The obvious solution to this is to register domain names at a rate faster than the government can ban them. Do this until all possible combinations of words have been used and there are no free domain names.
I was excited about my HS reunion...they I joined their facebook group and quickly decided I really didn't want to spend a few hours with those people.
Lawsuits? Can't they just respond to DMCA requests like normal web companies? Why does it have to be give media companies full control or sue the shit out of everyone?
It doesn't just make itself easy to install on servers, but in general most php projects are designed to be easy to install. Read though the instructions on a Ruby application that will typically require a half a dozen pages of setup instructions and compare it to a php application that amounts to "drop in www folder, run install.php"
And video games do not force a set course of action. I may joke about being a mass murderer in skyrim, but I play games as a character, not as myself. I frequently make actions I myself would never do in real life so I can be the just "black and white/good and evil" hero. Would any of you in real life run errands across a whole country for people you just met with no real promise of reward? If you walked into a best buy and a guy ran up asking you to take this letter to his brother on the opposite side of the contient would you do it?
I've played GTAIV as a man who wasn't a criminal. He was a man who came to america trying to start a new life, but got sucked into a life of crime to save his own life and his cousins. He was deeply torn about his actions and at every point tried to escape that life of crime. I didn't steal cars, I didn't kill hookers, and I did just what was needed to keep my character alive and progress the story. I've also played KOTAR as a maniacal sith lord hell bent on taking over the world, caring nothing for his companions and wanting only power. I forced one companion to choke to death his best friend because they questioned my orders.
These are fantasies, no different than reading a book or watching a movie. Someone has to play the bad guy in a movie, but that doesn't make him a bad person. I choose to play a game with the story I want the game to have. Sometimes I play a game 3 times. Once as a logical person who sees more than black and white/good and evil, once as a hero would act, and once as a villain would act or play with different goals (wealth, power, freedom, etc).
Real education is like you stated above, visiting history and having it's truths forced on you. Playing video games just doesn't turn you into killers and thieves.
I would think that technically, nords are not humans. It's not earth...so do they even get human rights? But if nords are humans, I guess I could turn my murderous intentions on elves. They are even less than human......
I've played tons of video games as a kid. I grew up with them. One of my favorite child hood games was mortal combat. To date, I have yet to rip another man's heart out of his chest in a fist fight.
Games are no different than any other form of entertainment. It is up to parents to teach children the difference between fantasy and reality. I knew the difference because I had parents that actively engaged me and encouraged my continued education.
I'm the god damn dexter/hitler/jack the ripper/steal everything not nailed down/donald trump you could ever dream up in that game.
I kill for sport, I steal everything, I own everything they let me buy, and I have killed everyone in a few towns just because I think the nord race should be exterminated.
You should see the look of shock I get when I tell people I do not have TV service. I have netflix, I have video games, I have a few other online content resources, but TV....not much worth paying for.
I'd much rather wait for it to get to netflix, watch without commercials and see it on my own time, at my own pace. You want to fix TV? Let me buy what I want, when I want and watch it how I want.
I've seen exactly 1 spam message in my inbox in the last 8 months. I get around 250 spam each week, I just never see it. I've never gotten a false positive on my spam.
Spam filtering is easy if you are just willing to put some time into it.
We do 6 local snapshots daily on our volumes. We keep these local snapshots for 2 weeks. This means you have a lot of options to go back and get something that was accidentally deleted or changed with minimal data loss. We do 2 cloud snapshots a day. We keep these for two weeks. This means you can go get stuff from the cloud with a larger window of loss if for some reason the local snaps are bad. We do a local clone nightly during our backup window. From that clone we do a local backup with standard backup tools to disk. This is just in case we have to do a quick restore of a large loss of data that included our SAN. This backup is kept for 1 month and is your normal full, 6 days of inc, full type approach. We also use that local clone to make a cloud clone (our offsite backup). This clone is kept for 30 days, a monthly being flagged and kept for 12 months and a yearly being flagged and kept for 7 years (This solution is currently less than a year old).
This gives us much better recovery options then our old solution which was all backups going to local disk as a cache and pushing to tape during the day with the following schedule:
1 full every friday kept for 2 weeks 1 daily incremental sat-thursday 1 full kept as a monthly for 12 months 1 full kept as a yearly for 7 years.
Each month we pick a server at random and do a full restore as a test. We also now have a cold site which is kept up to date via syncing though the same cloud storage mechanism. We will be testing bringing up that cold site in the near future and will probably have a yearly test cycle.
I'm not saying this is a good solution for everyone, but it gets the job done for us.
