Flaming liberal here. USA PATRIOT act still horrendously evil, should be completely eliminated and I'd also be cool with spankings for all those involved in its creation who aren't into that sort of thing. To say that Obama has been a disappointment in this area is something of an understatement.
Read the author's notes sometime. This film has languished for years because Ender's game itself was just a series of short stories he adapted into a real book, with a final intent that he could have established characters with which to launch Speaker for the Dead.
The movie will probably be some fun special effects and a thoroughly good adaptation of the Ender/Bean books...but remember that the story is meant to be way more than this.
(IIRC, Morpheus explained in the first movie that they used humans as an energy source, combined with a kind of fusion. That's like using pointed sticks to fight your enemy, combined with a kind of ballistic missile.)
But the truth of it is, if you're under attack by legions and legions of pointy sticks, might as well grab them and put them to good use.
The problem with what you're suggesting is that regulation here, much like the movie industry, is done in-house, or something close to it.
Major game produces would just as soon NOT have a government appointed censorship organization deciding ratings on certain games, and then having them enforced. The self-rating is a way of preventing the necessity of government appointed rating, and I consider it a better solution, because it encourages more responsibility on the part of the parent and the child, and because I like at least having the option to play the sick shit like Postal 2 if I wanted to.
I enjoy exercising my killing impulses electronically rather than on my shift supervisor for that very reason and would just as soon not have my name go into a federal database as a possible dangerous offender because I bought doom3.
What I feel the progenitor of this whole thread doesn't realize is that you use the right tool for the right job.
Given a choice, I would stick a Linux/Unix/BSD box in as a server because I have precise control over what is going in. I have choices and options about exactly how I want my machine configured. That's the point. To borrow from perl: 'there's more than one way to do it'. If something is too arcane (ie. sendmail to the uninitiated) I'm sure you can find a package that will do the job and be a lot clearer (ie. postfix).
As a client system, a desktop or a workstation, I have always used Windows. I will admit that I haven't spent any real time trying to get accustomed to a Linux desktop and could probably learn, but the fact is that Windows is intuitive and quick and smart for what it does.
I wouldn't try to put linux on my grandmother's machine, because she would never use it. She would have no idea what was to do with it without a printed instruction guide taped to the monitor, and pre-written shell-scripts. LOTS of shell scripts.
THAT is where the simplicity he is preaching so hard about is useful and important. That's where windows does it's job wonderfully. Even the server implementation is an extension of that: Making necessarily complicated things easy (Frontpage anyone?)! They are supposed to be complicated. These are servers.
and IPs are easily portable when EVERYBODY does it?
You can't really do that without making the routing tables even more ungodly huge than they already are.
Everytime you sign in, you would have to have your new upstream (since we're signing in from ANYWHERE) advertise your IP on the BGP tables. That's fine for/19s and bigger, but is fucking impossible to have BGP peer every single IP individually.
Apparently there's work going on in this area for wireless mesh networks and the like, but it isn't practical on a world-wide basis.
nice thought but it's MORE restrictive in the blue collar world and has been for over a decade.
Well, I slipped on the job, tore my shoulder up something fierce and got to go to the hospital.
Yessir, there's nothing like having my trip to the emergency room (slipped on the job, tore my shoulder up something fierce) punctuated with a nice happy chance to piss in a cup and beathe down a tube.
Granted the raises aren't as fast or as potentially rewarding as private sector, but one doesn't have to worry about one's employer going out of business either.
Good attitude! F*** the revolution!
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New Canadian laws for ISPs include keeping all system logs for a period of no less than 120 days for potential review and subpe...subpeon---subpoena...however the hell you spell it.
Get those nice big fast IDE drives, slap a scsi adapter on the back, and stick it in a hot-swapping rackmount unit with a single scsi port on the back to run into whatever server needs a bit more space.
We, at my work (ISP), use them at for our news servers, and whenever we feel like it's time to add another terabyte to increase article retention (read: customer's precious warez/pr0n), we throw on another one of these bad boys:
12x 160GB Maxtor IDE fast spin drives Hot-swappable by design dual redundant p/s and so on and so forth.
All you need is your scsi raid controller, which I admit ain't cheap, but you can make up for it with those oh so cheap IDE drives and creative use of IDs and LUNs
Interesting sidebar: After the production of Generations, the 6' model of the Enterprise D was lost.
Archivists all over paramount were running screaming when they couldn't find it anywhere.
more than a year later, it shows up in some back office reception area in horrible condition...all dinged up, holes drilled into it for display hanging, nacelles busted, and several years worth of grease layers.
explanation: 'someone' loaned it out to a local restaurant for display and it never really got returned. It is now safely sequestered in the giant room of boxes you see at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Yeah...yeah read the subject. Doing a usenet push helps out ISPs as well, since more users would be pestering a local server instead of bugging the internet.
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Flaming liberal here. USA PATRIOT act still horrendously evil, should be completely eliminated and I'd also be cool with spankings for all those involved in its creation who aren't into that sort of thing. To say that Obama has been a disappointment in this area is something of an understatement.
Read the author's notes sometime. This film has languished for years because Ender's game itself was just a series of short stories he adapted into a real book, with a final intent that he could have established characters with which to launch Speaker for the Dead.
