Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:-1, Troll)
by drinkypoo (153816) Alter Relationship on Sunday May 04, @02:32PM (#23294632) Homepage Journal
The comparison is more than apt, since the Boy Scouts is a Christian organization which exists as much to promote a supposedly-Christian ethic (won't get into it now) as it does to provide wilderness skills. Which has done more damage to the world through ideology is up for debate.
That reminds me, didn't he have an agreement wherein they don't crush him like a bug for libel and he stops mentioning them and their games, at all, forever?
I doubt such an agreement could ever be enforceable, what with the first amendment and all (even if Jack doesn't believe in it). Under the terms of the settlement, he is barred from actively interfering with the release of any further Take-Two properties. He's already violated that agreement too, but I suspect Take-Two is awaiting the results of his disbarment trial in June before filing contempt charges.
He's already barred from making any further filings in the district of the Florida Supreme Court, so any further filings have to come from his representation. He's been ignoring the order, and has been repeatedly getting a polite form letter back from the court clerk notifying him that his motion has been duly roundfiled (or more likely, stored as evidence against him).
The Florida bar recently concluded a disciplinary hearing against JT. Though they don't make it public what exactly they're looking for, it's pretty clear they're settling for nothing less than disbarment, probably permanent. However, a final decision isn't expected til sometime in July.
SPF purports to be an anti-forgery tool, and doesn't do anything about backscatter. The server generating the backscatter is not forged, it's simply acting as an open relay. Perfectly legitimate in the eyes of SPF.
BATV is the anti-backscatter technology here. You can think of it as acting like TCP sequence numbers: it gives each message a secure sequence number in the headers according to some simple algorithm (it doesn't have to be really strong crypto). A bounce is like a NAK, and you discard any such message that doesn't contain a matching sequence number generated from within your sending window (typically a few days). There may be some backscattering servers that will mangle the headers on a "legitimate" bounce and lose the sequence number, and they're considered a casualty -- the alternative would have been to blanket-block them anyway.
I'd be fine for moving to SI measurements, but every OS out there still measures files using the binary prefixes.
In other words, Creative sold a device that claimed it would store 1 gigabyte, but wouldn't actually store 1 gigabyte as reported by the OS. They did so knowingly with intent to deceive. This is the very definition of false advertising.
Is it a rule on Slashdot that if you disagree with someone you have to automatically assume they do not know what they are talking about or know less than you?
> Without the Death Penalty there can be no justice.
Consider that there are many who oppose the death penalty because they also believe in the converse (or more technically, that the proposition stated in the affirmative is biconditional)
> DBs make really, really bad routers [appistry.com]
I was expecting some actual explanation, but this just reasserted the point without any support. A sort of blog spam I suppose, but I guess no more obnoxious than all those "trackbacks" and "pingbacks".
Most JMS systems use a database for a message store. So does MQSeries. Big Erlang apps also tend to use a database like MNesia, but I'll admit that's a different sort of thing, and it's also fully distributed.
Come to think, Erlang's a right nice candidate for Twitter. Shame the language itself is not terribly fun to work with (chars as 4-byte ints, but no unicode support. Wacky.)
> Is developer time and productivity over the software lifetime more valuable than CPU cycles?
For development, you bet it is. For production, I'd rather pay developers to work on a faster platform than have to purchase and manage five times more hardware just to make the thing scale. The "hardware is cheap" argument runs hollow when you start literally running out of data center space all because the software is crap.
Just vanilla Dell PowerEdge 2600's, the ethernet's only running at 100Mb I think, and the NFS server's just a SNAP NAS.
There's also a box in the lab running an ancient version of SuSE with reiserfs, and it is indeed really zippy, but my only point was that it's not as big a win now on newer machines than it was then. I literally can't see much of an advantage anymore.
one bad thing about it is that it allows you to prove how you voted to a third party: take a camera-phone picture of the printed receipt behind the glass.
You can do that any kind of ballot, really, like an OpTech Eagle.
Anyway, that kind of vote manipulation is not very widespread; more hamfisted things like vote caging or simply purging the ballot rolls of tens of thousands of people are all the rage these days -- neither of which are addressed by even the most secure voting machines. But we certainly do have to secure the devices nonetheless.
> But unless you have done work on a filesystem you have no training to judge them for code quality.
I don't know about the quality of the individual pieces of code, but the system as a whole eats entire partitions with regularity, has appalling worst-case performance (that it runs into quite commonly with large files), and has security holes in its fsck you could fly the Apophis asteroid through.
Let me state this less ambiguously: you are very much in the most objective sense wrong.
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Fuck you, mods.
That reminds me, didn't he have an agreement wherein they don't crush him like a bug for libel and he stops mentioning them and their games, at all, forever?
I doubt such an agreement could ever be enforceable, what with the first amendment and all (even if Jack doesn't believe in it). Under the terms of the settlement, he is barred from actively interfering with the release of any further Take-Two properties. He's already violated that agreement too, but I suspect Take-Two is awaiting the results of his disbarment trial in June before filing contempt charges.
