While this is tinfoil hat paranoia in the extreme, there is some basis for taking a little heed to it's direction. And that said, I'd like to hear the options that probably cannot be circumvented by various government entities and the worst case is you are handing them a brick.
Didn't they do this as the result of import limits?
That could very well be true also. I live a county or two over from the BMW plant here in South Carolina, a plant that is being doubled in size curently, and also doubling it's workforce. BMW was quoted in the paper saying it was cheaper for them to make the cars here and ship them to Germany and the rest of the EU mostly due to the weak dollar. I'm sure there are a million other reasons, but that was their statement.
Second, although the big three love to blame all their problems on the unions, they've found enough cash to buy out most of the other automakers on the planet (volvo, saab, jaguar, subaru, range rover... to name just a few).
When you are printing new shares of stock, the actual cost is near zero to make these acquisitions.
Yet they haven't found the cash to refit and retool their american factories.
That is because the contracts need to be paid in cash, cash they do not have.
They have an application that calculates the salary. They don't need to change anything in the existing application, all they need is to "decorate" the app with an additional wrapper that rolls back the salary the appropriate amount.
So nobody should get back pay when there is a budget passed?
Honestly I wonder why they don't just outsource it to some payroll company since they are obviously incapable of doing the task themselves.
Ummm, I remember signing a contract that said "Air Force needs come first", so the best choice was using the suggestion program, I recall flooding that box myself.
You have alot of interesting stuff here, but off the beaten path of what is being asked I think.
What the Navajo Nation is needing is Tier 1 access, or in the alternative, as suggested by the article, become a Tier 1 provider. I think within the reservation, using high power (50W) access points upon hill and mountain tops to wirelessly distribute to the end points would actually be a worthwhile solution, close to what 802.11 was designed for, then link the access points wirelessly again with a point to multi point backbone as they should all have line of site of each other. Now it is just a matter of getting it connected to the net. And from the geographic location of the reservation, and them needing to be their own provider, a DS3 to San Jose and Dallas or Chicago to peer at the NAPS. I don't think the big boys will be anal about peering with their community at the NAPS like they are with peering with other for-profit providers.
I peered at the Ameritec NAP through most of the 90's in Chicago and was able to pass most of my traffic there, over 50%, as a for profit provider, so MCI/Sprint/UUNet wouldn't peer with our network, but would gladly sell transit over the NAP, which would give the Navajo the option if needed. Reading TFA doesn't make clear if the Navajo or the USAC budget is $2.25b/yr, but I'm going to assume the USAC budget is that, so what I've suggested and what the Navajo budget are still might be within the costs on an ongoing basis of what their contract with OnSat was costing, and much better service, but the initial hardware cost might be out of reach for them
I love my country and all, but if the United States keeps following down this road, I am gone.
I share your frustration, but the simple question I've been asking myself, and have not come to a reasonable answer yet, is where to go? New Zealand seemed liked it became very libertarian from some reading I've done, but is there really anyplace on earth that is not filling with authoritarian fascist power whores in control?
Except, you know, you can't kill a cop with a camera (unless you bludgeon him over the head with it, but even then).
At least here is South Carolina it is still legal to use upto deadly force against the police during an unlawful arrest, and has been upheld many time in the SC Supreme Court.
If you fine them you pay the fine as it will increase costs.
If you put the guys in jail you pay to put someone who isn't a threat to society, and pay to keep him there.
The Government should give each of those customers and the people who they called during the illegal search $100 for each call they illegally wiretapped, and take it out of their assets.
Your logic is flawed with that last statement. If you are for the immunity based on the end result bringing increased costs, surely you must have realized a $100 handout by the government would also be passed onto the public as a tax increase as the US Government has no assets, rather a nine trillion dollar debt.
I agree, and my money will be spent to fund competitors to Rep Spratt (D-SC) who voted for the FISA bill, and to get John McCains sock puppet Lindsey Graham (R-SC) out of office as well.
