Android on Choice: "Let the user choose what programs and features they want to run? Yay freedom!"
Microsoft on Choice: "Option to turn feature on? Windows Users are too stupid to be trusted with extra features!"
How come nobody shits about their Android phones taking a shit or their iPhone's taking a shit?
Because I got my Android phone pre-loaded with annoying crap from HTC and I immediately rooted and reflashed to Cyanogen--now I have no issues with my phone.
Where's the open source but modded-to-be-better version of Windows Phone 7 Phone Experience awesomeness you can toss on your Windows Phone 7 Series. What the hell is the name of their phone platform anyways?
Quote:
"As with previous seizures, ICE convinced a District Court judge to sign a seizure warrant, and then contacted the domain registries to point the domains in question to a server that hosts the warning message. However, somewhere in this process a mistake was made and as a result the domain of a large DNS service provider was seized."
You may not like this, but a warrant signed by a judge *is* due process.
Judges have to follow the law too.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The judge can't issue a warrant without probably cause supported by Oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
The problem is there is no penalty for government drones that violate our rights.
For example--if I break into your house and take stuff, I go to jail. If the government breaks in illegally (without a proper warrant), they say "Oops, sorry" and continue on.
It seems to, and so you hear people asking for the good old days.
It seems to me that the world is better than ever, and only getting better. It also seems like much of the chaos is caused by religious fanatics who don't want to accept this sort of change.
...so being a good progressive you'd want to force them to change?
I happen to like my God-given right to be left the hell alone as long as I'm not violating anyone else's rights.
He is saying that Mormons are polytheistic because they believe each Planet in the universe has it's own God and that there is nothing particularly special about the God that runs things here on Earth.
Weird--I'd never heard that. I should open up Google and do some resear...oh--right. Damn.
BGP route poisoning has been around since BGP was invented. Every few years we get a story about how China or someone blackholed a huge swath of the 'net with a bad advertisement. This is nothing new, blah blah, internet is tied together with bubblegum and shoelaces. However there's almost always a way to "fix" routers on different networks since they're mostly independently managed, so you're looking at downtime of a few days to a week max. Nothing that's going to destroy the fabric of society.
I knew statically managing all the routes in my router would pay off some day!
Just like my 6 GB hosts file when people started poisoning DNS!
Who has the time to hand-pick all the relevant tags for every file they download? Yeah, me neither.
Finding time to put things in their own directory, and not dumping them all in "downloads", is a great accomplishment.
However finding a meaningful, hierarchical structure is non-trivial. I'm still working on it.
I'd settle for being able to tag a file/folder with 'temp' and have the folder/file automatically delete $x days after I last touch it.
The reason I can't just 'rm -rf *' in my downloads directory is I don't want to delete the stuff I just downloaded a few minutes/days ago but haven't sorted properly yet.
In spite of what MS promised, we still have no SQL filesystems.. I'd love one of those by now.
I have terabytes of data, photos, code, php, javascript, movies, chat logs all scatterd throughout different disks backed up when needed, double copies everywhere. I want something to manage this properly!
Any advise?
mysql --user root --password s3cr3t
create database 'my_new_filesystem' ...
Have fun.
Hurricane Electric still reports 1 remaining unallocated/8 - so the final one isn't out yet. Apparently it's two days before that happens at the current rate.
Oh--well, as long as Hurricane Electric confirms it...
slaves got all their rights by taking one from the slave holders
like wise only one person can be completely free on earth at a time and they would be the world dictor
ur peace of mind that murders will be punished if they kill u COST THEM THEIR RIGHTS HOW DARE U
That blob of English reads about as well as alphabet soup...
SSL3/TLS will only protect against MITM attacks if BOTH the client AND the server mutually authenticate. This would require the issuance of a signed certificate to the client, not something that any garden variety retail grade web service does.
So the goal of a non-profit business is to make a profit?
I used to do IT consulting for a non-profit. It company had 5 employees. Two were the CEO and her husband. The husband picked me up in their Lexus, drove me to their 'office' (aka house, aka mansion) where I met the CEO. She later drove me to a local restaurant in her Mercedes where I had a $35 steak and a $15 glass of wine on their company card. I was then put up in a local bed and breakfast for the evening at $300/night.
