Local Google companies? They aren't affiliated companies. They are "Google". All one company. You can't have part of a company observing one set of laws, another part observing another set of laws, ad nauseum in however many countries they operate in.
Perhaps you mistaken Google's foreign offices with something like Microsoft Partners, or something. There are all manner of companies around the world using MS branding to identify themselves, and what they do, but are NOT part of, or subject to, Microsoft's authority.
Anarchism is not a valid point of view. Anarchism has never built anything. No matter how big, or how small a project, SOMEONE is always "in charge" and "responsible". From responsibility, authority is derived.
Those who don't like authority of any kind are just deluded fools, who want to go back to a simpler life. Life in the caves was pretty simple. Tools were always available, free, for the taking. No voting, no taxes, no census takers.
Of course, your life span was next to nothing, but life was simpler.
The US doesn't censor the web? Good. Please give me a link to the entire ACTA treaty, and/or the working papers, and/or the discussions regarding ACTA.
That, my freind, makes sense. The problem is, many of them have no desire whatsoever to become citizens. Browse around Youtube, do a search for "illegal alien" and/or other terms. You can find them burning and stomping on the US flag. You can find them taking the US flag down, and replacing it with a Mexican flag over a US post office, in a US city, on US soil.
Estimates place this invading army at around 20 million people, right now. Of course, estimates depend on who is making the estimate, and what his political goals are - other estimates say 12 million or less.
Whatever - I know for certain that a number of people WHERE I WORK are illegal. Calling ICE, my senator, my congressman, and even my President does no good whatsoever. No one wants to enforce the law. They are more concerned with enforcing DRM on silly computer games.
HA HA!! I'm a troll. Here on slashdot, where so many people CLAIM to respect the law. Bring up a discussion on piracy, and one after another claims that violating the LAW will be the downfall of computer gaming, the economy, the United States, civilization, and life as we know it.
I point out that there is an ARMY of 20 million ILLEGAL ALIENS raping my nation, and I'm a troll.
There's not a hypocrite among the people with mod points, is there?
Despite the low market share, there are literally millions of *nix systems in use world wide. Might be a billion, but I'm not going to stretch that far.
The really bad guys who are into cracking/hacking/phishing for money wouldn't mind getting into those systems, at all. Millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of computers would HAVE to yield some pretty serious cash, in one way or another. Why aren't they in there, taking the money?
The less bad guys, who would give their left testicle for the bragging rights after finding a reliable way to get into those *nix boxes.
We just don't see this happening.
Market share is a factor, probably. But, the MONEY is what really matters to most, and notoriety matters to others. Don't fool yourself that the biggest factor in *nix security is low market share. There's are multiple reasons for that low market share, one of which is, it is far less convenient for the common user to run scripts and executables, and to open backdoors.
Windows UAC is a step in the right direction, with little nag screens popping up to confirm that Joe User really wants to install Trojan_From_Hell but I'm not willing to say they've gone far enough. Make Joe log out, and log back in as Administrator to install his Trojan_From_Hell, then log back out as administrator before running it.
Have you ever fired up an IRC client as Root on a *nix box? I have. I got a message that effecetively said, "HEY STUPID! ONLY MORONS RUN IRC AS ROOT!" Windows needs exactly that sort of in-your-face security messages.
Can you see Microsoft flashing those sort of messages on screen? I can't. Instead, Clippy is likely to come up, and say, "I see you're trying to subvert the system securty - may I help you?"
I enjoy bashing Microsoft - but I have been led to believe that they have fixed that little problem. In the days of Win98, my kid asked me to install a game for him. Soon after installing it, he told me that he needed admin privileges just to run the stupid game.
I can't really verify it, but I've been told repeatedly that doesn't happen in Vista and Win7. I do know that while I was testing Win7, everything that I installed ran fine in limited user accounts.
