I'm a new ZFS user, and so far I'm very happy with it.
But the bigger picture here is that this is NOT a YRO.slashdot.org article. Its just a news article.
No patent disputes. No lawsuits. Just technological progress and cooperation.
Why can't this be more of the status quo?
I've been reading stuff about predictions by scientists, and its still universal that hardware will increase at the current rate of about doubling in power ever 12-18 months.
Software performance is about 1/2 of that at best. If more cooperation like this could happen, then there is no reason for software to lag behind hardware, but one large software company keeps hindering this progress...
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At least someone doesn't think I'm flamebaiting here.
Yeah, the poor code. I remember when code didn't have any rights...
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For example, using gcc to compile proprietary software is allowed.
All of this allowed, not allowed GPL crap simply does not make GPL stuff seem that free anymore.
I've always prefered the BSD license system personally. Is GPLed software really free?
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Only if you modify the source code AND distribute it. Otherwise you can do whatever you want.
OK, I have a criminal mind today.
So, can Tivo restart the Tivoization process by doing the following:
1) put unmodified source code on the product and distribute that.
2) have the user agree to some stupid EULA that is not legally binding, nor an agreement, or whatever to initialize the device subject agreeing to the GPL
3) have the user modify patch the system (like a binary patch or whatever)
That way the user is agreeing to the GPL and not Tivo.
No, I'm not affiliated with those guys at all, I just stumbled across that mic a week ago or so and thought it was cool. More of an interesting worlds first than this POS mic.
Not growing drugs? No arrest. Growing drugs? Arrest.
Still depends. The state of Alaska has privacy provisions in its constitution which allows things like 25 marijuana plants to be grown on your private property under their rights of privacy.
Regarding the "The cops can't and won't arrest you simply because someone says your curtains are closed all the time." thing, that is simply not true. If you are in the "wrong neighborhood" or some other metric of profiling by the police, and they are in the mood to bust someone (usually an easy someone), then any reason will be suffice.
I knew someone who lost their driving license let someone borrow their car. The police ran the plates on the car and found out that the driver/owner had no license, and decided to stalk in front of their house, and then impounded the car and whatnot when the owner was driving the car to work. All of this stemmed from the police having technology, and from completely legal activity that spiraled from there.
Also, something like 99% of all US State Trooper arrests start as "routine traffic stops".
Making it illegal to sell illegal drugs to an undercover officer wearing a bikini within 100 yards of a fire hydrant?
My point is that copyright laws, and probably a few other ones, already makes camcording a movie illegal. Or at least the distribtion of it, which is what I would assume the law is designed to prevent.
I'm not a fan of minutely specific laws because 99% of the time a more general law already makes the behavior illegal.
Hardware designs are expensive, so rarely are there multiple designs. Sales guys are selling you additional support, but the hardware is rarely different.
True, but there is a difference. The difference is in QA.
The "consumer-grade" and "business-grade" are the same off the shelf stuff, but if you are getting business-grade stuff from a reputable vendor they QA the consumer-grade parts, throw out the bad ones, and stamp "business-grade" on the ones that survive. This is why the business-grade level of products often are a generation or so behind the consumer-grade level.
Yes, you can get lucky and get consumer-grade stuff that works great. But if it doesn't, then you are the QA guy, and the downtime is on you. If the time for you to do the QA and the associated downtime is cheaper than the cost of business-grade, then by all means do it. Otherwise, you have to pay the extra bucks.
Now, regarding NASs, I think these things are overpriced, especially the maintenance on them. The maintenance goes through the roof once the equipment is beyond the MTBF of the drives, which is where a high dollar NAS should shine right? Any piece of crap RAID box will work when all the drives are new and functioning well. What you are paying for is the redundancy and availability, which is redundant to pay for when all of the equipment is new.
A big downside to online sales is the glaring fact that many of the employees (and I mean "non-artists") in the industry becomes irrelevant. From CD factory employees to all levels of distribution from stockboy to the brick & mortar stores.
Sounds like they should sue online retailers for lost wages and whatnot.
The mom and dad have two jobs. The grandmother has a job, and the dad has occasional work on a third job. These are people who have little education and very poor English skills. They are thrilled to have the opportunity to live in this country, and they are making it happen.
To me, the bold part should read "opportunity to work in this country".
