Odd I went to private grade school and my bus driver knew every kids name on the bus. Never once did I ever here of a kids getting misplaced. Hell I even fell asleep on the bus once and the bus driver woke me up knowing I had got on the bus but hadn't got off the bus.
Sounds like a public school problem to me...
I heard the goverment is going to be making cars now. I wonder if they'll do the same quality job they did with public education....
I have no idea what this "information wants to be free" stuff is. Information is just that, information. I've never heard of intangible concepts making decisions.
In 100 years no one will likely remember radio head. I doubt Metallica will be remember much either.
Quality vs. Quantity I suppose. It is a simple observation that those that created the greatest humanity had to offer in the arts didn't do so for a paycheck, they did it for the sake of their own gratification. In days past they were sponsored by few and not bound to the whims of the masses.
I see very little in the creative world in the last 30 years that even warrants money being spent. Consumers have spoken on the value of those creative works. Too many musicians and too poor quality has driven the value to $0.00
Let the doomsday scenario happen. Lets have 1/100th the musicans left when people are willing to pay for it.
The consumer has spoken. Let supply and demand kick in. When the supply dries up. Good riddence.
People will once again start going to concerts, local bars and pubs, and start playing music themselves. Nothing in the doom and gloom I see painted looks a lot like doom and gloom for the majority of people.
I think we'll survive a few less Bon Jovis, Pussy Cat Dolls, Tupac, Shania Twains, etc.
The fact remains, you had market staturation of a near inumerable artists of mediocre skill, recycling thousands of existing songs for decades, with little artistic merit. With no connection to the audience, no identification with the artist, and the music reduced to a product, don't be surpised when people don't buy.
People are just plain sick of paying for mediocre product. The supply is high and demand is low and that drove prices down to $0.00.
Saying they lost money working if and only if they would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it. That simply doesn't work in the real world. Period.
If Mc Donalds gave away a free hamburger and 500 people showed up then the next day only 50 people showed up, they didn't lose 450 sales the next day. There are some people that just don't see any value in spending money on a hamburger from there. If any of those 450 go home and making an identical hamburger and eat it, you honestly are telling me that Mc Donalds lost a sale? Nonsense. They weren't in the market for a hamburger to being with.
I don't make apologies for the pirate, I just see what value they place on it and the value is 0.00. The consumer has spoken and litigating it is nothing more then goverment sponsored price fixing. Pet rocks are worthless because the consumer isn't interesting in paying for a rock.
"The value of a product is what the consumer is willing to pay."
It's that simple. They are not willing to pay for it, stop making it. I won't miss anything, if I get the urge for some Bach, I'll walk down to the church and listen to it play during the day.
Sadly not many of the artists are worth recognizing. Not because they lack talent or merit per say, it's the fact that there are over 1 million gutarists in the world. The world has shrank and the valu eof labor (Creative or otherwise) shrinks with it.
I can get a damn good piano player for a wedding for $200 for the night. 20 years ago it would have been $400.
Supply and Demand cannot be ignored.
Too much supply (artists, songs, etc.) I feel is the root cause. I still can't get the bad taste of Mp3.com out of my system. The place was a dumping ground for bad techno... kinda like OC remix now...
Odd that during the ages when patronage was the primary form of funding you got works of art that CENTURIES later are still masterpieces while with the rise of intellectual property nonsense you get Britney Spears?
Why is creation tied to profit? Are you assuming that all who create do so only for money? Nonsense.
A: Integrate a microphone into the speakers for audio localization and sound space modelling. A single microphone in the center of the room is ok but putting a microphone in each speaker would allow for dynamic audio adjustment when you are talking to someone and for voice commands to be sent to the reciver without having to shout.
B: Bidirection communication from say, speakers, could also come in the form of, in the case of powered speakers, power management.
C: With networked speakers, speakers through out a home can be dynamically allocated to audio devices rather then directly wired to a reciever simplfying multi-room configuration and management.
D: Remember the microphone in the speakers? Now you have a whole house intercom system too. No more wireless baby monitors when the speakers in the room have integrated microphones.
I can keep going, but I can think of plenty of cool things with 100 mbit ethernet piped to a reciver, speaker, etc.
The question is will the manufactures see any of those ideas...
Yes must organized churchs have a financial structure. When you donate at a Church that money needs to be managed and compliance with non-profit status upheld. CEO, CIO, CFO, and other corporate officers exist in many religions in order to properly comply with tax, civil, and criminal law. Many donations to churchs gets invested to maintain better returns then just dealing with the donations directly. Remember how many non-profits got stung by Madoff?
OMG I can actually see that in my head! Chewbacca being Jewish! Someone has got to draw that up. It would be, how they say, WTFPWNAGE!
Come on! Yoda as a Buddist, Chewbacca being Jewish, and I can sooooooo see a closet Hindu in Han Solo! Hmmm... what would Vader be? Or Luke? AMISH VADER! Come on he's not into big tech, wears dark conservative clothing, doesn't talk much.
Hmmm Boba Fett.... I'm seeing Pentacostal? Or Anglican..
There is no Drug addiction, sex addiction, or game addiction.
There is addiction. What you are addicted to is irrelivant to the definiton of an addiction.
What you are addicted to factors in only when you are trying to treat the addiction.
Addiction has two parts: Physical and Psychological.
Regardless of MMO, cigs, pot, or meth they both have those two sides.
Treatment is structured around what you are addicted to.
Trying to box up and create boutique addictions is a pointless exercise. Addiction = Addiction.
The reasons for becoming an addict can vary but result in the same condition, addiction.
Skinner and many others found that you can be addicted to anything. Milk, cashews, and even eye brow stroking. The behaviors are identical no matter what the subject was addicted to with a common result, self destruction.
This boutique addiction nonsense has to end. It's addiction, plain and simple. No video game addiction. Addiction. Just political nonsense...
Unified Threat Management is a dead end concept. We've been there and done that and we left it in the past.
