I am not sure this will actually make results more relevant. I mean I have and I would assume most other people have a kind of mental catalog of if now what they have stored, what types of things they have stored and know how and where to look for it.
If I wanted pictures of friends and families babies, I'd probably go to my images/family folder in my home directory, or to that person's facebook or G+ page. Same thing for e-mail if I am looking for personal correspondence I'd search my own e-mail archives, even if those happened to be g-mail.
Seems to me when I am keying something into Google.com I am looking for things primarily that are actually quite impersonal. What's the address of this business?, who is a good local plumber?, how to make that netfilter rule work, does anyone have Slackware packages or buildscripts for $project, What is a $object?, How does $object work?, etc.
These things are not going to be found in my own library of stuff if they were to be found there I'd already be using a much more target search. I honestly think my own stuff would be more of a distraction in Google results most of the time.
It will be interesting to see if people find any value in this.
This nation faces a serious crisis which few are talking about but is very real. Sure no individual Congress person has approval numbers as bad as the bodies 11% but just because they don't worry about being re-elected does not mean they don't have to worry about being relevant.
When only 11% of the public thinks the legislature, our law makers, are doing good work, why would rest of them have a higher opinion of that bodies output? When bad laws are created that are not followed because they a counter to what the public considers just or laws that are usually not enforce but left in place as tool to be used by tyrants at will, the people's respect for all law is diminished.
If Congress continues to burn though the capital, that is the will of the public to be a nation, things will soon get bad. You can already see it with protest movements like Occupy, and to a lessor degree the early TEA Party gatherings before it. These have been mostly peaceful and lawful warnings from the people but they won't stay that way; witness Greece or Thailand. At some point congress has to start being seen as serving the people's interest and not pandering to a few special people's interests, or that nationalistic capital will run dry.
The thing is there is still a place for things like industry groups. We don't really need the government dictate what the "rules" are to the market. In absence of government you'd still have unions,guilds,associations,university, endorsements, etc.
Could anyone hang out a shingle and call themselves a pediatrician, sure they could would they have any patients, nope. No sane person would purchase care from some guy, other than maybe really really basic stuff like stitch that up, or help me get this arm back in the socket k thx. They would pick someone who was associated with a group like the AMA, or a big trusted university. Those professional organizations would determine their own membership and set their own rules of conduct, just like they do now.
There is always this tendency for leftists to argue against moving towards a more librarian system, with this straw-man concept that everyone would operate in a near total vacuum. Yes that seems to be what happens in places like Somalia, but we don't live there. We have shared sense of ethics, morals, and culture that was/is not present in power vacuum left in places with the end of the colonial era, and the collapse of the soviet system. Most importantly we have a modern communications infrastructure that is not going to let anyone get away with anything.
What hate? I don't see any hate. Nobody has posted anything negative about DECTalk. I don't think asking why someone uses a 30 year old electronic device when newer and therefore likely more capable options exist is hate. Actually I'd be really interested to hear some reasons. Are the technical considerations as well as peference here? Does DECTalk posses some unique quality that is not easily replicated?
Well I am not fan of the DMCA either but this is much worse. If I get a DMCA take down requests, I have options.
I can simply comply, the offending material gets removed, I still have my domain, and control over my other stuff.
If I don't think the request is valid, I can choose not to comply, then go lawyer up. Again I still have control over my stuff initial and unless a judge issues some kinda of order or injunction, I have control until the process gets resolved.
With the SOPA, Most likely the first I hear about anything is when I get an alert from my monitoring service that my site is down. That is BIG difference. It may not seem like it but that could mean all kinds of follow on effects in terms of lost customers, reputation, and lost time. I am pretty sure even if things are eventually found in your favor you're getting compensated for none of it! Heck something like this can easily be abused just to disrupt upstarts they don't like.
Its wrong. Its un-American, its anti-freedom, its anti-free enterprise, it amounts just rent seeking on the part of the cartel's interests.
Really wow. That kinda surprises me. Other than track side pit crew work, which generally would not be invasive enough to the point of removing the head why would someone be working so quickly and careless not to turn the engine over by hand once before applying the starter?
Seriously after any job that requires removing the cams from their bearings you should probably be turning the engine through at least on revolution by hand just to make sure everything operating freely.
I would be inclined to agree with you I thought were getting a regime where all would be equal before the law.
