Sounds like fun, but it's not. Imagine the reaction from the rest (~95%) of the world when they realize that a bunch of capricious nerds have shut down or derailed or disabled one of their toys (air travel, TV, etc). Imagine how you'd react to that sort of thing.
You should, of course, not take my comment as legal fact; I'm not a lawyer and I couldn't cite my claims if you asked. But it would seem to me that if an employee of a company performed an illegal act and signed his name to it, he would be just as liable as his employer; maybe even more so.
Not likely. If you perform an illegal act (regardless of whether or not you or I think it should be illegal) while 'doing your job', you will be charged. The potential loopholes of immunity granted because you were getting paid to commit a crime are pretty obvious.
If the company was founded on, or receives revenue knowingly from, illegal actions, then yeah, the company's gonna get it too.
You shouldn't be surprised at the simplicity of the whitehouse.gov page. It's how the web is supposed to look. It's not a marvel of layout and style, but it
allows easy access to information
should look fine in any decent browser
should be accessable from special browsers (e.g., browsers for the visually-impaired)
I kind of like it, myself. It's obvious that they're not trying to impress anyone graphically, just providing information. Refreshing, really. I like a neat flashy site as much as anyone, but I also appreciate a simple, well-designed site.
heh heh! Yeah, we Americans are really really stupid! You said it! We love nothing more than being mocked as stupid, militaristic television leeches by people whose only experience with the US comes through their TV! hah!
Really, now. I assume you're in the UK - do you ph34r the US? Does it seem remotely likely that you'll be 'under US control' anytime soon? Do you think that the US is building up forces to invade Sweden? Do you think that Canada will be under the oppressive imperialist evil of everybody's favorite punching bag?
It may be very difficult for you to think about, but there are some people here who get pissed off when the US knocks off some South American dictator and installs their own despot. There are some people here who think that a socialized health care system might not be a bad idea. There are some people here who are getting really fucking sick of every other nation railing against us as uncultured, barbaric conqueror-wannabes, especially those of us who sometimes disagree with the actions take by our government.
So I'm saying to ignore the actions of the US, and not to make your opinion known? No. I'm saying that you're not making any friends by 'forwarding the motion' to ban America. It just makes you look whiny. Make a valid criticism, make suggestions, even maybe do some research and find out what it's like to live here - probably not much different than where you're at. Just don't expect that you'll make any friends or change any minds with half-assed ridicule.
exactly - just like the British/English/from-the-islands-but-neither-Briti sh-nor-English thing:)
I've had enough people on Usenet explain it to me, and I understand it for as long as it takes me to read the post. I don't think anyone outside the EU - maybe even nobody outside the islands - really understands it.
Pop quiz for the rest of us USians - Wales. British or no?
Answer: I have no idea.
If it were a 500Mhz PC, that would be true. But it's not - based on my own unscientific experience, a 500Mhz G3 is roughly equivalent to, say, an 800Mhz Duron. This claim isn't based on any benchmarks or real numbers at all, just comparing my PowerBook 500Mhz and my 800Mhz Duron - they're nearly identical for most of my tasks. note - I built the Duron for $800, not including the display
I do agree that (in my experience), it's a very simple task for a single Unix machine to serve as several hosts, and even different hosts on multiple domains. But while your math is correct, your logic isn't: you can't assume that Unix is a better multi-hosting system just because windows systems tend to be single-host.
Um, who do you think makes the clothes you wear. When people are forced to fight for oil or diamonds, who do you think they're for?
They're for you, jackass.
Damn.
Your post, Mr. AC, has just convinced me to drop my hard threshold to 0 instead of +1. Rarely but surely, a low-modded post will come along with more insight, coherence, and intelligence than the rest of the dreck. Thank you for that post.
Would anyone care to upmod the parent here?
I think the metric in this case is units shipped, rather than overall size of the vendor. I don't know the specific numbers and I'm too lazy to check, but I'm pretty sure that Apple ships more machines than any other Unix vendor. If someone would like to back this up or shoot it down with real numbers...
Personally, I mostly use MySQL for stuff. I'm a simpleton, and it's nice and simple.
Once they're both installed, I can't think of any application where MySQL beats Postgres. If MySQL is simple enough to understand, Postgres is just as simple. Do yourself a favor - make the effort to move to Postgres, and reward yourself with true atomicity, real integrity constraints, and all sorts of other useful things. It's worth it.
People will claim that MySQL is faster, but IMO, if my application is important enough that it requires speed, it's important enough to warrant Postgres.
