If this bores you, every lkml thread would cause your head to explode.
Hey, I consider myself a code junky (and yes, even consider the issue of the BKL somewhat interesting),
but I realize that this topic has about as much appeal to the average Slashdotter as mowing the lawn.
you build your counterargument on top of a bunch of assumptions
True enough, and a fair criticism. But the right answer does depend on the specifics of the situation, so at
best, we can hypothesize about what that might entail.
I can pretty well see you haven't had to deal with the customer side of a business if your response is
going to be "you are an idiot and you cannot have what you ask for".
I didn't say I would go that far. I may beleive that, but I have discovered
a far, far easier way to make customers (which yes, I do deal directly with them) think a
bit harder about what they really need: Give them a price quote for the service. AMAZING
how much less they need, than they will demand right up until you put a dollar figure on their
whims.
Think about it, the data is probably required for the customer's business process.
Big difference between "we want to query inventory levels every 30 seconds for no good reason" and "we can't look up customer information to complete basic transactions".
The former (which IMO sounds like basically what the FP has to deal with, micromanaging twits who wouldn't know what to do with the data if they had it) won't bring a business to its knees if you say "no". And The latter?
So saying 'no' is tantamount to 'you can't run your business', and the customer will become an ex-customer just like that.
If they can't do business without near-realtime access to that data, they made a damn poor choice in ever letting it out of
their control in the first place, and someone (or a few people) need to lose their jobs over ever outsourcing such a vital task.
Anyway, if you look just a bit beyond the superficial question here, why would the customer want the requested access?
Simple: Because they already plan to stop using the FP author's services (at least, in his capacity as a custom
report writer).
That's customer service!
Yes, actually, I'd call it pretty good customer service, once you accept a very important fact - "The customer
is not always right". You don't sell guns to kids, you don't sell liquor to those already sloshed, and you don't
give anyone raw (even RO) access to systems without a damned good reason. Sure, it sounds harmless on the
surface... Until some wannabe DB guru brings the server to its knees. And when that happens, who do you think the
customer will blame: The boss' nephew, or "those bastards holding our data hostage"?
Anyway, in this case, depending on all the contractual details, the customer might not actually "own" their data, so what
kind of idiot would give them far more access without charging through the nose for it, and then call it "customer service"?
You might as well say "If you fall down, you stand up again.". Which works for everone who is healthy enough to get up on their own.
Alright, I would actually consider that a good analogy. And I stand by it (no pun intended).
With one modification - If you fall, either someone will come along and help you, or the wolves find you
first and have a snack. Megan fell, and rather than look for help (she did have reasonably sane
parents, regardless of the closeness of their relationship), she slathered herself with wolf-bait
and made bleating lamb noises.
Yes, because everyone has to behave like a robot, especially teenagers and people with psychological problems.
Sorry if this offends your delicate sensibilities, but at the end of the day, Megan chose to end
her own life. If it makes me a robot for seeing the situation as it stands, rather than in the
biased light of some well-intentioned-but-baseless believe in the sanctity of human life, well then,
so it goes.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it's all taken away. The friend is revealed to be someone malicious, someone manipulative
enough to string out this child for months at a time before pulling the rug out from under her. She's now left alone, with
no one to turn to.
Okay, you get an "A-" for Drama 101, but puh-lease.
If an online friend screws you over, you move on. You don't kill yourself, simple as that.
Yes, we can all loathe the evil Lori Drew, and she very much deserves the shunning of her community. But
to say she "murdered" Megan? get serious. We always have choices. Killing ourselves - or not - Always
counts as a choice, one which Megan chose over "dealing".
having boatloads of cash doesn't
make you smart. Icahn is an idiot if
he believes that a) Yahoo and MS can
merge peacefully, and b) Yahoo brings
anything other than a brand to MS.