That old "Market share" lie again. I'd ask for proof, but how do you prove a negative? Phhht. I'd love to slap the first person who pulled that sorry excuse out of their ass. That turd doesn't stop stinking with time, either.
Mod parent to at least +50 insightful. Despite all the bragging that Microsoft and MS fanbois do, the botnets are still constructed with Windows. When that changes, then we can discuss that little issue again.
Meanwhile, migrate to a more secure operating system.
Ditto here, my freind. But, there are millions of Republicans lined up, waiting their turn to call us both "LOSERS!"
I remember when that Cobra (or, Corba?) thing was passed, making it possible to keep your health insurance between jobs. Big joke. My insurance was costly while I was employed. When I was laid off, the price quadrupled. Jesus H. Christ! It looked good, when it was being tossed around by the politicians. In reality, it was just another cruel way for the rich bastards to let me know they had really stuck it to me!
I think the other 15 million are the freaking ILLEGAL ALIENS who are gumming up the works. They all need to return to their home countries, and get jobs and insurance there.
You're obviously trying to make a point. No, the health bill in it's current form is not "alright". I said as much, when I stated that I have hopes for it. At this point in time, there is nothing more than a foundation upon which to build a comprehensive health plan for America. What we make of it, remains to be seen. There is reason to hope that today's status quo can be changed for the better - but little more than that, at this point.
No, actually, I'm hoping that the bill is worked on, and improved. There were a lot of concessions to various groups that fall far short of genuine "reform". The insurance industries aren't onboard, the pharmaceutical industries aren't onboard, and the entire Republican party is still opposed to it. That doesn't bode well for the future. Far to many people with a financial interest are looking for loopholes and exclusions.
I have hopes for the future, regarding that reform bill, but I'm to cynical to get terribly excited over it.
Triage. Just try to get the masses to understand THAT concept. In today's world, if a catastrophe happens, and one, single, solitary first responder or EMT finds himself responsible for 500 critically injured patients - he is liable if ANY of them dies!! At least in the court of public opinion, he is.
So, it is your position that because it happens to a small percentage of people, then it's alright?
Hmmmm. That's not terribly hard to buy into. "It isn't likely to happen to me, or anyone I know, so we can ignore that problem!"
Except, that the percentage is growing. More and more people have no healthcare plan, or have to choose between groceries and medications, or are losing their homes after some catastrophic accident or illness.
Fewer and fewer people occupy that wonderfully comfortable niche that we call "middle class", and more and more people live on the brink of bankruptcy and homelessness.
Surely, you didn't sleep through that whole economic meltdown, did you? What is the unemployment rate today? http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data Take your pick from the sets of numbers. None of them are good.
I want to argue that. But, first, I'll ask for an example. What implementations, and what versions, on which architectures and operating systems are so fast and efficient?
It's been my experience that Java is an overbloated resource hog, and that "efficiency" is the LAST consideration when anyone programs with Java. It seems that some of the alternatives (OpenJava, etc) might be a little more efficient than Sun's Java, but only marginally.
If you can point me to a really efficient implementation of Java that will run on Linux and Windows, both 32 and 64 bit, I'll be forever grateful. Maybe even grateful enough to say nice things about you and Java!!
I believe that it does. Disclaimer out of the way first - I simply don't understand how things work, and I haven't a clue how to make things better, regarding multi core processors.
That safely out of the way - just minutes ago, I loaded several pages from my news feeds, this page one of them. Firefox started loading pages, then greyed out, waiting for SOMETHING to happen. After about 10 seconds, the grey went away, and FF finished loading all the pages.
Hey, a dual core 2Ghz Opteron with 4 gig of memory running from a RAID array shouldn't really be waiting for much of anything, other than my slow assed internet connection. So, why DO I have to wait for things to happen?
Some retooling might be in order, I think.
To be fair, I do run BOINC, and my machines are all kept near 100% CPU utilization. But, hey, task scheduling should be up to the task of keeping my interactive applications in the foreground, right?
