The problem here though is that the whole reason for the logs being plain text is that the time you most need to be able to read the logs is exactly when things are broken, most services won't start because of the breakage, and your special tools may not be working[...] With plain text files, if you can boot into the single-user maintenance shell [...].
This is, BTW, why/sbin exists [...]
Rather than/sbin/grep there should be tools to to some very minimal examination of the syslog database, and support for the most appropriate manner of remote access by the forensics-debugging machine. I know you can do things like this, since I used systems that did this kind of thing more than 25 years ago. (Yes with binary databases, remote connections over serial cables and/or over the network, etc, etc. Ugh. Don't get me started...)
ASCII logfiles will be readable in spite of spot corruption and can be processed with grep / head / tail
How are those logs being corrupted, and what is the nature of this corruption?
And why would binary logs not be similarly "readable"? In fact, isn't more likely that a transaction-oriented database would be MORE recoverable than your (somehow?) garbaged ASCII file?
(1) Curiosity will last longer than advertised design life, headlines will be "The Nine Lives Of Curiosity"
(2) Curiosity will accidentally be driven into a crater or something, headlines will be "Curiosity Killed The Cat"
(3) both
Police can also plug any license plate number into the database and, as long as it passed a camera, determine where that vehicle has been and when.
“It never stops,” said Capt. Kevin Reardon, who runs Arlington County’s plate reader program. “It just gobbles up tag information. One of the big questions is, what do we do with the information?”
“If you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re not driving a stolen car, you’re not committing a crime,” Alessi said, “then you don’t have anything to worry about.”
Is their goal to prevent anyone from wanting to use any sort of public transportation anymore? It seems like now the only way to avoid these ridiculous searches is to drive your own vehicle somewhere.
They will soon be stopping and searching private automobiles. There is plenty of precedent for it. Soon.
All movement of persons will soon be controlled and monitored by the government.
It goes along with all communications intercepted, controlled, and monitored by the government.
Your comment about the GC is only applicable to earlier versions of the Lisp Machine workstation; the GC in later versions did not interfere with things such as networking as you suggest. Lisp Machine technology moved fairly quickly though, so I can understand how someone looks at some timepoint and figures that's the way they saw it, and so that's the way it must always be, especially if the whole thing seems exotic.
Later, we implemented an actual hard real-time version of the Lisp Machine; it was slightly different from the workstation OS. It was used as the basis of an ESS switch by AT&T (who commissioned it).
After this, and the hullabaloo over that 5.9 earthquake (I live in California now, and we laughed at the big deal they made out of it.), I think the east coast are being a massive bunch of drama queens.
Well, that earthquake cracked the foundation of my sister's house, threw pictures off the walls and stuff off the shelves, and moved the permanent kitchen appliances (stove, fridge) far enough that the kitchen cabinets could not be opened. That's just the damage that is obviously visible so far.
Big bridges didn't fall down and roofs did not collapse, but it certainly was not "nothing".
Perhaps they could get really crazy and just make sure that you don't need to be a dealership or a dedicated warez expert with a cracked interface cable to get to all the OBD and CAN-bus data available.
More likely, the avatar will just appear and give a un-happy car face, ala the old MacOS.
I got pulled over for speeding and saw it firsthand - when I said no to a search, the officer concluded I had something to hide, and used that as grounds to search the car.
That is an illegal search: the officer did not have probable cause. Refusing consent to a search is not probable cause. Neither is what he pulled you over for (speeding, etc. are not probable cause, either.)
Are you sure you didn't change your mind and give consent?
Unless there's more to the story, the officer conducted a very illegal search. Anything he found, or anything coming from that, would be inadmissible in court. There might be other repercussions for the officer (and his superiors) as well.
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The problem here though is that the whole reason for the logs being plain text is that the time you most need to be able to read the logs is exactly when things are broken, most services won't start because of the breakage, and your special tools may not be working[...] With plain text files, if you can boot into the single-user maintenance shell [...].
This is, BTW, why /sbin exists [...]
Rather than /sbin/grep there should be tools to to some very minimal examination of the syslog database, and support for the most appropriate manner of remote access by the forensics-debugging machine. I know you can do things like this, since I used systems that did this kind of thing more than 25 years ago. (Yes with binary databases, remote connections over serial cables and/or over the network, etc, etc. Ugh. Don't get me started...)