With disaster recovery concepts, decentralized administration on the rise again, and cloud computing we once again come full circle to the whole reason we left mainframes for client server architecture.
"Who Watches the Watchman" is a line that comes to mind. The IDS should be keeping tabs on the Firewall, not part of the firewall. TRON should be an independent keeping tabs on the MCP not part of the MCP;)
UTM mean a single point of compromise and failure. Even clustering a UTM configuration still has liability issue for configuration information. IN addition placing one IDS in DMZ and another in the green is problematic.
For IDS best practices have always leaned towards silent passive listening, not integrated into the firewall. Firewall goes down, so does the IDS. We must assume that a firewall going down is PART of an intrusion, thus the IDS should still function if the firewall is down...
This is similar to a multifunction fax\printer\scanner argument. If the damn thing shorts out you are out a fax\printer\scanner where as if they were separate components you'd have 2/3rds of your resources still functioning.
Now to the original post, they failed as a class. Why? Because exploits at the system level are never passed up to the high level services, all those components share a common blind spot because they are running on a common platform.
No shit.
This is why I still advocate a mixed environment\mix vendor approach. From the open source side I like a pair of IDS servers, one running Linux and one running NetBSD. I like layered firewalls also. I also like built in alarms to check for cross VLAN and subnet traffic. I firmly belive in darknets and honeypots too. I still advocate at least 2 antivirus solutions present in a campus network (more often this is either symantec\mcafee and either AVG\Avast)but most importantly I like distributed systems rather then consolidated appliances...
A craftsman makes 4 wooden masks. Someone takes one without paying for it. The craftsman now has 3 and someone has stolen 1. This is theft.
A craftsman makes 4 wooden masks. Someone makes an identical mask. The craftsman still has 4 masks. This is not theft as the craftsman didn't lose anything.
I don't care how hard they try, you cannot redefine theft. As a wise man once said, "I DO NOT BELIEVE IN IMAGINARY PROPERTY."
The Internet exposed a simple fact is all. Information is not a product. So laws that for centuries relied on the concept of phsyical assets are scrambling to catch up. industries built on that are trying to catch up.
The whole concept of copyright law was built, for centuries, that copying something had an implied labor cost, it took some measure of effort to copy. Now with the digital age, the Internet has exposed a series of seriously flawed assumptions on how fast information ages.
Dear Sony, we do not need safty rails on the Internet. It is like space (hence we call it cyberspace) in which it is nearly an infinite space with no center, up, or down. You can't "fall off" the edge. Like it or not, this is now the 21st Century and the last 30,000 years of recorded history is not much use in charting a course into the 21st century.
Relgion must adapt Science must adapt Business must adapt Government must adapt Cultures must adapt People must adapt
Litigating a false nostalgia of how thigs "should be" based on how "things were" is irrelivant.
The 21st century is now and we need to move forward. The Internet is not a series of tubes, it is what it is, the Internet. It is not analagous to a phone network, a highway system, or a giant Rube Golberg machine. It a a complex collection of communication protocols and presentation layers most easly conceptualized by the phrase:
"Please Do Not Tip Strippers Poorly Again"
(P)hysical = The hardware that connects stuff (D)ata Link = How do get stuff from hardware A to B (N)etwork = Logical segmenting of 1 network from another (T)ransport = How do we get stuff reliably from A to B, especially across more then 1 network (S)ession = how can we tell we are working with A and B (P)resentation = how do we move data from A to B (A)pplication = What tools do we use to move data from A to B
While the descriptions are simplistic they should be sufficent in understanding what the "Internet" is, a very larger interconnected network of computers that operates largly based on that model listed above.
The Internet is PING, ARP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, XML, XVID, GIF, PNG, AVI, FLAC, FLASH, IRC, NTP, and so on and so on interoperating with one another to present information from A to B.
If I must dumb it down, then I offer this:
"To describe the Internet I can offer this: it is the canvas by which people communicate with, not only wth a wide variety of paints, but all the colors each paint makes available." - Ken P.
I give up on Slashdot folks. Out of 385 posts on this topic 289 of them cannot understand the difference between Ethenol and what is used to make Ethenol.
Listen, people, I know public education has gone down the tubes in the last 30 years but you need to remember that when you make an argument for or against something you have to stick with RELEVANT data.
If you are going to argue that Ethanol is good\bad for an engine THE SOURCE OF ETHANOL has nothing to do with that argument. I could potentially make Ethanol out of barbie doll, three Snickers bar, and a can of beer. It isn't efficent but it can be done. None of that is RELEVANT to how Ethanol interacts with engine parts.
If you are going to argue the economics of Ethanol you have to look at the complete picture, not just a small segment. You need to have a COMPLETE argument or you sound like a moron. Ethanol's political and economic impact can not be summarized in a paragraph. Trying to do so makes you sound like a tool.
Don't blame Bush, Clinton, Regan, or whom ever you bigots want to hate for you problems. The President in the US cannot originate a law, he is the LAST step in a long process. The economy now is the result of over 40 years of bad decisions and a lack of understanding on global economics. Republicans, Democrats, Unions, Media, and ourselves are all equally part of this. Anyone sitting down and looking over the last 40 years of policy can see clearly that everyone played a part. Stop blaming big oil, big corn, big whatever. It have never been, nor will it ever be simple. The only thing you do when blaming X is labeling youself as an ignorant bigot. Get informed and you'll realized that there are no mysterious conspiracies, illuminati groups, and big whateverindustryyoudon'tlike pulling the strings on puppets. It's a giant tapestry and there are 6 billion+ threads in it.
I lived through enough presidents and congress leaders to realize that when asked if you approve of congress and you only get 20% saying "Yes"; but when asked if you approve of your own senator you get 80% saying "Yes" then what you have is a lack of trust in "The Other Guys". Look at the mindless nonsense of "Blame Bush" "Blame Clinton" blame who ever. That really is just "Blame the Other Guys". You are headed towards civil war people. Grab a history book and look at both the Soviets history the American Civil War. Look at the language they use and you'll see, you are less then a decade away from that powder keg going off.
