It is important to get this news. You're right that American media isn't carrying it.
Just curious. Does anyone know if the Arab media carrying the reports that Iraqi Military and Paramilitary are firing on civilians trying to leave Basra? I couldn't find any reference to it from English-language Arabic news sources on news.google.com, but then the English-language Arabic news sources don't seem to be much referenced on news.google.com, lately
There were lots of English-language Arabic News source there a few days ago. Somebody mentioned this this here, and I have to say it does seem like these source have dried up on news.google.com.
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Did anybody run unedited pictures of the result of people who jumped from the WTC on 9/11?
Is it more responsible to show gore, or not to show it. I'm not sure, but it does seem that the media didn't want to enflame passions over 9/11 any more than they already were.
Also, it can help to prevent being distracted from someone's physical presence, whether repugnant and smelly or attractive and perfumed, to focus on ideas.
Of course, you are still subject to being distracted by the beauty of their expression or repelled by their ignoble profanity. I guess I don't have a problem with that.
I have always been they guy who wants the best tool for the best job. If that was the way things worked with computers, Mainframes would definitely be used for Databases and all IO intensive processes and UNIX/Linux for Calculation intensive stuff and Windows for low end file sharing and print spooling as well as clients.
This is way too much of an oversimplification. For many applications, mainframes often lose out rather badly to Unix systems for databases. Your cost and flexibility with Unix systems is often going to be superior. It depends on your requirements, of course.
OpenVMS doesn't run on Mainframes, yet it has the best clustering available. So, some database applications are best run there.
Similarly, there are clients applications where Linux seems to be a big win over Windows. POS systems come to mind. SAMBA can be more flexible for low end file sharing. It all depends on what you want to do.
Mandating that Open Source be included should not be needed.
Nobody is 'Mandating that Open Source be included'. The mandate is that Open Source be considered.
Since Open Source might help build a healthy local software economy for people to build and customize applications, rather than send all your money to Redmond or whereever your database/app vendor lives, it's seems like it's in the State's best interest to have OSS considered. But, just considered.
Technologists are often afraid to openly advocate Open Source. A law like this can help. But, the mandate is just to consider it, nothing more. I'd like to think that, all things being equal, the Open Source solution might win some of these competitions.
You're putting words into the GreyWolf3000's mouth. He never said that McGovern's example supported his view of unionized labor or all of the points he was making, but GreyWolf3000 did mention the overly litigious society.
GreyWolf3000 said just this:
There was a senator or rep who was a staunch Democrat who, when he retired, tried to start a small business (a hotel I think). His business floundered because of many of the extremely harsh policies that he himself had pushed.
Which the article that McGovern wrote supports when McGovern says:
I'm not expert enough after only two and a half years as a business owner to know the solutions to all those concerns. I do know that if I were back in the U.S. Senate or in the White House, I would ask a lot of questions
before I voted for any more burdens on the thousands of struggling businesses across the nation.
For example, I would ask whether specific legislation exacts a managerial price exceeding any overall benefit it might produce. What are the real economic and social gains of the legislation when compared with the costs and competitive handicaps it imposes on businesspeople?
The part I highlighted above is a pretty clear admission that McGovern had pushed harsh policies that may not have been well thought out.
There was a senator or rep who was a staunch Democrat who, when he retired, tried to start a small business (a hotel I think). His business floundered because of many of the extremely harsh policies that he himself had pushed.
Yeah, a story like that has to be true. No one every makes come-uppance tales about people of different opinions to show them suffering from their misguided ways.
I mean, am I the only person for whom the disk space/memory/processor speed pissing contest is rather dull?
Uhmm... Let me see. hmmm... uhmm... no, he's interested, so is she, and over there, yep, and everybody in Europe, China, rest of Asia, Africa, check, yep, all interested... Oh, wait, South America... Yep, all interested. US, rest of North America... hmm, Surely someone is Canada not... nope, they're all interested, too. I know! That guy who reads/. from Antartica. Nope, he's interested.
