Its not the device its how its used in both the case of the tazer and the gun. If have a gun and shoot you in the kneecap while I am asking you questions because you give me an answer I don't like that is torture. If I shoot you in the gut because you're attacking me or my family that is not torture. My intent was to protect myself by incapacitationg, and I had the need to do that; it was not that I specifically meant to case you agony.
If cop uses a tazer once to subdue an unruly suspect long enough to get handcuffs on him/her that is not torture. Once again the intent would to incapacitate you long enough to get control of a dangerous situation. If that Officer continues to use the tazer on you after you are already handcuffed laying face down in the dirt I would say that is torture. There is no more need in that case to be inflicting agony on you. The intent is now just cause you pain and that is well wrong.
The other thing to consider is maybe we should look at increasing the lengh of the hardware life cycle rather then constantly cutting it. We should start demanding that software vendors start producing tight efficent code again so that we don't have to keep replacing our machines to use it. We should demand hardware vendors produce platforms that have a long life span with an upgrade path that enables most components to be resused as much and as long as possible.
These is all speaking of primary systems.
I had my first PC, and 386DX-20 for almost 10 years(MSDOS and later Windows 3.x added). My second system a Gateway P5-90 for about 5 years(MSDOS and Windows 3.x). My third system home built Cirix 8686-233 for about 3 years(Windows 95 and later 98) My fourth system home built K6-2-450 for about 2 years(Windows 2000, later Slackware 8 after ---------frustration with the performance of win2k)(would have kept it longer but it broke) My fifth system now about 8 years old Athlon-800 (Slackware 10.2 and now 12.0 I am even using compmgr on X and enjoying sexy transparent windows!) (works fine with my lowly geforce2-mx400)
Scary trend in that propriety software world. Other then playing and encoding some video MPEG2 and 4 are fine some of the more recents ones are pretty slow to encode and difficulte to play back properly; I can do just about everthing as well with my 8 year old box as can be done with a brand new one. I chose software that is not wasteful and can thefore get allot of miles out of a machine now. I grant you I am not a PC gamer, I have a Wii for that. I am pretty confident the enviornmental impact of my having replaced this machine at least once if not more then once in the Commercial software world would have been greater then any questionable power efficencies of this older equipment, CRT included. The power draw of PCs has not exactly been trending down in general so its likely new gear would save little there at all if anthing the main offset being an LCD rather then the CRT.
Most court proceedings are a matter of public record unless a judge orders them sealed. I should be this way too because we have a legitimate interest in what is going on in our courts. That information is probably relevant to the decisions on the quality of the proceedings much of the time. Frankly as much as its unfortunate for the people and organizations that find themselves in the court rooms, its probably the right thing to do to publish those items.
To bring this to physical world example, if the Gas Station clerk asks you for ID, and you forge a fake ID to purchase cigarettes, it does not make the act legal all of a sudden. Hate to break it to you but even if you were otherwise allowed to buy cigarettes, but used a fake ID to it, it is ILLEGAL. The crimes are FORGERY(creating the fake id) and UTTERING(using the forged document). The harm is that it destroys societies faith in documents. Its a criminal.
In this case your user agent string is probably not something that would be considered a "document" under those laws so its probably not a crime, so your analogy is flawed in that it really does not actually fit and forced as it is evinces the opposite of what you were trying to prove. Good try though come back again soon.
The real problem with ooXML is that its a bad standard. Its bad because it really fails to specify how to encode a document. It fails in essentially two major place. The first could be corrected, its simply that there are a number of ambiguities around the formating(display),percision(display), and storage(document) of non integer numeric values. A spread sheet should calculate and spit out the same results regardless of the software you open it in.
The second issue is ooXML allows large binary blobs of virtually any type to be encoded in the document. Binary in XML and in office documents is not all bad. Certainly for multi-media type things like pictures and sounds its appropriate. I would argue however that there should be limits on WHAT binary formats are allowed. Those should reference other standards. Being able to parse out the stucture of a document only to discover all the content is locked up in some binary format you have no idea what the stucture of is, is downright useless. The reason for standards is so that people can interoperate if you can't do that then the standard is broken.
Before people jump all over me about how being able to interoperate does not mean that you can display he document exactly as it is in Word or whatever let me say "I know that". The content should be accessible though. Rendering should be about how the user wants to display it. A blind person might want a text to speach enginge to read a document to them. The standard should allow them in all cases to dump out the text data from the document. It should be possible to run into the binary objects and have the software say "there is an image here" etc etc. That's usefull "Document, contains unkown data" is not.