Wise up, if a simple article about Ethanol generates the comments we read here, we are in some serious trouble, and by serious I mean civil war, millions dead kind of serious.
"Procedural Content Generation" is the future of MMOs. Like Diablo's random dungeon generation on steroids entire shards can be generated, each one unique. Allowing no cost transfer to other shards along with a fixed lifespan for a shard makes exploring the world and what weirdness emerges from the generation would make much of the grumbling in contemporary MMOs irrelivant.
Whoa as I read that my first instinct was to check my kdawson bullshit filter but turns out this one was Timothy. I expect misleading BS to get posted by kdawson but looks like he might have a protege in Timothy now for the fine art of misleading bullshit. Timmy learn from kdawsons idiotic BS, don't post FUD and bullshit, we're tired of it.
The problem with single server shards is that certain prodecures, calculations, and tasks are not intrinsic to the operation of the world itself.
I have been tinkering with procedural content development for about 2 years now and have found several things (as an example).
In the proto-world system I am tinkering with mobs (npc creatures) spawning patterns are simualted by a simple cellular automation system (Think conway's game of life) such that populations shift based on desierability (number of times killed, damage taken, damage inflicted, idle time, food accessability). The spawn locations are updated every 24 hours but processessing the simulated PC activity, kills, available food, etc in't a real time activity. Currently that data is bundled (along with the next day's weather info) and dispatched to a utility server for processing. The game world itself (and hence the server running it) only needs the result. Why bog down the core game loop with that activity and why add another low SCHEDID task to the processor to deal with?
Two: As mentioned in other posts dynamic partitioning is already in existence. The Big World engine for example has technological solutions for dynamically scaling the world information to minimize updates sent to the client. You do not need to processes empty cells nor do you have to send information updates to a client if the information is beyond a given distance. (Aka Folks in Queynos don't need to know about objects in Freeport) Why keep zone information in memory when no one is anywhere near that zone? Remember even a simple check of who is where is just one more checkpoint in the core game loop. Even with event versus tick driven game logic it is easier to shift zone information to other systems when not in use and let a different processor handle the low priotity checks. With memory de-duplication host 33 instances of ZONE A requires only 1 base map of ZONE A and then 33 deltas.
Three: In experiementing with procedural game world development I have found that single systems are not practical when having to dynamically create new content.
Example:
I created a 400 x 400 unit map. When I get within 20 units of a border I generate another 10 units in front of my current direction. During that time, on a single server setup I am running out of resources even on a Core 2 with 4GB of RAM. With just me. Now admittedly that is very crude but I found it easier to have a secondary computer handle generating new content then copying the map information over. Even better, when maintaininng multiple maps (simulating multiple shards) I could generate new map content for BOTH maps on the secondary computer with much better results by using the input from both "shards" as salt information and preventing redundant map cells from entering the queue for generation. (In short MAP A is already generating zones x,y, and z so just copy x, y, and reset z as they overlap and give me a, b, and z for MAP B).
Weather simulation is handled on the laptop. I generates a week's worth of weather then dumps it into a proceess queue to simulate the weather. As the maps are dynamically generated, the weather patterns have to be updated as new content is added. If zones are identical I can just hold the primary weather map and just maintain deltas in memory. Trying to do that with all of the map information would take at least 60GB of RAM with 5 shards without using deltas.
By segmenting the zones and using deltas between systems not only is more efficent memory wise BUT FOR GODS SAKE IF THE SERVER DIES I'M ONLY OUT 1 ZONE NOT THE WHOLE WORLD.
There is too much to gain by using discrete specialized servers as well as zone specific servers. If you are hauling dirt you use a dump truck, picking up the kids at school, and SUV. You can haul kids in a dump truck and you can haul dirt in an SUV, but they are optimal for certain workloads an inefficent at others. Generalized servers are not the way to go IMHO.
(Global) Database Server Application Servers for Batch Activity Specialized Servers for Instances with MAXINSTANCECOUNT=X with load balancing between Y servers
(Per Shard) World Servers cluster with dynamic region balancing with n-1 servers in the cluster.
First off the Think Tank is well respected... by who exactly? I am pretty neck deep in the industry and I've never heard of them. If you are going to tell us "they are well respected" then a journalist would provide us with who holds them in high regard.
Second: A think tank, in this sense, is usually funded. In full disclousure when talking about "THINK TANKS" it is usually customary to indicate the sponsors of said think tank.
Third: More statistical mumbo jumbo. 60% growth each years is irrelivant without the baseline numbers to go with it. I can have a 60% growth rate no problem but 60% of what? 60% of the base population? 60% increase in the new traffic? (In short if it went up last year by 100 people and this year went up 160 or were there 100 people to begin with and we added 60 more...)
I could go on but I am tired, cranky, and due for a nap...
let's not forget the secular horrors including eugenics, nuclear weapons, lobotomies, communism, and all those other enlightened idealogies that don't rely on superstition. And lets not skip over fundamentalist eco-terrorists, fundementalist PETA members, or for that matter fundamentalists in general.
As if religion held some kind of monopoly on dangerous fundamentalists. You seem to have a selective memory in that regard...
More people in the 20th century have been murdered in the name of non-religious enlightment with communism still in the lead.
Evil, as a concept is an equal opportunity force and rather well divisified in the idelogies and social groups it infects.
First it was pedophile priests but soon we found that as a percentage it was no different then school teachers or prison guards. We found that evil doesn't have a gender bias or apparently an ideology bias.
Leave your enlightened bigotry in the closet please, we have little use for any form of it.
I learned a long time ago there are two types of people at a bar:
Those you can fuck with. Those you don't fuck with.
Now I am no genius, I admit that, but I have gotten pretty good at sizing up people. There are just some people you don't fuck with. For instance fat guys with tattoos of cartoon characters. THERE IS A REASON THEY HAVEN'T HAD THEIR ASS BEAT AT THE BAR AND YOU DON'T WANT TO FIND OUT WHY!
