Peering is nothing more than a dedicated uplink with higher bandwidth capacity than that normally provisioned, and private between two networks.
There is absolutely no reason some piddly little site should expect to be given a peering arrangement just because they think they're being charged too much for a commercial link. Bandwidth is bandwidth, and there is NOTHING about "net neutrality" thar forces ISPs to peer with anybody.
The question is not whether it should be illegal to impose such surveillance, but the reality of what has been happening since the '90s. Look to areas like Baltimore's poor parts of town, where video cameras monitored by the police have been a mainstay for decades. Look to the UK, which has more CCTV cameras than any other nation.
We may not like it, but the writing has been on the wall for a "surveillance state" for a long, long, long time, and anyone who thinks otherwise is only fooling themselves.
It's going to take some serious waking up of the people and politicians to stop what is already in motion. Right now, such surveillance is legal whether you like it or not.
When you're in public, anyone can recognize you whether it be man or machine. Anyone can take pictures of you and what you are doing. There is no concept of "privacy" when you are in public.
Apparently all the articles I read (three of them) got the facts wrong, then. They all claimed the website operator took six weeks to remove the comments.
Then again, that itself could be clickbait/trolling of the facts, because it did take six weeks to remove the comments -- because no complaint was made for six weeks.
I read about this today, and what this Slashdot/Dice crap summary is claiming is absolute BULLSHIT.
The case in question is regarding defamatory comments posted to a site that the victim went to court over. The courts ordered that the content be taken down. The lazy assed website owners took SIX WEEKS to remove the content.
There is not ONE jurisdiction in the world where that would be considered acceptable.
Websites are NOT being held generically responsible for the content posted. In fact, the articles about this topic make it clear that the courts said only large commercial operators such as newspapers can be held responsible and fined for failing to take down content in a timely fashion when ordered to do so.
But hey, Dice just LOVES their clickbait lately, don't they?
I'll Google in a moment, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any good sites that maintain lists of good/bad SSDs for Linux. With the number of vendors out there nowadays, having to scan the source seems like a poor way to track the information.
Hmm. Or was that a '386? Yeah, I think that was still '386 days...
My computer memory isn't the only memory failing around here lately! (I just discovered over a gig of my DDR2 has gone bad, so I flagged it with GRUB_BADMEM and things are happy for now while I wait for month end to try to source some of that creaky old stuff. A new machine isn't in the budget for close to another year, unfortunately, so I'll have to spring some coin to repair this one.)
If I were still into gaming, I'd be crying out "Just take my money, already!"
Alas, as I've aged, the reflexes aren't there any more and most of the modern 3D shooters trigger a migraine. But man oh man do they ever look good compared to when I first played Doom on a PIII.:)
Swift may "shake things up" in the Apple world, but to other platforms, it's just another language among many. The fact that Apple has focused almost exclusively on Objective-C means it's a major change for their developers, but no other platform has ever had such a single-language focus and won't be affected anywhere near as much.
I realize that to Apple fanbois, Apple and it's platforms are the world, but to the rest of us, they're just one of many fish in the IT sea.
GCHQ and the UK have been crying wolf about encryption for years. Now after all their bleating about how they can't crack encryption, they're claiming the Russians and Chinese have done it, but they couldn't?
There is a simple solution for this mess. Mandate that any international corporation MUST provide a country-TLD version of their website, and the.com for any jurisdiction outside the US redirects you to the appropriate country TLD version based on your geo-location data.
The country-specific domain has to abide by the rules and legislation of the jurisdiction you are in.
And any and all VPNs are to be automatically and completely blocked by corporate websites for their entire IP range from accessing *any* of the domains.
Marc Emery was NOT extradited. He took a plea bargain and went VOLUNTARILY.
I HATE the way that bastard and his minions keep trying to re-write history to make him look like a victim. He was protecting his BUSINESS INTERESTS from the possibility of losing them if he went to court and lost.
Nothing more, nothing less than good old fashioned self-interested GREED.
Cortana isn't even going to be available here in Canada when Windows 10 is released. Why would I want yet another Windows-specific key for a useless MicroSoft "feature" on my keyboard?
