ok, did some modern research and most of those laws I cited for Minnesota are fictitious, but I still find sites with them. I'm fairly certain the oral sex one was still on the books though (I seem to recall it being used in some rare cases of child abuse and rape). Still, there are crazy laws out there that are real.
But the real question is, did the Google employees know it was against the law to have ads that say "no prescription needed" and targeting US consumers at the time of the crime. I personally had no idea because the companies doing the advertising are based outside the US; though I did know that statement wasn't true for those drugs sold to people in the United States. It is definitely legal to sell steroids in some countries without a prescription, and if the ads were targeted at a region and not just the US that statement may be true (for instance, I've seen steroids for sale at pharmacies in Mexico).
Anyhow, my point is that Google management may not have known it was a crime - they still are guilty of the crime because ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but there are thousands and thousands of laws and no one person can know all of them. I mean, heck, when I was a teenager in Minnesota I found out it was against the law to sleep naked, have oral sex, or have bathtubs without feet in that state (and I had broken every one of them). It is also illegal to cross state lines with a duck on one's head or cross into Wisconsin with a chicken on one's head but I never did either of those. I also never broke the law that bans driving red cars down Lake street in Minneapolis but have seen a lot of people breaking that one.
Yep - my thought exactly - easily circumventable through a proxy server, and throw in wi-fi hotspots as well, since any data collected has almost no traceability after the user leaves the hotspot, and is especially untraceable if the user clears any DHCP cache. Even worse, coffee shops would likely be considered an ISP and would need to save their logs, even though many of them don't even have logging turned on (because they just run it through a hardware router to the real ISP). This is not as easy as it sounds - additional disk would need to be bought, the router configured to write logs to that disk, and the hardware may even need to be upgraded to support writing to external disk.
What they could tell is that the user used a proxy server a lot, and maybe that alone would suggest they are possibly involved in criminal activity and should be investigated.
But let's not linger on just privacy implications - for ISPs this is a major headache as well (aside from additional hardware costs), as every web enabled application a customer could use would need to be logged, including ones that normally aren't logged, like ping.
On the other hand, how many smart criminals are there? Aside from some major cleanup (require a court order, specify what protocols are enforced, require it only at major ISPs, not coffee shops, etc) such a law could help prosecute most criminals. It wouldn't do anything against someone like me because I would use a proxy server AND probably a coffee shop AND encryption if I wanted to do something illegal (and then wipe my DHCP cache, clean up logs and temp files, etc), but Joe Average doesn't know about such things. Even if the feds seized my hard drive, it'd be encrypted. If possible, I'd have a second password that would cause the drive to randomize the bits (self destruct). I'm not a criminal, so I don't need these precautions (aside from an encrypted hard drive on my laptop in case it's stolen).
This is about protecting their brand, trademarks and image. And as we all know, Apple will go to any lengths to do so.
And what company wouldn't? $100 million is a drop in the bucket for Apple - about 1/140th of last quarter's profit (much less for how much they've spent total), and in the process they've disrupted Android phone releases with lawsuits, called them an inferior copy, patented simple things like swipe to unlock, etc, so they have plenty of fodder for more lawsuits. Capitalism is all about winning, and while I don't share that mentality, Apple has become very good at it - certainly much better than when Microsoft cloned their OS's.
I think what you are referring to is commonly called dynamic typing (establishing the type of an untyped object at runtime). For example, in objective-C untyped objects use the "id" tag instead of int or float or whatever (static types - set at compile time). In C++ this is functionally equivalent to using a template and then using dynamic_cast to identify that type during runtime (which, unlike static casting, doesn't actually change the value, it just identifies what type of object the value is).
I remember writing and endian flipper for float and it was worlds simpler with untyped objects (in C I had to make this a tagged union, flip the bytes as an int, and then assign it to a float, whereas in Objective-C I just use id and call them ints when I do the byte swapping and after that use it as a float).
I have a bunch of those from that era - here's a couple:
User is used to Word Perfect, but has to use WordStar. User wants to print, so presses Control-P. Wordstar erases (p = purge in WordStar, print in Word Perfect) the document and the user hadn't saved it first. There was no confirmation dialog back then, either. An hour of typing a news article gone in a second.
User on a mac using Microsoft Word chooses Revert, but didn't know Revert means go back to the last saved version of the document and loses 2 hours of work. Note: Microsoft changed this from something like "Revert the document?" to "Are you sure you want to revert to the previously saved version" in the next version of Word probably due to a lot of user error and tears.
Unrelated to those, but related to TFA - when I was in college I heard one of the labbies (technically computer lab teaching assistants) was fired and kicked out of school but not details. I was friends with his roommate, so I ask what happened and found out he had been running a million+ dollar a year porn site off of the University servers (and this is the relatively early days of the public internet). If I had any doubts to the truth of it, they were alleviated a few days later when we all had to sign a code of conduct waiver, which included running sites of pornographic nature...
I'd say the person that wrote the article is scientifically uneducated, failing to indicate units on their temperature and listing a temperature in Fahrenheit units (or I think it is, since I recall it being a mean around 460C and I can't think of any other units the writer would have used).
By the date and a search I figured out that probe is Venera 14, which broadcast about an hour of data back to earth after landing in a 94bar atmosphere location and 465C temperature. I'm not sure how many pictures were sent back in that time, but the article I found said the quality wasn't that good and some of the pictures are cleaned up by a guy named Don P. Mitchell (no links in that article, but that should be enough to find more info if desired).
It's not that SOPA/PIPA is a bad idea in intention, it just is worded so broadly that it can easily be applied to many things it wasn't intended. Lamar Smith says Wikipedia has nothing to fear from SOPA and it will not censor the internet, but he is wrong and he is not listening. In fact, I can prove it will even with his interpretation of it. Take IMSLP, a library of musical scores that are in the public domain somewhere, but not necessarily everywhere. Some of these are still copyrighted in the US, some in Europe and Canada, some elsewhere, but all are in the public domain somewhere. This is a foreign site (with a US subsidiary for scores in the public domain in the US but not elsewhere due to differences in law) since it is based in Canada. It holds US copyrighted material that is legally public domain in Canada. By SOPA/PIPA, the US can delist IMSLP from DNS (and it is.org, so managed in the US), force no advertising from the US to go to it, and force Wikipedia (and Google and anyone else) to remove all references to it. While foreign DNS servers can add it back in on download, American DNS servers cannot because circumvention is illegal (though Americans can use a foreign DNS server, which is not illegal...).
Is it censorship? Yes. Does it stop piracy? No.
In fact, no part of SOPA/PIPA actually stops piracy, though the counterfeiting measures may hurt counterfeiters (to be honest, I just skimmed that section). US companies can hire foreign companies to do their advertising, and they won't have control over the sites the ads are placed on, so they have no way of shutting them down (ever heard of how spam emails work?). Pirates can still get DNS using foreign servers or just use IPs directly.
Ergo, all parts of this can easily and legally be circumvented by pirates and we lose legal parts of the internet in the process.
DisplayPort is not just an industry standard, it is a royalty free standard, but HDMI seems to be winning - the only device I've seen with DisplayPort is my 2+ year old HP laptop and I have about 18 devices with HDMI in my household (heck, our cellphones even have it).
My understanding is adapters that come with newer ATI and nVidia cards are DVI with an extra audio channel so they can hook to HDMI. It is possible to get adapters that just send DVI like most older adapters and these will not broadcast sound even if you hook them to newer cards.
I'll join you, my ISP won't support it until the infrastructure is replaced (IPv4 only PPPoE), and I'm sure that isn't an immediate priority for them. All the competitors that do support it are expensive (Comcast and anything backended on Covad, that means you) or have a horrible service track record (Clear, that means you).
correcting that for you: It will die because not enough corporations ponied up cash to buy the vote.
Fortunately, we can't pay off our judges as easily, so they should whack it with a giant first amendment violation bat.
I think my first action on passage of such a law would be to shut down every site in the world until they pay me the petty sum of $100 because they violate my copyright on BSD (whether I have or not only matters to my conscience), which has pieces embedded in nearly every OS. Oh, the purpose of SOPA wasn't to legalize extortion? How could I POSSIBLY have misinterpreted it?
The "resilience" is from copy on write (CoW), which is used in Volume Shadow Copy and Microsoft SQL server. It is also able to cloud data across multiple volumes on different machines from what I read. Since both CoW and ZFS's copy work a lot like RAID0 (as far as I can tell), I'd expect them to be similar in this respect, however ZFS also does checksum tests and NTFS doesn't BUT I don't know if ReFS will or not.
