There was a limit set up within the program that said you can only order 'x' amount of products within one transaction," Roy said. "When one of our guests went over the limit, it crashed the whole store. We then had to manually identify the erroneous credit card charges."
Translation: Our system was written by mouth-breathing morons, but we'll blame Linux rather than our own poor hiring decision.
but Linux became an issue when Combe's Web applications needed a database, and the only option available to the company was one from Oracle Corp.
Translation: We were too dumb to see if there were any other rdbms systems that run on Linux, therefore Linux is the problem.
This is a non-article filled with non-information. It's boiled down to "idiots do stupid stuff and blame somebody/something else for their mistakes". It happens all the time, nothing new here.
Has he offered to purchase the information, or is he expecting to kick start his business with free information paid for by the city?
It's implicit that he'll pay for it. When you do an FOIA request, you do have to pay reasonable fees for the duplication of the information. Otherwise, people would abuse the system.
The system offers unprecedented voice quality, touch-screen technology, dynamic reconfiguration capabilities to meet changing needs, and an operational availability of 0.9999999
Okay, bullshit. If I have to reboot a server every month,.0000001 of a month is- oh, let's be generous and only count months with 31 days- about.26 seconds. That's a damned fast boot time for Win2K.
My wife is an RN, and let me say this is a great idea. In one of her previous jobs, they were perpetually short-staffed. Many Saturdays, the manager would call, sometimes twice, begging each RN to come work.
I would tell my wife "name your price". Seriously. The manager doesn't want to waste literally hours trying to get someone to come in. Tell her you'll work for an extra $10/hour, and she would likely jump on it.
In the hospital, it's worse. If they can't get staff, they have to go to an "agency" and pay $50-$60/hour, about twice what a staff nurse costs. It just makes sense to meet your own staff half way- pay them $40/hour and both end off better.
It's economics 101. If you have trouble getting enough staff members to work for you, then by definition you aren't paying enough. Period. The stark reality for a hospital is that they can either raise pay a little and actually get the staff that they need, or they can pay out the ass for agency nurses. The solution is obvious.
Spam is a serious crime. A single spammer can cost our country millions of dollars of lost productivity each year. While no one company (outside of AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) bears this entire cost, it adds up to big bucks in the aggregate.
It is quite appropriate that we put a bounty on spammers. Frankly, I still think the proper thing to do is to have a large statutory penalty, say $10,000/spam, that anyone can collect in small-claims court. We had a good law here in Tennessee, but the penalties weren't large enough ($10/spam, capped at $5000/day) and it really didn't specify that the damages weren't compensatory, leaving the judge with some discretion.
The only way to kill a spamming operation is the "death of a thousand cuts". It's obvious that law enforcement doesn't really care about this problem, otherwise Ralsky and Hardigree wouldn't be doing interviews and talking about their wealth. For that matter, I don't see a bounty system as working since we're still relying on law enforcement to catch and prosecute.
Do you have any lined up for the future? They're going to continue to be around the scenarios that customers say are important -- TCO, security and reliability.
So, when Windows "wins" any one of these, we know the research is pure bullshit.
I love the talk about indemnification, too. People are worried that they won't be indemnified, so they'll run to Microsoft. Brilliant. Is that the same Microsoft as here? Surely it's another Microsoft we're talking about...
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In a curious press release announcing the judgment, Osenbaugh appears to be threatening legal action against some SQL Server developers,
"particularly those Microsoft customers who relied on Microsoft's assurances, failed to investigate them thoroughly, and knowingly continued to provide material steps in an Infringing Combination. These infringers, if any, may face treble damages for the entire three and one-half years the case was tied up in the courts. Microsoft is not a law firm. Relying on its advice should not constitute acting in good faith; which is the required defense to treble damages for failure to investigate and honor patents once on notice of their existence."
Code doesn't have to be open sourced to be relinkable.
I used DEC Ultrix back in the day, and modifying kernel parameters at the time involved editing a.h file to set the proper values, then relinking the kernel. They didn't provide source, just a bunch of.o files and enough of a C file to set the kernel parameters. Relinking involved running make and then moving your new kernel to the proper place (and hopefully backing up the old one).
