Eh? What are you on about? Go read the link. Family buys cheap baby monitor that spews all over the spectrum. HAM tries to help. Soccer mom freaks out (even to the point of trying to file a criminal complaint). Typical story, from what I understand.
Yea, if only it was that easy. You have to try and resolve it yourself... and good luck dealing with the soccer moms. You might have the law on your side, but it takes a long time to go about it that way.
Well, microcode doesn't persist beyond booting, so while it's not perfect, it's not permanently damaging. You usually can't just reboot to resolve a corrupted/tampered BIOS flash.
I can give you several reasons why you would want to field load the BIOS. Flaws in processor designs are often worked around by BIOS code and settings. Discovering a flaw in a chip after it is sold to the public is a great reason to be able to update the BIOS with the fix in the field.
Intel (at least) allows you to push microcode updates right into the processor at the OS level. This doesn't need to be done by the BIOS. In fact, it shouldn't - unless you simply cannot boot without doing so!
Yea, instead you have vendors handing out floppy IMG files leaving you to scratch your head. I don't understand why more don't allow you to use USB Mass Storage.
Exhibit A: All the dip-shits that caused the London riots and think it's ok to burn and loot shops for a pair of sneakers etc.
There's a slight problem with you using that for evidence. We've been doing that shit since the beginning of history, I hardly think you can blame some modern media on it.
Get off your high horse. There is nothing to compare us to except some ideal in your mind. Weren’t you just suggesting that we stop using our imaginations?
United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Now the actual law derived from this allowance can be found here, and it is not so fluffy. That said, nothing short of a constitutional amendment can override the Constitution, meaning that the above sentence is the entire foundation for Title 17.
By "MySQL Cluster", you're referring to the configuration that requires NBD, right?
Yes. This is a bad thing? Properly setup NBD is hard to kill. No data lives in once place.
No foreign keys
You mean just like MyISAM? It has it's uses. This is a cluster, remember. The cluster management nodes are supposed to make this a non issue. As below, as long as someone who knows what they are doing builds it and doesn't half-ass it, this is fine.
no guarantees of that data has been flushed to disk when a COMMIT comes back
It uses a two-phase commit process. Provided whomever sets the cluster up knows what they are doing and doesn't half-ass it, it works just fine.
I'm pretty sure you're allowed to park in a shared space like that if it's not posted, so long as you're not doing something stupid like overnighting. They can kiss your ass.
No, so you can try to clue in the dipshit who's had his flasher on for 2 miles, or the guy who hit his hi-beams when he last changed lanes and hasn't noticed yet.
I have power assisted brakes. (Brake, not break). In fact, I even have a CVT. My navigation system has a freakin' gyro in it. My car is pretty damn modern.
The point is that first press is amplified consistently (unless something is broken. you have to admin in such case all bets are off). Having the system arbitrarily decide (good reason or no) to change that behavior greatly increases the risk of something stupid or harmful happening because it deviates from the operator's expectation.
Here's a proof of concept. When you turn your computer on it turns on normally, correct? Imagine if it detected something off (make something up) and instead of turning on it flew three feet in the air with a loud noise. I imagine you would react to this quite strongly, and probably not for the better of anything you were holding/manipulating at the time.
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Eh? What are you on about? Go read the link. Family buys cheap baby monitor that spews all over the spectrum. HAM tries to help. Soccer mom freaks out (even to the point of trying to file a criminal complaint). Typical story, from what I understand.
Literally tearing it apart with x-rays! That's a mind-boggling amount of energy.
Yea, if only it was that easy. You have to try and resolve it yourself... and good luck dealing with the soccer moms. You might have the law on your side, but it takes a long time to go about it that way.
a number of innovations such as WiFi, cordless phones and baby monitors.
Gee, thanks for that. Those things tend to be the scourge of the airwaves.
Well, microcode doesn't persist beyond booting, so while it's not perfect, it's not permanently damaging. You usually can't just reboot to resolve a corrupted/tampered BIOS flash.
You apparently can't read. The MBR is not the BIOS, and the BIOS is not the MBR.
How does that have anything to do with the BIOS at all?
... in other words, ACPI?
I can give you several reasons why you would want to field load the BIOS. Flaws in processor designs are often worked around by BIOS code and settings. Discovering a flaw in a chip after it is sold to the public is a great reason to be able to update the BIOS with the fix in the field.
Intel (at least) allows you to push microcode updates right into the processor at the OS level. This doesn't need to be done by the BIOS. In fact, it shouldn't - unless you simply cannot boot without doing so!
Yea, instead you have vendors handing out floppy IMG files leaving you to scratch your head. I don't understand why more don't allow you to use USB Mass Storage.
Sounds vaguely like a variable delta-wing configuration like you see on some fighter craft.
The munchkin voices in his head?
I remember them! The Nahli! "hoobooda!"
I genuinely felt bad when one of them died or I saw their remains placed into the map. Something about that game touched me (oddly)
Exhibit A: All the dip-shits that caused the London riots and think it's ok to burn and loot shops for a pair of sneakers etc.
There's a slight problem with you using that for evidence. We've been doing that shit since the beginning of history, I hardly think you can blame some modern media on it.
Get off your high horse. There is nothing to compare us to except some ideal in your mind. Weren’t you just suggesting that we stop using our imaginations?
United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Now the actual law derived from this allowance can be found here, and it is not so fluffy. That said, nothing short of a constitutional amendment can override the Constitution, meaning that the above sentence is the entire foundation for Title 17.
Sure. US or UK?
By "MySQL Cluster", you're referring to the configuration that requires NBD, right?
Yes. This is a bad thing? Properly setup NBD is hard to kill. No data lives in once place.
No foreign keys
You mean just like MyISAM? It has it's uses. This is a cluster, remember. The cluster management nodes are supposed to make this a non issue. As below, as long as someone who knows what they are doing builds it and doesn't half-ass it, this is fine.
no guarantees of that data has been flushed to disk when a COMMIT comes back
It uses a two-phase commit process. Provided whomever sets the cluster up knows what they are doing and doesn't half-ass it, it works just fine.
What's your point?
Are you going to tell me word processors are boring, spreadsheets put you to sleep, and calculators suck the life out of the party?
If you're using MySQL and need to scale further for some reason, then just use MySQL Cluster. There's no need to change entirely.
Perhaps you should go back and re-read the original law then.
Guess I'll have to start backing in then! (we don't have plates on the front, around here)
I'm pretty sure you're allowed to park in a shared space like that if it's not posted, so long as you're not doing something stupid like overnighting. They can kiss your ass.
No, so you can try to clue in the dipshit who's had his flasher on for 2 miles, or the guy who hit his hi-beams when he last changed lanes and hasn't noticed yet.
I have power assisted brakes. (Brake, not break). In fact, I even have a CVT. My navigation system has a freakin' gyro in it. My car is pretty damn modern.
The point is that first press is amplified consistently (unless something is broken. you have to admin in such case all bets are off). Having the system arbitrarily decide (good reason or no) to change that behavior greatly increases the risk of something stupid or harmful happening because it deviates from the operator's expectation.
Here's a proof of concept. When you turn your computer on it turns on normally, correct? Imagine if it detected something off (make something up) and instead of turning on it flew three feet in the air with a loud noise. I imagine you would react to this quite strongly, and probably not for the better of anything you were holding/manipulating at the time.