They just fucked with the wrong guy. So I am going to discretely walk out of the bar and go to my car because when the fight starts, its never the two guy that are fighting that concerns me, its the stupid shit their friends do.
And I can clearly say, I am a hell of a lot more afraid of Lessig supports then I am of the Media Mafia. Lessig has waaaay more supporters and waaay more "digital firepower." This calls for a "Don't you know who I am" moment?
Needless to say, they went after the wrong guy on this. It's like going up and punching baby Jesus in the face... you're just gonna piss everyone off doing that no matter who they are. You just don't punch baby Jesusessss...
Now that it has hit Slashdot I give it 6 months before it's blown apart. Nothing pisses a geek off more then being told "It Can't Be Done"
Ther are very angry cave dwellers that since seeing this have now vowed to make it their EPIC QUEST to crack this thing open. Do not underestimate the power of the geek!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU! POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
THE SPIRIT OF THE WOZ COMPELLS YOU!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU! POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
THE SPIRIT OF THE TORVALD COMMANDS YOU!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU! POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
THE SPIRIT OF MITNICK COMMANDS YOU!
Inteviewer: So Merrick, I see the priest gig don't work out so well now what are you doing?
Merrik: Security Administration
Interviewer: So not much has change in your day to day life I take it.
Merrik: Nope, but at least I don't have to deal with suicidal young priests jumping out of second story windows after I pass out...
Interviewer: So no demons from hell this time?
Merrik: Nope just the errant daemon getting spawned from a fubared XINITD connection...
Interviewer: Well thank you for stopping by father.
Merrik: No thank you THE SPIRIT OF WILL WRIGHT COMPELLS YOU!!! errr.. sorry force of habit...
First the ignorance and bigoted nonsense expressed in 99% of the posts here is saddening.
The loss of a filibuster isn't going to result in run-away 1-sided legislation. The reason is the President, who has to run for re-election needs swing votes next election and will not want to come off as a party tool this year.
If Republicans were to try and use a filibuster and the democrats locked them out that would be, in several states, political suicide losing far too many moderates. They'd lose their super majority quickly if they tried to "crush the enemy" which is nonsense. Democrats and Republican represenatives get along just fine, they have differing political ideologies is all. It's considerably more civil then the news makes it out to be.
Either way my question is this: Who, in their right mind, feels confortable giving a legislature, regardless of which party, that kind of power when they have an over all approval rating lower then 20%?
Out of 100 people 80 don't like the democrats or republicans in the legislature. Who finds this super majority a good idea? The 20% that do approve of their job?
In all honesty I wouldn't set up a solution. Keep in mind that with different release schedules and different release criteria many times there may be a day or two lag between them and you still need to validate the patch\fix before putting it into a production environment. So given Ubuntu and CentOS, let's say the CentOS patch comes out 2 days later you are either doing a regression test twice on the two systems, or waiting till both are release and running a single regression test.
If you are hell bent on doing this the simplest solution I've found is simply a CRON job script that does the following:
One each system, every day at a given time do a check for package updates and send the results via an email to a shared mailbox called PENDING UPDATES. You can also send them to a SQL database if you choose (that's what I do)
The next thing is to hav a shell script that will SSH into a system and based on the platform grab any pending updates in the database that are marked with a FETCH flag turned on (I use PERL for all shell scripts so tapping a database is pretty damn easy).
Now that shell script will read from the DB of all the systems I manage (before I retired from Geekery that is I handled as many as 2300 systems split between Linux, Unix, NT, AS400, a pair of DEC Alpha workstations, and oddly enough 22 OS/2 boxes) that are flagged for Linux and execute the update script on each box.
As you posted your dillemma you need to work smarter not harder. There is NO REASON for you to "run around". A simple PERL script to execute the same command on multiple systems should be the norm. You can even make the script multi-threaded with the "use thread" or "use threads" depending on which 'flava' of rthe threading library you use (Use the one support QUEUES, easier to stuff the QUEUE with system names, set a MAXTHREADS count and just suck out servers and dispatch them to worker threads)
If you need to on Ubuntu pull an APT-GET INSTALL BLAH and in CENTOS do an update install BLAH it's a simple IF statement on the worker thread.
MY BIGGEST ADVICE: ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAVE HUMAN INTERVENTION INVOLVED BEFORE UPDATING ANYTHING!!
Again whip up a quick MYSQL\POSTGRES database, parse the output of the pending updates for each platform, and have a boolean field that indicates if the update is approved. Then let CRON handle pulling down approved updates or, as I reccomend, have an admin run a script that pulls down updates so it can coincide with regular matinance windows...
You know a 50 cal machine gun ripping a pirate in half with a single shot is a pretty good anti-pirate solution. I know very few pirates that would stick around after seeking their friend tore in half.
... the reason you are posting this article is to spread anti-microsoft hate and FUD for no reason.
Why not post:
With a gentoo install CD you can gain control of any linux system by overwriting key/etc/ files to give yourself root access unless you use encrypted drives...
More useless propaganda from an MS-hater. I mean seriously, this is news? Next thing you'll post is the Windows 7 has a horrible exploit that crashes it every time you shoot the PC with a shot gun.
Don't we have a NO FUD policy for articles?
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege", as a result of this abuse, your Stupid License has been suspended for 60 days.
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Odd I went to private grade school and my bus driver knew every kids name on the bus. Never once did I ever here of a kids getting misplaced. Hell I even fell asleep on the bus once and the bus driver woke me up knowing I had got on the bus but hadn't got off the bus.
Sounds like a public school problem to me...
I heard the goverment is going to be making cars now. I wonder if they'll do the same quality job they did with public education....
I have no idea what this "information wants to be free" stuff is. Information is just that, information. I've never heard of intangible concepts making decisions.