Its been a standard practice in the storage world for as long as I CAN REMEMBER to report base 10 capacities. This whole gibi and mibi vs giga and mega is very new. The fact that a 200 gigabyte disk holds is only 190 some odd gigs in capacity is understood in the storage world.
Exactly usualy the best thing you can do without spending an unjustifiable amount of money is an active/passive system. If you are super worried about it active/passive/passive. When you do maintenance operations you apply your changes after testing in your lab to the passive node in production. Next you do what you can test that node is funcitoning. At some planed on time with the proper parties aware like 2am Sunday morning you failover to the passive node. Then you update the active node.
Its a good idea to reboot the passive node from time to time at off peak (lower risk times) middle of the night for a system primarly used durring the day. Even in the case of 911 there are probably many fewer calls at 2am Sunday morning then other times because most people will be in bed. This way you know your passive node is working ok so that in a failover it will be ready.
Yes, there is a risk the primary will fail while you are testing the passive. If that happens you are right there to take care of it. Its bad but not as bad as failover happening some other time when you have to be paged instead and find out the passive node is not in the ready to go state you thought it was; especially because Murphy's law mandes such an event will be in the middle of peak use.
Windows, and group policy are pretty widely known. I also suspect most decent admins of windows networks are aware of code signing functions present in XP and above. You certainly could lock windows boxes down to only runing executables, wich includes things like activeX controls and the like, which are signed by Microsoft, your own organization, or match hashes you explicitly white list. You would proably also want to disable windows scripting and unsigned vba for applications, which you can also do.
Still I have never come across an organization that would support its admin staff in such an endevor for the general user population or an admin staff large enough to keep up with the whitelisting.
Any organization should have a retention policy that eventually includes destruction.
Why? Tapes rot on shelves, so does WORM disk, so does paper. You don't want to get caught with your pants down because you don't have something you policy says you should, especially if your a public company, it would be a SARBOX violation.
Data should be kept for as long as you one need it, and two can reliably keep it. At the end of that period it should be destroyed because you don't want to waste engery trying to control it any more. There is no reason to keep renting more and more storage space to keep a bunch of tapes under lock and key. In fact I kinda think for the sake of everyone privacy. It should be a legal requirement for ALL companies public and private to have a defined policy that requires the destruction of data at some point, information should never be kept forever.
Thats a nice little plan until the backups get miss used. The Executive / Legislative / Judical brances do have the need to keep secrets from each other. Some of that actually protects or liberties.
For instance if the FBI(executive) was investigating senators(Legislative) takeing bribes would you want the senate to know when they were getting to close?
As soon as that happens everyone will be saying each branch should handle their own data backups.
Don't anybody suggest encrypting all the backups because that just puts you back to the original problem, "Well gee golly we can't remember the cipher key for the life of us, shucks..."
Records that are incriminating have been getting lost ever since the first people started keeping records. The only solution is an economic one. You have to enumerate the people responsible for all backups and make the penalties for thoes records going missing more severe for that individul then anything his boss the person who would want them to go missing might do to that person if they refuse. Now the trouble is if you do that nobody will want the job.
That has allot to do with the fact that they could not get very far that way. The government pretty much gets to decide if you can file a civil suit against them or not.
You mostly have to wait for them to come after you for a criminal matter, which you can then turn into a constitional matter via appeals if your rights are possibly being infringed. So someone basically has to be on the hook for something. Historically people have broken laws so as to create that situation, especially during the civil rights revolution. You have to be willing to accept the consequences of likely imprisonment though before you can go down that path.
Exactly I have suggested before we do the same thing. Instead of saying the RIAA they should be refered to as an organization that represents {Insert specific party as appropriate here}, Sony, Warner, EMI, and Universal. It would really help our cause. Sure we slashdots know that Sony is the hieght of all evil, SHAME ON THOSE OF YOU WHO WENT OUT AND BOUGHT PS3s, but others dont. Most people know the RIAA is a bunch of dickheads, that is eactly the point. The real reason for the RIAA is to provide a layer of inderection. So that Sony et al, can act like dickheads and not have to look like dickheads.
We make that the assoication that they are the RIAA and suddenly the RIAA has no more value.
