Also, I believe that ksh is significantly different enough from what is expected from sh that this is unlikely in any Solaris release. Unless there is some argv[0] checking and compatability mode enabled, but what is the point of that?
Most Pc's are just sitting idle anyway, why not use them?
Most PCs are not idle. They are riddled with spyware and viruses and do neet things to the rest of us like propogate viruses and send spam.
My point, is that there needs to be a little more control over publically available resources on individual's computers. The naïvety of using open, basically read-only, technologies like email and www, have caused many problems in the recent past.
Another interesting thing with licenses, is that I google for new software and licenses. For some reason, if I search for "XYX" software and "free", I get a bunch of hits to sites that have a very different opinion of what free means than I do.
Honestly, with new software that I am not familiar with their license agreement, I lie and click "I agree" which is synonymous with "I don't care". Like every time I use software update on my Mac I'm going to do a mental diff on the current EULA and the previous one, mentally agree with every clause of the legalese, and have this affect my life how?
Oh, and another completly offtopic rant. WTF is up with Apple shipping nagware on Macs? Its quicktime for those of you that don't know. I don't think that Microsoft does anything that annoying with any of the software that ships with their OS (Maybe, don't know or really care).
Hackers typically attack the market giant -- Internet Explorer, in the world of Web browsing -- leaving Firefox relatively safe and sound.
Its good to know that journalists are getting it right.
Once Firefox takes the lead in the web client arena, I guess we will all switch to IE because Firefox would be the new target of exploits, not IE.
Now I know that Mozilla and Firefox have not been immune to vulnerabilities, but I would bet that it is in the way they are coded and not just marketshare.
I've heard that there is an open source web server that has more marketsare than say IIS, but does not have the same number of security issues like IIS has.
I used to get spams ALL THE TIME from SubscriberBase. Fortunately, they are located in the US, and after MANY calls to them I convinced them that it was in their best interest to stop sending me spam.
If you get spam from these guys give them a call at:
Controlling a societies sexual outlets is one the major tools for controlling a society.
I saw an interview with Ice T and he was talking about why it is the goal of the black underground male to be a pimp. He said something to the affect that to control women and sex is to control life, and you cannot have any more power than that.
Noone can argue that statement.
I find it ironic that the most governmental control over goods and services in our society which is based on capitalism, the economic system based on a "free" market, are things that are very high in demand, and things that do not need to be advertised per se. These things are sex and drugs.
What would help is if Slashdot were to hire a few classically-trained editors. They don't need to be a geeks, just people who can do a good job of proofreading, fact-checking, and editing articles. Let the 'geek' editors be what they really are--reporters--who submit their stories to the 'journalist' editors for revision and final approval. Y'know, run this news organization as if it were actually a news organization.
There are thousands of them that _pay_ Slashdot to do this. They are called the subscribers. These are the ones that get the early looksee at the articles and an email address for any "serious errors". To my knowledge, all mails to daddypants are ignored and the story gets posted.
From the patent application: A system, method and computer-readable medium support the use of a single operator that allows a comparison of two variables to determine if the two variables point to the same location in memory.
Prior art: The C operator !=, for comparing two pointers.
From further down in the application it also says:
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler is a BASIC-derived programming language compiler.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the operator is IsNot.
So, you get +1 Informative because you read part of the article, but -1 Incomplete for not reading the whole thing.
That looks an awful lot like C code. This silly patent is so narrow in scope that it is limiting this operator to the BASIC language only.
Also, the patent is specific for terms like IsNOT and is_not, you could call an operator FuckMicrosoftMemCmpNot and do the same thing but not infringe on the patent.
Yeah, and you know that the first time there's a significant crash that can be blamed on the computer (whether it's true or not), safety folks will raise holy hell, and who knows what'll happen then to the whole concept then?
Sad thing is that this will be a BIG issue even if the cars are an order of magnatude safer than human drivers.
Just like we trust ATMs to withdraw money, but few trust them to deposit money. The reason is because people don't trust the machine even though it has been measured to be much more accurate than a human.
Stop worrying. Grass-roots produced, bittorrent-distributed, creative commons licensed media will replace TV eventually. I have several friends who do pro-level video that have projects in the works. They will be free. If you don't believe me, check the new Wired magazine - Beastie Boys are putting out Creative Commons licensed tunes. Old school media conglomerates will wither and die. But we have to stop supporting them first.
