Technically, "he/she" isn't correct, either. Proper English dictates the male pronoun be used when referring to a person of unknown gender. In my example below, I will rework the rest of the annoying grammar mistakes and make the sentence more readable:
"That is a sure sign he simply echoed something he read without any clue what he was talking about."
Also, why is it so special that the satelite runs linux?
You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot! It doesn't matter what it is, or why it runs Linux, so long as it does. Kitchen appliances? Check. Stuffed animals? Check. Dead flies? We're all over it.
I'm sure there are other ways to exploit this rootkit: hiding porn stashes from a nosy spouse would be another one.
I see this theme a lot around here. My question would be: If you have to hide your porn from your spouse, and if your spouse is so distrustful of you that you have to take extraordinary measures to hide your porn... Perhaps you married the wrong person?
If your wife had looked at you with puppy-dog eyes and said "But honey, I grew up wanting to be Ariel", would you really tell her she couldn't buy the new extended-edition DVD to share with your daughter?!
Err, uhm... *fumbles around nervously*.. OK, you got me there.
Actually -- going off on a tangent here -- I'd never tell her she can't buy something. That's one of my big issues. How many men have to ask their wives for permission to buy something? If only I had a quarter for every time I heard, "Man, I'd love to get one of those, but my wife won't let me." Usually in regards to inexpensive (>$200), harmless toys, from people who can easily afford them.
I wouldn't put up with that from any woman, and likewise, I wouldn't expect her to put up with it from me. Every couple ought to have a budget whereby x dollars in spending money are allocated to each person, and neither gives the other grief for what they purchase with their money.
No; if my wife honestly wanted to buy Disney stuff with her portion of our spending money, that'd be her decision, not mine. My attitude was directed mostly to the grandparent's comment,
After explaining everything to her, she just got all flustered and said that she didn't care about all that crap.
I just can't fathom being married to someone who doesn't care about these things. It's one thing to break down and buy something - I "had to have" the LOTR collection. It's quite another to be willfully ignorant of the issues, to simply not give a damn. If she's like this on media, chances are she's like this on many other important issues. Imagine statements like, "I don't care how the health care system works! I just want to see doctors when I'm sick!", or, "I don't care about taxes and elections and politics, I just want roads to drive on!"
And anyone that gets too selective or too calculating about life/sexual partners deserves their long lonely life.
I don't know. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who wasn't smart enough to care about important issues. This is an important issue.
For example, when I explained to my wife exactly how evil Disney is, she agreed with me instantly: "No more Disney products in our house." When the kids ask for the latest Disney film they get a short lecture on not doing business with the prince of darkness.
Had my wife thrown her hands up and said, "Who cares about all that political stuff. I just want to see Mickey Mouse."... well, she wouldn't have, because I would never have married someone so shallow.
It's simply that americans dont want a single seater commuter
Speak for yourself. I'd love a Tango. Unfortunately, the $85,000 price tag is a bit too, er, steep.
Show me where I can get a good, reasonably performing electric commuter with fair range for under twenty grand and I'm in. And don't even mention those little three wheeled Corbin cars... Nobody in their right mind would merge onto a freeway with traffic moving between 70-80mph in one of those.
People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time."
Clearly, this person has never performed basic tech support. I mean, come on. If you have that much faith in humanity, you've never done time as "The I.T. Guy" in a typical office. Turn in your geek card, sir, and report to AOL for further processing.
I only said very expensive because I meant it relative to the other options. The cost of running your own SAN + support from luster is very much more expensive than getting the same thing from EMC or Symantec.
No, it isn't. Exactly how much experience do you have with Lustre? Do you run a 300TB Lustre array, like the OP? I'm guessing not.
Price out a 1PB disk array from EMC or Symantec and get back to me. I can do it for under $2M including several hundred thousand dollars worth of support from CFS. I guarantee you EMC can't touch that price.
"The latest version of Lustre is always available from Cluster File Systems, Inc. Public Open Source releases of Lustre are made under the GNU General Public License. These releases are found here, and are suitable for clusters with thousands of nodes and hundreds of terabytes of storage."
A humpback whale weighs approximately 36 tons. That's a fairly beefy difference, and I wouldn't be surprised if a humpback can't survive out of water, as the body isn't strong enough to carry its own weight without the support of the surrounding water.
Good point. I actually had no idea how much various whales weigh.
