Yup, I saw it and thought "How come so cheap?" AFAIK, 40% is the norm for US contingency cases, and that's after expenses. Maybe class action is different.
I'm not sure -- are you trying to prove my point?:)
People certainly can be prejudiced about alcoholism and cancer. A recovered alcoholic can be an excellent worker. A current alcoholic probably isn't. But how do you know?
Likewise with cancer. Some poeple will miss excessive amounts of worktime, some not. How will you know? And I've certainly nothing against firing someone for excessive absences. Or do you favor European-style "rights-to-the-job" that makes firing difficult? Think twice, because it also makes hiring difficult!
It's very clear from this short piece that Scott McNealy is a no-privacy advocate. His view is not balanced, merely advocates his position.
He conveniently neglects to mention the darker side of "information openness" -- companies using it to extract profit from their customers [variable pricing]. Or employers using it to exercise their personal prejudices.
Not that privacy isn't without it's faults. Alot of "medical privacy" could be used for insurance fraud.
But let's have a rational debate. Not trade polemics. There really is a difference between default openness with nondiscrimination safeguards, and default privacy with info-verification safeguards.
Look, if the satellite operators will not keep their noxious RF emissions away from my property, I don't see why I shouldn't do with the RF as I please. Subject to copyright tempered by Fair Use.
If the sat operators really don't want me to listen, they should go stick their signal on a cable somewhere and stop bombarding my body with EMF. Or they could try encryption, but two can play at that game:) [DMCA notwithstanding?]
As for "piracy", unauthorized copying has nothing to do with the brutal acts on the high seas. We don't know -- maybe RF emissions are brutal acts and broadcasters are real pirates. Some people think so, although there's no scientific proof of harm. But absence of proof is not proof of absence. It's tough to prove a negative.
You will note by my low User # that I'm hardly a new visitor to/. but I confess I do visit it less and less these days. So you are right in a way. IMHO, moderation is seriously broken and metamod cannot fix it. The trolls are running the house.
I don't know why my post got modded down as "Troll". I can assure you in all sincerity that I mean exactly what I say, and I'm not baiting anyone or trying to provoke reaction.
Perhaps it was because I got a little emotional [hate]. But quite frankly, I'm sick and tired {more E] of dataminers noticing AB is common but AC is rare, and pronouncing A causes B. That's a logical fallacy. B could just as easily cause A. Or X cause B. Datamining is just as dangerous as the underground kind.
Or perhaps someone simply disagrees with me. That's just plain and simple poor moderation, but I've noticed it increasing on/. So much so that metamod is overloaded.
Correlation is NOT causality. I hate these sorts of studies that look at two populations, notice some differences, and rather arbitrarily call some differences "causes" and others "effects".
Humans have self-determination. They will do what the like doing, are good at, or for other reasons. In this case, using computers takes a certain skill, and certain tastes to like it. Some kids have them, some don't. I doubt using the computer changes these. Kids are not astabula rasa [blank slates] as teachers and parents think.
I would say that dynamic addresses do provide a significant increase in anonymity over static. True, "The authorities" can unravel a dynamic assignment
iff they work quickly enough that the logs haven't been rotated into oblivion. And they'll need court orders and such. Nothing is automatic, so this will only happen occasionally.
Contrast this with IPv6 where even "dynamic" IP assignments (as you point out) are very likely to have a static component -- some bits to identify your userid. Mask out the appropriate bits, and anybody will be able to track you. Employers, insurers, ex-spouses, marketers, etc.
Nothing against the Japanese, but if they want to lead on IPv6, let them! Although it doesn't seem like even they are picking it up all that fast.
Myself I don't much like IPv6. 'Way too much overhead with 128 bit addresses. That's 24 extra bytes per packet, ~5%. Also a significant reduction in anonymity (fixed IPs vs current dynamic IPs).
I'm also not convinced that IPv6 will solve real (vs imagined) problems or bring compelling new features. The current IPv4 routers seem to be able to keep up, and if they have trouble, they should drop straggling routes (addrs away from their heirarchy). Most of the current Inet problems are more related to poor software (DNS, SMTP). QoS sounds like a neat feature, but I doubt it will be widespread because of the difficulty of cost charging.
I doubt CIO/CTOs are so stupid as to swallow Craig's words whole. They know he's a vendor, and treat everything he says as biased.
However, they will notice that M$ considers Open Source a serious competitor. And most likely they will adopt that assessment!
A second point is that a clueful CIO/CTO will NOT make low-level decisions like which OS to run on webservers. They will have a team study the issue and make a recommendation which s/he most likely will accept.