This has nothing to do with
"smart". Microsoft's offer would have
seen Yahoo shareholders make 72% of their
investment overnight. If they believed
in the merger,
they could hold on for an intereseting ride. If not, they could cash out and smile at having nearly doubled their money.
I don't believe Icahn has actually claimed the merger would do Yahoo any good, only that rejecting it borders on a violation of shareholder trust.
As an aside, where did the nice, non-sucky "old form" go for writing replies? This ajaxified BS really really bites the big one, and now Slashdot plans to make it the only option? WTF, editors? Trying to cut down on the number of posts by making it harder to do so? Perhaps it works better in MSIE, but in Firefox, I lose my cursor after the first preview, and the size of this damned little edit box reminds me of posting back in the days of 800x600. Ugh. WE DON'T LIKE, FIX!
Isn't it the customer that unpacks a container, after it's
been slid onto a truck and reached its destination?
"Customer" in the sense of "Walmart" or "Nintendo of America",
not the end user.
This doesn't involve "importing" a rare CD from an EBay seller in
a different country; when I say "container", I mean a 40x8x9.5 foot
steel box of the sort Maersk would handle.
As an aside, when you do import that rare CD on a small personal
scale, you will usually get a separate bill for Customs Brokerage. That
fairly hefty sum theoretically goes toward making sure you haven't
imported anything banned (such as swarming ants, cuban cigars, or
plutonium) and that you have paid all relevant taxes on it. So, if
ants still make it in, that seems to me like outright fraud on the
part of the shipping companies...
Have you any idea how many inspectors would be needed,
or how long it would take?
Someone has to open those crates and unpack them, eventually
(I don't know about you, but I don't often go to WallyWorld and buy
whole unopened cargo containers <G> ). Do you have any idea how
many people that takes, or how long? Well, if we can find the resources
to unpack them for sale, we can find the resources to inspect
them... For that matter, some overlap of those duties would make quite
a bit of sense, IMO.
Actually, ants are the least of your worries. It's been pointed
out by security specialists that container ships are an ideal way for
terrorists to bring in the parts of nuclear weapons
Erm, did you post this under the wrong FP article? While we build
multibillion dollar neutrino sensors that break every time a chemo
patient drives past, the FP mentions yet anotheractual
threat coming from poor inspection of cargo.
Call me crazy, but real ants trump imaginary boogeymen.
I also hate the IRS yet like decent roads; hate Pfizer yet appreciate
antibiotics (when I need them); hate (having to) work yet enjoy
disposeable income; hate car exhaust and high fuel prices
yet like mobility. I could go on.
As for Apple... I don't really want OS-X. I really
only want to run it (on a PC) because Steve won't let me.
And as for Microsoft... I don't really want XP either - But
let me know how the Linux version of TurboTax worked for ya this
year.
Abandon them alltogether and let anyone publish whatever they like?
C'mon, you posted this on Slashdot. Down with all forms of
intellectual property, etc, etc (and yes, I largely agree with that
stance, though I won't rant about it in this particular post).
What would be the problem with that?
Did you know that in chapter 27 it talks about rendering the fat of
unbaptised babies to make the secret Mormon wedding ointment[*]? Of
course, not having access to a copy to read for yourself, you'll
just have to take my word for it...
* - Not trolling, mods - If you don't understand my point, don't moderate.
I also think ad dollars (and the inevitable ads they pay for) save the average American
a lot of money each year. How, you might say? Ad sales finance ventures that may otherwise
be unprofitable or unsustainable.
Then such ventures should fail. I have no problem with that.
Advertising makes products that I do want cost more, simple as that. Without spending money
trying to convince people who don't want a product that they need it anyway, companies would have a
lower overhead and thus could sell for less. Of course, they would sell less overall, and only companies
with legitimately useful products would thrive (with the occasional freak exception, of course), but
I don't view either of those as necessarily a "bad" thing.