The movie will probably be some fun special effects and a thoroughly good adaptation of the Ender/Bean books...but remember that the story is meant to be way more than this.
But the truth of it is, if you're under attack by legions and legions of pointy sticks, might as well grab them and put them to good use.
You missed the point.
Anyone spot any ex-executives with mops and coveralls of late?
The problem with what you're suggesting is that regulation here, much like the movie industry, is done in-house, or something close to it.
Major game produces would just as soon NOT have a government appointed censorship organization deciding ratings on certain games, and then having them enforced. The self-rating is a way of preventing the necessity of government appointed rating, and I consider it a better solution, because it encourages more responsibility on the part of the parent and the child, and because I like at least having the option to play the sick shit like Postal 2 if I wanted to.
I enjoy exercising my killing impulses electronically rather than on my shift supervisor for that very reason and would just as soon not have my name go into a federal database as a possible dangerous offender because I bought doom3.
I feel I speak for most everyone here when I say... wtf?
Exactly.
What I feel the progenitor of this whole thread doesn't realize is that you use the right tool for the right job.
Given a choice, I would stick a Linux/Unix/BSD box in as a server because I have precise control over what is going in. I have choices and options about exactly how I want my machine configured. That's the point. To borrow from perl: 'there's more than one way to do it'. If something is too arcane (ie. sendmail to the uninitiated) I'm sure you can find a package that will do the job and be a lot clearer (ie. postfix).
As a client system, a desktop or a workstation, I have always used Windows. I will admit that I haven't spent any real time trying to get accustomed to a Linux desktop and could probably learn, but the fact is that Windows is intuitive and quick and smart for what it does.
I wouldn't try to put linux on my grandmother's machine, because she would never use it. She would have no idea what was to do with it without a printed instruction guide taped to the monitor, and pre-written shell-scripts. LOTS of shell scripts.
THAT is where the simplicity he is preaching so hard about is useful and important. That's where windows does it's job wonderfully. Even the server implementation is an extension of that: Making necessarily complicated things easy (Frontpage anyone?)! They are supposed to be complicated. These are servers.
You mean we have still another thing to blame on the republican party?
Wonders never cease.
besides which, how do you expect to install ssh on a system without...shell access?
Just a thought.
OH
MY
GOD.
And all slashdot vomits at the image of that.
and IPs are easily portable when EVERYBODY does it?
/19s and bigger, but is fucking impossible to have BGP peer every single IP individually.
You can't really do that without making the routing tables even more ungodly huge than they already are.
Everytime you sign in, you would have to have your new upstream (since we're signing in from ANYWHERE) advertise your IP on the BGP tables. That's fine for
Apparently there's work going on in this area for wireless mesh networks and the like, but it isn't practical on a world-wide basis.
Quothe the Simpsons: "Up, up and awaaaay in my beautiful, my beautiful motor bo-oat.
"Ok, I paid your fine, now can I please have my motorboat?"
The management would like to inform our loyal viewers that the persons responsible for sacking the original sackee have been sacked.
I hear it's worse in Alberta and Manitoba, I dunno...8bucks a pack is bad enough for me.
So far so good. Trouble is it just isn't worth 30c canadian for two drags is it?
Do you have any idea how much a pitchfork costs these days?
To say nothing of the legal fees if someone gets poked.
Sorry folks, just needed to get your attention.
Yessir, there's nothing like having my trip to the emergency room (slipped on the job, tore my shoulder up something fierce) punctuated with a nice happy chance to piss in a cup and beathe down a tube.
New Canadian laws for ISPs include keeping all system logs for a period of no less than 120 days for potential review and subpe...subpeon---subpoena...however the hell you spell it.
Damn, this was about to be a serious post.
and may we all join in the great pledge:
I'm a man.
but I can change,
if I have to,
I guess.
ide to scsi adapters.
Get those nice big fast IDE drives, slap a scsi adapter on the back, and stick it in a hot-swapping rackmount unit with a single scsi port on the back to run into whatever server needs a bit more space.
We, at my work (ISP), use them at for our news servers, and whenever we feel like it's time to add another terabyte to increase article retention (read: customer's precious warez/pr0n), we throw on another one of these bad boys:
12x 160GB Maxtor IDE fast spin drives
Hot-swappable by design
dual redundant p/s and so on and so forth.
All you need is your scsi raid controller, which I admit ain't cheap, but you can make up for it with those oh so cheap IDE drives and creative use of IDs and LUNs
M$ has even given away a couple of Windows XP cd-roms. =D
My god! XP cd-roms! gimme gimme gimme!!
Interesting sidebar: After the production of Generations, the 6' model of the Enterprise D was lost.
Archivists all over paramount were running screaming when they couldn't find it anywhere.
more than a year later, it shows up in some back office reception area in horrible condition...all dinged up, holes drilled into it for display hanging, nacelles busted, and several years worth of grease layers.
explanation: 'someone' loaned it out to a local restaurant for display and it never really got returned. It is now safely sequestered in the giant room of boxes you see at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Yeah...yeah read the subject. Doing a usenet push helps out ISPs as well, since more users would be pestering a local server instead of bugging the internet.