I always felt awkward buying porn at a store, and never mustered the courage to walk into a dedicated "Adult" establishment.
Not to discourage you for allowing the "privacy" of the internet to liberate you... but you *do* realize, that now you've made yourself traceable via your credit card (or even better, your bank account), don't you? Sure, that guy behind the counter won't know about your foot fetish, but the TIA/carnivore/whatever will... either now, or in the future when they secretly allow this data collection (to find the terrorist and save the children, of course).
Just think about that the next time you purchase online.
Sure there are alternatives. However, they have not worked all that well in the past.
Nice straw man. How about socialism? Seems to be working quite well in Europe. I'm sure there are hundereds of millions of people over there who wouldn't give up their economic/political system for ours, even if you paid them to do it (like any typical capitalist would).
Imagine a P2P system like Kazaa but with one extra twist...Whenever
someone wants to download a file from you, your computer doesn't send
it directly to theirs. Instead your computer sends the file to a proxy
machine which then sends the file to the rceipient.
Take it one step further, and add some chain remailer technology. Have a % chance that , instead of the file going directly from the proxy to the recipient, the proxy sends to another proxy. This way, traceability becomes increasingly impossible, and thus, implausible. This becomes a lot easier if, as you suggest, a proxy is a supernode, with encrypted communications.
Another great enhancment might be to simply use steganography to have plausible denyability of contents... sure, I have 10,000 5MB word documents on my/mp3 folder:-)
Re:Huge, Huge, Huge Problem for Microsoft
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This is the point at which they have to start changing their business model, and fast, unless they want to spend a few years in the wilderness like IBM did after their business model died. They really don't have much time left...
Believe you me, I despise the Great Redmond Beast as much as any other/.'er. But when a company has over 2x their yearly revenue in savings (ie, $50Billion or so), they can afford to spend a few years in the wilderness. I'd say they have quite a good deal of time left... now if you're talking about other companies that are willing to deal with them after their dirty laundry was aired with the DOJ affair.. I'd agree that might be their most limiting resource.
It looks cool. It's hard to get much information from that Flash crap though. Is there anywhere I can go to just get information, not a marketer's wet-dream manifested by a cheasy Flash animation?
Agreed, I hate flash. Had to jump out of MozillaFirebird (configured to ingore Flash) and into IE (yuck!). However, one of the links from the Flash gives some real meat.
One thing: apparently the 2k4 Prius comes with a bluetooth handsfree cellphone integration as an optional package... nice!
Joe Consumer doesn't want a car that looks and feels like it's from 50 years in the future. Joe Consumer doesn't want an Enterprise shuttle craft. That is not going to turn on most people except for geeks and early adopters.
Hey, there's this new thing in economics called "niche market"... and guess what, most of/. is definitely not Joe Consumer.
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WTF is SQL-97? Are you talking about ANSI SQL-92?
The parent to your post said "portability" and "openness" is important. Key-suffix being: -ability.. The fact that your company was stupid enough to test only on one platform, then claim compatibility on all is not Sun (or anyone else's) problem. Product development 101 should have taught your team that they need to consider testing paths when certifying the product. Write once, run many is complete bullshit, Sun knows it, and you should plan accordingly.
Conversely, the ability to port easily (much easier in java than.net) to other platforms becomes a selling point down the road... but just becaue the abiilty/openness exists, doesn't mean you have to buy into it.
. And a lot of people use it because it is still the best one-stop-shopping product for email, shared folders, scheduling, contacts, tasks, etc.
[grain of salt] Nope.... It's not like there are lots of competetivegroupware products and services out there... Just that for some crazy reason, people still choose Microsoft, who are proven leaders in designing secure, easy to use products. [/grain of salt]
I'm confused. Newegg claims to sell the Opteron 240 for $300 -- oh wait, I'm out of date -- they're $255 now. Is this a scam or something? I have a hunch it's for real, and they'll actually ship the chips if I pay them.
Hmm... lets see... you're comparing a processor to a full system. Apples vs. Oranges. Lets do some real analysis... top server vs. top server:
a similarly specced dual Opteron 244 1.8Ghz.... $3013 And this isn't even from big boys like Dell (who wouldn't be caught dead using AMD)... just a bottomfeeder from pricewatch.
