Why is it not an option? It isn't the best option, which is to announce that an exploit exists, but not release the details.
I'm not blaming their actions for the guy's death, but the people who lost servers and data have every right to be angry. It would have been far easier for them to announce that an exploit exists so customers could get out of a bad position instead of releasing the code which guarantees the end result we see here (For the customer, not the owner of LxLabs)
The hospital going on divert simply means "If you can take a patient somewhere else without threatening their well being, please do so". It doesn't mean that if I rolled up with someone in cardiac arrest that they'd refuse my patient and send me elsewhere. Hospitals go on divert hundreds of times a day in this country. This isn't news. Move along.
I'm not going to go into the story: it's convoluted, but frankly its really not the key to this movie: this is a roller coaster movie with new actors playing parts we love.
Can someone please explain to me how this is NOT a failure?
Because the reviewer got it wrong.
The villain story is convoluted. The true story in this film is how the Enterprise crew was put together (or put back together due to the Alternate timeline). Nero is only there as a driving force behind the crew getting together. This is a film like Star Trek IV. It's not about villains, it's about the characters themselves.
The submitter neglected to mention how often this scenario is encountered though. If this happens frequently, buying a cable tester probably makes a lot of sense and will save a lot of money, time and headaches in the future.
However, if this happens very rarely, just buy the cable and be done with it.
And if I recall, the submitter is working on a total of *1* cable....
The other thing that you need to understand is that the military FORCIBLY moves its officers every 3 to 4 years. Since the number of IT posts, especially for the cracker/security type are limited, you either enlist for no pay, or you get sent to a crappy IT job maintaining laptops somewhere overseas before you can get back to 4 years doing what you want to. If you are an MP/SP, or a pilot or in charge of a motor pool, well those functions are at least similar in various places. If you have a highly specialized job, you get 4 years and thats it.
Given the choice between fast video card that dies every 4 months, requires a reboot to involve opening the case and reseating the card (repeatedly) and a slower, but still high performance video card, it's a no brainer to me. I got burned badly once, I don't want to try again. YMMV.
Oh, I've loved it since I got the NVidia. Even at 3 years old, the machine is STILL a powerhouse compared to what is coming out today. Quad Core Xeons, an Nvidia 8800 GT, 4 disk raid 0 SATA array (Yes, I use time machine to protect my data) and when my tax refund comes in I can actually upgrade to 8 cores. It runs Windows, It runs OS X, and it runs *nix apps with a native X11 interface. I wouldn't trade it for the world. If it wasn't for all those pluses, I probably wouldn't have kept it through all the video card difficulties.
It was the Radeon X1900XT. I had both the original and the updated versions cards. The machine was basically used for World of Warcraft (Which isn't hard on a GPU by any standard). http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/X1900XT_Overheating/ATI_X1900_artifacts.html is a convenient rundown on the issues with the card. And yes, I prefer the current NVidia mess. At least I know what I'm getting. The X1900XT issues were related strictly to the Apple versions of the cards. It was stupid when I had to reseat the card at least 5 times to get the machine to boot (It would fail boot bios checks and hang). Since I put in the 8800 GT, I've had no issues. Not one.
As I said, I would never trust any Mac with an ATI product in it after that mess.
After the disaster that was my ATI card that came with the first generation Mac Pro (2 Warranty replacements for over heating and continued issues even after that, Thankfully they released the NVIDIA 8800 GT for the thing) I would never EVER trust a high end card in my Mac again.
Like any windows server admin reads slashdot....
And the ones that do aren't going to stick their hands up and say "Oh, pick me" so we can all berate them for their choice in closed source server operating systems.
If you scan down, you'll see numerous links. The problem is, this issue was discussed back and forth 10-15 times at the time I posted this and even more people were posting the same.
I didn't want to take credit away from those who posted proper links and deserve the karma, simply by reposting them as a reply at the top.
I did want to end any other wasted discussion on this, as it threatened to destroy a good discussion.
1. You do not need to register a copyright in the US to enforce it.
2. You DO need to register it before pursuing legal action in the US AND damages are limited to actual damages, not statutory damages. Legal fees expended in defending the copyright are also ineligible to be claimed in this case.
There are about 50 posts in this thread already going back and forth on this point and it's really clouding up what is a good discussion.
Barring a specific law against requiring to show driver's license (and the person in this case has so far found an absence of a law requiring showing the ID, not a law specifying you do not have to show ID), an argument could be made that if a police officer is investigating a potential crime, they have the right to ask for identification from relevant parties.
Did you read the article?
I found the detail on Ohio's "stop and identify" law. I encourage you to read it in its entirety, but I will spell out the important part:
2921.29 (C) Nothing in this section requires a person to answer any questions beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth. Nothing in this section authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for not providing any information beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth or for refusing to describe the offense observed.
In other words, he found a law that specifically pertains to the fact that he does not need to show the ID.
