Obligatory George Carlin quote:
When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion.
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man....
an invisible man, living in the sky, who watches everything you do, every minute of every day.
And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.
And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, and suffering, and burning, and torture, and pain, and burning, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!.........
But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, but somehow, He just can't handle money!
Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit! ID my ass
Also, precompiled binaries as RPMs for KDE (Debian RPMs for example) are always running a little bit slower
where can I find these RPM's for Debian? And do I need to run them through alien first?
They fill everything with MSG which is basically a neuro-toxin
So I take it you don't eat ham, cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, peas, potatoes, soy sauce, chicken, beef, eggs or any of the other foods with very high (naturally occurring, and chemically indistinguishable) MSG content? I wonder what you *do* actually eat, then. Or, to use somebody else's words: If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache?
ICANN sucks donkey balls. But how does that relate to the United States?...the argument is "We can't trust the United States" Well, I'm not really into this whole "US sucks/US is teh awesomeness" debate. It applies to this issues with regards to the fact that the US has veto powers over ICANN. This makes me uncomfortable, but in the same way that I would find it uncomfortable if any other single nation would have that kind of control over the web. It isn't really about the US sucking. But, to answer your question, that is how it relates to ICANN.
What the hell is the point of.info,.museum,.name, blah blah blah? Not that many people are using them So? if not many people use them, that inversely means that some people use them. It obviously makes them happy, so what's the issue. as far as I care, people can go ahead and create any kind of TLD they like. The only reason it would send more money to the pockets of the financial stakeholders is because a) they have elected themselves to be financial stakeholders, and b) they manufactured a pretend shortage of names. If you are able to create any kind of TLD you like with some form of minimum support, the whole business model would fall out from under Verisign and ICANN't - APNIC, ARIN and RIPE were doing just fine without them.
nobody has bothered to make the effort to build long haul links across Asia Surely, by nobody you obviously mean FLAGTelecom? Don't be a wiseass if you don't know it all.
there are many legitimate reasons not to setup yet another TLD Are there? Please enlighten me. I understand that the present system of TLD's was designed to be freely added to whenever required, without much fuss. However, allowing this to happen would make the domain name business a rather less valuable proposition, so this concept was quickly killed off. what I can see from where I am standing is that everything is run by a decidedly closed shop, with only pretenses to openness, and the whole thing happily handed over to a multi-billion dollar business with interests to protect (and those interests are not likely to be ours).
I am no big fan of the whole UN idea, I shudder at the thought of DNS becoming even *more* bureaucratic, but the current arrangements don't fill me with much confidence either. The whole US thing doesn't really mean much to me - but ICANN come across as a bunch of bastards looking for justification to keep on breathing, and Verisign are even worse.
My view here is that the only thing that is manufactured is the requirement for a limit on the amount of TLD's. You mention porn and.xxx as the only reasons people should be upset, but that is both a red herring as well as a non sequitur. The issue goes deeper then.xxx
are you pulling that number right out of your ass? This survey from feb 2007, begs to differ. It puts Oracle on 0.8% contributions. That means Oracle comes after(Unknown), RedHat, (None) IBM, QLogic, Novell, Intel, MIPS Technologies, Nokia, SANPeople, SteelEye, Freescale, Linux Foundation, MontaVista, Simtec, Atmel, HP, and SGI (in order of contributions) in terms of contributions.
Of course they cant. They can't compete with serious distro's and they wont be able to compete with serious Xen players. Thats not the point. wearing my tin foil hat, I'd say that their point is to fragment, or at least give the illusion to fragment, open source work. Oracle has lost a hell of a lot of real money to open source, and have been been brought to the enterprise open source table kicking and screaming. There is no money to be made here for them, they will gain little to no credibility in this space (not core business, blah blah) and they have never been known to have a warm spot in their hearts for open source in general.
wait, you talk to other people? or just yourself in the mirror. i see you time and time rolling out the same arguments, and talking about reproducing this issue, and everytime somebody does, it either doesn't happen to you (so its not true) or its because of some other bullshit excuse. Troll.
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and that leaves them with what, exactly? the "About Us" page?
It isn't about actually being able to predict anything useful. Think of it like this. As a "World Leader" [sic], how much would you spend on the Ultimate Cop-Out(tm)? yeah a few million is a *bargain* for what this thing can do. None of the people involved in this project are actually interested in the predictions. What they are interested in is that the *next* time they have a royal screw up, they can say: "well, its unfortunate this happened, but you see, we have really smart supercomputer. It has 3-D and stuff. And it tells us what is most likely to happen. This wasn't on the list. We only have limited resources, and this is the best way to focus those resources where they are most likely to be doing us good".
Its the ultimate repudiation. As far as I can predict, they will spend lots and lots more money on this, get some buddies in on the gravy train somewhere to boot, and they still got themselves a bargain.
