With the latest bandwidth caps I'm seeing on my provider (AT&T U-verse), I can download data at a rate of 250 GB per month. So it'll take me 45 YEARS to fill up that 135 TB array.
Can we get this judge to look into medical billing too? It is the only place worse than cell phone billing, and not by much. Both are worse than used cars sales...
The binary driver cannot be redistributed with the linux distros..
Gimp doesn't distribute with the most popular Linux distro. Not all of it is license. Some of it is choice, and the fact that CDs are only so big. And this fix is quite simple if it can boot to VGA, which nvidia can. ATI could not for a long time...
The binary driver may drop support for older hardware at any point, and the older versions which still support your hardware are unlikely support current kernels or X11 versions.
You can still run a GForce2 on 11.04, so I do not see this as a problem, but a "potential" problem. Some people call that FUD.
You cannot fix a binary blob driver yourself, you are beholden to the vendor to do so.
Most users can not fix ANY driver themselves. And open source projects have lost interest and dropped support too... Admittedly, it is a strike against... Even a big strike, since no one can peer review the code. But it is far from a deal breaker.
Also that "100%" is relative to the binary driver itself, its possible that given time the open driver will surpass it.
Out of interest, does the open driver support OpenCL yet?
True, competition is good.
But what ticks me off is how fickle people are. Don't get me wrong; I am a big FOSS supporter, and involved in several FOSS projects. But I am not a purist... Nvidia was first to the party. When NO ONE was supporting Linux, they had a solid driver, with real support. It was even current! Now we have this new player at the party who ignored FOSS for almost all of it's history. Yes, they have a slightly more open license. They also have less people working on making a solid driver... But the fickle fanbois are ready to dump the one that has stood by Linux longer than almost anyone... Not me. I remember the heroes and villains longer than a year.
This caused a rather large burst of laughter. My girlfriend asked me what was so funny. After several minutes trying to explain, I gave up. Now I have to find the movie. "They may have to edit this for TV" --Gilbert Godfrey
The biggest current threats to the United States are the Mississippi River system, the Federal deficit, and white-collar crime in the financial sector.
But out of all those, only the river will recede. OK, maybe white collar crime will too...
Assuming a 2 hour lease time, and 5000 customers, that is 60000 lines a day. That times 20 characters per line, is 1,200,000 bytes. Roughly 1 meg per day. So, 500 meg for the period in question.
It says they must store for "at least 18 months the temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account, unless that address is transmitted by radio communication"--language that amounts to a huge and unusual exception for wireless carriers.
Can I come over and watch your girlfriend shower? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear... (Of course, this is slashdot, so on the off chance he actually has a girlfriend, I may have a lot to fear!)
I don't have an account with Yahoo but if I did I would take targeted advertising over mass amounts of random spam any day.
I thought spam was unwanted advertising in your e-mail... Sounds like gmail and the new yahoo to me... (And Juno, and... Oh, listing them all will take too long)
I fail to see why people think this is (1) new (2) a problem (3) something anybody can do anything about.
Oh, there are lots of things you can do about it. It is getting cheaper every day to host your own mail server. PGP works, and is simple. There are also companies that respect privacy, for a cost...
If you're not paying for it, they can do whatever they want with it, how else are they supposed to make money off the customer for providing the service?
Selling e-mail services to ATT, perhaps? I wonder if that will also be scanned?
Is this the same scanning that Google does with GMail? If so, why no outcry there?
Because I just never left yahoo due to privacy concerns with Google. Now it may be time to leave yahoo... Of course since ATT uses yahoo for e-mail, that might be tough for some... I wonder if this will apply to the commercial users as well?
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With the latest bandwidth caps I'm seeing on my provider (AT&T U-verse), I can download data at a rate of 250 GB per month. So it'll take me 45 YEARS to fill up that 135 TB array.
LAN Party... :)
I'm not a hardware expert, but I imagine you could connect them somehow for less than $1944.68..
Yes, it is usually cheaper to build hardware in your imagination...
Dammit, why do I keep getting those mixed up?
Because you haven't lost a drive yet?
I just read it for the centerfolds.
Can we get this judge to look into medical billing too? It is the only place worse than cell phone billing, and not by much. Both are worse than used cars sales...
Many reasons..
The binary driver cannot be redistributed with the linux distros..
