I must confess, except for a bigger address space, I'm not sure what benefit IPv6 has for *me*
That Giant Address space makes things like worms that can attempt all possible IP's in a day or two to take years to spread over an IPV6 internet.
That Giant Address space gets rid of NAT, which is one of the biggest barriers to being able to connect to people directly. You can actually do a person to person video chat without using some sort of gateway or relay server. You can get a nice block for your house, and from your mobile phone (assuming you have the correct authentication) connect directly to your fridge back home, to see what groceries you need at the store, instead of relaying it through an external website.
The process is already preverted.. The parties have gotten the US government to pay for the elections for an internal party candidate. that should be a party matter, and they should do it as they see fit, and on their own dime if they want. Why do our tax dollars need to go to decide which candidate a party will back?
Wasn't it just a few short years ago that a certain then state senator in Illinois helped force through a law that police interrogations HAD to be recorded? The state prisons were full of people saying the cops told them this, or promised a plea bargain for that.. And the POLICE were the ones against it. Hmm.. I'm sure there is no guilt there...
Hulu desktop comes in both 32bit and 64bit rpm's and Debs. I've been running it on Ubuntu for several years now. They have some copy mechanisms in place. But basically, its built on flash.
I started using Lastpass (www.lastpass.com) about a year ago, used Keypass before that. Once you get used to never trying to remember your password, you can crank up the number and range. its amazing how many sites don't want passwords more than 8 characters, or the 1st digit can't start with a number, or no special characters. Its really quite sad.
Maybe not, but I would bet that shipping 100 items on a truck would be much more expensive PER ITEM than shipping 10,000 items a month to customers via UPS..
And if California is smart, it would ask (in court if necessary) for the purchase information of EVERY item shipped to california, to ensure the correct taxes are paid.. Wait, didn't North Carolina do this to amazon a year ago?
ZFS is very cool, but this approach is doomed to fail. It's much better to devote resources to getting our native filesystems up to speed -- or, ha, into convincing Oracle to relicense.
Personally, I was pretty sure Sun was going to go with relicensing under the GPLv3, which gives strong patent protection and would have put them in the hilarious position of being more-FSF free software than Linux. But with Oracle trying to squeeze the monetary blood from every last shred of good that came from Sun, who knows what's gonna happen.
Um, just who do you think is writing BTRFS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs I know its fashionable to knock Oracle every chance you get... but Look at the line:
Btrfs, when complete, is expected to offer a feature set comparable to ZFS.[16] btrfs was considered to be a competitor to ZFS. However, Oracle acquired ZFS as part of the Sun Microsystem's merger and this did not change their plans for developing btrfs.[17]
Of course, they didn't bother to implement the encryption features of the ActiveSync protocol developed by this company called Microsoft, for this server product called "Exchange" so companies that require remote device encryption can't use these brand new phones. In fact, Android doesn't support it yet either. (but hey, its not a google protocol or server, so i cut them slack). In fact, the only mainstream device that does support it is the iPhone.
Most states in the union perpetuate closed primaries, encouraging the polarization of their candidates to appeal to the extreme fringes of their own party and not the moderate climate of the nation as a whole
A co-worker was talking about this the other day. He was pointing out how the parties have found a way to get the government and taxpayers to legitimize and pay for the cost of a two party system. We are basically paying the cost of what should be internal party issues.
I'm flying Thursday.. I'm planing to insist on the groping if they have the scanners at the airport. And I'm going to softly moan while its done. not too loud, but just quiet enough that they think I'm serious, and make them very uncomfortable...
We thought so too.. I mean it was $1000 for a windows enterprise edition, vs $2400 (if I remember correctly) for Redhat.
But then, we were told we would need to pay for SQL server (It was a few thousand per processor for an unlimited license, which gets really pricey fast in a 4 processor machine or it was CAL's at $30 or so a pop.) And did you know there is a special CAL to connect IIS to the internet? All those users need a CAL, or you need a special "internet license" of something like $1500 a pop. (or at least you did during the server 2003 days). Most people skip it, but that would suck in an audit. Our users also needed a CAL to connect to a network drive, or even to print to a print server.. At the time, we were looking into running virtual machines. MS had just said you could run 4VM's on a server for no extra charge, but they never said anything about CAL's.. Hmm... and we needed 8VM's.
Microsoft is really cheap, unless you actually want to be compliant with their licensing.