In 100 years no one will likely remember radio head. I doubt Metallica will be remember much either.
Quality vs. Quantity I suppose. It is a simple observation that those that created the greatest humanity had to offer in the arts didn't do so for a paycheck, they did it for the sake of their own gratification. In days past they were sponsored by few and not bound to the whims of the masses.
I see very little in the creative world in the last 30 years that even warrants money being spent. Consumers have spoken on the value of those creative works. Too many musicians and too poor quality has driven the value to $0.00
Let the doomsday scenario happen. Lets have 1/100th the musicans left when people are willing to pay for it.
The consumer has spoken. Let supply and demand kick in. When the supply dries up. Good riddence.
People will once again start going to concerts, local bars and pubs, and start playing music themselves. Nothing in the doom and gloom I see painted looks a lot like doom and gloom for the majority of people.
I think we'll survive a few less Bon Jovis, Pussy Cat Dolls, Tupac, Shania Twains, etc.
The fact remains, you had market staturation of a near inumerable artists of mediocre skill, recycling thousands of existing songs for decades, with little artistic merit. With no connection to the audience, no identification with the artist, and the music reduced to a product, don't be surpised when people don't buy.
People are just plain sick of paying for mediocre product. The supply is high and demand is low and that drove prices down to $0.00.
Saying they lost money working if and only if they would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it. That simply doesn't work in the real world. Period.
If Mc Donalds gave away a free hamburger and 500 people showed up then the next day only 50 people showed up, they didn't lose 450 sales the next day. There are some people that just don't see any value in spending money on a hamburger from there. If any of those 450 go home and making an identical hamburger and eat it, you honestly are telling me that Mc Donalds lost a sale? Nonsense. They weren't in the market for a hamburger to being with.
I don't make apologies for the pirate, I just see what value they place on it and the value is 0.00. The consumer has spoken and litigating it is nothing more then goverment sponsored price fixing. Pet rocks are worthless because the consumer isn't interesting in paying for a rock.
"The value of a product is what the consumer is willing to pay."
It's that simple. They are not willing to pay for it, stop making it. I won't miss anything, if I get the urge for some Bach, I'll walk down to the church and listen to it play during the day.
Sadly not many of the artists are worth recognizing. Not because they lack talent or merit per say, it's the fact that there are over 1 million gutarists in the world. The world has shrank and the valu eof labor (Creative or otherwise) shrinks with it.
I can get a damn good piano player for a wedding for $200 for the night. 20 years ago it would have been $400.
Supply and Demand cannot be ignored.
Too much supply (artists, songs, etc.) I feel is the root cause. I still can't get the bad taste of Mp3.com out of my system. The place was a dumping ground for bad techno... kinda like OC remix now...
Odd that during the ages when patronage was the primary form of funding you got works of art that CENTURIES later are still masterpieces while with the rise of intellectual property nonsense you get Britney Spears?
Why is creation tied to profit? Are you assuming that all who create do so only for money? Nonsense.
It never has occured to you that other don't believe in imaginary property either eh?
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2 cents and lookin all fly
gonna get a quick boost
gonna let her fly
Another 5 cents getting into a groove
get the ninja gear
and pwn some n00bz
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Like fly wiseman once told me true
what you throw out comes back to you
for another 5 cents he'll show ya too
A buck now and 4 cents again
30+ life and I'm back again
Fighting like a pirate with a master plan
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2Cold said again .25 cents was the master plan
but the Internet shrank the world again
No smokin no drink and the arcades are dead
so lets try somethin' like 4/10th a cent
and see if that money starts rollin in
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Meh wtf lets sing it again
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A: Integrate a microphone into the speakers for audio localization and sound space modelling. A single microphone in the center of the room is ok but putting a microphone in each speaker would allow for dynamic audio adjustment when you are talking to someone and for voice commands to be sent to the reciver without having to shout.
B: Bidirection communication from say, speakers, could also come in the form of, in the case of powered speakers, power management.
C: With networked speakers, speakers through out a home can be dynamically allocated to audio devices rather then directly wired to a reciever simplfying multi-room configuration and management.
D: Remember the microphone in the speakers? Now you have a whole house intercom system too. No more wireless baby monitors when the speakers in the room have integrated microphones.
I can keep going, but I can think of plenty of cool things with 100 mbit ethernet piped to a reciver, speaker, etc.
The question is will the manufactures see any of those ideas...
Yes must organized churchs have a financial structure. When you donate at a Church that money needs to be managed and compliance with non-profit status upheld. CEO, CIO, CFO, and other corporate officers exist in many religions in order to properly comply with tax, civil, and criminal law. Many donations to churchs gets invested to maintain better returns then just dealing with the donations directly. Remember how many non-profits got stung by Madoff?
OMG I can actually see that in my head! Chewbacca being Jewish! Someone has got to draw that up. It would be, how they say, WTFPWNAGE!
Come on! Yoda as a Buddist, Chewbacca being Jewish, and I can sooooooo see a closet Hindu in Han Solo! Hmmm... what would Vader be? Or Luke? AMISH VADER! Come on he's not into big tech, wears dark conservative clothing, doesn't talk much.
Hmmm Boba Fett.... I'm seeing Pentacostal? Or Anglican..
There is no Drug addiction, sex addiction, or game addiction.
There is addiction. What you are addicted to is irrelivant to the definiton of an addiction.
What you are addicted to factors in only when you are trying to treat the addiction.
Addiction has two parts: Physical and Psychological.
Regardless of MMO, cigs, pot, or meth they both have those two sides.
Treatment is structured around what you are addicted to.
Trying to box up and create boutique addictions is a pointless exercise. Addiction = Addiction.
The reasons for becoming an addict can vary but result in the same condition, addiction.
Skinner and many others found that you can be addicted to anything. Milk, cashews, and even eye brow stroking. The behaviors are identical no matter what the subject was addicted to with a common result, self destruction.
This boutique addiction nonsense has to end. It's addiction, plain and simple. No video game addiction. Addiction. Just political nonsense...
