Limit all you want on the attorneys' fees -- the attorneys will just stop working the cases, then. The ability to make a big payday is the only impetus to take a contingency case, which is what most class actions are. Lowering the threshold for individuals to take action against foreign/alien corportations would be a better solution.
And you're Michael Moore-influenced in your thinking. Lots of big companies buy Microsoft products, as does the government. There doesn't *need* to be a class action. Those customers are big enough to carry a lawsuit themselves. Clash of the Titans can benefit the little guy.
Yes, but the thing is, there are no comparable standards in the software world, and certainly no licensing agencies that govern the way software is made. You have to have a license from the government to practice medicine or law. You don't have to have one to write an ActiveX object.
It's kind of comparing apples and oranges.
Furthermore, even if you compare it to something like architecture, where there are established building codes and standards, there isn't the regulation. And bringing in bureaucrat "code inspectors" isn't going to help anything, IMO. It'll just slow software development to a crawl. And it'd absolutely *kill* free software development.
Unfortunately, there is really no way to solve this problem. Even if you required companies/authors to certify that their software is free from material/structural defect, again, you'd slow software development to a crawl, and kill free software development. Imagine some college student who writes a network app that has a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow, resulting in financial loss to a user.....and then the lawsuit against him.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES....
Class action lawsuits are bullshit anyway. Only the attorneys and the class-leader(s) get any significant money. Everybody else gets twenty bucks after they fill out a mountain of paperwork. I'm glad I live in a state with no class action status.
You need to do some fucking research before you shoot your mouth off.
CNN Story on the prosecutions. From the article, "The Bush administration froze Holy Land's assets and raided its offices in December 2001 after determining the group was aiding a terrorist organization. "
So is marriage; should government regulate what arrangements married couples have between them within the bounds of marriage? Sex? Financial arrangements? Division of household chores?
The same could be said of the tax status of a church. Should I be able to go in and force people to stop preaching tripe because they're in a government-sanctioned institution?
Your reasoning strives for adequacy but falls far short. There is a division of the public and private, and piercing the corporate veil is something which should not be done on a personal whim.
Or maybe we should just mandate that CEOs can't make more than, say 1000 times what their lowest paid employee makes. If the lowest paid employee makes $20,000 a year, the CEO would be limited to twenty million a year.
What right do you have (or I, since you're obviously speaking for me also, when you use "we"...or maybe you have a tapeworm) to limit what CEO's make? That right is vested in the shareholders -- not someone who has no contacts with the company. I fail to see where, exactly, it's in government's power to regulate the internal affairs of corporations.
Besides, why would you limit it to CEO's? There are many companies where employees make more money than the CEO. How many times more money is Alex Rodriguez making than the guy wiping the seats at Yankee Stadium?
Bottom line is if you have a problem with the way a corporation does business, don't deal with that corporation. Don't come ask men with guns to come enforce your ideas on it when they're not forcing you to deal with them.
As for GNU/Hurd running on gnumach, it's quite usable, and relatively stable nowadays. If you really stress it, it will die on you. For me, the filesystem translators seem to be the most unstable. I've never been able to get libc to compile on a local partition (it worked *once* over NFS). Playing around with some of the features you don't find in a typical monolithic unix are neat. User-mounted NFS in your home, ftp sites as part of the filesystem, setting a translator to output fortune to your.sig.
X is kind of iffy. It normally works if you install from one of the preview CD's. It's dog slow, however, and I've had problems with the mouse translator dying.
But for a machine just to hack a bit, IRC, read mail with mutt...it works fine. Good for something like a P-200.
Portland has the largest park inside a city in the world. The park has over 74 miles of wilderness hiking trails and 5,124 acres.
Newport News Park NN Parks and Recreation is over 8000 acres. Due to the strange way Virginia divides up localities (cities are independent without counties), the entire park is inside the city. It takes up most of the Northeast corner of the city, in fact.
Many Linux distros have ditched sendmail by default, and NetBSD now ships postfix in the base system. In fact, the only big linux distros that I can think that still ship sendmail by default are slackware and redhat/fedora.
I *hate* bind with a neverending passion. I still use it because I'm not ambitious enough to change the environment I've got.
Is it laziness? No, not really. It's just not wanting to mess things up. I did recently move a large mail server off Irix/sendmail to FreeBSD/qmail, and, while it worked pretty much as I wanted it to, wasn't a one-day task.
