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yes windows is the best but i like also linux Business

i am fan linux and i like your blog my friendgoogle

You must read this article. What I Learned At Dartmouth. It's way too long, but I'll quote the beginning. It is impossible to comment intelligently on this article without reading this link to the full. Rebut it, if you can.

"One of the freshmenâ"or âoefirst yearsâ, as they were beginning to be knownâ"was accused by another first year of sexual assault and harassment. In the hot-house political environment at the timeâ"product of the Thomas/Hill hearings, which revolved around workplace sexual harassmentâ"these were serious allegations."

While one can't print it, it's fairly simple to make a gun barrel from a used truck axle --- that's actually a preferred source of steel since it's already stress-relieved:

http://riflemansjournal.blogspot.com/2009/08/history-harry-pope.html

Maybe ya'lls need to install "Little Snitch".

That is, if you slipped into Slashdot under false geek creds, and don't know how to configure and monitor pf.

Superjudge

Superman

You be the... "judge".

It's not just a bunch of text, it's a square with some words in it!

If this subject interests you, here's a post that got a lot of attention earlier this year: Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus shun HTML, causing the infographic plague.

Yada-yada

Yeah, right

the racist xenophobes outside the US

You really need to brush up on your definitions. Fearing, criticising and even hating the neocolonial terrorist state that is the USA for its hegemony - military, economic or otherwise is, if anything, reasonable (as in, it has its logical reason), not xenophobic and certainly not racist. The USA was built on racism and never ceased to be racist in its internal and foreign policies, so you're simply projecting.

I myself was a fan of everything USAn up until 2003. Never again.

"Climate Change" is a natural phenomenon. Climate has always been changing, in regular intervals, since the Earth was formed. And the variations in the Earth's temperature are due to changes in activity of the entity who warms it - the Sun. It's the variations in the Earth's temperature that lead to variations in the CO2 levels, and not the other way around. And this happens with a 800 years discrepancy. (Read the explanation here or here.)

The whole story about "Man-made Global Warming" is a fraud. (See this very good documentary, for example.)

The main scientists involved in this great swindle have already been exposed in a scandal known as "Climategate", in which it was denounced that the scientific data presented has been faked.

This hasn't only been exposed in the so-called alternative media, but has also been talked about in the mainstream one.

(I'm surprised that the people at slashdot don't seem to have read about this(?)...)

You are all being brainwashed and lied to. And this whole story is just an excuse to preserve valuable natural resources for the elites promoting it.

(And no, I'm not an ignorant person who doesn't read scientific or generalistic newspapers (controlled by this same persons). I'm a person who also swallowed this fraud for about 10 years, until I realized I was being lied to...)

which is a different thing than having single sign-on. I personally like the following approach to reducing the number of passwords, especially for throw-away or low-concern sites.

http://rip-van-webble.blogspot.com/2012/06/using-asymmetric-keys-for-web-joinlogin.html

It depends on HTML5 local storage and uses asymmetric keys for doing the join and subsequent login. While I wouldn't necessarily jump to this for a financial website, for things like slashdot, facebook, news websites, etc., it would be a boon.

--kev

i love Technology money

"Climate Change" is a natural phenomenon. The Earth's climate has always been changing, in regular intervals, since the Earth was formed. And the variations in the Earth's temperature are due to changes in the activity of the entity who warms it - the Sun. It's the variations in the Earth's temperature that lead to variations in CO2 levels, and not the other way around. And this happens with a 800 years discrepancy. (See explanation here or here.)

The whole story about "Man-Made Global Warming" is a fraud. (See this very good documentary, for example.)

The main scientists involved in this swindle have already been exposed in a scandal known as "Climategate", in which it was denounced that the data presented has been faked.

This was not only exposed in the so-called alternative media, but has also been talked about in the mainstream one.

(I'm surprised that the people at slashdot don't seem to have read about this(?)...)

You are all being brainwashed and lied to. And this whole story is only a big excuse to preserve valuable natural resources for the elites promoting this lie.

And no, I'm not an ignorant person who doesn't read newspapers (controlled by this same persons). I'm a person who also swallowed this fraud for about 10 years, until I realized I was being lied to.

