But if they're doing it to perpetuate the institution...
If you gave a friend a nice pair of pearl earrings because you wanted her to have them to look nice, and then she lost her job and was living out of her car, wouldn't you want her to pawn them to be able to eat?
Will CD/DVD burner manufacturers be required to "check in" with the RIAA/MPAA/BSA before burning music, video, or executable files?
There *is* such thing as a slippery slope.
It's already happened with video surveillance. People have gotten so used to video surveillance that when another Orwellian scenario comes about, one of the arguments for complacency is "There are already video cameras everywhere, it's not like you have any privacy anyway"
Be diligent. Write your representatives now, and try working with well-reasoned logic, resisting the impulse to tell them directly what pigfuckers they are.
There are plenty of them on the market, and as the price comes down, there will be even more.
To whom do you think HP has been selling the SuperDome line? And to whom has Sun been selling the E10/12/15K?
One of the benefits of using a huge multiprocessor Sun box, though, besides the massive numbers of CPUs you can have in a single frame running under a single system image is the ability to dynamically reconfigure resources, like a few other posters have touched on.
Imagine this... you have a box with 64 CPUs and 128GB of RAM. During the day, you have developers who are working with 16 CPUs and 32GB of RAM, working on the next generation of the database you'll be running for your business. A development domain.
You have another domain of 16 CPUs and 32GB as a test domain. Like when stuff goes out to beta, you run tests on the stuff you've pushed out from your development copy to see if it's ready for prime-time.
You have a third domain of 32 CPUs and 64GB in which you run production. It's a bit oversized for your needs for the work throughout the day, but it's capable of handling peak loads without slowing down.
Then, you have a nightly database job that runs recalculating numbers for all the accounts, dumping data out to be sent to a reporting server somewhere, batch data loads coming in that need to be integrated into your database. Plus you have to keep servicing minimal amounts of requests from users throughout the night, but hey, nobody's really on between 10PM and 4AM.
Wouldn't it be nice to drop the dev and test databases down to maybe 4CPUs if they're still running minimal tasks, and throw 56CPUs and 112GB of RAM at your nightly batch jobs? They get what's almost the run of the machine... until you're done with the batch jobs. Then you shrink production back to half the machine, and boost up the test and dev to a quarter each... so everyone's happy when the day starts.
When you start handing out money, you're never going to be able to stop, because you build dependency. Where is the disincentive in the current plan? If there's no disincentive, then it will keep growing.
Do you not understand that people base their (albeit limited) financial planning on what they anticipate Social Security will pay when they hit a certain age?
They plan for it.
If it simply protected people from starving and freezing, then fine, but don't *plan* on taking my money so you can pay your cable bill.
To not suffer, or to get a handout with which they can do as they wish? At least with WIC, you don't get cash, you get stamps only valid for certain food items and cheap diapers.
So that means that we have a program that covers *everybody* and people actually *plan* on getting social security... figure it into their retirement *plans*? It was intended to be a safety net, not a pension plan.
If people are destitute and have needs, then don't write them a check. Give them charity with conditions. If you want our money, live in minimalist government-provided housing with nutritious and cardboard-tasting meals. You don't get to spend your life not saving money (and don't give me the boo-hoo, poor people aren't living at their means, they're charging up debts they'll never be able to pay off on credit cards and eating meals they can't afford, and watching cable TV instead of reading free library books) and then live the way you want to live on my money, feeling *entitled* to it.
And I pay the max each year on Social Security tax, so I do have a vested interest... though the maximum keeps moving up.
Privately-bought insurance covers your house burning down, and the government doesn't pay you if you're the victim of a crime, except in certain circumstances of there being a victims compensation fund, which doesn't cover the majority of victims of crime.
I don't really give a fuck if we "tried it my way and people didn't like it". I don't think that providing welfare to individuals is "promoting the general welfare" as intended in the constitution. Let the states do this, find everyone moving to the one that provides the best benefits, and see how long it lasts.
May have been a post-install config done through kickstart. I was using an SOE image done up by the product guys. I may not have looked carefully enough through what they customize. It would be nice if it were default, though.
