I notice they were nearly all cat fancy accepted breeds, at least a first glance. Having been around random cat populations, most real cats don't look like that. I wonder if they obtained the animals from a cat show that was in town or something, because that just seems odd.
I'm a bit against the whole cat fancy world. Though I adore cats, every time a "cat fancier" breeds another kitten, that's a kitten that will die in a shelter. All cats are beautiful, and there's plenty of them; we need not breed more on purpose.
If I were an ISP I would only keep logs long enough to use them to resolve cases of network abuse. Legal action takes a nice long time, so even purging them after a month would be sufficient to protect my users against legal problems.
"I'm sorry sir but we purge our logs after two weeks. We don't have those logs available."
I'm sure they'd try to get legislation passed that would require ISPs to keep logs for a certain amount of time eventually. But for now, ISPs should purge their logs after a few weeks.
What *I* wonder is why the Indian government is suddenly so paranoid that they feel the need to spy on everyone.
Has there been a power shift over there? Do they suddenly see a threat to their power that they want to head off early before it becomes too great?
This isn't just about privacy; this may potentially be signalling a dark shift in their government and policies that could result in reduced freedoms for Indian citizens and anyone visiting/doing business there.
Keep your eyes and ears open. The big picture may be scarier than it looks.
What annoys me even more is that people can't just ignore these idiots.
If their whining was ignored, we wouldn't have these problems. They should just be treated as the fanatical idiots they are, and we should get on with our lives.
But no, they make noise and people listen. WHY must people listen?
>Mozilla loses out on the ability to capitalize on the OS vendor's work and has to reinvent all kinds of things best left to the window manager or lower layers.
On the other hand this means that the wheel won't suddenly change under Firefox and break it, as has happened in the past when older APIs have been deprecated.
Not to mention that reinventing the wheel when the wheel is different on every platform is a good thing when you're building a cross platform software system. The code is a lot more reliable when it runs mostly the same way on every system. This is one of Firefox's strengths, not a weakness.
I doubt this is Oracle's motive
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Oracle appears to want to just destroy Android. If their motive was to not fork/split Java, they would try to work with Google to resolve the situation, not try to force all use of Android to cease and completely annihilate the platform.
What Oracle is doing seems to be the doings of a madman, not someone who wants to make a genuine positive difference. There is nothing good that can come out of destroying Android.
What if some of us are more private and don't want to put ourselves on a pedestal for the entire world to see? Do we not deserve a job because of that?
When I was in school they'd frequently assign books that were never used in the course. I started saving hundreds of dollars by not buying books until I absolutely needed them.
I think professors let their course change and shift semester after semester, end up stopping using a book but still require it... Meanwhile, the publishers laugh their way to the bank...:P
I should add that THIS is why network switches should NEVER use DHCP to obtain their management IP addresses. I see this practice frequently and it makes me want to smack around the admin and teach them some common sense.
Running around the building with a laptop because your switches can't obtain a DHCP lease is something no one should ever have to do!
1. Fire up a network sniffer on a test machine. 2. Renew the DHCP lease. Two responses will come in, the correct one and the one from the rogue server. 3. We now have the hardware address of the bad server. Start at the core switch and follow the ports that have that address on them until you get to the offending end station. 4. Disable the port on the switch. 5. Kill* the user who plugged in the offending device.
* - Punishment may vary, but death is surely the best way to keep the problem from happening again, and to set an example for the rest of the lusers.;)
That's funny. I couldn't give a rat's ass if my genes get passed on. However, I do enjoy having a partner for the companionship and love it brings. There's more than one reason to pair up with someone you love; passing on your genes is only one of them.
I get a lot more out of a few hours snuggling in the dark talking with someone I care about than a quick session of mindless sex with someone I just met. Does this make me strange, or does it prove that "passing your genes on" isn't the only factor here? I'd say the latter.
Although I AM pretty strange sometimes. But that has less to do with sex and more to do with normal being boring.;)
Well yes, but what I mean is that I hope in the future that they will look into people who say their account was hacked (fairly easy to prove with IP logs) or that they were banned unfairly.
