We don't have a war declaration from Congress, so who our enemies are is a matter of opinion, not policy. Perhaps if the executive instituted orders that were conducive to earning loyalty from underlings, because the orders were principled, there wouldn't be any leaks.
The shops should have their business license removed for selling clearly Mature/Adult only material to minors.
Why? The ratings are voluntary and provided by the industry itself. Purchasing the software is voluntary. What is the logic behind making a voluntary private sector arrangement mandatory by law? Isn't this like delegating legislative power to a private entity?
Oh, and UK != MN, btw. So "here in the UK" means jack for this discussion.
If the government is going to make the observance of ratings mandatory, then they need to take over the rating process itself. They will eventually have to, if laws like this make it on the books, because the industry will just stop giving M/AO ratings to games if it starts hurting sales.
if only because it's a bit hard to shop around for alternative governments.
Apparently you've never tried getting broadband from someone other than the local phone or cable monopoly. Renouncing citizenship and emmigrating is less hassle!
This thing reminds me of a problem I had recently with my sailboat and certain vendors of boat gear. My fresh water pump was running continuously instead of on-demand when a faucet was opened, and after checking all the plumbing I determined there were no leaks or air in the system which would cause the pressure to drop and the sensor on the pump to turn it on. With all other causes but the pump eliminated, I decided to replace the pump. Pull out the old SHURflo pump and went to West Marine. The only SHURflo models they had were washdown pumps or bait pumps (no pressure switch, no on-demand). So I bought a Jabsco variable speed fresh water pump and took it back to the boat. This is where I got really mad.
The Jabsco pump did not have threaded sockets for nipples on the inlet and outlet ports. Instead, machined into the fucking pump body were receptacles for Jabsco's own design for a snap-in o-ring fitting (and a traditional nipple or barb on the other end to attach to your plumbing). I'm thinking WTF! How many times to they expect me to connect and disconnect this fitting! Is the pump that bad, that they expect I'll have to replace it often enough to warrant a quick-connect fitting? WTF is wrong with a nipple and teflon tape, you know, the kind that's been in use almost since the invention of plumbing for pity's sake! The fiting is locked in place by sliding plastic collars that engage a groove round the body. On the pump the collars or tabs are captive. But on the accumulator tank that I also bought they are loose. Keep in mind this stuff is installed under the galley sink on a boat where one usually has to go through some mild contortions in order to dangle oneself upside down in the space. Nice job, dickwads, I hope I don't drop one into the fucking bilge, you idiots!
And if I am cruising in Mexico, I bet I can't find any of these proprietary fittings anywhere, should I need to replace one. I have no idea how sound the connection is, and whether it will hold together in rough seas. Furthermore, they only gave me elbows, no straights, and my existing plumping (inflexible QEFT tubing) was run through to attach to a straight fitting. So to install this pump as provided would have required some replumbing of my galley, which was out of the question foir such a simple job as replacing a pump. If I didn't like how the galley was plumbed I'd have no problem tearing it out and redoing it, but there's nothing wrong. Thoroughly disgusted, I put it back in the box and went to another West Marine store to exchange it for a SHURflo model. I bet you can see the end of this story coming. The new SHURflo models also had quick disconnect fittings on the pump ports - and they were different from and not compatible with the Jabsco fittings. I'm pretty much out of marine pump vendors now - those two are it. I kept the Jabsco after all and installed it. Went back to West Marine to buy some spare fittings. Guess what? They don't stock them. So now I get to figure out who has them. Jabsco doesn't sell direct.
I hope one of Jabsco's product designers (I can't call them engineers now) Googles this post some day while taking a break from dreaming up the next marine plumbing disaster. I mean really - WTF was wrong with nipples? Nothing! They were simple, reliable and easy to get and easy to install. And nothing is wrong with DNS, unless you install this JabscoDNS thing we're talking about.