My day job's in a big hosting facility, and it was a surprise when setting up RHEL 3.0 that it had by default quite the restrictive iptables ruleset which let very little besides SSH through, and pam_tally was set up in the install, so 5 login failures locked out the account.
Quite refreshing to see, since I was doing the install for a customer who'd decided to go for a reimaging because their machine had been compromised.
I wonder how much of getting away with this is done by using open proxies laid down on zombies by $WORM_OF_THE_MONTH.
Obviously the SEs know to watch for 100+ adwords clicks in 15 minutes from the same IP (though maybe this is harder due to decentralization of the data centers and another reason for them to get a dark fiber network - see the article from earlier today) but if the clicks appear to be coming from broadband users across the US, I could see worms playing a big part in this, relatively undetectably.
Up-to-the-minute with RSS is what's killing it. Constant polling and sending without an "if newer than" kind of request puts a huge burden on publishers.
Insignificant to what? We're still talking reselling hundreds of millions of dollars in MS licenses, which they won't be a part of. We've seen IBM unafraid to use Linux on the server side, but desktops are a different story. I think it's significant that they're changing the dynamics of their relationship with MS.
Adding products like Gmail on top of their infrastructure changes the sychronization schedules... e-mail is far more time-sensitive than bulk updates sychronizing their web search index. It could simply be due to a change in their needs.
Well, first thing to do is use the feature "REGISTRAR-LOCK" to make sure that for a domain transfer, not only does there need to be authorization from the listed contacts, but also you need to log in to your registrar and unlock it first.
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But if they're doing it to perpetuate the institution...
If you gave a friend a nice pair of pearl earrings because you wanted her to have them to look nice, and then she lost her job and was living out of her car, wouldn't you want her to pawn them to be able to eat?
I've never heard the kind of hype about baseball video games as about even basketball, which seems to me to be far behind football.
Is this more of an "if you don't have one, you look bad, but having one does nothing positive for you" issue?
Will CD/DVD burner manufacturers be required to "check in" with the RIAA/MPAA/BSA before burning music, video, or executable files?
There *is* such thing as a slippery slope.
It's already happened with video surveillance. People have gotten so used to video surveillance that when another Orwellian scenario comes about, one of the arguments for complacency is "There are already video cameras everywhere, it's not like you have any privacy anyway"
Be diligent. Write your representatives now, and try working with well-reasoned logic, resisting the impulse to tell them directly what pigfuckers they are.
There are plenty of them on the market, and as the price comes down, there will be even more.
To whom do you think HP has been selling the SuperDome line? And to whom has Sun been selling the E10/12/15K?
One of the benefits of using a huge multiprocessor Sun box, though, besides the massive numbers of CPUs you can have in a single frame running under a single system image is the ability to dynamically reconfigure resources, like a few other posters have touched on.
Imagine this... you have a box with 64 CPUs and 128GB of RAM. During the day, you have developers who are working with 16 CPUs and 32GB of RAM, working on the next generation of the database you'll be running for your business. A development domain.
You have another domain of 16 CPUs and 32GB as a test domain. Like when stuff goes out to beta, you run tests on the stuff you've pushed out from your development copy to see if it's ready for prime-time.
You have a third domain of 32 CPUs and 64GB in which you run production. It's a bit oversized for your needs for the work throughout the day, but it's capable of handling peak loads without slowing down.
Then, you have a nightly database job that runs recalculating numbers for all the accounts, dumping data out to be sent to a reporting server somewhere, batch data loads coming in that need to be integrated into your database. Plus you have to keep servicing minimal amounts of requests from users throughout the night, but hey, nobody's really on between 10PM and 4AM.
Wouldn't it be nice to drop the dev and test databases down to maybe 4CPUs if they're still running minimal tasks, and throw 56CPUs and 112GB of RAM at your nightly batch jobs? They get what's almost the run of the machine... until you're done with the batch jobs. Then you shrink production back to half the machine, and boost up the test and dev to a quarter each... so everyone's happy when the day starts.
When you start handing out money, you're never going to be able to stop, because you build dependency. Where is the disincentive in the current plan? If there's no disincentive, then it will keep growing.
Do you not understand that people base their (albeit limited) financial planning on what they anticipate Social Security will pay when they hit a certain age?
