... so when it comes to explain that no, I won't blank my Debian server to install a Redhat, because Oracle said they only support Redhat, my boss assume I'll be responsible for any failure of said Oracle server. Redhat are in no way responsible for this behavior (maybe a little: they didn't refused to be the Oracle official distro:b), and this is the only thing close to a Microsoftian strategy. But you can't (and I hope nobody will) try and stop a company to build a partnership with another one.
Fact is, I'd prefer Oracle officially support Debian too. But Debian's team has not enough time to deal with partnership, and Oracle most certainly won't deal with people "doing it for free(as in beer)".
Be proud of those ethics so long as they don't really interfere with anything you care about.
There's one more thing that can make it really special: tell her about your doubts and questions about this ring, but buy it. It will be far more important to her if she knows that you had to make a real ethical effort to buy one.
We got Bebop. A nice, cute little wireless phone that worked the very same way as Rabbit: spot a relay, get close enough, and you could make a call. Let me just say it was completely wiped out of the paysage by cellular phones.
Now, could someone tell me how many time it gonna take for business to understand that if a product had no market because of technological deficiency ten years ago, it is not going to be more successful today? Same goes with Wap: the problem was not the speed, but the size of the device. 3 years later, they come back with even smaller devices... and GPRS. Duh!
As mentioned in previous (and surely following) posts, this kind of PIN (as in Personal Identification Number) already exists in some form or another in many countries. In fact, I doubt that any country with a social security system can do without such a number.
The danger of these primary keys are not their existence, but the amount of data you can obtain when knowing them. For instance, how much a problem can it be is the social security file contains only your name/birthdate/gender? Now imagine that you could (and at least here in France, it's technically impossible: even the social security services can't find their way in their own files!) correlate with a given PK the whole life of a person: from is medical history to his credit card log? Here is the real danger! Fortunatly for us, such a thing is far from achievable for three reasons:
- the different databases are not interconnected, making a correlation a pain in the cheek
- access to some of these databases is restricted, as in "please show me sufficient proof of your identity to access your own information". You'll certainly have more information from news papers archives
- the PK mentionned above is only used in just a few files, all the others mainly indexed on your firstname/lastname. Yeah, regularly someone "dies" in place of someone else...
Add to this the cluelessness of government services regarding technology as a whole, and before they come to know anything about relationnal databases, we'll all be far more controled and filed by RIAA/MPAA and affiliates.
FWIW, "Jeanne Achille" is a perfectly valid french name, i.e. "Jeanne" as well as "Achille" are both common lastname and firstname (or is it the other way round? I can't never remember). So in her case, there's nothing she could do to prevent another "Jeanne Achille" to use her own name. Even if said other "Jeanne Achille" is a stupid pro-nazi...
> It is amazing that this can happen. We could lose most of our rights as consumers because of this, > based on no real facts. I only hope a judge will see through the lies in court when cases start > coming to them.
Two questions:
- shouldn't we be afraid of losing rights as a citizen, instead of "consumer rights", which are in fact only subsequent to one of our primary citizen rights (i.e. property)?
- and (IANAL) isn't the fact that each law/bill these days have to pass the test of a judge decision a sign of a profound problem with the way laws are designed these days?
I wonder how any monotheist religion can consider blasphem as a problem, as their very own existence is blasphemous to any polytheist religion. I wonder how any religion can consider blasphem as a problem, as their very own existence is blasphemous to any atheist. Let me say that all this affair is a blasphem, as it goes against my very own belief that humans are intelligent beings.
Begone all you blasphemous f...wit, for you're tempering with my reality!
I often wonder what would happen if the women in the anti-abortion league who participate to violent acts would be raped (sorry for the grammar...;b) ? It might be of greatest interest to see if they go on with saying you can't abort...
-- Arkan, who like to believe he can do what he wants with his body
"consistent managed security systems focused on managing application level security for inherently distributed business systems"
Am I the only one here who suspects that a solution explained in so much words, or should I say buzzword, is a good metric to the usefulness of the article? Pardon me, but it sounds like marketing speech rather than technical, knowledgable advice...
-- Arkan - sorry for the english, next time I'll be born elsewhere, I promise
Am I wrong in thinking that this design may lead to a new approach to servers farm, where each cube offers some kind of power (processing, storage, networking, moka brewing), and the whole assembly keeps itself in shape?
For the first time in the history of/., the assertion "Imagine a cluster of these!" takes its full meaning: storage might be the first step, and only the bandwidth of the couplers is a limit to the usability of CPU cubes or networking cubes.
More, the software part will certainly bring some huge advances in clustering, as the challenge of virtualising all those cubes may help in building self-repairing (or should I say self-dumping?) clusters...
Oh, and by the way, here is the first step to assimilation.
Now you're talking about promotional websites for movies or events. And he's talking about information, content, and usefullness. Internet and the web were not aimed at becoming TV v2.0. They were, and I hope still are aimed at communicating information at large, with a twist of redundancy in the media. All related tools are designed to improve and better the information, to reference it, and to archive it. Flash is just a way marketing have found to achieve "TV on da web" quickly and cheaply before they can enforce video streams at each page loading.
