"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
SystemD is undoubtedly severely overthought plumbing. I don't know why someone thought they could improve on SysVInit with start-stop-daemon, but they were quite badly mistaken.
This has to be the most lowlife, underhanded, ill-thought scheme I've seen from them yet. The eighthwit (they don't have enough wits to be a halfwit) who thought of this needs to be fired and replaced with someone who has a sense of decency.
...aside from the fact that everything inside of it was 20 years old? In technological years, that's about 100 human years. They were lucky that it held out this long!
Perhaps this may lead to the development of Tritanium (Star Trek ships' hull material). Alter the atoms in a sheet of Titanium a bit to make it even stronger...
I've recently been the recipient of a nasty piece of malware which took over my Linux server through a hole I didn't know was there. I no longer have the problem or the large amount of traffic because I went through using tcpdump, netstat, and iptables to effectively ward off the offensive. A little judicious, patient analysis can go a long way.
This new verdict is as "monstrous and shocking" as the $1,940,000 verdict was. After reading through many articles on the history of this case, I have to proclaim it a farce. Since when don't you need actual, admissible evidence to prosecute someone? The only evidence they had was from MediaSentry, which, at least according to an appeal that was filed, may violate wiretap laws and state private investigator laws. In fact, there was a court ruling in 2007 which proclaimed that this company was operating without a private investigator's license, rendering their evidence in that case inadmissible. If the RIAA is going to try to prosecute for this type of thing, they should at least use legal means to gather their evidence. The jury is in essence awarding the RIAA for ignoring due process and illegally obtaining information which should not have been admitted in the court case. Since they would no longer have admissible proof of her sharing the files, given that MediaSentry's evidence was illegally obtained, then the RIAA should receive no reward. I'm not saying that what she (Jammie Thomas-Rasset) did was right or wrong, that's not my call, but my observation is that the RIAA has performed its share of misconduct all throughout this trial, yet that's being ignored and they're being rewarded statutory damages for copyright violations that they can't legally prove with legally obtained evidence.
Wow, there's a company I haven't heard of in years. Didn't they make some hideously expensive RAM that was supposed to perform twice as well as normal RAM, but never lived up to the hype? Basically, they patented the design, couldn't get it to work right, and now they're suing the companies who did.
I have done some listening to other radio stations via streaming over the internet, and one station in Texas, KLFX, AKA 107.3 The Fox, was bought out by Clear Channel. I have never been more disappointed in a radio station than I am in them for selling out. The morning guy, Jack Hammer, used to have a whole lot of fun and did some wacky, crazy stuff, not to mention playing "Smoke Two Joints" by The Toyes every morning. I tuned in via the internet to try to hear some of the fun they used to have, and was sadly disappointed when I found out that it was owned by Clear Channel now. They sanitized his morning show, making it drab and totally uninteresting to listen to. That station had also been one of the stations broadcasting the Dr. Demento Show when I was at Fort Hood, Texas, and I listened to it every Sunday night despite the fact that it was on very late at night. Yeah, I was really tired at P.T. the next morning, but that show was awesome. They don't even carry that anymore. Curse Clear Channel and their mindless corporate drones, they've ruined what used to be a great radio station. They, like the Dr. Demento Show, were wacky and offbeat, but great. Now it's nothing more than a shell of its former essence, with the morning D.J. not doing anything funny at all. Due to Clear Channel's sanitizing of all of the stations it buys and the proliferation of horribly long commercial segments, it's no wonder more and more people are refusing to listen to terrestrial radio, and the good Dr. is disappearing from that medium. I do hope he keeps up online for a long time, he has a great show, and after moving back home from the Army, I missed it terribly because our radio stations here don't carry it, either.
