FWIW, some of the linked articles point to videos of the mace incident that include a good minute or two beforehand.
There's no doubt in my mind that it sucks to be one of these cops, and that there are protesters out there looking for the police brutality money shot. Hell, the cops are the kind of people who'll be having their pensions cut to maintain tax cuts for Wall Street, the protesters should befriend them.
But at the end of the day which side here is herding people around to try to end a public demonstration? Is it worse to be shouted at or maced? Do you (rhetorical "you", not Nidi62 in particular) apply the same degree of skepticism to mainstream news reports? Should we be so quick to imagine or assume a wrong by someone less powerful that would excuse the wrong we can see being done by someone more powerful?
Mod parent up, anyone? There are so many +5's in this thread talking about how thin clients are priced as they are because "it's chump change for business", etc. If someone came along with equal thin clients for $100 less, plenty of people (like our thread starter Mr. Ginter) would buy them. And since there's plenty of companies wading into manufacturing various low-power hardware all the time, where are the cheap thin clients?
But I can tell that Hotmail still ignores SPF since almost all the backscatter that still comes through is from Hotmail. They should know better.
I believe you, but really? Hotmail was THE reason I've implemented SPF for a few domains connected to sites that send alert emails to users. Nothing - from email confirmations to status update type stuff - was getting through to Hotmail accounts until I set up SPF. Some kind of Left Hand / Right Hand mess going on over there?
I know I'd be more interested in the carbon footprint and implications of a typical, modern vegetarian or vegan diet than in learning how guilty I should feel about a fish tank.
I have no idea how large flight sim files are, but from the Wayback FAQ: "Files over 10MB are not archived in this 'snap shot' of the website."
Seriously: buying a LTO drive and sending media to IronMountain is a fantastic idea, but this community sites like this aren't a business. They're, say, 10,000 devout users hitting a virtual machine or two, and the admins are _already_ dropping a couple hundred per month on the hosting. Where does the money come from? Where does the _time_ come from? Whoever should've been testing avsim's backups was probably also moderating forums, working on the site, and working a day job.
Free community sites like this are great, great part of internet, and the people who run them are pouring their own time and money into something they love. And unless you want to run a free offsite backup service, the best you can do is to warn people what can happen, show them what a reasonably solid backup strategy looks like, and hope that no dickheads trash their site.
What always seems to be lost in this is that many people buying a Linux box are pretty likely to end up re-installing anyway. Wouldn't most of you replace SUSE on an ThinkPad with Ubuntu, or vice versa on a Dell, or go from stable to testing (or [insert your distro's equivalent]).
eeePC's and so forth are different, and I think the points about driver compatibility and "sending a message" are all still good ones - I just think this "saves time" argument is a little flimsy.
What's really a shame about this is the tendency for such a battle to characterize Christianity as being so tied to literal interpretations of the Bible. I went to a Jesuit high school, where religion and science teachers alike were happy to assign God the role of "root cause", or simply, the reason why anything exists at all. You can get into the implications of assuming a natural state of nothingness before divine intervention, but at the moment, that's hardly much of a scientific issue. The point is that you can say something like the infamous bombardier beetle is another sign of an amazingly complex and wonderful universe, without concluding that God must have snapped his fingers and made them appear. I think most Christians realize that, at the very least, religion has far more pressing issues to confront than whether or not whales used to be wolves.
In my experience (as support staff for the Humanities Div of a university), far and away the most common virus issue with Macs is that they can be a carrier for Word macro viruses. Beyond that, you just have to keep an eye on users turning on services without knowing what they're doing (or using decent passwords). On the one hand, it's better to be safe than sorry, and just install an anti-virus package, but frankly, the need has been so slight that mac AV packages tend to be a mess.
Bad or non-existant passwords, crappy anti-virus software (Virex, I'm looking in your direction!), and a long-unchallenged (calm down, I mean by experience) belief that Macs would continue to be unaffected by this sort of thing always seemed like they'd rear their ugly heads one of these days. But on the other hand, why trust the exterminator when he says it's bound to be a big bug season?
They're going about this all wrong. Personally, I'd pay 5 or 10 bucks to have a certificate mailed to me from Nigeria certifying that I have indeed paid my way out of being "snipped".
and I know because the version of "hello world" that's been shipping with Debian since 3.0 is virtually identicle to the one I slaved over five years ago. damn linux hippies...
I suppose it's not much help to point out that at least the description of the update makes the crippling pretty clear. Unfortunately, this is the cost of doing business with the RIAA. Until the copyright laws change or artists can start hitting the big time without signing to one of the major labels, no amount of pressure on online music stores - whether Apple's, the upcoming Napster (tm), or anything else with major content - will change this.
Personally I think you can't predict what the selction of such a service would be. Especially if this service is funded simply by a university's budget, you have to assume that the main economic force driving it is simply not to get sued by the 'AAs. In which case everyone can pay for their Shakira and Beatles tracks, but the P2P's will remain the only way to get rarer music online. If students are involved, you might see some of the upper tier indies - like Matador or Barsuk - thrown in, but you have to wonder if the sales these labels would generate on one campus is enough to justify the cost of adding them to the catalog...
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FWIW, some of the linked articles point to videos of the mace incident that include a good minute or two beforehand.
