Sounds like you got dicked on the support contract...I suspect because whoever signed it considered your time cheap enough that it was worth it to just stick you on the phone queue. What you WANT is for them to throw in a consultant, even an on-demand one, because these are the guys who will roll in, fix your problem in about five minutes, and then treat you to lunch.
I don't own any pirated movies. I do have a rather massive collection of DVDs that I ripped to my media server. When I travel, I can stream them to my hotel room, I can play them on every single item I own with a screen, etc. According to the rules established by the people who created the content, I should not be able to do this.
So at this point, we have me in the "wrong," and them being a bunch of assholes. I'm perfectly content to continue being "wrong" until they stop being assholes, and while they can escalate the assholish behavior all they want, I know those of us in the "wrong" are still going to eventually win, at which point the content creators will discover some method of making money that doesn't involve fucking over its customer base.
I get the feeling this sort of thing happens all the time--the jury convicts on circumstantial evidence (even though ideally they would not) if the lawyer convinces them that you are hiding the smoking gun. There is never only ONE piece of evidence; detectives will try to establish method, motive, and/or opportunity before bringing the case to the state. So if you're on the stand you're already suspected for more than just having an encrypted hard drive.
I will caveat this by saying that, since I am paranoid about the state's power, I DO encrypt important data.
They don't have to set any precedent; the jury simply has to not believe you.
Imagine some slimy lawyer telling the jury "I suppose you just HAPPENED to ACCIDENTALLY obstruct justice while you were guarding yourself against...heh...'HACKERS'. Really, Mr. Javaman, do you expect us to believe that? Everyone knows all you need is ZoneAlarm..."
For businesses, it's a lot easier to bring in a technical expert who will explain, most sorrowfully, that the data was inadvertently destroyed when the box got Ghosted routinely.
You and I occupy a radically different world from those with money, dig?
This is irrelevant to the discussion at hand, as is the "Well, ALL data is encrypted to some extent..." argument below. If someone you know was killed with a rare pistol, and you are known to have it--but refuse to submit it for ballistics testing (even going so far as to hide it), then yes, it is incriminating. Your refusal to state where you were at the time of the murder (even if it's because you were bonking the victim's wife, see Johnny Cash) is incriminating.
In a perfect world this would not be so. But justice is far from perfect.
Copyright, patent, and trademark law protect the monopoly and prevent competitors from establishing themselves.... The government needs to shake these companies up and break up their monopolies.
So you need government to prevent what government created, and you think libertarians are confused?
Sure. Government isn't a monolith. The Fed puts into practice laws that work against the normal operation of the market, and soon enough the only actor with the power to fix this is...the Fed.
Or, to use the requisite Slashdot car analogy, sometimes you have to go to a mechanic to fix what another mechanic screwed up. This doesn't mean that only we did away with mechanics, then cars would run smoothly indefinitely.
Even better is MythTV, which does all that, and skips commercials.
Oh, yeah. And my Myth box has a terabyte of storage dedicated to video alone...so new shows kicking off old ones is not something I worry about:)
But recording HD with myth can be problematic. For encrypted cable you still need the set-top box and then you can capture s-video, but the quality is degraded. HD QAM broadcasts are still great, however, and I find that 99% of the TV I bother to watch is network TV anyhow (Heroes, Gray's, etc.), and what I can't get via broadcast I can bittorent.
Not a contradiction--you just don't understand. You think that FOSS == simple, but it doesn't.
It's obvious that you don't have the experience here. You're about one post away from crossing the line from "Zealous, but ignorant" into "Moron who is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is." Just FYI.
It looks like this is a pitch for companies to consider the GPL, but this is different from businesses not wanting to use FOSS. Is your presentation going to address this?
Yes. You CAN set up an enterprise using FOSS if you also have a good support model. I think that people are more important than gear, and what you save on gear you could probably spend on really, really good support.
Sorry, won't work for a large enterprise. When you are talking about maintaining a massive and complex (in terms of seats, requirements, hosted apps, etc.) network, support becomes a LOT more important than "simple" setups.
