I see Tomcat 6 and 7 got fixes from Apache. I can't find a bugzilla for tomcat5 at Redhat, though sometimes they like to hide security work from us until the update is out (which just frustrates us, especially after public disclosure).
I assume they're working on it, since RHEL5 is so massively deployed.
Last I checked if an OEM doesn't want to update, they just don't.
And then they get a lot of criticism from a very small percentage of the user base. This move costs them very little and allows them to all but eliminate the criticism. And still not pay for updating Android.
Apparently I annoyed him so much in my second sentence he didn't bother reading the rest.
Next time, don't be a dick if you want somebody to read your long e-mail.
Please do not take this message as scathing or mean-spirited
But it was. You could have totally worded that e-mail in a kind way that would have fostered communication. As it is, it looks like you wasted your time.
What I don't get, is that "gandi" or whatever place in like France or someplace used to get all the/. mindshare as being the "best". What happened to them? I recall it was "hard" to use if you lived in the USA, something about sending them money, but thats all I remember about ghandi or gandi or whatever they were.
I tried them out a few months ago based on prior Slashdot cred. The bank did wonder about a charge to France, but that didn't bother me too much.
What bothered me first was that I didn't get any response to a configuration question I posted to their help board (so the $45 in VPS charges just evaporated as far as I'm concerned).
Then, I had a handle with them from a couple years ago (from when I transferred a domain to someone on their system - they required/me/ to make an account), which I used when I registered a new domain. They didn't like the contact info (from a previous domain registration). I was happy to correct it to their standards, but that would require a new handle in their system and they wanted to charge me some outrageous fee to move the domain to the new handle.
Whatever - I transferred the domain to NameCheap. Even though it's in an expensive TLD, I got the transfer/renewal for about half of what they wanted for their 'move fee'.
Perhaps if you're a political dissident then dealing with them is worth the effort - at least that's their reputation.
You get everything done easily and quickly, without them trying to shove extra services as premium prices down to you.
I just tried transferring one domain to see what they hype was about, and I have to agree.
My current registrar used to fit this description but in the past couple years they've added so much upsell to the site that they're losing me as a volume customer.
I have to wade through all their stuff about how they're "very excited" about their social media efforts, and besides all the un-checking of upsell, they recently changed their primary domain name, which broke all my browser form filling. I still think they're a decent company, but I don't need that kind of cognitive load to renew a domain.
That NameCheap is almost half the price doesn't hurt, but I wouldn't have switched if the other company had left well enough alone. I hope NameCheap understands what they've got and they leave well enough alone.
shadowstats.com is probably even worse; they have a noticeable political bias and don't seem to release any methodological information
Most of the interesting data they publish are just old government measures that have been discontinued. The old way of calculating unemployment, M3, etc. (the politically inconvenient measures).
I wonder if the Fox chart was of their own corrected measures. BLS has been continuing to define discouraged workers out of existence - the position on the chart looks kind of like the full number.
Not that I expect any sort of competence from Fox News.
Corporations are government creations. They've always run amok - they basically ran the British Empire for a couple centuries and mercantalism was rampant.
Learning that lesson, in the early United States, corporations could only be formed for limited times and for public purposes.
JD Rockefeller bribed the Congress after the Civil War to allow permanent corporations, and they have ascended from there to take over the government.
Yet, we still create thousands of new corporations every day and people want to impose all kinds of regulations to try to control the dragon.
Maybe we should just stop creating dragons in the first place?
sold by Bluejeans cable. It is honestly above and beyond normal cable in that you get more range out of lower gauge wire on account of the tighter tolerances it is built to. We've used it at work for runs that are out of spec since it is cheaper than getting active equalizers.
I've had similar experience with their cables being able to make long runs where others peter out (RG-6) in my case. Good cables, good company.
So Samsung can retrofit the dying, low-margin LCD business
This has to be the main driver. I finally picked up an HDTV for the family for Christmas. I previously had a 27" CRT that I just couldn't get parts for any longer. I've long kept an eye on the LCD and plasma sets, but the picture never looked good enough to me to replace the CRT quality until a year or two ago.
I went to the warehouse club and compared TV's from $200 to $2500. There was large variation between brands (Samsung and Vizio had the nicest pictures IMO) and in the end I settled on a $400 37" 120Hz Vizio.