As it is, I use good old fashioned AT keyboards without any of the volume keys and other crap that you see on "consumer" keyboards. Don't need them, don't want them, and hate wasting the desk space for another row of buttons.
The thing I find amusing is how many people dream of days that never existed, when you could find a job at the drop of a hat. The people who found jobs were those who put as much work into their job hunt as they did actually working.
I spent most of my career consulting. That meant keeping my ear to the ground, paying attention to rumours and meetings, and starting my job search before the shit hit the fan, refusing the three month renewals that inevitably came up near the end of a contract (instead of the usual six-twelve month contracts that those jobs started with.)
Three months isn't a contract -- it's an insult. It's the writing on the wall that the project is almost over, and they want you to hang around to finish off the bits and pieces. As a contractor, you're under no obligation to take such a short contract, and if you do, you should do so knowing that it's going to be the last extension for the project.
Despite those early searches, I sometimes went a month or two without work, living off my savings, and having to move hundreds or thousands of miles to the next job. One key thing I learned fairly early is not to be too greedy about my rates. If a company is willing to pay $100+ rates in the '90s, they expect you to work miracles that no human being can possibly deliver on. It's just not worth the stress. Take the lower paying fun and challenging job instead -- your blood pressure will thank you for it.
The only dependency a software package should have is on the things it actually needs and uses. Adding a dependency just for the sake of scripting given the number of tools out there that can achieve the task is foolish.
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Peering is nothing more than a dedicated uplink with higher bandwidth capacity than that normally provisioned, and private between two networks.
There is absolutely no reason some piddly little site should expect to be given a peering arrangement just because they think they're being charged too much for a commercial link. Bandwidth is bandwidth, and there is NOTHING about "net neutrality" thar forces ISPs to peer with anybody.
The question is not whether it should be illegal to impose such surveillance, but the reality of what has been happening since the '90s. Look to areas like Baltimore's poor parts of town, where video cameras monitored by the police have been a mainstay for decades. Look to the UK, which has more CCTV cameras than any other nation.
We may not like it, but the writing has been on the wall for a "surveillance state" for a long, long, long time, and anyone who thinks otherwise is only fooling themselves.
It's going to take some serious waking up of the people and politicians to stop what is already in motion. Right now, such surveillance is legal whether you like it or not.
When you're in public, anyone can recognize you whether it be man or machine. Anyone can take pictures of you and what you are doing. There is no concept of "privacy" when you are in public.
Apparently all the articles I read (three of them) got the facts wrong, then. They all claimed the website operator took six weeks to remove the comments.
Then again, that itself could be clickbait/trolling of the facts, because it did take six weeks to remove the comments -- because no complaint was made for six weeks.
Wah! They're charging us for a commercial uplink!
We should get it for free! Net neutrality and all that!
Plus they've got lots of money, so we're suing.
I read about this today, and what this Slashdot/Dice crap summary is claiming is absolute BULLSHIT.
The case in question is regarding defamatory comments posted to a site that the victim went to court over. The courts ordered that the content be taken down. The lazy assed website owners took SIX WEEKS to remove the content.
There is not ONE jurisdiction in the world where that would be considered acceptable.
Websites are NOT being held generically responsible for the content posted. In fact, the articles about this topic make it clear that the courts said only large commercial operators such as newspapers can be held responsible and fined for failing to take down content in a timely fashion when ordered to do so.
But hey, Dice just LOVES their clickbait lately, don't they?
I'll Google in a moment, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any good sites that maintain lists of good/bad SSDs for Linux. With the number of vendors out there nowadays, having to scan the source seems like a poor way to track the information.
Maybe a JIT emulator that stores it's translated code to your hard drive? i.e. Treat the PowerPC instructions like bytecode...
The obvious solution is to build 2-3 boxes with the software needed to maintain your package, set them aside, and leave them the hell alone.
Compared to the hassle and costs of trying to figure out obscure bugs caused by compiler/IDE/platform updates, it's the cheapest option you've got.
Did you not notice the recent article about a school district's HVAC system still running on a long-obsolete Commodore Amiga?
Have you never read about NASA stockpiling Intel processors of bygone eras for maintaining their fleet of hardware?
In short, are you completely incapable of learning your lessons from what people have already done for 50-odd years of computing?