Maybe I am a bit jaded but I just don't see it happening. What I do see happening is the media cartel are being given a draconian tool, an Internet death penalty if you will, to deal with anyone they don't like. Where those anyone's don't get much in the way of due process before the action initial action is taken against them. If domains were being seize after some sort of civial court process found an owner liable or criminal court process found them to be guilty it be different. That is not how it works though.
I also don't see these actions being used against the cartel members ever. What mid level bureaucrat is going to risk his job pulling the DNS glue records for Sony.com, Disney.com, or even a comparatively little guy like a Tivo.com?
Current law is not exactly applied equally? Remember Sony's root kit? There were no criminal proceedings against them, at all IIRC, and class action civil case where victims basically had to settle for discount CD.
Now had I distributed a root kit with some software I wrote, or media I published or whatever, it would have been correctly called a trojan and I am certain I would have been prosecuted as we have seen them do in plenty of Slashdot stories, about highschool kids where were just playing prank.
What Sony did was illegally convert the property of others for their use, executing code on people's computers without permission, and expose them to potentially serious security vulnerabilities that could have resulted in personal information leaking, which might have allowed them to be further victimized by others and the government did NOTHING.
So personally I'd rather see IP law, wire/electronic fraud laws weakened as much as possible; because they are not there for you and me.
Lets try a little thought experiment. What happens under the SOPA when say Me (a nobody) has a little GPL app on their personal domain, that either $BIGMEDIA_GUY (where say Sony or Disney would be compatible types ) thinks infringes on their property or could be used to do so?
My guess is that my domain is yanked so fast my head spins and I can either drop the matter or spend years fighting in court to get it back.
Now lets say I think $BIGMEDIA_GUY is using my code and not complying with the GPL and lets assume I have some evidence like hey the device behaves in this out of spec way exactly my code does or something. Now I present this to ICE or FTC or whoever is supposed to be enforcing this thing. Do you think BIGMEDIA_GUY is going to see their domain yanked?
Possibly because UPNP and Home DLNA are STUPID CONCEPTS. They offer virtually nothing in terms of actual functionality besides saving a few moments of setup you do once in exchange for a security hole that lasts a life time; so that's UPNP.
As far as DLNA goes similarly worthless. Just one more protocol that offers essentially nothing. Okay mDNS so stuff can find it. Again a few moments of setup you do once, on new devices. I'd rather see consumer home routers provide consumers with working plain old DNS! On the server side all the little home NAS solutions are not able to actually trans-code on the fly, so the protocol ends up just being a glorified fileserver protocol with little offer that nfs,smb,webdav, or even simple http or ftp, could not do just as well with more device support. Oh and as far as sorting by media tags, and stuff any of that could be done on the back side of those protocols with a tiny amount of cleverness, no more so than went in to the DLNA server implementation.
As to the transcoding aspect well that was a nice a idea. The DLNA server could provide media in whatever format the client device needed. Okay would have been cool 5 years ago when clients were underpowered and media freaks all had to have home servers built out of x86 systems. Now days there is no need to keep that much horse power sucking electricity all day long. If you have a home server its a little arm or atom based machine that is power frugal. No it does not needed to transcode because all the clients also have enough CPU power and storage ( for codec support ) to decode plenty of formats. Heck my blue-ray player will take matrsoka files containing divx,h.263,h.264,mpeg,mpeg2,mpeg4 and probably others I have not even tried. My mobile phone will play anything libavcodec supports. There is whole rack of sub $200 set top devices at the local BuyMore that are similarly flexible. There is no need to process media on the back end anymore.
No it's a good data source for that very reason. The people using those 'real' cameras are most likely the market segment that have been Kodak's traditional customers. We want to know have they have changed and what they do now. The photo market itself has grown and it may well be that Kodak has lost total share by not capturing the new market segments like mobile phone snap shots but that is a different question.
Dude if you'd ever been to Minnesota you'd understand the weather is not the issue. What I can't do is put the problem into words, for you sorry. You just need to go there and see for yourself.
J/K actually I lived in Bloomington (just outside Minneapolis) for many years and its certainly a place I'd go back. Very nice.
I am not sure I can agree with. Outside this little "event" hard drive prices have been pushing through the floor. I can hardly think of anything that has gotten cheaper faster. Perhaps the price of drive itself has remained somewhat constant over the last 6 years or so but the capacities have continued to jump. Think about what you paided for a 40Mb hard disk in '90, a 40Gb in '00, a pair of 200Gb disks in '05 and what a couple of 2Tb disks, went for before the flood.
