Which is kind of the point isn't it? I'm not usually taking pictures for the enjoyment of the public, I'm taking them so that I can someday enjoy the memory more clearly.

You nailed it.

We're subjected constantly to rules and laws that make no sense and most of them aren't enforced; Even the cops often don't know what the laws are and they're supposed to enforce them. It makes me think of the cop who was writing tickets to everyone with a GPS. It was a stupid law but he decided to enforce it and caught hell for it, but isn't that what we want? Don't we want cops to enforce the actual laws regardless of their own opinions? But instead, we've all come to accept an environment where it's practically impossible to follow all the laws all the time, not to mention all the rules. We're literally being trained to ignore the rules.

And of course, people act like the solution is to make more rules.

Observe all warning signs.

I remember and it was terrible! The OS was never designed to keep applications from talking to other applications on the system. (As an AS/400 novitiate and SE adherent, I should say "practically never.")

OS application management is something that is not as secure as a virtual machine or a jail or a container, so if you miss the days when the OS was doing it, you didn't have the problems these things are designed to solve.

Containers aren't just virtual machines running a single application either. VMs are a full OS with all the overhead that comes with it, including hardware abstraction layers, boot times and a bunch of stuff you don't need for your application but you get anyway because you need it to run a full OS.

Ideally you should be able to have a virtual machine that only needs a sliver of resources because you only need it running one thing but that's not what VMs provide. (Though Xen came closer than most and I miss it.) An ideal VM should be fast to spin up, but with VMs you were typically booting a whole OS.

Jails on the other hand... Well jails are what you wish a VM running a single application would be. A jail gives you an application and only what it actually needs in order to run in an isolated package. You don't get the benefits of having an image you can snapshot or move around like you do with virtual machines, but it dramatically cuts down on resource requirements.

Containers are basically what people want from jails and what they want from virtual machines with desirable features of each and without the drawbacks of either. They're not the solution to every problem and they're not a replacement for chroot jails or virtual machine servers, but they do have their place.

Imax Imax Imax Imax Imax Imax Imax Imax Hodor... dammit.

You're asking the wrong question. The right question isn't:
"Why should I pay.. will [never] relate to them?"
or even "How do we fight this stupid decision?"

The *right* question is: How do I get a business model where everybody is taxed to pay me?

Note: this post assumes you aren't already a politician and that you don't have ethics.

I have no doubt that there are plenty of people who would dope a horse to win a race, but every loser would want to prove the winner had been doped if they could. So while there may be motivation to dope horses, there is intense testing and motivation to prevent it as well.

Lasix is commonly used to prevent EIPH (Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage.) Basically race horses bleed from broken capillaries in their lungs due to the tremendous increase in blood pressure they exhibit during a race. (It happens in people and other animals too, but most things I've read are about it happening in horses, particularly race horses.) Essentially horses have been bred to run fast as a primary objective and success comes with health consequences.

So giving Lasix to horses may come with a performance benefit, (since the diuretic causes them to be several pounds lighter) but not giving it to them comes with a known health detriment. Not everyone believes that the bleeding is something that should be treated that way and some horse owners choose not to use it, but there is no doubt that it is an effective treatment to prevent a common ailment. Since Lasix also acts as a diuretic, the counter argument is that the dehydration it causes is worse than the ailment it prevents.

There's an interesting parallel in human olympic athletes: asthma inhalers. They are allowed by the Olympics because they've been exhaustively studied and found to not give performance gains, despite the fact that more and more athletes have been using them and performing better. It turns out that humans at extreme exercise levels also tend to experience issues with their lungs, so top performers can benefit from something to counteract the damages their extreme performances cause.

Makes this spring to mind:

"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.'"

RIP Mr. Adams.

During development, this pistol was called the Walther PPK after its real-world counterpart. The name was presumably changed for legal reasons.

See: http://goldeneye.wikia.com/wik...

and: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Walt...

Me neither.

What banner ads? Between directly supporting /. and Adblock, I don't see any. Of course since I'm paying them, I do have some expectation of professionalism. This seems like the sort of thing the sainted Commander Taco himself would have done, up to a point, except I'm not sure the saint himself would have been as patient and understanding of the asshattery I've seen in this thread.

I think you meant:

I want *blood* because the site which I use regularly but don't pay money for doesn't meet my exacting standards

To which I'd say: I actually do pay. I've supported /. directly for years. I do expect a certain level of professionalism and editorial freedom from them, not only because that's what I pay for, but because that's the honorable thing to do.

With that said, I don't think SK is being unprofessional or unreasonable. I think that the concern that dice might hurt what is good about /. is a legitimate one, but not necessarily one I'd consider supported by this single instance of a delay.

If you actually meant to say that people who are paying money don't deserve to get what they paid for, then I'm very confused by your post.

Yeah. It's sad really. I wanted to love our dice overlords. I even wanted to give the new interface a chance (while hedging my bets with soylentnews) ... even when the new interface screwed up my editing and viewing options. I really wanted to give the site I've loved for so many years a chance.

So now I need to find a new site. I've looked and so far, I haven't been able to find a great option.

I'm not well versed and it sounds like you are. So is it against the law for me to get a text from a friend who says he'll give me $20 to drive him to his dental appointment? How about if I refer him to someone else I trust? Where does the line get drawn?

I'm not saying that there shouldn't be rules or laws or lines in the sand. I'm just curious what separates legal behavior from illegal behavior since I can't really tell from what I've read so far.

It is explicitly stated in the contract:

Any breach of this Agreement may cause Amazon irreparable harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law. As a result, Amazon will be entitled to the issuance by a court of competent jurisdiction of an injunction, restraining order, or other equitable relief in favor of itself, without the necessity of posting a bond, restraining Employee from committing or continuing to commit any such violation.

https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploa...