Linus seems to understand this much better than the people writing the filesystems, which is quite ironic.
It's common sense! Duh. Write data first, pointers to data second. If the system goes down, you're far less likely to lose anything. That's obvious. Those who think this is somehow not obvious don't have the right mentality to be writing kernel code.
I think the problem is Ted T'so has had a slight 'works for me' attitude about it:
All I can tell you is that *I* don't run into them, even when I was using ext3 and before I got an SSD in my laptop. I don't understand why; maybe because I don't get really nice toys like systems with 32G's of memory. Or maybe it's because I don't use icecream (whatever that is).
But if they're owned by shell companies, the shell companies have to be owned by someone right? That means that once you track something back to a shell company, it would take old-fashioned detective work to determine who or what owns/controls the shell company.
I agree that that's not pure network forensics, but is, instead, full-blown investigation work, but it's still possible.
Of course, if you have to go that far, is the fact that the IP addresses are used by the police really public knowledge? I guess not, but here's some ancient Chinese philosophy for you:
A secret that one person knows is a secret. A secret known to two people is no secret. A secret known to three people is information shouted to the world.
Most likely Ted T'so, based on the git commit logs. I say most likely because someone more familiar with the kernel git repo than myself should probably confirm or deny this statement.
Well, they had to switch the lkml server to ext3 because posts kept getting killed and cut into pieces with their old filesystem and the admins just kept saying "Well, they must've gone to Russia."
More seriously, what the fuck did the police think they're doing? They are persecuting people for exposing censorship.
Well, you're a German citizen, right? Germany has, last I checked, a constitutional federal, parliamentary representational democratic republican form of government, correct? Does the Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland not guarantee your basic rights?
Well, then stand up for them and write your representatives in parliament. Tell them you, as a German citizen, won't stand for the rights of citizens being violated! Tell them that Germany is no longer a gestapo state. The Geheime Staatspolizei is no more! And you won't stand for having it recreated!
Civilians have no rights anyways. That is the great American lie that has been used by the US government, and now all foreign governments, to trick their citizens into believing as if they matter or have any say in anything. It helps calm the rage of the poor and suffering, and gives them hope that one day it might change.
While I tend to agree with sentiment of what you're saying, what you are saying is not entirely true, but partly true. Civilians do have rights and the average citizen can evoke change. Look at what happened as a result of the civil rights movement in the 1960s: the end result is that we now have laws that specifically ban discrimination by race, gender and creed. (Not that these laws are always followed, but they do exist and they have produced some good results.)
In the end though, you are right: there is an oligarchy in this country led by the ruling class (read: the very rich and powerful) and though we have rights, they can sometimes be circumvented. It is up to each and every citizen to maintain vigilance and expose the government when it does things that go against our Constitutional rights.
T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom) was exposed revealing over two dozen secret IP address ranges used by the BND.
There's no such thing as a 'secret IP address range' on the Internet. Source and destination addresses are coded into each packet transmitted. Keeping an IP address a secret on the Internet, even with spoofing, is impossible.
Along with a heavy dose of virus/trojan/malware scanning and removal, no doubt. Seems these days about 70-80% of keygens on The Pirate Bay are infected with something. People install this crap and they call me in to clean up the mess.;)
He just wants a couple of technical features built into the OSS browsers to support loading custom client-side code
Okay, done. GreaseMonkey. Thanks and shout-out to Aaron Boodman and company for having the foresight to solve this problem long ago.
As for the license part of RMS' request, that could be solved with GreaseMonkey as well: just get W3C to add a "license=" attribute for the X/HTML script tag, and then get all the web developers to add it. (Oh yeah, and good luck with that!;))
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Kicked off the ISP, not the Internet. You can always switch to a competitive ISP.
See RFC 3514. :)
Right, but this problem doesn't go back to 2001.
Linus seems to understand this much better than the people writing the filesystems, which is quite ironic.
It's common sense! Duh. Write data first, pointers to data second. If the system goes down, you're far less likely to lose anything. That's obvious. Those who think this is somehow not obvious don't have the right mentality to be writing kernel code.
I think the problem is Ted T'so has had a slight 'works for me' attitude about it:
I can see you've never written any filesystem drivers ;). It's not quite that simple, but more or less that's the type of change you'd make.
But if they're owned by shell companies, the shell companies have to be owned by someone right? That means that once you track something back to a shell company, it would take old-fashioned detective work to determine who or what owns/controls the shell company.
I agree that that's not pure network forensics, but is, instead, full-blown investigation work, but it's still possible.