Frankly with all the consolidation the industry has undergone I am actually surprised it remains as competitive as it does and we don't see "cartel pricing", okay maybe there is a huge conspiracy and this is the start of it but I kind of doubt it.
The simpler explanation is allot of, by no means all of production came out of areas affected by the floods. Hard-disk manufactures are not out of drives they can provide them to system builders and the consumer market alike. You can go to NewEgg.com now order a disk and it will likely ship Monday. Prices are higher though because there are constants on production at this time, and costs to rebuild that must be recouped. In that situation assuming you are not affected and your competitors are, or you and your competitors are affected you raise prices until the demand falls to the volume you can produce so as to maximize profit. Its ECON 101. The only reason you would not hike prices is if you have competition that can take up almost all the slack and you want to limit how much market share they take from you.
No Google is pretty clearing suggesting these are the search terms you might want based on the fact others used these search terms. You'd have to be pretty F'ing brain dead not understand that. Its a factual statement, Google isn't saying the company has committed fraud or anything of the sort, just that you might be looking for these search terms.
I actually do exactly that often. I Google companies (especially local service providers) and combine their names with words like: fraud, theft, poor, dirty, etc/. Most of the time nothing comes up and that's good.
My insurance company is not who I worry about. If I am violating my agreement with them, I agree they should not have to pay. I am more worried about the authorities, and privacy.
First its oh well only with warrant thing. Then its well anytime we pull you over for some cause. Next it well we are pulling everyone over because its a check point and you happens to be driving down the wrong road a 2am and we pull there data while you are stopped. Next thing you know that data however its collected no matter why is collected is leaked, and people are using it to embarrass you, should you turn out to be someone some dude at city hall does not like.
The government DOES NOT HAVE A NEED TO KNOW, they have never had the information before and we're all still here. Since the don't need to know; I say the SHOULD NOT KNOW.
Yea regulations, I get to pay extra for car and continue paying extra over its entire life in added fuel, because regulations require it be built to protect me from myself. Here's a crazy thought drive responsible, which includes not doing so while drunk or sleepy, and all that safety stuff would be less necessary.
If I want to take the risk I should be able to buy something made of light weight bicycle tube and nylon.
I think everyone understands Moore's law is not a law in the scientific sense, but rather a Coloquialism like "Murphy's law".
It also somewhat useful. It lets us make some basic assumptions like, ok I have W data today, the volume grows at rate X/year, it takes Y machines to handle that today, and based on Y doubling in capacity every 18 months or so I will need Z machines for the future state. Can I continue to scale like this?
Is it accurate, precise, or grounded in solid facts no but its still a nice rule of thumb permits some crude planning around a future with many unknowns.
Well just access amazon from behind 7 proxies allways pay with visa gift cards creating a new account each time. Naturally have the goods delivered to a post office in a town or two over, rotate thru a number of then in 100mi radius or larger if you can manage. That way the only information amazon should have to is a big geographic area where a common name sir name pair shows up. Now if you had some quality fake ids you could use to claim the packages at the post you might be able to use different names as well .
I agree but in the case of the US Constitution I think freedom of the "press" certainly would cover *anyone's* right to publish in *any media*. Many of our framers were pamphleteers, they have more in common with the modern blogger than with any media empire. They certainly intended the have their rights to publish things, like the Federalist Papers, protected.
Right because it was so hard to script out the installer, and copy pre-crafted config file to the right place Actually if anything that ties corporate users more to a specific version because they have to actually invest some time into building their own deployment package which is certain to be somewhat version dependent.
If you IT staff can't "deploy" Firefox they are worthless. I can completely understand them not wanting to chase the latest version, preferring to just replace the executable installer package with one that just has the security fixes in it but none of the new math. So all their pre-rolled configs and installation scripts don't have to change.
Except an increasingly isolated Iran won't be able to insist on anything. Well that is the idea any way. The plan is hurt Iran by limiting their access to only friendlier Asian customers who knowing they are the buys will pay less, and in whatever currency they want.
Won't work though. Its not like crude oil is not pretty portable, or like there are not secondary markets, or like (even if it might be chemically possible) there is any real infrastructure in place to make sure some western refiner is not purchasing oil from Chinese reseller that might originally have been pumped out of Iran. Iraq never had any real trouble exceeding their oil quota imposed under UN sanctions. Remember all the scandal around the Oil for food program?