Awesome Games

Yes awesome Games from 2012 Games

"Ice rings", means you get 6 months of really-really cold, and 6 months of not so cold. It leaves some sort of mark in the ice. To build up a kilometer or three of ice, the net has to be ice growth.

In the past the earth has witnessed CO2 concentrations like what we have today, and the heat followed (strictly speaking, they happened roughly simultaneously in the past because the CO2 concentrations did not rise so quickly. It takes a really long time to heat the ocean. Our CO2 is ahead of the heat, and we will not reach equilibrium for hundreds of years). Over time, that heat caused ice caps to melt and/or slide into the ocean, raising sea levels quite a bit.

In the distant past, with very high CO2 concentrations, we had very high temperature increases and mass extinction. If we continue on our present trends ("business as usual", or BAU, in many discussions) we're expected to hit 1000ppm CO2 by 2100, which is well above what it took to melt ice caps (given time), and within perhaps a factor of two of the levels leading to the mass extinction. This is still unclear, the fossil record is old, the climate models have to work with a different configuration of continents and an allegedly cooler sun, and it's not clear exactly how much CO2 was needed to start the heat, versus how much resulted from liberated CH4 degrading to CO2 and stuff dying and rotting. Do we feel lucky?

The problem for us is that if we were preceding slowly to a somewhat-higher CO2 world (i.e., early Pliocene), we would get a wetter climate, which is not that bad (fresh water is good, though sea levels will be 25 meters higher). But we're not proceeding slowly; we're turning up the heat in a relatively large way. The oceans have a huge thermal mass, and though they absorb the bulk of the heat, their temperature rises more slowly than the land temperature. The result, "temporarily" (for a few centuries) is a slightly lower relative humidity, meaning, less rain, aka, more drought. Furthermore, the likely shrinking of the ice caps will proceed through accelerated sliding into the ocean, not melting in place, which will tend to cool the ocean somewhat. (All this is extremely hand-wavy, and says nothing about changes in ocean currents, which can have a very large regional effect.) See
http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2011/12/pliocene-wetter-than-today.html for a more detailed discussion.

The analogy I've seen elsewhere is "loaded dice". If I roll the dice and it comes up 12, are they loaded? Can't say for sure. If I roll the dice and they don't come up 12 always, are they not loaded? How about if I roll the dice 360 times and get 100 twelves (instead of about 10)?

One likely climate-vs-weather cause I have seen proposed is a change in "Rossby Waves": http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/04/slowing-rossby-waves-leading-to-extreme.html This one thing would make weather "more extreme" simply by making it change more slowly; hot weather would come, and rather than moving on in a day or two, might stay for longer. Same goes for cold weather, too.

They played more than one song it seems. I wasn't there.

http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2006/12/noriega-playlist.html

And here's the corrected article:
http://macfags.blogspot.com/2012/02/apple-reality-distortion-field.html

People don't get enough exercise these days. Win8 on a desktop with the touch interface will help you build your trilaterals. No more getting sand kicked in your face by those Apple bullies.

Are you suggesting that a Gartner analyst calling Metro "bad" is the insult that made a man out of Mac? (Atlas shrugs :)

But what does the SALMON think of violent video games?
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/09/fmri-gets-slap-in-face-with-dead-fish.html

(The comedic scanning of a *dead* salmon with fMRI, showing that - without careful correction - fMRI can give you data from absolutely nothing. In this case, "...the salmon was shown a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations. The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing...". "Studies" like this - purporting to explain some sort of human behavior - always remind me of this result.)

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http://econ-ecoff.blogspot.com/2012/07/wsj-internet-invention-spin-job.html

We should be burning them instead.

We are

I wonder if we can make a window that absorbs bomb blasts (In some places there's more of that than sunlight.) and generates electricity.

"People do not want to admit that death==nonexistence so they make-up imaginary 'trips' to some other place (heaven, hell, Elysian Fields, space, whatever). In reality Sally Ride's personality dissolved into nothingness at the moment her brain's neurons broke connection with one another when they were deprived of oxygen."