I've done this before - I lost my old '85 Toyota van because somebody blew a red light coming down a hill while I was making a left turn. I was about to go into second, but as soon as I saw the blur I threw it back into first and floored it. The damage to the back quarter skewed the frame and destroyed the vehicle, but that's preferable to a radiator through the legs (old Toyota vans had no front-end).
Except in this case, you're not drastically exceeding the speed limit, you're hyper-accelerating - probably from a pretty low speed to start with. A GPS tracking system probably wouldn't catch this, and any cop who saw the maneuver would, I like to think, have the decency to commend your awareness and skill rather than cite you.
True, binary digits are either one or zero. But binary digits on a hard disk are written into the real world, and in the real world, the one or zero is the magnetic ailgnment of a few particles of ferrous oxide. These particles are altered when they're overwritten, but there's a very good chance that particles in the space between tracks may keep their original alignment. The trick, then is to overwrite the disk with many random bits, so that the patterns that might be found on a disk full of zeroes get lost in the noise.
At least, that's how I think it's done. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Would you believe I actually prefer working without a root account? If I need it, there's always sudo and sudo -s.
And by 'wierd bash shell quirks', do you mean the fact that bash is not installed, and you're using tcsh?:)
3 -- Software? Who needs software?
True. There are lots of applications that aren't represented at all.
4 -- "Classic Mode" == "So slow you want to die mode"
You need more RAM. I'm not trying to make it sound like it's your fault or or anything, but going up to 320Mb on my PowerBook pretty much fixed all of the Classic problems. If you spend any time in Classic apps at all, the RAM is a good investment. For that matter, buy the RAM even if you don't use Classic - hey, it's RAM.
5 -- Looks pretty not much to do.
You could also write this as, 'Looks pretty, no consistent interface to what I want to do'. Example: the Dock. Does too much to kill/hide it, doesn't do enough to make it really useful.
Would you believe I actually prefer working without a root account? If I need it, there's always sudo and sudo -s.
And by 'wierd bash shell quirks', do you mean the fact that bash is not installed, and you're using tcsh?:)
3 -- Software? Who needs software?
True. There are lots of applications that aren't represented at all.
4 -- "Classic Mode" == "So slow you want to die mode"
You need more RAM. I'm not trying to make it sound like it's your fault or or anything, but going up to 320Mb on my PowerBook pretty much fixed all of the Classic problems. If you spend any time in Classic apps at all, the RAM is a good investment. For that matter, buy the RAM even if you don't use Classic - hey, it's RAM.
5 -- Looks pretty not much to do.
You could also write this as, 'Looks pretty, no consistent interface to what I want to do'. Example: the Dock. Does too much to kill/hide it, doesn't do enough to make it really useful.
I believe that you're thinking that 'remedial programs' means automatically assigning a citizenship elective class to the little potential offender. But, like you imply, the government of humanity isn't left to people like us. It tends to be people who gladly violate rights first and ask questions later, 'even if it saves just one life'.
This isn't bullshit at all because all but Solaris are considered free software.
Not exactly. The only really free Unices are the BSD triumvirate and Linux. Solaris, as you said, is not. Nor is MacOS X - Darwin is free, and can run Apache, but OS X is not. Nor are, to the best of my knowledge, HP-UX, AIX, SCO, BSDi, IRIX, et cetera.
Nitpicking aside, I still say that Apache itself is the finest example of Community Software at its best.
You could do what I do - use Nifty Telnet SSH to scp files around, tarring them from the shell if necessary. It's nowhere near as convenient as mounting a directory remotely, but it is far more secure.
I can't see a massive corporate network of Macs being any sort of problem, since the odds of finding a massive corporate network of Macs is pretty slim to begin with.
The biggest threat in my simple, uninformed opinion, is snagging a bunch of Macs to use as DDoS hosts. This is far more likely, given the fact that quite a few schools and universities have labs of 10-50 Macs, each with a routable IP on the school's network. More home users with OS X also means more Macs sitting on broadband 24/7.
Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm not too worried about critical secrets being found on a compromised Mac, but that a phalanx of grandmas will have their iMacs on their cable modems end up being used as DDoS hosts. Thankfully, it's relatively difficult to get root remotely on a Mac; the only services that are on by default are NetInfo (uses RPC) and AFP sharing. Any attacker who could convince either service to execute their own code has to know:
the weakness of that service
enough PPC assembler to exploit that weakness
how to convince the Mac to start up a shell server, because none are running by default, and you need a shell to get a rootshell.