One of my gripes with Valve is they have always claimed that VAC *never makes mistakes* and that VAC bans are absolutely permanent with no chance of appeal.
I'm glad they were able to admit that yes, VAC can make mistakes and nothing is perfect. Maybe they will re-think their uppity "VAC is flawless. Bans are forever. Sorry." policy now.
Heck, they won't even reverse VAC bans for people who get their accounts hacked. How wrong is that?
It's not selfish to want US companies to hire US citizens and keep them employed. When I hear of friends being laid off because their job went to India, I have every right to be pissed off.
Outsourcing has hurt this country a lot more than it has helped.
How about just regulating overage fees to be capped at the same rate as what you are already paying for service?
For instance, if you pay $60 a month for 5GB of transfer, and use 10GB of transfer, the provider cannot legally charge you more than $120 for that month.
Right now you pay an arguably fair rate until you reach your cap, then you are utterly *reamed* for any additional usage. This is even worse on voice plans, where additional minutes can cost close to a dollar when you've paid only cents for the original minutes in your plan.
This would go a long way towards solving the problem.
Right. And for this to work, the following information has to be right:
- The ISP records. What if the clock on the authentication server was slightly wrong? Oops. - The MPAA or whatever company is making the accusation has to have correct information too.
Logs can be falsified or incorrect; information can get trampled, mistakes can be made. People SHOULD NOT have to go through this legal mess just because a few bytes on a server somewhere say they might have hosted a file. There needs to be better evidence.
Yes, getting the evidence is expensive and difficult. Too bad. Think about how difficult it is for the accused person!
"Why is it every time I'm really excited about a telecom device, companies IN THE UNITED STATES find a way to make me completely lose interest? Why is it that telecom companies IN THE UNITED STATES in particular try so hard to make sure you can't get excited about anything they do HERE?"
My friends in the UK and other countries have told me they don't pull any of this shit over there. Buying the handset and the service are completely separate, and once you have them you can use any feature you wish on the handset. The only restriction is staying under a monthly data limit (which tends to be higher than what they offer here).
We here in the US get a raw deal when it comes to communications. Regional monopolies and poor choice in providers make that a fact.
Are you guys hiring? "having more brains than all of you put together" would probably make me a good job candidate.;)
Seriously, though, thanks for explaining that. These are valid reasons for not using the OS to provide video. But either way there should be away to add additional codec support to Firefox without patching the main source and recompiling. A plugin would be nice; leave it up to the user rather than saying "No you can't do this."
Firefox can simply use the h.264 support provided by the operating system, then they have to pay nothing.
Apple supports h.264 through Quicktime. Microsoft supports h.264 through Windows Media. Linux distros support h.264 through a variety of methods, including Gstreamer.
In any event, once Mozilla does this, the royalties are no longer their responsibility. Everyone wins.
I previously had a hard drive in my Mac Pro that was vibrating like crazy; it was making the entire machine vibrate, and all for only 80GB. It wasn't the boot drive, but rather a drive where I just had some random crap.
I decided getting rid of the vibration (and resulting buzzing sound) was more important than having a paltry 80GB more, so I copied the data off and yanked the drive. My machine seemed to boot and run quite a bit faster after wards. I was pleasantly surprised. My previous theory was that the drive was somehow causing a problem on the SATA bus that was slowing down the other drive. After reading this article now I realize the vibration was probably the reason.
That 80GB drive is now serving as a door stop (literally).:)
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I notice they were nearly all cat fancy accepted breeds, at least a first glance. Having been around random cat populations, most real cats don't look like that. I wonder if they obtained the animals from a cat show that was in town or something, because that just seems odd.
I'm a bit against the whole cat fancy world. Though I adore cats, every time a "cat fancier" breeds another kitten, that's a kitten that will die in a shelter. All cats are beautiful, and there's plenty of them; we need not breed more on purpose.
Exactly.