If it actually made sense, I'd go for Brewsters theory of None of the Above, but alas whoever is not a Dem or Republican is probably the right choice this time as the two mainstream parties need to have a timeout in the corner and remember what their job truly is
HyperV is also Xen aware. I played with it for a short period when RC1 was released, but was totally dissatisfied with it. I don't think VMWare has much to worry about as HyperV was not ready for production in my opinion at the time.
I was able to install Xen kernels in Fedora and CentOS without a problem in HyperV, but could not for the life of me get w2k3 or w2k8 to install, while both install without issue in my Xen cluster. Virtual Server 2005 was a far better product from Microsoft, but still way lacking as it required windows as the base OS.
Another lacking part I found with HyperV was poor ethernet support for *nix, limited to a realtech driver at 100Mbit. I really don't think enterprise clients will adopt HyperV for the one main reason of support though, it only officially supports SUSE, and if big enterprise clients can not purchase support for other linux distro's, they are not going to waste their time on Microsofts product.
Really? I always thought HP was ASUS hardware, at least at the desktop level. I have a couple of server grade Gigabyte motherboards that I will never purchase again, and I haven't liked ASUS since the P3 came out, but for server grade boards Ive not had an issue with Tyan in over 15 years, but many have told me of problems they've had with that brand. The majority of my servers are just cheap Gigabyte desktop boards in 1U cases and for AMD based systems, for me work perfectly. All my servers were either built by me or Tyan barebone servers assembled by me. I spend alot of time researching every part, and only a couple times bought a mistake from ASUS in the past year and chalked it up to my own fault for not fully researching the board. I'd still like to know why these new cheap NIC's on the desktop boards hate Cisco 29xx/35xx switches so much.
Exactly. Vote for Linux support with your money. The problem is, there aren't nearly enough Linux users to make a dent they will notice. If it makes you feel any better, I bought a (crappy) Foxconn board once and won't be buying one again.
I beg to differ, desktop linux users != linux users.
I purchase 40-50 systems a year as a one man show hosting company, 100% of those systems MUST be able to run linux, and run it without issue. Only 4 of my computers run a GUI, and only 1 of those runs windows, and only to play games, and that machine can dual boot to linux as well.
So yes, I do vote with every dollar I spend by purchasing only linux compatible hardware, but I also am realistic and research what I buy before I buy it. Maybe that is why I have a mountain of Gigabyte, Tyan, Adaptec, 3ware and SuperMicro hardware.
All joking aside, if it wasn't for the abysmal access to broadband network access in rural, much less remote areas of the United States, I'd be all for self sufficiency.
I've lived on 8 acres, not huge, but nice hobby farm type in the rural midwest, and the cost to bring reliable high speed access to that property was several hundred a month for a 256k frame connection into my network, so naturally no transit fees. This was in 1995, and 13 years later it is still the same there, and most other rural locations I would bet.
I love my Hauppauge MediaPVR hooked to my SageTV server. But yes, you are 100% correct, for HD and home brew, I see nothing other than OTA options, and I get terrible reception so I currently have no option to do it myself legally. I would pay the fee for the HD content from my local cable company if I could hook it to my media server. Like yourself, I am not interested in sharing it to the world, or even the next door neighbor, just personal time shifting as I never watch when programmers want me to watch.
I kick myself for not documenting the idea presented in TFA as I recall reading about their grant several months ago and was very upset as I had this or very similar idea about 4 or 5 years ago. I could have swore I detailed it in a post here at/. last year, but could not find it so my loss.
I'd be *very* interested in knowing how many of their transactions are 100% in-network value transfers. For the payment technology ignorant, that means a transaction where the source funds (buyer's payment) is stored in the PayPal system.
My guess is it's *very* low compared to their Visa/MC processing.
I'd actually be surprised if it wasn't actually the opposite. 90% of my sales arrive via PayPal, 10% via e-gold. I then spend that paying bills by either making a direct PayPal payment to my vendor, or by using my PayPal debit card. Only my apartment rent do I have to head to the ATM to make a cash widthrawl, but never need to send funds to or from the bank.