I don't run an ISP, but my guess is that a sizeable % of total disk space on most ISPs is storing SPAM. You can't just calculate the cost of disks, you have to apportion the costs of all disk maintenance, backups, bootup time when checking larger disks, everything.
Here's another jewel from Jamie's analysis:
The next most common argument I hear is that customers will abandon ISPs that don't fight spam. But every ISP has the same problem, so this is really a competitive advantage issue except for the small percentage of users who are actually driven off the internet by spam.
Huh? How does every ISP have the same problem if they don't all fight SPAM? People will abandon the ISPs that don't fight SPAM for those that do. Those ISPs that do fight SPAM invest significant resources into software, analysis, reconfiguration and hardware to fight SPAM. There are costs for all of these things.
Another amazing thing about the above extract from Jamie's question is that he says that there's only a competitive issue when someone is drive off the Internet by SPAM. Huh?? He's got it exactly backwards. If the person is driven OFF the Internet it's NOT a competitive issue, since no ISP will have that customer. In the case of the rest of the customers, who seek a SPAM-ameliorated ISP, it's a competitive issue.
Jamie's analysis is so thin that it doesn't really rate as a good question to someone who manages an ISP. I don't run an ISP and I can see that it's pretty flawed.
Even if the ISPs could handle SPAM for free, there would still be the significant costs on USERs to review and delete it. Admittedly, Jamie doesn't mention this issue, but it can't be ignored in any sensible real-world analysis.
I don't think that the/. editors read every article on/. like some of us readers do.
The editors read/.? Are you kidding? Those guys made millions when they were bought out by Andover some years back. They don't sit around like a bunch of losers reading/. anymore.
Not true. He calls Apple beleaguered in the next to the last paragraph:
The last time Apple was in this state, it brought back co-founder Steve Jobs to fix its issues. He fostered the development of the iMac and secured a US$150-million investment from Microsoft. But there aren't any new iMacs in Apple's future and Microsoft, bolstered by its victory over the U.S. Department of Justice, is clearly not going to help the beleaguered computer maker this time.
Look, Lucas did a great job with American Graffiti. That was the one and only movie where he ever did a good job directing actors, though.
I think that, in fairness, the direction in "A New Hope" was pretty good, even great maybe.
The entrances of Darth Vader were well done with the music and the shot of his feet were especially memorable. The fight near Leia's jail and the followup scene in the Garbage Compactor was pretty classic. Luke finding his family killed was well done. The scene with the Rebel Alliance viewing the Holograph of the Death Star plans was good. Several memorable scenes of Hans Solo piloting the Millenium Falcon were good. The attack on the Death Star was well paced, much better than the similar scene from Independence Day.
It wasn't just the writing in that movie. I know a lot of the scenes were actually nods to other cinematography (the scene of Luke finding his family killed was almost directly lifted from some Western, for example and shooting the feet of a villian entering the scene in is an old trick to build suspense), but all in all, a good job of Direction.
Hmmm... Going back to read what you wrote, you may have a point. The direction of the actors in "A New Hope" wasn't especially good. It was mostly the camera work, pacing, music and atmospherics. OTOH, the Hans/Leia/Luke thing was well developed and those actors did a good job. Peter Cushing was good. James Earl Jones was an inspired choice. I'd say the casting was excellent, but that's not directing.
The reason it is public at all, is that it generates publicity with the/. crowd and costs them little or nothing in the process.
Not to mention the fear it inspires in Motorola. I'm sure this goes a long way toward helping keep PPC prices low (for Apple) and pushing PPC performance higher.
And I'm sure its going to do nothing but reinforce lots of negative stereotypes and Katz-style whining.
Now, you blame the victims for being whiny, elitist, "smarter-than-you" types.
I don't know, maybe my experience was odd. When I was in High School, the nerds stayed as far away from the types who might pick on them as possible, but were accosted anyway.
What I seem to recall is that those who inflicted violence on nerds were also those who told sexist jokes, treated women as objects and had the least tolerance for the mentally handicapped. How's that for a generalization? I think it's an honest portrayal, though.