I agree with AC here, but, I've argued that in other circles in the past. The commonly accepted "wisdom" among the bleeding hearts is, the use of "truth serums" constitutes yet another form of "torture". Hogwash, I say, but that's their argument.
Alright, let's say that a good dose of any drug that reduces your will to resist and/or to lie, causes you to have a headache. Let's suppose that you're kept doped up for a week, until your interrogators decide that you don't have anything more to tell. Hell, even a month!
So, you suffer with the headache from hell for another month, afterward. Not likely, really, but let's suppose.
How is this comparable to waterboarding, or worse?
NOT TORTURE, I say. I can get a headache just being confined to an ugly dismal facility painted in Navy puke green without windows or decent lighting, FFS. But, they haven't determined that the navy's painting schemes constitute torture, have they?
Yay. We've gone full circle. Back in the day, if your POS monitor gave out, you could diddle around with some cords and some adapters, and put your display on your old CRT television. Which, in many cases was an improvement, because you could do higher resolutions.
Today, we have computers which can remote to your television, so that you can have a 5 foot display at super resolution.
Technology is so exciting! Once again, we can enjoy Microsoft's BSOD at maximum resolution, in all of it's glory!
Mind? I suspect that you may have had a mind at some distant time in the past. But, today, you have no idea if your mind works or not. It disowned you, and left.
And, you probably thought you just lost your mind, right?
Pretty damned good find. You deserve a mod point or two, just for taking my post seriously enough to look!;^)
As the article makes obvious, no one in Washington takes the concept seriously. So, WTF are they doing in Washington? Send them all packing, I say.
The article falls a little short, though. There was a quote from some insider or another in the Chinese government, which defined the Assassin's Mace better. Their plan is, dominating us politically, economically, militarily, AND technologically, within a 20 year period. We are something like 6 or 8 years into that 20 years. It might even be ten years on - no one that I know of knows for certain when the plan was formulated.
Unless our government takes the threat seriously, then China will succeed. I mean, anyone who sets themselves a goal, and meets zero opposition, will indeed reach that goal.
The fact is, we are actively aiding and abetting them in reaching their goal. Every year, we export more jobs to China, we export more technology, we export more corporate secrets - everything which they need to reach that goal.
Hell, Bill Clinton took the first step, by selling them missile technology.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, and I take those rumors to seriously. After all, the Chinese must have a sense of humor, right? They were only joking when the said they meant to dominate the United States, right?
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Local Google companies? They aren't affiliated companies. They are "Google". All one company. You can't have part of a company observing one set of laws, another part observing another set of laws, ad nauseum in however many countries they operate in.
Perhaps you mistaken Google's foreign offices with something like Microsoft Partners, or something. There are all manner of companies around the world using MS branding to identify themselves, and what they do, but are NOT part of, or subject to, Microsoft's authority.
Anarchism is not a valid point of view. Anarchism has never built anything. No matter how big, or how small a project, SOMEONE is always "in charge" and "responsible". From responsibility, authority is derived.
Those who don't like authority of any kind are just deluded fools, who want to go back to a simpler life. Life in the caves was pretty simple. Tools were always available, free, for the taking. No voting, no taxes, no census takers.
Of course, your life span was next to nothing, but life was simpler.
The US doesn't censor the web? Good. Please give me a link to the entire ACTA treaty, and/or the working papers, and/or the discussions regarding ACTA.
That, my freind, makes sense. The problem is, many of them have no desire whatsoever to become citizens. Browse around Youtube, do a search for "illegal alien" and/or other terms. You can find them burning and stomping on the US flag. You can find them taking the US flag down, and replacing it with a Mexican flag over a US post office, in a US city, on US soil.
Estimates place this invading army at around 20 million people, right now. Of course, estimates depend on who is making the estimate, and what his political goals are - other estimates say 12 million or less.
