Nope; this just proves what many have said: that the USA PATRIOT Act has applications far beyond the boundaries of national security and that people will use any tool for any job to which it is suited.
Exactly. There might be files on an NFS server which represent sounds, but the server itself has no use for them; those belong to the clients. A tripwire server doesn't have any business with sound. A PGSQL server doesn't use sound. Yet the server's OS has sound plumbed into a thousand different bits that I have to use for administrative control of the server itself. This makes the admin. interface even heavier and slower, it unnecessarily exposes the machine to attack, it's more things that can crash unexpectedly, and it eats up storage to no purpose. But if I yank the sound support, the package manager calmly begins deleting most of the administrative interface.
I'd love to ditch the packaged OS and hand-build just what we need, and I think I'd actually save time in the long run by doing so instead of endlessly jousting with the package, but so far this has not been approved.
Testify! I love Christmas but can only enjoy about a week of it. By the time the day comes, the joy is all wrung out of it. I've been toying with the idea of a parody song: The Twelve Months of Christmas.
I've got it. Why don't YOU write some nice soothing music, perform it, record it, and post the recording somewhere under a nice Creative Commons license or any other one you choose. Volunteers in every town can burn a few CDs for their dentists.
I don't foresee it happening but that doesn't mean I'm not serious.
We may be in for some amusement when the publishers learn how many people have discovered, as a result of this move, just how little they miss that stuff. I wonder if music sales could actually decrease slightly as a result? (Of course any failure to increase is automatically allocated to "piracy" so we'll never know.)
Okay, I have a host room with racks of hosts in it whose purpose is to serve up files, grub through databases, monitor host and network operation, watch for attempts to penetrate security, and carry out scheduled background grunt work. None of those hosts have any reason to make sounds. Nobody is sitting there, physically or virtually, driving these machines; they drive themselves. People have hosts on their desktops for browsing, etc. The hosts I have in mind are not for personal use.
I want to remove unneeded complexity, to reduce attack surface and failure points, but when I take out sound it also takes out nearly the entire administrative interface. That reeks of an attitude that says that the computer is a toy for playing Doom, and any actual work is just a sideline.
Basically, if I don't need it for system administration, diagnosis, or the service the machine was installed to provide, the host is better off without it and I want to be able to remove it. Ideally I'd like never to have installed that rubbish in the first place.
"All you need is for people to be prepared to defend themselves and to be able to cooperate in that defense."
Uhhuh. You need weapons and other specialized equipment already made and ready for use. You need people trained to use them and to work together in using them. You need support structures and supplies laid by. In other words, a standing army.
Because when the bad guys are coming over the wall, it's too late to start thinking about what you will do.
How can you possibly have a rule of law without an organization to define and apply that law? Then what is lawful would depend solely on who is speaking. That's the exact opposite of a society.
Thank you! I recalled a word that I think will do. For another fictional society worthy of study, see the heterarchial one in _Voyage from Yesteryear_ (yeah, he's plugging the same book again!) It's a good view of what amounts to a coalition of ad-hoc committees grappling with a rigid hierarchy.
If there is no formal code, how do you know that what you were just informed of is the real rule? How do you know it is not a lie being spread by someone who decided that he would benefit from an unfair rule?
I'm going to have to think about that one. Because people keep talking about anarchy as an alternative way to *organize*. But look at the word. It means the rejection of rule. If there is no standard of behavior and no mechanism for correcting excessive deviation from the standard then there is no organization in any useful sense.
I think I need another word, one which means that all authority and responsibility are not concentrated in a few hands, but neither is every man thrown solely upon his own resources. Some things work best individually, and some collectively, and these principles should be balanced.
(I'm thinking now about a story I read long ago, featuring a spaceship arrived from an anarchic society thought long gone. It is mentioned that officials of that society wore badges and that *every one of the badges was different*. So, there must be some central registry of badge designs that gets to pass on whether your badge is unique. How can that be an anarchy?)
Actually, "conservative" ought to mean "opposed to sweeping changes". Those we are told to label as "conservatives" are no more conservative than our "liberals" are liberal.
If this principle becomes firmly established in law, say goodbye to your crowbars, knives, and hammers as well. Say goodbye to pillows and ropes. Say goodbye to pharmaceuticals of any description. Because if X is liable for Y's misuse of X's perfectly legitimate product, essentially everything that humans have fashioned for themselves becomes bad for your legal health.
Let me know when some yahoo sues Stanley Tool Works for selling murder weapons (i.e. boxcutters). Apparently intelligence was just a passing fad and humanity has moved on.
...and seen that spending $1000 on my $20 of long-distance business wasn't worth it.
Of course they wish to reassure their existing customers, but we all know what that means. So who else provides reliable long-distance without amazing trick T&C, for the inevitable day when AT&T's residential long-distance customer base has dwindled to the point that either their service suffers or they decide to hang it up and sell us, yard-sale style, to a passing former competitor?
A server has no need to produce sound anywhere. Just try taking sound support off your server and see the parade of software the package manager will want to remove.
I guess it's worth the difference, though, since T-Mobile has rate plans that start at only about twice as many minutes/month as we use while AT&T (and Verizon, and Cingular, and Sprint) start at about ten times as much as we need and are priced accordingly.
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Nope; this just proves what many have said: that the USA PATRIOT Act has applications far beyond the boundaries of national security and that people will use any tool for any job to which it is suited.
Exactly. There might be files on an NFS server which represent sounds, but the server itself has no use for them; those belong to the clients. A tripwire server doesn't have any business with sound. A PGSQL server doesn't use sound. Yet the server's OS has sound plumbed into a thousand different bits that I have to use for administrative control of the server itself. This makes the admin. interface even heavier and slower, it unnecessarily exposes the machine to attack, it's more things that can crash unexpectedly, and it eats up storage to no purpose. But if I yank the sound support, the package manager calmly begins deleting most of the administrative interface.