In any case, I fail to see how someone's whiny, elitist, "smarter-than-you" attitude could ever justify physical abuse.
Provoking a bear twice my size by poking it with a stick doesn't make me a victim when it mauls me. It makes me a fool who should have watched what he was doing.
We're not talking about bears or other wild animals here. We're talking about physically abusive people.
In the adult world, someone who responds to perceived slights with violence is not excused away.
Give us an example of what these abusive nerds were doing to provoke these poor jocks? Oh my gosh, did they whine? Did they act smart in Science class? Well then, they had it coming to them!
No wonder we have such trouble with education these days. Anyone who acts 'elite' is targetted for violence.
I suppose when a woman gets beaten by her husband, you would want to check the wife to make sure she wasn't being whiny. She might have it coming to her, right? At least, that's how you remember it? The wives who got beaten usually are asking for it?
This doesn't really add credence to the Memo, however, it just proves that the author had access to Google.
There are a lot of Internal references in the Memo on InternalMemos.com that should be verifiable. I would expect Sun to deny that this is real, if it's a fake, or perhaps they won't dignify it with any attention at all.
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My business has been looking for a new terminal server and I think Linux on the iPod might be the answer. I mean just look at those stats. It's the next big thing!
Yeah! Look at the mindshare Linux on the iPod is gaining... Two stories in one day on/. about it!
I wonder who will take on Feynmann's job on this one? It needs a panel member of equal scientific depth but with the ability to communicate.
It would be difficult to get anyone with Feynmann's scientific depth, but fortunately, such depth wasn't really what was required in the Challenger investigation.
What was required there, and here, is unswerving integrity, openness and honesty. Three things that Feynmann always demonstrated in important matters.
I wonder if they could find someone like that today?
Crappy admins bring this kind of attack on themselves, and alas, on the rest of us too.
Really.
There should be liability for allowing this to spread. I would imagine that you could bring a civil suit against the owners of unpatched systems, but there are so many it would be difficult to really bring to trial, I would think. I guess you could just make examples of people and make them sue whoever gave them the virus (if they could tell) to recover punitive damages.
There ought to be laws. If a vulnerability is found and unpatched and your system starts attacking other Internet systems due to the unpatched vulnerability, the ISPs should be required to shut you down, charge you for the work incurred and you should have to pay a fine and swear that you're all patched up before reconnection. The fines could go to supporting CERT activities.
Second offences would get steeply escalating fines.
As it stands now, sites really have very little motivation to making sure their systems are patched. I know a lot of sites that were spreading Code Red were still serving up pages just fine (I connected to them with clients).
This could all be enforced by ISPs. If ISPs refused, like foreign ISPs, then ISPs in whatever country that supports these measures could be required to block their traffic.
Computer security is somebody else's problem if it costs businesses money to implement. We need to make sure businesses with this attitude are hit in the pocketbook to bring it to their attention.
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It is important to get this news. You're right that American media isn't carrying it.
Just curious. Does anyone know if the Arab media carrying the reports that Iraqi Military and Paramilitary are firing on civilians trying to leave Basra? I couldn't find any reference to it from English-language Arabic news sources on news.google.com, but then the English-language Arabic news sources don't seem to be much referenced on news.google.com, lately
There were lots of English-language Arabic News source there a few days ago. Somebody mentioned this this here, and I have to say it does seem like these source have dried up on news.google.com.
Is it more responsible to show gore, or not to show it. I'm not sure, but it does seem that the media didn't want to enflame passions over 9/11 any more than they already were.
Of course, you are still subject to being distracted by the beauty of their expression or repelled by their ignoble profanity. I guess I don't have a problem with that.
Much of the funding for PBS programs come from "Fan" funding. How is this essentially different?
This is way too much of an oversimplification. For many applications, mainframes often lose out rather badly to Unix systems for databases. Your cost and flexibility with Unix systems is often going to be superior. It depends on your requirements, of course.
OpenVMS doesn't run on Mainframes, yet it has the best clustering available. So, some database applications are best run there.