Unfortunately CHINA is the problem with all these little conflicts. They make "diplomatic" solutions impossible. They control to much money and continue to provide a market to embargoed powers. If we really want to solve these "problems" without a shooting war we needed ditch the UN China will always foil efforts there. Basic the USA needs to get together with the EU, Russia if possible, and anyone else of consequence like Brazil that could be brought on board. They all needed to agree to cut all trade with China. Only then will there ever be real hope of action like this working against Iran and the like.
Until then its just political pandering. "See we are doing something", kind of crap.
I have no problem accepting its genuine grief. In a state with tightly controlled media, no internet access, no travel, and a sophisticated propaganda machine, all those that don't live near the boarder quite likely don't know any better.
From their perspective everything they have, what little they do, is a gift from Dear Leader, they have no idea what he has denied them. They don't know have abusive, and capricious his system of law is, because as far as they are concerned its either that or law of the jungle.
Taiwan is not progressive nor does it mirror the midset of the Western World. I don't know where you go that idea. Sure they are "friendly" with us here in the USA, and I guess are "progressive" in terms of civil, and human rights compared with China, but they are a long way from what we think of as progressive.
Depends are we talking about the ordinary 'user' here or the ordinary "user of btrfs", which is pretty extraordinary when compared with the population of general PC users. A PRENDEND bug report that I would think might be useful would be:
I have ~?TB volume composed of three drives each with a single partition of sizes X, Y, and Z. I have noticed that after I remove a snapshot really big files, in my case some VM images of size T, get corrupted, in that they seem to contain old data that would have been in the snap shot...
Please find attached copies of the MBR from each disk, and the first 1024bytes from each partition. Let me know if I can provide anything else.
----------- A bug report like that while does not likely contain the really specific details about file system structures (some of them might be in the attached data), does alter the devs to the fact there may be a problem and provides some information about how they might recreated it, so they can extract the data they really need. My guess is the typical btrfs user at this point is capable of creating such a bug report. As I don't think any teir1 distributions are using it as a default FS yet. So anyone with btrfs volume at least knows how run fdisk, dd, and use the btrfs progs.
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I am not sure this will actually make results more relevant. I mean I have and I would assume most other people have a kind of mental catalog of if now what they have stored, what types of things they have stored and know how and where to look for it.
If I wanted pictures of friends and families babies, I'd probably go to my images/family folder in my home directory, or to that person's facebook or G+ page. Same thing for e-mail if I am looking for personal correspondence I'd search my own e-mail archives, even if those happened to be g-mail.
Seems to me when I am keying something into Google.com I am looking for things primarily that are actually quite impersonal. What's the address of this business?, who is a good local plumber?, how to make that netfilter rule work, does anyone have Slackware packages or buildscripts for $project, What is a $object?, How does $object work?, etc.
These things are not going to be found in my own library of stuff if they were to be found there I'd already be using a much more target search. I honestly think my own stuff would be more of a distraction in Google results most of the time.
It will be interesting to see if people find any value in this.
This nation faces a serious crisis which few are talking about but is very real. Sure no individual Congress person has approval numbers as bad as the bodies 11% but just because they don't worry about being re-elected does not mean they don't have to worry about being relevant.
When only 11% of the public thinks the legislature, our law makers, are doing good work, why would rest of them have a higher opinion of that bodies output? When bad laws are created that are not followed because they a counter to what the public considers just or laws that are usually not enforce but left in place as tool to be used by tyrants at will, the people's respect for all law is diminished.
If Congress continues to burn though the capital, that is the will of the public to be a nation, things will soon get bad. You can already see it with protest movements like Occupy, and to a lessor degree the early TEA Party gatherings before it. These have been mostly peaceful and lawful warnings from the people but they won't stay that way; witness Greece or Thailand. At some point congress has to start being seen as serving the people's interest and not pandering to a few special people's interests, or that nationalistic capital will run dry.
The thing is there is still a place for things like industry groups. We don't really need the government dictate what the "rules" are to the market. In absence of government you'd still have unions,guilds,associations,university, endorsements, etc.
Could anyone hang out a shingle and call themselves a pediatrician, sure they could would they have any patients, nope. No sane person would purchase care from some guy, other than maybe really really basic stuff like stitch that up, or help me get this arm back in the socket k thx. They would pick someone who was associated with a group like the AMA, or a big trusted university. Those professional organizations would determine their own membership and set their own rules of conduct, just like they do now.