It is an interesting question, but doubtful we would ever find eBay releasing the real thruth
Besides i can easily host my own browsersettings on my home computer, in fact, i'll be setting it up (or trying to) when i come home
My thoughts pretty much. Host your own server for your own use. I can see this as a fantastic OpenVZ Template to easily deploy a server for anyone wanting one. You can get a VPS for around $10/mo if you really wish to keep it in your own hands, I know I would, and I bet many others would opt if that option was available.
One thing that seems to be true is that storage is getting cheaper and bigger all the time.
How about faster? That is my desire, and hardware SAS and SATA raid arrays are just not fast enough for what I am interested in. I saw a new device recently that was mentioned here, the Fusion IO, that is 1000 times faster, but is cost prohibitive yet, and small in size still, like 320gb is as large as offered. At $30/GB it has a long way to go before it is really mainstream and I don't see that happening for quite some time since they have their production sold out for months on end. At least that was what I was told after contacting their sales department. It is supported in the CentOS 5.2 kernel though, so that was a major plus to me, and no Windows support yet either, another major plus to me.
Think about it - if you're making a clean break from Windows, would you choose a mature, well established alternative like Linux or MacOSX, or would you choose a completely new, unproven and completely incompatible and unstandardised operating system from Microsoft? Even if the new Microsoft OS is cleaner, being incompatible with EVERY operating system out there would absolutely kill it.
I don't see why they would need to keep backwards compatibility with their base OS, there are enough choices for running those old programs in some sort of container, be it a VM, or WINE-like process, or a legacy machine that users can RDP to, which might even be a VM itself.
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While this is tinfoil hat paranoia in the extreme, there is some basis for taking a little heed to it's direction. And that said, I'd like to hear the options that probably cannot be circumvented by various government entities and the worst case is you are handing them a brick.
Didn't they do this as the result of import limits?
That could very well be true also. I live a county or two over from the BMW plant here in South Carolina, a plant that is being doubled in size curently, and also doubling it's workforce. BMW was quoted in the paper saying it was cheaper for them to make the cars here and ship them to Germany and the rest of the EU mostly due to the weak dollar. I'm sure there are a million other reasons, but that was their statement.
Second, although the big three love to blame all their problems on the unions, they've found enough cash to buy out most of the other automakers on the planet (volvo, saab, jaguar, subaru, range rover ... to name just a few).
When you are printing new shares of stock, the actual cost is near zero to make these acquisitions.
Yet they haven't found the cash to refit and retool their american factories.
That is because the contracts need to be paid in cash, cash they do not have.
They have an application that calculates the salary. They don't need to change anything in the existing application, all they need is to "decorate" the app with an additional wrapper that rolls back the salary the appropriate amount.
So nobody should get back pay when there is a budget passed?
Honestly I wonder why they don't just outsource it to some payroll company since they are obviously incapable of doing the task themselves.
Ummm, I remember signing a contract that said "Air Force needs come first", so the best choice was using the suggestion program, I recall flooding that box myself.
You have alot of interesting stuff here, but off the beaten path of what is being asked I think.
What the Navajo Nation is needing is Tier 1 access, or in the alternative, as suggested by the article, become a Tier 1 provider. I think within the reservation, using high power (50W) access points upon hill and mountain tops to wirelessly distribute to the end points would actually be a worthwhile solution, close to what 802.11 was designed for, then link the access points wirelessly again with a point to multi point backbone as they should all have line of site of each other. Now it is just a matter of getting it connected to the net. And from the geographic location of the reservation, and them needing to be their own provider, a DS3 to San Jose and Dallas or Chicago to peer at the NAPS. I don't think the big boys will be anal about peering with their community at the NAPS like they are with peering with other for-profit providers.