It's alot more about user mindshare. For servers, *IX has a real following amongst sysadmins so winds up on alot of machines. If only KDE/gnome had the same following on the desktop...
It should be that way, but isn't necessarily. Have a look at the "Supremacy Clause" [Article IV]
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land;
Nice to reduce skin drag (viscous forces), but that's mostly important at low speeds. This is described by the Reynolds Number.
At high speeds, the inertia of the water is more important: Water has to move out of the way of the projectile, and return after it passes. Since water is hardly compressible, alot of water has to move.
I lobbied against UCITA in Austin. I spoke with some Reps, and alot of aides (better). Of the ~10 people I spoke with, only 1 knew what it was about. And she was an aide to the sponsoring TX House Rep [Dem!].
They were all too busy and preoccupied with redistricting. But in fairness, all listened attentively and showed concern. Maybe that's their stock-in-trade, but I wanted to make sure that the bills didn't get rubber-stamped through committee. I feel I raised enough awareness that at least some questions would be asked and the unjust nature of UCITA might be revealed.
The best thing to do with UCITA is invert all it's clauses:) More seriously, there is some need for good infotech transactions law. We can't have shrink-wrap licences dubiously enforcable.
One measure I'd like to see is strict liability enforced on closed-source programs. No weaseling out. The logic would be that since they hold the source secret, their customers cannot fix any problems themselves, so the publisher must be liable for all losses.
I would allow publishers that release their source [and ability to recompile] to customers the carrot of reduced liability. After all, at this point the customer can patch the source, or hire someone else to do so.
The best thing to do with UCITA is invert all it's clauses:) More seriously, there is some need for good infotech transactions law. We can't have shrink-wrap licences dubiously enforcable.
One measure I'd like to see is strict liability enforced on closed-source programs. No weaseling out. The logic would be that since they hold the source secret, their customers cannot fix any problems themselves, so the publisher must be liable for all losses.
I would allow publishers that release their source [and ability to recompile] to customers the carrot of reduced liability. After all, at this point the customer can patch the source, or hire someone else to do so.
I may be speaking a few days too soon since the Texas Legislature doesn't go into it's two-year recess until mid next week, but UCITA seems to have died in Committee.
Both the TX House and Senate Committes have failed to vote it out for votes, and they have no more meetings scheduled.
It might be trivial, but in normal course of playing digital music and movies, many transient copies are made of it: in system RAM, in video RAM, and possibly on hard-disk swap or other files.
Obviously, these copies must be of the highest possible quality, or the experience is degraded.
Or is listening to and viewing copyrighted works not part of "Fair Use"? IIRC, there may already be a provision in the DMCA for just these transient copies.
ROTFL! But look at Linux's true tech support model: the LDP and news:comp.os.linux.*
Somehow, some talented tech writers have decided to write the usually reviled documentation for free or other credit.
More importantly, look at USENET: Here are a bunch of interested readers who volunteer answers to others questions. Mostly good answers. So much so that MS-Windows people often go there for answers!
I don't know what this means for commercial product tech-support, but Linux's tech support seems to be well-above average in comparison.
I'm surprised managment rejected this, unless they were worried about setting a precedent for other workers. It's a pretty good deal for the city:
about $2.50/hr for pager coverage. That's less than 10% of the normal pay ~$30/hr.
I'll bite: Are you arguing against all forms of "Intellectual Property" (ie, patents, trademarks and copyrights)? If so, then how do you propose that creators of exceptionally expensive to develop and valuable IP (CocaCola TM, UNIPOL Process, drugs and Brittany Spears music?) be compensated for their efforts? Or do you propose they not labor at all?
If not, it is easy to see your point: raids are just another enforcement tool.
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Good for you! You actually ran your real applications, and noticed a large improvement for the P7 core.
This is real no matter what anyone tells you about their apps. But you can't tell them anything either!
Dense matrix inversion, gaussian elimination and many chemistry codes will do well on the P7. They're all about ripping arrays lengthwise. The P7 was designed for multimedia which does exactly the same thing.
The problem comes when your problem isn't so neat. If you have to process arrays crosswise or hopping elts, then the advantage is lost and worse. Let alone if you have data-dependant (ie random) jumps.
I like the detail of this post, and agree that the MC drones are probably more interested in showing a practice of defending their TM's vigorously.
But I disagree that the "Flynt movie had an inordinate and unfortunate impact on the American public." Rights are not static -- they evolve over time. Unused rights wither, new rights grow. Look at the Miranda Rights. Even British crooks are asking for their phone calls and lawyers, even though they have no such rights under UK law. And they are getting them, because the UK police cannot refuse everyone.