ASCII logfiles will be readable in spite of spot corruption and can be processed with grep / head / tail
How are those logs being corrupted, and what is the nature of this corruption? And why would binary logs not be similarly "readable"? In fact, isn't more likely that a transaction-oriented database would be MORE recoverable than your (somehow?) garbaged ASCII file?
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt
(1) Curiosity will last longer than advertised design life, headlines will be "The Nine Lives Of Curiosity" (2) Curiosity will accidentally be driven into a crater or something, headlines will be "Curiosity Killed The Cat" (3) both
Thought it said: "Facebook Sad To Be Developing Phone With HTC"
But if everything you post is a lie and you say you are lying...
Apple used to have their own data network for their devices, about 17 years ago.
I remember using Apple devices on airplanes back then.
I thought it was the 80s, but I guess it was the 90s based on this press release I Googled:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/PAGENET+TO+PROVIDE+WIRELESS+NETWORK+SERVICES+FOR+APPLE+PRODUCT-a015985515
Is their goal to prevent anyone from wanting to use any sort of public transportation anymore? It seems like now the only way to avoid these ridiculous searches is to drive your own vehicle somewhere.
They will soon be stopping and searching private automobiles. There is plenty of precedent for it. Soon.
All movement of persons will soon be controlled and monitored by the government.
It goes along with all communications intercepted, controlled, and monitored by the government.
Always mount a scratch monkey!
Make sure the machines have a lysine dependency (but cannot manufacture it themselves).
Also, just make them all female.
That should do it!
"char" rhymes with "star" of course...
Where I live, it's a liberty-loving place, so we're allowed to carry concealed handguns. I have one on me all the time. Problem solved.
Is that thing still around?
How you even know you got methylation islands, kid?
Didn't the recent episode "The Tip Of The Zoidberg" conclude with a roller coaster designed to help the Professor suicide?
And what about "Mr. Bonecrusher" in the Chevy Chase movie "Nothing But Trouble"?
This actually makes health care data more usable. They are setting in a standard ontology for records.
"Ontology". Isn't that about cancer?
Your comment about the GC is only applicable to earlier versions of the Lisp Machine workstation; the GC in later versions did not interfere with things such as networking as you suggest. Lisp Machine technology moved fairly quickly though, so I can understand how someone looks at some timepoint and figures that's the way they saw it, and so that's the way it must always be, especially if the whole thing seems exotic.
Later, we implemented an actual hard real-time version of the Lisp Machine; it was slightly different from the workstation OS.
It was used as the basis of an ESS switch by AT&T (who commissioned it).
After this, and the hullabaloo over that 5.9 earthquake (I live in California now, and we laughed at the big deal they made out of it.), I think the east coast are being a massive bunch of drama queens.
Well, that earthquake cracked the foundation of my sister's house, threw pictures off the walls and stuff off the shelves, and moved the permanent kitchen appliances (stove, fridge) far enough that the kitchen cabinets could not be opened. That's just the damage that is obviously visible so far.
Big bridges didn't fall down and roofs did not collapse, but it certainly was not "nothing".
I'll wait until there is E-paper that I can roll up.
So now a muscular blue humanoid will appear on my dashboard? Will the diagnostic interface be one of those tails?
Perhaps they could get really crazy and just make sure that you don't need to be a dealership or a dedicated warez expert with a cracked interface cable to get to all the OBD and CAN-bus data available.
More likely, the avatar will just appear and give a un-happy car face, ala the old MacOS.
I got pulled over for speeding and saw it firsthand - when I said no to a search, the officer concluded I had something to hide, and used that as grounds to search the car.
That is an illegal search: the officer did not have probable cause.
Refusing consent to a search is not probable cause.
Neither is what he pulled you over for (speeding, etc. are not probable cause, either.)
Are you sure you didn't change your mind and give consent?
Unless there's more to the story, the officer conducted a very illegal search.
Anything he found, or anything coming from that, would be inadmissible in court.
There might be other repercussions for the officer (and his superiors) as well.
At least that's how it works in the U.S.
I just do eyes...
I thought the Enterprise used something called LCARS -- I had no idea it was using a Mozilla engine underneath that skin!