For another perspective, see: http://noetic.org/search/?q=survival
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/tart/
http://physicalismisdead.blogspot.com/2012/05/charles-tart-on-postmortem-survival.html
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=charles+tart
http://www.amazon.com/States-Consciousness-Charles-Tart/dp/0595151965
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Materialism-Evidence-Paranormal/dp/1572246456
"Charles Tart reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that point toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing.
    Science seems to tell us that we are all meaningless products of blind biological and chemical forces, leading meaningless lives that will eventually end in death. The truth is that unseen forces such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and other phenomena inextricably link us to the spiritual world, and while many skeptics and scientists deny the existence of these spiritual phenomena, the experiences of millions of people indicate that they do take place.
    In this book, copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), transpersonal psychologist Charles Tart presents over fifty years of scientific research conducted at the nation's leading universities that proves humans do have natural spiritual impulses and abilities. The End of Materialism presents an elegant argument for the union of science and spirituality in light of this new evidence, and explains why a truly rational viewpoint must address the reality of a spiritual world. Tart's work marks the beginning of an evidence-based spiritual awakening that will profoundly influence your understanding of the deeper forces at work in our lives."

Sadly, it looks like Sally Ride might have died of sunlight deficiency and vegetable deficiency:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/cancer/pancreatic-cancer/

So what should developers in countries still without Google in-app payment do? Or developers who want to reach users in countries still without Google in-app payment?

The US has the largest manufacturing output of any nation on planet Earth.

http://www.shopfloor.org/2011/03/u-s-manufacturing-remains-worlds-largest/18756

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/10/us-still-worlds-largest-manufacturer.html

The reason that US has been losing manufacturing jobs has almost nothing to do with offshoring. It's due to improved efficiency; fewer people are needed because of automation and other improvements.

Did you see the link? It really doesn't say much, does it? Other than it must have been a private company providing government services. You could say I'm ignorant of the history of the Pinkertons. Guilty.

Of course, you'll now go off (like I already predicted) claiming that if we didn't have unions we'd have little kids working 12 hours a day in sweat shops, and factory owners sending thugs after anyone complaining about working conditions.

Now that unions are the ones with all the power (and union leaders are part of the 1%), somehow it's okay that these tyrants abuse their power, because they're on "our side". God forbid we would want to reverse the ruling that shields them from prosecution for acts of violence, or hold them accountable for open threats!

And yet, you didn't even mention ED209

a rent seeking parasite will talk about capitalism a lot, but what they really want is their monopoly or oligopoly preserved.

Never trust someone who says he "believes in capitalism" unless he's been bankrupt at least once.

Rich people too easily to confuse capitalism with "everything that's making me rich at this moment." Everybody basically sees themselves as a good person, and as long as rich people are rich, they're going to generally believe that they "deserve" it on some kind of moral level, even though a political economy cannot be simultaneously free by a libertarian's definition and reward social virtue, the two are orthogonal. Most philosophers have recognized this for hundreds of years, which is why thoughtful free-marketers at least as far back as Adam Smith generally advocated progressive taxation and transfers, Friedrich Hayek believed in government health insurance, etc.

The fact is, nobody really believes in capitalism in extremis, what they really fight for is the right to make money the way they remember their parents did, and to a lesser extent how they know previous generations did, based on prevailing historical narrative.

This phenomenon is very similar to the fight over gay marriage: gay marriage opponents claim they're fighting for a sanctified, thousand-year-old tradition, when in fact they're really fighting for the institution as it existed, religiously and socially, circa 1975, around the time their parents were married.

http://newgenerationtechno.blogspot.com/ Production of iPad Mini to start in September in Brazil Here we have the latest rumors about Apple’s next exciting product, the iPad Mini. Citing reliable sources from China, Japanese site Makotakara is reporting that the iPad mini will be manufactured in Brazil, and that its production is scheduled for ramping up starting in September. Additionally, production test of this new iPad was said to have been done already in China. Pretty exciting, right? But the most important information leaked out by the mentioned site is the fact that the iPad Mini is said to be shipping out until the Holiday season. So, if there was any truth to this rumors, then there’s no harm in saving up for the iPad Mini. You still have a few more months to do so. http://newgenerationtechno.blogspot.com/

