Why do you only care about the bottom line? There are a lot of external costs that are not factored into these 'costs'. No one adds the $6.5B per month we are paying in Iraq when computing the true cost of defending our access to the oil we are addicted to. No one adds the environmental impacts or lost miners lives for coal. If there were more investment in these technologies (rather than the last biggest project being over 20 years ago) the prices would come down.
Of all people, the slashdot crowd, many willing to spend double, triple the price for small GHz improvements that yield little or perhaps a few percent to some theoretical benchmarks, are particularly hypocritical here.
Except I just read there is a security flaw in VMware could allow a process running within the VM machine to exploit the host OS. So even virtualization as a sandbox is not fully effective.
Register, as in putting money into the corporate cash registers, is a more appropriate in describing the current balance of power within the copyright system.
Here is the Ameritrade response someone use used a VERY random unique email address for their Ameritrade account and complained in 2005 (almost 2 years ago).
"Thank you for contacting us today regarding e-mails that you received.
"We have received reports from some clients that a spam e-mail regarding information on the security SNFX, has been targeted to an address they use with Ameritrade. This is not result from Ameritrade sharing or selling any contact information, nor do we believe any information has been compromised. The cornerstone of our Privacy Statement is the commitment to keep our clients' personal information confidential. Ameritrade does not sell, license, lease or otherwise disclose your personal information to any third party for any reason, except as noted in the Privacy Statement.
"Several Spam methods do not depend on using purchased or intercepted lists of existing or valid e-mail accounts. Spammers also use known "brute forcing" or dictionary techniques. Brute forcing e-mails basically starts with something like a@doeinvestor.net, aa@doeinvestor, aaa@doeinvestor, aab@doeinvestor, abb@doeinvestor and continues on from there. Brute forcing basically generates and sends out an email to every possible combination of characters/email addresses at a domain like the optiline.net domain. A dictionary email spam basically uses all of the words that would be included in a dictionary or combinations of words which generally produce quite a few valid email accounts. This type of method would not be inhibited by using a separate e-mail address for each business account you may have.
"We have located the ISP that these e-mails originated from and legal has taken the appropriate action to address and prohibit further spam attempts.
"We have no reason to believe that any of our systems have been compromised. Ameritrade deploys state of the art firewalls, intrusion detection, anti - virus software as well as employs a full time staff of employee's dedicated strictly to Information Security and protecting Ameritrade's systems from unauthorized access.
"If you have further concerns or inquiries, please reply to this message.
You are missing the fundamental 'Law of Insurance and Gas prices'. Rising costs are quick to be passed on the consumer, but when costs go down, the savings are pocketed by the company as long as possible.
"There's just one problem. The $65,000 rate is the Times' normal rate for an advocacy ad from a non-profit group, according to newspaper spokeswoman Catherine Mathis."
(Does crack come in bags?) Of course not. It only comes in hermetically sealed 1/2oz opaque glass jars with child proof lids. Can you imagine crack in a bag - how trailer park.
The ABI change is because the plugins always to be recomplied to match a new version. My point is that for those unable/unwilling to upgrade to the latest, some sort of 'yum update xmltv' or 'apt-get update xmltv' or manual tar ball installation from xmltv.org should be a temporary solution without having to update/upgrade the rest of the system.
I haven't. However, the article mentions two other distros which may be much easier than the live distro. The problem with xmltv is that it is Perl and its Perl dependency hell. I haven't had to use it in years, but its an option for some. Even as a stop gap - you could run it on another machine (windows box too) to produce the daily xml file, copy that over to your myth box, and run mythfilldatabase. Its a stop gap. Also, remember you that you get about 14 days of schedule information. So on Sep 1, you should have a few more weeks data.
Your facts are kinda misleading. True, the latest 20.2 release incorporates direct support for the new schedulesdirect.org program listing. However, older versions can be 'retrofitted' by using/updating just the xmltv application. The latest xmltv 0.5.48 will work with the new schedulesdirect site. You can then feed that into your existing mythfilldatabase. This solution might work for those unable/unwilling to upgrade their mythtv version. Personally, I've gone to 20.2 and the upgrade was pretty seamless.
Next time you call, you might get better results if you tell them you live in Ashburn, VA not Asburn, VA. But you are right Ashburn is right next to Verizon/MCI/Worldcom, AOL, Equinix, and more. And yet some folks cant get modern broadband.