I used to work in at a college, and student's would leave themselves logged into Myspace (it was a few years ago) and MSN/Yahoo etc.. I would always post messages about how "I just found out I got herpes. Damn, Where did those come from" and similar lines.. Pretty soon, people started logging out.
The deterrence value of a security measure is just about un-measurable
Actually, its incredibly measurable.
There are books, discussion boards, etc, dedicated to this topic. There is a huge market for people measuring the cost of risks. Is it better to make your car perfect, or save $100million on development, but have X number of "incidents" which lead to an average payout of $Y.
The interesting thing is that the government has decided to do everything in its power to ignore that risk/reward ratios. they want to get rid of all of something, which is silly, they should want to get it down to a certain, acceptable level, then focus time and money on something else.
Bruce Schneier said it best. the ONLY two things that have improved airport security is bulletproof doors on a cockpit, and a public that understands what the plane can be used for. People will stand up and fight, and no pilot will open the door because someone is threatening to hurt the flight attendant.. Everything else is just security theater.
The Intel Sandy Bridge or Nehalem CPU for example may be running its 4 cores at a clockspeed of 3.2GHz but overall, each core in the CPU is easily 4-5 times faster than a 3.2GHz Pentium4 core.
Sorry, you lost me at this point. Now if you would have said 40% faster, than Maybe (although that would be a stretch).. but not 400-500% faster, core for core. The CPU architecture is not that advanced. Sure, memory is faster, drives are a bit faster, etc, but the processor itself is still not much faster... Now 4 to 5 times more power efficient per operation, maybe...
Why not? if Bobby-Joe's Helium Inc. started selling Helium at $1.25 per cubic meter, people would flock to it. If they could sustain production at that price, wouldn't that become the market price?
Amtrak can't decide if they are a rail line, or a commuter line. There is a route from Chicago to Seattle that I have been interested in taking. It is 48 hours on a train! Its about 48 stops! Amtrak seems to think they need a stop at every town with a stoplight. If each stop takes 20 min for slowdown, stop, and start again, you could easily take 10 hours out of the trip, without increasing the speed of the train. (or more)
If they removed a bunch of these underused stations in older towns, their fixed costs would drop Dramatically. They could charge less for the ticket! (or pay for infrastructure upgrades!!!)
Then, if the trip is shorter, people will be more likely to take it. But they seem to feel like they need to be both high-speed rail, and commuter rail. They should not.People don't complain about having to drive 2 hours to the "big" airport to catch a flight. Nobody complains that you can't get direct flights from Spokane, WA to Miami, FL. But with rail, they seem to think it nees to be right next to them, and stop everywhere.
In our company, any smartphone under the sun is supported. Until September, when we start enforcing passwords, remote encryption/wiping abilities, etc.
Pretty much every major smart phone made in the last couple of years supports these features, except Android based phones.
People are very upset that their very nice Drod's will stop working soon, and they still have over a year on their phone contracts. (many people get re-imbursed by the company for monthly expenses).
Microsoft has published their spec for ActiveSync for exchange. Google so far has not bothered to code it in. This is keeping iphones and blackberries (and winMobile 6.5 and above) phones popular here.. otherwise everyone would drop them.
Its even worse than that.. Our government is the only organization I have ever heard of that refuses to tell you how much you owe!
Could you imagine if you went to buy a car, and the ford dealership gave you the keys, then told you to submit payment, but never told you the price of the car? Especially if they threatened to come after you with the Police and lock you up for not paying correctly?
Fairtax all the way. I find it silly that we have to hire people to tell us how much we owe....
If I want to put 120HZ power on the grid, that's my right! If I want to do 75hz, that's my right.. (never 50hz, that's for socialists!) To much regulation is hampering my business!
because the sports teams 'make' the college money they press for additional benefits - more pay for the coach, more money for recruiting efforts, new stadium, etc...
Which is almost always paid for with money from the athletic department.
College football at some colleges (and men's basketball at others) often pays for the ENTIRE athletic department.. (apparently, not many people pay to watch rowing matches) for both Men and Women.
Usually, stadiums are built by the athletic departments, with funds donated to them (and income from ticket sales, sponsorships, etc)
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That Giant Address space makes things like worms that can attempt all possible IP's in a day or two to take years to spread over an IPV6 internet.
