luckily, the Free World has ALL KINDS of porn. Straight porn, gay porn, old porn, young porn, interracial porn, one race porn (pick your race). We have redheads, brunettes, blondes, and even bald people. We have porn for people who like feet, hands, and any other body part you can imagine. The civilized has any kind of porn that anybody can imagine. Too bad Atta didn't explore his porn options more thoroughly. I'm sure that we have something for even the occasional closeted gay, Afghan, Islamic lunatic. (Middle-eastern transgender midgets with guns, perhaps?)
Linking the file extension to the program that uses the file is simply stupid unless you want to limit yourself to 46656 total apps
I agree! Just yesterday, I went to install the 46,657th app on my system, and guess what! A problem with file extension mappings. Damn Microsoft. Any company that only lets you install 46,656 applications is EVIL!
Oh, and BTW, Western Digital makes some of the least reliable hard drives on the planet. Ask around in here or read some reviews. STAY AWAY FROM WESTERN DIGITAL, though.
Very true. We need a BIG advancement in some kind of flash technology to get rid of hard drives. Hard drives are the last (other than cooling fans) moving parts in most computers, and they also happen to be the most critical. Once we move onto a technology like flash memory for storing data, I predict that computer failures overall will drop significantly.
Why even use a PDA? You can get a great laptop for $1,000 that has all of the features you need. It's powerful enough to work as a "desktop", and they're small enough to carry around easily. $500-$700 on a PDA or $1000 on a full-featured computer? I'll take the laptop, thanks.
So now, common words can be registered? I think that "yahoo" was around longer than either of these companies/organizations/people. That's ridiculous. Heck, that's like me registering the number "Nine".
I just want my phone to work if I drop it, or at least work under normal circumstances for at least a year. Is introducing MORE moving parts going to make phones more reliable? Charging isn't really a problem now. Most batteries can last for days at a time. At works, you go home every night and drop your phone in the charger. How tough is that? What's the point of adding incredible complexity and expense to phones? So that I can put my phone on my desk instead of in it's charger every night? This is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, just what I need. A more complicated phone.
I've been using my home stereo amp for my computer for years. I tried some of the speakers that have come with computers I've bought, and they've all sucked. Period. I don't care how expensive they've been (I've tried some 'good' ones), or whether or not they have an amplified subwoofer, they have all sucked. I honestly don't know why people use these things. I haven't come across a single set that sounded anythign remotely like my home stereo, or even a cheap set of headphones.
Well, here it is. Perfectly LEGAL sites are being shut down because a government agency simply doesn't like them. Kiddie porn is one thing, but what this guy was doing is LEGAL! We're already waaaaay doen the slippery slope, now, people. This is the biggest threat yet to the Net. Be careful about what you put on your website. Too many popups, or annoying ads, and the FTC can shut you down. Who knows what's next? CONTENT they don't like??
Most major porn sites operate (both physically and legally) out of the Netherlands or some tiny Caribbean country. Even if a law was passed that required age verification, it would have very little to no impact on the industry at all.
You honestly think that RedHat or SuSe could afford to pay these guys what they're worth? Have you seen these companies' financial statements? A few of these guys would eat up a good percentage of their revenue.
First off, the NET is not necessarily a large library of information. It's a large amount of garbage, rehashed news, porn, and a tiny bit of real information. Just because you read something on the Net doesn't mean you're learning, necessarily.
Secondly, if you're taking a class, there's no way that you're going to be able to absorb more than the content of a couple of textbooks for the duration of a typical college course. I mean, if you're taking statistics 101, do you really need access, to say, all of the journals ever published on statistics, or all of the theories and principles ever created in physics? Absolutely not. Should you even have that? Probably not. You need to concentrate on the course material, which in 99% of the cases can be more than thoroughly covered in a few books. I mean, do you honestly think that most people, attending a class that meets 3 hours a week for a few months are going to be able to absorb all of the information, in say 2 giant textbooks, and then need MORE information on top of that? That's not even close to realistic.
Except that there's nobody to sue. RedHat doesn't own the kernel code. Nobody does.
Re:You have a very American point of view
on
Morals and Layoffs
·
· Score: 0, Troll
Yes, because without a good national economy, either my job isn't going to last, or if it does, my standard of living would be much lower. Right now, there is no job security, but I can still bring home more than enough money to be very, very comfortable. I can do that because the companies that I work for, while they may not believe in worker retention, are flush with profit, so they can afford to pay me well. We have long-term jobs here. They're in either government or academia, neither of which pay very well at all. It's a tradeoff. Personally, I'll take the money over job security any day.
So, now that this happens, how is it prevented? How is it fixed? Can one non-existent organization sue another non-existent corporation? It doesn't seem to be very enforceable.
Slashdot Mirror
Encryption crap?? Who really cares! Get some priorities here. Elected officials are worried about how to keep Americans from getting killed. Do you really think that anybody could give 2 shits right now what you think about encryption? Come out of your hole for a bit. Try to realize that the world does not revolve around you and your damn geek issues.
This was annouced about a year ago.
I agree. Slashdot goes down more often than Cmd Taco's mother.
The point of these tools is to manage more advanced stuff like Sequences, constraints (including foreign keys), rollback segments, parallel queries, transactions, etc. etc. MySQL doesn't have anything much more advanced than very basic inserts and updates. What's the point of a tool?
