Before this happens, some country in Continental Europe will have developed artificial oil; and when this happens, Britain will be unceremoniously dumped from the EU quicker than you can say "Keep the Pound". India and China also most probably will have independent artificial oil projects on the go, since they won't want to depend on the USA kicking off wars to keep the price down.
Would a public education campaign be worth trying? TV ads explaining to people that spam is an on-going problem partly because some people keep rewarding the spammers with sales.
NO NO NO NO NO
You have fallen into the trap of believing that the spam game is about getting ordinary punters to buy counterfeit watches, handbags, penis enlargement pills and pirated, obsolete software.
The spam game really about persuading people that they can get rich quick, by spamming customers.
The product which is being sold is not Viagra. The product which is being sold is a complete package consisting of some dodgy spam-sending and blog-defacing software, the use of a botnet and an audience of millions of eager customers (only a few of whom, it is claimed, have to bite for you to recoup your investment).
Nobody ever has to order a single//atch or tablet of \/!agr4. And they don't. The money has already been made when the spamming kit was sold. It's the people who send the adverts who are the real marks; they spent money on a get-rich-quick scheme and lost out.
Given that it's a long timeout (15'), I'd guess that you simply haven't run afoul of it. Or possibly your distro has a patched kernel and allows longer for the drive to reconnect. The problem -- as far as I can piece it together -- is that a standard kernel.org kernel is not allowing the drive enough time to restart properly. A race condition ensues. The drive -- having sent a USB2 message, which got ignored because the host timed out -- thinks that the host computer isn't USB2 capable, and so reverts to USB1.
How about a crontab entry that just writes something to the drive and syncs it* every so often?
(*) Under Linux in its default configuration, the file system is abstracted. All write operations are cached, and reads can be served from cache. Generally (this is an oversimplification) if sync is not issued deliberately, nothing is decached until shutdown, unless RAM starts getting dangerously low (it's too smart to do disk caching in swap space). This has the side-effect that on a box with plenty of RAM, a file can be created, modified, read and deleted without ever seeing oxide. It also means that certain things such as old versions of exim (which created masses of temporary files) and complex MySQL queries using temporary tables, seem to run blisteringly fast on Linux and slow to a crawl on Solaris (whose default setting is to decache between write and read operations, so that the read is served from disk and not cache.)
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But you could say the same about almost any language, unless it's either based on a "bondage-and-discipline" paradigm, forcing you to do things One True Way; or hopelessly crippled in terms of things you can actually do with it. Or both. (*cough* Modula-2 *cough*)
Some use screws, some use nails; some use nuts and bolts, some use tapped holes. Some use gaffer tape. Perl doesn't mind which you use. The OP's complaint sounds like someone who has inherited a second-hand tool box and found no number 2 posi bits that weren't chewed up, the 10 and 13mm. sockets missing and "SNAP-ON" changed to "STRAP-ON".
The problem is that certain parties are trying to apply economic laws from the old Age of Scarcity to the new Age of Plenty.
Such measures are doomed to failure from the outset: they can never succeed. Record companies only existed because the equipment required to manufacture records was prohibitively expensive for the common person. Actually, in the 78rpm days, there were still small independent record companies (and an artist could record for more than one label). It was the 45 that killed them all off; only big conglomerates could afford the cost of retooling to press 45s, and many small labels were bought out by larger concerns.
Nowadays, recorded music is not scarce. Once a song has been sung, a potentially infinite number of copies can be made. Unless you could find a way of charging per listen (and it's not possible; the costs of trying will always outweigh the benefits) then the best you could hope for is to hold the initial audience to ransom, insisting for an up-front payment before a recording is released; and swallow the fact that that's the last time you're going to make any money from it. But, of course, other people manage like that..... builders don't keep getting paid every time someone walks into a house they built, electricians don't keep getting paid every time someone turns on a light they wired, car mechanics don't keep getting paid every time someone drives a car they mended, plumbers don't keep getting paid every time someone flushes a toilet they plumbed in, double glazing installers don't keep getting paid every time someone looks out of a window they fitted..... for that matter, even heart surgeons don't keep getting paid every time a heart they fitted makes a beat..... and the crazy thing is, they all seem to manage.
Not to mention that there are builders / car mechanics / heart surgeons out there who could belt out a tune far better than most of today's manufactured bands could build a house / strip down an engine / perform a triple bypass operation.....
Be sure to have the hardware modified to avoid spawning unwanted child processes. Core dumps are unavoidable, but you can mitigate the worst effects by running in a sandbox.