I was thinking about this the other day. And torrents would be ideal for non-mainstream user-supported media under a liberal license.
Take South Park for example. I would have no problem paying $10 a year for a subscription to get the torrents of SP as soon as they are available. Thats $10 for a typical season which is 7 episodes. Now, if only 1 million people do this too, that would be $10,000,000 of revenue for Matt and Trey to create their episodes and have a torrent tracker and an upload pipe or two. These episodes will also be freely available to anyone after the initial release. People only pay to "get it first" which people seem to be willing to do.
Now, if it costs much more than $10 mil to produce 7*20 or 140 minutes of animation, then the figures will have to be adjusted. But you get my point.
This isn't much of a revelation. Wilco, like many music artists that work for a living (ie, play live gigs), don't depend on record sales for their paychecks, they get it from working.
Its these bubblegum music manager creation "artists" that cannot play (eg, Ashlee Simpson), but have canned lyrics that appeal to a large number of people that depend on record sales for their income. Actually, its more of the music manager's and the labels that depend on the record sales for income. The artists get a token commission which provides them enough money to feel rich for a period of time until they have to get a real job.
From Wilco's website:
wilco does permit audio taping and trading of live performances wherever it does not conflict with venue or other restrictions beyond our control. we do not allow direct soundboard patches. we also do not allow videotaping.wilco supports the free trading of live recordings for non-commercial purposes.
I would bet that any other taper friendly band would not care about p2p or whatever, because, again, these bands work for a living, and they know they will make money when they are working.
Link 1a goes to some Medium and Large business page. I don't immediately see any machines readily available for someone like my mother, father, brother or sister would click on and buy.
Link 1b is malformed, but fixing it to point to http://linux.dell.com/desktops.shtml and I see where there is some mention of Linux on Dell "workstations". Which is not a normal end user PC (read much more expensive than a Mac). The same page says that Dell does not support Linux on regular PCs or laptops, and they have handy links to some "self service" stuff like mailinglists.
Link 2 also does not point to a PC that an end user can buy.
I should have been a little more clear, grown up support that is NOT hardware specific. Will HP support debian linux on Dell, IBM, whiteboxes, etc? When I pay for rhel i get hardware agnostic support from a name managers know, Debian needs a similar provider.
I have RH support that is through HP. Me and my PHB feel better knowing that there is one number to call when there is an issue. Having that one number is even more valuable when its kinda blurred as to whether its a software or hardware issue.
Also, its just easier to go with a solutions support vs. hardware support from A and software support from B. Let me tell you its real easy for A to blame B and B to blame A if A != B.
Also, I don't know how well RH supports something that is a HW issue on something that is not on their HCL (Hardware Compatability List).
Also, whiteboxes suck unless you have built them and burned them in for 6 months or so. (I'm ducking from my negative mod points hitting me now).
B) many people think the Mac is the only alternative (and are too expensive)
Well, for most people Mac's are the only alternative. What else is there? And before anyone even mentions Linux, show me one place a "normal" person can buy a Linux machine like Dell, Gateway, or HP. No, Linspire or Lindows at Walmart does not count either.
Now with Mac's being too expensive, thats just ignorance. You _may_ write a smaller check the 1st time you buy a Windows box, but after you buy all the extra stuff you need like a virus scanner, and you take into account that there is basically no resale value for a used PC, you will probably end up paying more for WIndows in the long haul. Not to mention your cost of time putting up with various "features" in Windows.
I read here once that somebody that works at CompUSA or whatnot once said. When people buy a Mac, they go home and we never see them again. When people buy a PC, they keep coming back and buy more stuff for it.
If you've got a reference for the mountain fog lights, I'd love to learn more about them.
Unfortuantely, I can't find any quick references right now. I believe the mountain is called Ashton Mountain and its on Interstate 81 in Virginia.
More about antilock breaks. Its also interesting that antilock breaks are very interesting in terms of safety. They do reduce very common, yet infrequently hazardous accidents in terms of human injury -- simple rear end collisions. They increase uncommon, yet frequently hazardous (and deadly) accidents -- rollovers.
As to truck hijacking, why would a company implement a policy that would make it more likely to be robbed?
Why would a state's department of transportation spend $10 mil on installing safety lights on a frequently fog covered mountain when the lights cause more deaths than not having them?