I don't whine about Fox News -- I view them as entertainment. I also enjoy the Weekly World News, FWIW. As Lionel pointed out, watch a Fox newscast, and count the number of times the phrases, "Get this," and "This guy," are used. Sounds a bit like something you'd hear in a Bar.
I think Fox is probably slightly right-of-center editorially, which is a nice balance to CNN, which is left-of-center. The major networks fall somewhere in between the two. I work in talk radio -- I make no claim of being objective as far as the commentary goes on the station. With news events, however, I try just to report the facts. I do local news mostly, and there's not much political commentary you can put into a story on a house fire, or a fatal car accident.
Al-Jazeera, on the other hand, goes beyond being pro-Arab. As you say, it is propaganda. That it's even mentioned as a nominee casts quite a bit of doubt on the legitimacy of the other nominations with the Webby Awards. While I did poke fun at Fox News, I am dismayed by the other nominees. Also included were PBS and BBC, which are both government broadcasters. And BBC's reputation isn't the best in the world these days, what with the issue with the gentleman who killed himself over the "sexed-up" WMD documents.
So, register my comments in protest of the awards themselves, and the judges.
Hm. I'm not sure, not having done much looking into ext* for mission-critical stuff. Theo de Raadt in an interview banged pretty hard on those, and what linux is doing w.r.t. filesystems. There is a -o sync option for ext*.
Still, having been bitten a few times by ext2, I kind of have bypassed ext3 altogether. I only use it in a few places (normally where I store the kernel, so grub can read it, and well, with GNU/Hurd....but FS stability is a whole other issue there). When I do use Linux for important things, it's almost exclusively XFS these days, and I make up the performance with hardware. Sychronous writes are fast enough on a 10k rpm scsi disk.:-p
My point is that the new filesystems (XFS and JFS, to be sure) offer reliability meeting FFS's proven reliability with better speed because they use newer, more efficient design. FFS with conservative settings is horribly slow compared to XFS or JFS with similar settings.
I'm saying that the design of FFS makes it slow compared to modern FS's. Things like async operation and soft updates help mask that slowness, but you do risk losing data by using them (journaling and/or soft updates do not protect data, they only ensure filesystem integrity. If you lose the machine before some writes are committed with softupdates....). For most things, it's not a big deal, and you can use the speed enhancements. But if you're running a mail queue or something else where filesystem integrity is important, FFS performance is really going to suffer.
Try it sometime! It's not very difficult. Adjust your fstab (and tunefs if required), and measure the difference untarring a big file, with softdep and async, versus no softdep and sync.
Enabling case-sensitivity is an argument to newfs. I think there's a way that you can enable it on an existing volume, but I'd think that'd be more likely to seriously screw things up.
Theoretically, HFS+ should be faster than ext2/3, but there's no way to objectively compare them. I haven't noticed much disk speed difference on my macs between linux and OSX (well, with the exception of OSX FFS volumes, which are s-l-o-w).
As for buying an Apple notebook, I'm on my second one. I bought a toilet seat iBook used, then bought a G4 iBook in November. The old iBook played nicely with everything. The new iBook is great under OSX. Linux is still somewhat sketchy, because some of the hardware isn't well-supported (or supported at all, in the case of the Airport Extreme. Fuck Broadcom.). I will say that they've been worlds more reliable than any PC notebook that I've ever owned.
I don't think you'd be disappointed with one if you bought one.
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And commissioners' terms strech across administrations. There are still Clinton-appointed commissioners on the FCC.
The FCC is not a tool of the executive branch, rather, it is an independent regulatory agency.
Next?
NetBSD will make that into a usable machine again. :-)
Either that, or for real nostalgia, get ahold of a copy of OS/2v4.
Actually, not. I had both a 5v P60 and a 3.3v P90 that were replaced under the recall.
Please, man, you can't let facts get in the way of anti-Republican trolling!
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Limit all you want on the attorneys' fees -- the attorneys will just stop working the cases, then. The ability to make a big payday is the only impetus to take a contingency case, which is what most class actions are. Lowering the threshold for individuals to take action against foreign/alien corportations would be a better solution.
And you're Michael Moore-influenced in your thinking. Lots of big companies buy Microsoft products, as does the government. There doesn't *need* to be a class action. Those customers are big enough to carry a lawsuit themselves. Clash of the Titans can benefit the little guy.