Now, the G5 has all sorts of desktop/workstation goodies built in (Radeon 96/9800 Pro, awesome sound, good looks), and the with AMD server, you can cut corners with things you don't want in a server, like soundcard, highend video card, etc.
My point? im sure we're still comparing apples to oranges. People who want a mainstream kickass workstation will love to buy the G5. People who want beowulf node clusters or inexpensive uberservers will love the Opteron. I just wish I had either:-)
Check Bugzilla #85799 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85799 -- direct bugzilla links from/. not allowed), a RFE to make form textareas able to act like more powerful text editors. A spellchecker could definitely be part of that.
Just voted for this one.
Please, anyone who's interested, vote for your most desired bugs/enhancements, using bugzilla!
One billion of dollars is an impressive amount here in Brazil that can make a difference.
By the way, the Brazilian government is the largest licensee of MS in Brazil.
Don't forget: Brazilian businesses who work with the government now will probably be "enticed" to use OSS, simply because the cost is negligible and the government will want certain file formats/protocols (probably open, but why not use the same tool that the government is using... it's free, after all). This will "free up" even more money than just government spending, businesses in Brazil will start using more and more OSS as the expertise grows.. and at some point, windows and MS office will no longer be de facto standards.
This is what Microsoft fears, and what will happen, assuming the current plans stay on track.
The few Opteron benchmarks I've seen have shown that it makes *much* better use of multiple CPU than the Xeons, but still lags behind single CPU system for game playing, due to the fact that dual CPUs provide little to no benefit in current games, and the SMP overhead actually reduces perfromance.
Well, if you're still running Windows ME, then no amount of extra processors will help your game. And, yes... games need to be multithreaded/multiprocessed in order to get any benefits from dual-CPUs (other than if you happen to run background processes in the meanwhile, at the same time).
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Why, except for a pathetic fetish for obsolete technology, would you want to use a text-based interface to your X-Server?
Perhaps for bandwidth preservation? Of course, then why use text-GUI if you've got CLI?
However, the lack of AGP, huge size and price render it more suitable for server usage, and we were talking mainstream (i.e. desktop) usage afterall.
What are you talking about??? Did you even view the link? This board (the s2880) has AGP and is ATX form factor. True, this maybe more server oriented with the oboard graphics card, but I see no reason (other than price, maybe) why this can't be a desktop/workstation mobo.
I think this article is way off base. Anyone can put an poorly secured box on the net. The big difference between Linux and Win32 is that Win32 is "broken as designed" and that won't change unless Microsoft changes it.
btw, if you want to secure your linux box against viruses, etc... you at least have the option to recompile the distro.
It might be counterproductive to choose a college based only overall rankings. Your field of reasearch, advisor, how much money they pay you as assistantship, they all play a role.
Totally agreed... But also look at:quality of life (okay, a broad topic).
How close is the school to your current "life" aka friends/family?
What's the culture like (do you value diversity, for example, or maybe are they tech-oriented and have wifi coverage)?
How's your major/field of study percieved in the school?
How efficient is the administration? (in my sister's experience, NYU's administration is slower than molasses on a cold day)
All of these are as important as the cost and benefits of your school, since you'll be spending a significant chunk of your life there.
This morning's NPR softball interview of the lame AWOL Texas democrats really chapped my ass. Why didn't they just skip the interview and read a love letter to the lousy truants?
Wow, you're highly unbiased in your opinions, sir. Perhaps even "Fair and Balanced"? You show much potential for a career as a FOX journalist.
His quote carries on with "There will be no third distribution that will be supported by the large IT vendors". I saw HP were supporting Debian while Bruce Perens was there, but now looking on the HP site everywhere it is RedHat or Suse.
After getting a few of these in a week's time, I checked the headers, and all seemed to come from China. I'm not sophicicated enough to trace them back any farther, but since these are so blatently criminal, I dont think they'd be originating in the US, as the potential for prosecution is so high.
