You can always confirm it to the reporter and ask that they not reveal your name. Many reporters in the US and other places have gone to jail rather than reveal their sources. Reporters regard this as a fundamental part of a free press.
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How is this [named.root/db.cache] kept up to date? As the network administrator [of your local network], that's your responsibility. Some old versions of BIND did update this file periodically. That feature was disabled, though; apparently it didn't work as well as the authors had hoped. Sometimes the db.cache file is mailed to the bind-users or namedroppers list mailing list. If you are on one of those lists, you are likely to hear about changes. (pg 68)
Bottom line: If you run a nameserver it is your responsibility to keep it up to date. That includes knowing how changes are announced. BIND has also had several well known security problems. If you are running a version < 8.2.5 you should upgrade that as well.
Anyway, the problem lies when we all sell stock in every other company and buy shares in MS instead, because we perceive them to be "better financed". This causes them to become even more "better financed" and wipe the floor with it competitors
You are not usually buying the stock from MS, rather from a current shareholder who wishes to sell. MS gets no additional financing unless they issue more shares. If there is a rush to dump stock A and buy B, then the price of A falls and B rises until the expected return of A and B are equal to each other and to some "normal" market rate of return. If they differ, an arbitrager can make money by selling one and buying the other.
How else do you propose that people who have possibly interesting ideas or technology get access to the capital that they need to develop that technology? Trying to decide where to invest your money is hard work, too. And maybe, just maybe, it is even a reasonable thing to dump Adobe if it looks like a better technology from a better financed company is coming down the highway even if that new technology won't be here for 12-18 months. Looks to me like the stock market is functioning the way it should: estimating the discounted expected rate of return on investment.
One of the reasons why I am not a Libertatrian is that there are too many like you -- absolutists who do not understand that the world is full of complex shades of grey and not just black and white. You sound too much like the far right and far left fanatics who put ideology and theory above anything else.
Take the prostitution example. How many prostitutes have you met who chose to become prostitutes voluntarily. For many (most?) they had no choice at all because they have abusive boyfriends or employers who forced the choice on them. So, ya, sure a woman should be able to "choose" prostitution. Except the police can't control abusive spouses in most places, so why do you think we can here?
Rep. John R. Kasich (R-OH 12th district) left the House in 2000 after running for President. One of his former aides (Pat Tiberi IIRC) now holds the seat.
Sure it can. And so can Asia and Latin America and even Europe and N. America. Linux will eventually be modified to use TCPA hardware. It will be done in an open manner and you will be able to self-sign your kernel and applications and go merrily on your way using your computer systems just like you do now.
Palladium is simply MS's API on top of TCPI hardware. It will be an inconvenience for would-be pirates of commercial content and a headache for those of us who would like to be able to back up our legally purchased music, etc.
But why, in God's name, would the UN Paladiumize its public documents? Or why would any 1st world agricultural research institute put DRM into the pamphlets that they give away free to farmers right now? Do you really think that anyone will tolerate a world where they cannot receive email simply because it doesn't have a Palladium approved DRM stamp?
Africa has hunger, disease, war, and lack of education among its many problems. Get some perspective. Palladium is not going to mean a thing (pro or con) to those who seek solutions to Africa's ills.
Why is the formatting of a legal document a part of the document? Seems that sgml/xml would be the ideal choice for such docs. Put the formatting in a stylesheet where it belongs.
Were those the dudes that cme before the Chrestiuns?
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That said, Iraq is probably the only Arab country where women can wear whatever they want, fully participate in political life (well, to the same limited, oppressed amount the men can, anyway) and have full legal equality in both professional and personal domains.
Bahrain held an election this week in which women could both vote and run for office.
I live in Columbus, Ohio, just North of the Ohio State University. It is a middle class neighborhood built in the 1920s and full of OSU profs, Ohio civil servents, etc. We are lucky in that we have 3 last mile pipes in the neighborhood. Time-Warner and Wide Open West each offer cable/internet and SBC offers phone service w/ several DSL offerings (SBC, Earthlink, Speakeasy). The Time-Warner cable lines also have at least three ISPs offering service (AOL, Road Runner, and Earthlink). I buy my ISP service from Time-Warner. I've read several articles like this one and I have my doubts that the apoclypse is near.