Answer, hindsight is 20/20. In my lights example, people thought that having these bright lights on the side of the road would make it safer in the fog because they could see the road right? Well, yes it makes it easier to see the road, so people will drive much faster than when they can't see the road. However, lights on the side of the road does not help people see cars driving in front of them, and being that the "feel safe" because of the lights on the side of the road, they drive faster, thus making the road more dangerous in the event of hitting a car in front of you.
Phony medicines have surfaced in pharmacies from Florida to Hawaii, including tens of thousands of doses discovered in warehouses of the Big Three wholesalers.
Last summer, nearly 200,000 tablets of Lipitor, the world's best-selling cholesterol-lowering medication, was found to be counterfeit and recalled by a small Missouri wholesaler. Some of the pills had already reached Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies.
It can be harder to become licensed as a beautician than as a pharmaceutical distributor. With a $700 permit fee and a $200 bond, a pair of Florida manicurists got a license to sell intravenous drugs. An auto body shop owner in Miami got a license to sell drugs in Maryland. Nevada awarded a license to a 23-year-old former restaurant hostess to operate an Internet pharmacy that specialized in narcotics.
Florida gave licenses to at least a half-dozen felons, records show. Two states -- Georgia and Tennessee -- gave a wholesaler license to James R. Suozzo of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a convicted cocaine user with a long history of heroin abuse, investigative records show. Suozzo's background surfaced when he was arrested in February on suspicion of attempting to sell adulterated Procrit, Epogen and Neupogen to another small wholesaler.
Translation to you and me:
The current method of licensing and validating people that sell prescription drugs is inadequate.
Translation to government funded by corps:
The current method of validating large shipments of pharmiceutical's can be improved by increasing the cost by funding another company's product -- RFID tags.
Real world implications:
Being that I have worked with RFID tags before, I know that it is pretty trivial to create your own scanning station. There is no security on who scans the tags.
If your spam mailbox is anything similar to mine, you will notice a large number of prescription drugs in it. Which means that there must be a decent market for them. Things like oxycotton (synthetic heroin), xanex, vicoden, viagra, cialis, and old school drugs like tylox, valium, etc are in very high demand.
Now, these companies are going to start shipping 18 wheelers that can be remotely scanned for their contents by name and quanity.
If this were to start happening, I predict a large number of truckers being robbed and possibly killed for their payload. A single 18 wheeler can now have a payload worth more than a Brinks truck without the hastle of an armed truck and armed drivers.
I'm pretty interested in the stability of this release: FC2 was one of the worst, even with all yum updates.
Then don't use Fedora. Fedora is a quick turn around, basically public beta of future RH releases to be. It uses the "latest and greatest" of all packages with little testing before people like you download it.
If stability is what you are looking for, I would strongly suggest a stable distribution like RH, Debian, or SuSE.
as server or as workstation it crashes a bit too much
This is 2004. OSes should not crash anymore. Aside from some wireless driver bugs on my powerbook a few months ago, I have not had a Linux machine, a solaris machine, or a Mac crash due to software problems in over 3 years.
I really-really hope that we can get stability back from version 7.2-7.3 which were still the best 'red hat' releases when it comes to stability.
I guess its no coincidence that RH Advanced Workstation and Server and RH Enterprise Linux are based off of these releases, and are quite stable. These are what I run, and I have no issues with them.
The important is wether it works or not. I gave up on RH/FC with FC2. It insisted on installing and starting a whole bunch of shit that I explicitly unchecked. Examples:
install and start IR on an old server that neither has nor ever will have IR interface install and start CUPS on a server that neither has nor will have access to a printer
The reason "it has to be installed to satisfy dependencies". In previous RH/FC you could ignore those dependencies in expert mode. Now I spent lotsa time turning of stuff that didn't do anything (I wonder WTF the IR daemon actually does on a server w/o IR card???) Now I use Mandrake/slackware. I might try the new SuSE...
So, your unhappy with running Red Hats' public beta initiative because 2 packages were installed without your wanting them to be installed so you currently run 2 different distributions, Mandrake and slackware. One of which is pretty much indistinguishable from RH (mandrake) and the other is much different (slackware) and just to save some extra time your thinking of running SuSE too?
believe it was Bruce Perens (maybe ESR?) in Revolution OS that said before Linux was around, he would spend days GNUifying Sun machines. It's the same damn thing 20 years later!
