...As in "removed it utterly from the system, with no hope of recovery" or as in "made a copy for themselves" sort of stealing that the RIAA likes to claim in court?
Hell, if it was good stuff, more power to them. If you're addled enough to send in a hard drive with your system for service, then you can expect someone will be plowing through it.
I would *love* to use it- but without Exchange calendaring support, it will be effectively a non starter for me and for thousands of other geeks out there who would love to use Thunderbird as their primary mail client at work.
I happen to deal with a lot of regulated information (PHI with HIPPA, PCI in some environments as well). One thing that always astonishes me is not that security breaches happen (we're human, things happen), but that there is little to no reported repercussions from those losses.
It's one thing to have a security breach, but it's another one just to announce it, issue new cards to everyone and keep on working like nothing happened.
I think the best thing would be that the gov steps up to the plate and actually *enforce* the current laws and not spend our time and taxpayer money to create a new raft of laws that will end up never getting enforced in the first place.
I understand where you come from. I fought with the Perl DB* stuff years ago. However, in previous cases Guido and crew have followed the "batteries included" philosophy of Python by making sure that modules added in were complete in form as well as function.
That is why I was happy to hear about Sqlite getting added in- it will be a complete interface for creating, dropping, renaming, you name it.
Reserving my cheers until I see the docs, however. Nothing updated at their main Modules site at this time.
In keeping with the theme of adding tried and true packages to the standard library, in 2.5 we've added ctypes, ElementTree, hashlib, sqlite3 and wsgiref to the standard library that ships with Python.
That made me sit up and take notice. A pretty nice programming language with built-in functionality to read and write Sqlite databases natively?
Looks like they release a Mac installer, too. Think I'll have to check it out when I get home
...Until now, a mailing list gets on the AOL whitelist by following good e-mail practices, such as cleaning up dead addresses, making it easy for people to leave mailing lists, and of course not sending any spam...
Seriously guys, I have a spammer in my datacenter that uses Ironports to send email out across AOL, MSN and other large networks due to agreements allowing commercial email sent from those devices to be automatically whitelisted.
So, spammers get to buy some boxes and get around (ahem) *spam blocking* and the users whom want to have mailing lists have to *pay* to keep their mailing lists from bouncing all to hell as well.
Ok, so let me get it straight. Microsoft took a credit card machine, masked it as a game console and shoved it out the door.
I've boycotted Sony due to the CD debacle, and after reading this I'm sure I will not be picking up a 360 since I really don't like the idea of paying someone everytime I want to change something. Looks like my decision has been made for me. Here's hoping that the Nintendo Revolution does not suck all that bad.
If you think about it, the stock market does not award companies for doing well, maintaining a good fiscal outlook and treating it's employees good, it awards companies that grow. What happens whenever a company has utterly grown itself so large that there's really no room to go anywhere (ala Microsoft)?
Sure, it's a treadmill that everyone wants to get on, but it wears down and kills all but the strongest. Not to be outdone, it drives competing companies against one another to the point that now, a little over a hundred years later, companies are little more than rabid beasts. Clawing and looking for any way to get a little larger piece of the pie. If they slip in the slightest they are injured. If they slip a few more times they can be ripped apart by other competing companies- broken apart by others more ruthless.
Anyone wonder why the laws and regulations are changing so much in favor of the big corporations?
They might not be able to get off the treadmill, but it doesn't stop them from coercing others to come to their aid.
I think on the Myth Busters they called it the "Brown Note". They subjected Adam to a massive stack of speakers trying to get him to shit, but it didn't work.
I've been sitting here this evening getting some scripts setup to auto-export IIS website configurations (which I then export out to a Linux box with some PHP and MySql goodness makes a searchable database for all the websites we do shared hosting with).
There's eight different servers (a test bed), just about all of them have to be treated in some special way (iis5 exports stuff differently than iis6, forcing me to write my parser *twice* to make things work right.
Even better, sometimes different service packs change things around in undocumented ways, forcing me to once again re-write individual scripts to take that into account.
Eight boxes, two versions of Microsoft operating systems, two service packs and I have five(!) different scripts to handle it all and make it work.
...Yes, we require you to put the www on the front of it...
Then you have a brokeass CNAME entry which goes against the RFC's, if I recall.
Do the internet a favor and just say no to worthless CNAME crap. A browser will get to the right place without that dumbass "www" tacked to the front of a domain name.
Japanese plumbing fixture company TOTO that helped originate the concept of not only low-flush toilets, but also toilets where you can choose the amount of water to use per flush for even higher water efficiency...
