Actually Linux has supported snapshots through the LVM layer for several years as well. This isn't a filesystem snapshot, it's a per file snapshot system.
I agree. I think she made a huge tactical mistake by basically giving in. What she should have done is instead told them to go fuck themselves and gone about her business. Then quietly she should have gone to the athorities and reported the situation and waited for them to threaten her again so she could catch the bastards.
Obviously if the threats are serious she should protect herself accordingly. i.e. make sure the alarm is turned on, travel during the daytime, stay in well lit public places, make sure the submachine gun is within easy reach, cocked and really to roll, etc...
The FCC is a tax funded entity. With the exception of data that would compromise national security, they should be obligated to make all data publically available.
Too bad if the data makes the cable companies look bad. It's their fault for making (obstensibly) smart business decisions, now they'll have to defend their decisions.
It would be nice if just once they'd come out and say "Look, that block is a ghetto full of poor people who're on welfare, do you really think we're going to get a return on investment by wiring the whole place? At best we'll end up with tons of people who'll get service and never pay their bills!"
It's not fair and possibly it might not be right, but in a market driven economy, you live by the blade, but die by the bullet.
Yeah, but if they didn't have WindowsCE I wouldn't have the opportunity to watch my buddies phone crash as I call him from my blackberry.
What's even funnier is when we're just walking along and he'll go "Oh, damn, my phone just crashed again."
Thanks Microsoft for proving to me that you can cram faultiness into everything! (Note:/. admins, I've just hit my quota for MS bashing... Can you up my limit to 5 MS bash points per post? Thanks..)
I once in the past had the opportunity to hike the entire AT with a friend of mine. However I'd just started a job and at the time I knew if I bailed on the job, I wouldn't get another chance at it.
I *sometimes* kick myself for not just taking the dive and going and doing it. At the same time, it's ~11 years later, I'm still in the same company (doing really cool stuff) and this company paid my way through college.
I've settled for weekend backpacking trips with the occasional big trip here and there.
Who knows how it would have all worked out, but all things being equal, I've had more than my share of good luck. I'm pretty sure if things keep going the way their going, I'll have plenty of opportunites to do stuff like this.
Get two of those 35mm film canisters and label one "A" and one "B". Then take pictures and when you fill up a card put it into the "B" container and take one of the cards out of the "A" canister.
What's nice about these canisters is: a) They're waterproof and light b) If someones digging around in your backpack, a couple 35mm film canisters aren't going to be much of a target.
The cons are that they're small and you can lose them easily.
With that said, I'm jealous. I'd love to have the opportunity to backpack around the world.
Well, let's go on the premise that this was an honest situation and not some nutty cooked up idea to lead the american people into another foolish military adventure.
This is what we know. 1. This guy found an intrusion on his network, which because he was their network guy he was being employed to do. 2. He informed his employer that sensitive data was being stolen. 3. His employers did nothing because they're incompetent nitwits. 4. He, being a good American did what he was supposed to do and tracked down the people who stole the secrets and reported it to the FBI. 5. His bosses, now with egg all over their faces, fired him because he showed they were in fact incompetent nitwits.
Now beyond that, the whole lawsuit thing is frivilous. If I were this guy I would have walked into my congressmans office and started the conversation with, "Wanna hear how a goverment agency that gets billions of dollars of taxpayers money is letting its secrets get stolen?" I would then sit back and let the shit storm begin.
As for the dishonest deeds, I think it started with the people who were breaking into american computer systems and stealing the data.
Though I've always asked this question: If I was running a labratory that was working on some cutting edge military technology, why would I have any of the labs computers connected to the Internet???? Setup a secure isolated network and call it a deal!
A while back I had to write a server that would recieve concurrent network connections from different clients and then get some data from those clients and do some processing and then interact with a database, then when it's done the fork exits.
I ended up writing the whole thing using forks and no pthreads. My code was then subjected to a code review and one of the questions that came up in the review meeting was why I used fork and didn't do the implementation in pthreads. My arguement was one of complexity. I was challenged with the "fork is old technology, you should have used pthreads" and my response was "My implementation is easy to understand, oh and by the way, it works!"
Needless to say, my code has been in production for about a year and a half with no issues. I'm sure someone smarter than me could have wrote the whole using pthreads, but I'm just not sure what it would have gained them other than a slightly smaller memory footprint but at the price of increased complexity.
No... in that case it would be something like "Shut your telephone hole" or "shut your can hole".
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Just for giggles I just installed php on this machine (it wasn't previously) and this is what I found...