That said, ZFS is a WAY better file system, and I'll give you a few reasons why: No max path length restriction (TFA says there still be one for ReFS) Variable Block sizes and Sparse Files Allocate on Flush Block Journaling (aka Journaling File System) as opposed to Metadata only Journaling (NTFS and probably ReFS) which is less reliable Logical Volume Management and that is just naming a few off the top of my head with some links to what they mean if it seemed like it may not be obvious (the others are fairly commonly talked about IMO - if you don't know them, they should be easy to search for)
I'm fairly certain NTFS still doesn't support user metadata, either, and I believe zfs does (most modern FS's do), so I doubt ReFS will (what I mean by this is I can tag a piece of data as, say "photos" and then when I search for photos, those are found first - this is a feature like what was planned for WinFS's and what Apple's Spotlight does).
Microsoft doesn't like to change features, especially if they break compatibility. ReFS isn't really a new FS, it is NTFS with a bunch of old features and restrictions removed maintaining as much backwards compatibility as possible (Microsoft claims it's a ground up rewrite, but it still is essentially NTFS from a high level).
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You can blame both sides for this one - sure it was introduced by House Judiciary leader Lamar Smith, a Republican, but co-sponsors include Democrats Howard Berman, John Conyers, and Ted Deutch, amongst others. You would think someone on a Judiciary committee could write a bill that wouldn't trample all over first amendment rights, but Lamar Smith has that one down to an art. This is at least the third piece of legislation I know of that he has sponsored that has been tossed out over first amendment concerns.
Many businesses strongly supported SOPA, including Ford, Pfizer, the BSA, the ESA, NBC, Go Daddy, the MPAA, the RIAA... the list goes on. The problem is, it was business friendly to a fault, giving copyright holders unprecedented power to shut down sites, whether they were violating copyright or not and without requiring proof. There was no way this would ever pass a legal battle in court - it was killed as it needed to be. At least this one was killed before it got to court - congress has done a good job of passing these things and then having them immediately killed.
Now maybe we can wait for the China to bully us by threatening sanctions in the same way we bullied Spain...
Of course, that doesn't help me, because my now former ISP was Qwest and they had a "we will never support IPv6" policy, so until CenturyLink (the purchaser) replaces all of the old hardware, I am SOL for my website and browsers (no, I'm not setting up a tunnel - I have better things to do with my time than figure that out). Setting my web server up will be easy when they add it - just update the DNS server entry (since even my DNS provider supports it). If I didn't hate Comcast or XFinity or whatever they want to be called with a passion I may have switched back, but DISH has been way too nice. On a scale of 1 to 10 my customer experience rating with Comcast: 1, with Qwest 3, with DISH 10. Note to CenturyLink - learn something from DISH, fix the broken that was Qwest, and avoid being Comcast except from a network performance level.
Taking breaks is only a choice for musicians during practice - when you play gigs for money, you do what is demanded of you, when it is demanded of you. If that means 6 hours of playing without a real break, you do it (which I've done playing cello at a wedding reception - there was some downtime, but not a lot of time to leave for, say, a bio break). Ergonomically, my instruments (cello, 6 and 12 string guitars, electric basses, piano) are a lot more finger friendly that my touchscreen since they all have gradual resistance, not an abrupt stop. I think the biggest threat in all of those is the convolutions my hand needs to make to make certain chords. I've also done vocals, but I had to quit the band I sang part time in due to vocal nodes (everyone had to sing in that band, so I had no choice but to quit until I healed, but the band didn't last that long anyway).
Angry Birds Finger (TM) is more a problem of addiction - you don't have to keep playing, you choose to because you want some reward.
If you want to quibble about the US being a republic with democratically elected officials, you should get your terms correct on other accounts, since all of those "communists" mentioned are or were actually dictatorships. Communism is actually an economic system, not a political system, but this was largely smeared into a combined term during the cold war in reference to communist dictatorships like the Soviet Union, so people talk of it like it is a political system, even though that is incorrect. In the same way, "economic democracy" really doesn't mean anything (the masses can vote on prices maybe?) since democracy is a political system, not an economic system - they should say they are an economic capitalism.
So put in economic and political terms, the US is a capitalist republic, and North Korea is a communist dictatorship, with an emphasis on dictatorship because the ruling party lives in opulence while the masses live in poverty, as is common in dictatorships.
I oppose SOPA because it both violates freedom of speech and is fundamentally broken. It doesn't actually block IPs, it blocks DNS names, so it can be bypassed simply by using a foreign DNS server or just using the IP address (or an add-on like DeSOPA for Firefox, which I believe uses foreign DNS). I said violates freedom of speech, as well - SOPA allows for a copyright holder to ask for a block on an address that talks about piracy but doesn't contain any actual files - this violates our constitutional right to discuss such things if we so choose (it's called freedom of speech - see the first amendment to the US Constitution - congressmen and women that write these laws should at least be aware of it, but have proven wrong before, like when they passed the CDA only to have it tossed out immediately in court).