Your explanation is pretty awful. DNS servers don't have a RAM cache and a disk cache. They have a cache. If the OS swaps part of the cache to disk, the nameserver daemon is unaware of it. Next, if www.slashdot.org is not found in cache, the next step is NOT to contact the root servers. The next step is to see if NS records for slashdot.org are in cache. If they are found, then the next query is to the slashdot.org NS. If NS for slashdot.org are not found in cache, the next step is to see if the.org NS are in cache, and ask the.org NS for the record. Only if no glue for.org is found will a query be sent to the root nameservers.
It's a good thing this is dead in the water. Too few people care or are aware of the problem for a commercial product to provide any kind of solution. Plus, if the marketing material is accurate, it's already flawed.
Safer - helps prevent identity theft and warns against phishing attempts
Faster - speeds up your existing internet connection
Smarter - corrects spelling mistakes on the fly
The first bullet is a dubious claim, the second one is clearly bullshit, and the third one makes a mess of bullet one by making it certain people will end up at a site they didn't intend to go to. I hope someone loses a lot of money on this, because they deserve to.
In stitches. On the floor. Laughing uncontrollably. Only a geek who has not seen another person in 6 months who wasn't a cubicle neighbor could convince himself that translating the mail client into Klingon will make it easier for people to use.
Here's the future of commercial software on Linux: all you will have to care about is the kernel version, if you are a commercial software vendor.
Why?
Because you'll ship your own glibc with your product, and all other standard libraries, and whatever command line utilities your product uses in its start up scripts, including a bash shell. ls. chmod. I've already got a commercial product in production that is built this way, and includes those utils I mentioned. It also comes with its own perl 5.8, linked against its own libc and libyouname it.
That is the future of commercial software on Linux. Vendors will start shipping their own distro-minus-kernel with their products, because they know it will work. Watch it happen. It's already started. Oracle will do it too, eventually.
Corporations exist for one purpose: to externalize costs, to make someone else pay. Piracy does the same thing. Corporations and piracy were made for each other. Payback is a bitch, and money isn't free. It all comes down to who is willing to use the gun first, and we all know who that is. Fuck them. Make the bastards shoot. They want to anyway. You know they do.
"What people are starting to discover is that people who write GPL code are not evil and people who write commercial software are also not evil, we just have different approaches." - Muglia
Which people are discovering this? I don't think anyone has any beef with the people who write software. It's the management of companies like Microsoft we have a problem with. The coders are all right and always have been. You think we look upon you and Gates and Ballmer and the rest as coders! It is to laugh. Your agenda is other than making good code. If making bad code makes money, bad code it is. Do you think we're morons? Try not insulting us if you want to build bridges.
The goal, from both sides, is to meet customer needs, he said, adding, "This is just the more mature view of the way the world is evolving..."
No, dude. You're only just now barely realizing that the world is passing you by. The world evolved - past tense. You just missed the train and now have to hire a heliocopter to get you to the party. But you're trying to pass it off like you're Alan Arken and Peter Falk arriving late at the wedding.
What you need to do now to make up for it is to do what they did in "The In-Laws". Hand over envelopes of cash to some OSS projects including some GPL projects, no strings attached. That'll show us you're sincere. You can even deduct it.
Its not Google's or any corporations job to change that. They are responsible to thier shareholders and responsible for following the law where ever they do buisness.
Of course. We give corps a free pass to do evil, because making money is more important.
Their propaganda site www.idont.com used to have a message when you logged in with Javascript disabled that said "You're a sad individual who needs to get with the program." Really. This message was surrounded by a bunch of slogans like "Think For Yourself" and "Resist Conformity."
They've changed it to say "This site requires Flash and a sense of humor" but I thought the earlier message was a lot more funny.
Notice how all the quotes and opinions offered are from the dissenters. Other than a short snippet from the majority opinion out of SCOTUS, you're not hearing the other side of this at all.
That simply isn't the case. There are six quotes or cites in the SFGate article from parties who support the decision, or the majority opinion itself:
Supporters said that it will protect governments from lawsuits filed by disgruntled workers pretending to be legitimate whistleblowers.
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Exposing government misconduct is important, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority. "We reject, however, the notion that the First Amendment shields from discipline the expressions employees make pursuant to their professional duties," Kennedy said.
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Kennedy said if the superiors thought the memo was inflammatory, they had the authority to punish him.