[root@lnx_10kclust etc]# grep allow_url/etc/php.ini allow_url_fopen = On
Here's the problem... in *most* cases, people just install the software and unless they have to change a default value, they won't. What PHP should do is have this feature turned off by default and then state in the ini file why it's turned off and by turning it on what the ramifications of that would be.
I guess I'm just one of those "secure by default" type of people.
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I'm a bit disappointed to read in the book review that there wasn't a chapter dedicated to security. Considering that PHP will let you do things like do external includes from other web servers that can modify your PHP environment, etc...
What PHP needs is not more features, but better designed security model.
True, just as a broken clock is still right twice a day...
If they were to administer an IQ test to 10% of a cities population and then used that as a measure to say which cities were smartest, I'd be more inclinded to accept the results.
Firstly, figure out exactly where your property line in and erect an 8' tall fence around the parimenter in accordance with local codes.
Secondly, find out when they're going to be photographing your house and be ready with a bunch of high powered flood lights that you can turn on to blind their cameras.
Thirdly, install a bunch of infared LED's and have them rotate through a whole bunch of different obcene words, etc. They're camera equipment will probably see the message but otherwise it would look like a light brite in the window.
I just laughed when I saw the name "Lycos". The first thing I thought was "They're still around????" I would have thought that MSN or Yahoo would have bought them up and absorbed them by now.
I can only imagine there's what 10 people working there still???
With that all said, there's no excuse for customer service asshattery.
Firstly, this study is based on a bunch of arbitrary points of evaluation. They could have as easily decided a cities intelligence based on the number of car accidents or the number of fire hydrants.
I'd like to see a study that shows which cities have the most number of universities and the number of successful startups and successful large companies in it.
How about which cities have the highest number of employed people with degrees...
I can think of a lot of ways to measure a cities intelligence, however measuring their broadband penetration isn't one of them.
If this thing has an apogee of 500,000 feet, it can shoot down satelites. For a moment, just think about how huge that capability is. Considering how much data is shuffled around via communication satelites, being able to deny a nation state that capability is huge.
His employer gave him time and equipment to create a ticket writing system... However because he was passionate about his work (like many of you may be) he took his work home and continued to work on it on off hours to meet his deadlines.
There was his mistake. He should have left his work at work and instead went home and worked on a seperate problem that they needed to solve. Then he could have gone in and said "Hey, see how great this ticket system is I built you on your time... check out this tool I wrote on my own time... would you like to buy it for 10K?"
Who is to say they wouldn't try to claim he wrote the second program on work time as well and try to just take control of it, but at least he'd have a leg to stand on.
I guess we should all learn lesson from this. He should have gone to a lawyer and had them draw up a contract that said that he was going to develop a system for writing tickets and that he'd be supplying this system to the state police department free of charge as an even pro bono exchange for being given time and and resources to work on it, but that once the system was functional he'd keep control of it and be capable of selling it commerically.
Worse case, they'd just say no in which case they'd probably have to go out and bid on a system and he'd be able to then resubmit the contract with a bid that's cheaper than everybody elses.
Though I'm pretty sure either way if rebel and imperial units were to meet on a field of battle, the commanders would walk to the middle, shake hands and agree to shoot the gungans first.
I'd like you to explain the difference between copyright infringement and piracy?
If I go out and buy an audio CD and then create 10 copies and give them to all my friends, what is that?
If I record a tv show off a free television channel, edit out the commericals and then create 10 copies and give them to my friends, what is that?
If I take an MP3 off the internet and then edit it and add my own lyrics and create a mash up version of the song, what is that?
If I setup a whole bunch of antennae and capture all kinds of HDTV feeds and feed them into my mytv box and then sell my neighbors set top boxes and charge them a monthly fee that'll allow them to watch the stored content, what is that?
I guess I should admit right up front, I don't own a single porno DVD. However, the times that I've been in porno store I don't remember ever seeing a porno that had this feature. Maybe they do and it's just not advertised, but you'd think that if it was such a feature that everybody was going nuts for, they'd have a big "THIS DVD HAS MULTIANGLE CHAPTERS!" right on the front...
As for normal movies not wanting the feature, I don't agree. I would have loved to have seen the battle of Helm's deep from the perspective of the Orcs!
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Actually Linux has supported snapshots through the LVM layer for several years as well. This isn't a filesystem snapshot, it's a per file snapshot system.
I'll just stick with sudo and selinux.
They should just go ahead and request the .stupid TLD while they're at it...
