These arguments intensified when it was revealed that the Democratic Party received a total donation of $1,020,816, given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), while the Republican Party received only $142,863 via 193 donations.
Survey says...
In a survey conducted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1997, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of or shared the beliefs of the Democratic Party. Only 15% say their beliefs were best represented by the Republican Party.[18] This leaves 24% undecided or Independent.
Study says...
Self-described as "the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly,[22] a study by political scientists Tim Groseclose of UCLA and Jeff Milyo of the University of Missouri at Columbia. The study's stated purpose was to document the range of bias among news outlets.[23] The research concluded that of the major 20 news outlets studied "18 scored left of the average U.S. voter, with CBS Evening News, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal, while only the Fox News "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored right of the average U.S. voter."
I dunno, seems like a pretty weak case to say "the media is right-leaning", given all of that, unless you intend to state that WIkipedia itself is right leaning and tampering with the article. Theres a section on possible conservative bias, but it is, predictably, centered on Fox news.
That whole section of the linked article is pretty revealing btw (and contrary to GP's point). Another snippet:
In a survey conducted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1997, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of or shared the beliefs of the Democratic Party. Only 15% say their beliefs were best represented by the Republican Party.[18] This leaves 24% undecided or Independent.
Yea, 15% is indicative of a real big conservative bias, right?
NPR is unbiased until any pressure is put on it, in which case it caves like a cardboard box.
Baloney. Every host on NPR is left-leaning, and anyone who has listened to their shows knows it. I listen to em too, and I enjoy the debates, but to pretend that Kojo or Diane Rehm are anything other than left leaning is to delude yourself. And when you say "caves", are you implying it caves to the right? Because that would be absolutely absurd.
Here's an idea. Stop watching Fox.
I dont (except incidentally, as its on near the water cooler), but thanks for trying to pigeonhole me. I probably get more of my news from BBC than I do Fox.
My "facts" were taken from research, such as this:
These arguments intensified when it was revealed that the Democratic Party received a total donation of $1,020,816, given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), while the Republican Party received only $142,863 via 193 donations.[16] Both of these figures represent donations made in 2008.
But no, nothing to see here, theyre all conservative.
Water also has the problem of having killed probably more people than any other form of electricity. Care to guess what happens when a large dam experiences "issues" on the scale of Fukushima? Heres a hint, it doesnt result in a mere 1 person hospitalized from radiation. Try a few hundred thousand dead.
The trouble with Hydro power is the disasters are so bad, and sooner or later the dams get privatized and some wealthy jackass cuts funding to safety.
See what I did there?
Heres a tip, find every stat you can on nuclear deaths. Go ahead, even include the hypothetical assumptions about who got cancer but might not have. Now compare it to a single hydro dam failure. Or to estimated coal mining deaths.
All of a sudden it starts to look a lot less terrible.
Linux also has a whopping 0.7% market share as far as web browsing is concerned, so its probably not a very high priority as far as malware writers are concerned.
Most home users have gone from 100mbit to 54mbit WiFi. Most home users are throttled not by the speed of the internal physical layer, but by their downstream ISP, which is usually in the 10-50mbit range.
Cabling is mostly nice for things like TVs, printers, etc-- appliances that you want to "just work" without having to guess if something went wrong with its wifi. 100mbit is really overkill for a home printer or TV.
Having said that I would never run less than Cat5e or Cat6 in a home because of the trouble of rewiring, but its really overkill. Run 2 CAT6s to where your TV is, and you can now run HDMI over ethernet at up to 100m (?) lengths, which should be plenty for the forseeable future.
Unless you want a super-high-end media tester that can test all 7 layers of OSI, you arent spending $3k on a cat5e check. Best Buy has sufficient cable testers for about $20. For $80 you can get one that does TDR and tells you the length of the cable, plus where any shorts are. For $500 you can get one that does Layer 7, checking DHCP and pinging.
I dont believe it IS broadcast at you. Unless Im mistaken, with any kind of wireless protection, the shared key is NOT the encryption key; rather each device negotiates its own key with the AP. You may have data flying at you, but its not data that you can read without cracking that key (which I believe you CAN do with the PSK..?).
In the same way, would it be ok for me to plug-in to your internet connection outside your house and sniff that data too?