But then again, what do I know about humpback whale transportation aside from what I've learned from Star Trek;-)
Well, you know how much they weigh, so you're ahead of me on your whale trivia.;)
No, but if you wan't to put a sticker on it that says "made for iPod"
What? I can sell an oil filter that says, "Fits Ford Broncos" without paying Ford.
if you want to use Apple's proprietary connector
So, if GM designed a "proprietary air filter housing" that was shaped differently, would it be OK for them to legally prevent aftermarket companies from making air filters to fit, thereby forcing consumers to buy their air filters at inflated costs?
Uhm, dude? The entire idea of the holding tank is illogical. Whales are mammals, they breathe air. We transport them out of water in trucks and aircraft. Put them in a sling, keep them wet and comfortable, and they're fine for short term transportation.
You can't measure that way. If you like the 3-minute song, you could potentially play it thousands of times. But you probably won't watch that episode of "Lost" more than once, maybe a few more times if you're a fanboy.
Yeah, I've heard this argument several times and I still don't buy it. It doesn't matter how many times I'm going to use it. Imagine if software was sold this way. If Microsoft charged $500 for Windows and justified it on the basis it will get used more often than Powerpoint, people would be up in arms.
Or physical items. If a couch cost fifty times as much to make as a bed, should they be priced the same because you'll spend more time using the bed?
Which part of the protoplasm are you from ? I've got a handful of DVDs that force me to watch the ads, and I assure you they are not the "rental versions".
I don't think there are "rental versions"... this guy is high. I rent from Blockbuster online and the discs don't have "tons of unskippable ads"... in fact, they're no different than the discs you buy in the store.
Almost everyone I know has bought an extra charger for their office or for their car.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on this, because I personally don't know anybody who has bought a spare charger for their office. My phone battery lasts like a week...
I do have a charger for the car I use on long trips, but that was free, too - bundled with one of the phones I bought.
ever notice that the charger structure changes with every new product line?
Yeah, and they include a charger with the purchase of every new product. How are they making a ton of money selling chargers?
By the way... The Nokia charger that came with a Nokia cell phone I bought in 1997 has charged several generations of Nokia phones, including my newest one. I also have half a dozen of these chargers because every time I upgrade my phone, they include another one. I've never actually bought a charger - and I don't think I'm in the minority here.
New phone every 1-2 years? Don't need to get a new charger? Not good for the service carrier, and therefore not good for their phone supplier.
Uhm, I think you're missing something that's, well, rather obvious: When is the last time you bought a new phone that didn't come with a charger?
If the charger costs Nokia $5 and an embedded coil costs them $1, they might just go with the coil. Saves them the cost of bundling that damn charger. Even if they were making bank selling chargers, what makes you think they can't sell a Nokia branded charging pad? This is even better; since a single pad can charge any device, they have a perfect excuse to NOT include it with the phone - and if the phone is your first pad-chargable device, hey, you have to shell out for a pad, too.
I am amazed that you liberals always find a way to blame Bush. Gas prices? Terrorist attacks? Hurricans? Bankrupt states? Yep - all Bush's fault.
Pull your head out of your ass. States aren't in fiscal hell because Bush cut taxes, they're in fiscal hell because the fuckups running them can't budget. Any little program they can think up becomes a must-have and forcing the taxpayers to foot the bill is their only means of finance. So the shit justs bloats and bloats and then, when those of us who pay the bill have had enough, the asshat politicians just keep on funding their pet programs anyway.
Compare this to your personal finances. If a man making $100k a year loses his job and ends up flipping burgers for $5 an hour, whose fault is it when he continues to live his $100k lifestyle and goes bankrupt? Here's a hint: It's damn well not the former employer who "took" his salary from him.
Neither is it Bush's fault if the fuckers running our state governments can't figure out how to live within their new budgets.
like the Atomic bomb, we do not hate the technology, we hate the people that used to kill a hell lot of humans.
No, we don't. Every school child knows countless more would have died if we hadn't dropped the bomb. The question was, "Do we sacrifice x000 of their people and end this, or lose x000^y people on both sides fighting it out for the next z years?"
I think the answer is quite obvious.
On a lighter note: Happy Birthday, Google! They're doing a lot of things right. Let's hope this continues.
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Technically, "he/she" isn't correct, either. Proper English dictates the male pronoun be used when referring to a person of unknown gender. In my example below, I will rework the rest of the annoying grammar mistakes and make the sentence more readable:
"That is a sure sign he simply echoed something he read without any clue what he was talking about."
Also, why is it so special that the satelite runs linux?
You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot! It doesn't matter what it is, or why it runs Linux, so long as it does. Kitchen appliances? Check. Stuffed animals? Check. Dead flies? We're all over it.