The effects of her wi-fi and other wireless devices on this man can easily be disproved by running a signal strength meter in his home to find out what radio signals at what strengths are received within it. Likely her 2.4 GHz wireless is probably at a negligible -89 dBm, which may be even weaker by the time it goes through his walls. A wireless (cellular) telephone is doubly not a problem since the signal for the cell tower is radiated everywhere, not just in a local field around her handset, so his claim there is also null and void. Another way to catch him in a lie is to turn on hidden 2.4 GHz transmitters at regular wi-fi strength while he's in a room during a deposition, displaying no devices which use it, and if he displays no "symptoms" or complains of any discomfort, then it's pretty obvious he's lying and just a hair-brained Luddite.
Also, someone on the story's site made a good point in the comments. This is similar to a neighbor's flowers causing allergies. It's your own responsibility to shield yourself from that problem, not the neighbor's. Should he feel that things which radiate in the electromagnetic spectrum are triggering some sort of allergy, he can always wrap his house in a Faraday cage.
I believe that the word you were looking for in your first sentence was, "asinine". I do agree, however, that careless Linux users can contract viruses or worse. I've seen boxes that were freshly installed suddenly get taken over within a matter of days if the user didn't patch the software running on it. The thing that everyone needs to understand is that no system is completely bulletproof. There is always going to be some sort of vulnerability that you'll have to combat. Thankfully Linux does provide better security than Windows does, but as they say, no matter how foolproof something is, there will always be a better fool. Linux isn't for the computer novice, and Windows, while simple to use for most people, still has its pitfalls. I've only had a few people present me with a PC that had something on it so bad that I couldn't clean it, though. There's a piece of malware out there that claims that it's helping you by pointing out that your machine needs this piece of software to clean it, but it disables the control panel, safe mode, the registry editor, and any other method possible of removing it. Thankfully most Linux malware problems I've found can be reversed with a simple "kill -9" or two and some cleanup of the file system. Then, of course, patching the vulnerable processes will fix the rest. As with any operating system and PC, I'd highly suggest making backups of your configuration, and perhaps even writing your completed installation and configuration to a Norton Ghost or other type of image on a few DVDs. If you can make it work, someone else can make it fail. There are many ways to counteract the failures, but it never hurts to have a way to completely recover from a total failure. Remember folks, failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
AT&T: Celebrating their victorious overturning of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
On another note, it would seem that they're following Microsoft's dubious example. Isn't there some weird clause in their various product EULAs about not criticizing their products? I thought I saw some piece of news about that on here a while back.
Now I can understand why some people don't particularly enjoy the caps lock key since there are some individuals online who seem to believe it a necessity for chat, but all in all it is a helpful key to some people. For example, there are times when I need to use it when entering descriptions into Cisco switches for port labeling. Using caps lock, I can type things such as BAK123 A7-3 in the description field without having to hold the shift key down continuously. MAC addresses are another place where caps lock can come in handy, since usually you want to capitalize digits A-F in the hexadecimal numbering system. There are many, many places where caps lock can be your friend. What we really need to declare war on is the user who has no discretion as to when and where its usage is appropriate.
This definitely redefines "boot to the head". Face it, that's what we want to give all spammers, a nice swift boot to the head. Apparently someone got a little overzealous, however.
Sorry to disappoint, but it still uses those little dollar signs and scrolls the extra text off of the screen. Vi simply puts the text on the next line, but still keeps the line whole. That was my point about why Pico annoyed me.
If they would put out albums that have all good, legitimate songs in the first place, single song downloads would probably be less in demand. Very few artists know how to put out an album that has a plethora of music that will hold interest. I'd say they should take their 99 cents and be happy, since obviously those songs are the only ones that the mass public finds worthwhile to listen to. Some songs are good, but don't get any radio play, and I think the online forum could possibly enhance the public's ability to make a proper judgement on an album to see if they like all of the tracks before they buy it. Before, an artist could release an album with one or two good singles and the rest being filler or some crap that's completely off from their genre, so it was a great case of Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware). Most of their fears, I believe, is that they might actually have to WORK to sell their albums. Pardon me while I feel sorry for them...(0.0001 milliseconds later) OK, done.
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"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." SystemD is undoubtedly severely overthought plumbing. I don't know why someone thought they could improve on SysVInit with start-stop-daemon, but they were quite badly mistaken.