Seriously. I don't know how you got a +5 informative with this, but RTFA next time before posting something that is blatantly contradictory to facts.
The problem is this. In the United States, RHEL is the standard Linux Distribution for business. Whether you like it or not, those are the facts. They have the market penetration. They, as a company, survive off of support licenses. This is for patches, upgrades, whatever. This includes the guarantee to backport security fixes into dead software (Have RHEL3 and support, you are getting fixes for packages that the original coders have long since abandoned as they've moved forward with releases). It gives you the ability to tell your boss that 7 years from now an RHEL 5 system will *STILL* have vendor support for all security issues. That is something that Microsoft isn't doing. (Want a DST patch for Win2k - you'll have to pay MS for it, even though it is only a 7 year old OS).
The problem is. Unbreakable linux is *NOT* a distribution. It is a support agreement to provide support for RHEL systems. They are directly support RHEL3 and RHEL4 via a separate patch path. This undercuts Red Hat and their pricing, basically taking a company that while strong, is hardly rock solid (I believe they made somewhere around $450 million dollars and had a $50 million dollar annual profit). The fall of Red Hat will also (quite obviously) mean the fall of RHEL, and quite possible the Fedora project (Their supported test ground). Where does that leave Oracle? Oracle will no longer have anyone to support, since they are basically using the GPL to abuse the Red Hat porting process and merely paying for an alternate distribution path. When Red Hat dies, Oracle Unbreakable will die as well. The end result? They kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
This is why the move by Oracle is dangerous. Getting into the business is one thing, but they are taking direct aim at Red Hat, and abusing the GPL by taking Red Hat code modifications and redistributing them via their own network and charging for it. This is also why there is a general disdain for what Oracle is doing among the linux community. Now, how much of this paragraph turns out to be true, and how much is fud is where the crux of the issue lies. Perhaps Oracle will have their own teams doing backports, and perhaps they will eventually move off of RHEL support onto their own distro, but until they make this move, you can be certain the RH crowd is going to continue these unfortunate tactics.
I'm curious, when did Airbus start putting rear view mirrors in their planes? I have never known it possible in any recent commercial airliner for the pilots to see back behind them.
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What are we, paying by the laser beam? You don't do the budgets around here....
Why is it not an option? It isn't the best option, which is to announce that an exploit exists, but not release the details. I'm not blaming their actions for the guy's death, but the people who lost servers and data have every right to be angry. It would have been far easier for them to announce that an exploit exists so customers could get out of a bad position instead of releasing the code which guarantees the end result we see here (For the customer, not the owner of LxLabs)
The hospital going on divert simply means "If you can take a patient somewhere else without threatening their well being, please do so". It doesn't mean that if I rolled up with someone in cardiac arrest that they'd refuse my patient and send me elsewhere. Hospitals go on divert hundreds of times a day in this country. This isn't news. Move along.
Can someone please explain to me how this is NOT a failure?
Because the reviewer got it wrong. The villain story is convoluted. The true story in this film is how the Enterprise crew was put together (or put back together due to the Alternate timeline). Nero is only there as a driving force behind the crew getting together. This is a film like Star Trek IV. It's not about villains, it's about the characters themselves.
This is the most sensible response so far.
The submitter neglected to mention how often this scenario is encountered though. If this happens frequently, buying a cable tester probably makes a lot of sense and will save a lot of money, time and headaches in the future.
However, if this happens very rarely, just buy the cable and be done with it.
And if I recall, the submitter is working on a total of *1* cable....
The other thing that you need to understand is that the military FORCIBLY moves its officers every 3 to 4 years. Since the number of IT posts, especially for the cracker/security type are limited, you either enlist for no pay, or you get sent to a crappy IT job maintaining laptops somewhere overseas before you can get back to 4 years doing what you want to. If you are an MP/SP, or a pilot or in charge of a motor pool, well those functions are at least similar in various places. If you have a highly specialized job, you get 4 years and thats it.
Given the choice between fast video card that dies every 4 months, requires a reboot to involve opening the case and reseating the card (repeatedly) and a slower, but still high performance video card, it's a no brainer to me. I got burned badly once, I don't want to try again. YMMV.
Parallels. I also have a separate SATA drive with windows on it if I need to boot windows. I just slide it in when I need it.
Oh, I've loved it since I got the NVidia. Even at 3 years old, the machine is STILL a powerhouse compared to what is coming out today. Quad Core Xeons, an Nvidia 8800 GT, 4 disk raid 0 SATA array (Yes, I use time machine to protect my data) and when my tax refund comes in I can actually upgrade to 8 cores. It runs Windows, It runs OS X, and it runs *nix apps with a native X11 interface. I wouldn't trade it for the world. If it wasn't for all those pluses, I probably wouldn't have kept it through all the video card difficulties.