I'm sure there are other ways to exploit this rootkit: hiding porn stashes from a nosy spouse would be another one.
I see this theme a lot around here. My question would be: If you have to hide your porn from your spouse, and if your spouse is so distrustful of you that you have to take extraordinary measures to hide your porn... Perhaps you married the wrong person?
If your wife had looked at you with puppy-dog eyes and said "But honey, I grew up wanting to be Ariel", would you really tell her she couldn't buy the new extended-edition DVD to share with your daughter?!
.. OK, you got me there.
Err, uhm... *fumbles around nervously*
Actually -- going off on a tangent here -- I'd never tell her she can't buy something. That's one of my big issues. How many men have to ask their wives for permission to buy something? If only I had a quarter for every time I heard, "Man, I'd love to get one of those, but my wife won't let me." Usually in regards to inexpensive (>$200), harmless toys, from people who can easily afford them.
I wouldn't put up with that from any woman, and likewise, I wouldn't expect her to put up with it from me. Every couple ought to have a budget whereby x dollars in spending money are allocated to each person, and neither gives the other grief for what they purchase with their money.
No; if my wife honestly wanted to buy Disney stuff with her portion of our spending money, that'd be her decision, not mine. My attitude was directed mostly to the grandparent's comment,
After explaining everything to her, she just got all flustered and said that she didn't care about all that crap.
I just can't fathom being married to someone who doesn't care about these things. It's one thing to break down and buy something - I "had to have" the LOTR collection. It's quite another to be willfully ignorant of the issues, to simply not give a damn. If she's like this on media, chances are she's like this on many other important issues. Imagine statements like, "I don't care how the health care system works! I just want to see doctors when I'm sick!", or, "I don't care about taxes and elections and politics, I just want roads to drive on!"
Silly executives, rape is for kids.
Err, am I the only one who finds this statement very disturbing?
And anyone that gets too selective or too calculating about life/sexual partners deserves their long lonely life.
... well, she wouldn't have, because I would never have married someone so shallow.
I don't know. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who wasn't smart enough to care about important issues. This is an important issue.
For example, when I explained to my wife exactly how evil Disney is, she agreed with me instantly: "No more Disney products in our house." When the kids ask for the latest Disney film they get a short lecture on not doing business with the prince of darkness.
Had my wife thrown her hands up and said, "Who cares about all that political stuff. I just want to see Mickey Mouse."
Is nuclear power renewable?
Yes. Breeder reactors produce their own fuel.
Unfortunately they're not legal to build or operate in the U.S... They are used in Europe.
It's simply that americans dont want a single seater commuter
Speak for yourself. I'd love a Tango. Unfortunately, the $85,000 price tag is a bit too, er, steep.
Show me where I can get a good, reasonably performing electric commuter with fair range for under twenty grand and I'm in. And don't even mention those little three wheeled Corbin cars... Nobody in their right mind would merge onto a freeway with traffic moving between 70-80mph in one of those.
Who was it that said that?
Apparently, a close relative of porky pig.
(the parent has a stuttering problem; look at his name. Get it? Bah, nevermind...)
People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time."
Clearly, this person has never performed basic tech support. I mean, come on. If you have that much faith in humanity, you've never done time as "The I.T. Guy" in a typical office. Turn in your geek card, sir, and report to AOL for further processing.
I only said very expensive because I meant it relative to the other options. The cost of running your own SAN + support from luster is very much more expensive than getting the same thing from EMC or Symantec.
No, it isn't. Exactly how much experience do you have with Lustre? Do you run a 300TB Lustre array, like the OP? I'm guessing not.
Price out a 1PB disk array from EMC or Symantec and get back to me. I can do it for under $2M including several hundred thousand dollars worth of support from CFS. I guarantee you EMC can't touch that price.
The filesystems going to be the hardest component of this. I know of no open-source fs that could handle this.
Be enlightened: http://www.lustre.org/
"The latest version of Lustre is always available from Cluster File Systems, Inc. Public Open Source releases of Lustre are made under the GNU General Public License. These releases are found here, and are suitable for clusters with thousands of nodes and hundreds of terabytes of storage."
A humpback whale weighs approximately 36 tons. That's a fairly beefy difference, and I wouldn't be surprised if a humpback can't survive out of water, as the body isn't strong enough to carry its own weight without the support of the surrounding water.
;-)
;)
Good point. I actually had no idea how much various whales weigh.
But then again, what do I know about humpback whale transportation aside from what I've learned from Star Trek
Well, you know how much they weigh, so you're ahead of me on your whale trivia.
