While people are buying $250,000 NetApp installations, the exact same hardware, performance and connectivity will go for $5000 of high-end hardware and a couple of hours work with ZFS.
Having evaluated ZFS on a Sun server at that price point, I can state with a good degree of certainty that this is not even close to true. ZFS suffers from several show-stopping performance problems that made it unsuitable as replacement for NetApp filers even on our small applications. Last I checked, the issue we opened with Sun are still outstanding.
ZFS is probably OK for hosting a file archive, or staging backups. It is far from OK for hosting a Oracle or Mysql database.
And what will we say in ten years when GM foods are proven to wreck your DNA...
And the scientifically plausible mechanism by which this occurs - and which is not a concern for non-GM foods - is....... Magic?... Evil Energy?... Hysterical Confluence?
Lots of diseases and parasites that flourish in the less-developed countries have been wiped out (or nearly so) in more-developed countries. There are more less-developed countries in FIFA than there are developed countries. So the correlation should probably hold true for malaria and other parasites, as well as for things like education and poverty.
It's been years since I played WoW (or Diablo, or Starcraft, or any other Battle.net game). So bring me up to date: is participation on the Blizzard forums required in any fashion to play the game? For example, must you use the forum to raise a support request? Is interaction of any kind with the forum required to enjoy all that a Blizzard game has to offer?
If not, then I don't see what the problem is. Don't want to use your real name, don't post on the forums.
Astronomer: Hi, Honey! Astronomer's wife: Hello dear, how was work? Astronomer: Oh, the usual. An astounding object we've never seen before, and a couple of amazing discoveries, and this morning was a mad house, there was a huge batch of surprising observations waiting for me when I got in. I was swamped for hours. Astronomer's wife: That's nice, dear.
If you in IT, and are at age 40, and have not been promoted to management, become an independent contractor, started your own business, taken a government job, or switched careers... well, you better look good in blue, because you are one pay check away from having no other choice but to become a Wal*Mart greeter.
You forgot one more "or": have fattened your accounts over the years so you can retire early at any time.
Google Inc.'s explanation for firing a 54-year-old manager - that he was a poor "cultural fit" - was a code phrase for age discrimination, his lawyer told the state Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Worker in their 40's and up are rather disinclined to work 120 hours/week and basically live on the Google campus, away from their spouse and teenage children. Free cokes and junk food only goes so far - about 26. So yes, there's a cultural mismatch: older workers have a life outside Google.
What did I think you were trying to do? Argue the point with me, that's what. What do you think you are trying to do?
And if you think that was insulting, then your skin is just too thin for the internet. Stick with Reader's Digest or Redbook. Those are completely inoffensive publications.
Fine, so Spamhaus publishes a list of IP addresses *wink* *wink*. What is the list? "Oh, just IP addresses. No claims made about them. Users can do what they like with this list." Where's the slander/libel there?
Except that they do make claims about them, and their users understand what the claims are. Any court proceeding would uncover this fact. Lame try. Maybe your next one could be a nice try, if you try harder.
Your analogy about newspagers is a fail - it is constructed wholly to support your argument, but it is ridiculous. If you would just READ the article you would know this was not a libel OR slander case.
Newspaper publishers are also not immune to liability for tortorious interference, or whatever the technical name for the tort was.
SpamHaus does not CAUSE anything. Spamhaus is a fact-based list which publishes addresses which send Unsolicited Bulk Email.
Exactly. They represent the RBL as a list of facts. They are just like a newsfeed. When you publicly allege something is a fact, you can be liable for libel or slander (and in the UK, even if the facts are true, stupid libel laws).
Next, SpamHaus has not control or access to my servers.
So what? They have access to their servers, and they use them to publish their view of what the facts are concerning other parties. This opens them up to liabilities like any other publisher of facts are subject to.
The newspaper analogy is entirely accurate. Free newspapers are no less liable for the things they publish than for-pay newspapers.
What motivation does Spamhaus have to inappropriately label someone as a spammer?
Nobody who uses Spamhaus cares if they false-positive some outfit. All the Spamhaus users care about is what gets in their inbox. Spamhaus has no incentive to avoid listing false-positives. In fact, Spamhaus' advice to their own users is to whitelist addresses they don't want to be inadvertently blocked by Spamhaus.
Irrelevant. Nobody is forced to read the newspaper. The newspaper publisher can still be held liable for slander and libel.
So why on earth should Spamhaus be forced to pay any damages at all?