Similarly, there are clients applications where Linux seems to be a big win over Windows. POS systems come to mind. SAMBA can be more flexible for low end file sharing. It all depends on what you want to do.
Nobody is 'Mandating that Open Source be included'. The mandate is that Open Source be considered.
Since Open Source might help build a healthy local software economy for people to build and customize applications, rather than send all your money to Redmond or whereever your database/app vendor lives, it's seems like it's in the State's best interest to have OSS considered. But, just considered.
Technologists are often afraid to openly advocate Open Source. A law like this can help. But, the mandate is just to consider it, nothing more. I'd like to think that, all things being equal, the Open Source solution might win some of these competitions.
You're putting words into the GreyWolf3000's mouth. He never said that McGovern's example supported his view of unionized labor or all of the points he was making, but GreyWolf3000 did mention the overly litigious society.
GreyWolf3000 said just this:
Which the article that McGovern wrote supports when McGovern says:
The part I highlighted above is a pretty clear admission that McGovern had pushed harsh policies that may not have been well thought out.
- There was a senator or rep who was a staunch Democrat who, when he retired, tried to start a small business (a hotel I think). His business floundered because of many of the extremely harsh policies that he himself had pushed.
Yeah, a story like that has to be true. No one every makes come-uppance tales about people of different opinions to show them suffering from their misguided ways.In this case, the story is true.
IANAL, but I think the only possible role for the FSF would be to file a 'friend of the court' brief.
Seeing as NONE of those listed organizations can hold copyrights, I find this extremely unlikely.
Now, it may be that it could be suppressed under various National Security laws, but the DMCA wouldn't apply.
Uhmm... Let me see. hmmm... uhmm... no, he's interested, so is she, and over there, yep, and everybody in Europe, China, rest of Asia, Africa, check, yep, all interested... Oh, wait, South America... Yep, all interested. US, rest of North America... hmm, Surely someone is Canada not... nope, they're all interested, too. I know! That guy who reads /. from Antartica. Nope, he's interested.
Yep, you're the only one.
Jamie's analysis of disk space also seems naive.
I don't run an ISP, but my guess is that a sizeable % of total disk space on most ISPs is storing SPAM. You can't just calculate the cost of disks, you have to apportion the costs of all disk maintenance, backups, bootup time when checking larger disks, everything.
Here's another jewel from Jamie's analysis:
Huh? How does every ISP have the same problem if they don't all fight SPAM? People will abandon the ISPs that don't fight SPAM for those that do. Those ISPs that do fight SPAM invest significant resources into software, analysis, reconfiguration and hardware to fight SPAM. There are costs for all of these things.
Another amazing thing about the above extract from Jamie's question is that he says that there's only a competitive issue when someone is drive off the Internet by SPAM. Huh?? He's got it exactly backwards. If the person is driven OFF the Internet it's NOT a competitive issue, since no ISP will have that customer. In the case of the rest of the customers, who seek a SPAM-ameliorated ISP, it's a competitive issue.
Jamie's analysis is so thin that it doesn't really rate as a good question to someone who manages an ISP. I don't run an ISP and I can see that it's pretty flawed.
Even if the ISPs could handle SPAM for free, there would still be the significant costs on USERs to review and delete it. Admittedly, Jamie doesn't mention this issue, but it can't be ignored in any sensible real-world analysis.
The editors read /.? Are you kidding? Those guys made millions when they were bought out by Andover some years back. They don't sit around like a bunch of losers reading /. anymore.
Uhhh... hmmm...
I think that, in fairness, the direction in "A New Hope" was pretty good, even great maybe.
The entrances of Darth Vader were well done with the music and the shot of his feet were especially memorable. The fight near Leia's jail and the followup scene in the Garbage Compactor was pretty classic. Luke finding his family killed was well done. The scene with the Rebel Alliance viewing the Holograph of the Death Star plans was good. Several memorable scenes of Hans Solo piloting the Millenium Falcon were good. The attack on the Death Star was well paced, much better than the similar scene from Independence Day.
