Libel is only libel if there is deliberate intention to defame. You'd have to be either retarded or just really, really stupid to actually believe that what I said was anything other than a joke.
(And, for those of you without IT backgrounds, it's usually better to have one mechanism for any given system than it is to try and support multiple, partially incompatible mechanisms.)
Actually NFSv4 supports Windows file-sharing semantics rather better than previous versions of NFS.
I currently see Samba as more of a complement to NFSv4 to support Windows clients easily, but, OTOH, it is actually becoming increasingly possible to use only Samba for file sharing in a heterogenous UNIX/Windows environment, rather than a mix of Samba and NFS. If SMB2 ends up being better than NFSv4 in security and reliability aspects, then it may replace NFS as the defacto filesharing for *nix systems in the future.
How in the world can you sue someone who is homeless and has no internet access, take them to court, get shot down, and then have a district judge say "We think you, the RIAA, had the right intentions but the wrong paper work."?
I think the technical legal term for it is "various violations of the RICO Act."
So, for those of who can't attend, will there be some sort of webcast or what? In particular, I'm interested in what 'SMB2' will do that (RFC-compliant) NFSv4 won't.
The District Judge, however, disagreed with imposing sanctions, giving the RIAA's lawyers 'as officers of the Court the benefit of the doubt,' and instead concluded â" in his 6-page opinion (PDF) â" that the RIAA's lawyers were just being 'sloppy' and had not made the misstatements for an improper purpose.'"
In related news, District Court Judge Harold Baer, Jr., the same judge in the Warner V. Berry case has recently acquired a huge estate in the Hamptons valued at between $20 and $25 million dollars. When a reporter asked Judge Baer how he could afford such a state on a his public servants' salary, Baer simply said that "he had recently come into some money."
The only way to allow flashblock to block in a sane manner would be to replace the actual Flash binary with our own binary clicker that only calls the original adobe flash binary after clicking to view. Everything else is a hack.
So? Get to it, man! C'mon! Time's-a-wastin'! Fire up that Emacs!
The NX bit doesn't get rid of the problem entirely, though. To use this example, it sounds like an exploit can be written pretty much entirely in ActionScript bytecode. Also, just because the stack is non-executable, what's to stop me from replacing the return address to point at, say, libc's system(), placing a nasty shell script on the stack?
This assumes, of course, that you know the entry point of libc's system(). Since glibc is typically a dynamically-linked ELF.so these days on Linux, this means that you need to know the architecture on which your target is running, the specific version of glibc in use, etc.
While you can determine this easily for any given architecture/Linux distro pair, determining what particular distro and architecture are present from remote is problematic at best.
Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, there are certain SELinux rules you can use to prevent shell scripts from doing nasty things.
Krypton and xenon can also be excited to emit light, but they require more energy than is commercially viable, and are rather dim.
Pffft. You're talking to a guy who grew up in the sign business. Xenon and Krypton are often used because they are dimmer -- typically for "accent" neon where you don't typically want the full garishness of something like argon or neon.
Xenon is apparently plentiful enough to be in most of many so-called "neon" signs: The gas that's in "neon" signage isn't always neon -- different gases are used, including argon, krypton and xenon. Neon gives a reddish-orange glow. If it's more blueish, it's probably krypton or xenon.
you know, the "to hell with the blind let them fend for themselves" rhetoric is getting old. I mean really, the only arguments so far seem to be either along the lines of it's too expensive to introduce basic accessibility into web pages or that we shouldn't bother because you think it would be an inconvenience. that's... just... disgusting.
Especially when making a website accessible is mostly a matter of using CSS and W3C validated (X)HTML, up to recent standards. The rest is simple stuff: use text for links, put 'alt' attributes on image tags, etc.
Judging by the screenshots, it looks like some AT&T execs happened to catch a marathon of those 1990s cyber-thrillers which featured portrayals of that mysterious new "Internet" thing that was starting to get noticed, and decided the real Internet should start looking like those Hollywood mockups.
Hey! What's that little "pi" symbol in the lower right corner of the screen for?
And when you've written something as powerful and stable as the X Window System, come back and tell us about it.
With focus on the stable side of that particular equation.
