The conservative updates to BSD now mean that several commands and C functions are not available because they offend conservative moral values these include, but are not limited to (a full list will not be produced for reasons of security)
finger, bash, free, enable, alias & break
Awk is no longer considered under protection and users may hunt it to extinction if they desire.
kill is of course still available to all users, with the added bonus that you may now kill other peoples processes that you believe are interfering with your own and stealing CPU time from your processes.
In addition 4.8 introduces the first stage of BSD NSA Security which ensures your security by logging everything you do with the goverment, this is an optional package at this stage but will be mandatory in 5.0.
Anyone who doesn't like these updates is a liberal communist who is undermining the American Way of Life
And to mod up a comment that repeats small minded stereo types verbatim, and talks of freedoms in a country that detains people without trial or representation by calling them "non-combatants" against all democratic countries protests is not the place to be throwing stones from.
Bloody hell, not often you hear someone quoting the "Party" from 1984 as if its a good thing.
Lets compare what the Party needed to control its people with what this person wants:-
1) A war against something, with a changing enemy as required. The "War on Terror" appears perfect for this
2) An ability to always track people (the TV screens in 1984), so zero privacy and the goverment able to track it.
3) The ability to "reinvent" history - Donald Rumsfield as defender of liberty... not the person who sold chemicals to Sadam. UK and USA as "Liberators" rather than the twice colonial power and the most ardent supporters of Sadam in the 80s.
4) Making people spy on each other and report to Big Brother - Already being urged in the US
5) Big Brother to be an unaccountable figurehead. When was the last time you saw someone ask a tough question to George ?
Ladies and Gentleman I call the Brotherhood to order. These are sad days for democracy, George Orwell has defined already the republican ideal of America.
What you are saying is that the last 4 years have created unrealistic salaries for people who skills do not give the business benefits those salaries demand.
Or to put it another way, if you plot the salary curve for the last 20 years and factor out the.com boom we are actually not doing too badly at all.
Today the RIAA announced it was pushing for legislation that made the use of chairs illegal
"Pirates sit down to make these illegal copies that are destroying society" said an RIAA spokesperson "This is all about making it uncomfortable for the pirates"
When questioned as to the many valid uses of chairs the spokesperson replied "Sure this will have a minor effect on some people, but isn't that worth it to protect the American way of life and ensure the success of democracy that rides on the music and movie industries, what are you some sort of Communist or one of the Al Q'uada people.... guards arrest this person"
In terms of being "better" at the game than others, but part of the question should be is it cheating, or just another game.
Someone who buys or downloads a cheat that someone else made is a different deal, and clearly some of those people are pretty sad individuals who just want to say "ha ha fragged you", before never ever having sex with anyone.
However the person who creates the cheat, who engages in what can be described as espionage against the game developer is playing a different game of skill, that person is learning things, developing things and playing their own game with their own rules and "winning" by being able to cheat. The challenge here isn't to be better at Quake, but to be able to cheat the best at Quake, that in itself is a game.
How about an open game in which these developers play their cheats off against each other using the best players without cheats as the players in the game. That way you can find out who developed the best cheat.
One thing here is that this is fine for grabbing TV or plugging into a video camera....
But in Europe and Japan we have a different problem, we have mobile phones that can capture video, send video and even play video streams. Transcoding of this is a massive deal and will be "very cool to have" going forwards.
I like this article for the summary it gives of the problems I had yesterday.
But with a more connected world are the problems the same ?
Well I am on a ship in the carribean so thank you so much for assuming I'm a pirate. Its that sort of random classification and assumption that assumes all people on boats in the carribean are pirates that leads to real problems.
"Hell we still can't hit a Barn Door from 200 yards" says General Norman Bates.
I think I'd almost prefer the feeling that the miltary blew up a hospital because they had the wrong data for accuracy, rather than a feeling that they did it on purpose.
My god an actual proper article on OSS and how it is winning. THIS is also to everyone out there who pushes MySQL and its ilk. These are the people who need to be convinced and this lays down HOW they need to be convinced.
These people don't care about this cool feature or that cool feature, its TCO that concerns them, so cheap today != cheap tommorow.
