>Actually, class mobility in the United States is terrible.
Bullshit. By age 30 I was making more than both my parents combined.
You have the freedom to make your own reality in this country. I can actually afford to send my kid to college, so he's going to have better opportunities than I ever did. I didn't have the luxury of paid tuition. I had to do it on my own. I could have given up on it like most of my friends did, but I chose to work my ass off and move up the food chain.
Anyone can become rich. You just need to spend time and effort getting there instead of partying or jerking off to make it happen. If you blame anything but the man in the mirror for your own lack of success, you are delusional.
I am betting you think it is the poor or middle class. --- actually per capita percentage of income, the middle class is getting raped. They can't afford the percentages. With the rich economies of scale kick in. They can afford to live quite comfortably with what's left. A guy making 40k is living in a shit hole because of the percentage of his income that's getting sucked out. He's not left with much after the state and fed are done with him. Apply the same percentage to someone making 200k, and they won't have any problems making ends meet.
IMHO we should switch to a consumption tax and be done with it, with "tax free" cards for the poverty stricken and elderly. That way no one can dodge anything and everyone is paying their fair share, including these fuckers that work under the table and illegally dodge all taxes. Even criminal income (drug dealers etc) would get taxed this way.
1. RROD 2. Sony hasn't implemented anything yet. Games you buy right now don't have this thing.
I only get xbox only titles for xbox. I'm not buying another xbox and the one I have now is out of warranty, the refurbished one I got when my first one died. They're still dying...
Explain that to your 14 year old that wants gran turismo or Madden 2011 for xmas.
I agree with you philosophically, but I tend to put my family first. You go around not letting them listen to music or play the games that everyone else is, for no other reason than "It's morally wrong to have DRM on your system" and you'll have a mutiny on your hands, quite possibly a divorce because your spouse will have to listen to the griefing. If your marriage is marginal (which may or may not be your fault) it could push your family over the edge to misery. As well, the kids will definitely go with the parent who provides some entertainment, as opposed to the anti-entertainment stiff, so that'd screw you in a divorce.
I do take it as far as I can. I buy all of my music (sony or otherwise) through Amazon as high bitrate mp3s. They don't have DRM and you can plug them into iTunes and load them up on your iPod(s), as many times as you want:-) Of course it's a good idea to strip the serial numbers out of the mp3 info, in case your kid decides to let someone copy the music, who later shares it with 20000 people or so. You really don't want that letter showing up in your mailbox.
However a complete entertainment blackout is out of the question. Sony puts out a lot of good movies and a true sony boycott includes all blu ray releases since sony gets paid a royalty on the format.
Unless it means losing their office by being voted out. The problem is that voter apathy to this issue will cause it to not even be a platform issue.
To continue getting paid off you need to get re-elected. If you don't like how a politician is handling this issue, and it's important to you, vote against them.
The control issues surrounding net neutrality don't occur on private lines owned by homeowners. They occur on the internet backbone in NOCs. That being said, whether or not the FCC has jurisdiction right now over this is a big question mark. The legislative branch can write legislation that authorizes the FCC to make the rules if a judge says the current laws don't grant the FCC the necessary authorization. Verizon is testing this in court. I'm not sure what the point of the test is, because laws can simply be updated to grant the FCC the necessary authority, but Verizon has the right to test it. They owe it to their stockholders to do so.
It could be argued that someone who is formerly a church goer was forced to go by his parents, or that he simply went along with it to make them happy, and never really believed. In this case they can say god doesn't exist, however they have to admit the possibility of the existence of a god, whether or not they believe in one.
About atheism... Atheists have no more valid philosophical or logical ground to stand on for the argument that there is absolutely no god than religious people do when they say there absolutely is a god.
The strong atheist position is extremely weak. The only way it wouldn't be is if the person taking that position had studied all of the human knowledge (and evidence) that ever existed. Then he could be sure of the existence or lack thereof of a god.
It's as weak as the strong theist position, that is the position that there absolutely is a god. Then again, to someone that takes this position, it's is based on faith, not logic, so it doesn't matter if it's a strong position philosophically to them.