First, the current Time-Warner service is quite good. The system runs nearly 24/7. I have seen only 2-3 outages lasting about 4 hours each since I bought the service about 3 years ago. My electric service from AEP has been less reliable than this (the 1920s era electric wires in the neighborhood can't handle the load increase from all of the computers and other new electric gadgets). I work from home and only one of the ISP outages caused a minor inconvenience with a customer deadline. Second, the bandwidth is plenty enough to meet my needs - mostly surfing for manual pages and news stories and dl of source code and the occasional shn concert. The bandwidth only seems to slow a bit when kids get out of school in the afternoon and I suspect that the occasional slow speed I see when retriving files is due to bandwidth limitations on the server side, not my local pipe. The so-called "bandwidth hogs" are not causing me any problems. Third, I run the odd service or two on the box in my dmz and have yet to recieve any complaints from Time-Warner. Fourth, the service has actually gotten better in the past year. All of the competition has forced TW to add dial-in service to the net for road warriors who need occasional access.
Given the three lines behind my house and the six or seven companies offering broadband cable or DSL over those lines, I'd be surprised if competition doesn't keep prices pretty close to cost + normal profit. I looked into some of the other companies a few months ago and there are some tiered pricing plans. But they are mostly for SOHO users who want symmetric ul/dl speeds w/ fixed ip addresses or gamers who want to have the fastest speed they can get.
The parent post might have been interesting if the author had given a reason for their views. As it stands, the author might as well have written "Public domain, bad. GPL, bad" or "Public domain, good. GPL, good" or "Public domain, bad. GPL, good." or "Public domain, good. GPL, bad" Why would any one of those four statements be moderated as interesting in the absence of a reason for holding the view? Hopefully the moderators will get kicked hard by the metamoderators.
That logic works only because most people don't vote until some minority group uses their numbers to push through some idiotic piece of legislation. The idiotic law disgusts the majority so much that they will vote at the first opportunity they have to put the minority in its place. This has been demonstrated in local elections where, say, the Christian right has made a concerted effort to win control of the local school board. Their control typically lasts about one term before they have made such asses of themselves that the average eligible voter goes to the polls just to rid their town of the embarassment.
All occupations have professional rules of conduct. Rock stars are expected to show up to their concerts on time, not be trashed, and play their hearts out. I have seen Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker so wasted they could hardly stand up, let alone play, leaving a lot of very unhappy fans (i.e. customers) in their wake. Some friends of mine fired their lead singer/guitar a couple of years ago because he was consitently showing up drunk for gigs. If you think those rules are boring, then don't try and be a rock star. But within the scope of those rules, a lot of musicians seem to have a lot of fun.
Bottom line: If you think that the professional rules of conduct in your chosen occupation are boring, then you are either in the wrong profession or too immature to be working in that occupation.
A friend of mine pulled a similar stunt with a medical database where the test data was inadvertantly released to the customer along with the program. According to the test data, the CEO of the customer's company had AIDS as a result of anal sex. The CEO was somewhere close to Jerry Falwell in his beliefs and was quite upset with the program and my friend's company as a result.
Learn the Lesson: Keep all of your error msgs and test data innocuous and professional because you never know which important customer will be offended by your lame attempts to make your day interesting.
If you put it in the program:
/* Can't be reached, but I really need to change the error msg anyway.*/
print_error("How'd the fucking idiot user get here?");
Murphy will guarantee that it will be released like that and that the most influential fucking idiot user will be the one to get there.
Ok, this part troll, but with a grain of truth. Nothing is quite all black or all white.
These Mega-Corps are owned by the people, too. Their stock is in your 401-K, your IRA, and/or your pension plan. Joe Average owns a small piece of Microsoft and most other Mega-Corps. And Joe Average votes. And when he decides who to vote for, he carefully notes who is most likely to help his 401-K. Will it be the candidate who wants to rip Microsoft into small pieces?
My brother thinks that Microsoft should be broken up into its three natural parts: Sales, Marketing, and Legal.
In a free society such as the US (which, by the way, itself a far better example of a working community)...
The US community system works well only in comparison to every other system that has been tried so far. Some of us believe it could work even better. How? That is what these small communities are trying to discover.
If they leave and need therapy, they probably would have needed it regardless. These communities are filled with people who believe strongly in the idea of community and have found a way to make it work. They carry the flag for those of us who give lip service to "think globally, act locally."
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On the other hand, there were some religious sects that were able to grow their communes much more, and were much bigger than 25 people.
But they were only able to do this because they used religion to eliminate sex, and its attending issues.
Except for the issue that eliminating sex meant that the commune wouldn't last but a single genration.
BTW: The Farm in Tennessee is still going strong with 200 members. So is Twin Oaks, a community based on B.F. Skinners ideas in Walden 2. Twin Oaks has 100 members. East Wind in Missouri has 85 members.