Yeah, I remember those days. You didn't even have gzip to work with.
However, with Solaris 8 and beyond, they have been including many GNU goodies, plus there is a suppliment CD with the systems that has many other common OSS stuff we have all become used to (sudo, kde, etc).
Solaris ships by default (from memory) with less, zsh, bash, gzip, openssh, and possibly a handful of other's. Sun also supports sunfreeware.com which has everything else.
Slashdot Mirror
FWIW, maybe /bin/sh is ksh on Solaris 10, but for 8 and 9 its the same as 'jsh' and 'pfsh'.
/bin/*sh |sort /bin/jsh /bin/pfsh /bin/sh /bin/hash /bin/csh /bin/pfcsh /bin/zsh /bin/tcsh /bin/remsh /bin/rsh /bin/bash /bin/ksh /bin/pfksh /bin/rksh
/bin/*sh | sort /bin/ksh /bin/pfksh /bin/rksh /bin/zsh /bin/hash /bin/csh /bin/pfcsh /bin/tcsh /bin/ssh /bin/bash /bin/remsh /bin/rsh /bin/jsh /bin/pfsh /bin/sh
Solaris 8~% md5sum
0aa519c150a641a2f0866f7ec2a81c79
0aa519c150a641a2f0866f7ec2a81c79
0aa519c150a641a2f0866f7ec2a81c79
26da69be334032474540bd7fba23922d
3978b31fe3b6f4fbdc7acd945b9a7423
3978b31fe3b6f4fbdc7acd945b9a7423
643c4ec5daffb9338ffa68f85929645c
8c4e65a677d13878aac992f27e5351c4
b6ee7579f76c5a1ed52d6f37b4295832
b6ee7579f76c5a1ed52d6f37b4295832
c784b19d0034235fbf6de2accc6e86b6
f2c98edc629467f3c345ee3509c7a156
f2c98edc629467f3c345ee3509c7a156
f2c98edc629467f3c345ee3509c7a156
Solaris 9:%~ md5sum
10433da819587b7fa048aa9def39b830
10433da819587b7fa048aa9def39b830
10433da819587b7fa048aa9def39b830
2c85535533d77c5757fc142576c5b620
2fb1c3bc52d8dcc697ed739dc199887a
311eca11e7b1db0268627154021253f9
311eca11e7b1db0268627154021253f9
d0b3a22ce2d1a0fd121ca638e28c3193
d19fcb5721f174c04452e2f745ca444b
d4addcaa023939d52b642ae188f91a3d
eee4155f2b21587a8b6313eabcbcf00d
eee4155f2b21587a8b6313eabcbcf00d
fccecdca8a2543f7b8f7b306a9365f9a
fccecdca8a2543f7b8f7b306a9365f9a
fccecdca8a2543f7b8f7b306a9365f9a
Also, I believe that ksh is significantly different enough from what is expected from sh that this is unlikely in any Solaris release. Unless there is some argv[0] checking and compatability mode enabled, but what is the point of that?
Most Pc's are just sitting idle anyway, why not use them?
Most PCs are not idle. They are riddled with spyware and viruses and do neet things to the rest of us like propogate viruses and send spam.
My point, is that there needs to be a little more control over publically available resources on individual's computers. The naïvety of using open, basically read-only, technologies like email and www, have caused many problems in the recent past.
Another interesting thing with licenses, is that I google for new software and licenses. For some reason, if I search for "XYX" software and "free", I get a bunch of hits to sites that have a very different opinion of what free means than I do.
Honestly, with new software that I am not familiar with their license agreement, I lie and click "I agree" which is synonymous with "I don't care". Like every time I use software update on my Mac I'm going to do a mental diff on the current EULA and the previous one, mentally agree with every clause of the legalese, and have this affect my life how?
Oh, and another completly offtopic rant. WTF is up with Apple shipping nagware on Macs? Its quicktime for those of you that don't know. I don't think that Microsoft does anything that annoying with any of the software that ships with their OS (Maybe, don't know or really care).
Hackers typically attack the market giant -- Internet Explorer, in the world of Web browsing -- leaving Firefox relatively safe and sound.
Its good to know that journalists are getting it right.
Once Firefox takes the lead in the web client arena, I guess we will all switch to IE because Firefox would be the new target of exploits, not IE.