http://newgenerationtechno.blogspot.com/ Production of iPad Mini to start in September in Brazil Here we have the latest rumors about Apple’s next exciting product, the iPad Mini. Citing reliable sources from China, Japanese site Makotakara is reporting that the iPad mini will be manufactured in Brazil, and that its production is scheduled for ramping up starting in September. Additionally, production test of this new iPad was said to have been done already in China. Pretty exciting, right? But the most important information leaked out by the mentioned site is the fact that the iPad Mini is said to be shipping out until the Holiday season. So, if there was any truth to this rumors, then there’s no harm in saving up for the iPad Mini. You still have a few more months to do so. http://newgenerationtechno.blogspot.com/

http://newgenerationtechno.blogspot.com/

Microsoft isn't about money and they never have been. They're about control. If they have control they can demand money and their "customers" have little choice but to pay. Oracle works the same way though frankly Oracle's mind bending powers are even more inexplicable. Oracle must have hired the same guys who designed the sales pitch for Encyclopedia Brittanica - that was an amazing pitch.

Microsoft going from 90% control of everything in IT including mobile to 33% of everything including mobile is a significant loss of control. Losing also every whit of influence in mobile - the only growth sector - at the same time is an even bigger deal. Microsoft can't go to carrier CEOs today and say "we might let you carry our Windows Phone devices if you suck up to us enough" like they could do when Windows Mobile was nearly 40% of smart devices and mobile smart devices were a tiny fraction of PCs. Verizon - the largest US provider - pushed the KIN and they are since reluctant. Now they have to petition the secretary of the secretary of the guy who adds phones for a carrier to set a meeting to discuss potential partnerships, and they have to bring the green suitcase or they won't even make it past security even with an appointment.

Google knew this when they bought Android for $50 million. They've gotten good value from this weapon in their war for survival, gaining so much control of mobile as it has grown larger than PCs that they provide the software for all of half of all the devices sold. For comparison Microsoft has spent about $16 billion on their Online Services Division (320x as much) since Steve Ballmer swore he was going to "fucking kill Google" (sorry for the language, but it's in the court document) in the legendary chair-throwing incident to no effect whatsoever. Actually to negative effect since Windows Mobile was doing far better without help. That's a lot to spend on a grudge and get less than nothing back. The Google guys aren't just out-thinking them, they're proving to have far more foresight also - probably a result in them being fully engaged in innovating rather than surviving their Survivor: Redmond working conditions. Or maybe because by being a challenger, Google must strive.

It's been never since Microsoft had to earn their market share. They lucked into it with a shaky deal with IBM on day 1, and leveraged that control since. Not only do they not know how to earn it - they never have known. Microsoft has always worked from a position of power and used that dominant position to take whatever they wanted from technology businesses. They will continue to work as if they're working from a position of power even when they're not in one because they don't know any other way. They don't know how to earn it because they've never had to. Obviously believing you have immense power and acting on that when you don't is an illness called "megalomania" - a psychosis they are unlikely to be cured of without long confinement in a straightjacket. By the time they're healed and sane again it will likely be too late for the shareholders.

Such is always the way with dominant companies: pride goeth before a fall. There's a long list of companies who fell this way in mobile: Palm, RIM, Nokia are but a few. Empires end eventually and it's starting to look like Microsoft's day in the sun is over. The decline will be long and slow as they have many fully committed acolytes - some in the highest levels of governments the world over - but eventually change must come. As humans we crave progress, and progress is antithesis to monopoly.

What if: The moon is a machine -- a lifeboat and "ark." It's hollow and "rings like a bell" when struck by space probes. [...] the moon is not supposed to be there -- and yet it makes life possible on earth by providing the ocean tides necessary for plankton survival.

hahaha

if the moon was hollow, how would it be causing the tides

from every other article I've read on the topic, which say that the measured mass of the Higgs boson is exactly where it should be if the Minimally Supersymmetric Standard Model is correct; and too low for any non-supersymmetric theory.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-125-gev-higgs-boson-isnt-quite.html?m=1

Just change the corporate-welfare WIPO/patent laws, so they will support (at the speed of technology or light) innovation.

