There are two different brands of conservatism IMHO: 1) libertarianism 2) law-and-order (I hesitate to say "facist.") These two brands are very different, but both are platforms of the Republicans, moreso than the Democrats.
I can't imagine the libertarian-style conservatives are very happy about this. Removing checks and balances strikes at the heart of the Constitution.
The thing works on gaining and losing elevation, so if there's a temperature gradient at different depths, well there you go. Or maybe they're talking about the hot springs where steam comes up through fissures? I don't know. But there's certainly some energy there, enough to support life in fact.
And the reason you think he should shove it is because it's written to get rid of those of you who want to punch the clock.
I guess the real reason I think he should shove it is because I already have a job that pays much more for much better working conditions. Working for free is not professionalism. Getting walked on is not pride. This company gives every sign of trolling for employees who confuse irrational devotion to The Company with self worth. If they really are offering a "ground floor" position with unlimited long-term upside potential, then I am wrong about them. I think it more likely that they are trying to hire a lapdog.
People like this should do themselves a favor and just let their businesses die. Working long hours for free isn't business, it isn't a job, it's just stupid.
80 hour weeks for $45K/year is like $22.5K/year for 40 hour weeks - not even that, since the second 40 hours per week are a lot harder than the first 40. Sorry, but people who pride themselves on giving everything in exchange for nothing (and look down on others who won't) are fools. (Not that I wouldn't want such self-sacrificing fools to work for me if I owned a business, because I would.)
Why Wal-Mart, why? Isn't the industry flooded enough as is? Although Wal-Mart does make enough to offset the losses it will incur with the music service (as all music services do), its just another iTMS wannabe.
Well, that's the thing about Wal-Mart. You might despise them, but they built their company by entering an already crowded field (retailing) and clawing their way to the top of the heap. I don't know why you think they'll lose money on music downloads - they've built their entire empire on selling for prices that drive the competition out of business (see KMart).
For every song downloaded, WalMart will be paying less royalties to the RIAA, and a lower fee to VISA than anybody else, simply because they're big enough to drive a harder bargain. The Apple service might still have more flair, but if Wal-Mart proves anything it's that people shop prices.
None of which is to say that the service will be worth using. It'll surely be DRM'd like the others. The old emusic service was the only one I've found worthwhile.
Well, that's the problem with a corrupt system, isn't it? To get to the top you have to be corrupt. Why does it make you feel better that both parties are sellouts?
If DRM is the technology that allows companies to feel safe enough about their control over their assets to allow you to listen to a song you like, then it's improved your life.
What are "they" going to do if consumers reject DRM, hoarde all their precious content to themselves and not distribute it at all? Fine, but the consequence is less $$, just like the RIAA right now. They can continue to pump out overly DRM'd junk like DivX and watch their investments disappear if they like.
The more consumers reject DRM, the less of it there will be, and the less onerous it will be.
DVD isn't even a complete replacement for VHS, because you can't record.
I guess PVRs are the answer to that, and may well replace the DVD too (if properly networked), but I just don't think a cable-company supplied box will ever be allowed to do everything I want.
It's not about forcing Time to (re)publish anything, nobody is suggesting that. It's about analying your sources of information and taking note of how they're willfully distorted.
Most people don't like to sit and watch the clock tick. A better approach is just to not put the good weapons and gear right next to the respawn point. Then you're effectively out of the game for a while after you die, yet you still have something to do (gear up). And if you're really impatient you can just jump into battle with nothing but a.45 and your jungle boots. This also keeps a steady supply of cannon-fodder for people who are a more deliberate.
Backing up separately has advantages over RAID. First, RAID won't help against accidental malicious deletion, whereas a separate backup will. Second, RAID would hurt performance if you're using a slower (cheaper) hard drive for backups. Third, you'll need a lot more storage with RAID, because your 'backup' isn't compressed. Fourth, incremental backups.
Expect many of them to die off unless they get a viable business model to back up their technical requirements. Apple's got the iPod, Napster has their $9.99 subscription service, and the others have....
Well, I can tell you what Mal-Mart has: more market clout than anybody else on earth. In fact, their whole business is selling for prices at which others lose money and go broke. One way they do this is by driving a hard bargain with suppliers. That's not to say the service will be worth using, but I'd be very surprised if Wal-Mart pays as much as iTunes for each track, nor as much to Visa/Mastercard.
Doing one search on the most limited database in Lexis costs $10. One search on something pretty complex--like searching all federal cases--costs around a hundred bucks. And you need to do a lot of searches to do a case like this....