Anyone know if AllOfMP3 may be able to bring a suit against IFPI?
They already have in the country of Eurasia.
Seriously, the world today is almost like the wild west where there really isn't any law except for those that think there is law and that they are in charge. IFPI. Who are those guys?
"The Roman Catholic Bible has an article about a team of prophets that have foreseen that a female human will reproduce without having sex, the first time that prophets have found the unusual capacity in such an ancient vertebrate species. Their report concludes that some humans can reproduce asexually through the process known as Immaculate Conception (the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male)."
It just sucks being held criminally liable to verify something that I can't verify. I want to do the right thing.
They used to call that innocent until proven guilty.
OK, so I can go to jail for hiring someone that isn't a citizen, but right now I have no way to find-out if they are a citizen....Again, I have no legal way to tell the difference. So if the Federal government finally gives me an additional tool then that helps protect myself and my wife when the feds eventually return to arrest me again for hiring illegals. Even if the tool doesn't help in reality, it at least gives me an additional defense to use in court.
Stuff like this makes me wonder what kind of country you live in.
Its really sad that the government has discredited itself with its citizens with stupid laws and scare tactics. Its sad, because most people actually want to do "the right thing", but its almost impossible.
I agree. But that doesn't mean we are less worthy for the trying. Sometimes, the attempt is the worthier part.
I agree as well. And like religions, how about some basic respect towards those that want to believe in what they believe. I'm not saying that one's privacy or religion is right or wrong, but both of these things are private matters.
If the constitution meant anything today, it would probably be worthwhile adding an explicit privacy amendment. I guess that information and technology was so slow at the time, that privacy was not given much thought.
From the summary: But since the labels that make up the RIAA are not getting the cash they desire through sales of CDs, and since Internet and satellite broadcasters are forced to cough up cash to their racket.
I mean seriously. Are these people hungry? Are they homeless? Are they unable to pay their bills? Is their mansion really too small?
I ran into a former owner of a CD store in a college town a few years ago, and she said that she had to close down because CDs were not selling, so she sold the business, and started another one. She said explicitly that downloads hurt her bottom line, but oh well, times change, and she had to change with the times.
I mean, how many steam engine engineers are trying to sue these new fangled gasoline, oil, diesel, electric, fuel cell, etc engineers? Or their customers, or their kids, or dead people?
To me, this is some kind of psychological or socioligical problem that is not properly addressed as such, and the bottom line is that _everybody_ is losing because of it. The real problem is that the government is an accessory to their psychological/sociological problems, because I guess they have the same issues.
Why isn't the government or anybody concerned about real issues like national debt, health care (oxymoron) reform, energy costs, housing costs, and the stuff that actually affects real people that are real problems. I mean, if nobody bought a 1970s technology like a CD is ever again, would it really be a big deal?
Is this kind of sociopathy just "normal" when a society is collapsing on itself? Does anybody know what the real issues are here? This is a control/powertrip thing that makes no sense.
As a CEO of a major software company, part of his job was to make comments in public that would try to influence the industry to move in the direction that would align with what his own company was doing (or at least attempting) already.
I'd much rather type "apple" or "google" than "apple.com" and "google.com", personally I find it'd make a lot more sense.
For URLs that I don't regularly go to, and are not in my URL history of my browser, I almost always ask google for the URL of what I'm looking for, blindly typing a URL is pretty dumb, even though I still do it from time to time.
Just yesterday, I typed in oadebrothers.com. I was actually looking for oade.com. Oade is the last name of two brothers that are into sound recording. Well, oadebrothers.com actually resolved and for my convenience there was some useless information there for me. One I realized I was not at the place I wanted to be, I typed oade into my google search bar, and again for my convenience there was a popup that somehow escaped the anti-popup technology in my browser, and now a stupid wrong URL is in my history until it ages or I clear it.
I've said a number of times here on/., with little or at best mixed opinions when I say that TLDs are stupid. I'm sticking by my guns here, and increasing the ante here to say that in 2007, hostnames in general are almost worthless. At most, a "good" hostname is good for mnemonics, but I dare anyone to do something like make a typo when typing in a good and easy to remember and known URL into the address bar. I double dare you to do this with an older, unpatched and insecure browser.