I peered at the Ameritec NAP through most of the 90's in Chicago and was able to pass most of my traffic there, over 50%, as a for profit provider, so MCI/Sprint/UUNet wouldn't peer with our network, but would gladly sell transit over the NAP, which would give the Navajo the option if needed. Reading TFA doesn't make clear if the Navajo or the USAC budget is $2.25b/yr, but I'm going to assume the USAC budget is that, so what I've suggested and what the Navajo budget are still might be within the costs on an ongoing basis of what their contract with OnSat was costing, and much better service, but the initial hardware cost might be out of reach for them
Exactly. All mods should know about all unknown songs by all unknown bands!
Listen to the song Crazy Bitch, it's really quite funny, and if you've had a woman, would know it.
The DHS needs to be reigned in something fierce.
No, the DHS needs to be dissolved as it should have never been created.
I love my country and all, but if the United States keeps following down this road, I am gone.
I share your frustration, but the simple question I've been asking myself, and have not come to a reasonable answer yet, is where to go? New Zealand seemed liked it became very libertarian from some reading I've done, but is there really anyplace on earth that is not filling with authoritarian fascist power whores in control?
So where are you going to live now?
They will be renting other distressed properties from landlords who didn't fold just yet and save a few of them from foreclosure.
Except, you know, you can't kill a cop with a camera (unless you bludgeon him over the head with it, but even then).
At least here is South Carolina it is still legal to use upto deadly force against the police during an unlawful arrest, and has been upheld many time in the SC Supreme Court.
If you fine them you pay the fine as it will increase costs.
If you put the guys in jail you pay to put someone who isn't a threat to society, and pay to keep him there.
The Government should give each of those customers and the people who they called during the illegal search $100 for each call they illegally wiretapped, and take it out of their assets.
Your logic is flawed with that last statement. If you are for the immunity based on the end result bringing increased costs, surely you must have realized a $100 handout by the government would also be passed onto the public as a tax increase as the US Government has no assets, rather a nine trillion dollar debt.
I agree, and my money will be spent to fund competitors to Rep Spratt (D-SC) who voted for the FISA bill, and to get John McCains sock puppet Lindsey Graham (R-SC) out of office as well.
If it actually made sense, I'd go for Brewsters theory of None of the Above, but alas whoever is not a Dem or Republican is probably the right choice this time as the two mainstream parties need to have a timeout in the corner and remember what their job truly is
HyperV is also Xen aware. I played with it for a short period when RC1 was released, but was totally dissatisfied with it. I don't think VMWare has much to worry about as HyperV was not ready for production in my opinion at the time.
I was able to install Xen kernels in Fedora and CentOS without a problem in HyperV, but could not for the life of me get w2k3 or w2k8 to install, while both install without issue in my Xen cluster. Virtual Server 2005 was a far better product from Microsoft, but still way lacking as it required windows as the base OS.
Another lacking part I found with HyperV was poor ethernet support for *nix, limited to a realtech driver at 100Mbit. I really don't think enterprise clients will adopt HyperV for the one main reason of support though, it only officially supports SUSE, and if big enterprise clients can not purchase support for other linux distro's, they are not going to waste their time on Microsofts product.
Looking at the cast I'm disappointed there is no Jubilee. She was always one of my favourites in the solo Wolverine comic.
Really? I always thought HP was ASUS hardware, at least at the desktop level. I have a couple of server grade Gigabyte motherboards that I will never purchase again, and I haven't liked ASUS since the P3 came out, but for server grade boards Ive not had an issue with Tyan in over 15 years, but many have told me of problems they've had with that brand. The majority of my servers are just cheap Gigabyte desktop boards in 1U cases and for AMD based systems, for me work perfectly. All my servers were either built by me or Tyan barebone servers assembled by me. I spend alot of time researching every part, and only a couple times bought a mistake from ASUS in the past year and chalked it up to my own fault for not fully researching the board. I'd still like to know why these new cheap NIC's on the desktop boards hate Cisco 29xx/35xx switches so much.
Exactly. Vote for Linux support with your money. The problem is, there aren't nearly enough Linux users to make a dent they will notice. If it makes you feel any better, I bought a (crappy) Foxconn board once and won't be buying one again.