Now I know that Mozilla and Firefox have not been immune to vulnerabilities, but I would bet that it is in the way they are coded and not just marketshare.
I've heard that there is an open source web server that has more marketsare than say IIS, but does not have the same number of security issues like IIS has.
Whats even worse are spam mails advertising URLs that dont even have a working forward DNS entry (or at least yet).
Fuckers.
I used to get spams ALL THE TIME from SubscriberBase. Fortunately, they are located in the US, and after MANY calls to them I convinced them that it was in their best interest to stop sending me spam.
If you get spam from these guys give them a call at:
803-790-8381
When your newspapers write something about RFID tags, it's almost always about Wal-Mart or how these tags are threatening our privacy.
/. thing.
t nG=Search+News
I don't know if newspapers signficantly differ from online news, but the Wal-Mart and privacy issues seem to be more of a
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=rfid&b
Controlling a societies sexual outlets is one the major tools for controlling a society.
I saw an interview with Ice T and he was talking about why it is the goal of the black underground male to be a pimp. He said something to the affect that to control women and sex is to control life, and you cannot have any more power than that.
Noone can argue that statement.
I find it ironic that the most governmental control over goods and services in our society which is based on capitalism, the economic system based on a "free" market, are things that are very high in demand, and things that do not need to be advertised per se. These things are sex and drugs.
Life is definitely wierd.
What would help is if Slashdot were to hire a few classically-trained editors. They don't need to be a geeks, just people who can do a good job of proofreading, fact-checking, and editing articles. Let the 'geek' editors be what they really are--reporters--who submit their stories to the 'journalist' editors for revision and final approval. Y'know, run this news organization as if it were actually a news organization.
There are thousands of them that _pay_ Slashdot to do this. They are called the subscribers. These are the ones that get the early looksee at the articles and an email address for any "serious errors". To my knowledge, all mails to daddypants are ignored and the story gets posted.
Summary: the "editors" just don't care.
From the patent application:
A system, method and computer-readable medium support the use of a single operator that allows a comparison of two variables to determine if the two variables point to the same location in memory.
Prior art:
The C operator !=, for comparing two pointers.
From further down in the application it also says:
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler is a BASIC-derived programming language compiler.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the operator is IsNot.
So, you get +1 Informative because you read part of the article, but -1 Incomplete for not reading the whole thing.
That would seem to imply
#define IsNot(A,B) (&(A) != &(B))
infringes?
That looks an awful lot like C code. This silly patent is so narrow in scope that it is limiting this operator to the BASIC language only.
Also, the patent is specific for terms like IsNOT and is_not, you could call an operator FuckMicrosoftMemCmpNot and do the same thing but not infringe on the patent.
What a waste of time.
Yeah, and you know that the first time there's a significant crash that can be blamed on the computer (whether it's true or not), safety folks will raise holy hell, and who knows what'll happen then to the whole concept then?
Sad thing is that this will be a BIG issue even if the cars are an order of magnatude safer than human drivers.
Just like we trust ATMs to withdraw money, but few trust them to deposit money. The reason is because people don't trust the machine even though it has been measured to be much more accurate than a human.
Stop worrying. Grass-roots produced, bittorrent-distributed, creative commons licensed media will replace TV eventually. I have several friends who do pro-level video that have projects in the works. They will be free. If you don't believe me, check the new Wired magazine - Beastie Boys are putting out Creative Commons licensed tunes. Old school media conglomerates will wither and die. But we have to stop supporting them first.
I was thinking about this the other day. And torrents would be ideal for non-mainstream user-supported media under a liberal license.
Take South Park for example. I would have no problem paying $10 a year for a subscription to get the torrents of SP as soon as they are available. Thats $10 for a typical season which is 7 episodes. Now, if only 1 million people do this too, that would be $10,000,000 of revenue for Matt and Trey to create their episodes and have a torrent tracker and an upload pipe or two. These episodes will also be freely available to anyone after the initial release. People only pay to "get it first" which people seem to be willing to do.
Now, if it costs much more than $10 mil to produce 7*20 or 140 minutes of animation, then the figures will have to be adjusted. But you get my point.
This isn't much of a revelation. Wilco, like many music artists that work for a living (ie, play live gigs), don't depend on record sales for their paychecks, they get it from working.