Unlike most OSS is winning articles I've read recently this actually approaches it from the right side... the money men. If the CIO commisions a system on OSS that is great, if next time he specifies OSS then it really has made it. Until its the default with these people however its not the major player.
So please, tell us how many different databases you have DBA'ed on or architected. What functionality the "big guys" have that MySQL doesn't have.
Oh wait, you have never done anything beyond a website ?
Couple of hints: MySQL and OLAP, MySQL and Clustering, MySQL and XA compliance, MySQL and hot backups, MySQL and schema migration etc etc etc Sure it has _some_ of this stuff. But can it compete head to head with the "big guys".
The idea that MySQL will replace Oracle across the enterprise is laughable, the support agreements aren't there, the reliability and history isn't there. And the last comment sums it up.
Have you _any_ idea how much people apy for those large data bases and data warehouses (now MySQL for Data Warehousing.. please) ? Hint: It makes Web Sites look like chicken feed.
Enterprise systems is worth more as a market than the Web Systems. And MySQL does _not_ have the facilities to compete. What it would need the support of SAP, Baan, JDE, Peoplesoft, Siebel et al, as well as a whole lot more functionality.
Reading the comments here its rather strange, people seem to think that companies moving into new markets are strong because of what they do in other markets. Comments like "MS will change" etc etc misses the point some what.
MS will have sat down and thought about this strategy, they are unlikely just to change in 6 months as they have models that indicate this will work. 6 months time then they may start changing. But the point here is that as the new player, even a new player with loads of cash, they have to adopt different business models as they have to differentiate themselves so they don't compete head to head with established players.
Sony did this when they entered the console market, their interaction with publishers was different to Sega and Nintendo and it worked, this is the way that MS thinks it will win.
And please folks lets remember that in 3 years of entering the Mobile Phone market place there is ONE major vendor who supports MS, Motorola, and they support Symbian and Linux as well. MS have failed to really break into this marketplace against established players, here they have decided to make the hardware as its simpler BUT...
Being the biggest software company doesn't make you the biggest entertainment company... especially when one of them is the biggest competitor in the market place.
ONE MARKET != ANOTHER MARKET folks. If GE entered the Console market would they do well ? What about AOL/Time Warner ? Think about why the console market is different before assuming its the same MS as the desktop MS.
MS Will, as in the mobile market place, lose money for the next 3-5 years... this is clearly a long term play.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who when they hear "learn from your habits and be more helpful" thinks of Eddie from Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy. The ultimate in friendly and helpful and the sort of computer you want to take an axe to in 30 seconds.
A mobile phone with the usability of the MS Paperclip, now f--kin thank you.
"Oh you left a message on the answering machine, naah I didn't get it must be the defective DRAM chips they use. Now you've managed to track me down using a detective agency I'll be sure to send you the cheque next week"
People can argue about the merits of this or that with product activation but the thing that really sucks here is the motivations and the way the law works. This is in effect a company touting for business saying "hey look we think a bunch of people could get cash here" its not that they have any real evidence of actual damage that was caused beyond people being a bit miffed.
What sort of legal system allows Lawyers to start procedings before they have plantiffs ? No other industry works like this, and in fact almost no other countries legal system works like this. This is a sickening example of how law suits can be created just because a lawyer needs a new Ferrari, NOT because there is real evidence of damage.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes...
Silicon.com did something just today on it, and the salary survey from Meta will be out soon.
So no I'm not making it up.
Techies and managers salaries have gone way ahead of Joe Six pack.... then look at the manager v executive curve to get even more depressed.
The conservative updates to BSD now mean that several commands and C functions are not available because they offend conservative moral values these include, but are not limited to (a full list will not be produced for reasons of security)
finger, bash, free, enable, alias & break
Awk is no longer considered under protection and users may hunt it to extinction if they desire.
kill is of course still available to all users, with the added bonus that you may now kill other peoples processes that you believe are interfering with your own and stealing CPU time from your processes.
In addition 4.8 introduces the first stage of BSD NSA Security which ensures your security by logging everything you do with the goverment, this is an optional package at this stage but will be mandatory in 5.0.