Hmm. Or was that a '386? Yeah, I think that was still '386 days...
My computer memory isn't the only memory failing around here lately! (I just discovered over a gig of my DDR2 has gone bad, so I flagged it with GRUB_BADMEM and things are happy for now while I wait for month end to try to source some of that creaky old stuff. A new machine isn't in the budget for close to another year, unfortunately, so I'll have to spring some coin to repair this one.)
If I were still into gaming, I'd be crying out "Just take my money, already!"
Alas, as I've aged, the reflexes aren't there any more and most of the modern 3D shooters trigger a migraine. But man oh man do they ever look good compared to when I first played Doom on a PIII. :)
Swift may "shake things up" in the Apple world, but to other platforms, it's just another language among many. The fact that Apple has focused almost exclusively on Objective-C means it's a major change for their developers, but no other platform has ever had such a single-language focus and won't be affected anywhere near as much.
I realize that to Apple fanbois, Apple and it's platforms are the world, but to the rest of us, they're just one of many fish in the IT sea.
You mean like the data the Chinese are supposed to have stolen in the last two US federal government break-ins?
Or maybe Snowden gave the Russians the password and they shared it with the Chinese.
What I am willing to believe is that Snowden gave the Russians the password and that they shared it with the Chinese.
GCHQ and the UK have been crying wolf about encryption for years. Now after all their bleating about how they can't crack encryption, they're claiming the Russians and Chinese have done it, but they couldn't?
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
There is a simple solution for this mess. Mandate that any international corporation MUST provide a country-TLD version of their website, and the .com for any jurisdiction outside the US redirects you to the appropriate country TLD version based on your geo-location data.
The country-specific domain has to abide by the rules and legislation of the jurisdiction you are in.
And any and all VPNs are to be automatically and completely blocked by corporate websites for their entire IP range from accessing *any* of the domains.
Marc Emery was NOT extradited. He took a plea bargain and went VOLUNTARILY.
I HATE the way that bastard and his minions keep trying to re-write history to make him look like a victim. He was protecting his BUSINESS INTERESTS from the possibility of losing them if he went to court and lost.
Nothing more, nothing less than good old fashioned self-interested GREED.
"Cortana" is another C-word like "Clippy" and will probably prove about as useful... :P
Cortana isn't even going to be available here in Canada when Windows 10 is released. Why would I want yet another Windows-specific key for a useless MicroSoft "feature" on my keyboard?
As it is, I use good old fashioned AT keyboards without any of the volume keys and other crap that you see on "consumer" keyboards. Don't need them, don't want them, and hate wasting the desk space for another row of buttons.
The thing I find amusing is how many people dream of days that never existed, when you could find a job at the drop of a hat. The people who found jobs were those who put as much work into their job hunt as they did actually working.
I spent most of my career consulting. That meant keeping my ear to the ground, paying attention to rumours and meetings, and starting my job search before the shit hit the fan, refusing the three month renewals that inevitably came up near the end of a contract (instead of the usual six-twelve month contracts that those jobs started with.)
Three months isn't a contract -- it's an insult. It's the writing on the wall that the project is almost over, and they want you to hang around to finish off the bits and pieces. As a contractor, you're under no obligation to take such a short contract, and if you do, you should do so knowing that it's going to be the last extension for the project.
Despite those early searches, I sometimes went a month or two without work, living off my savings, and having to move hundreds or thousands of miles to the next job. One key thing I learned fairly early is not to be too greedy about my rates. If a company is willing to pay $100+ rates in the '90s, they expect you to work miracles that no human being can possibly deliver on. It's just not worth the stress. Take the lower paying fun and challenging job instead -- your blood pressure will thank you for it.
'nuff said
The only dependency a software package should have is on the things it actually needs and uses. Adding a dependency just for the sake of scripting given the number of tools out there that can achieve the task is foolish.
See "systemd"...
I do my automation with ksh/bash scripts. They work on pretty much any *nix platform without requiring an additional language stack be installed.
That's what happens when a website's owner decides to use it for data mining instead of publishing actual articles anyone cares about.
This isn't a very smart fraud if it's true. The odds are the wear and tear cost on the vehicle FAR exceeds the value of the bonus.