UTM = Universally Targeted Machine
So much from learning from the phrase "all your eggs in one basket..."
Unified Threat Management is a dead end concept. We've been there and done that and we left it in the past.
With disaster recovery concepts, decentralized administration on the rise again, and cloud computing we once again come full circle to the whole reason we left mainframes for client server architecture.
"Who Watches the Watchman" is a line that comes to mind. The IDS should be keeping tabs on the Firewall, not part of the firewall. TRON should be an independent keeping tabs on the MCP not part of the MCP ;)
UTM mean a single point of compromise and failure. Even clustering a UTM configuration still has liability issue for configuration information. IN addition placing one IDS in DMZ and another in the green is problematic.
For IDS best practices have always leaned towards silent passive listening, not integrated into the firewall. Firewall goes down, so does the IDS. We must assume that a firewall going down is PART of an intrusion, thus the IDS should still function if the firewall is down...
This is similar to a multifunction fax\printer\scanner argument. If the damn thing shorts out you are out a fax\printer\scanner where as if they were separate components you'd have 2/3rds of your resources still functioning.
Now to the original post, they failed as a class. Why? Because exploits at the system level are never passed up to the high level services, all those components share a common blind spot because they are running on a common platform.
No shit.
This is why I still advocate a mixed environment\mix vendor approach. From the open source side I like a pair of IDS servers, one running Linux and one running NetBSD. I like layered firewalls also. I also like built in alarms to check for cross VLAN and subnet traffic. I firmly belive in darknets and honeypots too. I still advocate at least 2 antivirus solutions present in a campus network (more often this is either symantec\mcafee and either AVG\Avast)but most importantly I like distributed systems rather then consolidated appliances...
A craftsman makes 4 wooden masks. Someone takes one without paying for it. The craftsman now has 3 and someone has stolen 1. This is theft.
A craftsman makes 4 wooden masks. Someone makes an identical mask. The craftsman still has 4 masks. This is not theft as the craftsman didn't lose anything.
I don't care how hard they try, you cannot redefine theft. As a wise man once said, "I DO NOT BELIEVE IN IMAGINARY PROPERTY."
The Internet exposed a simple fact is all. Information is not a product. So laws that for centuries relied on the concept of phsyical assets are scrambling to catch up. industries built on that are trying to catch up.
The whole concept of copyright law was built, for centuries, that copying something had an implied labor cost, it took some measure of effort to copy. Now with the digital age, the Internet has exposed a series of seriously flawed assumptions on how fast information ages.
Dear Sony, we do not need safty rails on the Internet. It is like space (hence we call it cyberspace) in which it is nearly an infinite space with no center, up, or down. You can't "fall off" the edge. Like it or not, this is now the 21st Century and the last 30,000 years of recorded history is not much use in charting a course into the 21st century.
Relgion must adapt
Science must adapt
Business must adapt
Government must adapt
Cultures must adapt
People must adapt
Litigating a false nostalgia of how thigs "should be" based on how "things were" is irrelivant.
The 21st century is now and we need to move forward. The Internet is not a series of tubes, it is what it is, the Internet. It is not analagous to a phone network, a highway system, or a giant Rube Golberg machine. It a a complex collection of communication protocols and presentation layers most easly conceptualized by the phrase:
"Please Do Not Tip Strippers Poorly Again"
(P)hysical = The hardware that connects stuff
(D)ata Link = How do get stuff from hardware A to B
(N)etwork = Logical segmenting of 1 network from another
(T)ransport = How do we get stuff reliably from A to B, especially across more then 1 network
(S)ession = how can we tell we are working with A and B
(P)resentation = how do we move data from A to B
(A)pplication = What tools do we use to move data from A to B
While the descriptions are simplistic they should be sufficent in understanding what the "Internet" is, a very larger interconnected network of computers that operates largly based on that model listed above.
The Internet is PING, ARP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, XML, XVID, GIF, PNG, AVI, FLAC, FLASH, IRC, NTP, and so on and so on interoperating with one another to present information from A to B.
If I must dumb it down, then I offer this:
"To describe the Internet I can offer this: it is the canvas by which people communicate with, not only wth a wide variety of paints, but all the colors each paint makes available." - Ken P.
I give up on Slashdot folks. Out of 385 posts on this topic 289 of them cannot understand the difference between Ethenol and what is used to make Ethenol.
Listen, people, I know public education has gone down the tubes in the last 30 years but you need to remember that when you make an argument for or against something you have to stick with RELEVANT data.
If you are going to argue that Ethanol is good\bad for an engine THE SOURCE OF ETHANOL has nothing to do with that argument. I could potentially make Ethanol out of barbie doll, three Snickers bar, and a can of beer. It isn't efficent but it can be done. None of that is RELEVANT to how Ethanol interacts with engine parts.
If you are going to argue the economics of Ethanol you have to look at the complete picture, not just a small segment. You need to have a COMPLETE argument or you sound like a moron. Ethanol's political and economic impact can not be summarized in a paragraph. Trying to do so makes you sound like a tool.
Don't blame Bush, Clinton, Regan, or whom ever you bigots want to hate for you problems. The President in the US cannot originate a law, he is the LAST step in a long process. The economy now is the result of over 40 years of bad decisions and a lack of understanding on global economics. Republicans, Democrats, Unions, Media, and ourselves are all equally part of this. Anyone sitting down and looking over the last 40 years of policy can see clearly that everyone played a part. Stop blaming big oil, big corn, big whatever. It have never been, nor will it ever be simple. The only thing you do when blaming X is labeling youself as an ignorant bigot. Get informed and you'll realized that there are no mysterious conspiracies, illuminati groups, and big whateverindustryyoudon'tlike pulling the strings on puppets. It's a giant tapestry and there are 6 billion+ threads in it.