No, because you have a reasonable expectation of privacy there. Its the difference between overhearing a shouted conversation with my neighbor, and setting up unidirectional microphones against the walls of my house and capturing a conversation with my family. One is legal, the other is very clearly a violation of wiretapping laws.
I have always been doubtful when people commented about how bonch had all these shill accounts, and then I saw the Wozniak Win7 phone article, and there pops up TechCar, with a clever pro MS and anti-google post; and right here all of your detractors have been modded down.
Its eerily like you really are a shill with a stable of accounts with modpoints. I mean, how is it you manage to turn MS supporting CISPA openly into a good thing, and Google not stating support for CISPA into a bad thing? How is it elsewhere you manage to turn Google's Android into a success into them "being sneaky", while poor ole MS struggles with their noble Win7 phone OS?
If you want to shill, be honest about it, dont sockpuppet.
The time you need to waste with Linux costs a lot more than something that just works.
What mythical OS is this that Just Works? Oh wait, thats right, your account is a sockpuppet whose goal is to tell half-truths to promote a product.
Yes, there are some good things about Windows, and I work with it every day. For small companies without dedicated IT I recommend it hands down because it will be much easier for the company to maintain it if/when I leave or am unavailable. But there is a reason Linux is so heavily used in fortune 500s, and its not because its an error-prone pile of garbage. Properly set up, Linux too Just Works (until it doesnt-- like with any OS).
As for free, Im willing to bet there are reasons that Amazon, Rackspace, and Dreamhost do their hosting on Linux. If I had to guess, I would say "can deploy unlimited instances", "can easily modify the base config and strip it down", and "Just Works" would be big motivators, and they seem to be successful enough. Somehow, all of these internet monsters-- whos IT staff I suspect is paid a LOT more than your average accountant-- have survived just fine dealing with Linux.
The primary benefits of fiber are lower interference, and thus longer transmission distances. Neither of those are super-big concerns in the house, and the ease of CAT5e+ cabling blows most other concerns out of the wire. Easy to run, repair, terminate, and interoperable with basically every networkable device out there? Yes please.
copper is a much huger pain in the ass when you are competent in using both media.
I dont have experience terminating fiber, but I would be suprised if that were true. Any dummy with $20 can start terminating CAT5 and hooking it up to devices; is the same true with fiber?
But it blows the hell out of copper for terms of throughput.
That sort of depends on your criteria.
At worst, you'll be pulling the RJ45+CAT out in 20 years anyway, so if something better than fiber comes along, you can still string and pull the new stuff through.
CAT5e, CAT6, and CAT6A are all capable of 10gbps (higher standard=longer haul 10gbit), and I really doubt thats going to be considered "outdated" in 10 years. It might become the "current", but I dont see the average household needing 10gbit when most home computers can barely find a use for gigabit. Dont kid yourself, gigabit is really only useful for niche home applications once you get out of the business realm.
Just remember that trends don't always point to the future.
Presumably, when the future arrives, it will be a hell of a lot less expensive than cabling the whole house for fiber. For now, drop Cat6 everywhere and leave fiber-line pull cable to allow for easy rewiring.
When you say "marginally", can you find a single source / release from the past year indicating more than a 10-20% speed boost for IB? Because this is what was predicted, and what has been delivered.
But that reinforces what I said: barring getting bitten by (or exposed to the blood of) a rodent, you generally arent going to catch the disease, and it generally isnt transmissible.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_States#Claims_of_a_liberal_bias
Political contributions...
These arguments intensified when it was revealed that the Democratic Party received a total donation of $1,020,816, given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), while the Republican Party received only $142,863 via 193 donations.
Survey says...
In a survey conducted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1997, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of or shared the beliefs of the Democratic Party. Only 15% say their beliefs were best represented by the Republican Party.[18] This leaves 24% undecided or Independent.
Study says...
Self-described as "the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly,[22] a study by political scientists Tim Groseclose of UCLA and Jeff Milyo of the University of Missouri at Columbia. The study's stated purpose was to document the range of bias among news outlets.[23] The research concluded that of the major 20 news outlets studied "18 scored left of the average U.S. voter, with CBS Evening News, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal, while only the Fox News "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored right of the average U.S. voter."
I dunno, seems like a pretty weak case to say "the media is right-leaning", given all of that, unless you intend to state that WIkipedia itself is right leaning and tampering with the article. Theres a section on possible conservative bias, but it is, predictably, centered on Fox news.
