Re: Extortion
So tie patent trolls to chairs and cut off their pinkies balls, a language they understand.
FTFY!!
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If my bank received a fax , with my name at the bottom, asking to transfer a large amount of money to a certain Nigerian bank account, I wonder what they'd do.
That might depend on whether or not the fax contained your signature. A signed order most likely would be honored, as it isn't that much different from a check (cheque for those on the east side of the pond).
Dude, you should take a closer look at the USA gov for a moment, you know the one currently unable to act because its global credit card is maxed out major political parties are acting like a couple of schoolboys that can't get along?
FTFY!!
Both political parties deserve a through ass whipping from the electorate.
Already done. See /etc/hosts (or the Windows equivalent, if such a thing still exists).
BUT, that supposes that you already have the IP address.
If you don't have it to begin with??
Since an IP(v4) address is only 4 octets, all one needs is a 256 entry "word dictionary"
Example, the City of London's IP address (one of many, perhaps) is 86.54.118.84.
Assume the following word assignments:
54 - yourself
84 - cops
86 - fuck
118 - london
then translating that IP address into words would give us:
fuck.yourself.london.cops
Who needs the grief?
Also applies to trying to use these drives as "normal external storage".
The model I have has a power down setting that idles the drive if it isn't used often enough; and it takes a good 20 seconds for it to "power up". Fuck that!
I went ahead and got an external USB case for some of my old drives; and use them as external storage; and limit the use of the My Book to back ups only.
As external storage, they are a waste of money; as a backup drive, then, well, its beauty is in the "eyes of the beholder".
Thats because opening up more than 10 tabs in Firefox will grind your machine to such a halt that it become unusable.
NOW, if you are using it on a Pentium 4 with only 512 mb of RAM, then it most likely run as slow as molasses in a Vermont winter. I know, because I once had such a dog. A newer rig running a i3 and 4gb of RAM is so much faster.
The idea that rpm and dpkg are anything like as user-friendly as setup.exe is a joke.
Then it seems that you don't understand WHAT a package manager DOES; and I don't have the time to EDUCATE YOU.
In case you CARE to become educated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system
After you have gleaned what you are capable of comprehending from that article, can you tell me that the fucked up setup.exe system used by WindblowZE is better????? NOTE carefully the comments about maintaining UPDATES.
All you get back is the value of the proportion of time that your subscription for the services covered, not the value of the financial loss you suffered to your business - assuming it survives the hit - while the service was down.
Which is something DAMAGEMENT WILL NEVER COMPREHEND!!!!
When DAMAGEMENT starts spouting the cloud bullshit, it is time to get the fuck out.
A clusterfuck is heading your way, and you don't know when it will hit.
People should design such software with the assumption that it WILL fail at some point and build in measures to allow paying customers to work around it.
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YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!
According to the Business Software Alliance Bullshit Society of America, software piracy is increasing exponentially.
Thew only way to combat such piracy is to include ever increasing draconian forms of DRM (Digital Rights Management), (Digital Rectal Manipulation). The only acceptable way forward is to adopt a fuck the paying customer attitude. End of story.
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So, lost sales, fines possibly for late pay, a right mess to sort out later with lots of overtime. How much did they save by going to a cloud based accounting systems exactly?
That's NOT the point.
DAMAGEMENT can deflect blame for their incompetence.
"WE didn't fuck up. the cloud provider did!!!"
You are best NOT being around when IT does hit the fan. Usually, the bastards responsible for the clusterfuck are long gone, and some other sap has to clean up what hit the fan. WHY should it be you?? When you see signs of DAMAGEMENT SYNDROME in your company, get the fuck out, and fast.
This has been my opinion from the start, although I have sometimes had the feeling I am getting old fashioned.
NO, you are just exhibiting the ability to comprehend the ramifications of having YOUR data under someone else's control and how the gubmint of the US of A can spy on YOUR data if it passes through the US.
ID10Ts who spout "cloud" are just seeking to deflect any blame from their incompetence; any COMPETENT MANAGER knows that once you surrender control of YOUR DATA to a third party, all bets are off.
Only DAMAGEMENT tries to deflect blame, and point responsibility to a third party.
As my colleague put it "no-one had calculated the terminal velocity of a turd after falling 12 stories". After enough sustained impacts the downflow had punched the elbow off the pipe...
Then they must have very poor engineers/architects design buildings.
Back in the '70's when I was in construction, working on a 23 story, the vertical sewer mains had a set of 4 45 degree ells every 6 floors, creating what the plumbers sarcastically referred to as a 'shit break'.
This caused the flow to turn 45 degrees to the left, then straight down, then 45 degrees to the right, and finally, straight down. This "jogging" insured that the turds got "broken up".
Flush that architect.
I just had a recent dealing with a local hospital that left a "very bad taste in my mouth".
Since we 'muricans don't have decent single payer medical insurance; you have to deal with the idiocracies of various payment departments.
Many insurance companies negotiate a fixed rate for services, regardless of what the provider bills. Those contracts require the provider to "eat" the difference between the contracted rate and the billed amount. Sometimes hospital office workers get lazy and fail to make the required adjustment; and you, the patient gets robo-called to death. Trying to get some shithead to get it is an exercise in futility; and in my case, after three months of dealing with low-life subordinates; I decided to go to the top. "C" level execs hate it when you interrupt their 'golf game' for petty bullshit, like their hospital's billing department fucking up, and being complete dicks about fixing their mistake.
Once I got through to a "C" level, did the shit hit the fan. Within two hours, I had a supervisor call me and get the issue resolved.
All I can say is this, "If you don't succeed in getting it resolved at the bottom end of the 'food chain', then you have to go to the top, and not give a fuck about whose scalp is about to get burned in the process."
End of story.
It seems that you, and Jason Ozolins above "get it".
By removing one set of AC -> DC conversions in the power chain, you can improve the overall efficiency; and in a large data center, that can add up. If you use server designs that can take 12 volts DC, and, ON THE BOARD create the necessary 5 volt and 3.3 (or lower) voltages for the ICs, you reduce PSU complexity (essentially an integrated PSU). All in one neat package.