Whatever - I know for certain that a number of people WHERE I WORK are illegal. Calling ICE, my senator, my congressman, and even my President does no good whatsoever. No one wants to enforce the law. They are more concerned with enforcing DRM on silly computer games.
HA HA!! I'm a troll. Here on slashdot, where so many people CLAIM to respect the law. Bring up a discussion on piracy, and one after another claims that violating the LAW will be the downfall of computer gaming, the economy, the United States, civilization, and life as we know it.
I point out that there is an ARMY of 20 million ILLEGAL ALIENS raping my nation, and I'm a troll.
There's not a hypocrite among the people with mod points, is there?
I've asked before, elsewhere - I'll ask again.
Despite the low market share, there are literally millions of *nix systems in use world wide. Might be a billion, but I'm not going to stretch that far.
The really bad guys who are into cracking/hacking/phishing for money wouldn't mind getting into those systems, at all. Millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of computers would HAVE to yield some pretty serious cash, in one way or another.
Why aren't they in there, taking the money?
The less bad guys, who would give their left testicle for the bragging rights after finding a reliable way to get into those *nix boxes.
We just don't see this happening.
Market share is a factor, probably. But, the MONEY is what really matters to most, and notoriety matters to others. Don't fool yourself that the biggest factor in *nix security is low market share. There's are multiple reasons for that low market share, one of which is, it is far less convenient for the common user to run scripts and executables, and to open backdoors.
Windows UAC is a step in the right direction, with little nag screens popping up to confirm that Joe User really wants to install Trojan_From_Hell but I'm not willing to say they've gone far enough. Make Joe log out, and log back in as Administrator to install his Trojan_From_Hell, then log back out as administrator before running it.
Have you ever fired up an IRC client as Root on a *nix box? I have. I got a message that effecetively said, "HEY STUPID! ONLY MORONS RUN IRC AS ROOT!" Windows needs exactly that sort of in-your-face security messages.
Can you see Microsoft flashing those sort of messages on screen? I can't. Instead, Clippy is likely to come up, and say, "I see you're trying to subvert the system securty - may I help you?"
That was WinXP, wasn't it? ;^)
I enjoy bashing Microsoft - but I have been led to believe that they have fixed that little problem. In the days of Win98, my kid asked me to install a game for him. Soon after installing it, he told me that he needed admin privileges just to run the stupid game.
I can't really verify it, but I've been told repeatedly that doesn't happen in Vista and Win7. I do know that while I was testing Win7, everything that I installed ran fine in limited user accounts.
That old "Market share" lie again. I'd ask for proof, but how do you prove a negative? Phhht. I'd love to slap the first person who pulled that sorry excuse out of their ass. That turd doesn't stop stinking with time, either.
Mod parent to at least +50 insightful. Despite all the bragging that Microsoft and MS fanbois do, the botnets are still constructed with Windows. When that changes, then we can discuss that little issue again.
Meanwhile, migrate to a more secure operating system.
Ditto here, my freind. But, there are millions of Republicans lined up, waiting their turn to call us both "LOSERS!"
I remember when that Cobra (or, Corba?) thing was passed, making it possible to keep your health insurance between jobs. Big joke. My insurance was costly while I was employed. When I was laid off, the price quadrupled. Jesus H. Christ! It looked good, when it was being tossed around by the politicians. In reality, it was just another cruel way for the rich bastards to let me know they had really stuck it to me!
I think the other 15 million are the freaking ILLEGAL ALIENS who are gumming up the works. They all need to return to their home countries, and get jobs and insurance there.
You're obviously trying to make a point. No, the health bill in it's current form is not "alright". I said as much, when I stated that I have hopes for it. At this point in time, there is nothing more than a foundation upon which to build a comprehensive health plan for America. What we make of it, remains to be seen. There is reason to hope that today's status quo can be changed for the better - but little more than that, at this point.