If I were an ISP I would only keep logs long enough to use them to resolve cases of network abuse. Legal action takes a nice long time, so even purging them after a month would be sufficient to protect my users against legal problems.
"I'm sorry sir but we purge our logs after two weeks. We don't have those logs available."
I'm sure they'd try to get legislation passed that would require ISPs to keep logs for a certain amount of time eventually. But for now, ISPs should purge their logs after a few weeks.
What *I* wonder is why the Indian government is suddenly so paranoid that they feel the need to spy on everyone.
Has there been a power shift over there? Do they suddenly see a threat to their power that they want to head off early before it becomes too great?
This isn't just about privacy; this may potentially be signalling a dark shift in their government and policies that could result in reduced freedoms for Indian citizens and anyone visiting/doing business there.
Keep your eyes and ears open. The big picture may be scarier than it looks.
What annoys me even more is that people can't just ignore these idiots.
If their whining was ignored, we wouldn't have these problems. They should just be treated as the fanatical idiots they are, and we should get on with our lives.
But no, they make noise and people listen. WHY must people listen?
>Mozilla loses out on the ability to capitalize on the OS vendor's work and has to reinvent all kinds of things best left to the window manager or lower layers.
On the other hand this means that the wheel won't suddenly change under Firefox and break it, as has happened in the past when older APIs have been deprecated.
Not to mention that reinventing the wheel when the wheel is different on every platform is a good thing when you're building a cross platform software system. The code is a lot more reliable when it runs mostly the same way on every system. This is one of Firefox's strengths, not a weakness.
Oracle appears to want to just destroy Android. If their motive was to not fork/split Java, they would try to work with Google to resolve the situation, not try to force all use of Android to cease and completely annihilate the platform.
What Oracle is doing seems to be the doings of a madman, not someone who wants to make a genuine positive difference. There is nothing good that can come out of destroying Android.
I wonder if Apple is secretly behind this?
What if some of us are more private and don't want to put ourselves on a pedestal for the entire world to see? Do we not deserve a job because of that?
When I was in school they'd frequently assign books that were never used in the course. I started saving hundreds of dollars by not buying books until I absolutely needed them.
I think professors let their course change and shift semester after semester, end up stopping using a book but still require it... Meanwhile, the publishers laugh their way to the bank... :P
I should add that THIS is why network switches should NEVER use DHCP to obtain their management IP addresses. I see this practice frequently and it makes me want to smack around the admin and teach them some common sense.
Running around the building with a laptop because your switches can't obtain a DHCP lease is something no one should ever have to do!
Shouldn't take hours to find this.
1. Fire up a network sniffer on a test machine.
2. Renew the DHCP lease. Two responses will come in, the correct one and the one from the rogue server.
3. We now have the hardware address of the bad server. Start at the core switch and follow the ports that have that address on them until you get to the offending end station.
4. Disable the port on the switch.
5. Kill* the user who plugged in the offending device.
* - Punishment may vary, but death is surely the best way to keep the problem from happening again, and to set an example for the rest of the lusers. ;)
That's funny. I couldn't give a rat's ass if my genes get passed on. However, I do enjoy having a partner for the companionship and love it brings. There's more than one reason to pair up with someone you love; passing on your genes is only one of them.
I get a lot more out of a few hours snuggling in the dark talking with someone I care about than a quick session of mindless sex with someone I just met. Does this make me strange, or does it prove that "passing your genes on" isn't the only factor here? I'd say the latter.
Although I AM pretty strange sometimes. But that has less to do with sex and more to do with normal being boring. ;)
Sun allowing Oracle to buy them was the biggest mistake ever.
Oracle is taking a once great company and flushing them completely down the toilet.
Well yes, but what I mean is that I hope in the future that they will look into people who say their account was hacked (fairly easy to prove with IP logs) or that they were banned unfairly.
One of my gripes with Valve is they have always claimed that VAC *never makes mistakes* and that VAC bans are absolutely permanent with no chance of appeal.
I'm glad they were able to admit that yes, VAC can make mistakes and nothing is perfect. Maybe they will re-think their uppity "VAC is flawless. Bans are forever. Sorry." policy now.