*sigh* Because the san is an appliance, and we have one at our cold site. I can easily get another san, probably in less than 6 hours even if all 3 of them I have at two sites fail. I have 3 of them on site now. It would be trivial to take the one I use for vmware and use it for my windows file sharing volumes as well while I wait for the company to send me a new one.
This is the same as saying if your tape library melts into sluge, you have no usable backups. A really silly argument. Every backup solution has a single point of failure that brings the whole thing down. It's a risk vs cost assessment. We have acceptable risk at acceptable cost.
Of course we have tools to make sure our vm's are in stable states before the 'backups' run. Though out the day we do snapshots, but our nightly clone is done at a stable state. This is really easy to do in a virtualized environment.
In terms of legal issues, we did go though a vetting process with our board. We had to prove that the data could not be accessed in a meaningful way by our cloud provider. We were able to do that on 3 levels.
1) The data is all encrypted with our own keys. 2) The data is chunked by the san and encrypted there with our above mentioned keys. 3) The data is deduped. 4) The cloud storage pool itself is encrypted with our own keys.
The system is good enough that even with myself having both keys, I was unable to put the data back together without the SAN. Granted, I'm not a expert in data recovery, but I was able to demonstrate that it was not an issue for us. I could see how some industries would not be able to use the cloud due to legal issues however and I'm not advocating a one size fits all approach to backups.
We have also tested our recovery methods. In fact we do monthly tests on recovering a random system from scratch and yearly tests on recovering the whole system at our cold site.
The problem is you think of backups as something that has to be ran as a batch.
Our backup is different. Our SAN uses the cloud natively. It does deduped snapshots and clones to the cloud. All of our data is in the cloud, we have about 8TB of data total, but our cloud costs thanks to dedup are around 700 a month.
We then do traditional backups to local disk for fast, short term recovery. Our SAN is built in such a way that if it was to die, a new one could be dropped in and immediately start using the cloud while it slowly caches everything back down to disk. So in essence, our SAN is our backup.
As a company with almost everything virtualized, we don't need bare metal restore, we just need those vmdk files and to be available. Backups are a lot easier than when I was here 5 years ago, and our recovery rates during testing are a lot higher.
Why on earth does anyone need a sports car? Why on earth does anyone need to hunt? Why on earth does a single guy need a SUV? Why on earth does anyone need cookies? Why does anyone need a computer case with LED lights? Why on earth does anyone need a 47+ inch TV?
I have a hobby, that hobby is shooting firearms. If you have ever shot a automatic firearm, you would realize it is a lot of fun. But assuming you want a crazy mans answer, another legitimate reason is so you can fight back against your government. I have no worries or desires to fight my government, it's doing a fine job destroying itself. I want a fully automatic firearm so I can go to my gun range and spray bullets downrange at paper targets. It's just as valid as everyone else's ridiculous hobbies and it doesn't hurt anyone.
Killing a lot of people is easy with or without a mp5. In fact, semi-automatic rifles are more dangerous than fully automatic rifles. Why? Simple, accuracy. Making each shot count is a lot easier with my AR-15 than when I fire my friends fully auto sub machine gun. I run out of bullets in a few seconds with his and the control suffers greatly. It's still a lot of fun, but if I had to kill a room full of people, it wouldn't be my choice.
Beyond that, other designs fall under the same restrictions. Short barrel rifles? I can buy a pistol that shoots 5.56 ammo no problem, but a short barrel rifle that fires 5.56 ammo requires that same effort that buying a fully automatic rifle does. Silencers are the same. Why might one want a silencer you ask? Simple, so I can shoot without ear plugs, or just because it's cool.
I know you have been raised to fear 'machine guns', but the fact is they are still legal to buy, they are still easy to acquire illegally, and those of us who want to buy them legally are the last people you need to be afraid of. We are responsible adults who understand and respect firearms. We don't kill people, we don't want to kill people. We have a hobby and we, like everyone else and their hobbys, want to get niche and 'pro' gear.
It's not that he is passing laws to improve gun rights. It's that he is not going after gun rights. States like mine are passing laws making carrying a firearm and use of a firearm easier. Our gun rights are expanding, the only thing the federal government needs to do is sit back and let the states decide what is ok for them and stop using the term "assault rifle".
If I was going to do anything, it would be to ease restrictions on importing/buying automatic weapons for civilian sale. There are a few "full auto" firearms I would like to own for recreational shooting that are too cost prohibitive for me to acquire at this time (Due to the restrictions limiting us to weapons made before 1986). I am ok with the restrictions required to purchase these firearms, it's just that the date restriction makes it hard to find and afford them.