Democracy is a very powerful institution. It can certainly overpower law. Once a significant fraction of the population start doing something, the law simply cannot stop them. This is called civil disobedience, and generally results in laws being changed [sodomy].
First a disclaimer: I've never even visted Japan, still less lived there.
But from what I've been able to gather, specifically from Karel van Wolferen, it might be a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
The essence of Japanese society is conformance. There are a great many constraints on individuals such as only being hired straight out of school. If you lose your job, you likely will not get anything anywhere near as good. Corporatism run wild.
Various "hobbies" are left as necessary outlets for individuality. And these become very interesting indeed. This attracts Gibson, but I look to the causes.
AFAIK [and maybe I'm wrong] MacOS/X is a monolithic kernel, not a microkernel that Linus rails against. Not that there's a sharp line once you have loadable kernel modules. But the scheduler and VM systems remain sacred.
There was some dabbling with microkernels from Mach in the early BSD days (Lites 1.0), but I don't think that's continued much, or was the source branch for MacOS/X.
Have a look at Eric Levenez' Unix family tree here.
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We have very different perceptions.
People certainly can be prejudiced about alcoholism and cancer. A recovered alcoholic can be an excellent worker. A current alcoholic probably isn't. But how do you know?
Likewise with cancer. Some poeple will miss excessive amounts of worktime, some not. How will you know? And I've certainly nothing against firing someone for excessive absences. Or do you favor European-style "rights-to-the-job" that makes firing difficult? Think twice, because it also makes hiring difficult!
He conveniently neglects to mention the darker side of "information openness" -- companies using it to extract profit from their customers [variable pricing]. Or employers using it to exercise their personal prejudices.
Not that privacy isn't without it's faults. Alot of "medical privacy" could be used for insurance fraud.
But let's have a rational debate. Not trade polemics. There really is a difference between default openness with nondiscrimination safeguards, and default privacy with info-verification safeguards.
If the sat operators really don't want me to listen, they should go stick their signal on a cable somewhere and stop bombarding my body with EMF. Or they could try encryption, but two can play at that game :) [DMCA notwithstanding?]
As for "piracy", unauthorized copying has nothing to do with the brutal acts on the high seas. We don't know -- maybe RF emissions are brutal acts and broadcasters are real pirates. Some people think so, although there's no scientific proof of harm. But absence of proof is not proof of absence. It's tough to prove a negative.
Thank you for your kind encouragement.
/. but I confess I do visit it less and less these days. So you are right in a way. IMHO, moderation is seriously broken and metamod cannot fix it. The trolls are running the house.
You will note by my low User # that I'm hardly a new visitor to
Perhaps it was because I got a little emotional [hate]. But quite frankly, I'm sick and tired {more E] of dataminers noticing AB is common but AC is rare, and pronouncing A causes B. That's a logical fallacy. B could just as easily cause A. Or X cause B. Datamining is just as dangerous as the underground kind.
Or perhaps someone simply disagrees with me. That's just plain and simple poor moderation, but I've noticed it increasing on /. So much so that metamod is overloaded.
Humans have self-determination. They will do what the like doing, are good at, or for other reasons. In this case, using computers takes a certain skill, and certain tastes to like it. Some kids have them, some don't. I doubt using the computer changes these. Kids are not astabula rasa [blank slates] as teachers and parents think.
Contrast this with IPv6 where even "dynamic" IP assignments (as you point out) are very likely to have a static component -- some bits to identify your userid. Mask out the appropriate bits, and anybody will be able to track you. Employers, insurers, ex-spouses, marketers, etc.
Myself I don't much like IPv6. 'Way too much overhead with 128 bit addresses. That's 24 extra bytes per packet, ~5%. Also a significant reduction in anonymity (fixed IPs vs current dynamic IPs).
I'm also not convinced that IPv6 will solve real (vs imagined) problems or bring compelling new features. The current IPv4 routers seem to be able to keep up, and if they have trouble, they should drop straggling routes (addrs away from their heirarchy). Most of the current Inet problems are more related to poor software (DNS, SMTP). QoS sounds like a neat feature, but I doubt it will be widespread because of the difficulty of cost charging.
However, they will notice that M$ considers Open Source a serious competitor. And most likely they will adopt that assessment!
A second point is that a clueful CIO/CTO will NOT make low-level decisions like which OS to run on webservers. They will have a team study the issue and make a recommendation which s/he most likely will accept.
