Most free thinkers make bad sheep/employees/citizens/etc. That is why it is shunned so much in the US educational system and workforce.
I work with computers for a living, but honestly, my personal problems or interests don't need the scale of computers I work with.
To me, staring at a screen, typing every word that a prof says into a Word document is a stupid waste of technology. Isn't that what sound and video recorders are for? Although its been a while since I've been in a college classroom, when I was there, most of my professors taught from PowerPoint presentations and I scribbled the extra information on the slide printouts that were given before the class or at the beginning of the semester/section or whatever.
Personally, I learned more by asking questions of a professor and interacting with them inside and outside of the classroom. But then again, I was/am a free thinker.
Do as the librarians do: divide the books into major subjects and then alphabetize by author. If you need to search by something else, Google is your cross-reference.
My view is that the manufacturer of any marketable product (including information) should not be held liable for their product as long as the product is legal within their community.
The Constitution never intended to allow the federal government to regulate commerce (except in true imports and exports).
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, known as the Commerce Clause, empowers the United States Congress "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
A recent example of this is:
The Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities may arrest and prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain, concluding that state laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
Its not like they [RedHat] own or do the majority of the work on the software.
Give me a fucking break. RedHat pays Alan Cox's salary. RedHat is big into the development of gcc and glibc. RedHat has become basically the standard for Linux distros (for bad or good). RedHat is only by more PBHs than SuSe, and second to Suse by almost nobody, depending on the region of the world you come from. RedHat has been known and is still (via Fedora) the "bleeding edge" distro. And that has made a number of OSS packages to keep up to date and squash a bunch of latent bugs in the process. To my knowledge, RedHat is the most supported Linux distro when multiplied by the number of platforms it runs on (3rd party support, software actually working support, paid for Indian support, don't blame me support, etc).
As far as the US, and much of the Linux community is concerned, RedHat is a "good thing".
Personally, I would rather use Debian or Gentoo, but I have only been inconvenienced with running RedHat Linux. Performance is above average, stability is above average, ease of install is well above average, 3rd party support is second to none, etc.
Like RedHat or not, they have done good stuff for the computing world.
I use CentOS on many hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment. To me, the support and the quality of the OS is better than that I can pay extra from from RedHat. And, yes, I have done both.
Now, how does my likeness fundamentally differ from my other personal information -- information that in some way defines or derives from ME and MY life??
Sure, there are people that go to all lengths to look like a celeb.
But? Do they take money from the celeb by looking like them? Do they get movie or advertisement deals from it in front of the real deal? No.
But, if my likeness is similar according to a SSN, maiden name, the goods are in _at my cost_, not the people that created the problem or the govnt.
OK, then how does Equifax, Experion, and whoever else stay in business?
You and I are not their customers. Until recently, they did not have consumer level services like identity theft insurance or whatever they sell.
From what I knew, they sold the information to businesses. I've seen at the bottom of my credit report before where people have checked it in the recent past.
Am I missing something? Or am I way off base here?
Guilty with an apology, your honor". The judge looked at me with the funniest expression I have ever seen and asked me why I said that. My response was simple and honest: I did what I did, and it was wrong. I would have never done it had I any inkling that it was going to cost me so much.
Its almost amazing the responses you get from people when your honest with them.
I recommend everyone give the honest approach a try sometime. It almost pisses people off when you are honest with them.
I knew a guy that got out of a fight that way. Someone was trying to pick a fight with him for some "reason" or another, and they guy said back, "I don't know how to fight". And the other guy was like, "Don't give me that pussy nonsense!". And the fight disappeared.
Yeah, it's called a government. You elect representatives that share your views, then they vote to determine a policy that represents the majority. They have absolute power to protect the people. At least, that's how it's supposed to work. Voting for the guy with the prettiest TV commercials kind of short circuits the whole thing.
Wrong.
I _vote_ for representatives that share my views, the people I don't vote for get elected, and I suffer.
Also, in theory, the government works for me, but for some reason, I don't feel that way.
Well, and what happens if it's a application being compromised who runs sudo?
I've never liked that "security measure" in mac os x or ubuntu. Take a IM app or browser. Find a bug in it, and exploit the hole by running "sudo rm -rf/"....
AFAIK there's nothing stoping that from happening?
If it doesn't have a password, I don't trust it.