I oppose piracy, but since nothing in SOPA will stop (intentional) piracy since it is easily circumvented and because it potentially violates civil rights, I can't support it.
cracker: pejorative term for white people, particularly southerners (US) hacker: a really bad golfer, not to be mistaken for duffer, which is just a not very good golfer (or pool/billiards player)
Last time I golfed I got a 203 on a par 71, and if it weren't for a 12 max (so 216 would be the worst score I could score on 18 holes), it would have been a bit worse, especially for the 4x I hit the lake on a par 5. I wear my hacker badge proudly (hey, I've gone golfing 3 times in 20 years and never had a lesson, so I have an excuse for sucking at it).
I wouldn't call the ribbon a good design from a UI perspective because it forces learned behavior, which is bad from a usability perspective, but it also declutters the user interface, which is good from a design perspective. In UI design there are usability vs design tradeoffs that have to be made or you get nowhere. The biggest problem with programmers designing the interface is they are concerned with neither - they care most about features that set them apart from competition.
I'm actually working on a new client and everything has to go through the UI designers and usability engineers first, which wasn't the case with any of our old clients (yes plural) - developers just tacked on new menu options, and often these weren't relevant to most users. The new client goes through Usability and Design engineers, everything seen must be relevant to the user contextually, and most importantly, the interface cannot be cluttered. The UI/Usability people are even harder on the client design than I am, and I complain plenty (though they have the benefit of usability studies that I'm not a part of, since I'm not in their group).
Like many things, you can always put a lot of negative spin on it and make it sound like the dumbest thing in the world. I got sent an article about "shrimp on a treadmill" that probably came from a Fox News writer - it was neither objective nor balanced, ignoring even mentioning the purpose of the study to hype what it called government waste. Without any objective information about what the goals of the study were or what the researchers were actually studying (it was boiled down to "pollutants"), it is very hard to make an informed decision about whether the study was merit-able.
The liberals are no better - I got sent a "99% rally" email from someone likely in the 1%, but not a millionaire - I sent back that the top 1.5% starts at $250k - you probably ARE the top 1% (I know she and her husband make about $400k since my brother and her husband are business partners). To that she replied OMG, I didn't know that!
I do have some very liberal friends that are usually objective, but we disagree on certain points. Only my moderate conservative friends are objective - the very conservative ones are frustrating. One of them was arguing that every citizen should pay at least $1 tax every year, and I was saying that's crazy - why should retired people and people that live in the street and have no money at all have to pay tax? He said "they use public streets and parks, they should pay tax - no exceptions." It is this "no exceptions" Republican mentality that makes me want to use a baseball bat on their heads - that is the absolute WORST reason I've ever heard of for taxation - we should take money from the people that don't have any just because they live here...
What I noticed is they failed to compete on both features and quality and were last to market with many of these. I remember a few years back purchasing a Canon Elph with optical image stability, 4 megapixels, and 3x optical zoom and Kodak's best camera at that size entry (I think it is ultra portable) at that time was digital image stability, digital zoom, and 3.2 megapixels. The Kodak was about $50 cheaper, but there were Olympus and Samsung in the same price range with similar features to the Canon but without optical image stability (the selling point for me - OIS is essential in a small camera), but otherwise matching features to the Canon. Also the rear LCD display of the Kodak was the worst of any there, both in size and quality (I think 2.4 inches and very grainy). I then read the reviews on various websites and the Kodak landed at or near the bottom in picture quality as well. If you offer the worst features and the worst quality you are pretty much doomed to fail without fixing some things, something I think Kodak has failed to do. For reference, Panasonic also landed near the bottom in picture quality that year, but their picture quality is among the best today, so it is not an insurmountable hole.
I don't know how Kodak fares in the high end/high margin market because I can't really afford to be in that market myself - this is their Rebel SLR camera I believe. Usually when I hear of this market it is dominated by Nikon, Canon, and Sony (which snapped up Minolta's share when they bought their camera holdings after the Konica merger).
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ok, did some modern research and most of those laws I cited for Minnesota are fictitious, but I still find sites with them. I'm fairly certain the oral sex one was still on the books though (I seem to recall it being used in some rare cases of child abuse and rape). Still, there are crazy laws out there that are real.