No kidding. I dig Macs, and I like using them. But with cracked cubes, uncommanded shutdown on the Ti PowerBooks, keeping developers in the dark about WebObjects, and now legally attacking people who might be able to help me get rid of this Aqua blasphemy on my desktop, I'm starting to wonder why I bother defending them in the first place.
If only this were the first time they'd done something like this...
Sure, it's acknowledged this year, but this year's Comdex is a ghost town compared to last year's. Exhibitors from last year's massive event who didn't show this year include FreeBSD, Penguin Computing, VA, Linux Mall, TurboLinux, SuSE, a whole pile of smaller Freenix app vendors, and, ironically, Microsoft.
Very disappointing. Based on what we saw last year, my GF, my dad, and myself had allocated the whole day for the show, and ended up leaving at noon (it opened at 10am) to go shopping in Chicago.
I have a cable modem and the expertise to run a mail server. Still, I don't care to. Here's why.
Unless you also do your own DNS, your friends get to email you at bob@linenoise.city.state.provider.com instead of bob@provider.com
Suppose you do your own DNS so you can have your vanity domain? That's now at least two services you need running, and low-port services too. You'd better know what you're doing, and even if you do, I'm honestly too lazy for it, considering that I get free mail from the provider - and usually a few POP boxes, too.
Suppose you do your own DNS, and the power goes out. When it comes on, your DNS server has a different IP. Unless you're paying for a static IP, there's no guarantee you'll get one. Furthermore, you generally (not always) get an IP from the provider via DHCP, and if you have a static IP, the router will always assign it to you. But if it were to lose your profile, you go back to the pool with the rest of the schmucks.
Even if I were to decide that I want to run my DNS and mail out of my home, I guarantee the neighbors wouldn't want to, and I doubt they could tell you what DNS stands for. They want instructions on paper from the provider, and that's all. They could care less about some wild-eyed geek's rantings about the wonders of commodity broadband. They get the cable modem because webpages load faster.
yes, you fool. its called 'replying'.
slashdot has a similar concept.
Thanks for submitting your reply under an implicit ACPL. I was attempting sarcasm when I posted the comment above - an (apparently failed) attempt to express annoyance at people who use the term Open Source to describe things which have no source - or, rather, things which are already 'source' - like, say, ASCII text messages. I tend to think it pollutes the actual definition.
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Sounds like fun, but it's not. Imagine the reaction from the rest (~95%) of the world when they realize that a bunch of capricious nerds have shut down or derailed or disabled one of their toys (air travel, TV, etc). Imagine how you'd react to that sort of thing.
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PPK = Polizei Pistole Kurtz?
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You should, of course, not take my comment as legal fact; I'm not a lawyer and I couldn't cite my claims if you asked. But it would seem to me that if an employee of a company performed an illegal act and signed his name to it, he would be just as liable as his employer; maybe even more so.
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Not likely. If you perform an illegal act (regardless of whether or not you or I think it should be illegal) while 'doing your job', you will be charged. The potential loopholes of immunity granted because you were getting paid to commit a crime are pretty obvious.
If the company was founded on, or receives revenue knowingly from, illegal actions, then yeah, the company's gonna get it too.
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- allows easy access to information
- should look fine in any decent browser
- should be accessable from special browsers (e.g., browsers for the visually-impaired)
I kind of like it, myself. It's obvious that they're not trying to impress anyone graphically, just providing information. Refreshing, really. I like a neat flashy site as much as anyone, but I also appreciate a simple, well-designed site.--
heh heh! Yeah, we Americans are really really stupid! You said it! We love nothing more than being mocked as stupid, militaristic television leeches by people whose only experience with the US comes through their TV! hah!
Really, now. I assume you're in the UK - do you ph34r the US? Does it seem remotely likely that you'll be 'under US control' anytime soon? Do you think that the US is building up forces to invade Sweden? Do you think that Canada will be under the oppressive imperialist evil of everybody's favorite punching bag?
It may be very difficult for you to think about, but there are some people here who get pissed off when the US knocks off some South American dictator and installs their own despot. There are some people here who think that a socialized health care system might not be a bad idea. There are some people here who are getting really fucking sick of every other nation railing against us as uncultured, barbaric conqueror-wannabes, especially those of us who sometimes disagree with the actions take by our government.
So I'm saying to ignore the actions of the US, and not to make your opinion known? No. I'm saying that you're not making any friends by 'forwarding the motion' to ban America. It just makes you look whiny. Make a valid criticism, make suggestions, even maybe do some research and find out what it's like to live here - probably not much different than where you're at. Just don't expect that you'll make any friends or change any minds with half-assed ridicule.