Microsoft seems to have actually gotten this one right. Its the least envasive service pack I have seen in a long time. Its not that interesting really. It truely is as advertised pretty just a patch rollup. Which was long over due because there were like 78 patches out there against sp2 or something similar. The other thing this provides is the new rdp 6.1 client. I down loaded it to put on my test machines becase we are looking at deploying a few blades running Server 2008 for terminal services to replace or tired Citrix servers. You need the new rdp stuffs for that work right client side.
All this does is let people who admin Windows networks to clean up the WSUS boxes, maybe make some slip stream disks more easily for new installs and image building, and use the advanced features of 2008's terminal server.
I have to agree a fuction really ought to perform a (in human terms) atomic task. Something like ReadRecord() that gets the next byte form the stream, looks at it as a magic number indicating the type of record to follow and then reads it into memory and finally retunrs a pointer which cold be cast to to a struct pointer reflecting that type of record makes plenty of sense.
A function that is essentially RunThisInnerLoop() is not good, because when you look at that line in the context of the outerloop you can't get any idea of what the outerloop is for now until you go and look at that function, which you no doubt surfed past it not really understanding its use when you saw it the first time ether.
Not to mention anyone who has worked with tape knows its not usually the most reliable media. One of the main reasons your rotate through multiple backups is because you exepect unrecoverable CRC errors and like from tape. You go to your next oldest set and pull whatever file/files/database you could not get from the bad set of tapes and pull that from there. When you do major upgrades or equipment moves where the expectation of needing the backup go up good admins will want the prior two backups in the roatation to be done on newly out of the shrink wrap tapes.
This is where consideration needs to go into encryption as well. Encrypting things at the archive level will be extreamly risky because errors might make the entire tape impossible to decrypt! You better make sure you are using some sort of sector level or on drive encryption and understand it if your are going to do that. The same goes for any type of compression, you want to compress individual units of data and then stream them into the archive, rather then compress the archive stream so that a few errors don't render the entire thing unreadable.
In most cases for a backup(which you as the admin control or should) I for one think its best to maintain good physical security around the tapes while they are onsite. Drive is in your locked datacenter where the only people who have access to the tapes have root level access to the systems being backed up any way. Then you hand them to the offsite storage guy yourself. That guy works for a company that is bonded and has agreed to be liable for any breach if those tapes are stolen or lost while in their possession. They should be asking you to sign a form when they take the tapes from you and when you bring them back. You should get carbon copies.
Now you would hope they have good security in place, but if they don't its there problem not yours. They are going to be responsible if those tapes go missing.
Maybe we have not optimized but we have specialized in optimal ways. We we grow different crops in different places where they grow best(there are exceptions for various reasons, rice in the desert). The trouble is if some of those places become less productive we get holes in our food output needs.
Sure, but show me how to make CE act as a firewall, dhcp server, local dns, router, and mail relay for a remote office.
This little box even with its small amount of ram, and limited storeage could take care of all those needs for six or eight people while being almost no bother to maintain. Have a problem with it one day well they are light send them the replacement next day AM deliver and let them send you the old one back for repair ground for pennies.
Even if you could get CE to run on a platform like this try getting it doing all that work and being stable. With Linux most of that software already exists as good reasonable hardware independant source. Most of your work would be extracting the tarballs and typing make. Somehow I doubt you would have such an easy time doing it on windows. Now before you tell me that is not CE's fault because all that software was developed for Unix like systems, let me respond with maybe CE should have been more unix like, and maybe M$ should have made the platform more availible and attractive to port that software too. We also know that CE is not nearly stable enought to be used that way.
Actually if you watch the film Stein does not necessarily believe in ID. He simple is wondering why so many scientists are so religious about evolution.
He is posing questions like, Why do we teach kids the difference between laws, and theory and then act like evolution is a law?
Evolution is really good at explaining how butterflies change color overtime, it does not explain how you get from paramecium to human does that not leave room for some alternate theories?
In what way does the presents of evolution rule out an intelligent designer; might that designer have included an evolutionary mechanism?
All Stein is doing is asking scientists to act like it. They should acknowledge the weak spots in any theory and look to finding the explanations. Stein's documentary could have been about a variety of other subjects. He is simply saying don't close the books until all the facts are in. There is nothing wrong with that its good science. Imagine if people had decided special relativity worked so well we need not bother look at string theory?
Its the same thing. Anyone who takes issue with Steins message is being pretty petty and short sighted.
I know everybody loves their cheap goods, and our government is little more then a corporate puppet show now; but seriously its time to take away China's most favored status as a trade partner. They are abusive and dangerous to their own people and plain dangerous to US.