Are you sure patents on life are bad for innovation?

IMO living things should definitely be up for patents (for things developed anyway, not for naturally occurring anything). Something that is hard to develop, easy to reproduce, and benefits society should be the first things to deserve patents, and those who work in these sorts of fieelds have been pushing for it since the days of Luther Burbank (he's no one important, only one of the greatest plant breeders who ever lived who bred the potatoes you still eat nearly a century ago and an early proponent of what became The Plant Patent Act of 1930).

What if: The moon is a machine -- a lifeboat and "ark." It's hollow and "rings like a bell" when struck by space probes. It's the ideal space ship for transporting a large populations of dangerous outcasts (like humans) around the galaxy. It's huge, with mineral resources capable of sustained life-support and generating great power over long periods; and because of its uninteresting appearance, it's able to through galaxies without attracting attention from hostile forces. At 2,160 miles in diameter (6 x 6 x 6 in units of 10 miles),it's 108 times its own diameter from the earth -- as is the sun, an impossible ratio, which enables us to have statistically impossible total solar eclipses -- and that's what made astronomical confirmation of Einstein's theory of relativity possible. Also, despite a number of theories trying to explain its presence above us, the moon is not supposed to be there -- and yet it makes life possible on earth by providing the ocean tides necessary for plankton survival. The moon brought our ancestors to earth, and it will take our refugees somewhere else when the forces hunting us find us. Sounds like a plot for a great sci-fi novel -- or maybe it's the truth. :)

I do believe there's more than us. More than just other intelligent life. I believe our science AND religions are ALL part of a BIGGER EQUATION. You cannot have one without the other. The religion gives science a need to explore for answers. The science is needed to solidify/justify the religion. If you really do your "homework" and study up on some science and religions, you'll find that there is a coherency between them. Science is now answering some of Religions oldest, unanswered questions. There's a theory that "Heaven" may actually be a REAL place in our universe!!! Possibly some 541 light years away. Not sure about the legitimacy of that one (cool thought though), but I've seen how science is now able to prove what our oldest cultures knew and how some of our greatest technological mysteries can be answered. I think there's a WAY BIGGER picture that we are just now starting see through clues left behind by our ancestors. Look up HD/Torsion physics. It's a new science that's being more or less "hidden" or denied by mainstream science and media. In reality, it proves that Einstein had actually created/figured out THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY back in the 50's!!!! Problem was that no one knew how to understand it or what it ment(or maybe they did) and thus it was labeled as "unfinished". HD/Torsion Physics answers those weird anomalies that current science can't explain. Theory stands that utilizing this science, you could create a field in which an object within that field would "weigh less" or more plainly, is dramatically less affected by the forces gravity. With this new perspective, the Egyptian Pyramids seem rather simplistic to build and could have been done by as little as one man. Theoretically, a child could have built them if he had the right tools. Sounds odd/crazy, yes I know. I said the same thing :) Then I did a little research after I had an interesting conversation with a few good friends. Well, that little research has turned into many years of answering questions, and at the same time finding more questions to be answered. All I know is that we are living in some exciting times and I am anxiously awaiting to see the results.

There can also be a possibility about an extinct prehistoric race, the hindu scriptures if studied carefully seems as if they are talking practical quantum physics, many great scientists referred to the vedas as the ultimate knowledge pool being avoided by mainstream scientists, books have been found named vimanashasthra which literelly translates in to the book of ships, vimana meant sir planes,, they have detailed description and even flight manuals in those books, propulsion systems, the clothes that a pilot should wear,, and yaa there are numerous accounts of space flights to moon and even an acco

You don't know how wrong you are. There are so many things I think Slashdotters would appreciate knowing about the iOS jailbreak process:

1) The "Tethered" (easy) jailbreaks only work on pre-2011 devices.
2) 2011 and later device can only be freed using "untethered" jailbreaks.
3) "Untethered" jailbreaks using Apple's copyrighted code usually happen first, but are not distributed because they would be subject to DMCA takedown. The hackers want to do this legit.
3) Making the last untethered jailbreak (whether for the "tethered" pre-2011 devices or the other ones) actually involved what appears to me at least to be a spectacularly complicated process:

http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/2012/01/details-on-corona.html

TL;DR is that untethering iOS devices is spectacularly difficult, especially due to the fact that at least one of the best jailbreakers has been hired by apple.