That is truely a great quote and as such it has been added to my "quotes" file!
I agree. I think she made a huge tactical mistake by basically giving in. What she should have done is instead told them to go fuck themselves and gone about her business. Then quietly she should have gone to the athorities and reported the situation and waited for them to threaten her again so she could catch the bastards.
Obviously if the threats are serious she should protect herself accordingly. i.e. make sure the alarm is turned on, travel during the daytime, stay in well lit public places, make sure the submachine gun is within easy reach, cocked and really to roll, etc...
The FCC is a tax funded entity. With the exception of data that would compromise national security, they should be obligated to make all data publically available.
Too bad if the data makes the cable companies look bad. It's their fault for making (obstensibly) smart business decisions, now they'll have to defend their decisions.
It would be nice if just once they'd come out and say "Look, that block is a ghetto full of poor people who're on welfare, do you really think we're going to get a return on investment by wiring the whole place? At best we'll end up with tons of people who'll get service and never pay their bills!"
It's not fair and possibly it might not be right, but in a market driven economy, you live by the blade, but die by the bullet.
Yeah, but if they didn't have WindowsCE I wouldn't have the opportunity to watch my buddies phone crash as I call him from my blackberry.
/. admins, I've just hit my quota for MS bashing... Can you up my limit to 5 MS bash points per post? Thanks..)
What's even funnier is when we're just walking along and he'll go "Oh, damn, my phone just crashed again."
Thanks Microsoft for proving to me that you can cram faultiness into everything!
(Note:
I once in the past had the opportunity to hike the entire AT with a friend of mine. However I'd just started a job and at the time I knew if I bailed on the job, I wouldn't get another chance at it.
I *sometimes* kick myself for not just taking the dive and going and doing it. At the same time, it's ~11 years later, I'm still in the same company (doing really cool stuff) and this company paid my way through college.
I've settled for weekend backpacking trips with the occasional big trip here and there.
Who knows how it would have all worked out, but all things being equal, I've had more than my share of good luck. I'm pretty sure if things keep going the way their going, I'll have plenty of opportunites to do stuff like this.
This is what I would do.
Get two of those 35mm film canisters and label one "A" and one "B". Then take pictures and when you fill up a card put it into the "B" container and take one of the cards out of the "A" canister.
What's nice about these canisters is:
a) They're waterproof and light
b) If someones digging around in your backpack, a couple 35mm film canisters aren't going to be much of a target.
The cons are that they're small and you can lose them easily.
With that said, I'm jealous. I'd love to have the opportunity to backpack around the world.
Well, let's go on the premise that this was an honest situation and not some nutty cooked up idea to lead the american people into another foolish military adventure.
This is what we know.
1. This guy found an intrusion on his network, which because he was their network guy he was being employed to do.
2. He informed his employer that sensitive data was being stolen.
3. His employers did nothing because they're incompetent nitwits.
4. He, being a good American did what he was supposed to do and tracked down the people who stole the secrets and reported it to the FBI.
5. His bosses, now with egg all over their faces, fired him because he showed they were in fact incompetent nitwits.
Now beyond that, the whole lawsuit thing is frivilous. If I were this guy I would have walked into my congressmans office and started the conversation with, "Wanna hear how a goverment agency that gets billions of dollars of taxpayers money is letting its secrets get stolen?" I would then sit back and let the shit storm begin.
As for the dishonest deeds, I think it started with the people who were breaking into american computer systems and stealing the data.
Though I've always asked this question: If I was running a labratory that was working on some cutting edge military technology, why would I have any of the labs computers connected to the Internet???? Setup a secure isolated network and call it a deal!
A while back I had to write a server that would recieve concurrent network connections from different clients and then get some data from those clients and do some processing and then interact with a database, then when it's done the fork exits.
I ended up writing the whole thing using forks and no pthreads. My code was then subjected to a code review and one of the questions that came up in the review meeting was why I used fork and didn't do the implementation in pthreads. My arguement was one of complexity. I was challenged with the "fork is old technology, you should have used pthreads" and my response was "My implementation is easy to understand, oh and by the way, it works!"
Needless to say, my code has been in production for about a year and a half with no issues. I'm sure someone smarter than me could have wrote the whole using pthreads, but I'm just not sure what it would have gained them other than a slightly smaller memory footprint but at the price of increased complexity.
No... in that case it would be something like "Shut your telephone hole" or "shut your can hole".
Just for giggles I just installed php on this machine (it wasn't previously) and this is what I found...