Its these bubblegum music manager creation "artists" that cannot play (eg, Ashlee Simpson), but have canned lyrics that appeal to a large number of people that depend on record sales for their income. Actually, its more of the music manager's and the labels that depend on the record sales for income. The artists get a token commission which provides them enough money to feel rich for a period of time until they have to get a real job.
From Wilco's website:
wilco does permit audio taping and trading of live performances wherever it does not conflict with venue or other restrictions beyond our control. we do not allow direct soundboard patches. we also do not allow videotaping.wilco supports the free trading of live recordings for non-commercial purposes.
I would bet that any other taper friendly band would not care about p2p or whatever, because, again, these bands work for a living, and they know they will make money when they are working.
OK.
Link 1a goes to some Medium and Large business page. I don't immediately see any machines readily available for someone like my mother, father, brother or sister would click on and buy.
Link 1b is malformed, but fixing it to point to http://linux.dell.com/desktops.shtml and I see where there is some mention of Linux on Dell "workstations". Which is not a normal end user PC (read much more expensive than a Mac). The same page says that Dell does not support Linux on regular PCs or laptops, and they have handy links to some "self service" stuff like mailinglists.
Link 2 also does not point to a PC that an end user can buy.
Try again.
I should have been a little more clear, grown up support that is NOT hardware specific. Will HP support debian linux on Dell, IBM, whiteboxes, etc? When I pay for rhel i get hardware agnostic support from a name managers know, Debian needs a similar provider.
I have RH support that is through HP. Me and my PHB feel better knowing that there is one number to call when there is an issue. Having that one number is even more valuable when its kinda blurred as to whether its a software or hardware issue.
Also, its just easier to go with a solutions support vs. hardware support from A and software support from B. Let me tell you its real easy for A to blame B and B to blame A if A != B.
Also, I don't know how well RH supports something that is a HW issue on something that is not on their HCL (Hardware Compatability List).
Also, whiteboxes suck unless you have built them and burned them in for 6 months or so. (I'm ducking from my negative mod points hitting me now).
B) many people think the Mac is the only alternative (and are too expensive)
Well, for most people Mac's are the only alternative. What else is there? And before anyone even mentions Linux, show me one place a "normal" person can buy a Linux machine like Dell, Gateway, or HP. No, Linspire or Lindows at Walmart does not count either.
Now with Mac's being too expensive, thats just ignorance. You _may_ write a smaller check the 1st time you buy a Windows box, but after you buy all the extra stuff you need like a virus scanner, and you take into account that there is basically no resale value for a used PC, you will probably end up paying more for WIndows in the long haul. Not to mention your cost of time putting up with various "features" in Windows.
I read here once that somebody that works at CompUSA or whatnot once said. When people buy a Mac, they go home and we never see them again. When people buy a PC, they keep coming back and buy more stuff for it.
Debian really needs a "grown up" large company to provide commercial support, that will quiet the fears of managers.
Is HP, grown up enough? http://www.hp.com/hps/linux/lx_debian.html
If you've got a reference for the mountain fog lights, I'd love to learn more about them.
Unfortuantely, I can't find any quick references right now. I believe the mountain is called Ashton Mountain and its on Interstate 81 in Virginia.
More about antilock breaks. Its also interesting that antilock breaks are very interesting in terms of safety. They do reduce very common, yet infrequently hazardous accidents in terms of human injury -- simple rear end collisions. They increase uncommon, yet frequently hazardous (and deadly) accidents -- rollovers.
As to truck hijacking, why would a company implement a policy that would make it more likely to be robbed?
Why would a state's department of transportation spend $10 mil on installing safety lights on a frequently fog covered mountain when the lights cause more deaths than not having them?
Answer, hindsight is 20/20. In my lights example, people thought that having these bright lights on the side of the road would make it safer in the fog because they could see the road right? Well, yes it makes it easier to see the road, so people will drive much faster than when they can't see the road. However, lights on the side of the road does not help people see cars driving in front of them, and being that the "feel safe" because of the lights on the side of the road, they drive faster, thus making the road more dangerous in the event of hitting a car in front of you.
Phony medicines have surfaced in pharmacies from Florida to Hawaii, including tens of thousands of doses discovered in warehouses of the Big Three wholesalers.
Last summer, nearly 200,000 tablets of Lipitor, the world's best-selling cholesterol-lowering medication, was found to be counterfeit and recalled by a small Missouri wholesaler. Some of the pills had already reached Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies.