But the real question is, did the Google employees know it was against the law to have ads that say "no prescription needed" and targeting US consumers at the time of the crime. I personally had no idea because the companies doing the advertising are based outside the US; though I did know that statement wasn't true for those drugs sold to people in the United States. It is definitely legal to sell steroids in some countries without a prescription, and if the ads were targeted at a region and not just the US that statement may be true (for instance, I've seen steroids for sale at pharmacies in Mexico).
Anyhow, my point is that Google management may not have known it was a crime - they still are guilty of the crime because ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but there are thousands and thousands of laws and no one person can know all of them. I mean, heck, when I was a teenager in Minnesota I found out it was against the law to sleep naked, have oral sex, or have bathtubs without feet in that state (and I had broken every one of them). It is also illegal to cross state lines with a duck on one's head or cross into Wisconsin with a chicken on one's head but I never did either of those. I also never broke the law that bans driving red cars down Lake street in Minneapolis but have seen a lot of people breaking that one.
Yep - my thought exactly - easily circumventable through a proxy server, and throw in wi-fi hotspots as well, since any data collected has almost no traceability after the user leaves the hotspot, and is especially untraceable if the user clears any DHCP cache. Even worse, coffee shops would likely be considered an ISP and would need to save their logs, even though many of them don't even have logging turned on (because they just run it through a hardware router to the real ISP). This is not as easy as it sounds - additional disk would need to be bought, the router configured to write logs to that disk, and the hardware may even need to be upgraded to support writing to external disk.
What they could tell is that the user used a proxy server a lot, and maybe that alone would suggest they are possibly involved in criminal activity and should be investigated.
But let's not linger on just privacy implications - for ISPs this is a major headache as well (aside from additional hardware costs), as every web enabled application a customer could use would need to be logged, including ones that normally aren't logged, like ping.
On the other hand, how many smart criminals are there? Aside from some major cleanup (require a court order, specify what protocols are enforced, require it only at major ISPs, not coffee shops, etc) such a law could help prosecute most criminals. It wouldn't do anything against someone like me because I would use a proxy server AND probably a coffee shop AND encryption if I wanted to do something illegal (and then wipe my DHCP cache, clean up logs and temp files, etc), but Joe Average doesn't know about such things. Even if the feds seized my hard drive, it'd be encrypted. If possible, I'd have a second password that would cause the drive to randomize the bits (self destruct). I'm not a criminal, so I don't need these precautions (aside from an encrypted hard drive on my laptop in case it's stolen).
And what company wouldn't? $100 million is a drop in the bucket for Apple - about 1/140th of last quarter's profit (much less for how much they've spent total), and in the process they've disrupted Android phone releases with lawsuits, called them an inferior copy, patented simple things like swipe to unlock, etc, so they have plenty of fodder for more lawsuits. Capitalism is all about winning, and while I don't share that mentality, Apple has become very good at it - certainly much better than when Microsoft cloned their OS's.
I think what you are referring to is commonly called dynamic typing (establishing the type of an untyped object at runtime). For example, in objective-C untyped objects use the "id" tag instead of int or float or whatever (static types - set at compile time). In C++ this is functionally equivalent to using a template and then using dynamic_cast to identify that type during runtime (which, unlike static casting, doesn't actually change the value, it just identifies what type of object the value is).
I remember writing and endian flipper for float and it was worlds simpler with untyped objects (in C I had to make this a tagged union, flip the bytes as an int, and then assign it to a float, whereas in Objective-C I just use id and call them ints when I do the byte swapping and after that use it as a float).
I have a bunch of those from that era - here's a couple:
User is used to Word Perfect, but has to use WordStar. User wants to print, so presses Control-P. Wordstar erases (p = purge in WordStar, print in Word Perfect) the document and the user hadn't saved it first. There was no confirmation dialog back then, either. An hour of typing a news article gone in a second.
User on a mac using Microsoft Word chooses Revert, but didn't know Revert means go back to the last saved version of the document and loses 2 hours of work. Note: Microsoft changed this from something like "Revert the document?" to "Are you sure you want to revert to the previously saved version" in the next version of Word probably due to a lot of user error and tears.
Unrelated to those, but related to TFA - when I was in college I heard one of the labbies (technically computer lab teaching assistants) was fired and kicked out of school but not details. I was friends with his roommate, so I ask what happened and found out he had been running a million+ dollar a year porn site off of the University servers (and this is the relatively early days of the public internet). If I had any doubts to the truth of it, they were alleviated a few days later when we all had to sign a code of conduct waiver, which included running sites of pornographic nature...