And beyond costs, well, there's always gouging. Like billing an hour for taking a short phone call and charging $1 (or more) each for photocopies.
The threat is way overblown. I'm willing to bet that fewer than 1% of WEP-protected access points fall to cryptographic weakness (but my guesstimate will yield immediately to anybody with ACTUAL DATA that agrees or disagrees). Any sensitive data you send, you should be (and probably are) sending over ssl (when the little lock appears in your browser window), using ssh instead of telnet, etc. As for Starbucks access points, they're not protected by WEP anyways.
Just enable the WEP, use secure applications for sensitive data, and quit worrying about it.
Ultimately though, these passphrases are flawed anyway- they are a form of shared password. History has shown this to be a thoroughly bad idea, one passphrase per user/machine is a far better idea... These standards organisations aren't even trying.
Well, the second sentence in the article does say that the standard provides for each MAC address to be given a different key. In fact it's called a "Pairwise Master Key."
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I can't imagine the libertarian-style conservatives are very happy about this. Removing checks and balances strikes at the heart of the Constitution.
The thing works on gaining and losing elevation, so if there's a temperature gradient at different depths, well there you go. Or maybe they're talking about the hot springs where steam comes up through fissures? I don't know. But there's certainly some energy there, enough to support life in fact.
80 hour weeks for $45K/year is like $22.5K/year for 40 hour weeks - not even that, since the second 40 hours per week are a lot harder than the first 40. Sorry, but people who pride themselves on giving everything in exchange for nothing (and look down on others who won't) are fools. (Not that I wouldn't want such self-sacrificing fools to work for me if I owned a business, because I would.)
For every song downloaded, WalMart will be paying less royalties to the RIAA, and a lower fee to VISA than anybody else, simply because they're big enough to drive a harder bargain. The Apple service might still have more flair, but if Wal-Mart proves anything it's that people shop prices.
None of which is to say that the service will be worth using. It'll surely be DRM'd like the others. The old emusic service was the only one I've found worthwhile.
Asking why slashdot should care so much about SCO is a stupid question. If your parent seems like a stupid answer, that's why.
Well, that's the problem with a corrupt system, isn't it? To get to the top you have to be corrupt. Why does it make you feel better that both parties are sellouts?
The more consumers reject DRM, the less of it there will be, and the less onerous it will be.
I guess PVRs are the answer to that, and may well replace the DVD too (if properly networked), but I just don't think a cable-company supplied box will ever be allowed to do everything I want.
Try it! If you do /dev
/dev/zero
/dev/zero
ls -l
it says "no such file or directory"
but if you do
ls -l
lo and behold there it is! Cygwin will never be accused of shying away from useful hacks.
And if you do
oc
it will print out zome zeroes for you.
The point of doing it under Windows is that Linux can't write ntfs - at least not safely.
You can restore to a larger partition, then resize the filesystem to fill the new partition. I don't see how you could restore to a smaller partition.
First run this script (under cygwin on Windows)
#!/bin/bash
dd if=/dev/zero of=zeroes
sync
rm -f zeroes
That'll zero out the free space, so it will compress down to nothing when you run
bzip2 -c
But to be honest I haven't tried a restore yet!
Why don't nuclear subs have batteries to run silently too? And why do they need them, is the nuke plant noisy? Thanks.
Wake me up when the first fuel cell laptop is shipping.
It's not about forcing Time to (re)publish anything, nobody is suggesting that. It's about analying your sources of information and taking note of how they're willfully distorted.
Most people don't like to sit and watch the clock tick. A better approach is just to not put the good weapons and gear right next to the respawn point. Then you're effectively out of the game for a while after you die, yet you still have something to do (gear up). And if you're really impatient you can just jump into battle with nothing but a .45 and your jungle boots. This also keeps a steady supply of cannon-fodder for people who are a more deliberate.
Backing up separately has advantages over RAID. First, RAID won't help against accidental malicious deletion, whereas a separate backup will. Second, RAID would hurt performance if you're using a slower (cheaper) hard drive for backups. Third, you'll need a lot more storage with RAID, because your 'backup' isn't compressed. Fourth, incremental backups.
I mean, I know why we would *hope* for it to be open source, it just doesn't sound like something somebody would want to give away.
Is there any reason in particular to hope it will be affordable or open source?
Sounds like a Palm Pilot, except the OLED screen. (Personally I'd prefer a reflective "digital-paper" type screen while we're at it).
Not to mention that originally the VHS cost around $100. I don't remember the exact price, but it was horribly steep.
Just enable the WEP, use secure applications for sensitive data, and quit worrying about it.