I really doubt people in China want your CC address or paypal account. More likely, it's open relays in China where spammers (probably US-based) open accounts. I can think of no simple solution to this issue, perhaps best is to just cut off these ISPs (think: internet death thread) from the major ISP links here in the US. No need to kill all of China, just the last point of accountability on their side, and let them clean up their own act.
1.8 million signatures (ie, not valid votes) is MUCH less than the current total state population of ~30 Million, that makes LESS THAN THREE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL POPULACE that get to effectively push the redo button.
If you need a phone in Europe, buy a SIM card when you get there. In most other places, incoming calls are free. As a result, if you get a prepaid SIM card that lasts a month
Damn, you beat me to it. However, one other thing you might want to consider is that you can just buy a SIM-locked prepaid phone (like here in the states), but like the jconner says, you won't normally pay for incoming minutes, so you can *ping* your US counterparts and have them call you back. I did this for over a year in France, and it worked out pretty well.
That doesn't make too much sense to me. Assuming the blackout is a result of cost cutting, it seems like an unreasonable risk, because now that the power's out, people CAN'T use the power, and thus the utilities can't bill until they lights come back on.
That would make sense, if you don't compare what they saved (in running lean) vs. what they lose (in one blackout). In short, I bet "unreasonable risk" you pose, would be, financially reasonable if it only happened occasionally, and that's probably what they calculated. The same concept as "acceptable level of casualties"... and although not as amoral, still causes hell for everyone not making that extra buck that the power utility is.
People can pick them out of the trash. I'm always careful to do this, many places put your number on your receipt.
Or just keep them. People can't dumpster-dive if you leave them no info to dive for. Ever since my girlfriend forced us to be more fiscally aware, we've kept ALL of the receipts (trust me, it's not hard)... and have consequently learned much about our spending habits. Data mining... it's not just for corporate multinationals anymore.
I use a shredder, too.. but I just like shredding stuff (hint: don't try putting credit cards in cheap shredders):-)
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Not to discourage you for allowing the "privacy" of the internet to liberate you... but you *do* realize, that now you've made yourself traceable via your credit card (or even better, your bank account), don't you? Sure, that guy behind the counter won't know about your foot fetish, but the TIA/carnivore/whatever will... either now, or in the future when they secretly allow this data collection (to find the terrorist and save the children, of course).
Just think about that the next time you purchase online.
Nice straw man. How about socialism? Seems to be working quite well in Europe. I'm sure there are hundereds of millions of people over there who wouldn't give up their economic/political system for ours, even if you paid them to do it (like any typical capitalist would).
Anyone wonder how long it will take until we have easy to understand color coded virus "terrah" alert levels?
Take it one step further, and add some chain remailer technology. Have a % chance that , instead of the file going directly from the proxy to the recipient, the proxy sends to another proxy. This way, traceability becomes increasingly impossible, and thus, implausible. This becomes a lot easier if, as you suggest, a proxy is a supernode, with encrypted communications.
Another great enhancment might be to simply use steganography to have plausible denyability of contents... sure, I have 10,000 5MB word documents on my /mp3 folder :-)
Believe you me, I despise the Great Redmond Beast as much as any other /.'er. But when a company has over 2x their yearly revenue in savings (ie, $50Billion or so), they can afford to spend a few years in the wilderness. I'd say they have quite a good deal of time left... now if you're talking about other companies that are willing to deal with them after their dirty laundry was aired with the DOJ affair.. I'd agree that might be their most limiting resource.
Agreed, I hate flash. Had to jump out of MozillaFirebird (configured to ingore Flash) and into IE (yuck!). However, one of the links from the Flash gives some real meat. One thing: apparently the 2k4 Prius comes with a bluetooth handsfree cellphone integration as an optional package... nice!
Joe Consumer doesn't want a car that looks and feels like it's from 50 years in the future. Joe Consumer doesn't want an Enterprise shuttle craft. That is not going to turn on most people except for geeks and early adopters.
Hey, there's this new thing in economics called "niche market"... and guess what, most of /. is definitely not Joe Consumer.