Look at our society, look at the current economic crisis, look at Bratz dolls, and tell me we don't
have an outright disease of buying crap we don't need. We have a problem, and we can thank
advertising for hefty chunk of that.
Ads can be annoying and overdone, but they are a product of a free capitalistic society.
Just as you can have dinner without gorging yourself to the point of bursting; Just as you can drink
without passing out drunk; You can have capitalism without encouraging people to spend more than they
have on crap they don't need.
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have posted
a navigable life-size photo of a blue whale!
I already have a life-size photo of a blue whale, thanks.
Of course, from my 5MP digital camera, that means a resolution of
only 2dpi, but still "life size" in the sense that it would take
110ft (by a couple dozen rolls wide) of plotter paper to print.
I think we need to start planing for an Alternate
Network other than the Internet.
We already have one, just with really high latency: Large external HDDs.
And I don't mean that as a joke. It takes way too much
time (after, for example, a major crash) to redownload hundreds of
gigs of music, (*cough*porn*cough*), and movies. Easy solution?
Give your friends a copy now, and pay them a visit when you need
to "restore from backup" later.
Incidentally, for all their bluster about P2P, what I just described
really terrifies the **AA... Not only do they have no
ability to track it, but you can copy their entire catalog in a few
hours (or less). Compared to that threat, a few low-quality leaks
of Madonna's latest cry for attention pales in comparison.
But unless they prevail or pull out of China they would be
subjected to their laws and likely to adapt to publishing only
authorized versions of PRC maps.
...Which works well - Right up until Tibet, Taiwan, and Japan pass
similar laws.
IMO, if this decision came down to my personal call, I'd
just erase any disputed territories from the map completely. Countries
want to play games, they can play it over places no one can find on
the map.
Which has what, exactly, to do with a Linux framebuffer driver?
Sure, having the source, we could proably port it to the Windows world, but the
Windows world has no shortage of drivers already. Granted, they don't always count
as the most reliable option, but at the risk of sounding a tad snarky - You
run Vista 64-bit, "reliable" doesn't really enter the picture.
Do you think China really cares all that much about
Google? Seriously?
Very much so! But, only from one side of the equasion.
If Google pulled out of China entirely, China would not care in the
least. In that regard, I agree with you.
Google staying in China, however, greatly threatens the
government there by exposing its policies and practices to the
masses. Thus the reason for this Google policy vote in the
first place; If China didn't fear Google (and really,
any form of free access to information), Google wouldn't
need to decide whether to self-censor or not.
My screens just do not have that kind
of real-estate space.
So get more screens!
Why did this get modded "funny"? I would make the same
suggestion.
A trio of widescreen monitors gives you room for one development
environment, one open web browser, a handfull of small tools (calculator,
volume control, console window, file browser, etc) and three
PDFs/CHMs/LITs/whatevers all open at the same time.
And while you can take the dead-tree editions with you to the bathroom,
the primative search functionality (a static non-fulltext index without
per-result context? puh-lease!) makes them far more cumbersome to
use as reference material than electronic formats.
Now, as for the FP topic (have I changed my opinion on eBook readers)...
You don't "read" reference texts. You search them for the target
information and read just as much as you need to proceed with your
current task. For literature (and I don't limit that category
to just dead-white-guy-classics), I'll take paper over electronics,
and will continue to prefer paper until ebooks have the same basic
physical properties: Flexible, thin, light-absorbing rather than
light-producing, and not dependant on batteries (or having such a long
battery life as to make it something like a TV remote, which we all
know takes batteries but you only change them once or twice a year).
Are we electing complete idiots to the courts these days?
No, we elected[*] a complete idiot to the White House, who appointed
several idiot GOP shills to the USSC and several other federal seats.
We mere plebes don't get to vote for judges, we just get to suffer
lifetime appointments made as political favors to people unqualified
for any other job.
Wait a minute, I call shenanigans. I did a Google for "TV Tray Tables" and didn't see anything.