Ok, privacy concerns aside, that's a pretty spiffy thing to have. I've wracked my brain for old searches and old sites for technical data, bits of code, and so on and came up short a lot of the time. (who hasn't surfed to Google, typed in one letter and scrolled down the list looking for something you've typed in before?)
Hell, i've written my own browser cache downloader for Safari and Mozilla (with snazzy search engine and all the trimmings) just to keep all the places i've been to current. Remembering all the places i've been to using Google helps a lot.
Keep it lean and popup free, Google, and I will use it every day.
Reminds me. The company came out with some sort of new "intellectual property agreement" crap a while back and sent it out to us. While a lot of items on it were of the "duh" sort, there were a number of provisions which I felt put code and ideas I came up with *off the clock at home* in jeopardy.
So, I changed them. A whole bunch of stuff in there which sidestepped a number of possible legal issues with OSS I have released and will release in the near-term. Hell, I stopped short of writing myself in a golden parachute just to see if I could get away with it.
Anyway, I signed it and they countersigned and I got a copy right here, just in case.
Did I mention it's probably A Bad Idea to send out contractual agreements in MS Word files?
Suppose you make an icon set and place it under one of the Creative Commons licenses that has the non-commercial restriction. This means that Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake and all the other commercial Linux distributions can't put your icon set on their CD. It means that only people who contact you directly can use your icon set. That's hardly freedom.
It's freedom for you to make your own choice about wether you wish to have your icons included in the distribution (using your example above). If it's good enough, then they can either:
1) pay you for your cool icons. 2) talk you into using another license for a subset of the icons. 3) use someone else's stuff.
What's so hard about freedom? I think the CC is the best step forward for licensing in general. Three clicks and you have a human readable license- both clear and concise and in standard legalese. RMS might have founded GNU and the FSF but Lessig perfected it.
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...As in "removed it utterly from the system, with no hope of recovery" or as in "made a copy for themselves" sort of stealing that the RIAA likes to claim in court?
Hell, if it was good stuff, more power to them. If you're addled enough to send in a hard drive with your system for service, then you can expect someone will be plowing through it.
Imag0
Tits?
/mmmm. downloadable b00bies.
Wake me when there's tits and we'll talk.
I would *love* to use it- but without Exchange calendaring support, it will be effectively a non starter for me and for thousands of other geeks out there who would love to use Thunderbird as their primary mail client at work.
I happen to deal with a lot of regulated information (PHI with HIPPA, PCI in some environments as well). One thing that always astonishes me is not that security breaches happen (we're human, things happen), but that there is little to no reported repercussions from those losses.
It's one thing to have a security breach, but it's another one just to announce it, issue new cards to everyone and keep on working like nothing happened.
I think the best thing would be that the gov steps up to the plate and actually *enforce* the current laws and not spend our time and taxpayer money to create a new raft of laws that will end up never getting enforced in the first place.
Cheers,
imag0
Apparently written by someone whom has never stepped in a well stocked data center before.
I understand where you come from. I fought with the Perl DB* stuff years ago. However, in previous cases Guido and crew have followed the "batteries included" philosophy of Python by making sure that modules added in were complete in form as well as function.
That is why I was happy to hear about Sqlite getting added in- it will be a complete interface for creating, dropping, renaming, you name it.
Reserving my cheers until I see the docs, however. Nothing updated at their main Modules site at this time.
Cheers
From TFA:
In keeping with the theme of adding tried and true packages to the standard library, in 2.5 we've added ctypes, ElementTree, hashlib, sqlite3 and wsgiref to the standard library that ships with Python.
That made me sit up and take notice. A pretty nice programming language with built-in functionality to read and write Sqlite databases natively?
Looks like they release a Mac installer, too. Think I'll have to check it out when I get home
Cheers
...Until now, a mailing list gets on the AOL whitelist by following good e-mail practices, such as cleaning up dead addresses, making it easy for people to leave mailing lists, and of course not sending any spam...
Seriously guys, I have a spammer in my datacenter that uses Ironports to send email out across AOL, MSN and other large networks due to agreements allowing commercial email sent from those devices to be automatically whitelisted.
So, spammers get to buy some boxes and get around (ahem) *spam blocking* and the users whom want to have mailing lists have to *pay* to keep their mailing lists from bouncing all to hell as well.
Nice.
Ok, so let me get it straight. Microsoft took a credit card machine, masked it as a game console and shoved it out the door.
I've boycotted Sony due to the CD debacle, and after reading this I'm sure I will not be picking up a 360 since I really don't like the idea of paying someone everytime I want to change something. Looks like my decision has been made for me. Here's hoping that the Nintendo Revolution does not suck all that bad.
hehe. First thing I thought of after reading the blurb...