There is always this tendency for leftists to argue against moving towards a more librarian system, with this straw-man concept that everyone would operate in a near total vacuum. Yes that seems to be what happens in places like Somalia, but we don't live there. We have shared sense of ethics, morals, and culture that was/is not present in power vacuum left in places with the end of the colonial era, and the collapse of the soviet system. Most importantly we have a modern communications infrastructure that is not going to let anyone get away with anything.
See I saw that and I thought you know from now on any time I need to show scale in a photo I think I'll use my cat
What hate? I don't see any hate. Nobody has posted anything negative about DECTalk. I don't think asking why someone uses a 30 year old electronic device when newer and therefore likely more capable options exist is hate. Actually I'd be really interested to hear some reasons. Are the technical considerations as well as peference here? Does DECTalk posses some unique quality that is not easily replicated?
Well I am not fan of the DMCA either but this is much worse. If I get a DMCA take down requests, I have options.
I can simply comply, the offending material gets removed, I still have my domain, and control over my other stuff.
If I don't think the request is valid, I can choose not to comply, then go lawyer up. Again I still have control over my stuff initial and unless a judge issues some kinda of order or injunction, I have control until the process gets resolved.
With the SOPA, Most likely the first I hear about anything is when I get an alert from my monitoring service that my site is down. That is BIG difference. It may not seem like it but that could mean all kinds of follow on effects in terms of lost customers, reputation, and lost time. I am pretty sure even if things are eventually found in your favor you're getting compensated for none of it! Heck something like this can easily be abused just to disrupt upstarts they don't like.
Its wrong. Its un-American, its anti-freedom, its anti-free enterprise, it amounts just rent seeking on the part of the cartel's interests.
Really wow. That kinda surprises me. Other than track side pit crew work, which generally would not be invasive enough to the point of removing the head why would someone be working so quickly and careless not to turn the engine over by hand once before applying the starter?
Seriously after any job that requires removing the cams from their bearings you should probably be turning the engine through at least on revolution by hand just to make sure everything operating freely.
I would be inclined to agree with you I thought were getting a regime where all would be equal before the law.
Maybe I am a bit jaded but I just don't see it happening. What I do see happening is the media cartel are being given a draconian tool, an Internet death penalty if you will, to deal with anyone they don't like. Where those anyone's don't get much in the way of due process before the action initial action is taken against them. If domains were being seize after some sort of civial court process found an owner liable or criminal court process found them to be guilty it be different. That is not how it works though.
I also don't see these actions being used against the cartel members ever. What mid level bureaucrat is going to risk his job pulling the DNS glue records for Sony.com, Disney.com, or even a comparatively little guy like a Tivo.com?
Current law is not exactly applied equally? Remember Sony's root kit? There were no criminal proceedings against them, at all IIRC, and class action civil case where victims basically had to settle for discount CD.
Now had I distributed a root kit with some software I wrote, or media I published or whatever, it would have been correctly called a trojan and I am certain I would have been prosecuted as we have seen them do in plenty of Slashdot stories, about highschool kids where were just playing prank.
What Sony did was illegally convert the property of others for their use, executing code on people's computers without permission, and expose them to potentially serious security vulnerabilities that could have resulted in personal information leaking, which might have allowed them to be further victimized by others and the government did NOTHING.
So personally I'd rather see IP law, wire/electronic fraud laws weakened as much as possible; because they are not there for you and me.
It will be the enforcement though:
Lets try a little thought experiment.
What happens under the SOPA when say Me (a nobody) has a little GPL app on their personal domain, that either $BIGMEDIA_GUY (where say Sony or Disney would be compatible types ) thinks infringes on their property or could be used to do so?
My guess is that my domain is yanked so fast my head spins and I can either drop the matter or spend years fighting in court to get it back.
Now lets say I think $BIGMEDIA_GUY is using my code and not complying with the GPL and lets assume I have some evidence like hey the device behaves in this out of spec way exactly my code does or something. Now I present this to ICE or FTC or whoever is supposed to be enforcing this thing. Do you think BIGMEDIA_GUY is going to see their domain yanked?
I don't...
Possibly because UPNP and Home DLNA are STUPID CONCEPTS. They offer virtually nothing in terms of actual functionality besides saving a few moments of setup you do once in exchange for a security hole that lasts a life time; so that's UPNP.