Heh... Okay, in fairness, I didn't find any outright porn in the first few pages. I did find some
rather "racy" pics in the first few pages, though.
The order appears to have changed since I posted that, but the one I specifically meant looked
like some sort of European beer ad (which I can't find at all, now). I also found one of a Vargas
girl a few pages later (though now appearing on page 16, and I know I didn't look that
far before).
BTW, if you search Google for "page three girls", you'll appreciate my comment more (no joke, this time).
Oh, for shame! You at least need to do a GIS (warning: NSFW!) before
invoking Rule 34. Hell, we even have Peach/Daisy lesbo action by the third image. Not even a challenge.;-)
For that matter, even Bowser turns up porn on the first page. Some topics make it just too easy. Now,"TV Tray Tables"[*], there you
have a challenge.
If you're ever relying on a single device for ANYTHING you're
doing it wrong. But LVM is perfectly safe if you do it in a
responsible way.
I agree completely - And mostly meant that as my point (with an
anecdote about myself as an otherwise-knowledgeable user making a
really really stupid mistake).
LVM does work exactly as advertised - It just shouldn't
have anywhere near the popularity it currently enjoys.
For example, several Linux distros (Fedora comes to mind) set
up an LVM by default. Ouch.
But yes, in the right environment (low risk of, or penalty for, failure)
it solves a number of problems nicely... Adding space, something RAIDs
have traditionally made painful, it makes a breeze; and volume snapshots
quite simply rock the casba. But for most users (pretty much any
non-enterprise level user, for that matter), I would consider it
far more dangerous than helpful.
Slashdot Mirror
If this bores you, every lkml thread would cause your head to explode.
Hey, I consider myself a code junky (and yes, even consider the issue of the BKL somewhat interesting), but I realize that this topic has about as much appeal to the average Slashdotter as mowing the lawn.
Generally, in the US you cannot claim time as a charitable contribution.
"Time", no... But you can claim "in-kind" contributions.
So you never, ever donate your time, you donate a fixed-fee service instead. And get a receipt.
you build your counterargument on top of a bunch of assumptions
True enough, and a fair criticism. But the right answer does depend on the specifics of the situation, so at best, we can hypothesize about what that might entail.
I can pretty well see you haven't had to deal with the customer side of a business if your response is going to be "you are an idiot and you cannot have what you ask for".
I didn't say I would go that far. I may beleive that, but I have discovered a far, far easier way to make customers (which yes, I do deal directly with them) think a bit harder about what they really need: Give them a price quote for the service. AMAZING how much less they need, than they will demand right up until you put a dollar figure on their whims.
Think about it, the data is probably required for the customer's business process.
Big difference between "we want to query inventory levels every 30 seconds for no good reason" and "we can't look up customer information to complete basic transactions".
The former (which IMO sounds like basically what the FP has to deal with, micromanaging twits who wouldn't know what to do with the data if they had it) won't bring a business to its knees if you say "no". And The latter?
So saying 'no' is tantamount to 'you can't run your business', and the customer will become an ex-customer just like that.
If they can't do business without near-realtime access to that data, they made a damn poor choice in ever letting it out of their control in the first place, and someone (or a few people) need to lose their jobs over ever outsourcing such a vital task.
Anyway, if you look just a bit beyond the superficial question here, why would the customer want the requested access?
Simple: Because they already plan to stop using the FP author's services (at least, in his capacity as a custom report writer).
That's customer service!
Yes, actually, I'd call it pretty good customer service, once you accept a very important fact - "The customer is not always right". You don't sell guns to kids, you don't sell liquor to those already sloshed, and you don't give anyone raw (even RO) access to systems without a damned good reason. Sure, it sounds harmless on the surface... Until some wannabe DB guru brings the server to its knees. And when that happens, who do you think the customer will blame: The boss' nephew, or "those bastards holding our data hostage"?