From what I know, sudo by default always asks for a password. I've seen it with a bootable CD Linux distro, where it didn't, but even then, it was safer having sudo without a password on a single user system not running as root, than running as root.
Keep in mind, that, what? About 90% of the computers out there run most all, if not all applications, including insecure web browsers with Administrator (aka root I guess in Windows) permissions.
*NIX, OS X, etc where sudo is involved are already in the top 10% of security of the systems out there if you look at the big picture.
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I use sudo pretty much exclusively for root access. At the worst, I'll do sudo zsh and get a shell.
Why would I do this, even if I'm the only admin?
a) I don't have to know the root password.
b) I have history of my recent commands that I ran as root in my shell
c) my shell, path, environment and aliases are comfortable to me. Since I never screw with root accounts, who knows how screwed up the vendor left the account, or someone that worked prior to me
d) its safer. I guess the exception is with !! or !s or whatever commands, but even the !s one will probably be hit with the password timeout.
e) if I have to routinely go to root to do "normal" things, then the system is set up wrong, and I need to quickly fix that
e is the big one here. I'm a sysadmin for my day job, and I rarely have to have root access. If I need to go to root all the time, then something is not set up right on the system. Usually a chown, chgrp, with a chmod will do wonders.
Hmm...it's my data, I provided it, where's my cut?
I've been wondering this for years.
Companies have paid lip service to "privacy" over the years. Most every website and company has a "privacy policy", that often ends with the clause "subject to change without your notice".
Is there some way that consumers can organize and make their own demands of the terms that determine who they do business with? Kinda like a union for consumers?
The only answer I've come up with is hiding myself behind a company or corporation and not personally owning any property, but is there a way to do this with other consumers that want to have the same rights?
The IRS wants to make it easier for people that I (may) do business with in processing my taxes to sell my tax information to marketers and whatnot?
Let me think what is on my tax info (I'm not rich and don't have a tax accountant, and I'm ignorant of needing such additional stuff).
My SSN.
My income.
My major debts (mortgage interest writeoff and student loan interest writeoff).
Doesn't equifax, and the other companies that collect and sell this information already have that and more?
My tinfoil hat might be suffering from a large dose of gamma radiation, but isn't this stuff already public knowledge?
Granted, the additional provisions for more people to be able to sell this information does absolutely nothing to my benefit, but I see where having more avenues to get to what is already practically in the public domain already is going to harm me any more.
Some db's need Oracle, others do not. For example a mission-critical OLTP db might need Oracle, for exactly the reasons you stated. But other db's, such as a internal reporting server that is not customer-facing, can get by with something else.
I understand this.
What my point was if a customer does not understand this, and cannot decide if a freely downloadable DB vs Oracle is right for the job, then the customer is not that bright, and will probably not be in business very long, despite what DB they choose. So, if I were working for Oracle and talking with such a fellow, it would be my job to take whatever money I could from the guy and call it a day.
If your DB is tens to hundreds of terabytes, with gig and larger entries (think VLSI design here) then MySQL will not hold up (well).
A filesystem is a DB. Why in the world do you need 1 gig VLSI entries in a DB? Can you search on that?
I'm VLSI ignorant. I just know it exists and its for chip design, but what is having 1 gig entries in a DB going to give you over just putting it on a disk somewhere will not, and have a DB with keywords or something to point you to the file?
To me, 1 gig VLSI datafields seems like the wrong tool for the job.
And if you're negotiating with Oracle directly, something I do not recommend, then all you have to do is mention mySQL or PostgreSQL, and Oracle will drop their prices.
If I worked for Oracle, and I was negotiating a price with a customer that brought up MySQL, then I would assume it was my job to get whatever money I could out of the person and then quickly leave.
If someone cannot decide whether a free DB with little to no data integrity assurance vs a potential $40k/CPU licensed DB is the right tool for the job, then they don't know their job very well, and odd are they will be out of one soon, regardless of the choice in DB.
Disclaimer. I'm a not-so-happy Oracle person for almost 10 years, and I've never used PostgreSQL, but have used MySQL, etc. I've never used Oracle in a setting where Oracle was necessary. The DBs were small, and Oracle was way more of a pain in the ass, but with University site licenses, it cost us the same as anything else.
FWIK, Oracle gives you speed and scalability over PostgreSQL. It also gives you a better pool of DBAs to pick from. Sure a pimply HS dropout _might_ know everything there is about PostgreSQL, but a DBA asking for $100k+ _better damn well know everything_ there is about Oracle. Oh, and if MySQL may be an option for your DB needs, Oracle definitely is well beyond your needs.
