Start with that premise, and then restrict defaulting back to that assumption unless otherwise specifically restricted for good reason. Similar concept of State and individual rights structure found in the U.S. constitution (well in theory anyway).
It does not belong to one company, it does not belong to one person, or country, it belongs to the humanity. No one thinks up the next great invention in a vacuum. They went to school, they read other peoples ideas, they used a human language to express it. It belongs to humanity.
Yes, there should be certain restrictions on who can make use of the knowledge (e.g. how to make atomic bombs, what I had for breakfast), but without compelling reason it should default to the public domain.
That just one program can nearly eat up all my CPU and ram is a shame considering the relative simplicity of what a browser really does, and relatively few tabs or windows I have open.
Please don't try to turn my browser in to an OS. I already have one of them, and by the way it uses much less resources than Firefox.
Seriously. The real Stereotype here is that Dell still makes good computers at a good price, and that women or anyone else for that matter is sufficiently stupid to still want to buy them.
Honestly, I too don't understand the problem. In what world would you want to use your ISP DNS for a VPN or anything else for that matter. You should be running your own private DNS for all kinds of reasons, and they are fairly trivial to implement.
Even the cheapest routers allow you to set the DNS server you use. Most have caching DNS of some sort built in.
Strangely, I have never had to fire anyone for it. In fact I have only had to warn one or two people, and that was mostly back when I discovered it had the potential to be a problem.
People got along just fine before social networking sites. You really can live without them for a few hours out of the day.
First thing I did was firewall off most of the major social networking sites. Which for the most part cures the problem for everyone concerned. Anyone trying to get around that, would be fired anyway just for trying.
Second, I notified anyone I catch using one of those sites from my network that they get three strikes and they are fired, unless they have express permission. Accidentally ending up on one for whatever reason does happen. Just don't hang out there at work.
Third, I really don't care what they do on social networking site on their own time, but I definitely care what they disclose about my buisness on the social networking site. They need express authorization to discuss anything work related on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter.
This is not about censorship, this is about security and violation of their confidentiality agreement. None of my employees are qualified to make judgments about what can and can not be disclosed on the internet about my buisness.
I don't want to Google things related to my buisness and find out I got knocked off the top of the search engines with a bunch of comments from employees. That includes flattering comments.
What is our number one hands down tried and true technique for breaching any sort of security? SOCIAL ENGINEERING!!!
So, you want freedom of speech, you can have all you want at the next job; but, you still will not be able to discuss my company because it is also in the confidentiality agreement. The one I pay employees for complying with not just as a condition of employment, but as a major part of the job description.
Sorry, but you miss the fact that most of these economies would not function without bribery. There simply is not sufficient rewards for people to do their job.
For example, an official that only makes a few hundred dollars a month. Are you really expecting them to give a dam when their family is starving?
Corruption in many places is simply market forces at work, where the market does not work.
I was say sell the company, get some financial stability under you, quit and start another one. Is it really the only good idea you are ever going to have?
Often the people are more valuable than the idea. There are lots of good ideas out there, but very few people can execute.
That is the unit used to measure how long it took to cross a lake by the fur traders. How many pipes did they smoke? Would that not screw with their greenhouse gas calculations?
I downloaded 1 copy of PCLOS 2007 about two years ago. Since then, I have remastered it in to 5 custom distros for my office, including a coupld generic desktops, my own server edition, my own custom desktop, a rescue disk, and so on.
I have easily done over 100 installs, on at least 20 different machines in that time. I then when 2009 I did an update from 2007 from the repositories, tweeked the install, and remastered my own distros again.
How do you even start to account for that, especially when the concept of the monolithic distro is slowly disappearing in to child distros and custom remastered distros?
Everyone seems to think this is geared at the super rich, and super international companies. You are missing the point. It is aimed at every single American living outside the U.S.
I have run my own buisness outside the U.S. for years. I will spend hundreds of hours this year, as a sole propiator, reporting that I do not owe the U.S. goverment any money. That is currently. If you do not report all of your oversees accounts (even if you do not owe taxes), you are guilty of a crime with penalties starting at $50,000 US and up.