This is largely why there are no atheists in foxholes. When the rubber meets the road and death is imminent, it's better to be safe than sorry because unless you know _everything_ you simply can't be 100% sure. One of my personal favorite atheisms is "Prove that god exists". Neutralized with a simple "Prove he doesn't".
Atheism requires faith on the part of the non-believer.
"we support legislation and federal regulations that ensure equal access to the Internet for all"
Yup they understand it. Despite the common misconception that the Catholic church is completely bass ackwards, completely non-technical and not with the times, nothing could be further from the truth.
My Aunt Doris is a nun, and she was teaching cisco internetworking at a catholic college back in 1996. She started out as an advanced math teacher. The church has a very strong interest in keeping up with technology. They see it as a tool their parishioners need to be educated on as well as a tool the church needs to leverage to keep up with the rest of the world.
Ever hear the quote "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"?
Can't wait. I _hate_ driving to work and if me giving up control to the car in front of me makes it go better, I'm all for it.
The only thing that would scare me is that for braking, your car would need to adjust your following distance based on the braking capability of the car in front of you and your own. IE if you have an Audi TT in front of a tractor trailer, and the audi driver brakes hard, that truck will go right up his butt if it's too close. Now factor that across 10, 20, 50 cars.
It has potential if they can get that worked out, as well as lane sensing. Like what happens if the lead car switches lanes and the guy behind him is snoozing? Does the whole train get discombobulated? If this happened it could be a disaster. Then you have the assholes that switch lanes every few hundred feet because the lane next to them starts going.5 mph faster. I'm convinced that these are the jerkoffs that cause 90% of backups. What happens when this guy (that presumably has the train software turned off) wrecks the following distance of the tractor trailer behind the TT and cuts it in half, then the TT guy has to brake hard for a deer? The truck thinks it has 250 feet to stop, but it's really only got 125 because the guy in front of him isn't hooked in and the computer in the truck doesn't know he's there.
This will be a hard sell in the US, where most of the drivers drive like they are playing Gran Turismo on the playstation, and transfer the disregard for safety and the need to pass whatever is in front of them, at any cost, no matter what their current speed, to the real world.
Apple has an exhaustive test suite they run on all programs before admitting them to the app store to make sure this doesn't happen. The closed ecosystem ensures perfect security and ensures that the apps don't eat your bandwidth cap, therefore this could never happen on the iPhone./sarcasm off
Maybe they just want to play the song when they want to, instead of listening to some annoying disk jockey play 10 songs and countless commercials for an hour before they get around to playing something interesting. By then I've driven to where I'm going, my car is parked, and I'm watching a movie with my girlfriend.
That's the reason people buy music instead of listening for their favorite song on the radio. Radio sucks ass. Sometimes I turn on the radio to hear what's new, but I don't listen to the radio to hear a particular song I want to hear. That's what my iPod is for.
Then there's this little tidbit: We further reserve the right to take measures to protect our network and other users from harm, compromised capacity or degradation in performance. These measures may impact your service, and we reserve the right to deny, modify or terminate service, with or without notice, to anyone we believe is using Data Plans or Features in a manner that adversely impacts our network. -
I GUARANTEE, if you are actually sucking down as much data as you possibly can, Verizon will be in your grill with a cap. They have a cap for FIOS, DSL and every other internet service they provide. Their agreement basically says "We decide if you are using too much data, and we can arbitrarily decide how much is too much on a whim."
This means there is no actual unlimited plan, just "unlimited", which happens to be whatever Verizon says it is and can change without notice.
While I will never hit their cap, there are people that watch TV on their phones frequently (cbs.com, etc etc) and you'd better believe Verizon will be on them like stink on shit just as soon as the big surge of new iPhone customers is stuck in a 2 year contract.
Verizon=AT&T=T-Mobile=Virgin Mobile
They are ALL the same as far as legal, caps etc goes.
You forgot the biggest reason; people are born with reproductive organs. It's natural to use them. Sometimes people get pregnant despite taking precautions. Then your choices are to kill them, and live with that guilt, or have them. In that case you have the child for the child's sake, not your own.
I think you are referring to planned pregnancies. There are also unplanned pregnancies.