This has to be the most lowlife, underhanded, ill-thought scheme I've seen from them yet. The eighthwit (they don't have enough wits to be a halfwit) who thought of this needs to be fired and replaced with someone who has a sense of decency.
"Social Media Companies Block German Users"
...aside from the fact that everything inside of it was 20 years old? In technological years, that's about 100 human years. They were lucky that it held out this long!
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Perhaps this may lead to the development of Tritanium (Star Trek ships' hull material). Alter the atoms in a sheet of Titanium a bit to make it even stronger...
http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090911
There's no satellite-controlled self-destruct mechanism? (Return it or we push the button!)
I've recently been the recipient of a nasty piece of malware which took over my Linux server through a hole I didn't know was there. I no longer have the problem or the large amount of traffic because I went through using tcpdump, netstat, and iptables to effectively ward off the offensive. A little judicious, patient analysis can go a long way.
This new verdict is as "monstrous and shocking" as the $1,940,000 verdict was. After reading through many articles on the history of this case, I have to proclaim it a farce. Since when don't you need actual, admissible evidence to prosecute someone? The only evidence they had was from MediaSentry, which, at least according to an appeal that was filed, may violate wiretap laws and state private investigator laws. In fact, there was a court ruling in 2007 which proclaimed that this company was operating without a private investigator's license, rendering their evidence in that case inadmissible. If the RIAA is going to try to prosecute for this type of thing, they should at least use legal means to gather their evidence. The jury is in essence awarding the RIAA for ignoring due process and illegally obtaining information which should not have been admitted in the court case. Since they would no longer have admissible proof of her sharing the files, given that MediaSentry's evidence was illegally obtained, then the RIAA should receive no reward. I'm not saying that what she (Jammie Thomas-Rasset) did was right or wrong, that's not my call, but my observation is that the RIAA has performed its share of misconduct all throughout this trial, yet that's being ignored and they're being rewarded statutory damages for copyright violations that they can't legally prove with legally obtained evidence.
Just don't get blown off of the rooftop. Then again, you could always use the Hall of Hush, instead.
Wow, there's a company I haven't heard of in years. Didn't they make some hideously expensive RAM that was supposed to perform twice as well as normal RAM, but never lived up to the hype? Basically, they patented the design, couldn't get it to work right, and now they're suing the companies who did.
I have done some listening to other radio stations via streaming over the internet, and one station in Texas, KLFX, AKA 107.3 The Fox, was bought out by Clear Channel. I have never been more disappointed in a radio station than I am in them for selling out. The morning guy, Jack Hammer, used to have a whole lot of fun and did some wacky, crazy stuff, not to mention playing "Smoke Two Joints" by The Toyes every morning. I tuned in via the internet to try to hear some of the fun they used to have, and was sadly disappointed when I found out that it was owned by Clear Channel now. They sanitized his morning show, making it drab and totally uninteresting to listen to. That station had also been one of the stations broadcasting the Dr. Demento Show when I was at Fort Hood, Texas, and I listened to it every Sunday night despite the fact that it was on very late at night. Yeah, I was really tired at P.T. the next morning, but that show was awesome. They don't even carry that anymore. Curse Clear Channel and their mindless corporate drones, they've ruined what used to be a great radio station. They, like the Dr. Demento Show, were wacky and offbeat, but great. Now it's nothing more than a shell of its former essence, with the morning D.J. not doing anything funny at all. Due to Clear Channel's sanitizing of all of the stations it buys and the proliferation of horribly long commercial segments, it's no wonder more and more people are refusing to listen to terrestrial radio, and the good Dr. is disappearing from that medium. I do hope he keeps up online for a long time, he has a great show, and after moving back home from the Army, I missed it terribly because our radio stations here don't carry it, either.