Nothing for you to see here. BROUGHT TO YOU BY CISCO SWITCHES AND NETWORKING APPLIANCES! Please move along.
Ok. done. ;)
If you think about it, the stock market does not award companies for doing well, maintaining a good fiscal outlook and treating it's employees good, it awards companies that grow. What happens whenever a company has utterly grown itself so large that there's really no room to go anywhere (ala Microsoft)?
Sure, it's a treadmill that everyone wants to get on, but it wears down and kills all but the strongest. Not to be outdone, it drives competing companies against one another to the point that now, a little over a hundred years later, companies are little more than rabid beasts. Clawing and looking for any way to get a little larger piece of the pie. If they slip in the slightest they are injured. If they slip a few more times they can be ripped apart by other competing companies- broken apart by others more ruthless.
Anyone wonder why the laws and regulations are changing so much in favor of the big corporations?
They might not be able to get off the treadmill, but it doesn't stop them from coercing others to come to their aid.
Does that make sense?
I think on the Myth Busters they called it the "Brown Note". They subjected Adam to a massive stack of speakers trying to get him to shit, but it didn't work.
One would assume if you can afford it, you're pretty much past the law to begin with, eh?
I've been sitting here this evening getting some scripts setup to auto-export IIS website configurations (which I then export out to a Linux box with some PHP and MySql goodness makes a searchable database for all the websites we do shared hosting with).
There's eight different servers (a test bed), just about all of them have to be treated in some special way (iis5 exports stuff differently than iis6, forcing me to write my parser *twice* to make things work right.
Even better, sometimes different service packs change things around in undocumented ways, forcing me to once again re-write individual scripts to take that into account.
Eight boxes, two versions of Microsoft operating systems, two service packs and I have five(!) different scripts to handle it all and make it work.
Where Do You Want To Go Today, indeed.
...Yes, we require you to put the www on the front of it...
Then you have a brokeass CNAME entry which goes against the RFC's, if I recall.
Do the internet a favor and just say no to worthless CNAME crap. A browser will get to the right place without that dumbass "www" tacked to the front of a domain name.
So... the next generation of electronics is going to be made of shit?
;)
Stands to reason it will be. Heaven knows the previous couple of generations have been
Japanese plumbing fixture company TOTO that helped originate the concept of not only low-flush toilets, but also toilets where you can choose the amount of water to use per flush for even higher water efficiency...
Three settings. Poot, Flood and Tongs.
"CNet is running a story about the ties between Oracle and the Mozilla Foundation..."
Yeah. A running news story on at least two large news sites. Pretty good job keeping the lid on this one, Oracle and Moz!
No, you don't get asked for the last 4 digits of your SS number. i just ordered something last week.
Mod a troll.
Ok, privacy concerns aside, that's a pretty spiffy thing to have. I've wracked my brain for old searches and old sites for technical data, bits of code, and so on and came up short a lot of the time. (who hasn't surfed to Google, typed in one letter and scrolled down the list looking for something you've typed in before?)
Hell, i've written my own browser cache downloader for Safari and Mozilla (with snazzy search engine and all the trimmings) just to keep all the places i've been to current. Remembering all the places i've been to using Google helps a lot.
Keep it lean and popup free, Google, and I will use it every day.
...Is the plastic, lifeless acting about the same? ;)
Reminds me. The company came out with some sort of new "intellectual property agreement" crap a while back and sent it out to us. While a lot of items on it were of the "duh" sort, there were a number of provisions which I felt put code and ideas I came up with *off the clock at home* in jeopardy.
So, I changed them. A whole bunch of stuff in there which sidestepped a number of possible legal issues with OSS I have released and will release in the near-term. Hell, I stopped short of writing myself in a golden parachute just to see if I could get away with it.
Anyway, I signed it and they countersigned and I got a copy right here, just in case.
Did I mention it's probably A Bad Idea to send out contractual agreements in MS Word files?
Q: So, Jeeves, what is it like being hooked into the internet?
A: Beekeeping in New Zealand.
Fucker can buy a lot of bees for 2 Billion.
Suppose you make an icon set and place it under one of the Creative Commons licenses that has the non-commercial restriction. This means that Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake and all the other commercial Linux distributions can't put your icon set on their CD. It means that only people who contact you directly can use your icon set. That's hardly freedom.
It's freedom for you to make your own choice about wether you wish to have your icons included in the distribution (using your example above). If it's good enough, then they can either:
1) pay you for your cool icons.
2) talk you into using another license for a subset of the icons.
3) use someone else's stuff.
What's so hard about freedom? I think the CC is the best step forward for licensing in general. Three clicks and you have a human readable license- both clear and concise and in standard legalese. RMS might have founded GNU and the FSF but Lessig perfected it.