/etc/php.ini
[root@lnx_10kclust etc]# grep allow_url
allow_url_fopen = On
Here's the problem... in *most* cases, people just install the software and unless they have to change a default value, they won't. What PHP should do is have this feature turned off by default and then state in the ini file why it's turned off and by turning it on what the ramifications of that would be.
I guess I'm just one of those "secure by default" type of people.
I'm a bit disappointed to read in the book review that there wasn't a chapter dedicated to security. Considering that PHP will let you do things like do external includes from other web servers that can modify your PHP environment, etc...
What PHP needs is not more features, but better designed security model.
If my Dell laptop doesn't explode in a shower of sparks and fire it'll instead shock me? Yeah, that makes me want to run out and buy a Dell..
I'll stick with my old Compaq...
True, just as a broken clock is still right twice a day...
If they were to administer an IQ test to 10% of a cities population and then used that as a measure to say which cities were smartest, I'd be more inclinded to accept the results.
I can think of a couple of ways to foil this.
Firstly, figure out exactly where your property line in and erect an 8' tall fence around the parimenter in accordance with local codes.
Secondly, find out when they're going to be photographing your house and be ready with a bunch of high powered flood lights that you can turn on to blind their cameras.
Thirdly, install a bunch of infared LED's and have them rotate through a whole bunch of different obcene words, etc. They're camera equipment will probably see the message but otherwise it would look like a light brite in the window.
I just laughed when I saw the name "Lycos". The first thing I thought was "They're still around????" I would have thought that MSN or Yahoo would have bought them up and absorbed them by now.
I can only imagine there's what 10 people working there still???
With that all said, there's no excuse for customer service asshattery.
All I can think of is that it's their internal standard for a wide screen HD feed.
Just an idea.
Firstly, this study is based on a bunch of arbitrary points of evaluation. They could have as easily decided a cities intelligence based on the number of car accidents or the number of fire hydrants.
I'd like to see a study that shows which cities have the most number of universities and the number of successful startups and successful large companies in it.
How about which cities have the highest number of employed people with degrees...
I can think of a lot of ways to measure a cities intelligence, however measuring their broadband penetration isn't one of them.
If this thing has an apogee of 500,000 feet, it can shoot down satelites. For a moment, just think about how huge that capability is. Considering how much data is shuffled around via communication satelites, being able to deny a nation state that capability is huge.
It sounds to me like this:
His employer gave him time and equipment to create a ticket writing system... However because he was passionate about his work (like many of you may be) he took his work home and continued to work on it on off hours to meet his deadlines.
There was his mistake. He should have left his work at work and instead went home and worked on a seperate problem that they needed to solve. Then he could have gone in and said "Hey, see how great this ticket system is I built you on your time... check out this tool I wrote on my own time... would you like to buy it for 10K?"
Who is to say they wouldn't try to claim he wrote the second program on work time as well and try to just take control of it, but at least he'd have a leg to stand on.
I guess we should all learn lesson from this. He should have gone to a lawyer and had them draw up a contract that said that he was going to develop a system for writing tickets and that he'd be supplying this system to the state police department free of charge as an even pro bono exchange for being given time and and resources to work on it, but that once the system was functional he'd keep control of it and be capable of selling it commerically.
Worse case, they'd just say no in which case they'd probably have to go out and bid on a system and he'd be able to then resubmit the contract with a bid that's cheaper than everybody elses.
Though I'm pretty sure either way if rebel and imperial units were to meet on a field of battle, the commanders would walk to the middle, shake hands and agree to shoot the gungans first.
I'd like you to explain the difference between copyright infringement and piracy?
If I go out and buy an audio CD and then create 10 copies and give them to all my friends, what is that?
If I record a tv show off a free television channel, edit out the commericals and then create 10 copies and give them to my friends, what is that?
If I take an MP3 off the internet and then edit it and add my own lyrics and create a mash up version of the song, what is that?
If I setup a whole bunch of antennae and capture all kinds of HDTV feeds and feed them into my mytv box and then sell my neighbors set top boxes and charge them a monthly fee that'll allow them to watch the stored content, what is that?
I guess I should admit right up front, I don't own a single porno DVD. However, the times that I've been in porno store I don't remember ever seeing a porno that had this feature. Maybe they do and it's just not advertised, but you'd think that if it was such a feature that everybody was going nuts for, they'd have a big "THIS DVD HAS MULTIANGLE CHAPTERS!" right on the front...
As for normal movies not wanting the feature, I don't agree. I would have loved to have seen the battle of Helm's deep from the perspective of the Orcs!