I can't remember where I saw the thread, probably a Linux kernel news group eight or so years ago, but there was a friendly "I've used Linux longer than you" discussion where the winning entry said that they still had an entry for ast in/etc/passwd.
I've still got an IBM PC w/ a 10 MB HD that has Minix installed. I keep meaning to get rid of it, but just can't quite bring myself to do so. Someday I'll do it and then I'll probably see the same model being appraised for a small fortune on Antiques Roadshow.
But it does apply. Let's say you start a streaming broadcast station. Then I do. Unlike the farmers, how are you going to stop me?
Lets say I start a widget factory. Then you do. How am I going to stop you? I fail to see why a streaming broadcast station is more like a commons and less like a widget factory. It is not the production function of the good that causes the market failure here, it is the nonrival, nonexclusive nature of the good.
Depends on the definition of a "commons." If the definition is that each farmer has the right to graze as many animals as they choose, then there is tragedy of the commons. If each farmer can graze only some limited number, then it isn't really a commons.
One caveat that has already been mentioned is that there is only a single turn. If the number of farmers is small, they can band together and institute and enforce rules governing the number of animals each is allowed to graze (your point), but they will only be incentivized to do so if the game is repeated each year. The caveat to the caveat is that this may require a relatively small number of farmers. Otherwise the transaction costs of trying to get agreement from all farmers may exceed the benefits of the agreement. The depletion of world fisheries may be the result of the high costs of making and enforcing such agreements. I agree that this classic problem has little to do with the music industry.
Someone else has observed that music is a pure public good in the lexicon of economics due to its nonrival and nonexcludable nature. Pure public goods are usually underproduced in an economy since the producer is unable to capture any revenue once the good is produced and so will not produce enough to meet the marginal social cost = marginal social benefit conditions. The usual remedy for this problem is to subsidize the production of the good. Many societies already do this for both art and classical music through programs like the US National Endowment for the Arts coupled with public art museums, concert halls, etc. Maybe we should do this for popular music as well. This creates its own headaches (no pun intended) since few of us will ever agree on what is good music. This latter problem crops up in the art world all the time, especially with works that some feel are offensive, so it is not a complete solution.
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You can always confirm it to the reporter and ask that they not reveal your name. Many reporters in the US and other places have gone to jail rather than reveal their sources. Reporters regard this as a fundamental part of a free press.
How is this [named.root/db.cache] kept up to date? As the network administrator [of your local network], that's your responsibility. Some old versions of BIND did update this file periodically. That feature was disabled, though; apparently it didn't work as well as the authors had hoped. Sometimes the db.cache file is mailed to the bind-users or namedroppers list mailing list. If you are on one of those lists, you are likely to hear about changes. (pg 68)
Bottom line: If you run a nameserver it is your responsibility to keep it up to date. That includes knowing how changes are announced. BIND has also had several well known security problems. If you are running a version < 8.2.5 you should upgrade that as well.
Anyway, the problem lies when we all sell stock in every other company and buy shares in MS instead, because we perceive them to be "better financed". This causes them to become even more "better financed" and wipe the floor with it competitors
You are not usually buying the stock from MS, rather from a current shareholder who wishes to sell. MS gets no additional financing unless they issue more shares. If there is a rush to dump stock A and buy B, then the price of A falls and B rises until the expected return of A and B are equal to each other and to some "normal" market rate of return. If they differ, an arbitrager can make money by selling one and buying the other.
How else do you propose that people who have possibly interesting ideas or technology get access to the capital that they need to develop that technology? Trying to decide where to invest your money is hard work, too. And maybe, just maybe, it is even a reasonable thing to dump Adobe if it looks like a better technology from a better financed company is coming down the highway even if that new technology won't be here for 12-18 months. Looks to me like the stock market is functioning the way it should: estimating the discounted expected rate of return on investment.
One of the reasons why I am not a Libertatrian is that there are too many like you -- absolutists who do not understand that the world is full of complex shades of grey and not just black and white. You sound too much like the far right and far left fanatics who put ideology and theory above anything else.
Take the prostitution example. How many prostitutes have you met who chose to become prostitutes voluntarily. For many (most?) they had no choice at all because they have abusive boyfriends or employers who forced the choice on them. So, ya, sure a woman should be able to "choose" prostitution. Except the police can't control abusive spouses in most places, so why do you think we can here?
Rep. John R. Kasich (R-OH 12th district) left the House in 2000 after running for President. One of his former aides (Pat Tiberi IIRC) now holds the seat.
Africa cannot survive if paladium goes through.
Sure it can. And so can Asia and Latin America and even Europe and N. America. Linux will eventually be modified to use TCPA hardware. It will be done in an open manner and you will be able to self-sign your kernel and applications and go merrily on your way using your computer systems just like you do now.