All of our stuff is designed to run on 2k, 2k3, and Redhat, which as you are aware is essentially no different from Fedora (well, strictly speaking, it's no different from CENTOS) except that you buy support for it. That support is important. Large companies who pay $100m for a contract do not want to hear you say "I'll have this issue remedied just as soon as someone replied to my post on FedoraForums.org."
I happen to think that, for instance, sourcefire has a superior IDS solution to ours. I know a lot of competent guys with that company. I like those guys. So without any malice I can tell you that when we had a bake-off with them, the deciding factor was that we knew how to deploy and manage a thousand-node sensor grid and they had not clue one.
I say this just to illustrate that for, large corporate environments, it doesn't matter that FOSS solutions are "better." A lot of them are great, and I can think of plenty of situations where some Ubuntu workstations running OOo would suffice over Vista Business and Office 2007...except then you know down the road that company is going to want something out of left field, like encrypted home directories or , only, none of the techs they can afford know anything about setting it up. But they know that 5 years from now if they want some weird solution, probably one of the big vendors will be around to sell it to them, along with a consultant to walk the Remedy monkeys through troubleshooting it.
I do not think that most of the people cheerleading for FOSS appreciate this. They just know that $DISTRO is neat, so obviously everyone who doesn't agree that it's perfect for a 10,000 seat enterprise network must be an "idiot." Le sigh!
Doesn't transhumanism reject out of hand anything but a basic materialist viewpoint of humanity to start with? I thought the point was using technology to make that a reality, not to reveal it. That's where it differs from Buddhism.
At this point the AC has been told several times how drop to a console. He is seeking technical support, yet believes that he already knows more than the herd of "morons" who are telling him what to do.
Everyone is being civil even though he's being a dick. I probably would have told him to piss off at this point.
Obligatory car analogy:
Guy: Hey, my car won't start.
Ford: Is there gas in it?
Guy: No, the tank is empty.
Ford: Well, you need to put gas in it.
Guy: WTF! I already told you it won't start. How am I going to get to a gas station to fill it up?
Ford: Well, take a gas can, bring back a gallon, drive back and fill it up.
Guy: Your cars are so stupid, with my Chevy I can just drive to the station without having to go through all these bullshit intermediate steps. And like I ALREADY TOLD YOU, the car won't start, so how am I going to drive to get a gas can?...et cetera ad nauseum...
I'm probably authorized to photocopy articles out of a magazine for a report. I am not authorized to photocopy the latest issue of "Time" and start giving it away.
Even so, if I did photocopy the magazine and try to give it away, though it may be illegal, it would not be worth Time's time and energy to come after me unless they thought I posed a serious risk to their revenue stream.
Any Dawkins is "too much Dawkins." If you want poorly reasoned arguments, sarcasm, and ridiculous extension of metaphors beyond their usefulness to explain things, then you just go to Fark.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but anymore isn't "selection pressure" less and less of a perfectly adequate explanation?
I'm thinking of Goodwin's example with the mermaid's cap (a Mediterranean algae that goes through several "useless" steps during development). It is true that it continues to go through developmental stages that appear to waste energy and material because there is really no selection pressue against it. But this explanation doesn't really answer the question--you have to look at how it develops axially using chemical gradients (Calcium and Sodium, IIRC) and you wind up with a purely mechanical explanation for why these useless stages occur. From that point of view the developmental process is the most efficient and continues to be made more efficient by evolution.
Likewise, to say that there is no selection pressure against "junk" DNA is probably true. But isn't TFA saying that there are actually a purpose to these sequences? They're not cruft, they're actually doing something, just not the same job as the DNA that actually gets expressed. So it's not just that space is cheap--but rather that if you economized the genome then it could have disastrous effects. Right?
The network usage becomes a Poisson distribution and combined the usage starts to resemble normal distribution.
Citation? I've only seen a few studies on this but so far as I know "bursty" traffic doesn't approach a normal distribution, ever, over any large time frame.
