I'm reminded of that case of the UK police tasing a man who had fallen into a diabetic coma because he was unconscious and did not follow their instructions.
Cops don't have brains, anyone with brains would not do that job. It does attract psychopaths with a craving for power though.
Yes you do, what you mean is you don't want to believe that you live in a police state.
Come back to this story in a year and see what disciplinary actions were taken against these police. I'll bet they will still be beating down anyone they don't like the look of.
For the record: Yes, failing to follow the orders of police in the US is a good way to come in close contact with a taser or baton, fact of life.
So you have these rulers who wander around giving out arbitrary commands to the proles. The rulers pretend to be following some 'law' but really they are above most laws and only have to follow their own loose interpretation of some written law. They meet any perceived challenge to their authority with mild to extreme violence often involving electrical torture devices.
Yes, because clearly, Apple was the sole inventor of the "Limit X per customer" method of retail sales and there is absolutely NO prior art from any other store in the history of the world
No, Apple invented the "Violent attack limit X per customer" method.
It's a special blend of the conventional "sell people everything you can" and the muggers "Give me your wallet or I'll smash you teeth in" methods of acquiring money..
Of course, it would mean lesser profits for Apple, but that is their problem, and using the police to enforce their world-view is shocking, to say the least.
So violent agencies of the US government are protecting the profits of a private company that doesn't even pay tax in the US.
The store is private property. You're not entitled to stand in there and disrupt their business in such a manner, any more than if someone stood by you at your workplace and shouted at you, or went to your house and shouted at you in your living room.
Where I live if someone yells at you on your private property you can ask them to leave, if they don't you can use minimum force to remove them. If you use more than minimum force it's criminal.
You can't pass electricity though their body causing them to collapse in pain then get two big fat men to pin the person to the ground.
Right now I'm going to go to an Apple store and diss the products in front of other customers, complain they're overpriced, underpowered, not as good as the Android ones, maybe bring my Android quad core tablet and do visual compares. Until they ask me to leave. Then I'm not going to leave, I'm going to kick up one hell of a stink. Maybe do a bit of shouting about how they tazered a woman in an Apple store. f*** Apple. Really f*** em, corporate scum.
Good luck and please film this and put it on youtube so we can all enjoy it. However remember that Apple didn't use a tazer on this women, the police did.
There are a number of reasons for the choice, but the most basic one is that I have spent, literally, months trying to maintain the services that I need with an Ubuntu server box, and I spend minutes getting the same result with the Mac
Just pay someone. PHP on IIS just means someday soon you will be migrating to Apache. At least use Apache on windows. At which point you might as well use linux.
Time for a shameless NGINX plug - It's apache without the mess.
Although just use apache is you need cgi, cgi/fastcgi wrappers suck.
We know how to use a Linux virtual server. We have been using them since they came with 80 meg of ram, tiny amounts of bandwidth and tiny amounts of storage.
There is no story here.
What next? Running stories about how you can search for text in files with a command called grep?
The conf files are in absolutely logical and consistent places, they are merely not in the place where you expect them nor in the same place they would be on ubuntu.
Pendantic mode - How do you know you use it without knowing? Besides the boot messages are a dead giveaway.
I used to use pfsense. It worked fine but it did seem annoyingly limited in some respects and everytime I asked how to do a thing I was told I should pay for a bounty to add some feature in the next release. It annoyed me so much I changed to OpenBSD and now write pf rules in vi. Now I know exactly what my firewall is doing, it runs a more recent version of pf, I have way more flexibility to do other things on my firewall if I choose, and pfsense can't compete with OpenBSD's security history.
Well, I know people who use FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD. I think the thought behind the BSD license is telling. It basically says you can take the code and nothing in return is expected, which is exactly what they get.
I know from personal experience that at least some big mega-corps do give stuff back to the BSD's.
I worked at a place that spent loads of money improving one of the BSDs. They gave back everything for the purely selfish reason that they could either keep maintaining their changes at a high cost or send the changes to the project and get maintance for free. The improvements to the BSD were publicly known but who funded them never was.
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I'm reminded of that case of the UK police tasing a man who had fallen into a diabetic coma because he was unconscious and did not follow their instructions.
Cops don't have brains, anyone with brains would not do that job. It does attract psychopaths with a craving for power though.
We do not live in a police state.
Yes you do, what you mean is you don't want to believe that you live in a police state.
Come back to this story in a year and see what disciplinary actions were taken against these police. I'll bet they will still be beating down anyone they don't like the look of.
For the record: Yes, failing to follow the orders of police in the US is a good way to come in close contact with a taser or baton, fact of life.
So you have these rulers who wander around giving out arbitrary commands to the proles. The rulers pretend to be following some 'law' but really they are above most laws and only have to follow their own loose interpretation of some written law. They meet any perceived challenge to their authority with mild to extreme violence often involving electrical torture devices.
Is that the kind of society you want to live in?
Yes, because clearly, Apple was the sole inventor of the "Limit X per customer" method of retail sales and there is absolutely NO prior art from any other store in the history of the world
No, Apple invented the "Violent attack limit X per customer" method.
It's a special blend of the conventional "sell people everything you can" and the muggers "Give me your wallet or I'll smash you teeth in" methods of acquiring money..