Don't take it too literally: I have plenty of fun with flash movies, but they're just that: movies. Now, maybe we should change the default port of http to another one so we can keep information on 80, and "enjoyable full-featured, media-rich, blazingly gliterring web" on the other, new default port of browsers.
To conclude, I'd say that a phrase like "Sorry about your connection, or browser(...)It must be boring where you live" isn't really the kind of state of mind I'd expect from an internet user. I even shouldn't be surprised that third and fourth worlds aren't really talkative terms to you. Maybe you should consider donating your fast connection and your blasing fast computer to an underdeveloped country?
Internet is worldwide, so should be the state of mind of it's denizens.
-- Arkan War's best fought around a negociation table.
What's a problem in this kind of tax is the real benefit for the country, and through it, for its citizens.
First, there's an ethical aspect to this question: taxing storage products on the sole reason that they may be used for piracy is a way to legitimize said piracy (as said someone in a post: if you already paid for what you may illegally copy, then why not do it?). Second, there's a "constitutional" aspect: it's a bit shocking to see a government protect private interests, and more, help said private interests to bend laws and consumers rights to make more money. Third, this kind of tax should imply that maximum copyright duration is respected, thus making a large bunch of songs falling in the public domain. But the same government that create the tax doesn't seems so inclined to enforce this kind of duration.
Finally, I'm starting to wonder when you'll have to pay a tax based on the size of your ears. You know, this guy has so large ears he certainly ears more than the licence allow, he should pay for that!
Why waste so much money on technology, when you could use this undecent amount to teach children from third-part world how to grow crops efficiently, how to protect themselves from nasty things (think AIDS, but also parasites whose symptoms are still considered in some places as demoniac possession), how to stop thinking of a better world and start builing it?
No, no, don't answer, it's pretty clear: doing so won't add to your sponsors installed customers.
If Samba can access Windows anymore, then surely NFS will come to Windows. Yeah, maybe a bit of authentication work should be done on NFS, but if one road is cut, then take the other, longer one!
Like many political institutions, it takes EU some good technicians to explain them the ins and outs of every question. Fact is the said technicians didn't do they're homework with the copyrights and "intellectual property" stuff, so they surely try to overdo said homework with privacy.
And once again, critical questions, with possible direct implications with expression freedom...
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... so when it comes to explain that no, I won't blank my Debian server to install a Redhat, because Oracle said they only support Redhat, my boss assume I'll be responsible for any failure of said Oracle server. :b), and this is the only thing close to a Microsoftian strategy. But you can't (and I hope nobody will) try and stop a company to build a partnership with another one.
Redhat are in no way responsible for this behavior (maybe a little: they didn't refused to be the Oracle official distro
Fact is, I'd prefer Oracle officially support Debian too. But Debian's team has not enough time to deal with partnership, and Oracle most certainly won't deal with people "doing it for free(as in beer)".
--
Arkan
Be proud of those ethics so long as they don't really interfere with anything you care about.
There's one more thing that can make it really special: tell her about your doubts and questions about this ring, but buy it. It will be far more important to her if she knows that you had to make a real ethical effort to buy one.
--
Arkan
... as if it was bleeding edge idea.
We got Bebop. A nice, cute little wireless phone that worked the very same way as Rabbit: spot a relay, get close enough, and you could make a call. Let me just say it was completely wiped out of the paysage by cellular phones.
Now, could someone tell me how many time it gonna take for business to understand that if a product had no market because of technological deficiency ten years ago, it is not going to be more successful today?
Same goes with Wap: the problem was not the speed, but the size of the device. 3 years later, they come back with even smaller devices... and GPRS. Duh!
--
Arkan
As mentioned in previous (and surely following) posts, this kind of PIN (as in Personal Identification Number) already exists in some form or another in many countries. In fact, I doubt that any country with a social security system can do without such a number.
The danger of these primary keys are not their existence, but the amount of data you can obtain when knowing them. For instance, how much a problem can it be is the social security file contains only your name/birthdate/gender?
Now imagine that you could (and at least here in France, it's technically impossible: even the social security services can't find their way in their own files!) correlate with a given PK the whole life of a person: from is medical history to his credit card log? Here is the real danger!
Fortunatly for us, such a thing is far from achievable for three reasons:
- the different databases are not interconnected, making a correlation a pain in the cheek
- access to some of these databases is restricted, as in "please show me sufficient proof of your identity to access your own information". You'll certainly have more information from news papers archives
- the PK mentionned above is only used in just a few files, all the others mainly indexed on your firstname/lastname. Yeah, regularly someone "dies" in place of someone else...
Add to this the cluelessness of government services regarding technology as a whole, and before they come to know anything about relationnal databases, we'll all be far more controled and filed by RIAA/MPAA and affiliates.
--
Arkan
FWIW, "Jeanne Achille" is a perfectly valid french name, i.e. "Jeanne" as well as "Achille" are both common lastname and firstname (or is it the other way round? I can't never remember). So in her case, there's nothing she could do to prevent another "Jeanne Achille" to use her own name. Even if said other "Jeanne Achille" is a stupid pro-nazi...