Palladium is simply MS's API on top of TCPI hardware. It will be an inconvenience for would-be pirates of commercial content and a headache for those of us who would like to be able to back up our legally purchased music, etc.
But why, in God's name, would the UN Paladiumize its public documents? Or why would any 1st world agricultural research institute put DRM into the pamphlets that they give away free to farmers right now? Do you really think that anyone will tolerate a world where they cannot receive email simply because it doesn't have a Palladium approved DRM stamp?
Africa has hunger, disease, war, and lack of education among its many problems. Get some perspective. Palladium is not going to mean a thing (pro or con) to those who seek solutions to Africa's ills.
Why is the formatting of a legal document a part of the document? Seems that sgml/xml would be the ideal choice for such docs. Put the formatting in a stylesheet where it belongs.
Were those the dudes that cme before the Chrestiuns?
That said, Iraq is probably the only Arab country where women can wear whatever they want, fully participate in political life (well, to the same limited, oppressed amount the men can, anyway) and have full legal equality in both professional and personal domains.
Bahrain held an election this week in which women could both vote and run for office.
I live in Columbus, Ohio, just North of the Ohio State University. It is a middle class neighborhood built in the 1920s and full of OSU profs, Ohio civil servents, etc. We are lucky in that we have 3 last mile pipes in the neighborhood. Time-Warner and Wide Open West each offer cable/internet and SBC offers phone service w/ several DSL offerings (SBC, Earthlink, Speakeasy). The Time-Warner cable lines also have at least three ISPs offering service (AOL, Road Runner, and Earthlink). I buy my ISP service from Time-Warner. I've read several articles like this one and I have my doubts that the apoclypse is near.
First, the current Time-Warner service is quite good. The system runs nearly 24/7. I have seen only 2-3 outages lasting about 4 hours each since I bought the service about 3 years ago. My electric service from AEP has been less reliable than this (the 1920s era electric wires in the neighborhood can't handle the load increase from all of the computers and other new electric gadgets). I work from home and only one of the ISP outages caused a minor inconvenience with a customer deadline. Second, the bandwidth is plenty enough to meet my needs - mostly surfing for manual pages and news stories and dl of source code and the occasional shn concert. The bandwidth only seems to slow a bit when kids get out of school in the afternoon and I suspect that the occasional slow speed I see when retriving files is due to bandwidth limitations on the server side, not my local pipe. The so-called "bandwidth hogs" are not causing me any problems. Third, I run the odd service or two on the box in my dmz and have yet to recieve any complaints from Time-Warner. Fourth, the service has actually gotten better in the past year. All of the competition has forced TW to add dial-in service to the net for road warriors who need occasional access.
Given the three lines behind my house and the six or seven companies offering broadband cable or DSL over those lines, I'd be surprised if competition doesn't keep prices pretty close to cost + normal profit. I looked into some of the other companies a few months ago and there are some tiered pricing plans. But they are mostly for SOHO users who want symmetric ul/dl speeds w/ fixed ip addresses or gamers who want to have the fastest speed they can get.
It is OK to smoke cigarettes in the server room at Philip Morris. They keep ashtrays there for the sysadmins.
Moderators,
The parent post might have been interesting if the author had given a reason for their views. As it stands, the author might as well have written "Public domain, bad. GPL, bad" or "Public domain, good. GPL, good" or "Public domain, bad. GPL, good." or "Public domain, good. GPL, bad" Why would any one of those four statements be moderated as interesting in the absence of a reason for holding the view? Hopefully the moderators will get kicked hard by the metamoderators.
I'm only just waking up and I don't have my glasses on so my brain processed the headline as:
Chrysler Adopts Cowboy Neal for Vehicle Simulations
That logic works only because most people don't vote until some minority group uses their numbers to push through some idiotic piece of legislation. The idiotic law disgusts the majority so much that they will vote at the first opportunity they have to put the minority in its place. This has been demonstrated in local elections where, say, the Christian right has made a concerted effort to win control of the local school board. Their control typically lasts about one term before they have made such asses of themselves that the average eligible voter goes to the polls just to rid their town of the embarassment.
All occupations have professional rules of conduct. Rock stars are expected to show up to their concerts on time, not be trashed, and play their hearts out. I have seen Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker so wasted they could hardly stand up, let alone play, leaving a lot of very unhappy fans (i.e. customers) in their wake. Some friends of mine fired their lead singer/guitar a couple of years ago because he was consitently showing up drunk for gigs. If you think those rules are boring, then don't try and be a rock star. But within the scope of those rules, a lot of musicians seem to have a lot of fun.