I would hope that commercial Linux software would do this at some point. I know my nVIDIA driver already does this during install, and it works with anything.
I really think this problem was solved years ago, just that everybody in the commercial world has their head so far up RH's ass that they don't see it.
He wants Apple to let him install his music on the iPod, but won't let us install it on our Mac OS computers.
Right, because we all know that if they came out with a Mac version of their software, Mac users would abandon iTunes in droves to get a piece of it.
Geesh.
Go back and read the foaming-at-the-mouth Mac lunatics who thought it was just awful that Real had "hacked" the iPod to allow-gasp- other music to play on it. Those people aren't Real's customers. They're Steve Jobs' customers, and they'll follow him to hell and back. Anyone who tries to break in on the Mac turf will be met with their resistance.
Glaser's smart enough to know who his market is, and he's working that market. More power to him.
Wrong. Good FUD has quite a bit of truth to it, and there's nothing that says FUD has to be wrong. It's just that the "concern" probably isn't really as bad as people make it out to be.
Lemley's distinction also points to the unusual fact that in IP, traditional liberals are often calling for less and less government, while conservatives demand regulation in order to protect their exclusive right to use their intellectual creations.
What a load of bullshit. Look at the guest list at the Democratic convention; it's almost all Hollywood types. Liberal, Hollywood types. The Democrats are in the pockets of the RIAA and MPAA far more than the Republicans, nor surprising given that the Democrats rely on large corporate donors for most of their funding (don't bother trying to dispute this before you visit opensecrets).
The SuperDMCA in this state was pushed by a Democratic house member and a Republican senator. On the federal level, most of this shit legislation has been pushed by Democrats, such as Fritz Hollings.
Acting like it's those stupid conservatives is so stupid it's not even funny. And no, I'm not a conservative.
He disputed the figure of $2 million a month revenue from the spammers, and said the actual figure is only a tenth of that amount.
It's not worth $2m/month for the bad publicity, how much less then $200K/month. That doesn't make sense. If you're only making $200K/month, little over $1000/spammer/month, then dump them. Why is this even being discussed?
Now that California has a bunch of worthless machines laying around, is there any chance that we can install Linux on them along with some real, open source voting software?
When I see a "Boot from USB storage device" in the Bios boot menu, then I'll believe floppies are gone.
Who modded this tripe up to 5? The fastest computer I have is 1.7GHz or so, and all of mine from 700MHz up have a boot from usb device option. It's very common.
Two of my domains are used in the from address of spams, to the point that I often get thousands of bounces per day. This is the "reward" for years of turning spammers in and getting them tossed from their ISP's.
These sender id schemes won't stop spam at all. It's easy for a spammer to modify his dns to show the correct records and allow him to send.
But, here's the thing: HE DOES IT TO HIS OWN DOMAIN. We can then blacklist his domains and force him to keep coming up with new ones. Whack-a-mole, yes, but at least the "moles" aren't at legitimate domains.
You can complain all you want about how this isn't going to stop spam. Maybe it won't for you, but it will cut down the worthless junk hitting my mail server.
In any case like this, you tell the cop you'll speak with his supervisor immediately. If he refuses (and in most or all jurisdictions, it's illegal for him to do so) then simply call the police station and explain the situation, and tell them that a supervisor is required immediately.
Supervisors do not like to come tend to the idiots like this cop.
I didn't realize how powerful this was until I saw a case of a black off-duty officer who was illegally pulled over for DWB in another area. Most likely the situation will be defused there.
If not, walk over to the station and talk to the chief. If that doesn't help, talk to your councilman and show up at the next meeting.
Putting up with this sort of bullshit will only encourage more of it.
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Translation: Our system was written by mouth-breathing morons, but we'll blame Linux rather than our own poor hiring decision.
Translation: We were too dumb to see if there were any other rdbms systems that run on Linux, therefore Linux is the problem.
This is a non-article filled with non-information. It's boiled down to "idiots do stupid stuff and blame somebody/something else for their mistakes". It happens all the time, nothing new here.
would you give warranty for something you give for free?