The problem is that ignorant poor people and some religious people are going to breed us to the point where things are unpleasant all the time at the best or downright ugly and murderous at the worst.
I dunno if you know your history, but pretty much every time we've tried enforced limits on "breeding" it has started out unpleasant, then gotten downright ugly before eventually turning murderous.
But hey, don't let all the failures of the past stop you. This time I'm sure you'll get it right.
After all, the usual argument is that if something can develop into a human then it should be considered to be a human even before it develops into a human.
Bzzt. Wrong. Straw man argument.
The usual argument from the pro-lifers is that a fetus in any stage of development is already a human, not that it is a "potential" human.
I spent days of work--not sure what "completely altered your life" means, I mean, I'm not a woman all of a sudden--because I found building a DVR to be interesting and challenging. It also carried many benefits, such as the fact that I don't have to sit through advertisements. Since I am already paying for cable, there is absolutely no reason that I should have to watch advertisements as well, except that the cable companies decided they wanted yet more money. So, fuck them. Myth zips through ads automagically. And what I bittorent is also ad-free.
Also can you explain this to me: "In order to not have to watch ads, you spend your relaxation time not watching ads." What?
No. You already decided you wanted 128m and you already decided what you wanted to pay for it. That was why you came in the store. It is a trick to try to get you to spend more money.
At this point the customer should leave and log on to Newegg, not buy "what's available" at the store.
This only makes sense for people who are unfamiliar with Linux. The Fedora Core 6 guided install on Wilsonet takes me around an hour to perform, now that I have done it six or seven times for various people. Add another hour to configure MythDVD, MythGame, etc. For my friends who ask me to hook them up, there is no "punch in the gut"--they pay for parts and bring me a six-pack, and they have a DVR and no worries about DRM.
Corporate "users" all have mechanisms in place to restore their systems if files go corrupt or--gasp--some AV product misidentifies critical files. Nobody is being "fucked up," but I guarantee some IT guys in China get to charge overtime this weekend. Welcome to IT.
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Sounds like you got dicked on the support contract...I suspect because whoever signed it considered your time cheap enough that it was worth it to just stick you on the phone queue. What you WANT is for them to throw in a consultant, even an on-demand one, because these are the guys who will roll in, fix your problem in about five minutes, and then treat you to lunch.
I don't own any pirated movies. I do have a rather massive collection of DVDs that I ripped to my media server. When I travel, I can stream them to my hotel room, I can play them on every single item I own with a screen, etc. According to the rules established by the people who created the content, I should not be able to do this.
So at this point, we have me in the "wrong," and them being a bunch of assholes. I'm perfectly content to continue being "wrong" until they stop being assholes, and while they can escalate the assholish behavior all they want, I know those of us in the "wrong" are still going to eventually win, at which point the content creators will discover some method of making money that doesn't involve fucking over its customer base.
I get the feeling this sort of thing happens all the time--the jury convicts on circumstantial evidence (even though ideally they would not) if the lawyer convinces them that you are hiding the smoking gun. There is never only ONE piece of evidence; detectives will try to establish method, motive, and/or opportunity before bringing the case to the state. So if you're on the stand you're already suspected for more than just having an encrypted hard drive.
I will caveat this by saying that, since I am paranoid about the state's power, I DO encrypt important data.
They don't have to set any precedent; the jury simply has to not believe you.
Imagine some slimy lawyer telling the jury "I suppose you just HAPPENED to ACCIDENTALLY obstruct justice while you were guarding yourself against...heh...'HACKERS'. Really, Mr. Javaman, do you expect us to believe that? Everyone knows all you need is ZoneAlarm..."
For businesses, it's a lot easier to bring in a technical expert who will explain, most sorrowfully, that the data was inadvertently destroyed when the box got Ghosted routinely.
You and I occupy a radically different world from those with money, dig?
This is irrelevant to the discussion at hand, as is the "Well, ALL data is encrypted to some extent..." argument below. If someone you know was killed with a rare pistol, and you are known to have it--but refuse to submit it for ballistics testing (even going so far as to hide it), then yes, it is incriminating. Your refusal to state where you were at the time of the murder (even if it's because you were bonking the victim's wife, see Johnny Cash) is incriminating.
