yea, their major break through was a disposable cell phone and home made explosives.
Let's see how that works out:
Taliban research budget: $2.50 for 15 mins on Google, perhaps two or three guys blew themselves up testing it out. Weapon manufacturing and deployment: $50 per unit (likely more around $10) Effective destruction: Near total neutralization of all enemy ground forces in the entire country, forcing them to check under every rock on every road or use multi-billion dollar airlifts for everything.
U.S. is going to spend by comparison $1 million US a day per solider for the new "surge" of 30,000 troops in addition to whatever it is costing already. I bet it cost the U.S. somewhere around $100 million for each taliban fighter they kill. They sure as hell are not stabilizing and retaking the country.
What good is air superiority, if the enemy has ground superiority? This has been proven over and over and over again. That is beside the point that no army or foreign power has ever "won" in Afghanistan. You win by not fighting there.
In other words he does not look any different than anyone else.
That is not intended to be a discriminatory statement, but nearly the entire middle east has a long tradition of everyone having several Ak-47's and so on in their home. Almost all of my friends that grew up in the middle east have stories of being given automatic weapons when they where like 10 years old and up. It is just part of the culture, in the same way boys in the rural U.S. might get hunting rifles. It is especially true in countries like Afghanistan that have been at war for generations with someone almost constantly.
Like I said with some tweaking. As in not needing to rewrite everything from complete scratch. Resizing user interface components is a fairly small trick, when you have 800x400 to work with.
As for Mobile applications not being tweaked desktop apps, that is THE POINT. We are getting closer to mobile and desktop application that are interchangeable.
At the very least we do not need to get our knees to a bunch of application stores and hope they give us what we need, and approve what people produce for distribution.
Even if a lot of stuff needs outright porting, at least we are allowed to port it.
Not right now. By this time next year we will all be bitching when prepaid disposable calling card phones don't have the same balls as our notebooks. Well, perhaps a couple of years.
We are going to come out of this economic downturn with a but load of cheap computer components flooding the market from China trying to play catchup for the lack of demand these last couple of years.
C++ libraries for producing programs that will run on both windows, linux, whatever OS (not sure of the full range). Likely most famously found on the KDE desktop.
The important thing for the n900 is we now have a set of libraries that in theory should provide an ability to write software that will run on your home computer, and on your cell phone (without java or some other silliness). Basically all the Linux applications that exist already should (perhaps with some tweaking) be usable on your cell phone without needing to reinvent the wheel to use the massive base of mature software that is already available for Linux and similar.
In theory, it means I should be able to deploy most of the desktop software we use in my office on n900's without needing to retrain people in my office to use it when they are out of the office.
We will see. So far the hype seems to be warranted, but I am sure we all have been burned before by some arbitrary corporate decision or more commonly some arbitrary marketing decision.
I do not see the privacy issues, as they are very limited if you are using a cache on your router with Google as the DNS server. Google gets to see one lookup, and then my home router (with dnsmaque) serves any repeat visits for me or the other computers on my network. For the majority of the sites I visit on a regular basis, my router provides the DNS.
I would suspect that a majority of people using home routers have some sort of cache now in the firmware that does similar work, in their OS, or their browser. It is not like Google is able to see me hit their DNS (although I am sure that is true for some users), every time I want to visit a site again. It is of little value, other than in the most general sense of determining what sites are popular.
Is this any different than the police patrolling your neighborhood, and looking for a wanted suspect, and keeping a record on his family, friends, and other activities related to the person they are trying to catch? Not really.
The line would likely be crossed if they are just doing drag nets about peoples online to find out if they are doing anything illegal.
If you want to short your pirate position then you hire mercenaries to kill them. If you want to hedge, you could also just hire another group of pirates to get the first set of pirates.
I have been building and running web sites for at least 10+ years now. Several hundred over the years. I can never ever ever remember a MS search engine being an important factor to me or my clients. Yahoo is perhaps marginally important. Until I see more than a fraction of traffic, articles like this are just MS advertising. Bing, live, msn, whatever you want to rebrand the same crappy results still means nothing until they produce real traffic.