Sure! If it doesn't work, they can have their money back...
Fine, so use tiff. Let's face it, Adobe just wants a nickel (or more) for every digital camera sold.
So what? It's not like they wouldn't have put together the database had he not asked for it.
Has he offered to purchase the information, or is he expecting to kick start his business with free information paid for by the city?
It's implicit that he'll pay for it. When you do an FOIA request, you do have to pay reasonable fees for the duplication of the information. Otherwise, people would abuse the system.
You must be new around here. "M$" is a macro that expands to "Microsoft" when we read it...
Seriously, the headline is laughable. Sun turning against us? Newsflash: THEY'VE NEVER BEEN FOR US.
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Holy crap, why does this keep coming up on
The system offers unprecedented voice quality, touch-screen technology, dynamic reconfiguration capabilities to meet changing needs, and an operational availability of 0.9999999
Okay, bullshit. If I have to reboot a server every month, .0000001 of a month is- oh, let's be generous and only count months with 31 days- about .26 seconds. That's a damned fast boot time for Win2K.
Maybe they left off a percent sign?
My wife is an RN, and let me say this is a great idea. In one of her previous jobs, they were perpetually short-staffed. Many Saturdays, the manager would call, sometimes twice, begging each RN to come work.
I would tell my wife "name your price". Seriously. The manager doesn't want to waste literally hours trying to get someone to come in. Tell her you'll work for an extra $10/hour, and she would likely jump on it.
In the hospital, it's worse. If they can't get staff, they have to go to an "agency" and pay $50-$60/hour, about twice what a staff nurse costs. It just makes sense to meet your own staff half way- pay them $40/hour and both end off better.
It's economics 101. If you have trouble getting enough staff members to work for you, then by definition you aren't paying enough. Period. The stark reality for a hospital is that they can either raise pay a little and actually get the staff that they need, or they can pay out the ass for agency nurses. The solution is obvious.
An auction system makes good sense.
I have a public web site with my email address there. I have to in order to get email and sales. This nets me a couple thousand spams/day.
I also turn spammers in to their isps, so I generally get another 1000-3000/day that are bounces from joe-jobs.
Any other questions?
Spam is a serious crime. A single spammer can cost our country millions of dollars of lost productivity each year. While no one company (outside of AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) bears this entire cost, it adds up to big bucks in the aggregate.
It is quite appropriate that we put a bounty on spammers. Frankly, I still think the proper thing to do is to have a large statutory penalty, say $10,000/spam, that anyone can collect in small-claims court. We had a good law here in Tennessee, but the penalties weren't large enough ($10/spam, capped at $5000/day) and it really didn't specify that the damages weren't compensatory, leaving the judge with some discretion.
The only way to kill a spamming operation is the "death of a thousand cuts". It's obvious that law enforcement doesn't really care about this problem, otherwise Ralsky and Hardigree wouldn't be doing interviews and talking about their wealth. For that matter, I don't see a bounty system as working since we're still relying on law enforcement to catch and prosecute.
a bounty on /. dups...
Do you have any lined up for the future? They're going to continue to be around the scenarios that customers say are important -- TCO, security and reliability.
So, when Windows "wins" any one of these, we know the research is pure bullshit.
I love the talk about indemnification, too. People are worried that they won't be indemnified, so they'll run to Microsoft. Brilliant. Is that the same Microsoft as here? Surely it's another Microsoft we're talking about...
For those who don't want to click:
Code doesn't have to be open sourced to be relinkable.
.h file to set the proper values, then relinking the kernel. They didn't provide source, just a bunch of .o files and enough of a C file to set the kernel parameters. Relinking involved running make and then moving your new kernel to the proper place (and hopefully backing up the old one).
I used DEC Ultrix back in the day, and modifying kernel parameters at the time involved editing a
I would hope that commercial Linux software would do this at some point. I know my nVIDIA driver already does this during install, and it works with anything.
I really think this problem was solved years ago, just that everybody in the commercial world has their head so far up RH's ass that they don't see it.