In a perfect world this would not be so. But justice is far from perfect.
So you need government to prevent what government created, and you think libertarians are confused?
Sure. Government isn't a monolith. The Fed puts into practice laws that work against the normal operation of the market, and soon enough the only actor with the power to fix this is...the Fed.
Or, to use the requisite Slashdot car analogy, sometimes you have to go to a mechanic to fix what another mechanic screwed up. This doesn't mean that only we did away with mechanics, then cars would run smoothly indefinitely.
Even better is MythTV, which does all that, and skips commercials.
:)
Oh, yeah. And my Myth box has a terabyte of storage dedicated to video alone...so new shows kicking off old ones is not something I worry about
But recording HD with myth can be problematic. For encrypted cable you still need the set-top box and then you can capture s-video, but the quality is degraded. HD QAM broadcasts are still great, however, and I find that 99% of the TV I bother to watch is network TV anyhow (Heroes, Gray's, etc.), and what I can't get via broadcast I can bittorent.
An inclined surface would be neat, like a draftsman's table.
About the only practical application I can think of would be to sit there and putter around with Analyst's Notebook.
Not a contradiction--you just don't understand. You think that FOSS == simple, but it doesn't.
It's obvious that you don't have the experience here. You're about one post away from crossing the line from "Zealous, but ignorant" into "Moron who is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is." Just FYI.
It looks like this is a pitch for companies to consider the GPL, but this is different from businesses not wanting to use FOSS. Is your presentation going to address this?
Yes. You CAN set up an enterprise using FOSS if you also have a good support model. I think that people are more important than gear, and what you save on gear you could probably spend on really, really good support.
Sorry, won't work for a large enterprise. When you are talking about maintaining a massive and complex (in terms of seats, requirements, hosted apps, etc.) network, support becomes a LOT more important than "simple" setups.
I work for a major security firm.
All of our stuff is designed to run on 2k, 2k3, and Redhat, which as you are aware is essentially no different from Fedora (well, strictly speaking, it's no different from CENTOS) except that you buy support for it. That support is important. Large companies who pay $100m for a contract do not want to hear you say "I'll have this issue remedied just as soon as someone replied to my post on FedoraForums.org."
I happen to think that, for instance, sourcefire has a superior IDS solution to ours. I know a lot of competent guys with that company. I like those guys. So without any malice I can tell you that when we had a bake-off with them, the deciding factor was that we knew how to deploy and manage a thousand-node sensor grid and they had not clue one.
I say this just to illustrate that for, large corporate environments, it doesn't matter that FOSS solutions are "better." A lot of them are great, and I can think of plenty of situations where some Ubuntu workstations running OOo would suffice over Vista Business and Office 2007...except then you know down the road that company is going to want something out of left field, like encrypted home directories or , only, none of the techs they can afford know anything about setting it up. But they know that 5 years from now if they want some weird solution, probably one of the big vendors will be around to sell it to them, along with a consultant to walk the Remedy monkeys through troubleshooting it.
I do not think that most of the people cheerleading for FOSS appreciate this. They just know that $DISTRO is neat, so obviously everyone who doesn't agree that it's perfect for a 10,000 seat enterprise network must be an "idiot." Le sigh!
Doesn't transhumanism reject out of hand anything but a basic materialist viewpoint of humanity to start with? I thought the point was using technology to make that a reality, not to reveal it. That's where it differs from Buddhism.
Mod. Parent. Up.
...et cetera ad nauseum...
At this point the AC has been told several times how drop to a console. He is seeking technical support, yet believes that he already knows more than the herd of "morons" who are telling him what to do.
Everyone is being civil even though he's being a dick. I probably would have told him to piss off at this point.
Obligatory car analogy:
Guy: Hey, my car won't start.
Ford: Is there gas in it?
Guy: No, the tank is empty.
Ford: Well, you need to put gas in it.