On to the NRA. What I see from the NRA in their letters to me from their president is just pure fear mongering. The last letter I received said something along the lines of "Let me tell you my greatest fear for the freedom and safety of the US is that Obama will be reelected president.". Really? His greatest fear is Obama being reelected? He goes to tell me the ONLY WAY I can protect my right to own a firearm is to send them money. Another letter talks about the fabled United Nations Small Arms Treaty which will take away all our guns (gasp!). Only it's completely untrue. Hell even snopes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp) has an article on it showing it's a big fat NRA lie.
Here is another example
“[The Obama campaign] will say gun owners — they’ll say they left them alone,” LaPierre told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday. “In public, he’ll remind us that he’s put off calls from his party to renew the Clinton [assault weapons] ban, he hasn’t pushed for new gun control laws The president will offer the Second Amendment lip service and hit the campaign trail saying he’s actually been good for the Second Amendment.”
“But it’s a big fat stinking lie!” the NRA leader exclaimed. “It’s all part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and destroy the Second Amendment in our country.”
“Obama himself is no fool. So when he got elected, they concocted a scheme to stay away from the gun issue, lull gun owners to sleep and play us for fools in 2012. Well, gun owners are not fools and we are not fooled,” La Pierre declared.
So they actually think the fact Obama is not trying to take our guns is proof he is trying to take our guns! The fact is beyond that, the NRA frequently is not protecting the gun ownership rights I care about, and instead focusing its efforts on legalizing hunting of endangered wolves and other such nonsense.
I would support the NRA if they would simply lobby congress to keep laws sane, inform us of real attempts to take away our rights and urge voting action, and sponsor and support safe and educational events to introduce people into the wonderful sports involved with firearms. That is why I am keeping my money in my wallet for now. Screw the NRA.
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The obvious solution to this is to register domain names at a rate faster than the government can ban them. Do this until all possible combinations of words have been used and there are no free domain names.
I was excited about my HS reunion...they I joined their facebook group and quickly decided I really didn't want to spend a few hours with those people.
Lawsuits? Can't they just respond to DMCA requests like normal web companies? Why does it have to be give media companies full control or sue the shit out of everyone?
It doesn't just make itself easy to install on servers, but in general most php projects are designed to be easy to install. Read though the instructions on a Ruby application that will typically require a half a dozen pages of setup instructions and compare it to a php application that amounts to "drop in www folder, run install.php"
Is he a flight risk?
This argument can be extend to anything dangerous. Cars, guns, sex, drugs, rock and roll, books, tv, movies, pencils, glue, cows, etc.
And video games do not force a set course of action. I may joke about being a mass murderer in skyrim, but I play games as a character, not as myself. I frequently make actions I myself would never do in real life so I can be the just "black and white/good and evil" hero. Would any of you in real life run errands across a whole country for people you just met with no real promise of reward? If you walked into a best buy and a guy ran up asking you to take this letter to his brother on the opposite side of the contient would you do it?
I've played GTAIV as a man who wasn't a criminal. He was a man who came to america trying to start a new life, but got sucked into a life of crime to save his own life and his cousins. He was deeply torn about his actions and at every point tried to escape that life of crime. I didn't steal cars, I didn't kill hookers, and I did just what was needed to keep my character alive and progress the story. I've also played KOTAR as a maniacal sith lord hell bent on taking over the world, caring nothing for his companions and wanting only power. I forced one companion to choke to death his best friend because they questioned my orders.
These are fantasies, no different than reading a book or watching a movie. Someone has to play the bad guy in a movie, but that doesn't make him a bad person. I choose to play a game with the story I want the game to have. Sometimes I play a game 3 times. Once as a logical person who sees more than black and white/good and evil, once as a hero would act, and once as a villain would act or play with different goals (wealth, power, freedom, etc).
Real education is like you stated above, visiting history and having it's truths forced on you. Playing video games just doesn't turn you into killers and thieves.
I would think that technically, nords are not humans. It's not earth...so do they even get human rights? But if nords are humans, I guess I could turn my murderous intentions on elves. They are even less than human......
I've played tons of video games as a kid. I grew up with them. One of my favorite child hood games was mortal combat. To date, I have yet to rip another man's heart out of his chest in a fist fight.
Games are no different than any other form of entertainment. It is up to parents to teach children the difference between fantasy and reality. I knew the difference because I had parents that actively engaged me and encouraged my continued education.
I'm the god damn dexter/hitler/jack the ripper/steal everything not nailed down/donald trump you could ever dream up in that game.