Yes, but the thing is, there are no comparable standards in the software world, and certainly no licensing agencies that govern the way software is made. You have to have a license from the government to practice medicine or law. You don't have to have one to write an ActiveX object.
It's kind of comparing apples and oranges.
Furthermore, even if you compare it to something like architecture, where there are established building codes and standards, there isn't the regulation. And bringing in bureaucrat "code inspectors" isn't going to help anything, IMO. It'll just slow software development to a crawl. And it'd absolutely *kill* free software development.
Unfortunately, there is really no way to solve this problem. Even if you required companies/authors to certify that their software is free from material/structural defect, again, you'd slow software development to a crawl, and kill free software development. Imagine some college student who writes a network app that has a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow, resulting in financial loss to a user.....and then the lawsuit against him.
Not a pretty picture at all.
Yes and Yes.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES....
Class action lawsuits are bullshit anyway. Only the attorneys and the class-leader(s) get any significant money. Everybody else gets twenty bucks after they fill out a mountain of paperwork. I'm glad I live in a state with no class action status.
Bob Lutz, former CEO of Chrysler, aka "Mister Viper," is now designing cars for them. I wonder if he has something to do with it going away. :-)
Clear Channel and Halliburtion, too right?
You need to do some fucking research before you shoot your mouth off.
CNN Story on the prosecutions. From the article, "The Bush administration froze Holy Land's assets and raided its offices in December 2001 after determining the group was aiding a terrorist organization. "
Yeah, I'm sure they're buddy-buddy.
And somebody modded this Interesting?
So is marriage; should government regulate what arrangements married couples have between them within the bounds of marriage? Sex? Financial arrangements? Division of household chores?
The same could be said of the tax status of a church. Should I be able to go in and force people to stop preaching tripe because they're in a government-sanctioned institution?
Your reasoning strives for adequacy but falls far short. There is a division of the public and private, and piercing the corporate veil is something which should not be done on a personal whim.
Or maybe we should just mandate that CEOs can't make more than, say 1000 times what their lowest paid employee makes. If the lowest paid employee makes $20,000 a year, the CEO would be limited to twenty million a year.
What right do you have (or I, since you're obviously speaking for me also, when you use "we"...or maybe you have a tapeworm) to limit what CEO's make? That right is vested in the shareholders -- not someone who has no contacts with the company. I fail to see where, exactly, it's in government's power to regulate the internal affairs of corporations.
Besides, why would you limit it to CEO's? There are many companies where employees make more money than the CEO. How many times more money is Alex Rodriguez making than the guy wiping the seats at Yankee Stadium?
Bottom line is if you have a problem with the way a corporation does business, don't deal with that corporation. Don't come ask men with guns to come enforce your ideas on it when they're not forcing you to deal with them.
I was looking for one of these yesterday, and couldn't find one advertised on the sites I normally hit...only abit jank, no genuine Intel pieces.
I guess my jetnoise athlon can hold on for a few more weeks.
*sigh*
L4 is BSD licensed.
.sig.
As for GNU/Hurd running on gnumach, it's quite usable, and relatively stable nowadays. If you really stress it, it will die on you. For me, the filesystem translators seem to be the most unstable. I've never been able to get libc to compile on a local partition (it worked *once* over NFS). Playing around with some of the features you don't find in a typical monolithic unix are neat. User-mounted NFS in your home, ftp sites as part of the filesystem, setting a translator to output fortune to your
X is kind of iffy. It normally works if you install from one of the preview CD's. It's dog slow, however, and I've had problems with the mouse translator dying.
But for a machine just to hack a bit, IRC, read mail with mutt...it works fine. Good for something like a P-200.
killall -TERM sendmail
/me seriously questioning masculinity at the moment.....
echo 'SENDMAIL="NONE"' >> rc.conf
*real men* don't do sysv, or so I've heard.
I do sysv and I don't run sendmail.
I also am typing this on a Macintosh.
Tanenbaum said it's been released under a BSD-style license. Well, if you believe the quote Ken Brown gives....
Portland has the largest park inside a city in the world. The park has over 74 miles of wilderness hiking trails and 5,124 acres.