Religion makes world peace impossible. You can blame who you want, or say "but they started it!". Simple fact of the matter is that religion has caused more blood to be spilled in human history than any other cause.
if it was possible to deny root access to certain file --- the only way to do this is to encrypt the file with a key that is closely guarded by the financial employee who uses the data. It can't be on their workstation. Presumably the administrator could get it if it was on the finance employee's workstation.
You can't deny root access to data using the operating system controls. Root owns the operating system controls.
"However, making a system require multiple individuals for any root operation (think of the classic two-key process to launch a nuke) has shortcomings: simple operations sometimes require root, and would be enormously cumbersome if they needed a consensus of administrators to execute. "
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This is also ineffective. What happens if one of the multiple individuals rage-quits or several of them are involved in a plane crash? To safegaurd against this you need administrators to be able to reset other administrator's passwords. When you can do this, it eliminates the safeguard.
-------------------- "Are there more sweeping yet practical solutions out there for avoiding the weakness of a singular empowered superuser?"
-------------------- 1. don't hire foul balls 2. have multiple administrators with super user access. only giving this to one person is stupid. What if they die of a heart attack?
You can't fix this problem with software. You need common sense and a knack for hiring good employees. It also requires a probationary period for you to feel out new employees and make sure they aren't nut-cases, and that there's nothing "off" about them. If you have suspicions about someone, it's usually for a good reason. Listen to them.
... and eventually you reach a point where you are spending more cycles managing the buffer queue than you spend processing it. There is definitely a point of diminishing returns with buffers.
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>Actually, class mobility in the United States is terrible.
Bullshit. By age 30 I was making more than both my parents combined.
You have the freedom to make your own reality in this country. I can actually afford to send my kid to college, so he's going to have better opportunities than I ever did. I didn't have the luxury of paid tuition. I had to do it on my own. I could have given up on it like most of my friends did, but I chose to work my ass off and move up the food chain.
Anyone can become rich. You just need to spend time and effort getting there instead of partying or jerking off to make it happen. If you blame anything but the man in the mirror for your own lack of success, you are delusional.
I am betting you think it is the poor or middle class.
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actually per capita percentage of income, the middle class is getting raped. They can't afford the percentages. With the rich economies of scale kick in. They can afford to live quite comfortably with what's left. A guy making 40k is living in a shit hole because of the percentage of his income that's getting sucked out. He's not left with much after the state and fed are done with him. Apply the same percentage to someone making 200k, and they won't have any problems making ends meet.
IMHO we should switch to a consumption tax and be done with it, with "tax free" cards for the poverty stricken and elderly. That way no one can dodge anything and everyone is paying their fair share, including these fuckers that work under the table and illegally dodge all taxes. Even criminal income (drug dealers etc) would get taxed this way.
It's religion mate, not racism. Religion (either directly or indirectly) is responsible for more deaths throughout history than any other cause.
Agreed... Drupal is one of the easiest of CMSs to figure out.
Try dealing with interwoven...
1. RROD
2. Sony hasn't implemented anything yet. Games you buy right now don't have this thing.
I only get xbox only titles for xbox. I'm not buying another xbox and the one I have now is out of warranty, the refurbished one I got when my first one died. They're still dying...
Explain that to your 14 year old that wants gran turismo or Madden 2011 for xmas.
I agree with you philosophically, but I tend to put my family first. You go around not letting them listen to music or play the games that everyone else is, for no other reason than "It's morally wrong to have DRM on your system" and you'll have a mutiny on your hands, quite possibly a divorce because your spouse will have to listen to the griefing. If your marriage is marginal (which may or may not be your fault) it could push your family over the edge to misery. As well, the kids will definitely go with the parent who provides some entertainment, as opposed to the anti-entertainment stiff, so that'd screw you in a divorce.
I do take it as far as I can. I buy all of my music (sony or otherwise) through Amazon as high bitrate mp3s. They don't have DRM and you can plug them into iTunes and load them up on your iPod(s), as many times as you want :-) Of course it's a good idea to strip the serial numbers out of the mp3 info, in case your kid decides to let someone copy the music, who later shares it with 20000 people or so. You really don't want that letter showing up in your mailbox.
However a complete entertainment blackout is out of the question. Sony puts out a lot of good movies and a true sony boycott includes all blu ray releases since sony gets paid a royalty on the format.