You are assumed to be guilty, just by living outside the United States. I have never taken a single tax deduction so far related to my overseas status. I don't make sufficient money for that, but I must report everything to the U.S. government even if the country I live in has laws protecting my privacy.
This new proposal will force banks and businesses around the World to report all Americans activities they do buisness with.This is not about taxes, this about monitoring Americans.
Thought I would share this, and before a bunch of you start posting BS about the claim of who wrote what, that is not the point. The point is the evolution of MN DWI law and technology.
My father as a prosecutor in Minneapolis in the 60's and 70's started prosecuting drunk drivers for things like felony manslaughter and such. At the time it was just misdemeanor, and often the police would just give someone a ride home. The State legislators and several lobby groups caught wind of it and asked him to write the laws. Those became the first felony laws for DWI in MN, and later where used as a model for other States around the country. Obviously they have been super modified since then, but the fundamental principle that DWI is something serious is still there.
My father went on in private practice as defense attorney in the 80's. Almost all of his acquittals on DWI came down to discrediting the probable cause (i.e. the officer) for the arrest in the first place. Typically the officer's judgment was always front and center (e.g. did he really see him cross the center line on an ice covered road). It got progressively harder as they started adding video cameras and other technology to get someone off on a DWI charge, as the officer's judgment became less important.
I suspect since my father's time, the only thing left to really attack is the validity of the technology itself that measures the crime.
Not sure where I heard it, but it was some retired spy that pointed out in an interview that still the most secure form of communication is two people meeting in person and talking. No records, no signals, no paper trail. Nothing to track.
In some sense, it is complete competence or just plain old ignorance of modern communication methods creating the most secure method of communication known to man.
I do not trust either one, and push all traffic over SSH with port forwarding for all protocols on my network with preshared keys both internally in physical offices and between physical offices over the internet. I don't have to worry about the latest vulnerability or misconfiguration in some application dumping passwords in the clear, or some web app being sniffed (other than ssh itself).
Yes, I still use all the other security measures, but it sure makes it hell of complicated for your average guy sitting in the parking lot to make use of anything they might find. Never say never, but I do say unlikely.
Not Chilean, and not too concerned about Bolivia solving (not by armed conflict) that problem any time soon. Bolivia has a lot of other more pressing internal issues at the moment.
I believe it was Powel that said, "you break it, you buy it". So, rebooting a couple of computers, reinstalling some software, sure seems a much cheaper deal than trying to rebuild a power grid.
I would assert it would in fact be unethical, to bomb the power grid if you could simply do it with cyber attack.
I am sorry, but this is total BS. I have been developing web sites in Latin America (Mexico, Guatemala, Chile) for going on 10 years now. This might (MIGHT) apply to populations in Africa and some parts of Asia.Even there are people with money. If they have a computer, and sufficiently fast connection to watch things like U-tube, they have money.
This is the idiots fault for not doing their market research. There are trillions of dollars to be made in developing country because of demand for things that are not easy to find or limited selection. It is the advertisers fault for not being able to create mechanisms to deliver the goods and accept payment.
The problem is that what they are selling often requires a U.S. only credit card. Even people with credit cards, often have trouble buying things in the United States or Europe because they do not accept foreign cards.
Solve the payment problem, and the revenue is unlimited. There are often plenty of domestic web sites in developing countries making plenty of money.
As for advertising revenue, I have run many sites and know for a fact I can make many times the money for any given space on a popular site over what Google will pay me for it by selling to a domestic advertiser in a developing country.
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All Knowledge is Human Knowledge!!!
Start with that premise, and then restrict defaulting back to that assumption unless otherwise specifically restricted for good reason. Similar concept of State and individual rights structure found in the U.S. constitution (well in theory anyway).
It does not belong to one company, it does not belong to one person, or country, it belongs to the humanity. No one thinks up the next great invention in a vacuum. They went to school, they read other peoples ideas, they used a human language to express it. It belongs to humanity.
Yes, there should be certain restrictions on who can make use of the knowledge (e.g. how to make atomic bombs, what I had for breakfast), but without compelling reason it should default to the public domain.
Bravo!!!
That just one program can nearly eat up all my CPU and ram is a shame considering the relative simplicity of what a browser really does, and relatively few tabs or windows I have open.