Newport News Park NN Parks and Recreation is over 8000 acres. Due to the strange way Virginia divides up localities (cities are independent without counties), the entire park is inside the city. It takes up most of the Northeast corner of the city, in fact.
Many Linux distros have ditched sendmail by default, and NetBSD now ships postfix in the base system. In fact, the only big linux distros that I can think that still ship sendmail by default are slackware and redhat/fedora.
I *hate* bind with a neverending passion. I still use it because I'm not ambitious enough to change the environment I've got.
Is it laziness? No, not really. It's just not wanting to mess things up. I did recently move a large mail server off Irix/sendmail to FreeBSD/qmail, and, while it worked pretty much as I wanted it to, wasn't a one-day task.
The Germans can't call their sparkling whites Champagne due to the Treaty of Versailles. Article.
GM's European division is Opel -- many of the cars badged Chevy and Pontiac in the US are Opels in Europe.
I don't whine about Fox News -- I view them as entertainment. I also enjoy the Weekly World News, FWIW. As Lionel pointed out, watch a Fox newscast, and count the number of times the phrases, "Get this," and "This guy," are used. Sounds a bit like something you'd hear in a Bar.
I think Fox is probably slightly right-of-center editorially, which is a nice balance to CNN, which is left-of-center. The major networks fall somewhere in between the two. I work in talk radio -- I make no claim of being objective as far as the commentary goes on the station. With news events, however, I try just to report the facts. I do local news mostly, and there's not much political commentary you can put into a story on a house fire, or a fatal car accident.
Al-Jazeera, on the other hand, goes beyond being pro-Arab. As you say, it is propaganda. That it's even mentioned as a nominee casts quite a bit of doubt on the legitimacy of the other nominations with the Webby Awards. While I did poke fun at Fox News, I am dismayed by the other nominees. Also included were PBS and BBC, which are both government broadcasters. And BBC's reputation isn't the best in the world these days, what with the issue with the gentleman who killed himself over the "sexed-up" WMD documents.
So, register my comments in protest of the awards themselves, and the judges.
You have got to be kidding me. They make Fox look a paragon of unbiased reporting!
Hm. I'm not sure, not having done much looking into ext* for mission-critical stuff. Theo de Raadt in an interview banged pretty hard on those, and what linux is doing w.r.t. filesystems. There is a -o sync option for ext*.
:-p
Still, having been bitten a few times by ext2, I kind of have bypassed ext3 altogether. I only use it in a few places (normally where I store the kernel, so grub can read it, and well, with GNU/Hurd....but FS stability is a whole other issue there). When I do use Linux for important things, it's almost exclusively XFS these days, and I make up the performance with hardware. Sychronous writes are fast enough on a 10k rpm scsi disk.
A thread on postfix and filesystems.
DJB's take.
My point is that the new filesystems (XFS and JFS, to be sure) offer reliability meeting FFS's proven reliability with better speed because they use newer, more efficient design. FFS with conservative settings is horribly slow compared to XFS or JFS with similar settings.
I'm saying that the design of FFS makes it slow compared to modern FS's. Things like async operation and soft updates help mask that slowness, but you do risk losing data by using them (journaling and/or soft updates do not protect data, they only ensure filesystem integrity. If you lose the machine before some writes are committed with softupdates....). For most things, it's not a big deal, and you can use the speed enhancements. But if you're running a mail queue or something else where filesystem integrity is important, FFS performance is really going to suffer.
Try it sometime! It's not very difficult. Adjust your fstab (and tunefs if required), and measure the difference untarring a big file, with softdep and async, versus no softdep and sync.
Enabling case-sensitivity is an argument to newfs. I think there's a way that you can enable it on an existing volume, but I'd think that'd be more likely to seriously screw things up.
Theoretically, HFS+ should be faster than ext2/3, but there's no way to objectively compare them. I haven't noticed much disk speed difference on my macs between linux and OSX (well, with the exception of OSX FFS volumes, which are s-l-o-w).
As for buying an Apple notebook, I'm on my second one. I bought a toilet seat iBook used, then bought a G4 iBook in November. The old iBook played nicely with everything. The new iBook is great under OSX. Linux is still somewhat sketchy, because some of the hardware isn't well-supported (or supported at all, in the case of the Airport Extreme. Fuck Broadcom.). I will say that they've been worlds more reliable than any PC notebook that I've ever owned.
I don't think you'd be disappointed with one if you bought one.