Bottom line: If you think that the professional rules of conduct in your chosen occupation are boring, then you are either in the wrong profession or too immature to be working in that occupation.
LSD
Brain damage is what we had in mind all along. Chromosome damage is just gravy.
-- Last Whole Earth Catalog
A friend of mine pulled a similar stunt with a medical database where the test data was inadvertantly released to the customer along with the program. According to the test data, the CEO of the customer's company had AIDS as a result of anal sex. The CEO was somewhere close to Jerry Falwell in his beliefs and was quite upset with the program and my friend's company as a result.
/* Can't be reached, but I really need to change the error msg anyway.*/
Learn the Lesson: Keep all of your error msgs and test data innocuous and professional because you never know which important customer will be offended by your lame attempts to make your day interesting.
If you put it in the program:
print_error("How'd the fucking idiot user get here?");
Murphy will guarantee that it will be released like that and that the most influential fucking idiot user will be the one to get there.
Ok, this part troll, but with a grain of truth. Nothing is quite all black or all white.
These Mega-Corps are owned by the people, too. Their stock is in your 401-K, your IRA, and/or your pension plan. Joe Average owns a small piece of Microsoft and most other Mega-Corps. And Joe Average votes. And when he decides who to vote for, he carefully notes who is most likely to help his 401-K. Will it be the candidate who wants to rip Microsoft into small pieces?
My brother thinks that Microsoft should be broken up into its three natural parts: Sales, Marketing, and Legal.
In a free society such as the US (which, by the way, itself a far better example of a working community) ...
The US community system works well only in comparison to every other system that has been tried so far. Some of us believe it could work even better. How? That is what these small communities are trying to discover.
If they leave and need therapy, they probably would have needed it regardless. These communities are filled with people who believe strongly in the idea of community and have found a way to make it work. They carry the flag for those of us who give lip service to "think globally, act locally."
On the other hand, there were some religious sects that were able to grow their communes much more, and were much bigger than 25 people.
But they were only able to do this because they used religion to eliminate sex, and its attending issues.
Except for the issue that eliminating sex meant that the commune wouldn't last but a single genration.
BTW: The Farm in Tennessee is still going strong with 200 members. So is Twin Oaks, a community based on B.F. Skinners ideas in Walden 2. Twin Oaks has 100 members. East Wind in Missouri has 85 members.
I can't remember where I saw the thread, probably a Linux kernel news group eight or so years ago, but there was a friendly "I've used Linux longer than you" discussion where the winning entry said that they still had an entry for ast in /etc/passwd.
I've still got an IBM PC w/ a 10 MB HD that has Minix installed. I keep meaning to get rid of it, but just can't quite bring myself to do so. Someday I'll do it and then I'll probably see the same model being appraised for a small fortune on Antiques Roadshow.
But it does apply. Let's say you start a streaming broadcast station. Then I do. Unlike the farmers, how are you going to stop me?
Lets say I start a widget factory. Then you do. How am I going to stop you? I fail to see why a streaming broadcast station is more like a commons and less like a widget factory. It is not the production function of the good that causes the market failure here, it is the nonrival, nonexclusive nature of the good.
Depends on the definition of a "commons." If the definition is that each farmer has the right to graze as many animals as they choose, then there is tragedy of the commons. If each farmer can graze only some limited number, then it isn't really a commons.
One caveat that has already been mentioned is that there is only a single turn. If the number of farmers is small, they can band together and institute and enforce rules governing the number of animals each is allowed to graze (your point), but they will only be incentivized to do so if the game is repeated each year. The caveat to the caveat is that this may require a relatively small number of farmers. Otherwise the transaction costs of trying to get agreement from all farmers may exceed the benefits of the agreement. The depletion of world fisheries may be the result of the high costs of making and enforcing such agreements. I agree that this classic problem has little to do with the music industry.
Someone else has observed that music is a pure public good in the lexicon of economics due to its nonrival and nonexcludable nature. Pure public goods are usually underproduced in an economy since the producer is unable to capture any revenue once the good is produced and so will not produce enough to meet the marginal social cost = marginal social benefit conditions. The usual remedy for this problem is to subsidize the production of the good. Many societies already do this for both art and classical music through programs like the US National Endowment for the Arts coupled with public art museums, concert halls, etc. Maybe we should do this for popular music as well. This creates its own headaches (no pun intended) since few of us will ever agree on what is good music. This latter problem crops up in the art world all the time, especially with works that some feel are offensive, so it is not a complete solution.