No, but if you wan't to put a sticker on it that says "made for iPod"
What? I can sell an oil filter that says, "Fits Ford Broncos" without paying Ford.
if you want to use Apple's proprietary connector
So, if GM designed a "proprietary air filter housing" that was shaped differently, would it be OK for them to legally prevent aftermarket companies from making air filters to fit, thereby forcing consumers to buy their air filters at inflated costs?
Uhm, dude? The entire idea of the holding tank is illogical. Whales are mammals, they breathe air. We transport them out of water in trucks and aircraft. Put them in a sling, keep them wet and comfortable, and they're fine for short term transportation.
If they're not there....viola'!
I'm confused. What does a musical instrument have to do with missing whales?
You can't measure that way. If you like the 3-minute song, you could potentially play it thousands of times. But you probably won't watch that episode of "Lost" more than once, maybe a few more times if you're a fanboy.
Yeah, I've heard this argument several times and I still don't buy it. It doesn't matter how many times I'm going to use it. Imagine if software was sold this way. If Microsoft charged $500 for Windows and justified it on the basis it will get used more often than Powerpoint, people would be up in arms.
Or physical items. If a couch cost fifty times as much to make as a bed, should they be priced the same because you'll spend more time using the bed?
Which part of the protoplasm are you from ? I've got a handful of DVDs that force me to watch the ads, and I assure you they are not the "rental versions".
... in fact, they're no different than the discs you buy in the store.
I don't think there are "rental versions"... this guy is high. I rent from Blockbuster online and the discs don't have "tons of unskippable ads"
Almost everyone I know has bought an extra charger for their office or for their car.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on this, because I personally don't know anybody who has bought a spare charger for their office. My phone battery lasts like a week...
I do have a charger for the car I use on long trips, but that was free, too - bundled with one of the phones I bought.
Also, why is it that so many /. readers seem to use electric toothbrushes?
Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
They make a ton of money on chargers
Source? Or are you just guessing?
ever notice that the charger structure changes with every new product line?
Yeah, and they include a charger with the purchase of every new product. How are they making a ton of money selling chargers?
By the way... The Nokia charger that came with a Nokia cell phone I bought in 1997 has charged several generations of Nokia phones, including my newest one. I also have half a dozen of these chargers because every time I upgrade my phone, they include another one. I've never actually bought a charger - and I don't think I'm in the minority here.
New phone every 1-2 years? Don't need to get a new charger? Not good for the service carrier, and therefore not good for their phone supplier.
Uhm, I think you're missing something that's, well, rather obvious: When is the last time you bought a new phone that didn't come with a charger?
If the charger costs Nokia $5 and an embedded coil costs them $1, they might just go with the coil. Saves them the cost of bundling that damn charger. Even if they were making bank selling chargers, what makes you think they can't sell a Nokia branded charging pad? This is even better; since a single pad can charge any device, they have a perfect excuse to NOT include it with the phone - and if the phone is your first pad-chargable device, hey, you have to shell out for a pad, too.
Um, the article (I'm sorry, TFA) doesn't say anything about the, er, REVENUE MODEL that these "businesses" use
That's step 2, remember? It comes right before "Profit!".
I am amazed that you liberals always find a way to blame Bush. Gas prices? Terrorist attacks? Hurricans? Bankrupt states? Yep - all Bush's fault.
Pull your head out of your ass. States aren't in fiscal hell because Bush cut taxes, they're in fiscal hell because the fuckups running them can't budget. Any little program they can think up becomes a must-have and forcing the taxpayers to foot the bill is their only means of finance. So the shit justs bloats and bloats and then, when those of us who pay the bill have had enough, the asshat politicians just keep on funding their pet programs anyway.
Compare this to your personal finances. If a man making $100k a year loses his job and ends up flipping burgers for $5 an hour, whose fault is it when he continues to live his $100k lifestyle and goes bankrupt? Here's a hint: It's damn well not the former employer who "took" his salary from him.
Neither is it Bush's fault if the fuckers running our state governments can't figure out how to live within their new budgets.
like the Atomic bomb, we do not hate the technology, we hate the people that used to kill a hell lot of humans.
No, we don't. Every school child knows countless more would have died if we hadn't dropped the bomb. The question was, "Do we sacrifice x000 of their people and end this, or lose x000^y people on both sides fighting it out for the next z years?"
I think the answer is quite obvious.
On a lighter note: Happy Birthday, Google! They're doing a lot of things right. Let's hope this continues.