In inflation adjusted terms, that CRT cost $2500. Aside from a bit worse blacks (but I so rarely watch TV anymore...), this $400 set is equal or better in every way. I'm told many of them don't last beyond 5 years. But look at the price differences - I'm paying the same $/yr, not counting electricity.
Anyway, point being, this TV is a ridiculously good value. Compared with other products on the market, I can't see how they're making much money at all on this product.
The real trick, though, is going to be to get me to spend more than $400 on my next TV. If they get massive roll-to-roll OLED working, they can attack the cost structure, and if they can make those sets for $50 I'll still pay $400 for the next one, so they should see decent profitability again.
Well actually there isn't any room for voodoo with analog signalling either, and you can either measure differences in analog signal quality on a scope or it isn't there too.
Perhaps not voodoo, but there's plenty of variability in analog. Each component modifies the waveform in some fashion (for better or worse). With digital the idea is to get the unmodified bits from point-A to point-B in whatever way works (and at the signaling level there's plenty of loss/attenuation/amplification/regeneration).
You guys all know (at least I hope you do) that a $2 digital cable works just as well as a $2000 digital cable
I saw this kind of talk in TFS as well... the reason the $2 cable is fine is because there's no such thing as a 'digital cable'. All signaling is analog and digital protocols/encodings ensure lossless data transfer (or are used with codecs that can handle loss).
Every industrialized country has gone through this phase where subsistence farmers abandon their farms for difficult factory jobs. They don't like the factory jobs, but they like it better than subsistence farming.
They save a little bit of money, and produce children who wind up becoming educated and form the middle class.
To say that China's not profiting from these assembly plants is taking a very short-term view.
I am still not seeing why there is this large scale attempt to create an impression that this was tax-payer money which was lent. It was money lent out of FED's reserves.
Any money the Fed has is taxpayer money - either created by expanding the balance sheet (printing digital money - which inflates the money supply and reduces the value of all FRN-holders' cash assets) or from interest payments from the taxpayers. Some of it is stored in their vaults as gold, but I didn't see that those actual assets were liquidated for this operation.
I don't think that's the main complaint, though - many people would rather see capitalism work than have the Fed pick winners. Many banks and other companies failed during the same period.
Of course, I'm one of the apparent minority who tend to adhere to the concept that privacy is still a right.
It's a right in the sense that you have it by Nature, and it can be invaded (that FBI camera in your bathroom) but it can also be given away, even by third-parties (in this case).
The in-person corollary is your brother walks into a store, says, "here, please wrap this gift in menorah paper and mail it to my brother Sid at 123 Main Street...". He's given away your privacy to the clerk. Same for Amazon, but people seem to give away their privacy to websites more casually.
I don't see how Amazon is doing something different here than the clerk - just on a larger scale. But it's uncomfortable to admit that it's your brother who's the problem here - it's easy to point the finger at Amazon.
BTW, if you have a recipe for getting corporate influence out of government without regulation (in a sense restricting the corporations' FREEEEEDOM), please do the world a favor and let us know.
When there is nothing for influence peddlers to sell, there will be no influence sold.
More simply: take the power away from government and people won't go looking for government to do things for them.
Ironically, TFA is about the market regulating bad actors, exactly what big-government supporters say the market can't/won't do.
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I see Tomcat 6 and 7 got fixes from Apache. I can't find a bugzilla for tomcat5 at Redhat, though sometimes they like to hide security work from us until the update is out (which just frustrates us, especially after public disclosure).
I assume they're working on it, since RHEL5 is so massively deployed.
Anybody see anything I'm missing?
Aren't sociopaths supposed to be glib, charming, and expertly manipulative?
no, only the successful ones are. They learn this as a coping mechanism.
There are still plenty of primary psychopaths who are just rotten assholes.
Last I checked if an OEM doesn't want to update, they just don't.
And then they get a lot of criticism from a very small percentage of the user base. This move costs them very little and allows them to all but eliminate the criticism. And still not pay for updating Android.
I wonder what Netflix will do.
, "not my job description" seems a reasonable response
BTDT - "other duties as assigned".