Oracle is very complex. Its almost an entire operating system in itself, and for years, I have not understood why Oracle simply does not make a DBOS.
What is Postgresql missing that Oracle has? What does Oracle have that Postgres is missing? When do these features matter?
1) compressors have nothing to do with frequency. What they do is slow the growth of amplitude in a sound, after hitting a certain trigger level. They do this across the board for all frequencies: they're amplitude devices, not a frequency ones.
Multi-band compressors are pretty common now that have different attack, gain, and hold by frequency.
I wouldn't care to predict what the Next Big Thing would be. If I could make that prediction, I wouldn't tell you about it, I'd find something to buy stock in.
Check you spam inbox. There are plenty of "Next Big Things" in there for stock tips:)
His license forbids distributing binaries unless they are made from his sources. You want to add any of the many well known patches? Great, you distribute his source and your patches, you do not distribute patched sources and you do not distribute binaries.
Yeah, such a restrictive license killed the pine mail reader years ago.
Sony has said that they do not intend to set the downsampling flag IN THE MOVIES THEY SELL. The capability still exists in the blu-ray standard.
So, only Sony movies won't play on my Sony HDTV?
Makes sense.
I just bought a new head unit for my car that was Sonyfied. It has a memory stick in it, and I can record CDs onto the memory stick. Its in ATRAC3 format, DRMed to hell, and I cannot do anything with the DRMed copy except play it back onto my head unit.
Guess which other feature I won't use?
I'll rip my (non-Sony) CDs the old fashioned way, OK?
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I'd call her a free thinker.
Most free thinkers make bad sheep/employees/citizens/etc. That is why it is shunned so much in the US educational system and workforce.
I work with computers for a living, but honestly, my personal problems or interests don't need the scale of computers I work with.
To me, staring at a screen, typing every word that a prof says into a Word document is a stupid waste of technology. Isn't that what sound and video recorders are for? Although its been a while since I've been in a college classroom, when I was there, most of my professors taught from PowerPoint presentations and I scribbled the extra information on the slide printouts that were given before the class or at the beginning of the semester/section or whatever.
Personally, I learned more by asking questions of a professor and interacting with them inside and outside of the classroom. But then again, I was/am a free thinker.
Do as the librarians do: divide the books into major subjects and then alphabetize by author. If you need to search by something else, Google is your cross-reference.
& q=book+isbn+barcode+scanner
Or, just use Google first: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en
Which yields:
http://idautomation.com/isbn/
http://www.eblong.com/zarf/bookscan/
and
http://isbntools.com/
The last one seems pretty complete.
I believe http://ask.slashdot.org/ should just redirect to http://www.google.com/
My view is that the manufacturer of any marketable product (including information) should not be held liable for their product as long as the product is legal within their community.
On the courts, yo, we say, "No autopsy, no foul."
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, known as the Commerce Clause, empowers the United States Congress "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
A recent example of this is:
Its not like they [RedHat] own or do the majority of the work on the software.
Give me a fucking break. RedHat pays Alan Cox's salary. RedHat is big into the development of gcc and glibc. RedHat has become basically the standard for Linux distros (for bad or good). RedHat is only by more PBHs than SuSe, and second to Suse by almost nobody, depending on the region of the world you come from. RedHat has been known and is still (via Fedora) the "bleeding edge" distro. And that has made a number of OSS packages to keep up to date and squash a bunch of latent bugs in the process. To my knowledge, RedHat is the most supported Linux distro when multiplied by the number of platforms it runs on (3rd party support, software actually working support, paid for Indian support, don't blame me support, etc).
As far as the US, and much of the Linux community is concerned, RedHat is a "good thing".
Personally, I would rather use Debian or Gentoo, but I have only been inconvenienced with running RedHat Linux. Performance is above average, stability is above average, ease of install is well above average, 3rd party support is second to none, etc.
Like RedHat or not, they have done good stuff for the computing world.
not important news for most Linux hobbyists
Yeah, hobbyists pay the bills.
I use CentOS on many hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment. To me, the support and the quality of the OS is better than that I can pay extra from from RedHat. And, yes, I have done both.
Now, how does my likeness fundamentally differ from my other personal information -- information that in some way defines or derives from ME and MY life??