Gimp doesn't distribute with the most popular Linux distro. Not all of it is license. Some of it is choice, and the fact that CDs are only so big. And this fix is quite simple if it can boot to VGA, which nvidia can. ATI could not for a long time...
The binary driver may drop support for older hardware at any point, and the older versions which still support your hardware are unlikely support current kernels or X11 versions.
You can still run a GForce2 on 11.04, so I do not see this as a problem, but a "potential" problem. Some people call that FUD.
You cannot fix a binary blob driver yourself, you are beholden to the vendor to do so.
Most users can not fix ANY driver themselves. And open source projects have lost interest and dropped support too... Admittedly, it is a strike against... Even a big strike, since no one can peer review the code. But it is far from a deal breaker.
Also that "100%" is relative to the binary driver itself, its possible that given time the open driver will surpass it.
Out of interest, does the open driver support OpenCL yet?
True, competition is good.
But what ticks me off is how fickle people are. Don't get me wrong; I am a big FOSS supporter, and involved in several FOSS projects. But I am not a purist... Nvidia was first to the party. When NO ONE was supporting Linux, they had a solid driver, with real support. It was even current! Now we have this new player at the party who ignored FOSS for almost all of it's history. Yes, they have a slightly more open license. They also have less people working on making a solid driver... But the fickle fanbois are ready to dump the one that has stood by Linux longer than almost anyone... Not me. I remember the heroes and villains longer than a year.
Oh, and Nvidia works better...
This caused a rather large burst of laughter. My girlfriend asked me what was so funny. After several minutes trying to explain, I gave up. Now I have to find the movie. "They may have to edit this for TV" --Gilbert Godfrey
Sure... Suggest a gotse icon for slashdot... As if it is not on here enough.
About time one of the bodies stood up to a member trying to turn it into a money tap. Should have started with rambus.
No, my DHCP server is getting a wifi card!
The biggest current threats to the United States are the Mississippi River system, the Federal deficit, and white-collar crime in the financial sector.
But out of all those, only the river will recede. OK, maybe white collar crime will too...
Assuming a 2 hour lease time, and 5000 customers, that is 60000 lines a day. That times 20 characters per line, is 1,200,000 bytes. Roughly 1 meg per day. So, 500 meg for the period in question.
Yeah, I was hoping too, but no dice here.
It says they must store for "at least 18 months the temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account, unless that address is transmitted by radio communication"--language that amounts to a huge and unusual exception for wireless carriers.
So put your DHCP server on a wireless link. Done.
There are countries (such as Italy) where ID is required at Internet Cafe's, so it isn't such a far-fetched idea for some...
IDs are required at the US boarder, and nightclubs too... I wonder how well that works?
most criminal are lazy and stupid.
No, just the ones you see in the news. The smart ones never get caught. In spite of all the abuse to the general public.
people use to make fun of the CCCP for the "show me your papers" routine.
But they were much worse than the TSA! No, wait... (Facepalm)
That is six... "goatses" however...
Yahoo sells commercial e-mail services. If you have ATT for Internet, and use their e-mail, guess who hosts it?
Can I come over and watch your girlfriend shower? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear... (Of course, this is slashdot, so on the off chance he actually has a girlfriend, I may have a lot to fear!)
I don't have an account with Yahoo but if I did I would take targeted advertising over mass amounts of random spam any day.
I thought spam was unwanted advertising in your e-mail... Sounds like gmail and the new yahoo to me... (And Juno, and... Oh, listing them all will take too long)
I fail to see why people think this is (1) new (2) a problem (3) something anybody can do anything about.
Oh, there are lots of things you can do about it. It is getting cheaper every day to host your own mail server. PGP works, and is simple. There are also companies that respect privacy, for a cost...
Google does the same thing, it will make them more money, and, frankly, nobody cares.
Actually a lot of people do care. They will leave. They didn't leave Google because they never joined.
If you're not paying for it, they can do whatever they want with it, how else are they supposed to make money off the customer for providing the service?
Selling e-mail services to ATT, perhaps? I wonder if that will also be scanned?
Is this the same scanning that Google does with GMail? If so, why no outcry there?
Because I just never left yahoo due to privacy concerns with Google. Now it may be time to leave yahoo... Of course since ATT uses yahoo for e-mail, that might be tough for some... I wonder if this will apply to the commercial users as well?
Or... They will get bought out by a patent troll.