It was the Radeon X1900XT. I had both the original and the updated versions cards. The machine was basically used for World of Warcraft (Which isn't hard on a GPU by any standard). http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/X1900XT_Overheating/ATI_X1900_artifacts.html is a convenient rundown on the issues with the card. And yes, I prefer the current NVidia mess. At least I know what I'm getting. The X1900XT issues were related strictly to the Apple versions of the cards. It was stupid when I had to reseat the card at least 5 times to get the machine to boot (It would fail boot bios checks and hang). Since I put in the 8800 GT, I've had no issues. Not one. As I said, I would never trust any Mac with an ATI product in it after that mess.
After the disaster that was my ATI card that came with the first generation Mac Pro (2 Warranty replacements for over heating and continued issues even after that, Thankfully they released the NVIDIA 8800 GT for the thing) I would never EVER trust a high end card in my Mac again.
only outlaws will have batleths...
Like any windows server admin reads slashdot.... And the ones that do aren't going to stick their hands up and say "Oh, pick me" so we can all berate them for their choice in closed source server operating systems.
plenty of pagers to be had. You just need to not fail at google. Or the obvious .com address.
I thought Al Gore invented the internet.... and pants.
Uh.. Turkey Point has *2* reactors and 3 major fossil fuel generators (As well as several generators under 5 MWs).
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register
Good enough?
If you scan down, you'll see numerous links. The problem is, this issue was discussed back and forth 10-15 times at the time I posted this and even more people were posting the same.
I didn't want to take credit away from those who posted proper links and deserve the karma, simply by reposting them as a reply at the top.
I did want to end any other wasted discussion on this, as it threatened to destroy a good discussion.
1. You do not need to register a copyright in the US to enforce it.
2. You DO need to register it before pursuing legal action in the US AND damages are limited to actual damages, not statutory damages. Legal fees expended in defending the copyright are also ineligible to be claimed in this case.
There are about 50 posts in this thread already going back and forth on this point and it's really clouding up what is a good discussion.
Barring a specific law against requiring to show driver's license (and the person in this case has so far found an absence of a law requiring showing the ID, not a law specifying you do not have to show ID), an argument could be made that if a police officer is investigating a potential crime, they have the right to ask for identification from relevant parties. Did you read the article? I found the detail on Ohio's "stop and identify" law. I encourage you to read it in its entirety, but I will spell out the important part: 2921.29 (C) Nothing in this section requires a person to answer any questions beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth. Nothing in this section authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for not providing any information beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth or for refusing to describe the offense observed. In other words, he found a law that specifically pertains to the fact that he does not need to show the ID. Seriously. I don't know how you got a +5 informative with this, but RTFA next time before posting something that is blatantly contradictory to facts.
The problem is this. In the United States, RHEL is the standard Linux Distribution for business. Whether you like it or not, those are the facts. They have the market penetration. They, as a company, survive off of support licenses. This is for patches, upgrades, whatever. This includes the guarantee to backport security fixes into dead software (Have RHEL3 and support, you are getting fixes for packages that the original coders have long since abandoned as they've moved forward with releases). It gives you the ability to tell your boss that 7 years from now an RHEL 5 system will *STILL* have vendor support for all security issues. That is something that Microsoft isn't doing. (Want a DST patch for Win2k - you'll have to pay MS for it, even though it is only a 7 year old OS). The problem is. Unbreakable linux is *NOT* a distribution. It is a support agreement to provide support for RHEL systems. They are directly support RHEL3 and RHEL4 via a separate patch path. This undercuts Red Hat and their pricing, basically taking a company that while strong, is hardly rock solid (I believe they made somewhere around $450 million dollars and had a $50 million dollar annual profit). The fall of Red Hat will also (quite obviously) mean the fall of RHEL, and quite possible the Fedora project (Their supported test ground). Where does that leave Oracle? Oracle will no longer have anyone to support, since they are basically using the GPL to abuse the Red Hat porting process and merely paying for an alternate distribution path. When Red Hat dies, Oracle Unbreakable will die as well. The end result? They kill the goose that laid the golden egg. This is why the move by Oracle is dangerous. Getting into the business is one thing, but they are taking direct aim at Red Hat, and abusing the GPL by taking Red Hat code modifications and redistributing them via their own network and charging for it. This is also why there is a general disdain for what Oracle is doing among the linux community. Now, how much of this paragraph turns out to be true, and how much is fud is where the crux of the issue lies. Perhaps Oracle will have their own teams doing backports, and perhaps they will eventually move off of RHEL support onto their own distro, but until they make this move, you can be certain the RH crowd is going to continue these unfortunate tactics.
I'm curious, when did Airbus start putting rear view mirrors in their planes? I have never known it possible in any recent commercial airliner for the pilots to see back behind them.
of these things. Oh wait. It IS its own Beowulf cluster...
only took 5 days to make it to slashdot....
Web chucks '.um' domain POSTED: 1:34 p.m. EST, January 25, 2007
I've read this somewhere before..... Has anyone checked the local galactic construction office over at Alpha Centuari for hyperspace bypass plans?