--
Arkan
> It is amazing that this can happen. We could lose most of our rights as consumers because of this,
> based on no real facts. I only hope a judge will see through the lies in court when cases start
> coming to them.
Two questions:
- shouldn't we be afraid of losing rights as a citizen, instead of "consumer rights", which are in fact only subsequent to one of our primary citizen rights (i.e. property)?
- and (IANAL) isn't the fact that each law/bill these days have to pass the test of a judge decision a sign of a profound problem with the way laws are designed these days?
--
Arkan
I wonder how any monotheist religion can consider blasphem as a problem, as their very own existence is blasphemous to any polytheist religion.
I wonder how any religion can consider blasphem as a problem, as their very own existence is blasphemous to any atheist.
Let me say that all this affair is a blasphem, as it goes against my very own belief that humans are intelligent beings.
Begone all you blasphemous f...wit, for you're tempering with my reality!
I often wonder what would happen if the women in the anti-abortion league who participate to violent acts would be raped (sorry for the grammar... ;b) ?
It might be of greatest interest to see if they go on with saying you can't abort...
--
Arkan, who like to believe he can do what he wants with his body
Hmmm...
"consistent managed security systems focused on managing application level security for inherently distributed business systems"
Am I the only one here who suspects that a solution explained in so much words, or should I say buzzword, is a good metric to the usefulness of the article? Pardon me, but it sounds like marketing speech rather than technical, knowledgable advice...
--
Arkan - sorry for the english, next time I'll be born elsewhere, I promise
> Ice Cube? Lemme guess: They sell a bandwidth package for Internet hosting called "Ice T"
Hmm... Let's just hope it won't melt...
"No sir, the server didn't crash, it went down in the drain!"
--
Arkan
Am I wrong in thinking that this design may lead to a new approach to servers farm, where each cube offers some kind of power (processing, storage, networking, moka brewing), and the whole assembly keeps itself in shape?
/., the assertion "Imagine a cluster of these!" takes its full meaning: storage might be the first step, and only the bandwidth of the couplers is a limit to the usability of CPU cubes or networking cubes.
For the first time in the history of
More, the software part will certainly bring some huge advances in clustering, as the challenge of virtualising all those cubes may help in building self-repairing (or should I say self-dumping?) clusters...
Oh, and by the way, here is the first step to assimilation.
--
Arkan
Now you're talking about promotional websites for movies or events. And he's talking about information, content, and usefullness. Internet and the web were not aimed at becoming TV v2.0. They were, and I hope still are aimed at communicating information at large, with a twist of redundancy in the media. All related tools are designed to improve and better the information, to reference it, and to archive it. Flash is just a way marketing have found to achieve "TV on da web" quickly and cheaply before they can enforce video streams at each page loading.
Don't take it too literally: I have plenty of fun with flash movies, but they're just that: movies. Now, maybe we should change the default port of http to another one so we can keep information on 80, and "enjoyable full-featured, media-rich, blazingly gliterring web" on the other, new default port of browsers.
To conclude, I'd say that a phrase like "Sorry about your connection, or browser(...)It must be boring where you live" isn't really the kind of state of mind I'd expect from an internet user. I even shouldn't be surprised that third and fourth worlds aren't really talkative terms to you. Maybe you should consider donating your fast connection and your blasing fast computer to an underdeveloped country?
Internet is worldwide, so should be the state of mind of it's denizens.
--
Arkan
War's best fought around a negociation table.
What's a problem in this kind of tax is the real benefit for the country, and through it, for its citizens.
First, there's an ethical aspect to this question: taxing storage products on the sole reason that they may be used for piracy is a way to legitimize said piracy (as said someone in a post: if you already paid for what you may illegally copy, then why not do it?).
Second, there's a "constitutional" aspect: it's a bit shocking to see a government protect private interests, and more, help said private interests to bend laws and consumers rights to make more money.
Third, this kind of tax should imply that maximum copyright duration is respected, thus making a large bunch of songs falling in the public domain. But the same government that create the tax doesn't seems so inclined to enforce this kind of duration.
Finally, I'm starting to wonder when you'll have to pay a tax based on the size of your ears. You know, this guy has so large ears he certainly ears more than the licence allow, he should pay for that!
Why waste so much money on technology, when you could use this undecent amount to teach children from third-part world how to grow crops efficiently, how to protect themselves from nasty things (think AIDS, but also parasites whose symptoms are still considered in some places as demoniac possession), how to stop thinking of a better world and start builing it?
No, no, don't answer, it's pretty clear: doing so won't add to your sponsors installed customers.
If Samba can access Windows anymore, then surely NFS will come to Windows. Yeah, maybe a bit of authentication work should be done on NFS, but if one road is cut, then take the other, longer one!
Like many political institutions, it takes EU some good technicians to explain them the ins and outs of every question. Fact is the said technicians didn't do they're homework with the copyrights and "intellectual property" stuff, so they surely try to overdo said homework with privacy.
And once again, critical questions, with possible direct implications with expression freedom...
Yes, t'was a rant(tm)!
The same, old OS fight... Yeah... Great... ;)
Could you please remind me the former subject, please?