I am not suggesting any sort of war or major conflict just strict rules against travel their for citizens the same we have for Cuba and a trade embargo. We should at the very very least boycott the Olympic Games to make a satement.
People have to be made to care. If you start careing and doing things to that effect people get curious and start asking questions.
"Why won't you see that movie?" your friends may ask, and you can answer "Because its made by Sony pictures and they support an abusive and unfair form of property rights" you can answer.
"So you are not planing to get anything in HD that won't work with Analog component video or strait DVI?" answer "Yes because HDMI is evil, it offers you nothing that DVI with AC3 on digital coax or SPDIF does but criples your device, and they make you pay for this privilege."
You watch their reaction to those statments if they are curious and still interested you point them at inteligent and rational arguments. You them things like RMS's The Right To Read.
If we are patient and win enough converts eventual we will succeed in doing with our wallets what we can't with our votes. Staving these people to death.
What these organizations are trying to do is no less the curupt the ideals and vaules of western society and replace it with their own. Its nothing more and nothing less then a more insidious form of totalitarianism. Instead of abusing your body when you don't cooperate the just abuse your mind all the time. The thing to remember is all their power comes from apathy and complacency. Stop being apathetic, stop being complacent and others will fallow. Yes this will require you to make some sacrifices. It might mean that you can't watch the latest movies and TV in HD. It might mean that you have to fill out your tax forms on paper because you can't buy software that will run on your free platform at home.
You can do it! self reliance is possible! We can win! Revolution begins at home; don't let it end there too.
Oh no it is telling us all sorts of things that are certainly false. The internet is a big place it stands to reason if this has happened once it can happen again. It fallows that since this has happened once it has happened before. The charateristics of the Internet having been fairly constant for serveral years now. Even the adoption rate of new people has dropped off.
The trick is sorting out the truth from the fiction which without solid non-Internet sources is nearly impossible. The more the non-Internet sources use the Internet resources as source the worse the issue gets. I personaly find it very hard to get any news form anywhere that I can be more confident in then a bunch of sixth graders playing telephone.
Yeah. Look at what a great job private companies (Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Citigroup) did making loans. They were so effective at making loans, the government had to bail them out. That is the real tragedy of it all the government did not have to bail them out. They chose to at the expense of everyone as well as the future to help at a few people who should have know better. Bear Stearns should have been allowed to fail. The investors should have lost it all. That the game called investing. You can win and sometimes you can lose. Bear Stearns was posting huge profits by investing in risky loans themsevels. This was foolish, lost of people knew it. Lots of people did not get suckered in to loads with crazy and unknown payment scheduals, lots of people chose not to invest in Bear Stearns, no matter how good it looked.
In the end if the Governement had not chosen to ROB ( yes rob take MY money with the THREAT of FORCE ) me by using my tax dollars in a giveaway to bail out some bankers they would be gone. Ultimately Bear Sterns practices proved to be unvaible and inefficent the market had it been leaft alone would have eliminated that inefficency, leaving only more effient ( in this case more conservative ) banks behind and the same for hedge fund mangers and the idiot investors.
What the government did is break the free market! As the FED buying up these risky ( already expected to fail as far as the markets concerned ) securities from other banks and lendors like Countrywide well that is a travasty too. That does not benifet anyone living on main street its only good for big investment bankers. Conuntrywide had a liquidy problem and they could have solved it without a bailout.
Don't you think they can produce a list of customers who always pay on time and in greater amount then the schedule demands. Those are probably the same people who have other assets. If they needed capital so bad they might have approached those people who are using debt responsibly and made an offer. They could have said hey give use 20 or 30K tomorow and we will write down 60K off your loan. They get the cash they need today you get the time value of your money back. Maybe those responsible individuals would have even been rewarded with basicaly wipeing out all the intrest costs on their loans. That would have been great for middle class Americans.
It would have transfered wealth from the wealthy to the middle without any government force. It would have been the market at work. So if you are thinking gee maybe the goverment should help me out prices are going up and I am getting squeezed left an right, consider maybe what you should ask for is the goverment to just stop ripping you off, to pad the wallets of the already wealthy.