That joke sucks every single time. Not when I see the curiously intriguing 'Microsoft' and 'Open Source' in the same article. Overriding my temptation to skip the article I force myself to read the post, my bullshit/FUD detectors engaged, only to be rewarded with 'Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.'. It was quite an emotional roller coaster. An anti-climatic ending rivaled only Fable.
Lack of bloat in the Linux version is related to apathy, lack of resources, and an older codebase on Linux rather than any intelligent design or insight from Real.
If someone tells me about a funny Colbert clip, I'm not going to check the TV guide for a repeat showing Not to mention, that there is generally no 'repeats' for shows like Colbert Report or The Daily Show. If you missed it and didn't get it on a DVR, you're out of luck.
ESR kissing Dude, I hate to break it to you and Bruce. I can ASSURE you that if you went to a 'reputable' massage parlor, that is NOT the 'Happy Ending'. I would ask for your money back.
If by native remote display support you mean 'setenv DISPLAY', that requires that the 'DISPLAY' always be the same machine and always be running. With VNC its easy to quickly 'login' to the X Desktop from any machine and monitor things and disconnect. VNC is on demand, while 'setenv DISPLAY' isnt'. 'setenv DISPLAY' will waste network bandwidth by generating traffic during times you dont care to monitor the server desktop.
You mentioned Xnest. I've never heard of that. I don't see any 'Xnest' command installed on my Centos 4 box either. Is Xnest available widely and is it stable? The man page I got via google said in the man page 'Won't run well on servers supporting different visual depths. Still crashes randomly. Probably has some memory leaks.'
I see your humbleness translates to your resume too.
From your resume
'Implemented best practices in a software department that had been run previously by gifted amateurs.'
and
'I'm a guy who you need to have in for an interview, really for both of our sakes. I need to know more about you than the ad I saw somewhere or the recommendation I got from a friend - and you need to meet the real Dan. I'm a great addition to any office, but that's the sort of thing I think you need to meet me to truly appreciate.'
Yes that same public. Its all a matter of conditioning. That 'same public' used to be more involved and informed in the past. The shift towards sound bites has conditioned this response. The shift of the news media from a profession of journalists to a realm of entertainment/edutainment has conditioned this response.
You have an awfully high opinion of the general public. Actually, I don't. I am just feeling optimistic today for some reason.
There are lots of reasons. Sometimes all you have room for is a 1U. Certain applications have limited space. I've developed GTK+ applications that run on the boxes that interact with other tasks running on the same box. Or using a rackmount KVM/LCD tray to switch between systems and interact. While doing development, its productive to use VNC and have a separate window for each server. I use these boxes for things that are in the realm of 'embedded development'--these aren't servers in the sense of running DNS/mail/ftp/www. These are just 1U form factor machines. Its also nice to have a common configuration across multiple machines for CM purposes.
Thanks for the link. After viewing quote from parts of it (and it is a rather old study from 1984 at the height of a War on Porn), I wonder if its the 'porn' itself or the social stigma/repression/guilt attached to viewing it. I'm kind of full circle to my original thought of whether a virtual outlet would reduce real-world risky behavior. The virtual world needs to be an environment that is not stigmatized.
Your claim about observable, harmful impacts might be a bit misleading. I think the ethical concern is that you cannot tailor a study where the outcome is rape so measuring it is next to impossible.
"With regard to experimental work, Donnerstein points out that, "one cannot, for obvious reasons, experimentally examine the relationship between pornography and actual sexual aggression" (1984, p. 53). He has, however, conducted experiments that show that the level of aggression of male subjects toward females increases after they have been exposed to violent pornography in which a female rape victim was portrayed as becoming aroused by the end of the movie. (Aggression was measured by the intensity of electric shock subjects were willing to administer, Donnestein, 1984)."
I did find this which backs up what you say: "The exposure of sex offenders to pornography is another area of research that is relevant to the causal connections between pornography and rape. It is well known that many sex offenders claim that viewing pornography affects their criminal behavior. Ted Bundy is perhaps the most notorious of these males. For example, in one study of 89 non-incarcerated sex offenders conducted by William Marshall, "slightly more than one-third of the child molesters and rapists reported at least occasionally being incited to commit an offense by exposure to forced or consenting pornography" (Einsiedel, 1986, p. 62). Exactly a third of the rapists who reported being incited by pornography to commit an offense said that they deliberately used pornography in their preparation for committing the rape. The comparable figure for child molesters was much higher--53% versus 33% (Einsiedel, 1986, p. 62).