It's likely you'll only need to do this for playing online. Like you said, if the person doesn't have a connection, they'd be screwed otherwise.
This most likely a bid to break the used game market as opposed to piracy concerns. Piracy is the excuse they will be using.
Unless it means losing their office by being voted out. The problem is that voter apathy to this issue will cause it to not even be a platform issue.
To continue getting paid off you need to get re-elected. If you don't like how a politician is handling this issue, and it's important to you, vote against them.
An out of work politician can't get paid off ;-)
The control issues surrounding net neutrality don't occur on private lines owned by homeowners. They occur on the internet backbone in NOCs. That being said, whether or not the FCC has jurisdiction right now over this is a big question mark. The legislative branch can write legislation that authorizes the FCC to make the rules if a judge says the current laws don't grant the FCC the necessary authorization. Verizon is testing this in court. I'm not sure what the point of the test is, because laws can simply be updated to grant the FCC the necessary authority, but Verizon has the right to test it. They owe it to their stockholders to do so.
It could be argued that someone who is formerly a church goer was forced to go by his parents, or that he simply went along with it to make them happy, and never really believed. In this case they can say god doesn't exist, however they have to admit the possibility of the existence of a god, whether or not they believe in one.
About atheism...
Atheists have no more valid philosophical or logical ground to stand on for the argument that there is absolutely no god than religious people do when they say there absolutely is a god.
The strong atheist position is extremely weak. The only way it wouldn't be is if the person taking that position had studied all of the human knowledge (and evidence) that ever existed. Then he could be sure of the existence or lack thereof of a god.
It's as weak as the strong theist position, that is the position that there absolutely is a god. Then again, to someone that takes this position, it's is based on faith, not logic, so it doesn't matter if it's a strong position philosophically to them.
This is largely why there are no atheists in foxholes. When the rubber meets the road and death is imminent, it's better to be safe than sorry because unless you know _everything_ you simply can't be 100% sure. One of my personal favorite atheisms is "Prove that god exists". Neutralized with a simple "Prove he doesn't".
Atheism requires faith on the part of the non-believer.
"we support legislation and federal regulations that ensure equal access to the Internet for all"
Yup they understand it. Despite the common misconception that the Catholic church is completely bass ackwards, completely non-technical and not with the times, nothing could be further from the truth.
My Aunt Doris is a nun, and she was teaching cisco internetworking at a catholic college back in 1996. She started out as an advanced math teacher. The church has a very strong interest in keeping up with technology. They see it as a tool their parishioners need to be educated on as well as a tool the church needs to leverage to keep up with the rest of the world.
Ever hear the quote "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"?
Can't wait. I _hate_ driving to work and if me giving up control to the car in front of me makes it go better, I'm all for it.
The only thing that would scare me is that for braking, your car would need to adjust your following distance based on the braking capability of the car in front of you and your own. IE if you have an Audi TT in front of a tractor trailer, and the audi driver brakes hard, that truck will go right up his butt if it's too close. Now factor that across 10, 20, 50 cars.
It has potential if they can get that worked out, as well as lane sensing. Like what happens if the lead car switches lanes and the guy behind him is snoozing? Does the whole train get discombobulated? If this happened it could be a disaster. Then you have the assholes that switch lanes every few hundred feet because the lane next to them starts going .5 mph faster. I'm convinced that these are the jerkoffs that cause 90% of backups. What happens when this guy (that presumably has the train software turned off) wrecks the following distance of the tractor trailer behind the TT and cuts it in half, then the TT guy has to brake hard for a deer? The truck thinks it has 250 feet to stop, but it's really only got 125 because the guy in front of him isn't hooked in and the computer in the truck doesn't know he's there.
This will be a hard sell in the US, where most of the drivers drive like they are playing Gran Turismo on the playstation, and transfer the disregard for safety and the need to pass whatever is in front of them, at any cost, no matter what their current speed, to the real world.
Apple has an exhaustive test suite they run on all programs before admitting them to the app store to make sure this doesn't happen. The closed ecosystem ensures perfect security and ensures that the apps don't eat your bandwidth cap, therefore this could never happen on the iPhone. /sarcasm off
'people want instant gratification.'