I beg to differ, desktop linux users != linux users.
I purchase 40-50 systems a year as a one man show hosting company, 100% of those systems MUST be able to run linux, and run it without issue. Only 4 of my computers run a GUI, and only 1 of those runs windows, and only to play games, and that machine can dual boot to linux as well.
So yes, I do vote with every dollar I spend by purchasing only linux compatible hardware, but I also am realistic and research what I buy before I buy it. Maybe that is why I have a mountain of Gigabyte, Tyan, Adaptec, 3ware and SuperMicro hardware.
I'm moving to the sticks with a bow & arrow.
Don't forget your solar panels and wind generator
All joking aside, if it wasn't for the abysmal access to broadband network access in rural, much less remote areas of the United States, I'd be all for self sufficiency.
I've lived on 8 acres, not huge, but nice hobby farm type in the rural midwest, and the cost to bring reliable high speed access to that property was several hundred a month for a 256k frame connection into my network, so naturally no transit fees. This was in 1995, and 13 years later it is still the same there, and most other rural locations I would bet.
And let's not forget what ISP really means
ISP = I Seldom Pay
I love my Hauppauge MediaPVR hooked to my SageTV server. But yes, you are 100% correct, for HD and home brew, I see nothing other than OTA options, and I get terrible reception so I currently have no option to do it myself legally. I would pay the fee for the HD content from my local cable company if I could hook it to my media server. Like yourself, I am not interested in sharing it to the world, or even the next door neighbor, just personal time shifting as I never watch when programmers want me to watch.
I kick myself for not documenting the idea presented in TFA as I recall reading about their grant several months ago and was very upset as I had this or very similar idea about 4 or 5 years ago. I could have swore I detailed it in a post here at /. last year, but could not find it so my loss.
I'd be *very* interested in knowing how many of their transactions are 100% in-network value transfers. For the payment technology ignorant, that means a transaction where the source funds (buyer's payment) is stored in the PayPal system.
My guess is it's *very* low compared to their Visa/MC processing.
I'd actually be surprised if it wasn't actually the opposite. 90% of my sales arrive via PayPal, 10% via e-gold. I then spend that paying bills by either making a direct PayPal payment to my vendor, or by using my PayPal debit card. Only my apartment rent do I have to head to the ATM to make a cash widthrawl, but never need to send funds to or from the bank.
It is an interesting question, but doubtful we would ever find eBay releasing the real thruth
Besides i can easily host my own browsersettings on my home computer, in fact, i'll be setting it up (or trying to) when i come home
My thoughts pretty much. Host your own server for your own use. I can see this as a fantastic OpenVZ Template to easily deploy a server for anyone wanting one. You can get a VPS for around $10/mo if you really wish to keep it in your own hands, I know I would, and I bet many others would opt if that option was available.
One thing that seems to be true is that storage is getting cheaper and bigger all the time.
How about faster? That is my desire, and hardware SAS and SATA raid arrays are just not fast enough for what I am interested in. I saw a new device recently that was mentioned here, the Fusion IO, that is 1000 times faster, but is cost prohibitive yet, and small in size still, like 320gb is as large as offered. At $30/GB it has a long way to go before it is really mainstream and I don't see that happening for quite some time since they have their production sold out for months on end. At least that was what I was told after contacting their sales department. It is supported in the CentOS 5.2 kernel though, so that was a major plus to me, and no Windows support yet either, another major plus to me.
Yahoo Mail -> Live conversion? No thanks.
Why? You might actually start getting all your mail then.
Think about it - if you're making a clean break from Windows, would you choose a mature, well established alternative like Linux or MacOSX, or would you choose a completely new, unproven and completely incompatible and unstandardised operating system from Microsoft? Even if the new Microsoft OS is cleaner, being incompatible with EVERY operating system out there would absolutely kill it.
I don't see why they would need to keep backwards compatibility with their base OS, there are enough choices for running those old programs in some sort of container, be it a VM, or WINE-like process, or a legacy machine that users can RDP to, which might even be a VM itself.