TLDs and hostnames are great in theory, but in practice, they have become arbitrary and almost meaningless. Much like a telephone numbers have become. Telephone numbers used to mean something. The first three numbers were the area where the phone was located. The next three were some kind of smaller area within the above area, and then the last four digits were pretty much arbitrary. Now, the phone number almost means essentially nothing but what is behind the name in the users phone list. My friend had a "Michigan" phone number that he used when he lived in Virginia, and he still uses it now that he lives in California. I guess its nice that his number is the same, and it causes him little issues that he lives in states that do not coincide with his phone number. Its a pain for me because I don't have a phone service that can go that far.
I guess what is coming will be some kind of GUID or bigger, longer, and more apparently random identifier that will be completely beyond human memory, and then a lookup service like 411 or google or whatever to find the GUID.
I find it amusing, according to MS and others, that Google "overpaid" for Double-Click...#1 in the market. Not to mention the cries from Redmond of monopoly. However now, MS dishes out nearly twice the amount for the #2 in the market. Oh the irony. Google schools MS again.
That, and this is what I find interesting. Kmart bought Sears for $11 billion. Sears has been around for a number of years. They are known for their kenmore (albeit rebranded) and craftsman product lines. They have real inventory, real stores, and real employees. Chrysler was recently sold for 7.4 billion. Well, 80% of it, but I'm talking ballpark figures here.
Today, MS buys Aquantive. I've never heard of them before now. I would imagine this amounts to a database and some office space and maybe a website or something.
I saw a headline the other day where the kid who made facebook (just a website), refused to sell for $2billion.
To me, this seems overinflated. I guess that your ROI on "real" things like sears and chrysler dwarfs databases and websites.
I guess this makes sense when you think that we are in the information/service age and we have left the industrial age, but this still seems a bit strange.
My CCards used to say "See ID". Now, I just leave them blank.
Most of the time, when I "sign" electronicly or pieces of paper, I just scribble. Many places I use my CC, nobody checks the ID (eg, gas pumps), and many other places don't require a signature whatsoever (if the merchant pays extra for purchases under some value I believe).
One day, I'm going to start asking to see my signatures, and start protesting charges. Or, I guess I can start protesting all charges because the merchant has not followed the directions mentioned above, right?
I don't get the signature thing. If there is something real to it, then many thousands of dollars are owed to me because somewhere somehow, somebody did not follow the rules, which I believe is not me. I'm assuming that my signature is symbolic of some kind of agreement, so by not participating, what is up with all of those purchases? Maybe I'm just commiting a felony or something. I don't know.
With respect to the driver's license being a credit or debit card. Its probably not a good thing. They are separate things. I can cut up my drivers license or CC anytime I like, and they don't really affect each other now. Also, I put them in the same place, my wallet, so the odds are almost 100% that I will lose _all_ of my IDs and banking info if I lose my wallet. Also, my state is a real prick with "their" IDs. They will not let me have any redundancy with them, and I would prefer to not let them (and DMV) control my banking as well.
I used to believe a bunch of the conspiracy bs until I actually visited the site of the shooting in person. Once you've been to the Book Repository and seen the location in person, it becomes painfully obvious that it was almost trivially easy for Oswald to have done the shooting. Quite frankly, the conditions make it very easy (almost convenient) for Oswald to kill Kennedy.
The "back and to the left" crap becomes clear that he was shot from behind when you see the whole thing. The head exploding is always left out on TV and in the JFK movie, but for me, seeing his head blown like that made me get pissed at all of the conspiracy crap, which to some degree I believed for quite some time, or at least I was uncertain of the events there. Seeing the film changed that for me.
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I'm a new ZFS user, and so far I'm very happy with it.
But the bigger picture here is that this is NOT a YRO.slashdot.org article. Its just a news article.
No patent disputes. No lawsuits. Just technological progress and cooperation.
Why can't this be more of the status quo?
I've been reading stuff about predictions by scientists, and its still universal that hardware will increase at the current rate of about doubling in power ever 12-18 months.
Software performance is about 1/2 of that at best. If more cooperation like this could happen, then there is no reason for software to lag behind hardware, but one large software company keeps hindering this progress...
At least someone doesn't think I'm flamebaiting here.
Yeah, the poor code. I remember when code didn't have any rights...
For example, using gcc to compile proprietary software is allowed.