Guy: WTF! I already told you it won't start. How am I going to get to a gas station to fill it up?
Ford: Well, take a gas can, bring back a gallon, drive back and fill it up.
Guy: Your cars are so stupid, with my Chevy I can just drive to the station without having to go through all these bullshit intermediate steps. And like I ALREADY TOLD YOU, the car won't start, so how am I going to drive to get a gas can?
Think in terms of fair use.
I'm probably authorized to photocopy articles out of a magazine for a report. I am not authorized to photocopy the latest issue of "Time" and start giving it away.
Even so, if I did photocopy the magazine and try to give it away, though it may be illegal, it would not be worth Time's time and energy to come after me unless they thought I posed a serious risk to their revenue stream.
Any Dawkins is "too much Dawkins." If you want poorly reasoned arguments, sarcasm, and ridiculous extension of metaphors beyond their usefulness to explain things, then you just go to Fark.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but anymore isn't "selection pressure" less and less of a perfectly adequate explanation?
I'm thinking of Goodwin's example with the mermaid's cap (a Mediterranean algae that goes through several "useless" steps during development). It is true that it continues to go through developmental stages that appear to waste energy and material because there is really no selection pressue against it. But this explanation doesn't really answer the question--you have to look at how it develops axially using chemical gradients (Calcium and Sodium, IIRC) and you wind up with a purely mechanical explanation for why these useless stages occur. From that point of view the developmental process is the most efficient and continues to be made more efficient by evolution.
Likewise, to say that there is no selection pressure against "junk" DNA is probably true. But isn't TFA saying that there are actually a purpose to these sequences? They're not cruft, they're actually doing something, just not the same job as the DNA that actually gets expressed. So it's not just that space is cheap--but rather that if you economized the genome then it could have disastrous effects. Right?
The network usage becomes a Poisson distribution and combined the usage starts to resemble normal distribution.
Citation? I've only seen a few studies on this but so far as I know "bursty" traffic doesn't approach a normal distribution, ever, over any large time frame.
The problem is that ignorant poor people and some religious people are going to breed us to the point where things are unpleasant all the time at the best or downright ugly and murderous at the worst.
I dunno if you know your history, but pretty much every time we've tried enforced limits on "breeding" it has started out unpleasant, then gotten downright ugly before eventually turning murderous.
But hey, don't let all the failures of the past stop you. This time I'm sure you'll get it right.
After all, the usual argument is that if something can develop into a human then it should be considered to be a human even before it develops into a human.
Bzzt. Wrong. Straw man argument.
The usual argument from the pro-lifers is that a fetus in any stage of development is already a human, not that it is a "potential" human.
I spent days of work--not sure what "completely altered your life" means, I mean, I'm not a woman all of a sudden--because I found building a DVR to be interesting and challenging. It also carried many benefits, such as the fact that I don't have to sit through advertisements. Since I am already paying for cable, there is absolutely no reason that I should have to watch advertisements as well, except that the cable companies decided they wanted yet more money. So, fuck them. Myth zips through ads automagically. And what I bittorent is also ad-free.
Also can you explain this to me: "In order to not have to watch ads, you spend your relaxation time not watching ads." What?
No. You already decided you wanted 128m and you already decided what you wanted to pay for it. That was why you came in the store. It is a trick to try to get you to spend more money.
At this point the customer should leave and log on to Newegg, not buy "what's available" at the store.
This only makes sense for people who are unfamiliar with Linux. The Fedora Core 6 guided install on Wilsonet takes me around an hour to perform, now that I have done it six or seven times for various people. Add another hour to configure MythDVD, MythGame, etc. For my friends who ask me to hook them up, there is no "punch in the gut"--they pay for parts and bring me a six-pack, and they have a DVR and no worries about DRM.
Corporate "users" all have mechanisms in place to restore their systems if files go corrupt or--gasp--some AV product misidentifies critical files. Nobody is being "fucked up," but I guarantee some IT guys in China get to charge overtime this weekend. Welcome to IT.