Of course, if you have to go that far, is the fact that the IP addresses are used by the police really public knowledge? I guess not, but here's some ancient Chinese philosophy for you:
A secret that one person knows is a secret. A secret known to two people is no secret. A secret known to three people is information shouted to the world.
Most likely Ted T'so, based on the git commit logs. I say most likely because someone more familiar with the kernel git repo than myself should probably confirm or deny this statement.
Well, they had to switch the lkml server to ext3 because posts kept getting killed and cut into pieces with their old filesystem and the admins just kept saying "Well, they must've gone to Russia."
The secret part is the fact that they were being used by the police. Nice try.
With some basic network forensics techniques, someone who knows what they are doing can determine the owner(s) of just about any IP address.
Create a real executable you made yourself and run UPX on it to reduce the executables size. McAffee and Norton both detect it as a possible virus.
That statement is simply false. McAfee Enterprise does not detect UPX compressed executables that I have created and run as false positives.
I can't see what business model the keygen writers have otherwise.
Who says it's a business model? I've always assumed most keygen writers were 13 year-olds with nothing better to do.
More seriously, what the fuck did the police think they're doing? They are persecuting people for exposing censorship.
Well, you're a German citizen, right? Germany has, last I checked, a constitutional federal, parliamentary representational democratic republican form of government, correct? Does the Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland not guarantee your basic rights?
Well, then stand up for them and write your representatives in parliament. Tell them you, as a German citizen, won't stand for the rights of citizens being violated! Tell them that Germany is no longer a gestapo state. The Geheime Staatspolizei is no more! And you won't stand for having it recreated!
Civilians have no rights anyways. That is the great American lie that has been used by the US government, and now all foreign governments, to trick their citizens into believing as if they matter or have any say in anything. It helps calm the rage of the poor and suffering, and gives them hope that one day it might change.
While I tend to agree with sentiment of what you're saying, what you are saying is not entirely true, but partly true. Civilians do have rights and the average citizen can evoke change. Look at what happened as a result of the civil rights movement in the 1960s: the end result is that we now have laws that specifically ban discrimination by race, gender and creed. (Not that these laws are always followed, but they do exist and they have produced some good results.)
In the end though, you are right: there is an oligarchy in this country led by the ruling class (read: the very rich and powerful) and though we have rights, they can sometimes be circumvented. It is up to each and every citizen to maintain vigilance and expose the government when it does things that go against our Constitutional rights.
T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom) was exposed revealing over two dozen secret IP address ranges used by the BND.
There's no such thing as a 'secret IP address range' on the Internet. Source and destination addresses are coded into each packet transmitted. Keeping an IP address a secret on the Internet, even with spoofing, is impossible.
Well, as ergo98 said, he hadn't a clue about databases when he began his project.
*ducking*
More importantly: Are they hiring? :)
So how's the pay over there at Microsoft?
Alternative approach:
1. Find a job elsewhere.
2. As you leave, report them to the BSA.
3. ????
4. Profit!!! The BSA pays out rewards up to $1 million.
Along with a heavy dose of virus/trojan/malware scanning and removal, no doubt. Seems these days about 70-80% of keygens on The Pirate Bay are infected with something. People install this crap and they call me in to clean up the mess. ;)
Lisa, in this house, we obey the Laws of Themodynamics!
On the gripping hand, I don't have a licence to redistribute that code, using it in my own web pages.. does that matter?
Not in reality. I occasionally spot websites running JavaScript code I wrote 10 years ago unlicensed. Not that I care. ;)
My cousin is a mechanic and he used to drive a Yugo. He actually owned two because, invariably, one was always in need of repair.
Somehow your story doesn't exactly seem like vote of confidence for the quality of the Yugo...
He just wants a couple of technical features built into the OSS browsers to support loading custom client-side code
Okay, done. GreaseMonkey. Thanks and shout-out to Aaron Boodman and company for having the foresight to solve this problem long ago.
As for the license part of RMS' request, that could be solved with GreaseMonkey as well: just get W3C to add a "license=" attribute for the X/HTML script tag, and then get all the web developers to add it. (Oh yeah, and good luck with that! ;))
The Model T's debut price in 1909 was $850 -- about $20,000 in today's dollars. Its lowest price in 1915, $440, is equivalent to ~$9,000 today.
Accounting for inflation, the Model T was far more expensive than the Yugo, and nearly 4 times the cost of the Tata.
Hey! You'd better watch who's Tatas you're Touching!