I kill for sport, I steal everything, I own everything they let me buy, and I have killed everyone in a few towns just because I think the nord race should be exterminated.
I use google voice and call screen everyone not in my address book. No calls for me. If it doesn't come from google voice, I don't answer it.
You should see the look of shock I get when I tell people I do not have TV service. I have netflix, I have video games, I have a few other online content resources, but TV....not much worth paying for.
I'd much rather wait for it to get to netflix, watch without commercials and see it on my own time, at my own pace. You want to fix TV? Let me buy what I want, when I want and watch it how I want.
I've seen exactly 1 spam message in my inbox in the last 8 months. I get around 250 spam each week, I just never see it. I've never gotten a false positive on my spam.
Spam filtering is easy if you are just willing to put some time into it.
Not only that, but you can't physically talk to three different people at the same time.
I can deal with multiple emails at once. Trying to hold 3 or 4 phone calls at once would turn into a episode of Saved by the Bell.
http://groups.drupal.org/jobs also, be active in drupal projects and build a name for yourself.
We do 6 local snapshots daily on our volumes. We keep these local snapshots for 2 weeks. This means you have a lot of options to go back and get something that was accidentally deleted or changed with minimal data loss. We do 2 cloud snapshots a day. We keep these for two weeks. This means you can go get stuff from the cloud with a larger window of loss if for some reason the local snaps are bad. We do a local clone nightly during our backup window. From that clone we do a local backup with standard backup tools to disk. This is just in case we have to do a quick restore of a large loss of data that included our SAN. This backup is kept for 1 month and is your normal full, 6 days of inc, full type approach. We also use that local clone to make a cloud clone (our offsite backup). This clone is kept for 30 days, a monthly being flagged and kept for 12 months and a yearly being flagged and kept for 7 years (This solution is currently less than a year old).
This gives us much better recovery options then our old solution which was all backups going to local disk as a cache and pushing to tape during the day with the following schedule:
1 full every friday kept for 2 weeks
1 daily incremental sat-thursday
1 full kept as a monthly for 12 months
1 full kept as a yearly for 7 years.
Each month we pick a server at random and do a full restore as a test. We also now have a cold site which is kept up to date via syncing though the same cloud storage mechanism. We will be testing bringing up that cold site in the near future and will probably have a yearly test cycle.
I'm not saying this is a good solution for everyone, but it gets the job done for us.
*sigh* Because the san is an appliance, and we have one at our cold site. I can easily get another san, probably in less than 6 hours even if all 3 of them I have at two sites fail. I have 3 of them on site now. It would be trivial to take the one I use for vmware and use it for my windows file sharing volumes as well while I wait for the company to send me a new one.
This is the same as saying if your tape library melts into sluge, you have no usable backups. A really silly argument. Every backup solution has a single point of failure that brings the whole thing down. It's a risk vs cost assessment. We have acceptable risk at acceptable cost.
What if everyone who thinks voting for a 3rd party candidate is a wasted vote actually voted for a 3rd party candidate???
They might actually win!
This is the best idea ever.
Imagine facebook, twitter, google search, etc all down for 24 hours with a message about SOPA.
Of course we have tools to make sure our vm's are in stable states before the 'backups' run. Though out the day we do snapshots, but our nightly clone is done at a stable state. This is really easy to do in a virtualized environment.
In terms of legal issues, we did go though a vetting process with our board. We had to prove that the data could not be accessed in a meaningful way by our cloud provider. We were able to do that on 3 levels.
1) The data is all encrypted with our own keys.
2) The data is chunked by the san and encrypted there with our above mentioned keys.
3) The data is deduped.
4) The cloud storage pool itself is encrypted with our own keys.
The system is good enough that even with myself having both keys, I was unable to put the data back together without the SAN. Granted, I'm not a expert in data recovery, but I was able to demonstrate that it was not an issue for us. I could see how some industries would not be able to use the cloud due to legal issues however and I'm not advocating a one size fits all approach to backups.
We have also tested our recovery methods. In fact we do monthly tests on recovering a random system from scratch and yearly tests on recovering the whole system at our cold site.
The problem is you think of backups as something that has to be ran as a batch.
Our backup is different. Our SAN uses the cloud natively. It does deduped snapshots and clones to the cloud. All of our data is in the cloud, we have about 8TB of data total, but our cloud costs thanks to dedup are around 700 a month.
We then do traditional backups to local disk for fast, short term recovery. Our SAN is built in such a way that if it was to die, a new one could be dropped in and immediately start using the cloud while it slowly caches everything back down to disk. So in essence, our SAN is our backup.