I'd say the person that wrote the article is scientifically uneducated, failing to indicate units on their temperature and listing a temperature in Fahrenheit units (or I think it is, since I recall it being a mean around 460C and I can't think of any other units the writer would have used).
By the date and a search I figured out that probe is Venera 14, which broadcast about an hour of data back to earth after landing in a 94bar atmosphere location and 465C temperature. I'm not sure how many pictures were sent back in that time, but the article I found said the quality wasn't that good and some of the pictures are cleaned up by a guy named Don P. Mitchell (no links in that article, but that should be enough to find more info if desired).
It's not that SOPA/PIPA is a bad idea in intention, it just is worded so broadly that it can easily be applied to many things it wasn't intended. Lamar Smith says Wikipedia has nothing to fear from SOPA and it will not censor the internet, but he is wrong and he is not listening. In fact, I can prove it will even with his interpretation of it. Take IMSLP, a library of musical scores that are in the public domain somewhere, but not necessarily everywhere. Some of these are still copyrighted in the US, some in Europe and Canada, some elsewhere, but all are in the public domain somewhere. This is a foreign site (with a US subsidiary for scores in the public domain in the US but not elsewhere due to differences in law) since it is based in Canada. It holds US copyrighted material that is legally public domain in Canada. By SOPA/PIPA, the US can delist IMSLP from DNS (and it is .org, so managed in the US), force no advertising from the US to go to it, and force Wikipedia (and Google and anyone else) to remove all references to it. While foreign DNS servers can add it back in on download, American DNS servers cannot because circumvention is illegal (though Americans can use a foreign DNS server, which is not illegal...).
Is it censorship? Yes. Does it stop piracy? No.
In fact, no part of SOPA/PIPA actually stops piracy, though the counterfeiting measures may hurt counterfeiters (to be honest, I just skimmed that section). US companies can hire foreign companies to do their advertising, and they won't have control over the sites the ads are placed on, so they have no way of shutting them down (ever heard of how spam emails work?). Pirates can still get DNS using foreign servers or just use IPs directly.
Ergo, all parts of this can easily and legally be circumvented by pirates and we lose legal parts of the internet in the process.
DisplayPort is not just an industry standard, it is a royalty free standard, but HDMI seems to be winning - the only device I've seen with DisplayPort is my 2+ year old HP laptop and I have about 18 devices with HDMI in my household (heck, our cellphones even have it).
My understanding is adapters that come with newer ATI and nVidia cards are DVI with an extra audio channel so they can hook to HDMI. It is possible to get adapters that just send DVI like most older adapters and these will not broadcast sound even if you hook them to newer cards.
I'll join you, my ISP won't support it until the infrastructure is replaced (IPv4 only PPPoE), and I'm sure that isn't an immediate priority for them. All the competitors that do support it are expensive (Comcast and anything backended on Covad, that means you) or have a horrible service track record (Clear, that means you).
correcting that for you:
It will die because not enough corporations ponied up cash to buy the vote.
Fortunately, we can't pay off our judges as easily, so they should whack it with a giant first amendment violation bat.
I think my first action on passage of such a law would be to shut down every site in the world until they pay me the petty sum of $100 because they violate my copyright on BSD (whether I have or not only matters to my conscience), which has pieces embedded in nearly every OS. Oh, the purpose of SOPA wasn't to legalize extortion? How could I POSSIBLY have misinterpreted it?
You mean info? According to a female geek friend of mine, man has been deprecated for years (and she is married to my best friend...).
The "resilience" is from copy on write (CoW), which is used in Volume Shadow Copy and Microsoft SQL server. It is also able to cloud data across multiple volumes on different machines from what I read. Since both CoW and ZFS's copy work a lot like RAID0 (as far as I can tell), I'd expect them to be similar in this respect, however ZFS also does checksum tests and NTFS doesn't BUT I don't know if ReFS will or not.
That said, ZFS is a WAY better file system, and I'll give you a few reasons why:
No max path length restriction (TFA says there still be one for ReFS)
Variable Block sizes and Sparse Files
Allocate on Flush
Block Journaling (aka Journaling File System) as opposed to Metadata only Journaling (NTFS and probably ReFS) which is less reliable
Logical Volume Management
and that is just naming a few off the top of my head with some links to what they mean if it seemed like it may not be obvious (the others are fairly commonly talked about IMO - if you don't know them, they should be easy to search for)
I'm fairly certain NTFS still doesn't support user metadata, either, and I believe zfs does (most modern FS's do), so I doubt ReFS will (what I mean by this is I can tag a piece of data as, say "photos" and then when I search for photos, those are found first - this is a feature like what was planned for WinFS's and what Apple's Spotlight does).