1) Astronomers do know about electric fields in space. I have written much on this topic. (Electric Universe: Whither the Electric Currents?).

2) The standard of science is the numerical results of the mathematical models must match the observations. If you claim the 'Birkeland' model works better than the standard model, then you must meet that standard.
Where are the numerical results from the model you advocate? Can you tell me the proton and electron density and energy or magnetic field at Earth's orbit predicted by your model and show how it is calculated? Where is the solar spectrum computed from first principles by the model you advocate? The lives of astronauts depend on you being able to demonstrate this!
If you can't meet that standard, then your model fails. Game over.
The ACTUAL track record of "Electric Sun" models making testable numerical predictions is dismal (Electric Cosmos: The Solar Resistor Model, Electric Cosmos: The Solar Capacitor Model. III)

3) I see a number of errors on your page. SDO first light images were not completely calibrated for intensity or scale information. Have you looked at more recent images on their site?
a) Doing science analysis on JPEG images or MPEG movies is just inviting embarrassment. You have to go back to the original data after the instrument has been calibrated.
b) Your sunspot data has obvious problems (Sunspot Number). Did you just make it up? And why only data to 1980? Are you trying to hide something about the more recent data?

And that's just what I could determine scanning your page before I realized some text was being clipped in my reader due to your lousy page formatting. I suspect I have hit just the beginning of your errors.

1) Astronomers do know about electric fields in space. I have written much on this topic. (Electric Universe: Whither the Electric Currents?).

2) The standard of science is the numerical results of the mathematical models must match the observations. If you claim the 'Birkeland' model works better than the standard model, then you must meet that standard.
Where are the numerical results from the model you advocate? Can you tell me the proton and electron density and energy or magnetic field at Earth's orbit predicted by your model and show how it is calculated? Where is the solar spectrum computed from first principles by the model you advocate? The lives of astronauts depend on you being able to demonstrate this!
If you can't meet that standard, then your model fails. Game over.
The ACTUAL track record of "Electric Sun" models making testable numerical predictions is dismal (Electric Cosmos: The Solar Resistor Model, Electric Cosmos: The Solar Capacitor Model. III)

3) I see a number of errors on your page. SDO first light images were not completely calibrated for intensity or scale information. Have you looked at more recent images on their site?
a) Doing science analysis on JPEG images or MPEG movies is just inviting embarrassment. You have to go back to the original data after the instrument has been calibrated.
b) Your sunspot data has obvious problems (Sunspot Number). Did you just make it up? And why only data to 1980? Are you trying to hide something about the more recent data?

And that's just what I could determine scanning your page before I realized some text was being clipped in my reader due to your lousy page formatting. I suspect I have hit just the beginning of your errors.

1) Astronomers do know about electric fields in space. I have written much on this topic. (Electric Universe: Whither the Electric Currents?).

2) The standard of science is the numerical results of the mathematical models must match the observations. If you claim the 'Birkeland' model works better than the standard model, then you must meet that standard.
Where are the numerical results from the model you advocate? Can you tell me the proton and electron density and energy or magnetic field at Earth's orbit predicted by your model and show how it is calculated? Where is the solar spectrum computed from first principles by the model you advocate? The lives of astronauts depend on you being able to demonstrate this!
If you can't meet that standard, then your model fails. Game over.
The ACTUAL track record of "Electric Sun" models making testable numerical predictions is dismal (Electric Cosmos: The Solar Resistor Model, Electric Cosmos: The Solar Capacitor Model. III)

3) I see a number of errors on your page. SDO first light images were not completely calibrated for intensity or scale information. Have you looked at more recent images on their site?
a) Doing science analysis on JPEG images or MPEG movies is just inviting embarrassment. You have to go back to the original data after the instrument has been calibrated.
b) Your sunspot data has obvious problems (Sunspot Number). Did you just make it up? And why only data to 1980? Are you trying to hide something about the more recent data?