Duh. They lost the case. Even if they had showed up to defend the suit, they may still have lost. Losers pay. Otherwise, what is the point of civil lawsuits?
It's just insane that upon going through the court system _twice_ someone didn't ask "Well e360 can you prove you aren't spamming people?".
A civil court is not allowed to press criminal charges against the plaintiff. Is that really what you think should have happened? That's the DA's job. It would be a separate case in any event, unrelated to this one.
Please do tell me what kind of business (one that I've never heard of, mind you) sends out e-mails totaling the world's population and in what manner is that legitimate?
e360 sends campaigns on behalf of many, many clients who hire them to do it. It's their business model. Any one of their clients sending that many emails in would be pretty far outside the norm. And also, let me remind you that a recipient can receive more than one email, so comparing it to the population of the earth is pretty ridiculous. The world rice production in 2004 was 6-00 million tons. But people didn't eat it all at one sitting, so it was OK. Same with 6.6 billion mails. The number alone doesn't really say much.
Curiously, nowhere does e360 have to defend this action./i?
Curiously, it's legal to send emails. Why should they have to defend a legal action? If you think they have broken US law concerning unsolicited email, there are remedies and causes of action you can assert. Have at it.
I think it is important to note that Spamhaus is a service that people proactively utilize. They don't force you to use their anti-spam identification system -- it's totally opt-in.
People proactively buy the newspaper too. Doesn't mean the newspaper publisher can't be held liable for libel and slander. Spamhaus publishes a news report in DNS about which IP addresses are trustworthy. If they get it wrong and that harms someone, there is ample cause for a tort.
The Mac Mini is popular with car customizers because of the size and the external power supply. It's easy to adapt to a DC-DC regulator so it works off of 12V automobile (or boat) power.
War is war. When you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you die. It comes with the territory.
The problem with that view of this "war" is that anywhere can be the wrong place, and any time can be the wrong time. So you are talking about a world where summary execution is always acceptable, so long as it is done by a US soldier.
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But what about digestive tract homes?
While people are buying $250,000 NetApp installations, the exact same hardware, performance and connectivity will go for $5000 of high-end hardware and a couple of hours work with ZFS.
Having evaluated ZFS on a Sun server at that price point, I can state with a good degree of certainty that this is not even close to true. ZFS suffers from several show-stopping performance problems that made it unsuitable as replacement for NetApp filers even on our small applications. Last I checked, the issue we opened with Sun are still outstanding.
ZFS is probably OK for hosting a file archive, or staging backups. It is far from OK for hosting a Oracle or Mysql database.
And what will we say in ten years when GM foods are proven to wreck your DNA...
And the scientifically plausible mechanism by which this occurs - and which is not a concern for non-GM foods - is.... ... Magic? ... Evil Energy? ... Hysterical Confluence?
Please - inform us.
Lots of diseases and parasites that flourish in the less-developed countries have been wiped out (or nearly so) in more-developed countries. There are more less-developed countries in FIFA than there are developed countries. So the correlation should probably hold true for malaria and other parasites, as well as for things like education and poverty.
It's been years since I played WoW (or Diablo, or Starcraft, or any other Battle.net game). So bring me up to date: is participation on the Blizzard forums required in any fashion to play the game? For example, must you use the forum to raise a support request? Is interaction of any kind with the forum required to enjoy all that a Blizzard game has to offer?
If not, then I don't see what the problem is. Don't want to use your real name, don't post on the forums.
Yes, they can.
Cius Baltar?
Or Toyota Cius?
Porn Industry Ready To Drop Trou and Flash?
Astronomer returns home from day at work
Astronomer: Hi, Honey!
Astronomer's wife: Hello dear, how was work?
Astronomer: Oh, the usual. An astounding object we've never seen before, and a couple of amazing discoveries, and this morning was a mad house, there was a huge batch of surprising observations waiting for me when I got in. I was swamped for hours.
Astronomer's wife: That's nice, dear.
If the word has been adopted into English by astronomers to mean "mysterious galactic-scale blobs" then the plural voorwerps is correct.
The Federal Reserve is a private corporation, not a government agency.
If you in IT, and are at age 40, and have not been promoted to management, become an independent contractor, started your own business, taken a government job, or switched careers... well, you better look good in blue, because you are one pay check away from having no other choice but to become a Wal*Mart greeter.
You forgot one more "or": have fattened your accounts over the years so you can retire early at any time.
Worker in their 40's and up are rather disinclined to work 120 hours/week and basically live on the Google campus, away from their spouse and teenage children. Free cokes and junk food only goes so far - about 26. So yes, there's a cultural mismatch: older workers have a life outside Google.