I've seen lots of X alternatives. You seem to either get stability lacking features/flexibility (QT Embedded or GTK+ Direct FB) or something more feature complete, but utterly lacking in stability (Xynth) or development has completely halted (Fresco)
There is yet to be ANY evidence that infallible ID of every citizen leads to better security, better safety, or in fact anything better.
DNA evidence is hardly 'infallible'. It can be the best evidence sometimes, but the quality of DNA evidence depends greatly on the quality of sampling and analysis techniques, which are far from fallible.
Otherwise, I totally agree with the rest of your post.
The ultimate form of revolution is tax cuts. The more you cut taxes, the more the government will collapse.
Should I have to state the obvious? The government would be the ones to institute the tax cuts. They'll never cut taxes so much that they lose their power base.
Also, you forgot to mention that just because a software program carries a GPLv2 license, that doesn't mean that it meets the Free Software Definition. For some folks, this makes a very big difference in whether or not they'll use the software.
Also, for amusing reuse and evolution of memes (along with not so amusing ones) and the creative-as-hell trolls.
Like, for example:
I, for one, welcome our new unintimidated former lawyer CEO of a cable manufacturer overlord.
Or, perhaps:
In Soviet Russia, former lawyer CEOs sue YOU!!!
Or maybe even
1. Set up cable company 2. Threaten lawsuits against other cable companies in existence 3. Get settlements on all but one. 4. Get bitchslapped by former lawyer CEO of said company. 5. ???? 6. Pwned!!!!
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Libel is only libel if there is deliberate intention to defame. You'd have to be either retarded or just really, really stupid to actually believe that what I said was anything other than a joke.
(And, for those of you without IT backgrounds, it's usually better to have one mechanism for any given system than it is to try and support multiple, partially incompatible mechanisms.)
Actually NFSv4 supports Windows file-sharing semantics rather better than previous versions of NFS.
I currently see Samba as more of a complement to NFSv4 to support Windows clients easily, but, OTOH, it is actually becoming increasingly possible to use only Samba for file sharing in a heterogenous UNIX/Windows environment, rather than a mix of Samba and NFS. If SMB2 ends up being better than NFSv4 in security and reliability aspects, then it may replace NFS as the defacto filesharing for *nix systems in the future.
So, for those of who can't attend, will there be some sort of webcast or what? In particular, I'm interested in what 'SMB2' will do that (RFC-compliant) NFSv4 won't.
While you can determine this easily for any given architecture/Linux distro pair, determining what particular distro and architecture are present from remote is problematic at best.
Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, there are certain SELinux rules you can use to prevent shell scripts from doing nasty things.
Pffft. You're talking to a guy who grew up in the sign business. Xenon and Krypton are often used because they are dimmer -- typically for "accent" neon where you don't typically want the full garishness of something like argon or neon.
Xenon is apparently plentiful enough to be in most of many so-called "neon" signs: The gas that's in "neon" signage isn't always neon -- different gases are used, including argon, krypton and xenon. Neon gives a reddish-orange glow. If it's more blueish, it's probably krypton or xenon.
The 'print this page' link often links to a 'printer-friendly' version of the page, however.
I was going to RTFA but it seemed to be giving my screen-reader troubles!
(And yes, I 'got it'. I just didn't think it was particularly clever.)
I've seen lots of X alternatives. You seem to either get stability lacking features/flexibility (QT Embedded or GTK+ Direct FB) or something more feature complete, but utterly lacking in stability (Xynth) or development has completely halted (Fresco)
No, I think it's more like the other end...
Otherwise, I totally agree with the rest of your post.
Also, you forgot to mention that just because a software program carries a GPLv2 license, that doesn't mean that it meets the Free Software Definition. For some folks, this makes a very big difference in whether or not they'll use the software.
I, for one, welcome our new unintimidated former lawyer CEO of a cable manufacturer overlord.
Or, perhaps:
In Soviet Russia, former lawyer CEOs sue YOU!!!
Or maybe even
1. Set up cable company
2. Threaten lawsuits against other cable companies in existence
3. Get settlements on all but one.
4. Get bitchslapped by former lawyer CEO of said company.
5. ????
6. Pwned!!!!