It wasn't just the writing in that movie. I know a lot of the scenes were actually nods to other cinematography (the scene of Luke finding his family killed was almost directly lifted from some Western, for example and shooting the feet of a villian entering the scene in is an old trick to build suspense), but all in all, a good job of Direction.
Hmmm... Going back to read what you wrote, you may have a point. The direction of the actors in "A New Hope" wasn't especially good. It was mostly the camera work, pacing, music and atmospherics. OTOH, the Hans/Leia/Luke thing was well developed and those actors did a good job. Peter Cushing was good. James Earl Jones was an inspired choice. I'd say the casting was excellent, but that's not directing.
You might say that he's executing a structured loop with one exit point, at the top or the bottom of the loop, in his grave.
Not to mention the fear it inspires in Motorola. I'm sure this goes a long way toward helping keep PPC prices low (for Apple) and pushing PPC performance higher.
Or be prepared to suffer the violent consequences!
You are really a piece of work.
First, you prejudge the article without reading it.
You know, where you say:
Now, you blame the victims for being whiny, elitist, "smarter-than-you" types.
I don't know, maybe my experience was odd. When I was in High School, the nerds stayed as far away from the types who might pick on them as possible, but were accosted anyway.
What I seem to recall is that those who inflicted violence on nerds were also those who told sexist jokes, treated women as objects and had the least tolerance for the mentally handicapped. How's that for a generalization? I think it's an honest portrayal, though.
In any case, I fail to see how someone's whiny, elitist, "smarter-than-you" attitude could ever justify physical abuse.
We're not talking about bears or other wild animals here. We're talking about physically abusive people.
In the adult world, someone who responds to perceived slights with violence is not excused away.
Give us an example of what these abusive nerds were doing to provoke these poor jocks? Oh my gosh, did they whine? Did they act smart in Science class? Well then, they had it coming to them!
No wonder we have such trouble with education these days. Anyone who acts 'elite' is targetted for violence.
I suppose when a woman gets beaten by her husband, you would want to check the wife to make sure she wasn't being whiny. She might have it coming to her, right? At least, that's how you remember it? The wives who got beaten usually are asking for it?
Check out where Gleick quotes Feynman on the inherent risk of Shuttle flights. Prescient, that Feynman.
This doesn't really add credence to the Memo, however, it just proves that the author had access to Google.
There are a lot of Internal references in the Memo on InternalMemos.com that should be verifiable. I would expect Sun to deny that this is real, if it's a fake, or perhaps they won't dignify it with any attention at all.
Yeah! Look at the mindshare Linux on the iPod is gaining... Two stories in one day on /. about it!
"But we have enough fond memories to last us for a lifetime."
It runs Mozilla 1.3, too.
It would be difficult to get anyone with Feynmann's scientific depth, but fortunately, such depth wasn't really what was required in the Challenger investigation.
What was required there, and here, is unswerving integrity, openness and honesty. Three things that Feynmann always demonstrated in important matters.
I wonder if they could find someone like that today?
Really.
There should be liability for allowing this to spread. I would imagine that you could bring a civil suit against the owners of unpatched systems, but there are so many it would be difficult to really bring to trial, I would think. I guess you could just make examples of people and make them sue whoever gave them the virus (if they could tell) to recover punitive damages.
There ought to be laws. If a vulnerability is found and unpatched and your system starts attacking other Internet systems due to the unpatched vulnerability, the ISPs should be required to shut you down, charge you for the work incurred and you should have to pay a fine and swear that you're all patched up before reconnection. The fines could go to supporting CERT activities.
Second offences would get steeply escalating fines.
As it stands now, sites really have very little motivation to making sure their systems are patched. I know a lot of sites that were spreading Code Red were still serving up pages just fine (I connected to them with clients).
This could all be enforced by ISPs. If ISPs refused, like foreign ISPs, then ISPs in whatever country that supports these measures could be required to block their traffic.
Computer security is somebody else's problem if it costs businesses money to implement. We need to make sure businesses with this attitude are hit in the pocketbook to bring it to their attention.