All 'non-profit' means is they don't have a horrendously outrageous profit--but you can spend as much money as they want on 'running' the company. If that means they need a Lexus and Mercedes Benz to drive to meetings, so be it.;)
It's not just business that teaches that lesson. Anyone who's been reading/. for long has read the claims here that profit is the only legitimate business goal.
That is the goal of a business. Businesses that generate a profit continue to exist, employ people, and provide services to people. Businesses that don't generate a profit won't be businesses much longer.
If you own a business, you can run it as you see fit.
The part you seem to be missing is that good businesses don't treat people like crap. They recognize what their employees bring to the table and do things to encourage a positive attitude--like bonuses, or maybe a company lunch/dinner, an extra vacation day, etc...
Companies that treat their employees like crap will have higher turnover rates, less productivity, etc...
But it's up to the owner to make the decision about what kind of company he wants to run--although you don't have much leeway if you are the owner of a local toilet-bowl cleaning service. Low skill usually doesn't put you in a job that has high returns or benefits.
Humans can at least exercise reasonable judgment over the enforcement of laws. How often have you been pulled over by a cop, only to be given a warning or a reduced ticket
Yeah--that's either because they didn't actually get evidence of you speeding and are hoping you'll pay the small fine, or they have that pathetic psychological issue where they want to assert their authority (pull you over and cite you) and then have you grateful (because they are so gracious and can reduce the fine for you because they're such nice guys).
Speeding tickets are bullshit. Who did you hurt?
Really.
If you saw a man with a baseball bat beating the crap out of a woman and you drew your gun, demanded the guy stop, and finally had to shoot him to prevent the woman from being killed, you'd be a hero--regardless of you being a cop or not.
If on the other hand, someone drove by you too fast, you chased them down, flashed emergency lights (really? Where's the 'emergency'? Who is dying?), demanded identification, and finally handed them a piece of paper demanding money all while resting your hand on your holster--you'd go to jail for being a nutjob....unless you're a cop.
Why is one situation right and the other one wrong?
It's simple. Tickets are bullshit, designed to make money.
officials from both countries have had smirks when asked about Stuxnet, which has fueled speculation.
I'm not saying it was or wasn't--but that statement is hardly logical. Are you telling me the droids talking to the press were actually in on the action and therefore smirking? Most places use public information officers who are low-level droids programmed to say 'No comment'. If you did something bad, you definitely don't tell your PIO "Yeah--I totally fscked up" and then follow it up with "There are the cameras, go lie.". You give your PIO the 'official' story and point them towards the cameras.
If they haven't already looked at linux, it's because they lack the innate curiosity to find out more about their chosen profession.
These are the types who will mostly not graduate beyond "I can admin a server because I know where to point and click" anyways.
Even the simplest of tools, like vi or ssh, are pretty much beyond them.
Yup--there are two classes of techs that I've worked with in the past. The 'real geeks' go home at night and play with new technology. They learn new languages, play with operating systems, understand networking (probably IPv6 too), DNS, etc...
The other class of techs has a short mental list of things to do when they encounter a problem. It usually includes reboot, unplug and re-plug cables, install Windows Updates, and maybe try overlaying the latest service pack. After that, they are calling the 'real geeks'
I was talking with a tech yesterday and he related a perfect example. He was working on a computer that had a dying drive. There were no available sectors for reallocation and the drive had bad blocks preventing boot. Plus it would occasionally make the click of death. He stepped outside for a smoke with the intent of coming back in, booting into linux, and starting a 'dd' to copy the data to another drive. Unfortunately he came back in to find one of the lesser techs decided to 'fix' it. The lesser tech ignored the BIOS warning about SMART failure and ran chkdsk on the drive, then proceeded to defrag. By the time the tech came back from his smoke, the drive was toast.
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It's even worse since it also goes:
Android on Choice: "Let the user choose what programs and features they want to run? Yay freedom!" Microsoft on Choice: "Option to turn feature on? Windows Users are too stupid to be trusted with extra features!"
Fixed that for you...
Apart from the commission, this sounds like Freshmeat, Tucows, or Sourceforge.
They probably make money off of ad revenue
Uuh...how many 'open source' users do you know that have AdBlock turned off?
How come nobody shits about their Android phones taking a shit or their iPhone's taking a shit?
Because I got my Android phone pre-loaded with annoying crap from HTC and I immediately rooted and reflashed to Cyanogen--now I have no issues with my phone.