Anyway, in this case, depending on all the contractual details, the customer might not actually "own" their data, so what kind of idiot would give them far more access without charging through the nose for it, and then call it "customer service"?
You might as well say "If you fall down, you stand up again.". Which works for everone who is healthy enough to get up on their own.
Alright, I would actually consider that a good analogy. And I stand by it (no pun intended).
With one modification - If you fall, either someone will come along and help you, or the wolves find you first and have a snack. Megan fell, and rather than look for help (she did have reasonably sane parents, regardless of the closeness of their relationship), she slathered herself with wolf-bait and made bleating lamb noises.
Yes, because everyone has to behave like a robot, especially teenagers and people with psychological problems.
Sorry if this offends your delicate sensibilities, but at the end of the day, Megan chose to end her own life. If it makes me a robot for seeing the situation as it stands, rather than in the biased light of some well-intentioned-but-baseless believe in the sanctity of human life, well then, so it goes.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it's all taken away. The friend is revealed to be someone malicious, someone manipulative enough to string out this child for months at a time before pulling the rug out from under her. She's now left alone, with no one to turn to.
Okay, you get an "A-" for Drama 101, but puh-lease.
If an online friend screws you over, you move on. You don't kill yourself, simple as that.
Yes, we can all loathe the evil Lori Drew, and she very much deserves the shunning of her community. But to say she "murdered" Megan? get serious. We always have choices. Killing ourselves - or not - Always counts as a choice, one which Megan chose over "dealing".
having boatloads of cash doesn't make you smart. Icahn is an idiot if he believes that a) Yahoo and MS can merge peacefully, and b) Yahoo brings anything other than a brand to MS.
This has nothing to do with "smart". Microsoft's offer would have seen Yahoo shareholders make 72% of their investment overnight. If they believed in the merger, they could hold on for an intereseting ride. If not, they could cash out and smile at having nearly doubled their money. I don't believe Icahn has actually claimed the merger would do Yahoo any good, only that rejecting it borders on a violation of shareholder trust.
As an aside, where did the nice, non-sucky "old form" go for writing replies? This ajaxified BS really really bites the big one, and now Slashdot plans to make it the only option? WTF, editors? Trying to cut down on the number of posts by making it harder to do so? Perhaps it works better in MSIE, but in Firefox, I lose my cursor after the first preview, and the size of this damned little edit box reminds me of posting back in the days of 800x600. Ugh. WE DON'T LIKE, FIX!
On the other hand, lying to US customs IS grounds to ban you from entering the USA for five years.
I feel comfortable (based on SlashDemographics) saying that most of us discussing this have US citizenship, so they can't really ban us from entering.
Thus, you need only "plausible deniability", such as a hidden truecrypt volume.
Isn't it the customer that unpacks a container, after it's been slid onto a truck and reached its destination?
"Customer" in the sense of "Walmart" or "Nintendo of America", not the end user.
This doesn't involve "importing" a rare CD from an EBay seller in a different country; when I say "container", I mean a 40x8x9.5 foot steel box of the sort Maersk would handle.
As an aside, when you do import that rare CD on a small personal scale, you will usually get a separate bill for Customs Brokerage. That fairly hefty sum theoretically goes toward making sure you haven't imported anything banned (such as swarming ants, cuban cigars, or plutonium) and that you have paid all relevant taxes on it. So, if ants still make it in, that seems to me like outright fraud on the part of the shipping companies...
Have you any idea how many inspectors would be needed, or how long it would take?
Someone has to open those crates and unpack them, eventually (I don't know about you, but I don't often go to WallyWorld and buy whole unopened cargo containers <G> ). Do you have any idea how many people that takes, or how long? Well, if we can find the resources to unpack them for sale, we can find the resources to inspect them... For that matter, some overlap of those duties would make quite a bit of sense, IMO.