He wants Apple to let him install his music on the iPod, but won't let us install it on our Mac OS computers.
Right, because we all know that if they came out with a Mac version of their software, Mac users would abandon iTunes in droves to get a piece of it.
Geesh.
Go back and read the foaming-at-the-mouth Mac lunatics who thought it was just awful that Real had "hacked" the iPod to allow-gasp- other music to play on it. Those people aren't Real's customers. They're Steve Jobs' customers, and they'll follow him to hell and back. Anyone who tries to break in on the Mac turf will be met with their resistance.
Glaser's smart enough to know who his market is, and he's working that market. More power to him.
IF it's true, it's not FUD.
Wrong. Good FUD has quite a bit of truth to it, and there's nothing that says FUD has to be wrong. It's just that the "concern" probably isn't really as bad as people make it out to be.
Lemley's distinction also points to the unusual fact that in IP, traditional liberals are often calling for less and less government, while conservatives demand regulation in order to protect their exclusive right to use their intellectual creations.
What a load of bullshit. Look at the guest list at the Democratic convention; it's almost all Hollywood types. Liberal, Hollywood types. The Democrats are in the pockets of the RIAA and MPAA far more than the Republicans, nor surprising given that the Democrats rely on large corporate donors for most of their funding (don't bother trying to dispute this before you visit opensecrets).
The SuperDMCA in this state was pushed by a Democratic house member and a Republican senator. On the federal level, most of this shit legislation has been pushed by Democrats, such as Fritz Hollings.
Acting like it's those stupid conservatives is so stupid it's not even funny. And no, I'm not a conservative.
But this shows why I'm also not a liberal.
Do they have a web site yet?
He disputed the figure of $2 million a month revenue from the spammers, and said the actual figure is only a tenth of that amount.
It's not worth $2m/month for the bad publicity, how much less then $200K/month. That doesn't make sense. If you're only making $200K/month, little over $1000/spammer/month, then dump them. Why is this even being discussed?
Now that California has a bunch of worthless machines laying around, is there any chance that we can install Linux on them along with some real, open source voting software?
When I see a "Boot from USB storage device" in the Bios boot menu, then I'll believe floppies are gone.
Who modded this tripe up to 5? The fastest computer I have is 1.7GHz or so, and all of mine from 700MHz up have a boot from usb device option. It's very common.
Are you still using a 486 or something?
David Berlind writes that Service Pack 2 deserved the scrutiny it got- and charges that it failed to live up to Gates' Trusted Computing Initiative.
Okay, Mr. Berlind, did you actually fall for that and now you're surprised?
Infringing Work: X-FILES, THE Season 1-7
Filename: X-Files1.21b.tar.gz
Filesize: 113k
I want to know who figured out how to fit 7 seasons of the X-Files into a 113k tar file.
You'd think their stupid script would consider file size...
Two of my domains are used in the from address of spams, to the point that I often get thousands of bounces per day. This is the "reward" for years of turning spammers in and getting them tossed from their ISP's.
These sender id schemes won't stop spam at all. It's easy for a spammer to modify his dns to show the correct records and allow him to send.
But, here's the thing: HE DOES IT TO HIS OWN DOMAIN. We can then blacklist his domains and force him to keep coming up with new ones. Whack-a-mole, yes, but at least the "moles" aren't at legitimate domains.
You can complain all you want about how this isn't going to stop spam. Maybe it won't for you, but it will cut down the worthless junk hitting my mail server.
Wrong.
In any case like this, you tell the cop you'll speak with his supervisor immediately. If he refuses (and in most or all jurisdictions, it's illegal for him to do so) then simply call the police station and explain the situation, and tell them that a supervisor is required immediately.
Supervisors do not like to come tend to the idiots like this cop.
I didn't realize how powerful this was until I saw a case of a black off-duty officer who was illegally pulled over for DWB in another area. Most likely the situation will be defused there.
If not, walk over to the station and talk to the chief. If that doesn't help, talk to your councilman and show up at the next meeting.
Putting up with this sort of bullshit will only encourage more of it.