All of this allowed, not allowed GPL crap simply does not make GPL stuff seem that free anymore.
I've always prefered the BSD license system personally. Is GPLed software really free?
Only if you modify the source code AND distribute it. Otherwise you can do whatever you want.
OK, I have a criminal mind today.
So, can Tivo restart the Tivoization process by doing the following:
1) put unmodified source code on the product and distribute that.
2) have the user agree to some stupid EULA that is not legally binding, nor an agreement, or whatever to initialize the device subject agreeing to the GPL
3) have the user modify patch the system (like a binary patch or whatever)
That way the user is agreeing to the GPL and not Tivo.
Is that a loophole?
Your .sig kicks ass.
There is something very weird about the USA. You are a completely ANAL society.
I'll agree and disagree. I think Japan has us beat for being ANAL by a long shot. I mean, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan for example.
I will say that I think that Americans are a little fussy on the clean side.
Anyone got any more?
How about "World's first"?
Also, this thing is so bleeding edge that it has a button to select if the mono mic is the left or right channel.
WTF?
I'm an audio geek, and when I think of a high def microphone for mobile computing, I think of something like: http://www.core-sound.com/TetraMic/1.php
No, I'm not affiliated with those guys at all, I just stumbled across that mic a week ago or so and thought it was cool. More of an interesting worlds first than this POS mic.
Not growing drugs? No arrest. Growing drugs? Arrest.
Still depends. The state of Alaska has privacy provisions in its constitution which allows things like 25 marijuana plants to be grown on your private property under their rights of privacy.
Regarding the "The cops can't and won't arrest you simply because someone says your curtains are closed all the time." thing, that is simply not true. If you are in the "wrong neighborhood" or some other metric of profiling by the police, and they are in the mood to bust someone (usually an easy someone), then any reason will be suffice.
I knew someone who lost their driving license let someone borrow their car. The police ran the plates on the car and found out that the driver/owner had no license, and decided to stalk in front of their house, and then impounded the car and whatnot when the owner was driving the car to work. All of this stemmed from the police having technology, and from completely legal activity that spiraled from there.
Also, something like 99% of all US State Trooper arrests start as "routine traffic stops".
To continue with this. What is next?
Making it illegal to sell illegal drugs to an undercover officer wearing a bikini within 100 yards of a fire hydrant?
My point is that copyright laws, and probably a few other ones, already makes camcording a movie illegal. Or at least the distribtion of it, which is what I would assume the law is designed to prevent.
I'm not a fan of minutely specific laws because 99% of the time a more general law already makes the behavior illegal.
Hardware designs are expensive, so rarely are there multiple designs. Sales guys are selling you additional support, but the hardware is rarely different.
True, but there is a difference. The difference is in QA.
The "consumer-grade" and "business-grade" are the same off the shelf stuff, but if you are getting business-grade stuff from a reputable vendor they QA the consumer-grade parts, throw out the bad ones, and stamp "business-grade" on the ones that survive. This is why the business-grade level of products often are a generation or so behind the consumer-grade level.
Yes, you can get lucky and get consumer-grade stuff that works great. But if it doesn't, then you are the QA guy, and the downtime is on you. If the time for you to do the QA and the associated downtime is cheaper than the cost of business-grade, then by all means do it. Otherwise, you have to pay the extra bucks.
Now, regarding NASs, I think these things are overpriced, especially the maintenance on them. The maintenance goes through the roof once the equipment is beyond the MTBF of the drives, which is where a high dollar NAS should shine right? Any piece of crap RAID box will work when all the drives are new and functioning well. What you are paying for is the redundancy and availability, which is redundant to pay for when all of the equipment is new.
A big downside to online sales is the glaring fact that many of the employees (and I mean "non-artists") in the industry becomes irrelevant. From CD factory employees to all levels of distribution from stockboy to the brick & mortar stores.
Sounds like they should sue online retailers for lost wages and whatnot.
then, in your opinion, at what age does this immaturity magically disappear?
Usually by 40 years of age.
YMMV
The mom and dad have two jobs. The grandmother has a job, and the dad has occasional work on a third job. These are people who have little education and very poor English skills. They are thrilled to have the opportunity to live in this country, and they are making it happen.