Actually, ants are the least of your worries. It's been pointed out by security specialists that container ships are an ideal way for terrorists to bring in the parts of nuclear weapons
Erm, did you post this under the wrong FP article? While we build multibillion dollar neutrino sensors that break every time a chemo patient drives past, the FP mentions yet another actual threat coming from poor inspection of cargo.
Call me crazy, but real ants trump imaginary boogeymen.
If you hate MS, why do you want their products?
I also hate the IRS yet like decent roads; hate Pfizer yet appreciate antibiotics (when I need them); hate (having to) work yet enjoy disposeable income; hate car exhaust and high fuel prices yet like mobility. I could go on.
As for Apple... I don't really want OS-X. I really only want to run it (on a PC) because Steve won't let me.
And as for Microsoft... I don't really want XP either - But let me know how the Linux version of TurboTax worked for ya this year.
Don't even think about trying to put OS X on your PC without first purchasing a legitimate copy of Mac OS Leopard.
...Because, of course, the sort of people who would try this
in the first place tend to strongly believe in honoring
copyrights and EULAs, right?
;-)
Anyway, why would I give Apple any more respect than Microsoft in that regard?
Abandon them alltogether and let anyone publish whatever they like?
C'mon, you posted this on Slashdot. Down with all forms of intellectual property, etc, etc (and yes, I largely agree with that stance, though I won't rant about it in this particular post).
What would be the problem with that?
Did you know that in chapter 27 it talks about rendering the fat of unbaptised babies to make the secret Mormon wedding ointment[*]? Of course, not having access to a copy to read for yourself, you'll just have to take my word for it...
* - Not trolling, mods - If you don't understand my point, don't moderate.
I also think ad dollars (and the inevitable ads they pay for) save the average American a lot of money each year. How, you might say? Ad sales finance ventures that may otherwise be unprofitable or unsustainable.
Then such ventures should fail. I have no problem with that.
Advertising makes products that I do want cost more, simple as that. Without spending money trying to convince people who don't want a product that they need it anyway, companies would have a lower overhead and thus could sell for less. Of course, they would sell less overall, and only companies with legitimately useful products would thrive (with the occasional freak exception, of course), but I don't view either of those as necessarily a "bad" thing.
Look at our society, look at the current economic crisis, look at Bratz dolls, and tell me we don't have an outright disease of buying crap we don't need. We have a problem, and we can thank advertising for hefty chunk of that.
Ads can be annoying and overdone, but they are a product of a free capitalistic society.
Just as you can have dinner without gorging yourself to the point of bursting; Just as you can drink without passing out drunk; You can have capitalism without encouraging people to spend more than they have on crap they don't need.
My first thought was to flame you for being a jerk. Instead, you have my commiserations.
:(
I actually meant it as, y'know, a joke.
Apparently, the mods have deemed it not a very good one.
Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have posted a navigable life-size photo of a blue whale!
I already have a life-size photo of a blue whale, thanks.
Of course, from my 5MP digital camera, that means a resolution of only 2dpi, but still "life size" in the sense that it would take 110ft (by a couple dozen rolls wide) of plotter paper to print.
I think we need to start planing for an Alternate Network other than the Internet.
We already have one, just with really high latency: Large external HDDs.
And I don't mean that as a joke. It takes way too much time (after, for example, a major crash) to redownload hundreds of gigs of music, (*cough*porn*cough*), and movies. Easy solution? Give your friends a copy now, and pay them a visit when you need to "restore from backup" later.
Incidentally, for all their bluster about P2P, what I just described really terrifies the **AA... Not only do they have no ability to track it, but you can copy their entire catalog in a few hours (or less). Compared to that threat, a few low-quality leaks of Madonna's latest cry for attention pales in comparison.
But unless they prevail or pull out of China they would be subjected to their laws and likely to adapt to publishing only authorized versions of PRC maps.
...Which works well - Right up until Tibet, Taiwan, and Japan pass
similar laws.