Please don't try to turn my browser in to an OS. I already have one of them, and by the way it uses much less resources than Firefox.
How the hell did this bunch of newbies get Ubunto on the brain?
Ubunto did nothing of the sort. Ubunto has a marketing budget is all. It is far from anything special.
Get out and see the real world of linux. Explore the other distros a bit. Chances are you will not still be using Ubunto.
You for got to then times that by 100 that is required for the DOD to write any check. The extra zeros are simply printed on the checks to save time.
Seriously. The real Stereotype here is that Dell still makes good computers at a good price, and that women or anyone else for that matter is sufficiently stupid to still want to buy them.
I am insulted!!!
Honestly, I too don't understand the problem. In what world would you want to use your ISP DNS for a VPN or anything else for that matter. You should be running your own private DNS for all kinds of reasons, and they are fairly trivial to implement.
Even the cheapest routers allow you to set the DNS server you use. Most have caching DNS of some sort built in.
Strangely, I have never had to fire anyone for it. In fact I have only had to warn one or two people, and that was mostly back when I discovered it had the potential to be a problem.
People got along just fine before social networking sites. You really can live without them for a few hours out of the day.
First thing I did was firewall off most of the major social networking sites. Which for the most part cures the problem for everyone concerned. Anyone trying to get around that, would be fired anyway just for trying.
Second, I notified anyone I catch using one of those sites from my network that they get three strikes and they are fired, unless they have express permission. Accidentally ending up on one for whatever reason does happen. Just don't hang out there at work.
Third, I really don't care what they do on social networking site on their own time, but I definitely care what they disclose about my buisness on the social networking site. They need express authorization to discuss anything work related on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter.
This is not about censorship, this is about security and violation of their confidentiality agreement. None of my employees are qualified to make judgments about what can and can not be disclosed on the internet about my buisness.
I don't want to Google things related to my buisness and find out I got knocked off the top of the search engines with a bunch of comments from employees. That includes flattering comments.
What is our number one hands down tried and true technique for breaching any sort of security? SOCIAL ENGINEERING!!!
So, you want freedom of speech, you can have all you want at the next job; but, you still will not be able to discuss my company because it is also in the confidentiality agreement. The one I pay employees for complying with not just as a condition of employment, but as a major part of the job description.
Sorry, but you miss the fact that most of these economies would not function without bribery. There simply is not sufficient rewards for people to do their job.
For example, an official that only makes a few hundred dollars a month. Are you really expecting them to give a dam when their family is starving?
Corruption in many places is simply market forces at work, where the market does not work.
I was say sell the company, get some financial stability under you, quit and start another one. Is it really the only good idea you are ever going to have?
Often the people are more valuable than the idea. There are lots of good ideas out there, but very few people can execute.
yea, but can they convert to pipes?
That is the unit used to measure how long it took to cross a lake by the fur traders. How many pipes did they smoke? Would that not screw with their greenhouse gas calculations?
I downloaded 1 copy of PCLOS 2007 about two years ago. Since then, I have remastered it in to 5 custom distros for my office, including a coupld generic desktops, my own server edition, my own custom desktop, a rescue disk, and so on.
I have easily done over 100 installs, on at least 20 different machines in that time. I then when 2009 I did an update from 2007 from the repositories, tweeked the install, and remastered my own distros again.
How do you even start to account for that, especially when the concept of the monolithic distro is slowly disappearing in to child distros and custom remastered distros?
My favorite game was the hours of typing, followed by 'what is behind door number one'.
LOL
The second lesson I learned was basic sucks, and I need a better programing language.
My first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10.
What I learned it after about an hour of playing with the basic on it, was that I needed a better computer.
It is a lesson I am still using almost every day, as I sit at my duel core processor with 6 gigs of ram and raid 0. I still need a better computer.
Everyone seems to think this is geared at the super rich, and super international companies. You are missing the point. It is aimed at every single American living outside the U.S.
I have run my own buisness outside the U.S. for years. I will spend hundreds of hours this year, as a sole propiator, reporting that I do not owe the U.S. goverment any money. That is currently. If you do not report all of your oversees accounts (even if you do not owe taxes), you are guilty of a crime with penalties starting at $50,000 US and up.