"Official communications have official consequences, creating a need for substantive consistency and clarity. Supervisors must ensure that their employees' official communications are accurate, demonstrate sound judgment, and promote the employer's mission," Kennedy wrote.
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Employment attorney Dan Westman said that Kennedy's ruling frees government managers to make necessary personnel actions, like negative performance reviews or demotions, without fear of frivolous lawsuits.
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Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said in a statement that the ruling "allows public employers to conduct the people's business without undue disruption and without turning routine personnel decisions into federal cases."
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Kennedy said that government workers "retain the prospect of constitutional protection for their contributions to the civic discourse." They do not, Kennedy said, have "a right to perform their jobs however they see fit."
There are only three quotes or cites by parties opposed to the decision, and nothing from the dissenting opinion is quoted or paraphrased:
Critics predicted the impact would be sweeping, from silencing police officers who fear retribution for reporting department corruption, to subduing federal employees who want to reveal problems with government hurricane preparedness or terrorist-related security.
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Stephen Kohn, chairman of the National Whistleblower Center, said: "The ruling is a victory for every crooked politician in the United States."
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"It's a very frightening signal of dark times ahead," said Tom Devine, legal director for the Government Accountability Project.
Twice as much space is given to supporters of the decision, exactly the opposite of your claim. But I guess if you're going to lie, you should go for the really big juicy ones. Works for the Bush admin.
The pro-freedom approach would be to let fiber owners (telcoms) charge whomever and whatever they want to use the lines that THEY OWN.
Which are situated on land easments that they do not own. Oops! What about the freedom of the cites and counties - the owners of the land - to tell the telcos they may not do any such thing to the public using the public's easements.
Not so pro-freedom now, are you? Now I bet you're all into entitlements and stuff from the government.
You have the money to pay for every edition of the "Hanging Bat" as it comes out. No point to even try doing anything moderately complex without it. Similarly you have to be a kbd+book person. Not all admins are.
Ridiculous. If you can run ps2pdf you can produce a PDF document of the extensive manual included in every sendmail release. It has everything the Bat book has, and is up-to-date with each release. All I needed to know to get a spam Milter working I read in op.me.
You work for a large corp or edu which has fairly complex mail handling requirements. Less complex cases can happily get around using Exim or Postfix.
This is true. Sendmail solves mail routing problems the others can't touch. However, client workstations don't even need something as complex as exim or postfix. That overkill. May as well run sendmail. All a client workstation needs is Simple SMTP (ssmtp) which fowards mail to a smart host and doesn't listen on port 25 at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah that was too snarky. Sorry.
We don't have a war declaration from Congress, so who our enemies are is a matter of opinion, not policy. Perhaps if the executive instituted orders that were conducive to earning loyalty from underlings, because the orders were principled, there wouldn't be any leaks.
The shops should have their business license removed for selling clearly Mature/Adult only material to minors.
Why? The ratings are voluntary and provided by the industry itself. Purchasing the software is voluntary. What is the logic behind making a voluntary private sector arrangement mandatory by law? Isn't this like delegating legislative power to a private entity?
Oh, and UK != MN, btw. So "here in the UK" means jack for this discussion.
If the government is going to make the observance of ratings mandatory, then they need to take over the rating process itself. They will eventually have to, if laws like this make it on the books, because the industry will just stop giving M/AO ratings to games if it starts hurting sales.
I can plug damn near anything into a Cisco router....
And if you disable autonegotiate and set speed and duplex at fixed values, you might even get link.
if only because it's a bit hard to shop around for alternative governments.
Apparently you've never tried getting broadband from someone other than the local phone or cable monopoly. Renouncing citizenship and emmigrating is less hassle!
This thing reminds me of a problem I had recently with my sailboat and certain vendors of boat gear. My fresh water pump was running continuously instead of on-demand when a faucet was opened, and after checking all the plumbing I determined there were no leaks or air in the system which would cause the pressure to drop and the sensor on the pump to turn it on. With all other causes but the pump eliminated, I decided to replace the pump. Pull out the old SHURflo pump and went to West Marine. The only SHURflo models they had were washdown pumps or bait pumps (no pressure switch, no on-demand). So I bought a Jabsco variable speed fresh water pump and took it back to the boat. This is where I got really mad.