Worse? No radiation deaths, 2 people hospitalized, and a zone of very mild radiation contamination, vs 171,000 people dead?
Yea, ill take the exclusion zone, thanks.
That whole section of the linked article is pretty revealing btw (and contrary to GP's point). Another snippet:
In a survey conducted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1997, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of or shared the beliefs of the Democratic Party. Only 15% say their beliefs were best represented by the Republican Party.[18] This leaves 24% undecided or Independent.
Yea, 15% is indicative of a real big conservative bias, right?
NPR is unbiased until any pressure is put on it, in which case it caves like a cardboard box.
Baloney. Every host on NPR is left-leaning, and anyone who has listened to their shows knows it. I listen to em too, and I enjoy the debates, but to pretend that Kojo or Diane Rehm are anything other than left leaning is to delude yourself. And when you say "caves", are you implying it caves to the right? Because that would be absolutely absurd.
Here's an idea. Stop watching Fox.
I dont (except incidentally, as its on near the water cooler), but thanks for trying to pigeonhole me. I probably get more of my news from BBC than I do Fox.
My "facts" were taken from research, such as this:
These arguments intensified when it was revealed that the Democratic Party received a total donation of $1,020,816, given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), while the Republican Party received only $142,863 via 193 donations.[16] Both of these figures represent donations made in 2008.
But no, nothing to see here, theyre all conservative.
I imagine if a doctor went around digging up bodies without permission and dissecting them, he would be imprisioned even today.
Name a major right-leaning news publication or radio station.
I don't know if mass media in Canada are under the total control of the far right as in the U.S.,
So youre saying NPR, Huffington Post, MSNBC, CBS etc are all far right?
Ok then.
Solar power is also ridiculously expensive compared with anything else, and not really viable for a long term solution on its own.
When you say "downwind from Japan", you mean "downwind" in the same sense that Moscow is downwind from Vermont? Because Moscow is closer.
Heres a tip, 5500 miles doesnt really count as downwind.
Water also has the problem of having killed probably more people than any other form of electricity. Care to guess what happens when a large dam experiences "issues" on the scale of Fukushima? Heres a hint, it doesnt result in a mere 1 person hospitalized from radiation. Try a few hundred thousand dead.
The trouble with Hydro power is the disasters are so bad, and sooner or later the dams get privatized and some wealthy jackass cuts funding to safety.
See what I did there?
Heres a tip, find every stat you can on nuclear deaths. Go ahead, even include the hypothetical assumptions about who got cancer but might not have. Now compare it to a single hydro dam failure. Or to estimated coal mining deaths.
All of a sudden it starts to look a lot less terrible.
Linux also has a whopping 0.7% market share as far as web browsing is concerned, so its probably not a very high priority as far as malware writers are concerned.
Being self-righteous about it wont prevent people from misunderstanding you. You have two options:
* Deal with it
* Be snooty about it, and continue to wonder why people get the wrong idea when you say "hacker"
Most home users have gone from 100mbit to 54mbit WiFi. Most home users are throttled not by the speed of the internal physical layer, but by their downstream ISP, which is usually in the 10-50mbit range.
Cabling is mostly nice for things like TVs, printers, etc-- appliances that you want to "just work" without having to guess if something went wrong with its wifi. 100mbit is really overkill for a home printer or TV.
Having said that I would never run less than Cat5e or Cat6 in a home because of the trouble of rewiring, but its really overkill. Run 2 CAT6s to where your TV is, and you can now run HDMI over ethernet at up to 100m (?) lengths, which should be plenty for the forseeable future.
Unless you want a super-high-end media tester that can test all 7 layers of OSI, you arent spending $3k on a cat5e check. Best Buy has sufficient cable testers for about $20. For $80 you can get one that does TDR and tells you the length of the cable, plus where any shorts are. For $500 you can get one that does Layer 7, checking DHCP and pinging.
What are the prices for a similar fiber checker?
Basically every $20 Cat5 crimper Ive seen has one side for stripping the cable which works great. Here you go:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10509&cs_id=1050901&p_id=3350&seq=1&format=2
Ive got one, it works fantastic, and its only $11.
I dont believe it IS broadcast at you. Unless Im mistaken, with any kind of wireless protection, the shared key is NOT the encryption key; rather each device negotiates its own key with the AP. You may have data flying at you, but its not data that you can read without cracking that key (which I believe you CAN do with the PSK..?).