And that's just what I could determine scanning your page before I realized some text was being clipped in my reader due to your lousy page formatting. I suspect I have hit just the beginning of your errors.

1: No NAT, so an intruder can fire up a scan and find your network topology from anywhere in the world. Only way to deal with this is to tunnel to IPV4 then back again, which is a hack.

Maybe you should install FreeBSD then, it's pf has supported IPv6 NAT since 2010 (at least).

2: No support for packet level encryption. It is mentioned, but it is an option that vendors don't need to follow or bother with.

Which is how ipsec works now. In other words, you and your partner obtain compatible implementations and it works.

3: no address independence

See nat66 (or freebsd).

4: Unknown 0-day security holes. Just what we want... to relive the days of pings of death, land, teardrop, smurf, SYN flooding and other attacks.

Now it's true that there are probably buggy implementations, after all the implementations have only been around a decade or so and only 0.2% of the internet has used them. That's what, 10 people?

It entirely depends on how many of those buddies work in a silo in North Dakota...
It's more true in Russia than elsewhere.

When thousands of old military jets are concentrated in one facility, it wouldn't take much to build a militia. Acquiring ammo for that hardware is another story. The same situation is true for ships. Dozens, if not hundreds, of vessels are mothballed from WW2 and later and stored in close proximity to each other.

Wholesale bandwidth is at most $0.12 per Gigabyte (EC2 - highest price $0.12/GB). Maybe it's just that Verizon's math skills aren't up to snuff.

It should cost no more than $10/month since even at 10Mbit you're not going to use 100GB/month on a phone. Actual 3G connection speeds are usually sub 1Mbit. Managing a network like this is pretty simple, all towers should be using 100% capacity and if the average download speed drops below 512kbit, new cells should be installed.

My local (Gannett owned) paper has always had its biases and whatnot... we can argue about content all day long, BUT they used to have a pretty decent phpbb forum to comment on stories (or whatever people wanted to talk about). The forums were relatively unmoderated unless people became abusive, which allowed a wide range of opinions, for better or worse, to be subjected to debate. About once a year, the forums would get reset and we'd start from scratch.

Well, at one point back in 2007 or 2008, Gannett made the decision to force all of their papers onto Pluck. It was infuriatingly slow, it could be hard to find stories, but obviously, it was meant to give the papers more editorial control over all of their content (it's nice when you can make stories suddenly disappear from memory) but also encouraged them to do it with reader comments. Opinions which differed from the paper's staff, reasonable and polite or not, were deleted. The paper would start "ghosting" users, so that their posts appeared when they were logged in, but nobody else could see them. Readers that agreed with the paper's biases could get away with any amount of abuse of other readers. The editorial staff and executive staff of the paper didn't care, they just let things fester.

Then Gannett made the decision that there was just too much abuse going on in the comments and that it was too much work to keep up with, so they switched to facebook commenting (the reality, based on reading a Gannett insider blog, I get the distinct impression that may be that an exeucitve had pre-IPO stock in facebook, so this could be quite a personal boon as well).

Next thing you know, they were instituting a paywall, requiring a large mandatory subscription increase for paper-only subscribers that have no interest in digital, while simultaneously letting more than two dozen staff members "retire early" and shrinking the paper to a size that you couldn't start a fire with. About the same time, they printed a story on local tax delinquints, only they forgot to disclose that an editor at the paper was himself a delinquint, tried to scrub the posts when a reader posted it and then threatened legal action (ok, "consulting a lawyer about legal action") for libel when the story, along with the link to the state database, spread. A senior editor doesn't know that truth is an absolute defense in a libel/defamation case! And rather than simply admit it, the editor and one of the executives waged an online campaign against the readers before ultimatley hiding the comments.

They just seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot at every opportunity. And Gannett's executives just seem to be milking the company for every little drop they can get out of it along the way.

Wow, nearly 6 yrs. ago, I was given an exclusive with the doggy little planet that wasn't.

Why, thank you very kindly for that link. And here's a link expressly made just for you... http://don-brock.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-do-people-insult-other-people.html?m=1 ;-)