IMO, if this decision came down to my personal call, I'd just erase any disputed territories from the map completely. Countries want to play games, they can play it over places no one can find on the map.
In addition, Windows Vista 64-bit requires
Which has what, exactly, to do with a Linux framebuffer driver?
Sure, having the source, we could proably port it to the Windows world, but the Windows world has no shortage of drivers already. Granted, they don't always count as the most reliable option, but at the risk of sounding a tad snarky - You run Vista 64-bit, "reliable" doesn't really enter the picture.
Do you think China really cares all that much about Google? Seriously?
Very much so! But, only from one side of the equasion.
If Google pulled out of China entirely, China would not care in the least. In that regard, I agree with you.
Google staying in China, however, greatly threatens the government there by exposing its policies and practices to the masses. Thus the reason for this Google policy vote in the first place; If China didn't fear Google (and really, any form of free access to information), Google wouldn't need to decide whether to self-censor or not.
Why did this get modded "funny"? I would make the same suggestion.
A trio of widescreen monitors gives you room for one development environment, one open web browser, a handfull of small tools (calculator, volume control, console window, file browser, etc) and three PDFs/CHMs/LITs/whatevers all open at the same time.
And while you can take the dead-tree editions with you to the bathroom, the primative search functionality (a static non-fulltext index without per-result context? puh-lease!) makes them far more cumbersome to use as reference material than electronic formats.
Now, as for the FP topic (have I changed my opinion on eBook readers)... You don't "read" reference texts. You search them for the target information and read just as much as you need to proceed with your current task. For literature (and I don't limit that category to just dead-white-guy-classics), I'll take paper over electronics, and will continue to prefer paper until ebooks have the same basic physical properties: Flexible, thin, light-absorbing rather than light-producing, and not dependant on batteries (or having such a long battery life as to make it something like a TV remote, which we all know takes batteries but you only change them once or twice a year).
Are we electing complete idiots to the courts these days?
No, we elected[*] a complete idiot to the White House, who appointed several idiot GOP shills to the USSC and several other federal seats.
We mere plebes don't get to vote for judges, we just get to suffer lifetime appointments made as political favors to people unqualified for any other job.
* - Offer not valid in Florida and Ohio
Wait a minute, I call shenanigans. I did a Google for "TV Tray Tables" and didn't see anything.
Heh... Okay, in fairness, I didn't find any outright porn in the first few pages. I did find some rather "racy" pics in the first few pages, though.
The order appears to have changed since I posted that, but the one I specifically meant looked like some sort of European beer ad (which I can't find at all, now). I also found one of a Vargas girl a few pages later (though now appearing on page 16, and I know I didn't look that far before).
BTW, if you search Google for "page three girls", you'll appreciate my comment more (no joke, this time).
Quick, someone, rule 34 on Princess Peach!
;-)
Oh, for shame! You at least need to do a GIS (warning: NSFW!) before invoking Rule 34. Hell, we even have Peach/Daisy lesbo action by the third image. Not even a challenge.
For that matter, even Bowser turns up porn on the first page. Some topics make it just too easy. Now,"TV Tray Tables"[*], there you have a challenge.
(3rd page, for those really really bored).
If you're ever relying on a single device for ANYTHING you're doing it wrong. But LVM is perfectly safe if you do it in a responsible way.
I agree completely - And mostly meant that as my point (with an anecdote about myself as an otherwise-knowledgeable user making a really really stupid mistake).
LVM does work exactly as advertised - It just shouldn't have anywhere near the popularity it currently enjoys. For example, several Linux distros (Fedora comes to mind) set up an LVM by default. Ouch.
But yes, in the right environment (low risk of, or penalty for, failure) it solves a number of problems nicely... Adding space, something RAIDs have traditionally made painful, it makes a breeze; and volume snapshots quite simply rock the casba. But for most users (pretty much any non-enterprise level user, for that matter), I would consider it far more dangerous than helpful.