Anyone who doesn't like these updates is a liberal communist who is undermining the American Way of Life
The BSD Conservative Coalition Commitee
And this applies to the IRA how ?
Or ETA ?
And to mod up a comment that repeats small minded stereo types verbatim, and talks of freedoms in a country that detains people without trial or representation by calling them "non-combatants" against all democratic countries protests is not the place to be throwing stones from.
Bloody hell, not often you hear someone quoting the "Party" from 1984 as if its a good thing.
Lets compare what the Party needed to control its people with what this person wants
1) A war against something, with a changing enemy as required. The "War on Terror" appears perfect for this
2) An ability to always track people (the TV screens in 1984), so zero privacy and the goverment able to track it.
3) The ability to "reinvent" history - Donald Rumsfield as defender of liberty... not the person who sold chemicals to Sadam. UK and USA as "Liberators" rather than the twice colonial power and the most ardent supporters of Sadam in the 80s.
4) Making people spy on each other and report to Big Brother - Already being urged in the US
5) Big Brother to be an unaccountable figurehead. When was the last time you saw someone ask a tough question to George ?
Ladies and Gentleman I call the Brotherhood to order. These are sad days for democracy, George Orwell has defined already the republican ideal of America.
What you are saying is that the last 4 years have created unrealistic salaries for people who skills do not give the business benefits those salaries demand.
Or to put it another way, if you plot the salary curve for the last 20 years and factor out the
What a stupid bloody name, makes it sound like what they are after is a proposal is
Get a solider, cover in methanol, set on fire, this should not kill him.
After that then cover in dynamite, light again.
Thus resulting in a lethality (is that a word) to the fighter in the lighting after next.
Now a weapon that can identify who is on your side and not let you kill them... now that would be something.
Whey hey, someone who actually understands the internet and how Akamai works...
In 3 months of telling people this you are the first to actually point out the issue. Thank god for that.
Convince me that I should give a F*CK about this. Isn't Europe liable to go a different route due to its different legal history anyway.
1) Read 1984, and find out what happens to people with nothing to hide
2) Read about Stalin and what happened to people with nothing to hide
3) Read about Nixon and what he wanted to do to people with nothing to hide.
Nothing to hide is NOT the same as agreeing with the goverment.
He Hosts under a UK IP Block! The Whitehouse is hosted Here!
Looks like Georgie Boy is looking for an exit plan
Netcraft its TERENA Secretariat whoever they are.
Today the RIAA announced it was pushing for legislation that made the use of chairs illegal
"Pirates sit down to make these illegal copies that are destroying society" said an RIAA spokesperson "This is all about making it uncomfortable for the pirates"
When questioned as to the many valid uses of chairs the spokesperson replied "Sure this will have a minor effect on some people, but isn't that worth it to protect the American way of life and ensure the success of democracy that rides on the music and movie industries, what are you some sort of Communist or one of the Al Q'uada people.... guards arrest this person"
In terms of being "better" at the game than others, but part of the question should be is it cheating, or just another game.
Someone who buys or downloads a cheat that someone else made is a different deal, and clearly some of those people are pretty sad individuals who just want to say "ha ha fragged you", before never ever having sex with anyone.
However the person who creates the cheat, who engages in what can be described as espionage against the game developer is playing a different game of skill, that person is learning things, developing things and playing their own game with their own rules and "winning" by being able to cheat. The challenge here isn't to be better at Quake, but to be able to cheat the best at Quake, that in itself is a game.
How about an open game in which these developers play their cheats off against each other using the best players without cheats as the players in the game. That way you can find out who developed the best cheat.
One thing here is that this is fine for grabbing TV or plugging into a video camera....
But in Europe and Japan we have a different problem, we have mobile phones that can capture video, send video and even play video streams. Transcoding of this is a massive deal and will be "very cool to have" going forwards.
I like this article for the summary it gives of the problems I had yesterday.
But with a more connected world are the problems the same ?
piracy - I am not on a ship in the carribean sea.
Well I am on a ship in the carribean so thank you so much for assuming I'm a pirate. Its that sort of random classification and assumption that assumes all people on boats in the carribean are pirates that leads to real problems.