Microsoft doesn't like to change features, especially if they break compatibility. ReFS isn't really a new FS, it is NTFS with a bunch of old features and restrictions removed maintaining as much backwards compatibility as possible (Microsoft claims it's a ground up rewrite, but it still is essentially NTFS from a high level).
You can blame both sides for this one - sure it was introduced by House Judiciary leader Lamar Smith, a Republican, but co-sponsors include Democrats Howard Berman, John Conyers, and Ted Deutch, amongst others. You would think someone on a Judiciary committee could write a bill that wouldn't trample all over first amendment rights, but Lamar Smith has that one down to an art. This is at least the third piece of legislation I know of that he has sponsored that has been tossed out over first amendment concerns.
Many businesses strongly supported SOPA, including Ford, Pfizer, the BSA, the ESA, NBC, Go Daddy, the MPAA, the RIAA... the list goes on. The problem is, it was business friendly to a fault, giving copyright holders unprecedented power to shut down sites, whether they were violating copyright or not and without requiring proof. There was no way this would ever pass a legal battle in court - it was killed as it needed to be. At least this one was killed before it got to court - congress has done a good job of passing these things and then having them immediately killed.
Now maybe we can wait for the China to bully us by threatening sanctions in the same way we bullied Spain...
not sure, but that may be out of date: http://www.perl.org/about/whitepapers/perl-ipv6.html
Of course, that doesn't help me, because my now former ISP was Qwest and they had a "we will never support IPv6" policy, so until CenturyLink (the purchaser) replaces all of the old hardware, I am SOL for my website and browsers (no, I'm not setting up a tunnel - I have better things to do with my time than figure that out). Setting my web server up will be easy when they add it - just update the DNS server entry (since even my DNS provider supports it). If I didn't hate Comcast or XFinity or whatever they want to be called with a passion I may have switched back, but DISH has been way too nice. On a scale of 1 to 10 my customer experience rating with Comcast: 1, with Qwest 3, with DISH 10. Note to CenturyLink - learn something from DISH, fix the broken that was Qwest, and avoid being Comcast except from a network performance level.
Taking breaks is only a choice for musicians during practice - when you play gigs for money, you do what is demanded of you, when it is demanded of you. If that means 6 hours of playing without a real break, you do it (which I've done playing cello at a wedding reception - there was some downtime, but not a lot of time to leave for, say, a bio break). Ergonomically, my instruments (cello, 6 and 12 string guitars, electric basses, piano) are a lot more finger friendly that my touchscreen since they all have gradual resistance, not an abrupt stop. I think the biggest threat in all of those is the convolutions my hand needs to make to make certain chords.
I've also done vocals, but I had to quit the band I sang part time in due to vocal nodes (everyone had to sing in that band, so I had no choice but to quit until I healed, but the band didn't last that long anyway).
Angry Birds Finger (TM) is more a problem of addiction - you don't have to keep playing, you choose to because you want some reward.
the funny thing is, that program would even work because the interpreter would never get to 30 ;)
back in those days I'd use the "showoff" way of starting the program, too on the Apple ][ -
] call -151
* 3D0G
In my even more showoff days, I'd write the thing in assembler and disable cont-C for breaking the program just to annoy anyone trying to kill it.
If you want to quibble about the US being a republic with democratically elected officials, you should get your terms correct on other accounts, since all of those "communists" mentioned are or were actually dictatorships. Communism is actually an economic system, not a political system, but this was largely smeared into a combined term during the cold war in reference to communist dictatorships like the Soviet Union, so people talk of it like it is a political system, even though that is incorrect. In the same way, "economic democracy" really doesn't mean anything (the masses can vote on prices maybe?) since democracy is a political system, not an economic system - they should say they are an economic capitalism.
So put in economic and political terms, the US is a capitalist republic, and North Korea is a communist dictatorship, with an emphasis on dictatorship because the ruling party lives in opulence while the masses live in poverty, as is common in dictatorships.