If you want to bring up a generation of idiot button-pushers who do what they are told and panic if no-one tells them what to do, use the old versions of the popular commercial software exclusively. Note that you may be liable for secondary infringement, if they go on to infringe copyright by illegally downloading software as a result of something they were taught in your class (unless you snitch first).
If you want to bring them up to understand the underlying concepts, use both the old Caged software and modern Free software in parallel (extra bonus points for bringing in an old Amiga with Deluxe Paint III -- the last version before it started getting crap). Explain the similarities and the differences. You can even give out CDs (include the Source Code, always the simplest way to abide by GPL) with the Free software on. (It will even count as Due Diligence, if anyone snitches on you for secondary copyright infringement.)
Obligatory Car Analogy: Think about where to find reverse gear on different makes of car. On a Ford, it's right and towards you; whereas on a Vauxhall (Opel, for our other-side-driving Continental cousins), it's left and away from you. Does that mean that if you learned to drive in a Ford, you have to relearn absolutely everything before you can get in a Vauxhall? Or is it enough just to know that reverse gear, wherever it is, makes the car go backwards -- and what special considerations apply when reversing?
Insist for your payment in the form of a deposit (no more than the collective readership are prepared to lose if you default on your end of the deal) before you start, and the remainder on completion.
This business model works fine in the building industry. Of course, a builder doesn't expect to get paid every time someone enters a house, a plumber doesn't expect to get paid every time someone turns on the heating, and an electrician doesn't expect to get paid every time someone puts a light on.
You appear to have glossed over the really important question: Why do you need for it to expire anyway?
It's an outmoded concept that has meaning only in an Age of Scarcity. The Age of Plenty is coming. It's been coming since the First Industrial Revolution. Get used to it.
QT3 (which was GPL) could have been cross-platform, but nobody could be arsed to port it to Windows. Which goes to prove my point: Windows developers only care about releasing closed source crippled shareware, spyware and viruses.
If you want to patent something illegal, it's always best actually to patent having the illegal thing done to you, so the victim (rather than the perpetrator) is liable for royalties. For example, "method for avoiding potentially-fatal wounding and equitably distributing wealth by giving or loaning a mobile telephone and a debit card, and disclosing the Personal Identification Number associated with the latter" rather than "Method for carrying out PINpoint robbery". After all, villains usually get away -- but victims usually tell the police everything that happened to them. And a constable's notes can be subpoenaed in another court if they contain evidence relevant to the case.
Look at the domestic dog for an example of speciation waiting to happen.
Breeds of dog are not species: all domestic dogs (and the grey wolf, from which they are all descended) are theoretically capable of interbreeding. However, there may well be..... um..... logistical reasons why this might not necessarily be possible in practice. Also, breed demarcations are somewhat arbitrary: a pair of Belgian Terveurens can sometimes give birth to a litter containing a Groenendael or Malinois puppy.
It's possible that two dog breeds of widely disparate sizes, if bred further, might eventually accumulate other variations which would render them incapable of interbreeding even with assistance. The variation would have to occur in two stages: firstly a mutation gives rise to an intermediate form, capable of interbreeding with both the existing and "new" (at this stage, non-existent) forms; then a further mutation creates a new form, which can interbreed with the intermediate but not with the "old" form. If the intermediate form later becomes extinct (or even just rare), then there are now two distinct species.
Believing in micro-evolution but not believing in macro-evolution makes about as much sense as believing in centimetres but not believing in kilometres.
Does the expression "As bent as a box of bedsprings", or something similar, come to mind here?
(and no, Mr thicky Black thicky Adder fan, you can't say "as bent as a very bent thing". Not even "As bent as a hunchback who's just been made professor of bentness at Oxford University.)
So how come sendmail, exim, postfix &c. all manage fine with just a \n?
I've no objection to other people sending me extraneous carriage returns, but they should be prepared to acknowledge that not everyone -- especially on a Unix system, which is the standard nowadays -- is going to put one before every linefeed. If you can make sense of something, even though it may not be "perfect", you should accept it -- you can always correct it yourself later. Throwing up an error message just for the sheer hell of it is being unnecessarily mean-spirited.
There is nothing sociopathic about closed source software
Closed Source software fits the very definition of sociopathy.
As a user of software, I have certain rights which exist precisely because software exists. I have a right to enjoy the use of that software; a right to study the operation of that software; a right to share that software with my neighbour; and a right to adapt that software to my own specific requirements. I also have the right to delegate the exercise of any of these rights to a person whom I trust; and I have the right to employ reasonable force against any person who seeks to deprive me of these rights.
And as an occasional developer, I have an obligation to respect users' rights.