As far as DLNA goes similarly worthless. Just one more protocol that offers essentially nothing. Okay mDNS so stuff can find it. Again a few moments of setup you do once, on new devices. I'd rather see consumer home routers provide consumers with working plain old DNS! On the server side all the little home NAS solutions are not able to actually trans-code on the fly, so the protocol ends up just being a glorified fileserver protocol with little offer that nfs,smb,webdav, or even simple http or ftp, could not do just as well with more device support. Oh and as far as sorting by media tags, and stuff any of that could be done on the back side of those protocols with a tiny amount of cleverness, no more so than went in to the DLNA server implementation.
As to the transcoding aspect well that was a nice a idea. The DLNA server could provide media in whatever format the client device needed. Okay would have been cool 5 years ago when clients were underpowered and media freaks all had to have home servers built out of x86 systems. Now days there is no need to keep that much horse power sucking electricity all day long. If you have a home server its a little arm or atom based machine that is power frugal. No it does not needed to transcode because all the clients also have enough CPU power and storage ( for codec support ) to decode plenty of formats. Heck my blue-ray player will take matrsoka files containing divx,h.263,h.264,mpeg,mpeg2,mpeg4 and probably others I have not even tried. My mobile phone will play anything libavcodec supports. There is whole rack of sub $200 set top devices at the local BuyMore that are similarly flexible. There is no need to process media on the back end anymore.
No it's a good data source for that very reason. The people using those 'real' cameras are most likely the market segment that have been Kodak's traditional customers. We want to know have they have changed and what they do now. The photo market itself has grown and it may well be that Kodak has lost total share by not capturing the new market segments like mobile phone snap shots but that is a different question.
Dude if you'd ever been to Minnesota you'd understand the weather is not the issue. What I can't do is put the problem into words, for you sorry. You just need to go there and see for yourself.
J/K actually I lived in Bloomington (just outside Minneapolis) for many years and its certainly a place I'd go back. Very nice.
I am not sure I can agree with. Outside this little "event" hard drive prices have been pushing through the floor. I can hardly think of anything that has gotten cheaper faster. Perhaps the price of drive itself has remained somewhat constant over the last 6 years or so but the capacities have continued to jump. Think about what you paided for a 40Mb hard disk in '90, a 40Gb in '00, a pair of 200Gb disks in '05 and what a couple of 2Tb disks, went for before the flood.
Frankly with all the consolidation the industry has undergone I am actually surprised it remains as competitive as it does and we don't see "cartel pricing", okay maybe there is a huge conspiracy and this is the start of it but I kind of doubt it.
The simpler explanation is allot of, by no means all of production came out of areas affected by the floods. Hard-disk manufactures are not out of drives they can provide them to system builders and the consumer market alike. You can go to NewEgg.com now order a disk and it will likely ship Monday. Prices are higher though because there are constants on production at this time, and costs to rebuild that must be recouped. In that situation assuming you are not affected and your competitors are, or you and your competitors are affected you raise prices until the demand falls to the volume you can produce so as to maximize profit. Its ECON 101. The only reason you would not hike prices is if you have competition that can take up almost all the slack and you want to limit how much market share they take from you.
There is no conspiracy required here.
No Google is pretty clearing suggesting these are the search terms you might want based on the fact others used these search terms. You'd have to be pretty F'ing brain dead not understand that. Its a factual statement, Google isn't saying the company has committed fraud or anything of the sort, just that you might be looking for these search terms.
I actually do exactly that often. I Google companies (especially local service providers) and combine their names with words like: fraud, theft, poor, dirty, etc/. Most of the time nothing comes up and that's good.
My insurance company is not who I worry about. If I am violating my agreement with them, I agree they should not have to pay. I am more worried about the authorities, and privacy.
First its oh well only with warrant thing. Then its well anytime we pull you over for some cause. Next it well we are pulling everyone over because its a check point and you happens to be driving down the wrong road a 2am and we pull there data while you are stopped. Next thing you know that data however its collected no matter why is collected is leaked, and people are using it to embarrass you, should you turn out to be someone some dude at city hall does not like.
The government DOES NOT HAVE A NEED TO KNOW, they have never had the information before and we're all still here. Since the don't need to know; I say the SHOULD NOT KNOW.
If you create a 50' marshmallow (real and edible all the way thru) I volunteer to drive my car into it!
Yea regulations, I get to pay extra for car and continue paying extra over its entire life in added fuel, because regulations require it be built to protect me from myself. Here's a crazy thought drive responsible, which includes not doing so while drunk or sleepy, and all that safety stuff would be less necessary.
