I remember when HL2:E1 was released one of the reasons they said they were moving to episodic content was to speed up releases. Clearly that is not the case.
Obviously that's a joke, but it's also a serious problem in some instances. If you have a case-insensitive filesystem filling your whole disk partition and need to test case-sensitive applications, you can create a case-sensitive disk image using Disk Utility or hdiutil, then test your app on that. I had to do this in Subversion recently while troubleshooting a problem that had all the symptoms of a case-insensitivity problem.
No porn sites that exist currently use.xxx. Any who choose to use.xxx for marketing, SEO, etc. may do so, and they don't have to forfeit their current domains to do it. On top of that, any porn sites that choose to abide by any and all filtering that is desired by corporations or governments can now do so easily by only hosting on.xxx.
Nobody says you HAVE to host porn on.xxx. It's an *option*.
Options are good, right? I mean, it's not like we're losing redtube or whatever.
I'm a big fan of locate if only because of its speed compared to other tools, but unless you have all of your metadata stored in the folders and filenames it's not going to be much help. With any elegant solution to this problem, you couldn't "locate -i 'Bruce Willis'" and find a list of media that he was involved with.
I was really looking forward to WinFS. Having abandoned windows for my personal needs but still having to support it, I was really looking forward to having a database layer on the filesystem. Sure sucks that they gave it up, along with several other key features in Vista. *Hopefully* they get around to it some day though, because the indexing service sucks serious balls, and that whole framework is pretty inferior.
As a linux user who long since gave up the GUI and switched to Mac OS X for those things, I have found that the minimize function is far less useful than the "hide application" function built into OS X. I rarely minimize anything, but I hide things frequently.
OS X features aside, I don't agree with taking away the option to minimize. Just because you have a bad ass hammer doesn't mean you'll never need a screwdriver.
They later amended the platter removal terms with the following text, but still nobody accepted it.
If the challenger is an established data recovery business located in the United States of America (We would need to see Articles of Incorporation, a current business license and one other form of business identification in order to determine that they are indeed a professional, for-profit, established data recovery business) or a National government law enforcement or intelligence agency (NSA, CIA, FBI), then we will allow these type of organizations to disassemble the drive and to keep the drive for thirty (30) consecutive days.
The great zero challenge was never accepted, so I'd say it's safe to say that spinning hard disk data can reliably erased. I've never seen it done, that's for sure.
I'm not well versed in Malaysian law, but I found Malaysia to be pretty forgiving to non-Malaysians in regards to Sharia law. IIRC they judge their muslim citizens by Sharia law, but expats are allowed more freedoms. I personally loved Malaysia and felt no oppression when I was there, and was amazed to find that it was so Islamic when my plane landed.
Do they not open the damn files as they come down? If only for a cursory glance to confirm.
I had a room mate who was obsessed with downloading everything and burning it to DVD. He literally had hundreds of burned DVDs in his closet on spindles. There's absolutely no way he had time to consume that much media, but he seeded it back while he slept and worked before burning it to dvd. Even if he opened the archive to look at the filenames, who's to say he actually watched and or listened to each file to verify?
Also, with ratio sites a lot of people download high demand files (which are obviously the highest priority targets for fakes) even if they have no intention of consuming that media. They just want the ratio. They may not even open the files, or even keep track of them at all. They just dump some high demand torrents onto a seedbox and forget about it.
On a side note, I think that when the internet goes to metered pricing we will see much better curation of torrent sites, because people don't want to pay by the megabyte for fakes.
If you ban guns in America then the people doing the daily killings in Juarez Mexico will spill over into New Mexico and nearby Arizona and start killing and robbing people like fish in a barrel, helpless to defend themselves.
Sure, guns can create violence if used in violent ways, and bad people do just that, but don't be so naive as to think that if we throw down our guns the rest of the world will follow suit.
I agree completely. There's nothing wrong with Netflix running Linux servers while not supporting Linux desktops. For all we know they're not even using X.org or any GUI whatsoever. The list of projects they contribute to does not have any GUI apps in it. (Hudson, Hadoop, Hive, Honu, Apache, Tomcat, Ant, Ivy, Cassandra, HBase)
I live in California and have moved more than five times in the last nine years between three cities and have never been able to get fiber. Do you know something that some of us do not?
I've had so many DNS problems in Asia (not China) and 8.8.8.8 solved them all. It was such a problem while I was there that I'd log into any default password routers in the hotels I stayed at and change their configs to that.
On top of that, since China is responsible for hacking Google earlier this year, Google will be taking special care to make sure their services will be protected from future attacks, and thus will likely fortify their DNS against root hijacking.
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Thanks for writing all of that out so I didn't have to. Fax is way less secure than e-mail.
I remember when HL2:E1 was released one of the reasons they said they were moving to episodic content was to speed up releases. Clearly that is not the case.
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
Obviously that's a joke, but it's also a serious problem in some instances. If you have a case-insensitive filesystem filling your whole disk partition and need to test case-sensitive applications, you can create a case-sensitive disk image using Disk Utility or hdiutil, then test your app on that. I had to do this in Subversion recently while troubleshooting a problem that had all the symptoms of a case-insensitivity problem.