Sure, there are people that go to all lengths to look like a celeb.
But? Do they take money from the celeb by looking like them? Do they get movie or advertisement deals from it in front of the real deal? No.
But, if my likeness is similar according to a SSN, maiden name, the goods are in _at my cost_, not the people that created the problem or the govnt.
No, actually it doesn't.
OK, then how does Equifax, Experion, and whoever else stay in business?
You and I are not their customers. Until recently, they did not have consumer level services like identity theft insurance or whatever they sell.
From what I knew, they sold the information to businesses. I've seen at the bottom of my credit report before where people have checked it in the recent past.
Am I missing something? Or am I way off base here?
Guilty with an apology, your honor". The judge looked at me with the funniest expression I have ever seen and asked me why I said that. My response was simple and honest: I did what I did, and it was wrong. I would have never done it had I any inkling that it was going to cost me so much.
Its almost amazing the responses you get from people when your honest with them.
I recommend everyone give the honest approach a try sometime. It almost pisses people off when you are honest with them.
I knew a guy that got out of a fight that way. Someone was trying to pick a fight with him for some "reason" or another, and they guy said back, "I don't know how to fight". And the other guy was like, "Don't give me that pussy nonsense!". And the fight disappeared.
Yeah, it's called a government. You elect representatives that share your views, then they vote to determine a policy that represents the majority. They have absolute power to protect the people. At least, that's how it's supposed to work. Voting for the guy with the prettiest TV commercials kind of short circuits the whole thing.
Wrong.
I _vote_ for representatives that share my views, the people I don't vote for get elected, and I suffer.
Also, in theory, the government works for me, but for some reason, I don't feel that way.
Your credit report is not "public knowledge".
Its more public knowledge than it is my knowledge.
A nominal fee gets you the contents of my credit report. So, no I guess its not public knowledge, its publicly available knowledge.
Well, and what happens if it's a application being compromised who runs sudo?
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I've never liked that "security measure" in mac os x or ubuntu. Take a IM app or browser. Find a bug in it, and exploit the hole by running "sudo rm -rf
AFAIK there's nothing stoping that from happening?
If it doesn't have a password, I don't trust it.
From what I know, sudo by default always asks for a password. I've seen it with a bootable CD Linux distro, where it didn't, but even then, it was safer having sudo without a password on a single user system not running as root, than running as root.
Keep in mind, that, what? About 90% of the computers out there run most all, if not all applications, including insecure web browsers with Administrator (aka root I guess in Windows) permissions.
*NIX, OS X, etc where sudo is involved are already in the top 10% of security of the systems out there if you look at the big picture.
I use sudo pretty much exclusively for root access. At the worst, I'll do sudo zsh and get a shell.
Why would I do this, even if I'm the only admin?
a) I don't have to know the root password.
b) I have history of my recent commands that I ran as root in my shell
c) my shell, path, environment and aliases are comfortable to me. Since I never screw with root accounts, who knows how screwed up the vendor left the account, or someone that worked prior to me
d) its safer. I guess the exception is with !! or !s or whatever commands, but even the !s one will probably be hit with the password timeout.
e) if I have to routinely go to root to do "normal" things, then the system is set up wrong, and I need to quickly fix that
e is the big one here. I'm a sysadmin for my day job, and I rarely have to have root access. If I need to go to root all the time, then something is not set up right on the system. Usually a chown, chgrp, with a chmod will do wonders.
Hmm...it's my data, I provided it, where's my cut?
I've been wondering this for years.
Companies have paid lip service to "privacy" over the years. Most every website and company has a "privacy policy", that often ends with the clause "subject to change without your notice".
Is there some way that consumers can organize and make their own demands of the terms that determine who they do business with? Kinda like a union for consumers?
The only answer I've come up with is hiding myself behind a company or corporation and not personally owning any property, but is there a way to do this with other consumers that want to have the same rights?
The IRS wants to make it easier for people that I (may) do business with in processing my taxes to sell my tax information to marketers and whatnot?
Let me think what is on my tax info (I'm not rich and don't have a tax accountant, and I'm ignorant of needing such additional stuff).
My SSN.
My income.
My major debts (mortgage interest writeoff and student loan interest writeoff).
Doesn't equifax, and the other companies that collect and sell this information already have that and more?
My tinfoil hat might be suffering from a large dose of gamma radiation, but isn't this stuff already public knowledge?