You are assumed to be guilty, just by living outside the United States. I have never taken a single tax deduction so far related to my overseas status. I don't make sufficient money for that, but I must report everything to the U.S. government even if the country I live in has laws protecting my privacy.
This new proposal will force banks and businesses around the World to report all Americans activities they do buisness with.This is not about taxes, this about monitoring Americans.
Thought I would share this, and before a bunch of you start posting BS about the claim of who wrote what, that is not the point. The point is the evolution of MN DWI law and technology.
My father as a prosecutor in Minneapolis in the 60's and 70's started prosecuting drunk drivers for things like felony manslaughter and such. At the time it was just misdemeanor, and often the police would just give someone a ride home. The State legislators and several lobby groups caught wind of it and asked him to write the laws. Those became the first felony laws for DWI in MN, and later where used as a model for other States around the country. Obviously they have been super modified since then, but the fundamental principle that DWI is something serious is still there.
My father went on in private practice as defense attorney in the 80's. Almost all of his acquittals on DWI came down to discrediting the probable cause (i.e. the officer) for the arrest in the first place. Typically the officer's judgment was always front and center (e.g. did he really see him cross the center line on an ice covered road). It got progressively harder as they started adding video cameras and other technology to get someone off on a DWI charge, as the officer's judgment became less important.
I suspect since my father's time, the only thing left to really attack is the validity of the technology itself that measures the crime.
That is so 1984.
Not sure where I heard it, but it was some retired spy that pointed out in an interview that still the most secure form of communication is two people meeting in person and talking. No records, no signals, no paper trail. Nothing to track.
In some sense, it is complete competence or just plain old ignorance of modern communication methods creating the most secure method of communication known to man.
If you can delay or slow the spread, you build natural immunity in the population the longer it is present.
Getting a vaccine any time soon is secondary pipe dream. We will develop large scale immunity faster than they will get vaccine deployed.
I do not trust either one, and push all traffic over SSH with port forwarding for all protocols on my network with preshared keys both internally in physical offices and between physical offices over the internet. I don't have to worry about the latest vulnerability or misconfiguration in some application dumping passwords in the clear, or some web app being sniffed (other than ssh itself).
Yes, I still use all the other security measures, but it sure makes it hell of complicated for your average guy sitting in the parking lot to make use of anything they might find. Never say never, but I do say unlikely.
Not Chilean, and not too concerned about Bolivia solving (not by armed conflict) that problem any time soon. Bolivia has a lot of other more pressing internal issues at the moment.
There has been on going talks / plans to open a rail corridor for some years to give Bolivia port access.
As far getting the territory back, that is likly not going to happen any time soon.
Bolivia and Peru also tends to forget they picked that fight with a superior military force:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific
I live in Chile.
Yea, Chile might have less but it is cheaper and safer source to get at.
1. Bolivia is a really dangerous corrupt unstable country (nearly been killed there myself), that no one is really in control of.
2. It has no access to ocean ports.
Until both of the above are solved, don't bet on Bolivia.
I believe it was Powel that said, "you break it, you buy it". So, rebooting a couple of computers, reinstalling some software, sure seems a much cheaper deal than trying to rebuild a power grid.
I would assert it would in fact be unethical, to bomb the power grid if you could simply do it with cyber attack.
I am sorry, but this is total BS. I have been developing web sites in Latin America (Mexico, Guatemala, Chile) for going on 10 years now. This might (MIGHT) apply to populations in Africa and some parts of Asia.Even there are people with money. If they have a computer, and sufficiently fast connection to watch things like U-tube, they have money.
This is the idiots fault for not doing their market research. There are trillions of dollars to be made in developing country because of demand for things that are not easy to find or limited selection. It is the advertisers fault for not being able to create mechanisms to deliver the goods and accept payment.
The problem is that what they are selling often requires a U.S. only credit card. Even people with credit cards, often have trouble buying things in the United States or Europe because they do not accept foreign cards.
Solve the payment problem, and the revenue is unlimited. There are often plenty of domestic web sites in developing countries making plenty of money.
As for advertising revenue, I have run many sites and know for a fact I can make many times the money for any given space on a popular site over what Google will pay me for it by selling to a domestic advertiser in a developing country.
The ignorance of that article is impressive.