I lived through enough presidents and congress leaders to realize that when asked if you approve of congress and you only get 20% saying "Yes"; but when asked if you approve of your own senator you get 80% saying "Yes" then what you have is a lack of trust in "The Other Guys". Look at the mindless nonsense of "Blame Bush" "Blame Clinton" blame who ever. That really is just "Blame the Other Guys". You are headed towards civil war people. Grab a history book and look at both the Soviets history the American Civil War. Look at the language they use and you'll see, you are less then a decade away from that powder keg going off.
Wise up, if a simple article about Ethanol generates the comments we read here, we are in some serious trouble, and by serious I mean civil war, millions dead kind of serious.
"Procedural Content Generation" is the future of MMOs. Like Diablo's random dungeon generation on steroids entire shards can be generated, each one unique. Allowing no cost transfer to other shards along with a fixed lifespan for a shard makes exploring the world and what weirdness emerges from the generation would make much of the grumbling in contemporary MMOs irrelivant.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
http://www.nrc.gov/
an excerpt:
"... Manufacturers of tritium EXIT signs are "specific licensees," meaning they are licensed by the NRC or an Agreement State..."
So they do actually license the use of radioactive devices.
Whoa as I read that my first instinct was to check my kdawson bullshit filter but turns out this one was Timothy. I expect misleading BS to get posted by kdawson but looks like he might have a protege in Timothy now for the fine art of misleading bullshit. Timmy learn from kdawsons idiotic BS, don't post FUD and bullshit, we're tired of it.
The problem with single server shards is that certain prodecures, calculations, and tasks are not intrinsic to the operation of the world itself.
I have been tinkering with procedural content development for about 2 years now and have found several things (as an example).
In the proto-world system I am tinkering with mobs (npc creatures) spawning patterns are simualted by a simple cellular automation system (Think conway's game of life) such that populations shift based on desierability (number of times killed, damage taken, damage inflicted, idle time, food accessability). The spawn locations are updated every 24 hours but processessing the simulated PC activity, kills, available food, etc in't a real time activity. Currently that data is bundled (along with the next day's weather info) and dispatched to a utility server for processing. The game world itself (and hence the server running it) only needs the result. Why bog down the core game loop with that activity and why add another low SCHEDID task to the processor to deal with?
Two: As mentioned in other posts dynamic partitioning is already in existence. The Big World engine for example has technological solutions for dynamically scaling the world information to minimize updates sent to the client. You do not need to processes empty cells nor do you have to send information updates to a client if the information is beyond a given distance. (Aka Folks in Queynos don't need to know about objects in Freeport) Why keep zone information in memory when no one is anywhere near that zone? Remember even a simple check of who is where is just one more checkpoint in the core game loop. Even with event versus tick driven game logic it is easier to shift zone information to other systems when not in use and let a different processor handle the low priotity checks. With memory de-duplication host 33 instances of ZONE A requires only 1 base map of ZONE A and then 33 deltas.
Three: In experiementing with procedural game world development I have found that single systems are not practical when having to dynamically create new content.
Example:
I created a 400 x 400 unit map. When I get within 20 units of a border I generate another 10 units in front of my current direction. During that time, on a single server setup I am running out of resources even on a Core 2 with 4GB of RAM. With just me. Now admittedly that is very crude but I found it easier to have a secondary computer handle generating new content then copying the map information over. Even better, when maintaininng multiple maps (simulating multiple shards) I could generate new map content for BOTH maps on the secondary computer with much better results by using the input from both "shards" as salt information and preventing redundant map cells from entering the queue for generation. (In short MAP A is already generating zones x,y, and z so just copy x, y, and reset z as they overlap and give me a, b, and z for MAP B).
Weather simulation is handled on the laptop. I generates a week's worth of weather then dumps it into a proceess queue to simulate the weather. As the maps are dynamically generated, the weather patterns have to be updated as new content is added. If zones are identical I can just hold the primary weather map and just maintain deltas in memory. Trying to do that with all of the map information would take at least 60GB of RAM with 5 shards without using deltas.
By segmenting the zones and using deltas between systems not only is more efficent memory wise BUT FOR GODS SAKE IF THE SERVER DIES I'M ONLY OUT 1 ZONE NOT THE WHOLE WORLD.
There is too much to gain by using discrete specialized servers as well as zone specific servers. If you are hauling dirt you use a dump truck, picking up the kids at school, and SUV. You can haul kids in a dump truck and you can haul dirt in an SUV, but they are optimal for certain workloads an inefficent at others. Generalized servers are not the way to go IMHO.
(Global)
Database Server
Application Servers for Batch Activity
Specialized Servers for Instances with MAXINSTANCECOUNT=X with load balancing between Y servers
(Per Shard)
World Servers cluster with dynamic region balancing with n-1 servers in the cluster.
First off the Think Tank is well respected... by who exactly? I am pretty neck deep in the industry and I've never heard of them. If you are going to tell us "they are well respected" then a journalist would provide us with who holds them in high regard.
Second: A think tank, in this sense, is usually funded. In full disclousure when talking about "THINK TANKS" it is usually customary to indicate the sponsors of said think tank.
Third: More statistical mumbo jumbo. 60% growth each years is irrelivant without the baseline numbers to go with it. I can have a 60% growth rate no problem but 60% of what? 60% of the base population? 60% increase in the new traffic? (In short if it went up last year by 100 people and this year went up 160 or were there 100 people to begin with and we added 60 more...)
I could go on but I am tired, cranky, and due for a nap...
let's not forget the secular horrors including eugenics, nuclear weapons, lobotomies, communism, and all those other enlightened idealogies that don't rely on superstition. And lets not skip over fundamentalist eco-terrorists, fundementalist PETA members, or for that matter fundamentalists in general.
As if religion held some kind of monopoly on dangerous fundamentalists. You seem to have a selective memory in that regard...
More people in the 20th century have been murdered in the name of non-religious enlightment with communism still in the lead.
Evil, as a concept is an equal opportunity force and rather well divisified in the idelogies and social groups it infects.