Where's the open source but modded-to-be-better version of Windows Phone 7 Phone Experience awesomeness you can toss on your Windows Phone 7 Series. What the hell is the name of their phone platform anyways?
the noisy over-opinionated minority experiencing a problem
there. fixed that for you.
Hey! Leave the teachers unions out of it.
Quote: "As with previous seizures, ICE convinced a District Court judge to sign a seizure warrant, and then contacted the domain registries to point the domains in question to a server that hosts the warning message. However, somewhere in this process a mistake was made and as a result the domain of a large DNS service provider was seized."
You may not like this, but a warrant signed by a judge *is* due process.
Judges have to follow the law too.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The judge can't issue a warrant without probably cause supported by Oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
The problem is there is no penalty for government drones that violate our rights.
For example--if I break into your house and take stuff, I go to jail. If the government breaks in illegally (without a proper warrant), they say "Oops, sorry" and continue on.
It seems to, and so you hear people asking for the good old days.
It seems to me that the world is better than ever, and only getting better. It also seems like much of the chaos is caused by religious fanatics who don't want to accept this sort of change.
I happen to like my God-given right to be left the hell alone as long as I'm not violating anyone else's rights.
He is saying that Mormons are polytheistic because they believe each Planet in the universe has it's own God and that there is nothing particularly special about the God that runs things here on Earth.
Weird--I'd never heard that. I should open up Google and do some resear...oh--right. Damn.
BGP route poisoning has been around since BGP was invented. Every few years we get a story about how China or someone blackholed a huge swath of the 'net with a bad advertisement. This is nothing new, blah blah, internet is tied together with bubblegum and shoelaces. However there's almost always a way to "fix" routers on different networks since they're mostly independently managed, so you're looking at downtime of a few days to a week max. Nothing that's going to destroy the fabric of society.
I knew statically managing all the routes in my router would pay off some day!
Just like my 6 GB hosts file when people started poisoning DNS!
Which has what to do BGP route poisoning?
Are you saying an EMP won't totally fuck up your BGP routing tables?
Who has the time to hand-pick all the relevant tags for every file they download? Yeah, me neither. Finding time to put things in their own directory, and not dumping them all in "downloads", is a great accomplishment.
However finding a meaningful, hierarchical structure is non-trivial. I'm still working on it.
I'd settle for being able to tag a file/folder with 'temp' and have the folder/file automatically delete $x days after I last touch it.
The reason I can't just 'rm -rf *' in my downloads directory is I don't want to delete the stuff I just downloaded a few minutes/days ago but haven't sorted properly yet.
I support I should just write a damn script.
In spite of what MS promised, we still have no SQL filesystems.. I'd love one of those by now. I have terabytes of data, photos, code, php, javascript, movies, chat logs all scatterd throughout different disks backed up when needed, double copies everywhere. I want something to manage this properly! Any advise?
mysql --user root --password s3cr3t
...
create database 'my_new_filesystem'
Have fun.
Romanes, they go the house?
I got Romans eat doughnuts...
Can someone else try a translation?
Unlike Ballmer, Jobs is visionary. He has an aesthetic sense
Exactly--call me back when Ballmer starts wearing a turtle neck and I'll ditch Linux.
Loose women with tightly fitting hoop skirts made God angry.
Then why didn't he sink the lifeboats containing (mostly) women and children?
Hurricane Electric still reports 1 remaining unallocated /8 - so the final one isn't out yet. Apparently it's two days before that happens at the current rate.
Oh--well, as long as Hurricane Electric confirms it...
slaves got all their rights by taking one from the slave holders like wise only one person can be completely free on earth at a time and they would be the world dictor ur peace of mind that murders will be punished if they kill u COST THEM THEIR RIGHTS HOW DARE U
That blob of English reads about as well as alphabet soup...
Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple
How many of these people fell asleep because they were drunk?
How many of these people drank because they were distracted?!? OMG!
SSL3/TLS will only protect against MITM attacks if BOTH the client AND the server mutually authenticate. This would require the issuance of a signed certificate to the client, not something that any garden variety retail grade web service does.
Hmm...sorta like gpgAuth?
So the goal of a non-profit business is to make a profit?