"I'm just wondering, how they are going to enforce the promise -- I don't think, the party's senators will be legally bound to obey the voters' wishes"
How is that different from today? At least (if done right) there should be an easily obtained audit trail, that would leave very little room for the usual politicians' teflon shoulder approach to failing to keep/going against your promises
"If you needed to run, say 100 indexing engines in parallel and merge the indexes, you'd have to research that. Somebody's probably done it."
Yes, they have. In my previous job we had to search 2 terrabytes of plain text data (HTML) really fast. The company chose Autonomy, and many developers spent many months trying to make it work, consuming insane amounts of hardware resources for mediocre results, and still requiring . One lone (and brilliant) dev whipped up a Lucene proof of concept in a weekend, and it was faster (full index in a day) required less resources (a single HP DL 585, 16GB RAM, 4xdual core AMD as opposed to 10 of the same), had a smaller index (about a 5th of Autonomies'), returned results faster, the result set was more accurate, and was significantly more flexible in making it do what we actually needed it to do.
I cant figure out freeserifsoftware.com - right next to the "Its all FREE!!!" "amazing VALUE!!!" banner there is a "buy online" banner. "Visit our AMAZING SHOP!!! Save $$$ where they try and sell you stuff that is also free? and have a ridiculously high "original price" discounted with ridiculous margins. Sorry, but the site alone hit many of my red flags.
yes, and how many kids do you have, exactly? and your justification for being right is based on fictional characters in a sci-fi novel? Please, STFU. You are clueless.
...I can quite trivially do so, but beyond those two steps, and the time it takes your computer to complete the process, there is no difference between apt-getting a package, and "hand building" a package in a FreeBSD system...
Excuse me, did you just say "apt-get install kde whatever" takes as long as compiling it?
What you need is a Write Once Read Many (WORM) device. Unless EMC started shipping Open Source hardware (hahaha) I don't think you will be able to find this as Open Source. There may be some software solution, but you would most likely need some certification for it anyway ("no, officer, it _really_ is unalterable, trust me....."). Granted, most "hardware" solutions implement WORM through software, but I know from experience that it is impossible to change the data on WORM.
Technically, a CD-R with some checksumming would work to be compliant - these guys have some more info, but if you need it for formal compliance use, you are better off talking to your friendly neighbourhood storage vendor to save you lots of legal hassle should you ever need the WORM thing for evidence. It is the difference between a lengthy legal process where you have to explain exactly why your homebrew solution is legal and simply saying "talk to NetApp"
What the fuck are you smoking, and can I please have some of it.
> "Selling the vulnerability is already probably extortion" extortion defined: "extortion - the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)" - How does selling a worm fall within this definition? I call bullshit.
> "doing it on a broad scale is probably racketeering" racketeering defined: racketeering - To carry on illegal business activities that involve crimes. See above, I call more bullshit
> "Telling the world about it and then not reporting it, however may also be illegal." Why? What law is this guy breaking then? And in which country? I call more bullshit
> "because you were aware of the flaw and did not disclose it, you could probably be sued for civil damages" dude, this is so rich, I don't even know where to begin. calling this bullshit would be an insult to bulls everywhere, and would probably lead to me being sued for libel by the International Bull Community.
You must live in some dreamworld with made-up laws. While some people may be find this guys actions questionable (from his blog I gather it was an implementation for a payed gig, and it all may be above board as far as we know) that doesn't instantly make it illegal.
If your post is the result of evening law classes, then my advice to you is not to give up the dayjob...
As there are a bunch of key tools actually missing - I failed to spot any FLOSS tools that do the same, and most of those actually perform way better then the ones listed in the article. YACR (Yet another clueless reporter)......
Seriously - they want to charge Radio stations for royalties? great, let them. They want to price Internet radio into oblivion? Great, let them. Radio, whatever the transmission medium, is advertisement. Both for the ads in between the music, as well as for the music itself. The knock-on effect effect of these moves will be disastrous for the music industry in the longer term. They will get what they deserve - music sales will be further down, and the RIAA crpwd will be looking for a new job. Like, how to charge people for the air they breathe
All of the large financial institutions I know of (pretty much all that count) are hilt-deep in open source, and it will take more then a "memo from a lawyer" to remove all open source software. It will take millions of dollars in redesign and reimplementation costs, and is also likely to take several years to get there. A lot of my clients are or were large financial institutions, and everyone who is a player has a long long history of UNIX usage, and will have been using FLOSS for at least 3 to 4 years in production now.