The effects of her wi-fi and other wireless devices on this man can easily be disproved by running a signal strength meter in his home to find out what radio signals at what strengths are received within it. Likely her 2.4 GHz wireless is probably at a negligible -89 dBm, which may be even weaker by the time it goes through his walls. A wireless (cellular) telephone is doubly not a problem since the signal for the cell tower is radiated everywhere, not just in a local field around her handset, so his claim there is also null and void. Another way to catch him in a lie is to turn on hidden 2.4 GHz transmitters at regular wi-fi strength while he's in a room during a deposition, displaying no devices which use it, and if he displays no "symptoms" or complains of any discomfort, then it's pretty obvious he's lying and just a hair-brained Luddite.
Also, someone on the story's site made a good point in the comments. This is similar to a neighbor's flowers causing allergies. It's your own responsibility to shield yourself from that problem, not the neighbor's. Should he feel that things which radiate in the electromagnetic spectrum are triggering some sort of allergy, he can always wrap his house in a Faraday cage.
The real pi day will happen on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53.589793..., but I guess I'm just splitting hairs here.
I believe that the word you were looking for in your first sentence was, "asinine". I do agree, however, that careless Linux users can contract viruses or worse. I've seen boxes that were freshly installed suddenly get taken over within a matter of days if the user didn't patch the software running on it. The thing that everyone needs to understand is that no system is completely bulletproof. There is always going to be some sort of vulnerability that you'll have to combat. Thankfully Linux does provide better security than Windows does, but as they say, no matter how foolproof something is, there will always be a better fool. Linux isn't for the computer novice, and Windows, while simple to use for most people, still has its pitfalls. I've only had a few people present me with a PC that had something on it so bad that I couldn't clean it, though. There's a piece of malware out there that claims that it's helping you by pointing out that your machine needs this piece of software to clean it, but it disables the control panel, safe mode, the registry editor, and any other method possible of removing it. Thankfully most Linux malware problems I've found can be reversed with a simple "kill -9" or two and some cleanup of the file system. Then, of course, patching the vulnerable processes will fix the rest. As with any operating system and PC, I'd highly suggest making backups of your configuration, and perhaps even writing your completed installation and configuration to a Norton Ghost or other type of image on a few DVDs. If you can make it work, someone else can make it fail. There are many ways to counteract the failures, but it never hurts to have a way to completely recover from a total failure. Remember folks, failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
AT&T: Celebrating their victorious overturning of the Sherman Antitrust Act. On another note, it would seem that they're following Microsoft's dubious example. Isn't there some weird clause in their various product EULAs about not criticizing their products? I thought I saw some piece of news about that on here a while back.
Now I can understand why some people don't particularly enjoy the caps lock key since there are some individuals online who seem to believe it a necessity for chat, but all in all it is a helpful key to some people. For example, there are times when I need to use it when entering descriptions into Cisco switches for port labeling. Using caps lock, I can type things such as BAK123 A7-3 in the description field without having to hold the shift key down continuously. MAC addresses are another place where caps lock can come in handy, since usually you want to capitalize digits A-F in the hexadecimal numbering system. There are many, many places where caps lock can be your friend. What we really need to declare war on is the user who has no discretion as to when and where its usage is appropriate.
This definitely redefines "boot to the head". Face it, that's what we want to give all spammers, a nice swift boot to the head. Apparently someone got a little overzealous, however.
Sorry to disappoint, but it still uses those little dollar signs and scrolls the extra text off of the screen. Vi simply puts the text on the next line, but still keeps the line whole. That was my point about why Pico annoyed me.
If they would put out albums that have all good, legitimate songs in the first place, single song downloads would probably be less in demand. Very few artists know how to put out an album that has a plethora of music that will hold interest. I'd say they should take their 99 cents and be happy, since obviously those songs are the only ones that the mass public finds worthwhile to listen to. Some songs are good, but don't get any radio play, and I think the online forum could possibly enhance the public's ability to make a proper judgement on an album to see if they like all of the tracks before they buy it. Before, an artist could release an album with one or two good singles and the rest being filler or some crap that's completely off from their genre, so it was a great case of Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware). Most of their fears, I believe, is that they might actually have to WORK to sell their albums. Pardon me while I feel sorry for them...(0.0001 milliseconds later) OK, done.