Of course, it would mean lesser profits for Apple, but that is their problem, and using the police to enforce their world-view is shocking, to say the least.
So violent agencies of the US government are protecting the profits of a private company that doesn't even pay tax in the US.
The store is private property. You're not entitled to stand in there and disrupt their business in such a manner, any more than if someone stood by you at your workplace and shouted at you, or went to your house and shouted at you in your living room.
Where I live if someone yells at you on your private property you can ask them to leave, if they don't you can use minimum force to remove them. If you use more than minimum force it's criminal.
You can't pass electricity though their body causing them to collapse in pain then get two big fat men to pin the person to the ground.
I'm sure the police are checking that their tasers are charged at this very moment...
I wonder if the tasers are made in China too?
Right now I'm going to go to an Apple store and diss the products in front of other customers, complain they're overpriced, underpowered, not as good as the Android ones, maybe bring my Android quad core tablet and do visual compares. Until they ask me to leave. Then I'm not going to leave, I'm going to kick up one hell of a stink. Maybe do a bit of shouting about how they tazered a woman in an Apple store. f*** Apple. Really f*** em, corporate scum.
Good luck and please film this and put it on youtube so we can all enjoy it. However remember that Apple didn't use a tazer on this women, the police did.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
Export restricted iphones? Did the police have some evidence she intended to sell these to Iran or North Korea?
Or did the police use a torture device on this women because she didn't immediately comply to their commands?
Is 'unauthorized export resale' really a thing in the US?
Does that seriously mean that people can't sell, and by extension never own, physical objects they buy?
If you are posting on slashdot about Asterisk and Samba4 you are most certainly not a PHB, you are a knowledgeable boss.
A lot of us dream of having a boss who actually knows his shit.
There are a number of reasons for the choice, but the most basic one is that I have spent, literally, months trying to maintain the services that I need with an Ubuntu server box, and I spend minutes getting the same result with the Mac
What services take months?
What has happened? It used to be so nice place to be.
I admire your long term memory. You remember 15 years ago like it was yesterday.
Just pay someone.
PHP on IIS just means someday soon you will be migrating to Apache. At least use Apache on windows. At which point you might as well use linux.
Time for a shameless NGINX plug - It's apache without the mess.
Although just use apache is you need cgi, cgi/fastcgi wrappers suck.
SOunds like a typical linux setup. Config file this and that and an entire weekend gone and nothing to show for it.
Takes like 10 minutes on my WIndows boxen
If it takes you 10 minutes to install the botnet clients and malware you must have a seriously slow internet connection.
Nobody on Slashdot should need this article.
I should have just modded you up instead of posting.
We know how to use a Linux virtual server. We have been using them since they came with 80 meg of ram, tiny amounts of bandwidth and tiny amounts of storage.
There is no story here.
What next? Running stories about how you can search for text in files with a command called grep?
Outside of a few geeks like us here on slashdot, NOBODY is installing Linux in place of Windows.
Tell that to the secretaries at my work who use RHEL. To be fair a few of them think they are using Windows.
Also hundreds of people used RHEL on workstations at my previous position.
The conf files are in absolutely logical and consistent places, they are merely not in the place where you expect them nor in the same place they would be on ubuntu.
Like someone else said, read the handbook.
..but for our needs having an up to date php and apache are very useful things.
You might want to lookup nginx. Apache is so 2000-late.
CentOS is my organization's standard, but sometimes there are compelling reasons to use something else.
I have no knowledge of your situation. Maybe it was just someone using what they knew best in your case.
I use it *without* knowing on my router http://www.pfsense.org/ and my NAS http://www.freenas.org/
Pendantic mode - How do you know you use it without knowing? Besides the boot messages are a dead giveaway.
I used to use pfsense. It worked fine but it did seem annoyingly limited in some respects and everytime I asked how to do a thing I was told I should pay for a bounty to add some feature in the next release. It annoyed me so much I changed to OpenBSD and now write pf rules in vi. Now I know exactly what my firewall is doing, it runs a more recent version of pf, I have way more flexibility to do other things on my firewall if I choose, and pfsense can't compete with OpenBSD's security history.
Well, I know people who use FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD. I think the thought behind the BSD license is telling. It basically says you can take the code and nothing in return is expected, which is exactly what they get.
I know from personal experience that at least some big mega-corps do give stuff back to the BSD's.
I worked at a place that spent loads of money improving one of the BSDs. They gave back everything for the purely selfish reason that they could either keep maintaining their changes at a high cost or send the changes to the project and get maintance for free. The improvements to the BSD were publicly known but who funded them never was.
I have never met anyone in person who uses it. I know some must.
Dammit. I use it, I was using it 10 minutes ago. I can't be alone.
I store lots of data on FreeBSD 9.0 using ZFS because I really like ZFS. I also run BackupPC for my personal stuff on it.
I also really like the handbook. One simple accessible document for most of everything is so much easier than the Linux distros.
Whether its a dead OS or not, in an attempt to make me feel better about using Mac OS X and iOS I donated :P
isaac@xen:~$ ping -c 2 10.0.0.107
PING 10.0.0.107 (10.0.0.107) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.107: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.595 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.107: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.959 ms
It's certainly not a dead OS, it's running perfectly well.