To me, the bold part should read "opportunity to work in this country".
drivers
Drivers are almost 100% a Windows thing. Most everything either just works (or doesn't) under OSes like OS X and Linux.
Anyone know if AllOfMP3 may be able to bring a suit against IFPI?
They already have in the country of Eurasia.
Seriously, the world today is almost like the wild west where there really isn't any law except for those that think there is law and that they are in charge. IFPI. Who are those guys?
"The Roman Catholic Bible has an article about a team of prophets that have foreseen that a female human will reproduce without having sex, the first time that prophets have found the unusual capacity in such an ancient vertebrate species. Their report concludes that some humans can reproduce asexually through the process known as Immaculate Conception (the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male)."
It just sucks being held criminally liable to verify something that I can't verify. I want to do the right thing.
They used to call that innocent until proven guilty.
OK, so I can go to jail for hiring someone that isn't a citizen, but right now I have no way to find-out if they are a citizen....Again, I have no legal way to tell the difference. So if the Federal government finally gives me an additional tool then that helps protect myself and my wife when the feds eventually return to arrest me again for hiring illegals. Even if the tool doesn't help in reality, it at least gives me an additional defense to use in court.
Stuff like this makes me wonder what kind of country you live in.
Its really sad that the government has discredited itself with its citizens with stupid laws and scare tactics. Its sad, because most people actually want to do "the right thing", but its almost impossible.
I agree. But that doesn't mean we are less worthy for the trying. Sometimes, the attempt is the worthier part.
I agree as well. And like religions, how about some basic respect towards those that want to believe in what they believe. I'm not saying that one's privacy or religion is right or wrong, but both of these things are private matters.
If the constitution meant anything today, it would probably be worthwhile adding an explicit privacy amendment. I guess that information and technology was so slow at the time, that privacy was not given much thought.
From the summary: But since the labels that make up the RIAA are not getting the cash they desire through sales of CDs, and since Internet and satellite broadcasters are forced to cough up cash to their racket.
I mean seriously. Are these people hungry? Are they homeless? Are they unable to pay their bills? Is their mansion really too small?
I ran into a former owner of a CD store in a college town a few years ago, and she said that she had to close down because CDs were not selling, so she sold the business, and started another one. She said explicitly that downloads hurt her bottom line, but oh well, times change, and she had to change with the times.
I mean, how many steam engine engineers are trying to sue these new fangled gasoline, oil, diesel, electric, fuel cell, etc engineers? Or their customers, or their kids, or dead people?
To me, this is some kind of psychological or socioligical problem that is not properly addressed as such, and the bottom line is that _everybody_ is losing because of it. The real problem is that the government is an accessory to their psychological/sociological problems, because I guess they have the same issues.
Why isn't the government or anybody concerned about real issues like national debt, health care (oxymoron) reform, energy costs, housing costs, and the stuff that actually affects real people that are real problems. I mean, if nobody bought a 1970s technology like a CD is ever again, would it really be a big deal?
Is this kind of sociopathy just "normal" when a society is collapsing on itself? Does anybody know what the real issues are here? This is a control/powertrip thing that makes no sense.
As a CEO of a major software company, part of his job was to make comments in public that would try to influence the industry to move in the direction that would align with what his own company was doing (or at least attempting) already.
0 5/11/the_zen_estheti.html and http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/200 5/11/it_was_one_of_t.html .
To me, that implies vision.
Two excellent comparisons between billg and steve jobs are http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/20
I'd much rather type "apple" or "google" than "apple.com" and "google.com", personally I find it'd make a lot more sense.
/., with little or at best mixed opinions when I say that TLDs are stupid. I'm sticking by my guns here, and increasing the ante here to say that in 2007, hostnames in general are almost worthless. At most, a "good" hostname is good for mnemonics, but I dare anyone to do something like make a typo when typing in a good and easy to remember and known URL into the address bar. I double dare you to do this with an older, unpatched and insecure browser.
For URLs that I don't regularly go to, and are not in my URL history of my browser, I almost always ask google for the URL of what I'm looking for, blindly typing a URL is pretty dumb, even though I still do it from time to time.
Just yesterday, I typed in oadebrothers.com. I was actually looking for oade.com. Oade is the last name of two brothers that are into sound recording. Well, oadebrothers.com actually resolved and for my convenience there was some useless information there for me. One I realized I was not at the place I wanted to be, I typed oade into my google search bar, and again for my convenience there was a popup that somehow escaped the anti-popup technology in my browser, and now a stupid wrong URL is in my history until it ages or I clear it.