Heck, they won't even reverse VAC bans for people who get their accounts hacked. How wrong is that?
Unfortunately they forgot to build a dispenser, so now their team has no way of getting health and ammo as they move forward.
Damn incompetent engineers. They're nearly as bad as W+M1 pyros.
>and few drives can steadily saturate a USB2 link at all.
Not these days. Most modern hard drive can push upwards of 80Mbytes/sec, and over 100Mbytes/sec in some cases.
Join the present. :)
It's not selfish to want US companies to hire US citizens and keep them employed. When I hear of friends being laid off because their job went to India, I have every right to be pissed off.
Outsourcing has hurt this country a lot more than it has helped.
How about just regulating overage fees to be capped at the same rate as what you are already paying for service?
For instance, if you pay $60 a month for 5GB of transfer, and use 10GB of transfer, the provider cannot legally charge you more than $120 for that month.
Right now you pay an arguably fair rate until you reach your cap, then you are utterly *reamed* for any additional usage. This is even worse on voice plans, where additional minutes can cost close to a dollar when you've paid only cents for the original minutes in your plan.
This would go a long way towards solving the problem.
Right. And for this to work, the following information has to be right:
- The ISP records. What if the clock on the authentication server was slightly wrong? Oops.
- The MPAA or whatever company is making the accusation has to have correct information too.
Logs can be falsified or incorrect; information can get trampled, mistakes can be made. People SHOULD NOT have to go through this legal mess just because a few bytes on a server somewhere say they might have hosted a file. There needs to be better evidence.
Yes, getting the evidence is expensive and difficult. Too bad. Think about how difficult it is for the accused person!
Have you ever heard of dynamic IPs? The same IP might be used by hundreds of different people over the course of a month.
So I'd say the chance of an error is a LOT greater than "1 in 5000". Probably more like 1 in 10.
Let me fix this for you...
"Why is it every time I'm really excited about a telecom device, companies IN THE UNITED STATES find a way to make me completely lose interest? Why is it that telecom companies IN THE UNITED STATES in particular try so hard to make sure you can't get excited about anything they do HERE?"
My friends in the UK and other countries have told me they don't pull any of this shit over there. Buying the handset and the service are completely separate, and once you have them you can use any feature you wish on the handset. The only restriction is staying under a monthly data limit (which tends to be higher than what they offer here).
We here in the US get a raw deal when it comes to communications. Regional monopolies and poor choice in providers make that a fact.
Are you guys hiring? "having more brains than all of you put together" would probably make me a good job candidate. ;)
Seriously, though, thanks for explaining that. These are valid reasons for not using the OS to provide video. But either way there should be away to add additional codec support to Firefox without patching the main source and recompiling. A plugin would be nice; leave it up to the user rather than saying "No you can't do this."
Firefox can simply use the h.264 support provided by the operating system, then they have to pay nothing.
Apple supports h.264 through Quicktime.
Microsoft supports h.264 through Windows Media.
Linux distros support h.264 through a variety of methods, including Gstreamer.
In any event, once Mozilla does this, the royalties are no longer their responsibility. Everyone wins.
BUT NO ONE SEEMS TO REALIZE THIS. Grr.
I previously had a hard drive in my Mac Pro that was vibrating like crazy; it was making the entire machine vibrate, and all for only 80GB. It wasn't the boot drive, but rather a drive where I just had some random crap.
I decided getting rid of the vibration (and resulting buzzing sound) was more important than having a paltry 80GB more, so I copied the data off and yanked the drive. My machine seemed to boot and run quite a bit faster after wards. I was pleasantly surprised. My previous theory was that the drive was somehow causing a problem on the SATA bus that was slowing down the other drive. After reading this article now I realize the vibration was probably the reason.
That 80GB drive is now serving as a door stop (literally). :)
>10MW of electricity going into your servers and quite a lot of that energy coming back out as heat ;)
All of it. The laws of thermodynamics are clear.
Sorry, I can't help being a smartass sometimes. ;)