It's alot more about user mindshare. For servers, *IX has a real following amongst sysadmins so winds up on alot of machines. If only KDE/gnome had the same following on the desktop ...
IANAL, but Treaties (ratified by the US Senate) are on the same level as the US Constitution, so could override the First Ammendment (free speech).
Very scary
At high speeds, the inertia of the water is more important: Water has to move out of the way of the projectile, and return after it passes. Since water is hardly compressible, alot of water has to move.
They were all too busy and preoccupied with redistricting. But in fairness, all listened attentively and showed concern. Maybe that's their stock-in-trade, but I wanted to make sure that the bills didn't get rubber-stamped through committee. I feel I raised enough awareness that at least some questions would be asked and the unjust nature of UCITA might be revealed.
One measure I'd like to see is strict liability enforced on closed-source programs. No weaseling out. The logic would be that since they hold the source secret, their customers cannot fix any problems themselves, so the publisher must be liable for all losses.
I would allow publishers that release their source [and ability to recompile] to customers the carrot of reduced liability. After all, at this point the customer can patch the source, or hire someone else to do so.
seriously, there is some need for good infotech transactions law.
We can't have shrink-wrap licences dubiously enforcable.
One measure
I'd like to see is strict liability enforced on closed-source
programs. No weaseling out. The logic would be that since they hold
the source secret, their customers cannot fix any problems themselves, so
the publisher must be liable for all losses.
I would allow publishers
that release their source [and ability to recompile] to customers the
carrot of reduced liability. After all, at this point the customer can
patch the source, or hire someone else to do so.
go into it's two-year recess until mid next week, but UCITA seems to have died in Committee.
Both the TX House and Senate Committes have failed to vote it out for votes, and
they have no more meetings scheduled.
many transient copies are made of it: in system RAM, in video RAM, and possibly on hard-disk swap or other files.
Obviously, these copies must be of the highest possible quality, or the experience is degraded.
Or is listening to and viewing copyrighted works not part of "Fair Use"? IIRC, there
may already be a provision in the DMCA for just these transient copies.
Somehow, some talented tech writers have decided to write the usually reviled documentation for free or other credit.
More importantly, look at USENET: Here are a bunch of interested readers who volunteer answers to others questions. Mostly good answers. So much so that MS-Windows people often go there for answers!
I don't know what this means for commercial product tech-support, but Linux's tech support seems to be well-above average in comparison.
I'm surprised managment rejected this, unless they were worried about setting a precedent for other workers. It's a pretty good deal for the city:
about $2.50/hr for pager coverage. That's less than 10% of the normal pay ~$30/hr.
If so, then how do you propose that creators of exceptionally expensive to develop and valuable IP (CocaCola TM, UNIPOL Process, drugs and Brittany Spears music?) be compensated for their efforts?
Or do you propose they not labor at all?
If not, it is easy to see your point: raids are just another enforcement tool.
This is real no matter what anyone tells you about their apps. But you can't tell them anything either!
Dense matrix inversion, gaussian elimination and many chemistry codes will do well on the P7. They're all about ripping arrays lengthwise. The P7 was designed for multimedia which does exactly the same thing.
The problem comes when your problem isn't so neat. If you have to process arrays crosswise or hopping elts, then the advantage is lost and worse. Let alone if you have data-dependant (ie random) jumps.
are probably more interested in showing a practice of defending
their TM's vigorously.
But I disagree that the "Flynt movie had an inordinate and unfortunate
impact on the American public." Rights are not static -- they evolve
over time. Unused rights wither, new rights grow. Look at the Miranda
Rights. Even British crooks are asking for their phone calls and
lawyers, even though they have no such rights under UK law. And
they are getting them, because the UK police cannot refuse everyone.
Democracy is a very powerful institution. It can certainly overpower
law. Once a significant fraction of the population start doing
something, the law simply cannot stop them. This is called civil disobedience, and generally results in laws being changed [sodomy].
But from what I've been able to gather, specifically from Karel van Wolferen, it might be a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
The essence of Japanese society is conformance. There are a great many constraints on individuals such as only being hired straight out of school. If you lose your job, you likely will not get anything anywhere near as good. Corporatism run wild.
Various "hobbies" are left as necessary outlets for individuality. And these become very interesting indeed. This attracts Gibson, but I look to the causes.
There was some dabbling with microkernels from Mach in the early BSD days (Lites 1.0), but I don't think that's continued much, or was the source branch for MacOS/X.
Have a look at Eric Levenez' Unix family tree here.