No porn sites that exist currently use .xxx. Any who choose to use .xxx for marketing, SEO, etc. may do so, and they don't have to forfeit their current domains to do it. On top of that, any porn sites that choose to abide by any and all filtering that is desired by corporations or governments can now do so easily by only hosting on .xxx.
Nobody says you HAVE to host porn on .xxx. It's an *option*.
Options are good, right? I mean, it's not like we're losing redtube or whatever.
I'm a big fan of locate if only because of its speed compared to other tools, but unless you have all of your metadata stored in the folders and filenames it's not going to be much help. With any elegant solution to this problem, you couldn't "locate -i 'Bruce Willis'" and find a list of media that he was involved with.
I was really looking forward to WinFS. Having abandoned windows for my personal needs but still having to support it, I was really looking forward to having a database layer on the filesystem. Sure sucks that they gave it up, along with several other key features in Vista. *Hopefully* they get around to it some day though, because the indexing service sucks serious balls, and that whole framework is pretty inferior.
Gamecube, Wii, Playstation, PS2, PS3, PSP and Xbox 360 are RISC too.
That was the worst I've ever seen. Close 2nd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNtcWpY4YLY
As a linux user who long since gave up the GUI and switched to Mac OS X for those things, I have found that the minimize function is far less useful than the "hide application" function built into OS X. I rarely minimize anything, but I hide things frequently.
OS X features aside, I don't agree with taking away the option to minimize. Just because you have a bad ass hammer doesn't mean you'll never need a screwdriver.
I did the same thing... "I am not a... huh??"
They later amended the platter removal terms with the following text, but still nobody accepted it.
The great zero challenge was never accepted, so I'd say it's safe to say that spinning hard disk data can reliably erased. I've never seen it done, that's for sure.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/09/06/189248/The-Great-Zero-Challenge-Remains-Unaccepted
How many times do we have to read this fucking headline?
I'm not well versed in Malaysian law, but I found Malaysia to be pretty forgiving to non-Malaysians in regards to Sharia law. IIRC they judge their muslim citizens by Sharia law, but expats are allowed more freedoms. I personally loved Malaysia and felt no oppression when I was there, and was amazed to find that it was so Islamic when my plane landed.
Malaysia is over 60% muslim, which is coincidental because 60% of the world's muslim population lives in Asia, whereas only 20% is in the middle east. http://pewforum.org/Muslim/Mapping-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx
I had a room mate who was obsessed with downloading everything and burning it to DVD. He literally had hundreds of burned DVDs in his closet on spindles. There's absolutely no way he had time to consume that much media, but he seeded it back while he slept and worked before burning it to dvd. Even if he opened the archive to look at the filenames, who's to say he actually watched and or listened to each file to verify?
Also, with ratio sites a lot of people download high demand files (which are obviously the highest priority targets for fakes) even if they have no intention of consuming that media. They just want the ratio. They may not even open the files, or even keep track of them at all. They just dump some high demand torrents onto a seedbox and forget about it.
On a side note, I think that when the internet goes to metered pricing we will see much better curation of torrent sites, because people don't want to pay by the megabyte for fakes.
And if only we could trust the people who protect us like the Chinese people do... Oh wait, they don't, and sometimes people just disappear.
If you ban guns in America then the people doing the daily killings in Juarez Mexico will spill over into New Mexico and nearby Arizona and start killing and robbing people like fish in a barrel, helpless to defend themselves.
Sure, guns can create violence if used in violent ways, and bad people do just that, but don't be so naive as to think that if we throw down our guns the rest of the world will follow suit.
What an apostrophical disaster. It's the apostrocalypse!
I agree completely. There's nothing wrong with Netflix running Linux servers while not supporting Linux desktops. For all we know they're not even using X.org or any GUI whatsoever. The list of projects they contribute to does not have any GUI apps in it. (Hudson, Hadoop, Hive, Honu, Apache, Tomcat, Ant, Ivy, Cassandra, HBase)
Between e-fax and hacked SIP accounts, I think fax spamming would be trivial. Do you think the attackers care if the efax service gets shut down?
It's not like those spammers are actually using their own computer to send out e-mails, why would fax attackers behave any differently?
So is spam. ("Spam is actually illegal but many people are still receiving messages because people don't care about the laws" -- spamlaws.com)
So is phishing. (It's considered fraud.)
So is war dialing (In some places under "placing a call with no intent to communicate" and other laws).
So is robocalling.
These people don't fucking care.
After they outlawed faxing advertisements and junk, only outlaws faxed advertisements and junk.
I live in California and have moved more than five times in the last nine years between three cities and have never been able to get fiber. Do you know something that some of us do not?
IT'S CALLED THE APPLE TRACKPAD LOL YOU CAN EVEN USE THIS FUCKER SIDEWAYS ROFLMFAO
I've had so many DNS problems in Asia (not China) and 8.8.8.8 solved them all. It was such a problem while I was there that I'd log into any default password routers in the hotels I stayed at and change their configs to that.
On top of that, since China is responsible for hacking Google earlier this year, Google will be taking special care to make sure their services will be protected from future attacks, and thus will likely fortify their DNS against root hijacking.