Neufchatel?
I'm a 25 year old engineer and I love twitter, because I like to know what my friends are doing.
That 3rd-to-last word - not sure I know what it means. Not sure it it's important.
Are why we need to be able to moderate the article itself.
Is there a running contest among /. editors to see who can approve the dumbest stories?
What did I think you were trying to do? Argue the point with me, that's what. What do you think you are trying to do?
And if you think that was insulting, then your skin is just too thin for the internet. Stick with Reader's Digest or Redbook. Those are completely inoffensive publications.
Fine, so Spamhaus publishes a list of IP addresses *wink* *wink*. What is the list? "Oh, just IP addresses. No claims made about them. Users can do what they like with this list." Where's the slander/libel there?
Except that they do make claims about them, and their users understand what the claims are. Any court proceeding would uncover this fact. Lame try. Maybe your next one could be a nice try, if you try harder.
Your analogy about newspagers is a fail - it is constructed wholly to support your argument, but it is ridiculous. If you would just READ the article you would know this was not a libel OR slander case.
Newspaper publishers are also not immune to liability for tortorious interference, or whatever the technical name for the tort was.
SpamHaus does not CAUSE anything. Spamhaus is a fact-based list which publishes addresses which send Unsolicited Bulk Email.
Exactly. They represent the RBL as a list of facts. They are just like a newsfeed. When you publicly allege something is a fact, you can be liable for libel or slander (and in the UK, even if the facts are true, stupid libel laws).
Next, SpamHaus has not control or access to my servers.
So what? They have access to their servers, and they use them to publish their view of what the facts are concerning other parties. This opens them up to liabilities like any other publisher of facts are subject to.
The newspaper analogy is entirely accurate. Free newspapers are no less liable for the things they publish than for-pay newspapers.
What motivation does Spamhaus have to inappropriately label someone as a spammer?
Nobody who uses Spamhaus cares if they false-positive some outfit. All the Spamhaus users care about is what gets in their inbox. Spamhaus has no incentive to avoid listing false-positives. In fact, Spamhaus' advice to their own users is to whitelist addresses they don't want to be inadvertently blocked by Spamhaus.
Nobody is being forced to use Spamhaus.
Irrelevant. Nobody is forced to read the newspaper. The newspaper publisher can still be held liable for slander and libel.
So why on earth should Spamhaus be forced to pay any damages at all?
Duh. They lost the case. Even if they had showed up to defend the suit, they may still have lost. Losers pay. Otherwise, what is the point of civil lawsuits?
It's just insane that upon going through the court system _twice_ someone didn't ask "Well e360 can you prove you aren't spamming people?".
A civil court is not allowed to press criminal charges against the plaintiff. Is that really what you think should have happened? That's the DA's job. It would be a separate case in any event, unrelated to this one.
Please do tell me what kind of business (one that I've never heard of, mind you) sends out e-mails totaling the world's population and in what manner is that legitimate?
e360 sends campaigns on behalf of many, many clients who hire them to do it. It's their business model. Any one of their clients sending that many emails in would be pretty far outside the norm. And also, let me remind you that a recipient can receive more than one email, so comparing it to the population of the earth is pretty ridiculous. The world rice production in 2004 was 6-00 million tons. But people didn't eat it all at one sitting, so it was OK. Same with 6.6 billion mails. The number alone doesn't really say much.
Curiously, nowhere does e360 have to defend this action. /i?
Curiously, it's legal to send emails. Why should they have to defend a legal action? If you think they have broken US law concerning unsolicited email, there are remedies and causes of action you can assert. Have at it.
I think it is important to note that Spamhaus is a service that people proactively utilize. They don't force you to use their anti-spam identification system -- it's totally opt-in.
People proactively buy the newspaper too. Doesn't mean the newspaper publisher can't be held liable for libel and slander. Spamhaus publishes a news report in DNS about which IP addresses are trustworthy. If they get it wrong and that harms someone, there is ample cause for a tort.
That people opt-in to Spamhaus is not relevant.
The Mac Mini is popular with car customizers because of the size and the external power supply. It's easy to adapt to a DC-DC regulator so it works off of 12V automobile (or boat) power.
Now they'll have to resort to a inverter.
War is war. When you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you die. It comes with the territory.
The problem with that view of this "war" is that anywhere can be the wrong place, and any time can be the wrong time. So you are talking about a world where summary execution is always acceptable, so long as it is done by a US soldier.