Conversely, the ability to port easily (much easier in java than .net) to other platforms becomes a selling point down the road... but just becaue the abiilty/openness exists, doesn't mean you have to buy into it.
[grain of salt]
Nope.... It's not like there are lots of competetive groupware products and services out there... Just that for some crazy reason, people still choose Microsoft, who are proven leaders in designing secure, easy to use products.
[/grain of salt]
Hmm... lets see... you're comparing a processor to a full system. Apples vs. Oranges.
Lets do some real analysis... top server vs. top server:
vs.
And this isn't even from big boys like Dell (who wouldn't be caught dead using AMD)... just a bottomfeeder from pricewatch.
Now, the G5 has all sorts of desktop/workstation goodies built in (Radeon 96/9800 Pro, awesome sound, good looks), and the with AMD server, you can cut corners with things you don't want in a server, like soundcard, highend video card, etc.
My point? im sure we're still comparing apples to oranges. People who want a mainstream kickass workstation will love to buy the G5. People who want beowulf node clusters or inexpensive uberservers will love the Opteron. I just wish I had either :-)
Just voted for this one.
Please, anyone who's interested, vote for your most desired bugs/enhancements, using bugzilla!
Don't forget: Brazilian businesses who work with the government now will probably be "enticed" to use OSS, simply because the cost is negligible and the government will want certain file formats/protocols (probably open, but why not use the same tool that the government is using... it's free, after all). This will "free up" even more money than just government spending, businesses in Brazil will start using more and more OSS as the expertise grows.. and at some point, windows and MS office will no longer be de facto standards.
This is what Microsoft fears, and what will happen, assuming the current plans stay on track.
Well, if you're still running Windows ME, then no amount of extra processors will help your game. And, yes... games need to be multithreaded/multiprocessed in order to get any benefits from dual-CPUs (other than if you happen to run background processes in the meanwhile, at the same time).
Perhaps for bandwidth preservation? Of course, then why use text-GUI if you've got CLI?
What are you talking about??? Did you even view the link? This board (the s2880) has AGP and is ATX form factor. True, this maybe more server oriented with the oboard graphics card, but I see no reason (other than price, maybe) why this can't be a desktop/workstation mobo.
btw, if you want to secure your linux box against viruses, etc... you at least have the option to recompile the distro.
Totally agreed...
But also look at:quality of life (okay, a broad topic).
All of these are as important as the cost and benefits of your school, since you'll be spending a significant chunk of your life there.
Wow, you're highly unbiased in your opinions, sir. Perhaps even "Fair and Balanced"? You show much potential for a career as a FOX journalist.
Here's another comment refuting your claim, with links.
I really doubt people in China want your CC address or paypal account. More likely, it's open relays in China where spammers (probably US-based) open accounts. I can think of no simple solution to this issue, perhaps best is to just cut off these ISPs (think: internet death thread) from the major ISP links here in the US. No need to kill all of China, just the last point of accountability on their side, and let them clean up their own act.
Cool!... People, mod up parent!
Damn, you beat me to it.
However, one other thing you might want to consider is that you can just buy a SIM-locked prepaid phone (like here in the states), but like the jconner says, you won't normally pay for incoming minutes, so you can *ping* your US counterparts and have them call you back. I did this for over a year in France, and it worked out pretty well.
That would make sense, if you don't compare what they saved (in running lean) vs. what they lose (in one blackout). In short, I bet "unreasonable risk" you pose, would be, financially reasonable if it only happened occasionally, and that's probably what they calculated. The same concept as "acceptable level of casualties"... and although not as amoral, still causes hell for everyone not making that extra buck that the power utility is.
Cuase it's not like the U.S. is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in a war, right?
Oh wait, they are [google cache].
Or just keep them.
People can't dumpster-dive if you leave them no info to dive for. Ever since my girlfriend forced us to be more fiscally aware, we've kept ALL of the receipts (trust me, it's not hard)... and have consequently learned much about our spending habits. Data mining... it's not just for corporate multinationals anymore.
I use a shredder, too.. but I just like shredding stuff (hint: don't try putting credit cards in cheap shredders) :-)