I used to do IT consulting for a non-profit. It company had 5 employees. Two were the CEO and her husband. The husband picked me up in their Lexus, drove me to their 'office' (aka house, aka mansion) where I met the CEO. She later drove me to a local restaurant in her Mercedes where I had a $35 steak and a $15 glass of wine on their company card. I was then put up in a local bed and breakfast for the evening at $300/night.
;)
All 'non-profit' means is they don't have a horrendously outrageous profit--but you can spend as much money as they want on 'running' the company. If that means they need a Lexus and Mercedes Benz to drive to meetings, so be it.
It's not just business that teaches that lesson. Anyone who's been reading /. for long has read the claims here that profit is the only legitimate business goal.
That is the goal of a business. Businesses that generate a profit continue to exist, employ people, and provide services to people. Businesses that don't generate a profit won't be businesses much longer.
If you own a business, you can run it as you see fit.
The part you seem to be missing is that good businesses don't treat people like crap. They recognize what their employees bring to the table and do things to encourage a positive attitude--like bonuses, or maybe a company lunch/dinner, an extra vacation day, etc...
Companies that treat their employees like crap will have higher turnover rates, less productivity, etc...
But it's up to the owner to make the decision about what kind of company he wants to run--although you don't have much leeway if you are the owner of a local toilet-bowl cleaning service. Low skill usually doesn't put you in a job that has high returns or benefits.
Humans can at least exercise reasonable judgment over the enforcement of laws. How often have you been pulled over by a cop, only to be given a warning or a reduced ticket
Yeah--that's either because they didn't actually get evidence of you speeding and are hoping you'll pay the small fine, or they have that pathetic psychological issue where they want to assert their authority (pull you over and cite you) and then have you grateful (because they are so gracious and can reduce the fine for you because they're such nice guys).
...unless you're a cop.
Speeding tickets are bullshit. Who did you hurt?
Really.
If you saw a man with a baseball bat beating the crap out of a woman and you drew your gun, demanded the guy stop, and finally had to shoot him to prevent the woman from being killed, you'd be a hero--regardless of you being a cop or not.
If on the other hand, someone drove by you too fast, you chased them down, flashed emergency lights (really? Where's the 'emergency'? Who is dying?), demanded identification, and finally handed them a piece of paper demanding money all while resting your hand on your holster--you'd go to jail for being a nutjob.
Why is one situation right and the other one wrong?
It's simple. Tickets are bullshit, designed to make money.
Best education I've ever had.
officials from both countries have had smirks when asked about Stuxnet, which has fueled speculation.
I'm not saying it was or wasn't--but that statement is hardly logical. Are you telling me the droids talking to the press were actually in on the action and therefore smirking? Most places use public information officers who are low-level droids programmed to say 'No comment'. If you did something bad, you definitely don't tell your PIO "Yeah--I totally fscked up" and then follow it up with "There are the cameras, go lie.". You give your PIO the 'official' story and point them towards the cameras.
If they haven't already looked at linux, it's because they lack the innate curiosity to find out more about their chosen profession.
These are the types who will mostly not graduate beyond "I can admin a server because I know where to point and click" anyways.
Even the simplest of tools, like vi or ssh, are pretty much beyond them.
Yup--there are two classes of techs that I've worked with in the past. The 'real geeks' go home at night and play with new technology. They learn new languages, play with operating systems, understand networking (probably IPv6 too), DNS, etc...
The other class of techs has a short mental list of things to do when they encounter a problem. It usually includes reboot, unplug and re-plug cables, install Windows Updates, and maybe try overlaying the latest service pack. After that, they are calling the 'real geeks'
I was talking with a tech yesterday and he related a perfect example. He was working on a computer that had a dying drive. There were no available sectors for reallocation and the drive had bad blocks preventing boot. Plus it would occasionally make the click of death. He stepped outside for a smoke with the intent of coming back in, booting into linux, and starting a 'dd' to copy the data to another drive. Unfortunately he came back in to find one of the lesser techs decided to 'fix' it. The lesser tech ignored the BIOS warning about SMART failure and ran chkdsk on the drive, then proceeded to defrag. By the time the tech came back from his smoke, the drive was toast.
top using WMI:Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process | `where-object{ $_.Name -ne "_Total" -and $_.Name -ne "Idle"} | `Sort-Object PercentProcessorTime -Descending | `select -First 5 | `Format-Table Name,IDProcess,PercentProcessorTime -AutoSize
And they say linux is 'hard'...