Maybe they just want to play the song when they want to, instead of listening to some annoying disk jockey play 10 songs and countless commercials for an hour before they get around to playing something interesting. By then I've driven to where I'm going, my car is parked, and I'm watching a movie with my girlfriend.
That's the reason people buy music instead of listening for their favorite song on the radio. Radio sucks ass. Sometimes I turn on the radio to hear what's new, but I don't listen to the radio to hear a particular song I want to hear. That's what my iPod is for.
Webster's 2b definition of intoxicate is "to excite or elate to the point of enthusiasm or frenzy".
This definition has nothing to do with drugs or other toxic substances.
If you don't like this definition, take it up with the word guys ;-)
Without Jobs' reality distortion field, people will see Apple for what it is.
true that.
At the same time, I'd sell my apple stock now while the gettin' is good.
History indicates Apple will now go straight into the toilet without Jobs at the helm.
Read the fine print. Like every other wireless TELCO, "unlimited" does not mean unlimited.
from : http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/footer/acceptableuse.jsp .....This specifically but without limitation includes excessive consumption of network or system resources whether intentional or unintentional. ....
Section L
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Then there's this little tidbit:
We further reserve the right to take measures to protect our network and other users from harm, compromised capacity or degradation in performance. These measures may impact your service, and we reserve the right to deny, modify or terminate service, with or without notice, to anyone we believe is using Data Plans or Features in a manner that adversely impacts our network.
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I GUARANTEE, if you are actually sucking down as much data as you possibly can, Verizon will be in your grill with a cap. They have a cap for FIOS, DSL and every other internet service they provide. Their agreement basically says "We decide if you are using too much data, and we can arbitrarily decide how much is too much on a whim."
This means there is no actual unlimited plan, just "unlimited", which happens to be whatever Verizon says it is and can change without notice.
While I will never hit their cap, there are people that watch TV on their phones frequently (cbs.com, etc etc) and you'd better believe Verizon will be on them like stink on shit just as soon as the big surge of new iPhone customers is stuck in a 2 year contract.
Verizon=AT&T=T-Mobile=Virgin Mobile
They are ALL the same as far as legal, caps etc goes.
You forgot the biggest reason; people are born with reproductive organs. It's natural to use them. Sometimes people get pregnant despite taking precautions. Then your choices are to kill them, and live with that guilt, or have them. In that case you have the child for the child's sake, not your own.
I think you are referring to planned pregnancies. There are also unplanned pregnancies.
Obama promised transparency. Wikileaks delivered it.
Religion makes world peace impossible. You can blame who you want, or say "but they started it!". Simple fact of the matter is that religion has caused more blood to be spilled in human history than any other cause.
if it was possible to deny root access to certain file
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the only way to do this is to encrypt the file with a key that is closely guarded by the financial employee who uses the data. It can't be on their workstation. Presumably the administrator could get it if it was on the finance employee's workstation.
You can't deny root access to data using the operating system controls. Root owns the operating system controls.
"However, making a system require multiple individuals for any root operation (think of the classic two-key process to launch a nuke) has shortcomings: simple operations sometimes require root, and would be enormously cumbersome if they needed a consensus of administrators to execute. "
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This is also ineffective. What happens if one of the multiple individuals rage-quits or several of them are involved in a plane crash? To safegaurd against this you need administrators to be able to reset other administrator's passwords. When you can do this, it eliminates the safeguard.
--------------------
"Are there more sweeping yet practical solutions out there for avoiding the weakness of a singular empowered superuser?"
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1. don't hire foul balls
2. have multiple administrators with super user access. only giving this to one person is stupid. What if they die of a heart attack?
You can't fix this problem with software. You need common sense and a knack for hiring good employees. It also requires a probationary period for you to feel out new employees and make sure they aren't nut-cases, and that there's nothing "off" about them. If you have suspicions about someone, it's usually for a good reason. Listen to them.
... and eventually you reach a point where you are spending more cycles managing the buffer queue than you spend processing it. There is definitely a point of diminishing returns with buffers.
That's right! The software faeries develop it, compile it, and package it. That's why there's a 99% profit margin on software. /sarcasm off