That Giant Address space gets rid of NAT, which is one of the biggest barriers to being able to connect to people directly. You can actually do a person to person video chat without using some sort of gateway or relay server. You can get a nice block for your house, and from your mobile phone (assuming you have the correct authentication) connect directly to your fridge back home, to see what groceries you need at the store, instead of relaying it through an external website.
The process is already preverted.. The parties have gotten the US government to pay for the elections for an internal party candidate. that should be a party matter, and they should do it as they see fit, and on their own dime if they want. Why do our tax dollars need to go to decide which candidate a party will back?
Wasn't it just a few short years ago that a certain then state senator in Illinois helped force through a law that police interrogations HAD to be recorded? The state prisons were full of people saying the cops told them this, or promised a plea bargain for that.. And the POLICE were the ones against it. Hmm.. I'm sure there is no guilt there...
Hulu desktop comes in both 32bit and 64bit rpm's and Debs. I've been running it on Ubuntu for several years now. They have some copy mechanisms in place. But basically, its built on flash.
I started using Lastpass (www.lastpass.com) about a year ago, used Keypass before that. Once you get used to never trying to remember your password, you can crank up the number and range. its amazing how many sites don't want passwords more than 8 characters, or the 1st digit can't start with a number, or no special characters. Its really quite sad.
Maybe not, but I would bet that shipping 100 items on a truck would be much more expensive PER ITEM than shipping 10,000 items a month to customers via UPS..
Amazon gets some amazing volume discounts..
And if California is smart, it would ask (in court if necessary) for the purchase information of EVERY item shipped to california, to ensure the correct taxes are paid.. Wait, didn't North Carolina do this to amazon a year ago?
ZFS is very cool, but this approach is doomed to fail. It's much better to devote resources to getting our native filesystems up to speed -- or, ha, into convincing Oracle to relicense.
Personally, I was pretty sure Sun was going to go with relicensing under the GPLv3, which gives strong patent protection and would have put them in the hilarious position of being more-FSF free software than Linux. But with Oracle trying to squeeze the monetary blood from every last shred of good that came from Sun, who knows what's gonna happen.
Um, just who do you think is writing BTRFS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs I know its fashionable to knock Oracle every chance you get... but Look at the line:
Btrfs, when complete, is expected to offer a feature set comparable to ZFS.[16] btrfs was considered to be a competitor to ZFS. However, Oracle acquired ZFS as part of the Sun Microsystem's merger and this did not change their plans for developing btrfs.[17]
Of course, they didn't bother to implement the encryption features of the ActiveSync protocol developed by this company called Microsoft, for this server product called "Exchange" so companies that require remote device encryption can't use these brand new phones. In fact, Android doesn't support it yet either. (but hey, its not a google protocol or server, so i cut them slack). In fact, the only mainstream device that does support it is the iPhone.
Most states in the union perpetuate closed primaries, encouraging the polarization of their candidates to appeal to the extreme fringes of their own party and not the moderate climate of the nation as a whole
A co-worker was talking about this the other day. He was pointing out how the parties have found a way to get the government and taxpayers to legitimize and pay for the cost of a two party system. We are basically paying the cost of what should be internal party issues.
I'm flying Thursday.. I'm planing to insist on the groping if they have the scanners at the airport. And I'm going to softly moan while its done. not too loud, but just quiet enough that they think I'm serious, and make them very uncomfortable...
Um, either way, isn't it really you that is paying?
We thought so too.. I mean it was $1000 for a windows enterprise edition, vs $2400 (if I remember correctly) for Redhat.
But then, we were told we would need to pay for SQL server (It was a few thousand per processor for an unlimited license, which gets really pricey fast in a 4 processor machine or it was CAL's at $30 or so a pop.) And did you know there is a special CAL to connect IIS to the internet? All those users need a CAL, or you need a special "internet license" of something like $1500 a pop. (or at least you did during the server 2003 days). Most people skip it, but that would suck in an audit. Our users also needed a CAL to connect to a network drive, or even to print to a print server.. At the time, we were looking into running virtual machines. MS had just said you could run 4VM's on a server for no extra charge, but they never said anything about CAL's.. Hmm... and we needed 8VM's.
Microsoft is really cheap, unless you actually want to be compliant with their licensing.
I used to work in at a college, and student's would leave themselves logged into Myspace (it was a few years ago) and MSN/Yahoo etc.. I would always post messages about how "I just found out I got herpes. Damn, Where did those come from" and similar lines.. Pretty soon, people started logging out.