First it was pedophile priests but soon we found that as a percentage it was no different then school teachers or prison guards. We found that evil doesn't have a gender bias or apparently an ideology bias.
Leave your enlightened bigotry in the closet please, we have little use for any form of it.
I learned a long time ago there are two types of people at a bar:
Those you can fuck with.
Those you don't fuck with.
Now I am no genius, I admit that, but I have gotten pretty good at sizing up people. There are just some people you don't fuck with. For instance fat guys with tattoos of cartoon characters. THERE IS A REASON THEY HAVEN'T HAD THEIR ASS BEAT AT THE BAR AND YOU DON'T WANT TO FIND OUT WHY!
They just fucked with the wrong guy. So I am going to discretely walk out of the bar and go to my car because when the fight starts, its never the two guy that are fighting that concerns me, its the stupid shit their friends do.
And I can clearly say, I am a hell of a lot more afraid of Lessig supports then I am of the Media Mafia. Lessig has waaaay more supporters and waaay more "digital firepower." This calls for a "Don't you know who I am" moment?
Needless to say, they went after the wrong guy on this. It's like going up and punching baby Jesus in the face... you're just gonna piss everyone off doing that no matter who they are. You just don't punch baby Jesusessss...
Now that it has hit Slashdot I give it 6 months before it's blown apart. Nothing pisses a geek off more then being told "It Can't Be Done"
Ther are very angry cave dwellers that since seeing this have now vowed to make it their EPIC QUEST to crack this thing open. Do not underestimate the power of the geek!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
THE SPIRIT OF THE WOZ COMPELLS YOU!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
THE SPIRIT OF THE TORVALD COMMANDS YOU!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
POWER OF THE GEEK COMPELLS YOU!
THE SPIRIT OF MITNICK COMMANDS YOU!
Inteviewer: So Merrick, I see the priest gig don't work out so well now what are you doing?
Merrik: Security Administration
Interviewer: So not much has change in your day to day life I take it.
Merrik: Nope, but at least I don't have to deal with suicidal young priests jumping out of second story windows after I pass out...
Interviewer: So no demons from hell this time?
Merrik: Nope just the errant daemon getting spawned from a fubared XINITD connection...
Interviewer: Well thank you for stopping by father.
Merrik: No thank you THE SPIRIT OF WILL WRIGHT COMPELLS YOU!!! errr.. sorry force of habit...
First the ignorance and bigoted nonsense expressed in 99% of the posts here is saddening.
The loss of a filibuster isn't going to result in run-away 1-sided legislation. The reason is the President, who has to run for re-election needs swing votes next election and will not want to come off as a party tool this year.
If Republicans were to try and use a filibuster and the democrats locked them out that would be, in several states, political suicide losing far too many moderates. They'd lose their super majority quickly if they tried to "crush the enemy" which is nonsense. Democrats and Republican represenatives get along just fine, they have differing political ideologies is all. It's considerably more civil then the news makes it out to be.
Either way my question is this: Who, in their right mind, feels confortable giving a legislature, regardless of which party, that kind of power when they have an over all approval rating lower then 20%?
Out of 100 people 80 don't like the democrats or republicans in the legislature. Who finds this super majority a good idea? The 20% that do approve of their job?
In all honesty I wouldn't set up a solution. Keep in mind that with different release schedules and different release criteria many times there may be a day or two lag between them and you still need to validate the patch\fix before putting it into a production environment. So given Ubuntu and CentOS, let's say the CentOS patch comes out 2 days later you are either doing a regression test twice on the two systems, or waiting till both are release and running a single regression test.
If you are hell bent on doing this the simplest solution I've found is simply a CRON job script that does the following:
One each system, every day at a given time do a check for package updates and send the results via an email to a shared mailbox called PENDING UPDATES. You can also send them to a SQL database if you choose (that's what I do)
The next thing is to hav a shell script that will SSH into a system and based on the platform grab any pending updates in the database that are marked with a FETCH flag turned on (I use PERL for all shell scripts so tapping a database is pretty damn easy).
Now that shell script will read from the DB of all the systems I manage (before I retired from Geekery that is I handled as many as 2300 systems split between Linux, Unix, NT, AS400, a pair of DEC Alpha workstations, and oddly enough 22 OS/2 boxes) that are flagged for Linux and execute the update script on each box.
As you posted your dillemma you need to work smarter not harder. There is NO REASON for you to "run around". A simple PERL script to execute the same command on multiple systems should be the norm. You can even make the script multi-threaded with the "use thread" or "use threads" depending on which 'flava' of rthe threading library you use (Use the one support QUEUES, easier to stuff the QUEUE with system names, set a MAXTHREADS count and just suck out servers and dispatch them to worker threads)
If you need to on Ubuntu pull an APT-GET INSTALL BLAH and in CENTOS do an update install BLAH it's a simple IF statement on the worker thread.
MY BIGGEST ADVICE: ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAVE HUMAN INTERVENTION INVOLVED BEFORE UPDATING ANYTHING!!
Again whip up a quick MYSQL\POSTGRES database, parse the output of the pending updates for each platform, and have a boolean field that indicates if the update is approved. Then let CRON handle pulling down approved updates or, as I reccomend, have an admin run a script that pulls down updates so it can coincide with regular matinance windows...
You know a 50 cal machine gun ripping a pirate in half with a single shot is a pretty good anti-pirate solution. I know very few pirates that would stick around after seeking their friend tore in half.
... the reason you are posting this article is to spread anti-microsoft hate and FUD for no reason.
Why not post:
With a gentoo install CD you can gain control of any linux system by overwriting key /etc/ files to give yourself root access unless you use encrypted drives...
More useless propaganda from an MS-hater. I mean seriously, this is news? Next thing you'll post is the Windows 7 has a horrible exploit that crashes it every time you shoot the PC with a shot gun.
Don't we have a NO FUD policy for articles?
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege", as a result of this abuse, your Stupid License has been suspended for 60 days.