If I want to take the risk I should be able to buy something made of light weight bicycle tube and nylon.
I think everyone understands Moore's law is not a law in the scientific sense, but rather a Coloquialism like "Murphy's law".
It also somewhat useful. It lets us make some basic assumptions like, ok I have W data today, the volume grows at rate X/year, it takes Y machines to handle that today, and based on Y doubling in capacity every 18 months or so I will need Z machines for the future state. Can I continue to scale like this?
Is it accurate, precise, or grounded in solid facts no but its still a nice rule of thumb permits some crude planning around a future with many unknowns.
Well just access amazon from behind 7 proxies allways pay with visa gift cards creating a new account each time. Naturally have the goods delivered to a post office in a town or two over, rotate thru a number of then in 100mi radius or larger if you can manage. That way the only information amazon should have to is a big geographic area where a common name sir name pair shows up. Now if you had some quality fake ids you could use to claim the packages at the post you might be able to use different names as well .
I agree but in the case of the US Constitution I think freedom of the "press" certainly would cover *anyone's* right to publish in *any media*. Many of our framers were pamphleteers, they have more in common with the modern blogger than with any media empire. They certainly intended the have their rights to publish things, like the Federalist Papers, protected.
Right because it was so hard to script out the installer, and copy pre-crafted config file to the right place Actually if anything that ties corporate users more to a specific version because they have to actually invest some time into building their own deployment package which is certain to be somewhat version dependent.
If you IT staff can't "deploy" Firefox they are worthless. I can completely understand them not wanting to chase the latest version, preferring to just replace the executable installer package with one that just has the security fixes in it but none of the new math. So all their pre-rolled configs and installation scripts don't have to change.
Except an increasingly isolated Iran won't be able to insist on anything. Well that is the idea any way. The plan is hurt Iran by limiting their access to only friendlier Asian customers who knowing they are the buys will pay less, and in whatever currency they want.
Won't work though. Its not like crude oil is not pretty portable, or like there are not secondary markets, or like (even if it might be chemically possible) there is any real infrastructure in place to make sure some western refiner is not purchasing oil from Chinese reseller that might originally have been pumped out of Iran. Iraq never had any real trouble exceeding their oil quota imposed under UN sanctions. Remember all the scandal around the Oil for food program?
Unfortunately CHINA is the problem with all these little conflicts. They make "diplomatic" solutions impossible. They control to much money and continue to provide a market to embargoed powers. If we really want to solve these "problems" without a shooting war we needed ditch the UN China will always foil efforts there. Basic the USA needs to get together with the EU, Russia if possible, and anyone else of consequence like Brazil that could be brought on board. They all needed to agree to cut all trade with China. Only then will there ever be real hope of action like this working against Iran and the like.
Until then its just political pandering. "See we are doing something", kind of crap.
I have no problem accepting its genuine grief. In a state with tightly controlled media, no internet access, no travel, and a sophisticated propaganda machine, all those that don't live near the boarder quite likely don't know any better.
From their perspective everything they have, what little they do, is a gift from Dear Leader, they have no idea what he has denied them. They don't know have abusive, and capricious his system of law is, because as far as they are concerned its either that or law of the jungle.
Its all a matter of perspective.
Taiwan is not progressive nor does it mirror the midset of the Western World. I don't know where you go that idea. Sure they are "friendly" with us here in the USA, and I guess are "progressive" in terms of civil, and human rights compared with China, but they are a long way from what we think of as progressive.
Depends are we talking about the ordinary 'user' here or the ordinary "user of btrfs", which is pretty extraordinary when compared with the population of general PC users. A PRENDEND bug report that I would think might be useful would be:
I have ~?TB volume composed of three drives each with a single partition of sizes X, Y, and Z. I have noticed that after I remove a snapshot really big files, in my case some VM images of size T, get corrupted, in that they seem to contain old data that would have been in the snap shot...
Please find attached copies of the MBR from each disk, and the first 1024bytes from each partition. Let me know if I can provide anything else.
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A bug report like that while does not likely contain the really specific details about file system structures (some of them might be in the attached data), does alter the devs to the fact there may be a problem and provides some information about how they might recreated it, so they can extract the data they really need. My guess is the typical btrfs user at this point is capable of creating such a bug report. As I don't think any teir1 distributions are using it as a default FS yet. So anyone with btrfs volume at least knows how run fdisk, dd, and use the btrfs progs.