Hell, I can get more traffic from spamming one category in crags list, than MS ever brought me.
It use to be the be all to end all directory to get in to for new sites on the web. I have not had a new site listed on DMOZ in at least 6 years, and have not bothered even trying in at least 4 years. Wikipedia has gone the same way. Even if I have an authoritative site on a subject (not many other sites), and I am myself an authority on a subject, getting things published is nearly impossible now because of all the little kingdoms that have popped up on wikipedia pages. I simply quit trying.
yea, what a stupid idea. How did those guys on free commercial driven TV ever make money at it?: Those shows cost millions to make, and are for more of a shot in the dark if they ever convert a 30 second advertising spot to a real customer. No way poor people would ever be convinced to spend money.
Yea, what happened to the good old days when they would find out they let you go by the locks being changed on your office door or not being able to log in, or worse the security guard has a box of your stuff at the front desk?
Personally, I do cut off all network access, email accounts, and so on with my own employees before informing them to hit the road, even if they are leaving under good terms. Fortunately, I have not had to fire many, because I generally don't treat them like shit and they don't treat me like shit. It really is an innovate corporate policy in this day and age.
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Yea, we did fight there before 2001 (check your history). That is why we are fighting there now.
We armed and trained them, and everyone else in the region for the last 50 years.
Dude, didn't you watch Rambo?
Yes, for the paranoid go out and setup your own.
In that case, we can go down the slippery slope all the way to the root servers.
Do you really think those that we have to be worried about do not have access?
The first flying wings go back to before ww I.
List of flying wings and years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flying_wing_aircraft
yea, their major break through was a disposable cell phone and home made explosives.
Let's see how that works out:
Taliban research budget: $2.50 for 15 mins on Google, perhaps two or three guys blew themselves up testing it out.
Weapon manufacturing and deployment: $50 per unit (likely more around $10)
Effective destruction: Near total neutralization of all enemy ground forces in the entire country, forcing them to check under every rock on every road or use multi-billion dollar airlifts for everything.
U.S. is going to spend by comparison $1 million US a day per solider for the new "surge" of 30,000 troops in addition to whatever it is costing already. I bet it cost the U.S. somewhere around $100 million for each taliban fighter they kill. They sure as hell are not stabilizing and retaking the country.
What good is air superiority, if the enemy has ground superiority? This has been proven over and over and over again. That is beside the point that no army or foreign power has ever "won" in Afghanistan. You win by not fighting there.
In other words he does not look any different than anyone else.
That is not intended to be a discriminatory statement, but nearly the entire middle east has a long tradition of everyone having several Ak-47's and so on in their home. Almost all of my friends that grew up in the middle east have stories of being given automatic weapons when they where like 10 years old and up. It is just part of the culture, in the same way boys in the rural U.S. might get hunting rifles. It is especially true in countries like Afghanistan that have been at war for generations with someone almost constantly.
How do you think most people get to that unique site these days they have never visited before?
They GOOGLE IT!!!
My point is, with exception of some limited type in traffic, Google already has a lot of this info.
So, if you are really concerned about privacy and Google (I do believe this is an issue), you have to stop using Google altogether.
Like I said with some tweaking. As in not needing to rewrite everything from complete scratch. Resizing user interface components is a fairly small trick, when you have 800x400 to work with.
As for Mobile applications not being tweaked desktop apps, that is THE POINT. We are getting closer to mobile and desktop application that are interchangeable.
At the very least we do not need to get our knees to a bunch of application stores and hope they give us what we need, and approve what people produce for distribution.
Even if a lot of stuff needs outright porting, at least we are allowed to port it.
Not right now. By this time next year we will all be bitching when prepaid disposable calling card phones don't have the same balls as our notebooks. Well, perhaps a couple of years.
We are going to come out of this economic downturn with a but load of cheap computer components flooding the market from China trying to play catchup for the lack of demand these last couple of years.
So is their future technology commitment going to be maemo linux or symbian?
C++ libraries for producing programs that will run on both windows, linux, whatever OS (not sure of the full range). Likely most famously found on the KDE desktop.