He's already barred from making any further filings in the district of the Florida Supreme Court, so any further filings have to come from his representation. He's been ignoring the order, and has been repeatedly getting a polite form letter back from the court clerk notifying him that his motion has been duly roundfiled (or more likely, stored as evidence against him).
The Florida bar recently concluded a disciplinary hearing against JT. Though they don't make it public what exactly they're looking for, it's pretty clear they're settling for nothing less than disbarment, probably permanent. However, a final decision isn't expected til sometime in July.
Exchange 2007 does include headers when using the SMTP transport. It's been pretty well-behaved in that area since 2005 or so.
SPF purports to be an anti-forgery tool, and doesn't do anything about backscatter. The server generating the backscatter is not forged, it's simply acting as an open relay. Perfectly legitimate in the eyes of SPF.
BATV is the anti-backscatter technology here. You can think of it as acting like TCP sequence numbers: it gives each message a secure sequence number in the headers according to some simple algorithm (it doesn't have to be really strong crypto). A bounce is like a NAK, and you discard any such message that doesn't contain a matching sequence number generated from within your sending window (typically a few days). There may be some backscattering servers that will mangle the headers on a "legitimate" bounce and lose the sequence number, and they're considered a casualty -- the alternative would have been to blanket-block them anyway.
Your message ("Buy more Viagra here") could not be delivered. We will retry every 4 hours, and let you know every time it fails, until you go mad.
I've only ever seen those by the local mailer daemon for locally queued mail. Stop sending Viagra spam then.
Apparently they're holding them over at the Human Resources department. I asked the receptionist for a Quickie and she had me sent there.
I'd be fine for moving to SI measurements, but every OS out there still measures files using the binary prefixes.
In other words, Creative sold a device that claimed it would store 1 gigabyte, but wouldn't actually store 1 gigabyte as reported by the OS. They did so knowingly with intent to deceive. This is the very definition of false advertising.
Sure, but they can always bus in mutants for the days they shut down the reactor.
Sheesh.
Is it a rule on Slashdot that if you disagree with someone you have to automatically assume they do not know what they are talking about or know less than you?
It's not just slashdot. Idiot.
(is joke ha ha)
Little offtopic, but your sig:
> Without the Death Penalty there can be no justice.
Consider that there are many who oppose the death penalty because they also believe in the converse (or more technically, that the proposition stated in the affirmative is biconditional)
> DBs make really, really bad routers [appistry.com]
I was expecting some actual explanation, but this just reasserted the point without any support. A sort of blog spam I suppose, but I guess no more obnoxious than all those "trackbacks" and "pingbacks".
Most JMS systems use a database for a message store. So does MQSeries. Big Erlang apps also tend to use a database like MNesia, but I'll admit that's a different sort of thing, and it's also fully distributed.
Come to think, Erlang's a right nice candidate for Twitter. Shame the language itself is not terribly fun to work with (chars as 4-byte ints, but no unicode support. Wacky.)
> Is developer time and productivity over the software lifetime more valuable than CPU cycles?
For development, you bet it is. For production, I'd rather pay developers to work on a faster platform than have to purchase and manage five times more hardware just to make the thing scale. The "hardware is cheap" argument runs hollow when you start literally running out of data center space all because the software is crap.
> It was Clinton, though, who admitted to committing a felony of dishonesty.
Lesson learned: admit to nothing. Ever.
There are no troops in Baghdad!
> Have you ever used MOM or something like it?
Yeah, yours.
C'mon, you seriously invited that one.
Actually they're AS32311. Had to come up with something.
I think everyone who has the capability should start announcing the same netblock via BGP.
AS32311 SPARTACUS
Just vanilla Dell PowerEdge 2600's, the ethernet's only running at 100Mb I think, and the NFS server's just a SNAP NAS.
There's also a box in the lab running an ancient version of SuSE with reiserfs, and it is indeed really zippy, but my only point was that it's not as big a win now on newer machines than it was then. I literally can't see much of an advantage anymore.
> Go into something like industrial robotics
Just curious: How? There's not a lot of schools around that seem to teach it, and it's not exactly easy to get your hands on industrial robots.
I mean there's Mindstorms, but I really don't think that's anything close to the same thing.
one bad thing about it is that it allows you to prove how you voted to a third party: take a camera-phone picture of the printed receipt behind the glass.
You can do that any kind of ballot, really, like an OpTech Eagle.
Anyway, that kind of vote manipulation is not very widespread; more hamfisted things like vote caging or simply purging the ballot rolls of tens of thousands of people are all the rage these days -- neither of which are addressed by even the most secure voting machines. But we certainly do have to secure the devices nonetheless.
Oops. 165,000 files.
> XFS is nice, but its not exactly in widespread use.
It is more than you think. Got a SNAP NAS box? They run xfs.
> But unless you have done work on a filesystem you have no training to judge them for code quality.
I don't know about the quality of the individual pieces of code, but the system as a whole eats entire partitions with regularity, has appalling worst-case performance (that it runs into quite commonly with large files), and has security holes in its fsck you could fly the Apophis asteroid through.
Let me state this less ambiguously: you are very much in the most objective sense wrong.