I am a middle class American. I work hard and I am responsible with money I carry only secure debt( debt owed on assests salable for that amount or more) my house. This credit crisis should have been a boon for me; but Uncle Sam stole from the poor and gave to the rich. That is what always happens when the government regulates. Even if your are big liberal you know Hillary and Obama are members of the top 1% or so and they are never going to do something thats good for you or the poorer classes. They are as selfish as everyone else, maybe more so and I have little help McCain will be any better. Congress is the real problem anyway. The president only matters in that a good one might stop some of Congresses downright criminal behaviors.
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Its not the device its how its used in both the case of the tazer and the gun. If have a gun and shoot you in the kneecap while I am asking you questions because you give me an answer I don't like that is torture. If I shoot you in the gut because you're attacking me or my family that is not torture. My intent was to protect myself by incapacitationg, and I had the need to do that; it was not that I specifically meant to case you agony.
If cop uses a tazer once to subdue an unruly suspect long enough to get handcuffs on him/her that is not torture. Once again the intent would to incapacitate you long enough to get control of a dangerous situation. If that Officer continues to use the tazer on you after you are already handcuffed laying face down in the dirt I would say that is torture. There is no more need in that case to be inflicting agony on you. The intent is now just cause you pain and that is well wrong.
The other thing to consider is maybe we should look at increasing the lengh of the hardware life cycle rather then constantly cutting it. We should start demanding that software vendors start producing tight efficent code again so that we don't have to keep replacing our machines to use it. We should demand hardware vendors produce platforms that have a long life span with an upgrade path that enables most components to be resused as much and as long as possible.
These is all speaking of primary systems.
I had my first PC, and 386DX-20 for almost 10 years(MSDOS and later Windows 3.x added).
My second system a Gateway P5-90 for about 5 years(MSDOS and Windows 3.x).
My third system home built Cirix 8686-233 for about 3 years(Windows 95 and later 98)
My fourth system home built K6-2-450 for about 2 years(Windows 2000, later Slackware 8 after ---------frustration with the performance of win2k)(would have kept it longer but it broke)
My fifth system now about 8 years old Athlon-800 (Slackware 10.2 and now 12.0 I am even using compmgr on X and enjoying sexy transparent windows!) (works fine with my lowly geforce2-mx400)
Scary trend in that propriety software world. Other then playing and encoding some video MPEG2 and 4 are fine some of the more recents ones are pretty slow to encode and difficulte to play back properly; I can do just about everthing as well with my 8 year old box as can be done with a brand new one. I chose software that is not wasteful and can thefore get allot of miles out of a machine now. I grant you I am not a PC gamer, I have a Wii for that. I am pretty confident the enviornmental impact of my having replaced this machine at least once if not more then once in the Commercial software world would have been greater then any questionable power efficencies of this older equipment, CRT included. The power draw of PCs has not exactly been trending down in general so its likely new gear would save little there at all if anthing the main offset being an LCD rather then the CRT.
Most court proceedings are a matter of public record unless a judge orders them sealed. I should be this way too because we have a legitimate interest in what is going on in our courts. That information is probably relevant to the decisions on the quality of the proceedings much of the time. Frankly as much as its unfortunate for the people and organizations that find themselves in the court rooms, its probably the right thing to do to publish those items.
The crimes are FORGERY(creating the fake id) and UTTERING(using the forged document). The harm is that it destroys societies faith in documents. Its a criminal.
In this case your user agent string is probably not something that would be considered a "document" under those laws so its probably not a crime, so your analogy is flawed in that it really does not actually fit and forced as it is evinces the opposite of what you were trying to prove. Good try though come back again soon.
The real problem with ooXML is that its a bad standard. Its bad because it really fails to specify how to encode a document. It fails in essentially two major place. The first could be corrected, its simply that there are a number of ambiguities around the formating(display),percision(display), and storage(document) of non integer numeric values. A spread sheet should calculate and spit out the same results regardless of the software you open it in.
The second issue is ooXML allows large binary blobs of virtually any type to be encoded in the document. Binary in XML and in office documents is not all bad. Certainly for multi-media type things like pictures and sounds its appropriate. I would argue however that there should be limits on WHAT binary formats are allowed. Those should reference other standards. Being able to parse out the stucture of a document only to discover all the content is locked up in some binary format you have no idea what the stucture of is, is downright useless. The reason for standards is so that people can interoperate if you can't do that then the standard is broken.
Before people jump all over me about how being able to interoperate does not mean that you can display he document exactly as it is in Word or whatever let me say "I know that". The content should be accessible though. Rendering should be about how the user wants to display it. A blind person might want a text to speach enginge to read a document to them. The standard should allow them in all cases to dump out the text data from the document. It should be possible to run into the binary objects and have the software say "there is an image here" etc etc. That's usefull "Document, contains unkown data" is not.