The deterrence value of a security measure is just about un-measurable
Actually, its incredibly measurable.
There are books, discussion boards, etc, dedicated to this topic. There is a huge market for people measuring the cost of risks. Is it better to make your car perfect, or save $100million on development, but have X number of "incidents" which lead to an average payout of $Y.
The interesting thing is that the government has decided to do everything in its power to ignore that risk/reward ratios. they want to get rid of all of something, which is silly, they should want to get it down to a certain, acceptable level, then focus time and money on something else.
Bruce Schneier said it best. the ONLY two things that have improved airport security is bulletproof doors on a cockpit, and a public that understands what the plane can be used for. People will stand up and fight, and no pilot will open the door because someone is threatening to hurt the flight attendant.. Everything else is just security theater.
The Intel Sandy Bridge or Nehalem CPU for example may be running its 4 cores at a clockspeed of 3.2GHz but overall, each core in the CPU is easily 4-5 times faster than a 3.2GHz Pentium4 core.
Sorry, you lost me at this point. Now if you would have said 40% faster, than Maybe (although that would be a stretch).. but not 400-500% faster, core for core. The CPU architecture is not that advanced. Sure, memory is faster, drives are a bit faster, etc, but the processor itself is still not much faster... Now 4 to 5 times more power efficient per operation, maybe...
One of the new high schools near me has a saltwater indoor pool. (in Wisconsin, so its not like they pipe it in from the ocean next door).
Supposedly, this is a new trend in pools that requires less chemicals and chlorine (which is pretty nasty stuff in bulk!)
Why not? if Bobby-Joe's Helium Inc. started selling Helium at $1.25 per cubic meter, people would flock to it. If they could sustain production at that price, wouldn't that become the market price?
Amtrak can't decide if they are a rail line, or a commuter line. There is a route from Chicago to Seattle that I have been interested in taking. It is 48 hours on a train! Its about 48 stops! Amtrak seems to think they need a stop at every town with a stoplight. If each stop takes 20 min for slowdown, stop, and start again, you could easily take 10 hours out of the trip, without increasing the speed of the train. (or more)
If they removed a bunch of these underused stations in older towns, their fixed costs would drop Dramatically. They could charge less for the ticket! (or pay for infrastructure upgrades!!!)
Then, if the trip is shorter, people will be more likely to take it. But they seem to feel like they need to be both high-speed rail, and commuter rail. They should not.People don't complain about having to drive 2 hours to the "big" airport to catch a flight. Nobody complains that you can't get direct flights from Spokane, WA to Miami, FL. But with rail, they seem to think it nees to be right next to them, and stop everywhere.
No..
When the only tool you have is a Hammer, every problem looks like a hell of a lot of fun....
In our company, any smartphone under the sun is supported. Until September, when we start enforcing passwords, remote encryption/wiping abilities, etc.
Pretty much every major smart phone made in the last couple of years supports these features, except Android based phones.
People are very upset that their very nice Drod's will stop working soon, and they still have over a year on their phone contracts. (many people get re-imbursed by the company for monthly expenses).
Microsoft has published their spec for ActiveSync for exchange. Google so far has not bothered to code it in. This is keeping iphones and blackberries (and winMobile 6.5 and above) phones popular here.. otherwise everyone would drop them.
Its even worse than that.. Our government is the only organization I have ever heard of that refuses to tell you how much you owe!
Could you imagine if you went to buy a car, and the ford dealership gave you the keys, then told you to submit payment, but never told you the price of the car? Especially if they threatened to come after you with the Police and lock you up for not paying correctly?
Fairtax all the way. I find it silly that we have to hire people to tell us how much we owe....
You damn Liberal.
If I want to put 120HZ power on the grid, that's my right! If I want to do 75hz, that's my right.. (never 50hz, that's for socialists!)
To much regulation is hampering my business!
because the sports teams 'make' the college money they press for additional benefits - more pay for the coach, more money for recruiting efforts, new stadium, etc...
Which is almost always paid for with money from the athletic department.
College football at some colleges (and men's basketball at others) often pays for the ENTIRE athletic department.. (apparently, not many people pay to watch rowing matches) for both Men and Women.
Usually, stadiums are built by the athletic departments, with funds donated to them (and income from ticket sales, sponsorships, etc)
Star Trek vs. those silly ewok lovers...