They plan for it.
If it simply protected people from starving and freezing, then fine, but don't *plan* on taking my money so you can pay your cable bill.
To not suffer, or to get a handout with which they can do as they wish? At least with WIC, you don't get cash, you get stamps only valid for certain food items and cheap diapers.
So that means that we have a program that covers *everybody* and people actually *plan* on getting social security... figure it into their retirement *plans*? It was intended to be a safety net, not a pension plan.
If people are destitute and have needs, then don't write them a check. Give them charity with conditions. If you want our money, live in minimalist government-provided housing with nutritious and cardboard-tasting meals. You don't get to spend your life not saving money (and don't give me the boo-hoo, poor people aren't living at their means, they're charging up debts they'll never be able to pay off on credit cards and eating meals they can't afford, and watching cable TV instead of reading free library books) and then live the way you want to live on my money, feeling *entitled* to it.
And I pay the max each year on Social Security tax, so I do have a vested interest... though the maximum keeps moving up.
Privately-bought insurance covers your house burning down, and the government doesn't pay you if you're the victim of a crime, except in certain circumstances of there being a victims compensation fund, which doesn't cover the majority of victims of crime.
I don't really give a fuck if we "tried it my way and people didn't like it". I don't think that providing welfare to individuals is "promoting the general welfare" as intended in the constitution. Let the states do this, find everyone moving to the one that provides the best benefits, and see how long it lasts.
They suffer the consequences of their inaction and/or ignorance? God forbid we expect people to be responsible for themselves...
Well, I'd venture to guess that ET's calls home would be cheaper over VOIP. :)
If I'd had more notice... well, then I wouldn't have to be doing my application today. Since I'm at work, it'll be eating into my Slashdot time!
BARMAN: What, isn't there anything we can do?
FORD: No, nothing.
BARMAN: Well, I always though we were to lie down and put a
paper bag over our head or something.
FORD: If you like, yes.
BARMAN: Well, will that help?
FORD: No. Excuse me, I've got to find my friend.
May have been a post-install config done through kickstart. I was using an SOE image done up by the product guys. I may not have looked carefully enough through what they customize. It would be nice if it were default, though.
My day job's in a big hosting facility, and it was a surprise when setting up RHEL 3.0 that it had by default quite the restrictive iptables ruleset which let very little besides SSH through, and pam_tally was set up in the install, so 5 login failures locked out the account.
Quite refreshing to see, since I was doing the install for a customer who'd decided to go for a reimaging because their machine had been compromised.
I wonder how much of getting away with this is done by using open proxies laid down on zombies by $WORM_OF_THE_MONTH.
Obviously the SEs know to watch for 100+ adwords clicks in 15 minutes from the same IP (though maybe this is harder due to decentralization of the data centers and another reason for them to get a dark fiber network - see the article from earlier today) but if the clicks appear to be coming from broadband users across the US, I could see worms playing a big part in this, relatively undetectably.
Up-to-the-minute with RSS is what's killing it. Constant polling and sending without an "if newer than" kind of request puts a huge burden on publishers.
If only the ESA would hire NASA to port Beagle 2 to Mars. ;)
Insignificant to what? We're still talking reselling hundreds of millions of dollars in MS licenses, which they won't be a part of. We've seen IBM unafraid to use Linux on the server side, but desktops are a different story. I think it's significant that they're changing the dynamics of their relationship with MS.
And IBM sold off its PC division, totally changing the dynamics of their relationship with Microsoft...
...it is a crazy man's ramblings.
Adding products like Gmail on top of their infrastructure changes the sychronization schedules... e-mail is far more time-sensitive than bulk updates sychronizing their web search index. It could simply be due to a change in their needs.
The article doesn't say if this is worldwide or the US, but given that it's about $378 per person if it's the US, I could see that being the case.
I'd be interested in seeing comparitive numbers with Japan, who are some serious gadget lovers.
Are you trying hard to be a fuckwit, or does it come naturally?
Well, first thing to do is use the feature "REGISTRAR-LOCK" to make sure that for a domain transfer, not only does there need to be authorization from the listed contacts, but also you need to log in to your registrar and unlock it first.