I've said a number of times here on
TLDs and hostnames are great in theory, but in practice, they have become arbitrary and almost meaningless. Much like a telephone numbers have become. Telephone numbers used to mean something. The first three numbers were the area where the phone was located. The next three were some kind of smaller area within the above area, and then the last four digits were pretty much arbitrary. Now, the phone number almost means essentially nothing but what is behind the name in the users phone list. My friend had a "Michigan" phone number that he used when he lived in Virginia, and he still uses it now that he lives in California. I guess its nice that his number is the same, and it causes him little issues that he lives in states that do not coincide with his phone number. Its a pain for me because I don't have a phone service that can go that far.
I guess what is coming will be some kind of GUID or bigger, longer, and more apparently random identifier that will be completely beyond human memory, and then a lookup service like 411 or google or whatever to find the GUID.
I find it amusing, according to MS and others, that Google "overpaid" for Double-Click...#1 in the market. Not to mention the cries from Redmond of monopoly. However now, MS dishes out nearly twice the amount for the #2 in the market. Oh the irony. Google schools MS again.
That, and this is what I find interesting. Kmart bought Sears for $11 billion. Sears has been around for a number of years. They are known for their kenmore (albeit rebranded) and craftsman product lines. They have real inventory, real stores, and real employees. Chrysler was recently sold for 7.4 billion. Well, 80% of it, but I'm talking ballpark figures here.
Today, MS buys Aquantive. I've never heard of them before now. I would imagine this amounts to a database and some office space and maybe a website or something.
I saw a headline the other day where the kid who made facebook (just a website), refused to sell for $2billion.
To me, this seems overinflated. I guess that your ROI on "real" things like sears and chrysler dwarfs databases and websites.
I guess this makes sense when you think that we are in the information/service age and we have left the industrial age, but this still seems a bit strange.
MasterCard's Merchant agreement says:
Blah blah.
My CCards used to say "See ID". Now, I just leave them blank.
Most of the time, when I "sign" electronicly or pieces of paper, I just scribble. Many places I use my CC, nobody checks the ID (eg, gas pumps), and many other places don't require a signature whatsoever (if the merchant pays extra for purchases under some value I believe).
One day, I'm going to start asking to see my signatures, and start protesting charges. Or, I guess I can start protesting all charges because the merchant has not followed the directions mentioned above, right?
I don't get the signature thing. If there is something real to it, then many thousands of dollars are owed to me because somewhere somehow, somebody did not follow the rules, which I believe is not me. I'm assuming that my signature is symbolic of some kind of agreement, so by not participating, what is up with all of those purchases? Maybe I'm just commiting a felony or something. I don't know.
With respect to the driver's license being a credit or debit card. Its probably not a good thing. They are separate things. I can cut up my drivers license or CC anytime I like, and they don't really affect each other now. Also, I put them in the same place, my wallet, so the odds are almost 100% that I will lose _all_ of my IDs and banking info if I lose my wallet. Also, my state is a real prick with "their" IDs. They will not let me have any redundancy with them, and I would prefer to not let them (and DMV) control my banking as well.
I used to believe a bunch of the conspiracy bs until I actually visited the site of the shooting in person. Once you've been to the Book Repository and seen the location in person, it becomes painfully obvious that it was almost trivially easy for Oswald to have done the shooting. Quite frankly, the conditions make it very easy (almost convenient) for Oswald to kill Kennedy.
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What did it for me was seeing the zapruder film all the way through. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=zapruder+fi
The "back and to the left" crap becomes clear that he was shot from behind when you see the whole thing. The head exploding is always left out on TV and in the JFK movie, but for me, seeing his head blown like that made me get pissed at all of the conspiracy crap, which to some degree I believed for quite some time, or at least I was uncertain of the events there. Seeing the film changed that for me.
I don't know what "TSRB" is. Google did not show me a nice photograph. Here is the shirt Oswald was wearing when he was shot. http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/AAAAAAChange06/Chang e05/OswaldRuby.jpg Looks like a normal shirt (plus a sweater).
So, can anyone point us to that nice picture?