A big British financial organisation maintained internally, its publicly available financial data in Access.
Bullshit. Nobody stores critical data in Access.
Actually, the people who only knew MySQL really didn't know too mcuh about 'real' databases. These improvements are very important parts of 'real' databases (aka: Oracle, DB2) that have been around for at least a decade.
Well, luckily, the Free World has ALL KINDS of porn. Straight porn, gay porn, old porn, young porn, interracial porn, one race porn (pick your race). We have redheads, brunettes, blondes, and even bald people. We have porn for people who like feet, hands, and any other body part you can imagine. The civilized has any kind of porn that anybody can imagine. Too bad Atta didn't explore his porn options more thoroughly. I'm sure that we have something for even the occasional closeted gay, Afghan, Islamic lunatic. (Middle-eastern transgender midgets with guns, perhaps?)
For my money, I'd love to see a commercial entertainment package with mainstream appeal that comes out for Linux and not Windows...
Basic economics dictate that this will never happen.
Linking the file extension to the program that uses the file is simply stupid unless you want to limit yourself to 46656 total apps
I agree! Just yesterday, I went to install the 46,657th app on my system, and guess what! A problem with file extension mappings. Damn Microsoft. Any company that only lets you install 46,656 applications is EVIL!
The US and GB told the Taliban what they had to do. They didn't agree to ONE thing that the US and GB demanded. Read the news, you stupid bastard.
Oh, and BTW, Western Digital makes some of the least reliable hard drives on the planet. Ask around in here or read some reviews. STAY AWAY FROM WESTERN DIGITAL, though.
Very true. We need a BIG advancement in some kind of flash technology to get rid of hard drives. Hard drives are the last (other than cooling fans) moving parts in most computers, and they also happen to be the most critical. Once we move onto a technology like flash memory for storing data, I predict that computer failures overall will drop significantly.
Why even use a PDA? You can get a great laptop for $1,000 that has all of the features you need. It's powerful enough to work as a "desktop", and they're small enough to carry around easily. $500-$700 on a PDA or $1000 on a full-featured computer? I'll take the laptop, thanks.
So now, common words can be registered? I think that "yahoo" was around longer than either of these companies/organizations/people. That's ridiculous. Heck, that's like me registering the number "Nine".
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q 303/2/15.ASP
I just want my phone to work if I drop it, or at least work under normal circumstances for at least a year. Is introducing MORE moving parts going to make phones more reliable? Charging isn't really a problem now. Most batteries can last for days at a time. At works, you go home every night and drop your phone in the charger. How tough is that? What's the point of adding incredible complexity and expense to phones? So that I can put my phone on my desk instead of in it's charger every night? This is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, just what I need. A more complicated phone.
I've been using my home stereo amp for my computer for years. I tried some of the speakers that have come with computers I've bought, and they've all sucked. Period. I don't care how expensive they've been (I've tried some 'good' ones), or whether or not they have an amplified subwoofer, they have all sucked. I honestly don't know why people use these things. I haven't come across a single set that sounded anythign remotely like my home stereo, or even a cheap set of headphones.
Well, here it is. Perfectly LEGAL sites are being shut down because a government agency simply doesn't like them. Kiddie porn is one thing, but what this guy was doing is LEGAL! We're already waaaaay doen the slippery slope, now, people. This is the biggest threat yet to the Net. Be careful about what you put on your website. Too many popups, or annoying ads, and the FTC can shut you down. Who knows what's next? CONTENT they don't like??
Most major porn sites operate (both physically and legally) out of the Netherlands or some tiny Caribbean country. Even if a law was passed that required age verification, it would have very little to no impact on the industry at all.
You honestly think that RedHat or SuSe could afford to pay these guys what they're worth? Have you seen these companies' financial statements? A few of these guys would eat up a good percentage of their revenue.
First off, the NET is not necessarily a large library of information. It's a large amount of garbage, rehashed news, porn, and a tiny bit of real information. Just because you read something on the Net doesn't mean you're learning, necessarily.
Secondly, if you're taking a class, there's no way that you're going to be able to absorb more than the content of a couple of textbooks for the duration of a typical college course. I mean, if you're taking statistics 101, do you really need access, to say, all of the journals ever published on statistics, or all of the theories and principles ever created in physics? Absolutely not. Should you even have that? Probably not. You need to concentrate on the course material, which in 99% of the cases can be more than thoroughly covered in a few books. I mean, do you honestly think that most people, attending a class that meets 3 hours a week for a few months are going to be able to absorb all of the information, in say 2 giant textbooks, and then need MORE information on top of that? That's not even close to realistic.
Since when? What kind of classes require Net use? Just a few years ago, we used books and paper and we learned just fine.
Except that there's nobody to sue. RedHat doesn't own the kernel code. Nobody does.
Yes, because without a good national economy, either my job isn't going to last, or if it does, my standard of living would be much lower. Right now, there is no job security, but I can still bring home more than enough money to be very, very comfortable. I can do that because the companies that I work for, while they may not believe in worker retention, are flush with profit, so they can afford to pay me well. We have long-term jobs here. They're in either government or academia, neither of which pay very well at all. It's a tradeoff. Personally, I'll take the money over job security any day.
So, now that this happens, how is it prevented? How is it fixed? Can one non-existent organization sue another non-existent corporation? It doesn't seem to be very enforceable.