Here, here and here
"Hell we still can't hit a Barn Door from 200 yards" says General Norman Bates.
I think I'd almost prefer the feeling that the miltary blew up a hospital because they had the wrong data for accuracy, rather than a feeling that they did it on purpose.
My god an actual proper article on OSS and how it is winning. THIS is also to everyone out there who pushes MySQL and its ilk. These are the people who need to be convinced and this lays down HOW they need to be convinced.
These people don't care about this cool feature or that cool feature, its TCO that concerns them, so cheap today != cheap tommorow.
Unlike most OSS is winning articles I've read recently this actually approaches it from the right side... the money men. If the CIO commisions a system on OSS that is great, if next time he specifies OSS then it really has made it. Until its the default with these people however its not the major player.
So please, tell us how many different databases you have DBA'ed on or architected. What functionality the "big guys" have that MySQL doesn't have.
Oh wait, you have never done anything beyond a website ?
Couple of hints: MySQL and OLAP, MySQL and Clustering, MySQL and XA compliance, MySQL and hot backups, MySQL and schema migration etc etc etc Sure it has _some_ of this stuff. But can it compete head to head with the "big guys".
The idea that MySQL will replace Oracle across the enterprise is laughable, the support agreements aren't there, the reliability and history isn't there. And the last comment sums it up.
Have you _any_ idea how much people apy for those large data bases and data warehouses (now MySQL for Data Warehousing.. please) ? Hint: It makes Web Sites look like chicken feed.
Enterprise systems is worth more as a market than the Web Systems. And MySQL does _not_ have the facilities to compete. What it would need the support of SAP, Baan, JDE, Peoplesoft, Siebel et al, as well as a whole lot more functionality.
People Web != Enterprise and $Web $Enterprise
Sony have many more games, at which point the XBoxer is paying money to play nothing as much as they like.
Hint: How many other markets are _actually_ driven by consumers rather than business interests.... MS isn't thinking of you.
Reading the comments here its rather strange, people seem to think that companies moving into new markets are strong because of what they do in other markets. Comments like "MS will change" etc etc misses the point some what.
MS will have sat down and thought about this strategy, they are unlikely just to change in 6 months as they have models that indicate this will work. 6 months time then they may start changing. But the point here is that as the new player, even a new player with loads of cash, they have to adopt different business models as they have to differentiate themselves so they don't compete head to head with established players.
Sony did this when they entered the console market, their interaction with publishers was different to Sega and Nintendo and it worked, this is the way that MS thinks it will win.
And please folks lets remember that in 3 years of entering the Mobile Phone market place there is ONE major vendor who supports MS, Motorola, and they support Symbian and Linux as well. MS have failed to really break into this marketplace against established players, here they have decided to make the hardware as its simpler BUT...
Being the biggest software company doesn't make you the biggest entertainment company... especially when one of them is the biggest competitor in the market place.
ONE MARKET != ANOTHER MARKET folks. If GE entered the Console market would they do well ? What about AOL/Time Warner ? Think about why the console market is different before assuming its the same MS as the desktop MS.
MS Will, as in the mobile market place, lose money for the next 3-5 years... this is clearly a long term play.
This all appears to be text, are they streaming the presentations, which would make sense at a conference like this ?
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who when they hear "learn from your habits and be more helpful" thinks of Eddie from Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy. The ultimate in friendly and helpful and the sort of computer you want to take an axe to in 30 seconds.
A mobile phone with the usability of the MS Paperclip, now f--kin thank you.
"Oh you left a message on the answering machine, naah I didn't get it must be the defective DRAM chips they use. Now you've managed to track me down using a detective agency I'll be sure to send you the cheque next week"
People can argue about the merits of this or that with product activation but the thing that really sucks here is the motivations and the way the law works. This is in effect a company touting for business saying "hey look we think a bunch of people could get cash here" its not that they have any real evidence of actual damage that was caused beyond people being a bit miffed.
What sort of legal system allows Lawyers to start procedings before they have plantiffs ? No other industry works like this, and in fact almost no other countries legal system works like this. This is a sickening example of how law suits can be created just because a lawyer needs a new Ferrari, NOT because there is real evidence of damage.