You don't have to sell me on the benefits of virtualisation. I'm all for it. None of the benefits you list are exclusive to virtualisation. If on the fly snapshotting is a key business requirement for me, I will pick the right tool for the job. Depending on the customer (well, mine anyway) that will usually be a more specialised storage device. I can go on and on, but the bottom line, the attitude that you will "NEVER" use anything other then virtualisation is unsound
I've gotta say I can't see myself ever NOT installing a server in either an OpenVZ VE or a Xen domU ever again
Remind me to never EVER hire you to do any work for me. Ever heard of "the right tool for the job"? I am a huge fan of virtualisation, and have been using it for years, VMWare mostly, but lately more and more with Xen. Given that Xen simply does not yet play nice with most of the lower cost hardware, and has several significant shortcomings in real-life enterprise production environments (running against a multihomed SAN is a not-so-distant nightmare), Xen still has some work left to do. Anyhow, I'm a huge fan of virtualisation, but there are plenty of workloads that simply do not work well virtualised, irrespective of the VM flavour du-jour you are using.
Saying you will only ever use virtualised workloads is stupid, and unprofessional. -and no, the fact that you got [oracle,mysql,postgresql] to run in a VM does not mean its going to be anywhere near decent performance.
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When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion.
No contest. No contest. Religion.
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man....
an invisible man, living in the sky, who watches everything you do, every minute of every day.
And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.
And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, and suffering, and burning, and torture, and pain, and burning, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!.........
But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, but somehow, He just can't handle money!
Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit! ID my ass
where can I find these RPM's for Debian? And do I need to run them through alien first?
So I take it you don't eat ham, cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, peas, potatoes, soy sauce, chicken, beef, eggs or any of the other foods with very high (naturally occurring, and chemically indistinguishable) MSG content? I wonder what you *do* actually eat, then. Or, to use somebody else's words: If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache?
What the hell is the point of
I am no big fan of the whole UN idea, I shudder at the thought of DNS becoming even *more* bureaucratic, but the current arrangements don't fill me with much confidence either. The whole US thing doesn't really mean much to me - but ICANN come across as a bunch of bastards looking for justification to keep on breathing, and Verisign are even worse.
My view here is that the only thing that is manufactured is the requirement for a limit on the amount of TLD's. You mention porn and
are you pulling that number right out of your ass? This survey from feb 2007, begs to differ. It puts Oracle on 0.8% contributions. That means Oracle comes after(Unknown), RedHat, (None) IBM, QLogic, Novell, Intel, MIPS Technologies, Nokia, SANPeople, SteelEye, Freescale, Linux Foundation, MontaVista, Simtec, Atmel, HP, and SGI (in order of contributions) in terms of contributions.
Of course they cant. They can't compete with serious distro's and they wont be able to compete with serious Xen players. Thats not the point. wearing my tin foil hat, I'd say that their point is to fragment, or at least give the illusion to fragment, open source work. Oracle has lost a hell of a lot of real money to open source, and have been been brought to the enterprise open source table kicking and screaming. There is no money to be made here for them, they will gain little to no credibility in this space (not core business, blah blah) and they have never been known to have a warm spot in their hearts for open source in general.
wait, you talk to other people? or just yourself in the mirror. i see you time and time rolling out the same arguments, and talking about reproducing this issue, and everytime somebody does, it either doesn't happen to you (so its not true) or its because of some other bullshit excuse. Troll.
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and that leaves them with what, exactly? the "About Us" page?
It isn't about actually being able to predict anything useful. Think of it like this. As a "World Leader" [sic], how much would you spend on the Ultimate Cop-Out(tm)? yeah a few million is a *bargain* for what this thing can do. None of the people involved in this project are actually interested in the predictions. What they are interested in is that the *next* time they have a royal screw up, they can say: "well, its unfortunate this happened, but you see, we have really smart supercomputer. It has 3-D and stuff. And it tells us what is most likely to happen. This wasn't on the list. We only have limited resources, and this is the best way to focus those resources where they are most likely to be doing us good".
Its the ultimate repudiation. As far as I can predict, they will spend lots and lots more money on this, get some buddies in on the gravy train somewhere to boot, and they still got themselves a bargain.
"I'm just wondering, how they are going to enforce the promise -- I don't think, the party's senators will be legally bound to obey the voters' wishes"
How is that different from today? At least (if done right) there should be an easily obtained audit trail, that would leave very little room for the usual politicians' teflon shoulder approach to failing to keep/going against your promises
"If you needed to run, say 100 indexing engines in parallel and merge the indexes, you'd have to research that. Somebody's probably done it."
Yes, they have. In my previous job we had to search 2 terrabytes of plain text data (HTML) really fast. The company chose Autonomy, and many developers spent many months trying to make it work, consuming insane amounts of hardware resources for mediocre results, and still requiring . One lone (and brilliant) dev whipped up a Lucene proof of concept in a weekend, and it was faster (full index in a day) required less resources (a single HP DL 585, 16GB RAM, 4xdual core AMD as opposed to 10 of the same), had a smaller index (about a 5th of Autonomies'), returned results faster, the result set was more accurate, and was significantly more flexible in making it do what we actually needed it to do.