Its been a standard practice in the storage world for as long as I CAN REMEMBER to report base 10 capacities. This whole gibi and mibi vs giga and mega is very new. The fact that a 200 gigabyte disk holds is only 190 some odd gigs in capacity is understood in the storage world.
Exactly usualy the best thing you can do without spending an unjustifiable amount of money is an active/passive system. If you are super worried about it active/passive/passive. When you do maintenance operations you apply your changes after testing in your lab to the passive node in production. Next you do what you can test that node is funcitoning. At some planed on time with the proper parties aware like 2am Sunday morning you failover to the passive node. Then you update the active node.
Its a good idea to reboot the passive node from time to time at off peak (lower risk times) middle of the night for a system primarly used durring the day. Even in the case of 911 there are probably many fewer calls at 2am Sunday morning then other times because most people will be in bed. This way you know your passive node is working ok so that in a failover it will be ready.
Yes, there is a risk the primary will fail while you are testing the passive. If that happens you are right there to take care of it. Its bad but not as bad as failover happening some other time when you have to be paged instead and find out the passive node is not in the ready to go state you thought it was; especially because Murphy's law mandes such an event will be in the middle of peak use.
Windows, and group policy are pretty widely known. I also suspect most decent admins of windows networks are aware of code signing functions present in XP and above. You certainly could lock windows boxes down to only runing executables, wich includes things like activeX controls and the like, which are signed by Microsoft, your own organization, or match hashes you explicitly white list. You would proably also want to disable windows scripting and unsigned vba for applications, which you can also do.
Still I have never come across an organization that would support its admin staff in such an endevor for the general user population or an admin staff large enough to keep up with the whitelisting.
Yea, I hear but its not that simple. A virus still has to be small. You don't have a great deal of room for random crap.
Any organization should have a retention policy that eventually includes destruction.
Why? Tapes rot on shelves, so does WORM disk, so does paper. You don't want to get caught with your pants down because you don't have something you policy says you should, especially if your a public company, it would be a SARBOX violation.
Data should be kept for as long as you one need it, and two can reliably keep it. At the end of that period it should be destroyed because you don't want to waste engery trying to control it any more. There is no reason to keep renting more and more storage space to keep a bunch of tapes under lock and key. In fact I kinda think for the sake of everyone privacy. It should be a legal requirement for ALL companies public and private to have a defined policy that requires the destruction of data at some point, information should never be kept forever.
Its not that they can't its that they don't want to.
Thats a nice little plan until the backups get miss used. The Executive / Legislative / Judical brances do have the need to keep secrets from each other. Some of that actually protects or liberties.
For instance if the FBI(executive) was investigating senators(Legislative) takeing bribes would you want the senate to know when they were getting to close?
As soon as that happens everyone will be saying each branch should handle their own data backups.
Don't anybody suggest encrypting all the backups because that just puts you back to the original problem, "Well gee golly we can't remember the cipher key for the life of us, shucks..."
Records that are incriminating have been getting lost ever since the first people started keeping records. The only solution is an economic one. You have to enumerate the people responsible for all backups and make the penalties for thoes records going missing more severe for that individul then anything his boss the person who would want them to go missing might do to that person if they refuse. Now the trouble is if you do that nobody will want the job.
That has allot to do with the fact that they could not get very far that way. The government pretty much gets to decide if you can file a civil suit against them or not.
You mostly have to wait for them to come after you for a criminal matter, which you can then turn into a constitional matter via appeals if your rights are possibly being infringed. So someone basically has to be on the hook for something. Historically people have broken laws so as to create that situation, especially during the civil rights revolution. You have to be willing to accept the consequences of likely imprisonment though before you can go down that path.
Exactly I have suggested before we do the same thing. Instead of saying the RIAA they should be refered to as an organization that represents {Insert specific party as appropriate here}, Sony, Warner, EMI, and Universal. It would really help our cause. Sure we slashdots know that Sony is the hieght of all evil, SHAME ON THOSE OF YOU WHO WENT OUT AND BOUGHT PS3s, but others dont. Most people know the RIAA is a bunch of dickheads, that is eactly the point. The real reason for the RIAA is to provide a layer of inderection. So that Sony et al, can act like dickheads and not have to look like dickheads.