The important thing for the n900 is we now have a set of libraries that in theory should provide an ability to write software that will run on your home computer, and on your cell phone (without java or some other silliness). Basically all the Linux applications that exist already should (perhaps with some tweaking) be usable on your cell phone without needing to reinvent the wheel to use the massive base of mature software that is already available for Linux and similar.
In theory, it means I should be able to deploy most of the desktop software we use in my office on n900's without needing to retrain people in my office to use it when they are out of the office.
We will see. So far the hype seems to be warranted, but I am sure we all have been burned before by some arbitrary corporate decision or more commonly some arbitrary marketing decision.
So I am giving Google DNS a try on my networks.
I do not see the privacy issues, as they are very limited if you are using a cache on your router with Google as the DNS server. Google gets to see one lookup, and then my home router (with dnsmaque) serves any repeat visits for me or the other computers on my network. For the majority of the sites I visit on a regular basis, my router provides the DNS.
I would suspect that a majority of people using home routers have some sort of cache now in the firmware that does similar work, in their OS, or their browser. It is not like Google is able to see me hit their DNS (although I am sure that is true for some users), every time I want to visit a site again. It is of little value, other than in the most general sense of determining what sites are popular.
I did, but had to go to another country. They only have last KM providers.
Is this any different than the police patrolling your neighborhood, and looking for a wanted suspect, and keeping a record on his family, friends, and other activities related to the person they are trying to catch? Not really.
The line would likely be crossed if they are just doing drag nets about peoples online to find out if they are doing anything illegal.
You will when they use your facebook profile to seed a brute force of that encrypted porno collection in your home directory.
Hire the pirate "companies" to escort ships through the area.
Pretty soon they will just call them the Somali navy or coast guard (a.k.a. pirates with a budgets, pension, and dental).
If you want to short your pirate position then you hire mercenaries to kill them. If you want to hedge, you could also just hire another group of pirates to get the first set of pirates.
Would that qualify as insider trading?
I have been building and running web sites for at least 10+ years now. Several hundred over the years. I can never ever ever remember a MS search engine being an important factor to me or my clients. Yahoo is perhaps marginally important. Until I see more than a fraction of traffic, articles like this are just MS advertising. Bing, live, msn, whatever you want to rebrand the same crappy results still means nothing until they produce real traffic.
Hell, I can get more traffic from spamming one category in crags list, than MS ever brought me.
yea, they are likely just waiting for the raid check to finish on their servers on some Caribbean island.
He forgot the golden rule: Those with the Gold makes the rules.
The U.S. considers everyone subject to U.S. law regardless of their physical location, unless it is deemed to unimportant or expensive to prosecute.
I recall a former Panamanian dictator that tried to claim the same thing, along with a bunch of other drug lords, tax dodgers, terrorists, and so on.
Is that right? No.
Does anyone remember DMOZ?
It use to be the be all to end all directory to get in to for new sites on the web. I have not had a new site listed on DMOZ in at least 6 years, and have not bothered even trying in at least 4 years. Wikipedia has gone the same way. Even if I have an authoritative site on a subject (not many other sites), and I am myself an authority on a subject, getting things published is nearly impossible now because of all the little kingdoms that have popped up on wikipedia pages. I simply quit trying.
yea, what a stupid idea. How did those guys on free commercial driven TV ever make money at it?: Those shows cost millions to make, and are for more of a shot in the dark if they ever convert a 30 second advertising spot to a real customer. No way poor people would ever be convinced to spend money.
Try a travel forum or stay home.
yea, those photos of the boss cross dressing and dancing with a male hooker are worth a mint.
Yea, what happened to the good old days when they would find out they let you go by the locks being changed on your office door or not being able to log in, or worse the security guard has a box of your stuff at the front desk?
Personally, I do cut off all network access, email accounts, and so on with my own employees before informing them to hit the road, even if they are leaving under good terms. Fortunately, I have not had to fire many, because I generally don't treat them like shit and they don't treat me like shit. It really is an innovate corporate policy in this day and age.
sorry, yea, Freudian slip perhaps.