The great elastic clause that says the dishwasher has to scrub in for brain surgery, as needed.
Apparently I annoyed him so much in my second sentence he didn't bother reading the rest.
Next time, don't be a dick if you want somebody to read your long e-mail.
Please do not take this message as scathing or mean-spirited
But it was. You could have totally worded that e-mail in a kind way that would have fostered communication. As it is, it looks like you wasted your time.
the largest adopters of SPF to date are spammers.
By what measure? Every large e-mail company publishes SPF records. Lots of small ones do too.
I'd be surprised if the vast majority of active e-mail accounts didn't have SPF records to check (excepting Yahoo, which is domainkeys-or-bust).
What I don't get, is that "gandi" or whatever place in like France or someplace used to get all the /. mindshare as being the "best". What happened to them? I recall it was "hard" to use if you lived in the USA, something about sending them money, but thats all I remember about ghandi or gandi or whatever they were.
I tried them out a few months ago based on prior Slashdot cred. The bank did wonder about a charge to France, but that didn't bother me too much.
What bothered me first was that I didn't get any response to a configuration question I posted to their help board (so the $45 in VPS charges just evaporated as far as I'm concerned).
Then, I had a handle with them from a couple years ago (from when I transferred a domain to someone on their system - they required /me/ to make an account), which I used when I registered a new domain. They didn't like the contact info (from a previous domain registration). I was happy to correct it to their standards, but that would require a new handle in their system and they wanted to charge me some outrageous fee to move the domain to the new handle.
Whatever - I transferred the domain to NameCheap. Even though it's in an expensive TLD, I got the transfer/renewal for about half of what they wanted for their 'move fee'.
Perhaps if you're a political dissident then dealing with them is worth the effort - at least that's their reputation.
why would they eat the expese of a legal mess caused by a customer?
So customers engaging in controversial speech patronize them?
At least in theory - it sounds like a losing business model given the current state of the US legal system.
You get everything done easily and quickly, without them trying to shove extra services as premium prices down to you.
I just tried transferring one domain to see what they hype was about, and I have to agree.
My current registrar used to fit this description but in the past couple years they've added so much upsell to the site that they're losing me as a volume customer.
I have to wade through all their stuff about how they're "very excited" about their social media efforts, and besides all the un-checking of upsell, they recently changed their primary domain name, which broke all my browser form filling. I still think they're a decent company, but I don't need that kind of cognitive load to renew a domain.
That NameCheap is almost half the price doesn't hurt, but I wouldn't have switched if the other company had left well enough alone. I hope NameCheap understands what they've got and they leave well enough alone.
shadowstats.com is probably even worse; they have a noticeable political bias and don't seem to release any methodological information
Most of the interesting data they publish are just old government measures that have been discontinued. The old way of calculating unemployment, M3, etc. (the politically inconvenient measures).
I wonder if the Fox chart was of their own corrected measures. BLS has been continuing to define discouraged workers out of existence - the position on the chart looks kind of like the full number.
Not that I expect any sort of competence from Fox News.
or a 200$ computer monitor with headphone speakers built in
Oh, gosh, I probably spend a similar inflation-adjusted $2500 for a 17" Trinitron monitor.
Corporations are government creations. They've always run amok - they basically ran the British Empire for a couple centuries and mercantalism was rampant.
Learning that lesson, in the early United States, corporations could only be formed for limited times and for public purposes.
JD Rockefeller bribed the Congress after the Civil War to allow permanent corporations, and they have ascended from there to take over the government.
Yet, we still create thousands of new corporations every day and people want to impose all kinds of regulations to try to control the dragon.
Maybe we should just stop creating dragons in the first place?
That means that every toy you buy has a planned obsolescence
I think everybody has missed your point ... good try though.
sold by Bluejeans cable. It is honestly above and beyond normal cable in that you get more range out of lower gauge wire on account of the tighter tolerances it is built to. We've used it at work for runs that are out of spec since it is cheaper than getting active equalizers.
I've had similar experience with their cables being able to make long runs where others peter out (RG-6) in my case. Good cables, good company.