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Before this happens, some country in Continental Europe will have developed artificial oil; and when this happens, Britain will be unceremoniously dumped from the EU quicker than you can say "Keep the Pound". India and China also most probably will have independent artificial oil projects on the go, since they won't want to depend on the USA kicking off wars to keep the price down.
You have fallen into the trap of believing that the spam game is about getting ordinary punters to buy counterfeit watches, handbags, penis enlargement pills and pirated, obsolete software.
The spam game really about persuading people that they can get rich quick, by spamming customers.
The product which is being sold is not Viagra. The product which is being sold is a complete package consisting of some dodgy spam-sending and blog-defacing software, the use of a botnet and an audience of millions of eager customers (only a few of whom, it is claimed, have to bite for you to recoup your investment).
Nobody ever has to order a single
Given that it's a long timeout (15'), I'd guess that you simply haven't run afoul of it. Or possibly your distro has a patched kernel and allows longer for the drive to reconnect. The problem -- as far as I can piece it together -- is that a standard kernel.org kernel is not allowing the drive enough time to restart properly. A race condition ensues. The drive -- having sent a USB2 message, which got ignored because the host timed out -- thinks that the host computer isn't USB2 capable, and so reverts to USB1.
How about a crontab entry that just writes something to the drive and syncs it* every so often?
(*) Under Linux in its default configuration, the file system is abstracted. All write operations are cached, and reads can be served from cache. Generally (this is an oversimplification) if sync is not issued deliberately, nothing is decached until shutdown, unless RAM starts getting dangerously low (it's too smart to do disk caching in swap space). This has the side-effect that on a box with plenty of RAM, a file can be created, modified, read and deleted without ever seeing oxide. It also means that certain things such as old versions of exim (which created masses of temporary files) and complex MySQL queries using temporary tables, seem to run blisteringly fast on Linux and slow to a crawl on Solaris (whose default setting is to decache between write and read operations, so that the read is served from disk and not cache.)
Er ..... any HP-badged one?
But you could say the same about almost any language, unless it's either based on a "bondage-and-discipline" paradigm, forcing you to do things One True Way; or hopelessly crippled in terms of things you can actually do with it. Or both. (*cough* Modula-2 *cough*)
Some use screws, some use nails; some use nuts and bolts, some use tapped holes. Some use gaffer tape. Perl doesn't mind which you use. The OP's complaint sounds like someone who has inherited a second-hand tool box and found no number 2 posi bits that weren't chewed up, the 10 and 13mm. sockets missing and "SNAP-ON" changed to "STRAP-ON".
The problem is that certain parties are trying to apply economic laws from the old Age of Scarcity to the new Age of Plenty.
..... builders don't keep getting paid every time someone walks into a house they built, electricians don't keep getting paid every time someone turns on a light they wired, car mechanics don't keep getting paid every time someone drives a car they mended, plumbers don't keep getting paid every time someone flushes a toilet they plumbed in, double glazing installers don't keep getting paid every time someone looks out of a window they fitted ..... for that matter, even heart surgeons don't keep getting paid every time a heart they fitted makes a beat ..... and the crazy thing is, they all seem to manage.
.....
Such measures are doomed to failure from the outset: they can never succeed. Record companies only existed because the equipment required to manufacture records was prohibitively expensive for the common person. Actually, in the 78rpm days, there were still small independent record companies (and an artist could record for more than one label). It was the 45 that killed them all off; only big conglomerates could afford the cost of retooling to press 45s, and many small labels were bought out by larger concerns.
Nowadays, recorded music is not scarce. Once a song has been sung, a potentially infinite number of copies can be made. Unless you could find a way of charging per listen (and it's not possible; the costs of trying will always outweigh the benefits) then the best you could hope for is to hold the initial audience to ransom, insisting for an up-front payment before a recording is released; and swallow the fact that that's the last time you're going to make any money from it. But, of course, other people manage like that
Not to mention that there are builders / car mechanics / heart surgeons out there who could belt out a tune far better than most of today's manufactured bands could build a house / strip down an engine / perform a triple bypass operation
You weren't searching very hard, were you? link
Be sure to have the hardware modified to avoid spawning unwanted child processes. Core dumps are unavoidable, but you can mitigate the worst effects by running in a sandbox.
If you want to bring up a generation of idiot button-pushers who do what they are told and panic if no-one tells them what to do, use the old versions of the popular commercial software exclusively. Note that you may be liable for secondary infringement, if they go on to infringe copyright by illegally downloading software as a result of something they were taught in your class (unless you snitch first).
