as does the disclaimer on zfsonlinux.org, but I've read before Sun was hired to do the actual work. The purpose was to host Lustre on ZFS, and Sun owned both properties at the time. I can't find a specific citation in the 5 minutes I gave it.
Gotcha. I suppose one distinction there is that the FSP people chose to come reinforce the existing liberty-oriented folks in NH rather than propose a new system. NH has probably the most libertarian government in the US (though it certainly has its warts).
I cant disagree at all about the idle rich folks, but I don't feel like I have the right to go take their things away because I find them crass and distasteful. I would like to stop helping people get super-wealthy by way of government favors, though. Very very few people have achieved that kind of wealth without government involvement (corporate protections, monopolies, regulations, etc.)
The message? "You should value your own independent, individual, personal thoughts and opinions that you share voluntarily much, much less than the things you are forced by authority to write in order to jump through some hoops to earn some credential."
You miss the point. I understood the GP comment just fine despite the grammatical error. His nitpicking had me load a new page to see his (expectedly) topical response, but it was just nitpicking and added nothing to the conversation.
We'd be better off on Slashdot if people just let these things go without getting OCD on them. One will never see a perfectly edited Slashdot and complaining about that fact won't do any good, but it will waste the time of everyone else involved. Of course people should quickly proof their comments, but even so, errors will be missed.
If I really tried I could find something to correct in probably 70% of Slashdot comments. Refraining from doing so is the better option.
All true, and great for a time when John Postel was what it meant to run a registry. The RFC's didn't anticipate the kind of interference that NetSol is proposing.
There doesn't have to be namespace collisions, though. Why is it that Visa cards are all 4xxx, MasterCards are 5xxxx and Discover cards are all 6xxx? Couldn't Visa start issuing cards in the 5xxx range? Of course, but it's mutually beneficial for all of the players to interoperate. Nobody would trust a name service provider that was purposefully destructive (unless forced to through monopoly) so we would expect they'd operate in a trustworthy manner by default.
Also look at the world BGP routing table. It's all distributed, you have to earn trust to participate, and there are occasional mistakes. Even still, it lets me get these characters from here to wherever Slashdot's server are, and has proven effective, even if there's room for improvement. Imagine if everybody had to go register their routes through a single route registrar and make changes on their website.
And Apple / Android owners should have thought about the ability of the government/whoever to eavesdrop on their phone / text messaging before they bought their devices.
You're right on SMS - does Blackberry not have SMS capability?
I choose personal security over an outage every two years any day.
But this is off the tracks - we know that Blackberry sits as a MitM and will give your data to the government, even really awful repressive regimes.
How is Blackberry more secure than IMAP/SMTPTLS or Jabber/TLS or AIM/OTR?
Yes, but there's nothing stopping us as a collective from changing who controls those roots. If we want to give com to Joe Bob, it is just a matter of having everyone update their DNS server settings.
I totally agree. Then we need to worry about how Joe Bob is going to behave instead of NetSol. Mass-consensus is good, but single points of failure are undesirable.
Arden, Delaware? The single-taxers came up with the same kind of math as the freestate guys use, based on the fact that Delaware is a small state with low population (at the time, anyway).
I think the difference there is that the FSP aims to 'free' a sovereign entity, whereas Arden was subject to the control of Delaware.
But there's no way they will accomplish anything before my children are adults.
Actually, FSP-member legislators have had several victories already. On the smaller side, but it's an incremental strategy.
dead guys have no money
But their families do. Families operate as socialist constructs, sharing property. If the dead guy had his wealth in a box of gold bricks and lived with his son, that's now his son's box of gold bricks. Anybody coming into his house to take some of that gold is stealing.
At the moment of death, all one's assets become part of an estate, which is not controlled by or owned by anyone who is dead. This is a fact, not subject to opinion or interpretation.
It's not a fact at all. An 'estate' is a legal fiction created purposely to adjudicate the disposition of property - originally to heirs, but now people calling themselves government want to be heirs too. You can't show me an estate, it exists only in the minds of people who agree that there are such things.
In any case, why are you accusing me of things I haven't said? I never said I had a "right" to anybody's money, alive or dead. You made that up out of thin air
A government is only a tool of the People. It has no powers not granted to it other than those given by the People. If a government has a power to seize property from the family of a guy who has died, then it got that power from the People. If you have delegated that power to the government and approve of it, then by logical extension you approve of that power for yourself. If you don't have that power, then the government does not either, and any attempts to act in that way are merely legal plunder, not a right purpose of government.
I realize that personalizing government action is hard for many people to accept, but that's the American model. The European model of power deriving from a divine grant of power to the King from God is a different take on society.