The Jabsco pump did not have threaded sockets for nipples on the inlet and outlet ports. Instead, machined into the fucking pump body were receptacles for Jabsco's own design for a snap-in o-ring fitting (and a traditional nipple or barb on the other end to attach to your plumbing). I'm thinking WTF! How many times to they expect me to connect and disconnect this fitting! Is the pump that bad, that they expect I'll have to replace it often enough to warrant a quick-connect fitting? WTF is wrong with a nipple and teflon tape, you know, the kind that's been in use almost since the invention of plumbing for pity's sake! The fiting is locked in place by sliding plastic collars that engage a groove round the body. On the pump the collars or tabs are captive. But on the accumulator tank that I also bought they are loose. Keep in mind this stuff is installed under the galley sink on a boat where one usually has to go through some mild contortions in order to dangle oneself upside down in the space. Nice job, dickwads, I hope I don't drop one into the fucking bilge, you idiots!
And if I am cruising in Mexico, I bet I can't find any of these proprietary fittings anywhere, should I need to replace one. I have no idea how sound the connection is, and whether it will hold together in rough seas. Furthermore, they only gave me elbows, no straights, and my existing plumping (inflexible QEFT tubing) was run through to attach to a straight fitting. So to install this pump as provided would have required some replumbing of my galley, which was out of the question foir such a simple job as replacing a pump. If I didn't like how the galley was plumbed I'd have no problem tearing it out and redoing it, but there's nothing wrong. Thoroughly disgusted, I put it back in the box and went to another West Marine store to exchange it for a SHURflo model. I bet you can see the end of this story coming. The new SHURflo models also had quick disconnect fittings on the pump ports - and they were different from and not compatible with the Jabsco fittings. I'm pretty much out of marine pump vendors now - those two are it. I kept the Jabsco after all and installed it. Went back to West Marine to buy some spare fittings. Guess what? They don't stock them. So now I get to figure out who has them. Jabsco doesn't sell direct.
I hope one of Jabsco's product designers (I can't call them engineers now) Googles this post some day while taking a break from dreaming up the next marine plumbing disaster. I mean really - WTF was wrong with nipples? Nothing! They were simple, reliable and easy to get and easy to install. And nothing is wrong with DNS, unless you install this JabscoDNS thing we're talking about.
Your explanation is pretty awful. DNS servers don't have a RAM cache and a disk cache. They have a cache. If the OS swaps part of the cache to disk, the nameserver daemon is unaware of it. Next, if www.slashdot.org is not found in cache, the next step is NOT to contact the root servers. The next step is to see if NS records for slashdot.org are in cache. If they are found, then the next query is to the slashdot.org NS. If NS for slashdot.org are not found in cache, the next step is to see if the .org NS are in cache, and ask the .org NS for the record. Only if no glue for .org is found will a query be sent to the root nameservers.
The first bullet is a dubious claim, the second one is clearly bullshit, and the third one makes a mess of bullet one by making it certain people will end up at a site they didn't intend to go to. I hope someone loses a lot of money on this, because they deserve to.
In stitches. On the floor. Laughing uncontrollably. Only a geek who has not seen another person in 6 months who wasn't a cubicle neighbor could convince himself that translating the mail client into Klingon will make it easier for people to use.
Here's the future of commercial software on Linux: all you will have to care about is the kernel version, if you are a commercial software vendor.
Why?
Because you'll ship your own glibc with your product, and all other standard libraries, and whatever command line utilities your product uses in its start up scripts, including a bash shell. ls. chmod. I've already got a commercial product in production that is built this way, and includes those utils I mentioned. It also comes with its own perl 5.8, linked against its own libc and libyouname it.
That is the future of commercial software on Linux. Vendors will start shipping their own distro-minus-kernel with their products, because they know it will work. Watch it happen. It's already started. Oracle will do it too, eventually.