I'd love to ditch the packaged OS and hand-build just what we need, and I think I'd actually save time in the long run by doing so instead of endlessly jousting with the package, but so far this has not been approved.
Will politics in China change markedly in the next decade? Probably. Will the same guys be in charge after all the changes? You bet. That's stability.
A lot of people around here watch the evening news or read the morning paper, where race == culture.
Testify! I love Christmas but can only enjoy about a week of it. By the time the day comes, the joy is all wrung out of it. I've been toying with the idea of a parody song: The Twelve Months of Christmas.
I've got it. Why don't YOU write some nice soothing music, perform it, record it, and post the recording somewhere under a nice Creative Commons license or any other one you choose. Volunteers in every town can burn a few CDs for their dentists.
I don't foresee it happening but that doesn't mean I'm not serious.
We may be in for some amusement when the publishers learn how many people have discovered, as a result of this move, just how little they miss that stuff. I wonder if music sales could actually decrease slightly as a result? (Of course any failure to increase is automatically allocated to "piracy" so we'll never know.)
Okay, I have a host room with racks of hosts in it whose purpose is to serve up files, grub through databases, monitor host and network operation, watch for attempts to penetrate security, and carry out scheduled background grunt work. None of those hosts have any reason to make sounds. Nobody is sitting there, physically or virtually, driving these machines; they drive themselves. People have hosts on their desktops for browsing, etc. The hosts I have in mind are not for personal use.
I want to remove unneeded complexity, to reduce attack surface and failure points, but when I take out sound it also takes out nearly the entire administrative interface. That reeks of an attitude that says that the computer is a toy for playing Doom, and any actual work is just a sideline.
Basically, if I don't need it for system administration, diagnosis, or the service the machine was installed to provide, the host is better off without it and I want to be able to remove it. Ideally I'd like never to have installed that rubbish in the first place.
"All you need is for people to be prepared to defend themselves and to be able to cooperate in that defense."
Uhhuh. You need weapons and other specialized equipment already made and ready for use. You need people trained to use them and to work together in using them. You need support structures and supplies laid by. In other words, a standing army.
Because when the bad guys are coming over the wall, it's too late to start thinking about what you will do.
How can you possibly have a rule of law without an organization to define and apply that law? Then what is lawful would depend solely on who is speaking. That's the exact opposite of a society.
An absolute monarch may do as he pleases, so long as he pleases the assassins. -- Ambrose Bierce
Why is it that when I read "Transhuman" I keep thinking of Anderson's "Exaltationists"?
I don't need a cop to tell *me* what to do; I need a cop to tell *him* what to do! :-/
Contemplate this until you understand why government is not going away.
Thank you! I recalled a word that I think will do. For another fictional society worthy of study, see the heterarchial one in _Voyage from Yesteryear_ (yeah, he's plugging the same book again!) It's a good view of what amounts to a coalition of ad-hoc committees grappling with a rigid hierarchy.
If there is no formal code, how do you know that what you were just informed of is the real rule? How do you know it is not a lie being spread by someone who decided that he would benefit from an unfair rule?
*Owns the store???* He's a greedy capitalist pig, man! Up against the wall with him!
I'm going to have to think about that one. Because people keep talking about anarchy as an alternative way to *organize*. But look at the word. It means the rejection of rule. If there is no standard of behavior and no mechanism for correcting excessive deviation from the standard then there is no organization in any useful sense.
I think I need another word, one which means that all authority and responsibility are not concentrated in a few hands, but neither is every man thrown solely upon his own resources. Some things work best individually, and some collectively, and these principles should be balanced.
(I'm thinking now about a story I read long ago, featuring a spaceship arrived from an anarchic society thought long gone. It is mentioned that officials of that society wore badges and that *every one of the badges was different*. So, there must be some central registry of badge designs that gets to pass on whether your badge is unique. How can that be an anarchy?)
Mr. Clancy's nonfiction is more engaging. One dose of Jack Ryan was enough for a lifetime, but I eagerly await his next documentary or backgrounder.
Okay, let them issue their content on self-erasing media. I'd pay as much as $0.25 for a movie that self-destructs. Oh, wait....
Actually, "conservative" ought to mean "opposed to sweeping changes". Those we are told to label as "conservatives" are no more conservative than our "liberals" are liberal.
If this principle becomes firmly established in law, say goodbye to your crowbars, knives, and hammers as well. Say goodbye to pillows and ropes. Say goodbye to pharmaceuticals of any description. Because if X is liable for Y's misuse of X's perfectly legitimate product, essentially everything that humans have fashioned for themselves becomes bad for your legal health.
Let me know when some yahoo sues Stanley Tool Works for selling murder weapons (i.e. boxcutters). Apparently intelligence was just a passing fad and humanity has moved on.
...and seen that spending $1000 on my $20 of long-distance business wasn't worth it.
Of course they wish to reassure their existing customers, but we all know what that means. So who else provides reliable long-distance without amazing trick T&C, for the inevitable day when AT&T's residential long-distance customer base has dwindled to the point that either their service suffers or they decide to hang it up and sell us, yard-sale style, to a passing former competitor?
A server has no need to produce sound anywhere. Just try taking sound support off your server and see the parade of software the package manager will want to remove.
T-Mobile in the US charges for reception.
I guess it's worth the difference, though, since T-Mobile has rate plans that start at only about twice as many minutes/month as we use while AT&T (and Verizon, and Cingular, and Sprint) start at about ten times as much as we need and are priced accordingly.
The other difference is that you can walk away from the street preacher and not hear him anymore.