There's no doubt in my mind that it sucks to be one of these cops, and that there are protesters out there looking for the police brutality money shot. Hell, the cops are the kind of people who'll be having their pensions cut to maintain tax cuts for Wall Street, the protesters should befriend them.
But at the end of the day which side here is herding people around to try to end a public demonstration? Is it worse to be shouted at or maced? Do you (rhetorical "you", not Nidi62 in particular) apply the same degree of skepticism to mainstream news reports? Should we be so quick to imagine or assume a wrong by someone less powerful that would excuse the wrong we can see being done by someone more powerful?
Mod parent up, anyone? There are so many +5's in this thread talking about how thin clients are priced as they are because "it's chump change for business", etc. If someone came along with equal thin clients for $100 less, plenty of people (like our thread starter Mr. Ginter) would buy them. And since there's plenty of companies wading into manufacturing various low-power hardware all the time, where are the cheap thin clients?
But I can tell that Hotmail still ignores SPF since almost all the backscatter that still comes through is from Hotmail. They should know better.
I believe you, but really? Hotmail was THE reason I've implemented SPF for a few domains connected to sites that send alert emails to users. Nothing - from email confirmations to status update type stuff - was getting through to Hotmail accounts until I set up SPF. Some kind of Left Hand / Right Hand mess going on over there?
I know I'd be more interested in the carbon footprint and implications of a typical, modern vegetarian or vegan diet than in learning how guilty I should feel about a fish tank.
I have no idea how large flight sim files are, but from the Wayback FAQ: "Files over 10MB are not archived in this 'snap shot' of the website."
Seriously: buying a LTO drive and sending media to IronMountain is a fantastic idea, but this community sites like this aren't a business. They're, say, 10,000 devout users hitting a virtual machine or two, and the admins are _already_ dropping a couple hundred per month on the hosting. Where does the money come from? Where does the _time_ come from? Whoever should've been testing avsim's backups was probably also moderating forums, working on the site, and working a day job.
Free community sites like this are great, great part of internet, and the people who run them are pouring their own time and money into something they love. And unless you want to run a free offsite backup service, the best you can do is to warn people what can happen, show them what a reasonably solid backup strategy looks like, and hope that no dickheads trash their site.
Please tell me it didn't take this long for the million-dollar idea of GWARcraft to come about!
What always seems to be lost in this is that many people buying a Linux box are pretty likely to end up re-installing anyway. Wouldn't most of you replace SUSE on an ThinkPad with Ubuntu, or vice versa on a Dell, or go from stable to testing (or [insert your distro's equivalent]). eeePC's and so forth are different, and I think the points about driver compatibility and "sending a message" are all still good ones - I just think this "saves time" argument is a little flimsy.
Any bets on whether or not the USB ports will be useful this time around?
What's really a shame about this is the tendency for such a battle to characterize Christianity as being so tied to literal interpretations of the Bible. I went to a Jesuit high school, where religion and science teachers alike were happy to assign God the role of "root cause", or simply, the reason why anything exists at all. You can get into the implications of assuming a natural state of nothingness before divine intervention, but at the moment, that's hardly much of a scientific issue. The point is that you can say something like the infamous bombardier beetle is another sign of an amazingly complex and wonderful universe, without concluding that God must have snapped his fingers and made them appear. I think most Christians realize that, at the very least, religion has far more pressing issues to confront than whether or not whales used to be wolves.
Aye, just wait until the GoogleFiremen start making the rounds!
In my experience (as support staff for the Humanities Div of a university), far and away the most common virus issue with Macs is that they can be a carrier for Word macro viruses. Beyond that, you just have to keep an eye on users turning on services without knowing what they're doing (or using decent passwords). On the one hand, it's better to be safe than sorry, and just install an anti-virus package, but frankly, the need has been so slight that mac AV packages tend to be a mess.
Bad or non-existant passwords, crappy anti-virus software (Virex, I'm looking in your direction!), and a long-unchallenged (calm down, I mean by experience) belief that Macs would continue to be unaffected by this sort of thing always seemed like they'd rear their ugly heads one of these days. But on the other hand, why trust the exterminator when he says it's bound to be a big bug season?
Uh, dude, check TFA. Bona Fide Reviews, man.
Bona Fide.
They're going about this all wrong. Personally, I'd pay 5 or 10 bucks to have a certificate mailed to me from Nigeria certifying that I have indeed paid my way out of being "snipped".
and I know because the version of "hello world" that's been shipping with Debian since 3.0 is virtually identicle to the one I slaved over five years ago. damn linux hippies...
I suppose it's not much help to point out that at least the description of the update makes the crippling pretty clear. Unfortunately, this is the cost of doing business with the RIAA. Until the copyright laws change or artists can start hitting the big time without signing to one of the major labels, no amount of pressure on online music stores - whether Apple's, the upcoming Napster (tm), or anything else with major content - will change this.
Personally I think you can't predict what the selction of such a service would be. Especially if this service is funded simply by a university's budget, you have to assume that the main economic force driving it is simply not to get sued by the 'AAs. In which case everyone can pay for their Shakira and Beatles tracks, but the P2P's will remain the only way to get rarer music online. If students are involved, you might see some of the upper tier indies - like Matador or Barsuk - thrown in, but you have to wonder if the sales these labels would generate on one campus is enough to justify the cost of adding them to the catalog...