I oppose SOPA because it both violates freedom of speech and is fundamentally broken. It doesn't actually block IPs, it blocks DNS names, so it can be bypassed simply by using a foreign DNS server or just using the IP address (or an add-on like DeSOPA for Firefox, which I believe uses foreign DNS). I said violates freedom of speech, as well - SOPA allows for a copyright holder to ask for a block on an address that talks about piracy but doesn't contain any actual files - this violates our constitutional right to discuss such things if we so choose (it's called freedom of speech - see the first amendment to the US Constitution - congressmen and women that write these laws should at least be aware of it, but have proven wrong before, like when they passed the CDA only to have it tossed out immediately in court).
I oppose piracy, but since nothing in SOPA will stop (intentional) piracy since it is easily circumvented and because it potentially violates civil rights, I can't support it.
heh - I was going to say that.
cracker: pejorative term for white people, particularly southerners (US)
hacker: a really bad golfer, not to be mistaken for duffer, which is just a not very good golfer (or pool/billiards player)
Last time I golfed I got a 203 on a par 71, and if it weren't for a 12 max (so 216 would be the worst score I could score on 18 holes), it would have been a bit worse, especially for the 4x I hit the lake on a par 5. I wear my hacker badge proudly (hey, I've gone golfing 3 times in 20 years and never had a lesson, so I have an excuse for sucking at it).
I wouldn't call the ribbon a good design from a UI perspective because it forces learned behavior, which is bad from a usability perspective, but it also declutters the user interface, which is good from a design perspective. In UI design there are usability vs design tradeoffs that have to be made or you get nowhere. The biggest problem with programmers designing the interface is they are concerned with neither - they care most about features that set them apart from competition.
I'm actually working on a new client and everything has to go through the UI designers and usability engineers first, which wasn't the case with any of our old clients (yes plural) - developers just tacked on new menu options, and often these weren't relevant to most users. The new client goes through Usability and Design engineers, everything seen must be relevant to the user contextually, and most importantly, the interface cannot be cluttered. The UI/Usability people are even harder on the client design than I am, and I complain plenty (though they have the benefit of usability studies that I'm not a part of, since I'm not in their group).
Like many things, you can always put a lot of negative spin on it and make it sound like the dumbest thing in the world. I got sent an article about "shrimp on a treadmill" that probably came from a Fox News writer - it was neither objective nor balanced, ignoring even mentioning the purpose of the study to hype what it called government waste. Without any objective information about what the goals of the study were or what the researchers were actually studying (it was boiled down to "pollutants"), it is very hard to make an informed decision about whether the study was merit-able.
The liberals are no better - I got sent a "99% rally" email from someone likely in the 1%, but not a millionaire - I sent back that the top 1.5% starts at $250k - you probably ARE the top 1% (I know she and her husband make about $400k since my brother and her husband are business partners). To that she replied OMG, I didn't know that!
I do have some very liberal friends that are usually objective, but we disagree on certain points. Only my moderate conservative friends are objective - the very conservative ones are frustrating. One of them was arguing that every citizen should pay at least $1 tax every year, and I was saying that's crazy - why should retired people and people that live in the street and have no money at all have to pay tax? He said "they use public streets and parks, they should pay tax - no exceptions." It is this "no exceptions" Republican mentality that makes me want to use a baseball bat on their heads - that is the absolute WORST reason I've ever heard of for taxation - we should take money from the people that don't have any just because they live here...
What I noticed is they failed to compete on both features and quality and were last to market with many of these. I remember a few years back purchasing a Canon Elph with optical image stability, 4 megapixels, and 3x optical zoom and Kodak's best camera at that size entry (I think it is ultra portable) at that time was digital image stability, digital zoom, and 3.2 megapixels. The Kodak was about $50 cheaper, but there were Olympus and Samsung in the same price range with similar features to the Canon but without optical image stability (the selling point for me - OIS is essential in a small camera), but otherwise matching features to the Canon. Also the rear LCD display of the Kodak was the worst of any there, both in size and quality (I think 2.4 inches and very grainy). I then read the reviews on various websites and the Kodak landed at or near the bottom in picture quality as well. If you offer the worst features and the worst quality you are pretty much doomed to fail without fixing some things, something I think Kodak has failed to do. For reference, Panasonic also landed near the bottom in picture quality that year, but their picture quality is among the best today, so it is not an insurmountable hole.
I don't know how Kodak fares in the high end/high margin market because I can't really afford to be in that market myself - this is their Rebel SLR camera I believe. Usually when I hear of this market it is dominated by Nikon, Canon, and Sony (which snapped up Minolta's share when they bought their camera holdings after the Konica merger).