However, as these sex offenders appear to have used the pornography to arouse themselves after they had already decided to commit an offense, it could be argued that it was not the pornography that incited them. To what extent they actually required the pornography in order to commit their offenses, like some perpetrators require alcohol, we do not know. Even if these perpetrators were eliminated from the data analysis, however, that still leaves 66% of the rapists and 47% of the child molesters who claimed that they were at least sometimes incited by pornography to commit an offense."
Slashdot Mirror
Why do you only care about the bottom line? There are a lot of external costs that are not factored into these 'costs'. No one adds the $6.5B per month we are paying in Iraq when computing the true cost of defending our access to the oil we are addicted to. No one adds the environmental impacts or lost miners lives for coal. If there were more investment in these technologies (rather than the last biggest project being over 20 years ago) the prices would come down.
Of all people, the slashdot crowd, many willing to spend double, triple the price for small GHz improvements that yield little or perhaps a few percent to some theoretical benchmarks, are particularly hypocritical here.
Except I just read there is a security flaw in VMware could allow a process running within the VM machine to exploit the host OS. So even virtualization as a sandbox is not fully effective.
Register, as in putting money into the corporate cash registers, is a more appropriate in describing the current balance of power within the copyright system.
Here is the Ameritrade response someone use used a VERY random unique email address for their Ameritrade account and complained in 2005 (almost 2 years ago).
"Thank you for contacting us today regarding e-mails that you received.
"We have received reports from some clients that a spam e-mail
regarding information on the security SNFX, has been targeted to an
address they use with Ameritrade. This is not result from Ameritrade
sharing or selling any contact information, nor do we believe any
information has been compromised. The cornerstone of our Privacy
Statement is the commitment to keep our clients' personal information
confidential. Ameritrade does not sell, license, lease or otherwise
disclose your personal information to any third party for any reason,
except as noted in the Privacy Statement.
"Several Spam methods do not depend on using purchased or intercepted
lists of existing or valid e-mail accounts. Spammers also use known
"brute forcing" or dictionary techniques. Brute forcing e-mails
basically starts with something like a@doeinvestor.net, aa@doeinvestor,
aaa@doeinvestor, aab@doeinvestor, abb@doeinvestor and continues on from
there. Brute forcing basically generates and sends out an email to
every possible combination of characters/email addresses at a domain
like the optiline.net domain. A dictionary email spam basically uses
all of the words that would be included in a dictionary or combinations
of words which generally produce quite a few valid email accounts.
This type of method would not be inhibited by using a separate e-mail
address for each business account you may have.
"We have located the ISP that these e-mails originated from and legal
has taken the appropriate action to address and prohibit further spam
attempts.
"We have no reason to believe that any of our systems have been
compromised. Ameritrade deploys state of the art firewalls, intrusion
detection, anti - virus software as well as employs a full time staff
of employee's dedicated strictly to Information Security and protecting
Ameritrade's systems from unauthorized access.
"If you have further concerns or inquiries, please reply to this
message.
"Have a good day!"
You are missing the fundamental 'Law of Insurance and Gas prices'. Rising costs are quick to be passed on the consumer, but when costs go down, the savings are pocketed by the company as long as possible.
More disinformation from the right wingers:
"There's just one problem. The $65,000 rate is the Times' normal rate for an advocacy ad from a non-profit group, according to newspaper spokeswoman Catherine Mathis."
No, it just makes you very flexible, perhaps double jointed.
Sir Isaac Newton on Intellectual Property: "If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants".
Q.E.D.
Thinks of the millions of dollars, if not billions, or productivity that will be lost, all for the paltry sum of $50000.
The ABI change is because the plugins always to be recomplied to match a new version. My point is that for those unable/unwilling to upgrade to the latest, some sort of 'yum update xmltv' or 'apt-get update xmltv' or manual tar ball installation from xmltv.org should be a temporary solution without having to update/upgrade the rest of the system.
I haven't. However, the article mentions two other distros which may be much easier than the live distro. The problem with xmltv is that it is Perl and its Perl dependency hell. I haven't had to use it in years, but its an option for some. Even as a stop gap - you could run it on another machine (windows box too) to produce the daily xml file, copy that over to your myth box, and run mythfilldatabase. Its a stop gap. Also, remember you that you get about 14 days of schedule information. So on Sep 1, you should have a few more weeks data.
Your facts are kinda misleading. True, the latest 20.2 release incorporates direct support for the new schedulesdirect.org program listing. However, older versions can be 'retrofitted' by using/updating just the xmltv application. The latest xmltv 0.5.48 will work with the new schedulesdirect site. You can then feed that into your existing mythfilldatabase. This solution might work for those unable/unwilling to upgrade their mythtv version. Personally, I've gone to 20.2 and the upgrade was pretty seamless.