As a company with almost everything virtualized, we don't need bare metal restore, we just need those vmdk files and to be available. Backups are a lot easier than when I was here 5 years ago, and our recovery rates during testing are a lot higher.
That is exactly what we do. We backup to local disk, then we do backups to the cloud. No need for tape at all for companies of our size (about 8 TB)
Why on earth does anyone need a sports car? Why on earth does anyone need to hunt? Why on earth does a single guy need a SUV? Why on earth does anyone need cookies? Why does anyone need a computer case with LED lights? Why on earth does anyone need a 47+ inch TV?
I have a hobby, that hobby is shooting firearms. If you have ever shot a automatic firearm, you would realize it is a lot of fun. But assuming you want a crazy mans answer, another legitimate reason is so you can fight back against your government. I have no worries or desires to fight my government, it's doing a fine job destroying itself. I want a fully automatic firearm so I can go to my gun range and spray bullets downrange at paper targets. It's just as valid as everyone else's ridiculous hobbies and it doesn't hurt anyone.
Killing a lot of people is easy with or without a mp5. In fact, semi-automatic rifles are more dangerous than fully automatic rifles. Why? Simple, accuracy. Making each shot count is a lot easier with my AR-15 than when I fire my friends fully auto sub machine gun. I run out of bullets in a few seconds with his and the control suffers greatly. It's still a lot of fun, but if I had to kill a room full of people, it wouldn't be my choice.
Beyond that, other designs fall under the same restrictions. Short barrel rifles? I can buy a pistol that shoots 5.56 ammo no problem, but a short barrel rifle that fires 5.56 ammo requires that same effort that buying a fully automatic rifle does. Silencers are the same. Why might one want a silencer you ask? Simple, so I can shoot without ear plugs, or just because it's cool.
I know you have been raised to fear 'machine guns', but the fact is they are still legal to buy, they are still easy to acquire illegally, and those of us who want to buy them legally are the last people you need to be afraid of. We are responsible adults who understand and respect firearms. We don't kill people, we don't want to kill people. We have a hobby and we, like everyone else and their hobbys, want to get niche and 'pro' gear.
Feel free to read my reply above and comment.
It's not that he is passing laws to improve gun rights. It's that he is not going after gun rights. States like mine are passing laws making carrying a firearm and use of a firearm easier. Our gun rights are expanding, the only thing the federal government needs to do is sit back and let the states decide what is ok for them and stop using the term "assault rifle".
If I was going to do anything, it would be to ease restrictions on importing/buying automatic weapons for civilian sale. There are a few "full auto" firearms I would like to own for recreational shooting that are too cost prohibitive for me to acquire at this time (Due to the restrictions limiting us to weapons made before 1986). I am ok with the restrictions required to purchase these firearms, it's just that the date restriction makes it hard to find and afford them.
On to the NRA. What I see from the NRA in their letters to me from their president is just pure fear mongering. The last letter I received said something along the lines of "Let me tell you my greatest fear for the freedom and safety of the US is that Obama will be reelected president.". Really? His greatest fear is Obama being reelected? He goes to tell me the ONLY WAY I can protect my right to own a firearm is to send them money. Another letter talks about the fabled United Nations Small Arms Treaty which will take away all our guns (gasp!). Only it's completely untrue. Hell even snopes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp) has an article on it showing it's a big fat NRA lie.
Here is another example
“[The Obama campaign] will say gun owners — they’ll say they left them alone,” LaPierre told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday. “In public, he’ll remind us that he’s put off calls from his party to renew the Clinton [assault weapons] ban, he hasn’t pushed for new gun control laws The president will offer the Second Amendment lip service and hit the campaign trail saying he’s actually been good for the Second Amendment.”
“But it’s a big fat stinking lie!” the NRA leader exclaimed. “It’s all part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and destroy the Second Amendment in our country.”
“Obama himself is no fool. So when he got elected, they concocted a scheme to stay away from the gun issue, lull gun owners to sleep and play us for fools in 2012. Well, gun owners are not fools and we are not fooled,” La Pierre declared.
So they actually think the fact Obama is not trying to take our guns is proof he is trying to take our guns! The fact is beyond that, the NRA frequently is not protecting the gun ownership rights I care about, and instead focusing its efforts on legalizing hunting of endangered wolves and other such nonsense.
I would support the NRA if they would simply lobby congress to keep laws sane, inform us of real attempts to take away our rights and urge voting action, and sponsor and support safe and educational events to introduce people into the wonderful sports involved with firearms. That is why I am keeping my money in my wallet for now. Screw the NRA.