It can be harder to become licensed as a beautician than as a pharmaceutical distributor. With a $700 permit fee and a $200 bond, a pair of Florida manicurists got a license to sell intravenous drugs. An auto body shop owner in Miami got a license to sell drugs in Maryland. Nevada awarded a license to a 23-year-old former restaurant hostess to operate an Internet pharmacy that specialized in narcotics.
Florida gave licenses to at least a half-dozen felons, records show. Two states -- Georgia and Tennessee -- gave a wholesaler license to James R. Suozzo of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a convicted cocaine user with a long history of heroin abuse, investigative records show. Suozzo's background surfaced when he was arrested in February on suspicion of attempting to sell adulterated Procrit, Epogen and Neupogen to another small wholesaler.
Translation to you and me:
The current method of licensing and validating people that sell prescription drugs is inadequate.
Translation to government funded by corps:
The current method of validating large shipments of pharmiceutical's can be improved by increasing the cost by funding another company's product -- RFID tags.
Real world implications:
Being that I have worked with RFID tags before, I know that it is pretty trivial to create your own scanning station. There is no security on who scans the tags.
If your spam mailbox is anything similar to mine, you will notice a large number of prescription drugs in it. Which means that there must be a decent market for them. Things like oxycotton (synthetic heroin), xanex, vicoden, viagra, cialis, and old school drugs like tylox, valium, etc are in very high demand.
Now, these companies are going to start shipping 18 wheelers that can be remotely scanned for their contents by name and quanity.
If this were to start happening, I predict a large number of truckers being robbed and possibly killed for their payload. A single 18 wheeler can now have a payload worth more than a Brinks truck without the hastle of an armed truck and armed drivers.
I'm pretty interested in the stability of this release: FC2 was one of the worst, even with all yum updates.
Then don't use Fedora. Fedora is a quick turn around, basically public beta of future RH releases to be. It uses the "latest and greatest" of all packages with little testing before people like you download it.
If stability is what you are looking for, I would strongly suggest a stable distribution like RH, Debian, or SuSE.
as server or as workstation it crashes a bit too much
This is 2004. OSes should not crash anymore. Aside from some wireless driver bugs on my powerbook a few months ago, I have not had a Linux machine, a solaris machine, or a Mac crash due to software problems in over 3 years.
I really-really hope that we can get stability back from version 7.2-7.3 which were still the best 'red hat' releases when it comes to stability.
I guess its no coincidence that RH Advanced Workstation and Server and RH Enterprise Linux are based off of these releases, and are quite stable. These are what I run, and I have no issues with them.
The important is wether it works or not. I gave up on RH/FC with FC2. It insisted on installing and starting a whole bunch of shit that I explicitly unchecked. Examples:
install and start IR on an old server that neither has nor ever will have IR interface
install and start CUPS on a server that neither has nor will have access to a printer
The reason "it has to be installed to satisfy dependencies". In previous RH/FC you could ignore those dependencies in expert mode. Now I spent lotsa time turning of stuff that didn't do anything (I wonder WTF the IR daemon actually does on a server w/o IR card???)
Now I use Mandrake/slackware. I might try the new SuSE...
So, your unhappy with running Red Hats' public beta initiative because 2 packages were installed without your wanting them to be installed so you currently run 2 different distributions, Mandrake and slackware. One of which is pretty much indistinguishable from RH (mandrake) and the other is much different (slackware) and just to save some extra time your thinking of running SuSE too?
Keep coming back, it keeps getting better!
believe it was Bruce Perens (maybe ESR?) in Revolution OS that said before Linux was around, he would spend days GNUifying Sun machines. It's the same damn thing 20 years later!
Yeah, I remember those days. You didn't even have gzip to work with.
However, with Solaris 8 and beyond, they have been including many GNU goodies, plus there is a suppliment CD with the systems that has many other common OSS stuff we have all become used to (sudo, kde, etc).
Solaris ships by default (from memory) with less, zsh, bash, gzip, openssh, and possibly a handful of other's. Sun also supports sunfreeware.com which has everything else.
Would you expect not to see any GM products in the FORD factory parking lot???
Actually, I know that Ford does not allow anything but fords on their factory parking lot. At least for their employees.
I don't know about the vice-versa.