In the same way, would it be ok for me to plug-in to your internet connection outside your house and sniff that data too?
No, because you have a reasonable expectation of privacy there. Its the difference between overhearing a shouted conversation with my neighbor, and setting up unidirectional microphones against the walls of my house and capturing a conversation with my family. One is legal, the other is very clearly a violation of wiretapping laws.
I have always been doubtful when people commented about how bonch had all these shill accounts, and then I saw the Wozniak Win7 phone article, and there pops up TechCar, with a clever pro MS and anti-google post; and right here all of your detractors have been modded down.
Its eerily like you really are a shill with a stable of accounts with modpoints. I mean, how is it you manage to turn MS supporting CISPA openly into a good thing, and Google not stating support for CISPA into a bad thing? How is it elsewhere you manage to turn Google's Android into a success into them "being sneaky", while poor ole MS struggles with their noble Win7 phone OS?
If you want to shill, be honest about it, dont sockpuppet.
you want simple users, make it simple to use. Linux is way too fractured right now for the average user.
OK.
Get a consensus down to a single home distro, a single business distro, and a few specialized distros and then start from there.
Will "Ubuntu / mint at home, CentOS / RHEL at business" be sufficient?
The time you need to waste with Linux costs a lot more than something that just works.
What mythical OS is this that Just Works? Oh wait, thats right, your account is a sockpuppet whose goal is to tell half-truths to promote a product.
Yes, there are some good things about Windows, and I work with it every day. For small companies without dedicated IT I recommend it hands down because it will be much easier for the company to maintain it if /when I leave or am unavailable. But there is a reason Linux is so heavily used in fortune 500s, and its not because its an error-prone pile of garbage. Properly set up, Linux too Just Works (until it doesnt-- like with any OS).
As for free, Im willing to bet there are reasons that Amazon, Rackspace, and Dreamhost do their hosting on Linux. If I had to guess, I would say "can deploy unlimited instances", "can easily modify the base config and strip it down", and "Just Works" would be big motivators, and they seem to be successful enough. Somehow, all of these internet monsters-- whos IT staff I suspect is paid a LOT more than your average accountant-- have survived just fine dealing with Linux.
The primary benefits of fiber are lower interference, and thus longer transmission distances. Neither of those are super-big concerns in the house, and the ease of CAT5e+ cabling blows most other concerns out of the wire. Easy to run, repair, terminate, and interoperable with basically every networkable device out there? Yes please.
copper is a much huger pain in the ass when you are competent in using both media.
I dont have experience terminating fiber, but I would be suprised if that were true. Any dummy with $20 can start terminating CAT5 and hooking it up to devices; is the same true with fiber?
But it blows the hell out of copper for terms of throughput.
That sort of depends on your criteria.
At worst, you'll be pulling the RJ45+CAT out in 20 years anyway, so if something better than fiber comes along, you can still string and pull the new stuff through.
CAT5e, CAT6, and CAT6A are all capable of 10gbps (higher standard=longer haul 10gbit), and I really doubt thats going to be considered "outdated" in 10 years. It might become the "current", but I dont see the average household needing 10gbit when most home computers can barely find a use for gigabit. Dont kid yourself, gigabit is really only useful for niche home applications once you get out of the business realm.
Just remember that trends don't always point to the future.
Presumably, when the future arrives, it will be a hell of a lot less expensive than cabling the whole house for fiber. For now, drop Cat6 everywhere and leave fiber-line pull cable to allow for easy rewiring.
When you say "marginally", can you find a single source / release from the past year indicating more than a 10-20% speed boost for IB? Because this is what was predicted, and what has been delivered.
But that reinforces what I said: barring getting bitten by (or exposed to the blood of) a rodent, you generally arent going to catch the disease, and it generally isnt transmissible.
From what Ive read, monkeypox is not a good candidate for a pandemic, since it spreads through blood-to-blood contact or rodent bites.
Your post IS an overreaction.
Wikipedia is indicating this is NOT highly contagious:
Limited person-to-person spread of infection has been reported in disease-endemic areas in Africa.
...
Monkeypox is usually transmitted to humans from rodents, pets, and primates through contact with the animal's blood or through a bite
Nor does it seem to be super deadly-- between 1-10% fatality rate even in Africa.
Maybe it IS an overreaction? Should a flight be grounded if one of the passengers has AIDS, since that is far more deadly and far more transmissible?