So Samsung can retrofit the dying, low-margin LCD business
This has to be the main driver. I finally picked up an HDTV for the family for Christmas. I previously had a 27" CRT that I just couldn't get parts for any longer. I've long kept an eye on the LCD and plasma sets, but the picture never looked good enough to me to replace the CRT quality until a year or two ago.
I went to the warehouse club and compared TV's from $200 to $2500. There was large variation between brands (Samsung and Vizio had the nicest pictures IMO) and in the end I settled on a $400 37" 120Hz Vizio.
In inflation adjusted terms, that CRT cost $2500. Aside from a bit worse blacks (but I so rarely watch TV anymore...), this $400 set is equal or better in every way. I'm told many of them don't last beyond 5 years. But look at the price differences - I'm paying the same $/yr, not counting electricity.
Anyway, point being, this TV is a ridiculously good value. Compared with other products on the market, I can't see how they're making much money at all on this product.
The real trick, though, is going to be to get me to spend more than $400 on my next TV. If they get massive roll-to-roll OLED working, they can attack the cost structure, and if they can make those sets for $50 I'll still pay $400 for the next one, so they should see decent profitability again.
Oh, and thank-you capitalism for a nice $400 TV.
Well actually there isn't any room for voodoo with analog signalling either, and you can either measure differences in analog signal quality on a scope or it isn't there too.
Perhaps not voodoo, but there's plenty of variability in analog. Each component modifies the waveform in some fashion (for better or worse). With digital the idea is to get the unmodified bits from point-A to point-B in whatever way works (and at the signaling level there's plenty of loss/attenuation/amplification/regeneration).
You guys all know (at least I hope you do) that a $2 digital cable works just as well as a $2000 digital cable
I saw this kind of talk in TFS as well ... the reason the $2 cable is fine is because there's no such thing as a 'digital cable'. All signaling is analog and digital protocols/encodings ensure lossless data transfer (or are used with codecs that can handle loss).
Every industrialized country has gone through this phase where subsistence farmers abandon their farms for difficult factory jobs. They don't like the factory jobs, but they like it better than subsistence farming.
They save a little bit of money, and produce children who wind up becoming educated and form the middle class.
To say that China's not profiting from these assembly plants is taking a very short-term view.
I am still not seeing why there is this large scale attempt to create an impression that this was tax-payer money which was lent. It was money lent out of FED's reserves.
Any money the Fed has is taxpayer money - either created by expanding the balance sheet (printing digital money - which inflates the money supply and reduces the value of all FRN-holders' cash assets) or from interest payments from the taxpayers. Some of it is stored in their vaults as gold, but I didn't see that those actual assets were liquidated for this operation.
I don't think that's the main complaint, though - many people would rather see capitalism work than have the Fed pick winners. Many banks and other companies failed during the same period.
What'll really bake your noodle is when you realize that they're both lying to you.
Don't worry, TFS is smokin' crack. Nanoassembly doesn't save weight - what does he thing, nanotech converts air into presents?
It might save space in the bag, if it's just filled with gray goo, but I don't think Santa has Trek replicators yet.
Of course, I'm one of the apparent minority who tend to adhere to the concept that privacy is still a right.
It's a right in the sense that you have it by Nature, and it can be invaded (that FBI camera in your bathroom) but it can also be given away, even by third-parties (in this case).
The in-person corollary is your brother walks into a store, says, "here, please wrap this gift in menorah paper and mail it to my brother Sid at 123 Main Street...". He's given away your privacy to the clerk. Same for Amazon, but people seem to give away their privacy to websites more casually.
I don't see how Amazon is doing something different here than the clerk - just on a larger scale. But it's uncomfortable to admit that it's your brother who's the problem here - it's easy to point the finger at Amazon.
BTW, if you have a recipe for getting corporate influence out of government without regulation (in a sense restricting the corporations' FREEEEEDOM), please do the world a favor and let us know.
When there is nothing for influence peddlers to sell, there will be no influence sold.
More simply: take the power away from government and people won't go looking for government to do things for them.
Ironically, TFA is about the market regulating bad actors, exactly what big-government supporters say the market can't/won't do.
No mod points, but you win the industry-wide debate.
What they've done instead is to create millions of people who won't fly because they now have to suffer indignities to do so.
Government's job is not to treat adults as children - at least not in a Natural-Rights Republic.