If you want to bring them up to understand the underlying concepts, use both the old Caged software and modern Free software in parallel (extra bonus points for bringing in an old Amiga with Deluxe Paint III -- the last version before it started getting crap). Explain the similarities and the differences. You can even give out CDs (include the Source Code, always the simplest way to abide by GPL) with the Free software on. (It will even count as Due Diligence, if anyone snitches on you for secondary copyright infringement.)
Obligatory Car Analogy: Think about where to find reverse gear on different makes of car. On a Ford, it's right and towards you; whereas on a Vauxhall (Opel, for our other-side-driving Continental cousins), it's left and away from you. Does that mean that if you learned to drive in a Ford, you have to relearn absolutely everything before you can get in a Vauxhall? Or is it enough just to know that reverse gear, wherever it is, makes the car go backwards -- and what special considerations apply when reversing?
This is the 21st Century. The word is unstaffed, not unmanned.
Insist for your payment in the form of a deposit (no more than the collective readership are prepared to lose if you default on your end of the deal) before you start, and the remainder on completion.
This business model works fine in the building industry. Of course, a builder doesn't expect to get paid every time someone enters a house, a plumber doesn't expect to get paid every time someone turns on the heating, and an electrician doesn't expect to get paid every time someone puts a light on.
You appear to have glossed over the really important question: Why do you need for it to expire anyway?
It's an outmoded concept that has meaning only in an Age of Scarcity. The Age of Plenty is coming. It's been coming since the First Industrial Revolution. Get used to it.
It's a town in Berkshire; noted for being the limit of electrification on the (former GWR) line out of Paddington.
QT3 (which was GPL) could have been cross-platform, but nobody could be arsed to port it to Windows. Which goes to prove my point: Windows developers only care about releasing closed source crippled shareware, spyware and viruses.
"It's my program, and I will decide who gets the source code."
Translation:
"It's my knife, and I will decide who I stab with it."
If you want to patent something illegal, it's always best actually to patent having the illegal thing done to you, so the victim (rather than the perpetrator) is liable for royalties. For example, "method for avoiding potentially-fatal wounding and equitably distributing wealth by giving or loaning a mobile telephone and a debit card, and disclosing the Personal Identification Number associated with the latter" rather than "Method for carrying out PINpoint robbery". After all, villains usually get away -- but victims usually tell the police everything that happened to them. And a constable's notes can be subpoenaed in another court if they contain evidence relevant to the case.
Look at the domestic dog for an example of speciation waiting to happen.
..... um ..... logistical reasons why this might not necessarily be possible in practice. Also, breed demarcations are somewhat arbitrary: a pair of Belgian Terveurens can sometimes give birth to a litter containing a Groenendael or Malinois puppy.
Breeds of dog are not species: all domestic dogs (and the grey wolf, from which they are all descended) are theoretically capable of interbreeding. However, there may well be
It's possible that two dog breeds of widely disparate sizes, if bred further, might eventually accumulate other variations which would render them incapable of interbreeding even with assistance. The variation would have to occur in two stages: firstly a mutation gives rise to an intermediate form, capable of interbreeding with both the existing and "new" (at this stage, non-existent) forms; then a further mutation creates a new form, which can interbreed with the intermediate but not with the "old" form. If the intermediate form later becomes extinct (or even just rare), then there are now two distinct species.
Believing in micro-evolution but not believing in macro-evolution makes about as much sense as believing in centimetres but not believing in kilometres.
I thought 700MHz was somewhere in the television broadcast band?
Does the expression "As bent as a box of bedsprings", or something similar, come to mind here?
(and no, Mr thicky Black thicky Adder fan, you can't say "as bent as a very bent thing". Not even "As bent as a hunchback who's just been made professor of bentness at Oxford University.)
So how come sendmail, exim, postfix &c. all manage fine with just a \n?
I've no objection to other people sending me extraneous carriage returns, but they should be prepared to acknowledge that not everyone -- especially on a Unix system, which is the standard nowadays -- is going to put one before every linefeed. If you can make sense of something, even though it may not be "perfect", you should accept it -- you can always correct it yourself later. Throwing up an error message just for the sheer hell of it is being unnecessarily mean-spirited.
As a user of software, I have certain rights which exist precisely because software exists. I have a right to enjoy the use of that software; a right to study the operation of that software; a right to share that software with my neighbour; and a right to adapt that software to my own specific requirements. I also have the right to delegate the exercise of any of these rights to a person whom I trust; and I have the right to employ reasonable force against any person who seeks to deprive me of these rights.
And as an occasional developer, I have an obligation to respect users' rights.
This should serve once and for all to dispel the myth of a benevolent creator.