I must've explained my point poorly. 'Super'powers involve magic. Superman can fly (oh, right, 'psionic' not magic...), Wonder Woman can call on Hera, etc.
Bruce Wayne is an exceptional human being, one in a billion, but there's no magic involved. He has extraordinary abilities/powers, but not superpowers.
Anyway, I've been against income & sales taxes all my adult life. I would prefer an extremely high inheritance tax combined with a small asset tax. Income tax punishes people for working hard and sales tax punishes people for participating in the marketplace, while low property and inheritance taxes create a parasitic aristocracy that is detrimental to good government.
Why do you think you have any right to a dead guy's money?
DNS by it's nature requires some hierarchy. Either that or you end up with a system that's forced to use nonsense names like.onion sites and namecoin.
The current DNS is a hierarchy, but that doesn't mean that every hierarchy has to be implemented like the current DNS, that every Internet naming system has to be hierarchical, or that any alternate system would require nonsensical names.
The root of each TLD is centralized. That's how we wind up with TFA's problem.
There's a group that has something working reminiscent of the way torrent magnet links work. I can't remember their name now.
You don't need everybody to switch - you just need to get resolvers to support the alternate lookup method and provide a better solution for enough users. If it works right, most people don't notice the alternate plumbing.
The State is trustworthy. It does not make mistakes. Only a fool questions the State. The State is essential. Only a fool thinks he can survive without the State. The State must continue at all costs.
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This mentions the LLNL holding company doing the port:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Native_ZFS_on_Linux
as does the disclaimer on zfsonlinux.org, but I've read before Sun was hired to do the actual work. The purpose was to host Lustre on ZFS, and Sun owned both properties at the time. I can't find a specific citation in the 5 minutes I gave it.
If you happen to see one, please edit Wikipedia.
One in a billion? Holy shit, there should be 7 Batmen running around now!
Well, you've got Batman, Green Arrow, and Green Lantern. The other 4 were born in 3rd world countries and never afforded the opportunity to excel.
Gotcha. I suppose one distinction there is that the FSP people chose to come reinforce the existing liberty-oriented folks in NH rather than propose a new system. NH has probably the most libertarian government in the US (though it certainly has its warts).
I cant disagree at all about the idle rich folks, but I don't feel like I have the right to go take their things away because I find them crass and distasteful. I would like to stop helping people get super-wealthy by way of government favors, though. Very very few people have achieved that kind of wealth without government involvement (corporate protections, monopolies, regulations, etc.)
The message? "You should value your own independent, individual, personal thoughts and opinions that you share voluntarily much, much less than the things you are forced by authority to write in order to jump through some hoops to earn some credential."
You miss the point. I understood the GP comment just fine despite the grammatical error. His nitpicking had me load a new page to see his (expectedly) topical response, but it was just nitpicking and added nothing to the conversation.
We'd be better off on Slashdot if people just let these things go without getting OCD on them. One will never see a perfectly edited Slashdot and complaining about that fact won't do any good, but it will waste the time of everyone else involved. Of course people should quickly proof their comments, but even so, errors will be missed.
If I really tried I could find something to correct in probably 70% of Slashdot comments. Refraining from doing so is the better option.
Just stop. It's a Slashdot comment, not a term paper, and edited accordingly.
You waste my time.
All true, and great for a time when John Postel was what it meant to run a registry. The RFC's didn't anticipate the kind of interference that NetSol is proposing.
There doesn't have to be namespace collisions, though. Why is it that Visa cards are all 4xxx, MasterCards are 5xxxx and Discover cards are all 6xxx? Couldn't Visa start issuing cards in the 5xxx range? Of course, but it's mutually beneficial for all of the players to interoperate. Nobody would trust a name service provider that was purposefully destructive (unless forced to through monopoly) so we would expect they'd operate in a trustworthy manner by default.
Also look at the world BGP routing table. It's all distributed, you have to earn trust to participate, and there are occasional mistakes. Even still, it lets me get these characters from here to wherever Slashdot's server are, and has proven effective, even if there's room for improvement. Imagine if everybody had to go register their routes through a single route registrar and make changes on their website.
And Apple / Android owners should have thought about the ability of the government/whoever to eavesdrop on their phone / text messaging before they bought their devices.
You're right on SMS - does Blackberry not have SMS capability?
I choose personal security over an outage every two years any day.
But this is off the tracks - we know that Blackberry sits as a MitM and will give your data to the government, even really awful repressive regimes.
How is Blackberry more secure than IMAP/SMTPTLS or Jabber/TLS or AIM/OTR?