Granted, the additional provisions for more people to be able to sell this information does absolutely nothing to my benefit, but I see where having more avenues to get to what is already practically in the public domain already is going to harm me any more.
Some db's need Oracle, others do not. For example a mission-critical OLTP db might need Oracle, for exactly the reasons you stated. But other db's, such as a internal reporting server that is not customer-facing, can get by with something else.
I understand this.
What my point was if a customer does not understand this, and cannot decide if a freely downloadable DB vs Oracle is right for the job, then the customer is not that bright, and will probably not be in business very long, despite what DB they choose. So, if I were working for Oracle and talking with such a fellow, it would be my job to take whatever money I could from the guy and call it a day.
If your DB is tens to hundreds of terabytes, with gig and larger entries (think VLSI design here) then MySQL will not hold up (well).
A filesystem is a DB. Why in the world do you need 1 gig VLSI entries in a DB? Can you search on that?
I'm VLSI ignorant. I just know it exists and its for chip design, but what is having 1 gig entries in a DB going to give you over just putting it on a disk somewhere will not, and have a DB with keywords or something to point you to the file?
To me, 1 gig VLSI datafields seems like the wrong tool for the job.
And if you're negotiating with Oracle directly, something I do not recommend, then all you have to do is mention mySQL or PostgreSQL, and Oracle will drop their prices.
If I worked for Oracle, and I was negotiating a price with a customer that brought up MySQL, then I would assume it was my job to get whatever money I could out of the person and then quickly leave.
If someone cannot decide whether a free DB with little to no data integrity assurance vs a potential $40k/CPU licensed DB is the right tool for the job, then they don't know their job very well, and odd are they will be out of one soon, regardless of the choice in DB.
And of course, there's always the "nobody gets fired for picking Oracle" argument. :)
Yeah, they just get downsized after the DB works and is paid for.
Disclaimer. I'm a not-so-happy Oracle person for almost 10 years, and I've never used PostgreSQL, but have used MySQL, etc. I've never used Oracle in a setting where Oracle was necessary. The DBs were small, and Oracle was way more of a pain in the ass, but with University site licenses, it cost us the same as anything else.
FWIK, Oracle gives you speed and scalability over PostgreSQL. It also gives you a better pool of DBAs to pick from. Sure a pimply HS dropout _might_ know everything there is about PostgreSQL, but a DBA asking for $100k+ _better damn well know everything_ there is about Oracle. Oh, and if MySQL may be an option for your DB needs, Oracle definitely is well beyond your needs.
Oracle is very complex. Its almost an entire operating system in itself, and for years, I have not understood why Oracle simply does not make a DBOS.
What is Postgresql missing that Oracle has? What does Oracle have that Postgres is missing? When do these features matter?
Oracle - proven recovery tools, support, rollbacks, archive logging, replication
Postgres - good cheap DB, no assurance that the data will be there tomorrow, but odds are better than not that it will
That is my non-DBA opinion.
Also keep in mind that you need a good sysadmin as well as a DB admin to run Oracle.
1) compressors have nothing to do with frequency. What they do is slow the growth of amplitude in a sound, after hitting a certain trigger level. They do this across the board for all frequencies: they're amplitude devices, not a frequency ones.
Multi-band compressors are pretty common now that have different attack, gain, and hold by frequency.
Its also worth noting that http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jello and http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=kleenex both mention the word trademark, but superhero does not.
I wouldn't care to predict what the Next Big Thing would be. If I could make that prediction, I wouldn't tell you about it, I'd find something to buy stock in.
:)
Check you spam inbox. There are plenty of "Next Big Things" in there for stock tips
His license forbids distributing binaries unless they are made from his sources. You want to add any of the many well known patches? Great, you distribute his source and your patches, you do not distribute patched sources and you do not distribute binaries.
Yeah, such a restrictive license killed the pine mail reader years ago.
Sony has said that they do not intend to set the downsampling flag IN THE MOVIES THEY SELL. The capability still exists in the blu-ray standard.
So, only Sony movies won't play on my Sony HDTV?
Makes sense.
I just bought a new head unit for my car that was Sonyfied. It has a memory stick in it, and I can record CDs onto the memory stick. Its in ATRAC3 format, DRMed to hell, and I cannot do anything with the DRMed copy except play it back onto my head unit.
Guess which other feature I won't use?
I'll rip my (non-Sony) CDs the old fashioned way, OK?