We make that the assoication that they are the RIAA and suddenly the RIAA has no more value.
Microsoft seems to have actually gotten this one right. Its the least envasive service pack I have seen in a long time. Its not that interesting really. It truely is as advertised pretty just a patch rollup. Which was long over due because there were like 78 patches out there against sp2 or something similar. The other thing this provides is the new rdp 6.1 client. I down loaded it to put on my test machines becase we are looking at deploying a few blades running Server 2008 for terminal services to replace or tired Citrix servers. You need the new rdp stuffs for that work right client side.
All this does is let people who admin Windows networks to clean up the WSUS boxes, maybe make some slip stream disks more easily for new installs and image building, and use the advanced features of 2008's terminal server.
I have to agree a fuction really ought to perform a (in human terms) atomic task. Something like ReadRecord() that gets the next byte form the stream, looks at it as a magic number indicating the type of record to follow and then reads it into memory and finally retunrs a pointer which cold be cast to to a struct pointer reflecting that type of record makes plenty of sense.
A function that is essentially RunThisInnerLoop() is not good, because when you look at that line in the context of the outerloop you can't get any idea of what the outerloop is for now until you go and look at that function, which you no doubt surfed past it not really understanding its use when you saw it the first time ether.
Not to mention anyone who has worked with tape knows its not usually the most reliable media. One of the main reasons your rotate through multiple backups is because you exepect unrecoverable CRC errors and like from tape. You go to your next oldest set and pull whatever file/files/database you could not get from the bad set of tapes and pull that from there. When you do major upgrades or equipment moves where the expectation of needing the backup go up good admins will want the prior two backups in the roatation to be done on newly out of the shrink wrap tapes.
This is where consideration needs to go into encryption as well. Encrypting things at the archive level will be extreamly risky because errors might make the entire tape impossible to decrypt! You better make sure you are using some sort of sector level or on drive encryption and understand it if your are going to do that. The same goes for any type of compression, you want to compress individual units of data and then stream them into the archive, rather then compress the archive stream so that a few errors don't render the entire thing unreadable.
In most cases for a backup(which you as the admin control or should) I for one think its best to maintain good physical security around the tapes while they are onsite. Drive is in your locked datacenter where the only people who have access to the tapes have root level access to the systems being backed up any way. Then you hand them to the offsite storage guy yourself. That guy works for a company that is bonded and has agreed to be liable for any breach if those tapes are stolen or lost while in their possession. They should be asking you to sign a form when they take the tapes from you and when you bring them back. You should get carbon copies.
Now you would hope they have good security in place, but if they don't its there problem not yours. They are going to be responsible if those tapes go missing.
Maybe we have not optimized but we have specialized in optimal ways. We we grow different crops in different places where they grow best(there are exceptions for various reasons, rice in the desert). The trouble is if some of those places become less productive we get holes in our food output needs.
Sure, but show me how to make CE act as a firewall, dhcp server, local dns, router, and mail relay for a remote office.
This little box even with its small amount of ram, and limited storeage could take care of all those needs for six or eight people while being almost no bother to maintain. Have a problem with it one day well they are light send them the replacement next day AM deliver and let them send you the old one back for repair ground for pennies.
Even if you could get CE to run on a platform like this try getting it doing all that work and being stable. With Linux most of that software already exists as good reasonable hardware independant source. Most of your work would be extracting the tarballs and typing make. Somehow I doubt you would have such an easy time doing it on windows. Now before you tell me that is not CE's fault because all that software was developed for Unix like systems, let me respond with maybe CE should have been more unix like, and maybe M$ should have made the platform more availible and attractive to port that software too. We also know that CE is not nearly stable enought to be used that way.
Actually if you watch the film Stein does not necessarily believe in ID. He simple is wondering why so many scientists are so religious about evolution.
He is posing questions like, Why do we teach kids the difference between laws, and theory and then act like evolution is a law?
Evolution is really good at explaining how butterflies change color overtime, it does not explain how you get from paramecium to human does that not leave room for some alternate theories?
In what way does the presents of evolution rule out an intelligent designer; might that designer have included an evolutionary mechanism?
All Stein is doing is asking scientists to act like it. They should acknowledge the weak spots in any theory and look to finding the explanations. Stein's documentary could have been about a variety of other subjects. He is simply saying don't close the books until all the facts are in. There is nothing wrong with that its good science. Imagine if people had decided special relativity worked so well we need not bother look at string theory?