Lucene wins hands down
I cant figure out freeserifsoftware.com - right next to the "Its all FREE!!!" "amazing VALUE!!!" banner there is a "buy online" banner. "Visit our AMAZING SHOP!!! Save $$$ where they try and sell you stuff that is also free? and have a ridiculously high "original price" discounted with ridiculous margins. Sorry, but the site alone hit many of my red flags.
yes, and how many kids do you have, exactly? and your justification for being right is based on fictional characters in a sci-fi novel? Please, STFU. You are clueless.
Excuse me, did you just say "apt-get install kde whatever" takes as long as compiling it?
What you need is a Write Once Read Many (WORM) device. Unless EMC started shipping Open Source hardware (hahaha) I don't think you will be able to find this as Open Source. There may be some software solution, but you would most likely need some certification for it anyway ("no, officer, it _really_ is unalterable, trust me....."). Granted, most "hardware" solutions implement WORM through software, but I know from experience that it is impossible to change the data on WORM.
Technically, a CD-R with some checksumming would work to be compliant - these guys have some more info, but if you need it for formal compliance use, you are better off talking to your friendly neighbourhood storage vendor to save you lots of legal hassle should you ever need the WORM thing for evidence. It is the difference between a lengthy legal process where you have to explain exactly why your homebrew solution is legal and simply saying "talk to NetApp"
What the fuck are you smoking, and can I please have some of it.
> "Selling the vulnerability is already probably extortion"
extortion defined: "extortion - the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)" - How does selling a worm fall within this definition? I call bullshit.
> "doing it on a broad scale is probably racketeering"
racketeering defined: racketeering - To carry on illegal business activities that involve crimes. See above, I call more bullshit
> "Telling the world about it and then not reporting it, however may also be illegal."
Why? What law is this guy breaking then? And in which country? I call more bullshit
> "because you were aware of the flaw and did not disclose it, you could probably be sued for civil damages"
dude, this is so rich, I don't even know where to begin. calling this bullshit would be an insult to bulls everywhere, and would probably lead to me being sued for libel by the International Bull Community.
You must live in some dreamworld with made-up laws. While some people may be find this guys actions questionable (from his blog I gather it was an implementation for a payed gig, and it all may be above board as far as we know) that doesn't instantly make it illegal.
If your post is the result of evening law classes, then my advice to you is not to give up the dayjob...
As there are a bunch of key tools actually missing - I failed to spot any FLOSS tools that do the same, and most of those actually perform way better then the ones listed in the article. YACR (Yet another clueless reporter)......
A similar means of communication by quantum entanglement is employed by the Amnion in Donaldsons' The Gap Cycle - an awesome read.
Seriously - they want to charge Radio stations for royalties? great, let them. They want to price Internet radio into oblivion? Great, let them. Radio, whatever the transmission medium, is advertisement. Both for the ads in between the music, as well as for the music itself. The knock-on effect effect of these moves will be disastrous for the music industry in the longer term. They will get what they deserve - music sales will be further down, and the RIAA crpwd will be looking for a new job. Like, how to charge people for the air they breathe
All of the large financial institutions I know of (pretty much all that count) are hilt-deep in open source, and it will take more then a "memo from a lawyer" to remove all open source software. It will take millions of dollars in redesign and reimplementation costs, and is also likely to take several years to get there. A lot of my clients are or were large financial institutions, and everyone who is a player has a long long history of UNIX usage, and will have been using FLOSS for at least 3 to 4 years in production now.
You don't have to sell me on the benefits of virtualisation. I'm all for it. None of the benefits you list are exclusive to virtualisation. If on the fly snapshotting is a key business requirement for me, I will pick the right tool for the job. Depending on the customer (well, mine anyway) that will usually be a more specialised storage device. I can go on and on, but the bottom line, the attitude that you will "NEVER" use anything other then virtualisation is unsound
And can you see my cancelled subscription? Ads in free games is one thing, but not if I'm paying for it
I've gotta say I can't see myself ever NOT installing a server in either an OpenVZ VE or a Xen domU ever again
Remind me to never EVER hire you to do any work for me. Ever heard of "the right tool for the job"? I am a huge fan of virtualisation, and have been using it for years, VMWare mostly, but lately more and more with Xen. Given that Xen simply does not yet play nice with most of the lower cost hardware, and has several significant shortcomings in real-life enterprise production environments (running against a multihomed SAN is a not-so-distant nightmare), Xen still has some work left to do. Anyhow, I'm a huge fan of virtualisation, but there are plenty of workloads that simply do not work well virtualised, irrespective of the VM flavour du-jour you are using.
Saying you will only ever use virtualised workloads is stupid, and unprofessional. -and no, the fact that you got [oracle,mysql,postgresql] to run in a VM does not mean its going to be anywhere near decent performance.