Yes, but there's nothing stopping us as a collective from changing who controls those roots. If we want to give com to Joe Bob, it is just a matter of having everyone update their DNS server settings.
I totally agree. Then we need to worry about how Joe Bob is going to behave instead of NetSol. Mass-consensus is good, but single points of failure are undesirable.
Arden, Delaware? The single-taxers came up with the same kind of math as the freestate guys use, based on the fact that Delaware is a small state with low population (at the time, anyway).
I think the difference there is that the FSP aims to 'free' a sovereign entity, whereas Arden was subject to the control of Delaware.
But there's no way they will accomplish anything before my children are adults.
Actually, FSP-member legislators have had several victories already. On the smaller side, but it's an incremental strategy.
dead guys have no money
But their families do. Families operate as socialist constructs, sharing property. If the dead guy had his wealth in a box of gold bricks and lived with his son, that's now his son's box of gold bricks. Anybody coming into his house to take some of that gold is stealing.
At the moment of death, all one's assets become part of an estate, which is not controlled by or owned by anyone who is dead. This is a fact, not subject to opinion or interpretation.
It's not a fact at all. An 'estate' is a legal fiction created purposely to adjudicate the disposition of property - originally to heirs, but now people calling themselves government want to be heirs too. You can't show me an estate, it exists only in the minds of people who agree that there are such things.
In any case, why are you accusing me of things I haven't said? I never said I had a "right" to anybody's money, alive or dead. You made that up out of thin air
A government is only a tool of the People. It has no powers not granted to it other than those given by the People. If a government has a power to seize property from the family of a guy who has died, then it got that power from the People. If you have delegated that power to the government and approve of it, then by logical extension you approve of that power for yourself. If you don't have that power, then the government does not either, and any attempts to act in that way are merely legal plunder, not a right purpose of government.
I realize that personalizing government action is hard for many people to accept, but that's the American model. The European model of power deriving from a divine grant of power to the King from God is a different take on society.
I must've explained my point poorly. 'Super'powers involve magic. Superman can fly (oh, right, 'psionic' not magic...), Wonder Woman can call on Hera, etc.
Bruce Wayne is an exceptional human being, one in a billion, but there's no magic involved. He has extraordinary abilities/powers, but not superpowers.
Exactly. I don't think anybody picked up that I was paraphrasing a SCOUTS decision from the 30's (that still stands as law).
Honestly I was looking for something that would actually happen in my lifetime.
That's actually the slogan of these guys.
Anyway, I've been against income & sales taxes all my adult life. I would prefer an extremely high inheritance tax combined with a small asset tax. Income tax punishes people for working hard and sales tax punishes people for participating in the marketplace, while low property and inheritance taxes create a parasitic aristocracy that is detrimental to good government.
Why do you think you have any right to a dead guy's money?
DNS by it's nature requires some hierarchy. Either that or you end up with a system that's forced to use nonsense names like .onion sites and namecoin.
The current DNS is a hierarchy, but that doesn't mean that every hierarchy has to be implemented like the current DNS, that every Internet naming system has to be hierarchical, or that any alternate system would require nonsensical names.
So... DNS? DNS is already distributed.
The root of each TLD is centralized. That's how we wind up with TFA's problem.
There's a group that has something working reminiscent of the way torrent magnet links work. I can't remember their name now.
You don't need everybody to switch - you just need to get resolvers to support the alternate lookup method and provide a better solution for enough users. If it works right, most people don't notice the alternate plumbing.
You, sir, are the lowliest piece of shit I have ever had the displeasure to run across on slashdot.
You forgot to use the Foe modifier.
Shun the misanthropes.
Do they train in martial arts? I guess what I'm asking is, "are they smart about it"?
It was the one where you were sitting there banging your fists on the table in utter frustration at Picard's density.
I though that was every episode in which Picard forgets about the Picard Maneuver (the FTL one, not the uniform fix).
The beautiful thing about this is that one has to assume the premise for the comment to be meaningful.
How are we supposed to know which threat to focus on dammit!
Don't. Build the distributed replacement for DNS.
Bruce Wayne is supposed to be all of those things. A 7-sigma human. But no magic is involved.
No, you couldn't because NOBODY had Windows in 91.
What in the world are you talking about?
Is that a nation state in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
The State is trustworthy. It does not make mistakes. Only a fool questions the State.
The State is essential. Only a fool thinks he can survive without the State. The State must continue at all costs.
I hope you'll be networking at Libertopia.
Brown must know his veto is useless, so ergo he's bluffing or posturing somehow.
Proving his loyalty to the fascist power structure to which he's indebted.