Its the same thing. Anyone who takes issue with Steins message is being pretty petty and short sighted.
I know everybody loves their cheap goods, and our government is little more then a corporate puppet show now; but seriously its time to take away China's most favored status as a trade partner. They are abusive and dangerous to their own people and plain dangerous to US.
I am not suggesting any sort of war or major conflict just strict rules against travel their for citizens the same we have for Cuba and a trade embargo. We should at the very very least boycott the Olympic Games to make a satement.
People have to be made to care. If you start careing and doing things to that effect people get curious and start asking questions.
"Why won't you see that movie?" your friends may ask, and you can answer "Because its made by Sony pictures and they support an abusive and unfair form of property rights" you can answer.
"So you are not planing to get anything in HD that won't work with Analog component video or strait DVI?" answer "Yes because HDMI is evil, it offers you nothing that DVI with AC3 on digital coax or SPDIF does but criples your device, and they make you pay for this privilege."
You watch their reaction to those statments if they are curious and still interested you point them at inteligent and rational arguments. You them things like RMS's The Right To Read.
If we are patient and win enough converts eventual we will succeed in doing with our wallets what we can't with our votes. Staving these people to death.
What these organizations are trying to do is no less the curupt the ideals and vaules of western society and replace it with their own. Its nothing more and nothing less then a more insidious form of totalitarianism. Instead of abusing your body when you don't cooperate the just abuse your mind all the time. The thing to remember is all their power comes from apathy and complacency. Stop being apathetic, stop being complacent and others will fallow. Yes this will require you to make some sacrifices. It might mean that you can't watch the latest movies and TV in HD. It might mean that you have to fill out your tax forms on paper because you can't buy software that will run on your free platform at home.
You can do it! self reliance is possible! We can win! Revolution begins at home; don't let it end there too.
Oh no it is telling us all sorts of things that are certainly false. The internet is a big place it stands to reason if this has happened once it can happen again. It fallows that since this has happened once it has happened before. The charateristics of the Internet having been fairly constant for serveral years now. Even the adoption rate of new people has dropped off.
The trick is sorting out the truth from the fiction which without solid non-Internet sources is nearly impossible. The more the non-Internet sources use the Internet resources as source the worse the issue gets. I personaly find it very hard to get any news form anywhere that I can be more confident in then a bunch of sixth graders playing telephone.
No Scifi makes perfect sense, only in scifi could the protagonist succeed using Microsoft and Cisco products.
In the end if the Governement had not chosen to ROB ( yes rob take MY money with the THREAT of FORCE ) me by using my tax dollars in a giveaway to bail out some bankers they would be gone. Ultimately Bear Sterns practices proved to be unvaible and inefficent the market had it been leaft alone would have eliminated that inefficency, leaving only more effient ( in this case more conservative ) banks behind and the same for hedge fund mangers and the idiot investors.
What the government did is break the free market! As the FED buying up these risky ( already expected to fail as far as the markets concerned ) securities from other banks and lendors like Countrywide well that is a travasty too. That does not benifet anyone living on main street its only good for big investment bankers. Conuntrywide had a liquidy problem and they could have solved it without a bailout.
Don't you think they can produce a list of customers who always pay on time and in greater amount then the schedule demands. Those are probably the same people who have other assets. If they needed capital so bad they might have approached those people who are using debt responsibly and made an offer. They could have said hey give use 20 or 30K tomorow and we will write down 60K off your loan. They get the cash they need today you get the time value of your money back. Maybe those responsible individuals would have even been rewarded with basicaly wipeing out all the intrest costs on their loans. That would have been great for middle class Americans.
It would have transfered wealth from the wealthy to the middle without any government force. It would have been the market at work. So if you are thinking gee maybe the goverment should help me out prices are going up and I am getting squeezed left an right, consider maybe what you should ask for is the goverment to just stop ripping you off, to pad the wallets of the already wealthy.
I am a middle class American. I work hard and I am responsible with money I carry only secure debt( debt owed on assests salable for that amount or more) my house. This credit crisis should have been a boon for me; but Uncle Sam stole from the poor and gave to the rich. That is what always happens when the government regulates. Even if your are big liberal you know Hillary and Obama are members of the top 1% or so and they are never going to do something thats good for you or the poorer classes. They are as selfish as everyone else, maybe more so and I have little help McCain will be any better. Congress is the real problem anyway. The president only matters in that a good one might stop some of Congresses downright criminal behaviors.