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exactly - just like the British/English/from-the-islands-but-neither-Briti sh-nor-English thing :)
I've had enough people on Usenet explain it to me, and I understand it for as long as it takes me to read the post. I don't think anyone outside the EU - maybe even nobody outside the islands - really understands it.
Pop quiz for the rest of us USians - Wales. British or no?
Answer: I have no idea.
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If it were a 500Mhz PC, that would be true. But it's not - based on my own unscientific experience, a 500Mhz G3 is roughly equivalent to, say, an 800Mhz Duron. This claim isn't based on any benchmarks or real numbers at all, just comparing my PowerBook 500Mhz and my 800Mhz Duron - they're nearly identical for most of my tasks.
note - I built the Duron for $800, not including the display
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I do agree that (in my experience), it's a very simple task for a single Unix machine to serve as several hosts, and even different hosts on multiple domains. But while your math is correct, your logic isn't: you can't assume that Unix is a better multi-hosting system just because windows systems tend to be single-host.
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Your post, Mr. AC, has just convinced me to drop my hard threshold to 0 instead of +1. Rarely but surely, a low-modded post will come along with more insight, coherence, and intelligence than the rest of the dreck. Thank you for that post.
Would anyone care to upmod the parent here?
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I think the metric in this case is units shipped, rather than overall size of the vendor. I don't know the specific numbers and I'm too lazy to check, but I'm pretty sure that Apple ships more machines than any other Unix vendor. If someone would like to back this up or shoot it down with real numbers...
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People will claim that MySQL is faster, but IMO, if my application is important enough that it requires speed, it's important enough to warrant Postgres.
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I've done this before - I lost my old '85 Toyota van because somebody blew a red light coming down a hill while I was making a left turn. I was about to go into second, but as soon as I saw the blur I threw it back into first and floored it. The damage to the back quarter skewed the frame and destroyed the vehicle, but that's preferable to a radiator through the legs (old Toyota vans had no front-end).
Except in this case, you're not drastically exceeding the speed limit, you're hyper-accelerating - probably from a pretty low speed to start with. A GPS tracking system probably wouldn't catch this, and any cop who saw the maneuver would, I like to think, have the decency to commend your awareness and skill rather than cite you.
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True, binary digits are either one or zero. But binary digits on a hard disk are written into the real world, and in the real world, the one or zero is the magnetic ailgnment of a few particles of ferrous oxide. These particles are altered when they're overwritten, but there's a very good chance that particles in the space between tracks may keep their original alignment. The trick, then is to overwrite the disk with many random bits, so that the patterns that might be found on a disk full of zeroes get lost in the noise.
At least, that's how I think it's done. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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And by 'wierd bash shell quirks', do you mean the fact that bash is not installed, and you're using tcsh?
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And by 'wierd bash shell quirks', do you mean the fact that bash is not installed, and you're using tcsh?
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Did anyone else read that as 'NASA Wants To Invade Mars With Glowing JellyPants'?
Yeah, didn't think so.
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I believe that you're thinking that 'remedial programs' means automatically assigning a citizenship elective class to the little potential offender. But, like you imply, the government of humanity isn't left to people like us. It tends to be people who gladly violate rights first and ask questions later, 'even if it saves just one life'.
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Nitpicking aside, I still say that Apache itself is the finest example of Community Software at its best.
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You could do what I do - use Nifty Telnet SSH to scp files around, tarring them from the shell if necessary. It's nowhere near as convenient as mounting a directory remotely, but it is far more secure.
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The biggest threat in my simple, uninformed opinion, is snagging a bunch of Macs to use as DDoS hosts. This is far more likely, given the fact that quite a few schools and universities have labs of 10-50 Macs, each with a routable IP on the school's network. More home users with OS X also means more Macs sitting on broadband 24/7.
Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm not too worried about critical secrets being found on a compromised Mac, but that a phalanx of grandmas will have their iMacs on their cable modems end up being used as DDoS hosts. Thankfully, it's relatively difficult to get root remotely on a Mac; the only services that are on by default are NetInfo (uses RPC) and AFP sharing. Any attacker who could convince either service to execute their own code has to know:
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If only this were the first time they'd done something like this...
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Sure, it's acknowledged this year, but this year's Comdex is a ghost town compared to last year's. Exhibitors from last year's massive event who didn't show this year include FreeBSD, Penguin Computing, VA, Linux Mall, TurboLinux, SuSE, a whole pile of smaller Freenix app vendors, and, ironically, Microsoft.
Very disappointing. Based on what we saw last year, my GF, my dad, and myself had allocated the whole day for the show, and ended up leaving at noon (it opened at 10am) to go shopping in Chicago.