Next time you call, you might get better results if you tell them you live in Ashburn, VA not Asburn, VA. But you are right Ashburn is right next to Verizon/MCI/Worldcom, AOL, Equinix, and more. And yet some folks cant get modern broadband.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Kinda like the Religious Right is neither Religious nor right.
Lack of bloat in the Linux version is related to apathy, lack of resources, and an older codebase on Linux rather than any intelligent design or insight from Real.
ESR kissing Dude, I hate to break it to you and Bruce. I can ASSURE you that if you went to a 'reputable' massage parlor, that is NOT the 'Happy Ending'. I would ask for your money back.
If by native remote display support you mean 'setenv DISPLAY', that requires that the 'DISPLAY' always be the same machine and always be running. With VNC its easy to quickly 'login' to the X Desktop from any machine and monitor things and disconnect. VNC is on demand, while 'setenv DISPLAY' isnt'. 'setenv DISPLAY' will waste network bandwidth by generating traffic during times you dont care to monitor the server desktop.
You mentioned Xnest. I've never heard of that. I don't see any 'Xnest' command installed on my Centos 4 box either. Is Xnest available widely and is it stable? The man page I got via google said in the man page
'Won't run well on servers supporting different visual depths. Still crashes randomly. Probably has some memory leaks.'
Thanks for the uplift, Mr. Humble pie.
;)
I see your humbleness translates to your resume too.
From your resume
'Implemented best practices in a software department that had been run previously by gifted amateurs.'
and
'I'm a guy who you need to have in for an interview, really for both of our sakes. I need to know more about you than the ad I saw somewhere or the recommendation I got from a friend - and you need to meet the real Dan. I'm a great addition to any office, but that's the sort of thing I think you need to meet me to truly appreciate.'
I forgive you, but I won't forget!
There are lots of reasons. Sometimes all you have room for is a 1U. Certain applications have limited space. I've developed GTK+ applications that run on the boxes that interact with other tasks running on the same box. Or using a rackmount KVM/LCD tray to switch between systems and interact. While doing development, its productive to use VNC and have a separate window for each server. I use these boxes for things that are in the realm of 'embedded development'--these aren't servers in the sense of running DNS/mail/ftp/www. These are just 1U form factor machines. Its also nice to have a common configuration across multiple machines for CM purposes.
Thanks for the link. After viewing quote from parts of it (and it is a rather old study from 1984 at the height of a War on Porn), I wonder if its the 'porn' itself or the social stigma/repression/guilt attached to viewing it. I'm kind of full circle to my original thought of whether a virtual outlet would reduce real-world risky behavior. The virtual world needs to be an environment that is not stigmatized.
Your claim about observable, harmful impacts might be a bit misleading. I think the ethical concern is that you cannot tailor a study where the outcome is rape so measuring it is next to impossible.
"With regard to experimental work, Donnerstein points out that, "one cannot, for obvious reasons, experimentally examine the relationship between pornography and actual sexual aggression" (1984, p. 53). He has, however, conducted experiments that show that the level of aggression of male subjects toward females increases after they have been exposed to violent pornography in which a female rape victim was portrayed as becoming aroused by the end of the movie. (Aggression was measured by the intensity of electric shock subjects were willing to administer, Donnestein, 1984)."
I did find this which backs up what you say:
"The exposure of sex offenders to pornography is another area of research that is relevant to the causal connections between pornography and rape. It is well known that many sex offenders claim that viewing pornography affects their criminal behavior. Ted Bundy is perhaps the most notorious of these males. For example, in one study of 89 non-incarcerated sex offenders conducted by William Marshall, "slightly more than one-third of the child molesters and rapists reported at least occasionally being incited to commit an offense by exposure to forced or consenting pornography" (Einsiedel, 1986, p. 62). Exactly a third of the rapists who reported being incited by pornography to commit an offense said that they deliberately used pornography in their preparation for committing the rape. The comparable figure for child molesters was much higher--53% versus 33% (Einsiedel, 1986, p. 62).
However, as these sex offenders appear to have used the pornography to arouse themselves after they had already decided to commit an offense, it could be argued that it was not the pornography that incited them. To what extent they actually required the pornography in order to commit their offenses, like some perpetrators require alcohol, we do not know. Even if these perpetrators were eliminated from the data analysis, however, that still leaves 66% of the rapists and 47% of the child molesters who claimed that they were at least sometimes incited by pornography to commit an offense."