Corporations exist for one purpose: to externalize costs, to make someone else pay. Piracy does the same thing. Corporations and piracy were made for each other. Payback is a bitch, and money isn't free. It all comes down to who is willing to use the gun first, and we all know who that is. Fuck them. Make the bastards shoot. They want to anyway. You know they do.
It was probably more like
$ man rectum
No manual entry for rectum
Flock the Web Two-Oh browser surfed by the sea
And frolicked on a bloggers's list in a land called HTTP
OK, I won't give up my day job.
"Performancing?!?!?!" I really hate it when people verbize nouns. Just stop it.
But you can play four games at once on your 1080P HDTV panel and still have some screen space leftover for iTunes.
Which people are discovering this? I don't think anyone has any beef with the people who write software. It's the management of companies like Microsoft we have a problem with. The coders are all right and always have been. You think we look upon you and Gates and Ballmer and the rest as coders! It is to laugh. Your agenda is other than making good code. If making bad code makes money, bad code it is. Do you think we're morons? Try not insulting us if you want to build bridges.
No, dude. You're only just now barely realizing that the world is passing you by. The world evolved - past tense. You just missed the train and now have to hire a heliocopter to get you to the party. But you're trying to pass it off like you're Alan Arken and Peter Falk arriving late at the wedding.
What you need to do now to make up for it is to do what they did in "The In-Laws". Hand over envelopes of cash to some OSS projects including some GPL projects, no strings attached. That'll show us you're sincere. You can even deduct it.
That's insidious. He keeps saying "They" may want to do this or that to their "networks." Network "owners" he calls "Them".
But there is only one of "them" most customers get to choose from. And that's the problem!
Not to mention, who owns the easements "their" (his) pipes lie on or under.
Figures, son. When you're bragging about your salary, it's figures not digits.
In L.A. if you're making almost six figures you are almost able to afford your own apartment.
I'm glad they listed the optinal Gangway since my first concern with a Sea Ray would be disembarking as soon as possible.
Its not Google's or any corporations job to change that. They are responsible to thier shareholders and responsible for following the law where ever they do buisness.
Of course. We give corps a free pass to do evil, because making money is more important.
Their propaganda site www.idont.com used to have a message when you logged in with Javascript disabled that said "You're a sad individual who needs to get with the program." Really. This message was surrounded by a bunch of slogans like "Think For Yourself" and "Resist Conformity."
They've changed it to say "This site requires Flash and a sense of humor" but I thought the earlier message was a lot more funny.
That simply isn't the case. There are six quotes or cites in the SFGate article from parties who support the decision, or the majority opinion itself:
There are only three quotes or cites by parties opposed to the decision, and nothing from the dissenting opinion is quoted or paraphrased:
Twice as much space is given to supporters of the decision, exactly the opposite of your claim. But I guess if you're going to lie, you should go for the really big juicy ones. Works for the Bush admin.
But the means of making it all work together on a global scale is public domain. All that fiber was laid on public property. They do owe us.
The pro-freedom approach would be to let fiber owners (telcoms) charge whomever and whatever they want to use the lines that THEY OWN.
Which are situated on land easments that they do not own. Oops! What about the freedom of the cites and counties - the owners of the land - to tell the telcos they may not do any such thing to the public using the public's easements.
Not so pro-freedom now, are you? Now I bet you're all into entitlements and stuff from the government.
You have the money to pay for every edition of the "Hanging Bat" as it comes out. No point to even try doing anything moderately complex without it. Similarly you have to be a kbd+book person. Not all admins are.
Ridiculous. If you can run ps2pdf you can produce a PDF document of the extensive manual included in every sendmail release. It has everything the Bat book has, and is up-to-date with each release. All I needed to know to get a spam Milter working I read in op.me.
You work for a large corp or edu which has fairly complex mail handling requirements. Less complex cases can happily get around using Exim or Postfix.
This is true. Sendmail solves mail routing problems the others can't touch. However, client workstations don't even need something as complex as exim or postfix. That overkill. May as well run sendmail. All a client workstation needs is Simple SMTP (ssmtp) which fowards mail to a smart host and doesn't listen on port 25 at all.