No, actually, I'm hoping that the bill is worked on, and improved. There were a lot of concessions to various groups that fall far short of genuine "reform". The insurance industries aren't onboard, the pharmaceutical industries aren't onboard, and the entire Republican party is still opposed to it. That doesn't bode well for the future. Far to many people with a financial interest are looking for loopholes and exclusions.
I have hopes for the future, regarding that reform bill, but I'm to cynical to get terribly excited over it.
Triage. Just try to get the masses to understand THAT concept. In today's world, if a catastrophe happens, and one, single, solitary first responder or EMT finds himself responsible for 500 critically injured patients - he is liable if ANY of them dies!! At least in the court of public opinion, he is.
So, it is your position that because it happens to a small percentage of people, then it's alright?
Hmmmm. That's not terribly hard to buy into. "It isn't likely to happen to me, or anyone I know, so we can ignore that problem!"
Except, that the percentage is growing. More and more people have no healthcare plan, or have to choose between groceries and medications, or are losing their homes after some catastrophic accident or illness.
Fewer and fewer people occupy that wonderfully comfortable niche that we call "middle class", and more and more people live on the brink of bankruptcy and homelessness.
Surely, you didn't sleep through that whole economic meltdown, did you? What is the unemployment rate today? http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data Take your pick from the sets of numbers. None of them are good.
"held up supermarket lines arguing with the cashier over a 5-pence rebate."
What an anachronistic dinosaur, huh? She didn't get her pensioner's cheque cashed for Euros?
I want to argue that. But, first, I'll ask for an example. What implementations, and what versions, on which architectures and operating systems are so fast and efficient?
It's been my experience that Java is an overbloated resource hog, and that "efficiency" is the LAST consideration when anyone programs with Java. It seems that some of the alternatives (OpenJava, etc) might be a little more efficient than Sun's Java, but only marginally.
If you can point me to a really efficient implementation of Java that will run on Linux and Windows, both 32 and 64 bit, I'll be forever grateful. Maybe even grateful enough to say nice things about you and Java!!
I believe that it does. Disclaimer out of the way first - I simply don't understand how things work, and I haven't a clue how to make things better, regarding multi core processors.
That safely out of the way - just minutes ago, I loaded several pages from my news feeds, this page one of them. Firefox started loading pages, then greyed out, waiting for SOMETHING to happen. After about 10 seconds, the grey went away, and FF finished loading all the pages.
Hey, a dual core 2Ghz Opteron with 4 gig of memory running from a RAID array shouldn't really be waiting for much of anything, other than my slow assed internet connection. So, why DO I have to wait for things to happen?
Some retooling might be in order, I think.
To be fair, I do run BOINC, and my machines are all kept near 100% CPU utilization. But, hey, task scheduling should be up to the task of keeping my interactive applications in the foreground, right?
I agree with AC here, but, I've argued that in other circles in the past. The commonly accepted "wisdom" among the bleeding hearts is, the use of "truth serums" constitutes yet another form of "torture". Hogwash, I say, but that's their argument.
Alright, let's say that a good dose of any drug that reduces your will to resist and/or to lie, causes you to have a headache. Let's suppose that you're kept doped up for a week, until your interrogators decide that you don't have anything more to tell. Hell, even a month!
So, you suffer with the headache from hell for another month, afterward. Not likely, really, but let's suppose.
How is this comparable to waterboarding, or worse?
NOT TORTURE, I say. I can get a headache just being confined to an ugly dismal facility painted in Navy puke green without windows or decent lighting, FFS. But, they haven't determined that the navy's painting schemes constitute torture, have they?
Yay. We've gone full circle. Back in the day, if your POS monitor gave out, you could diddle around with some cords and some adapters, and put your display on your old CRT television. Which, in many cases was an improvement, because you could do higher resolutions.
Today, we have computers which can remote to your television, so that you can have a 5 foot display at super resolution.
Technology is so exciting! Once again, we can enjoy Microsoft's BSOD at maximum resolution, in all of it's glory!
Mind? I suspect that you may have had a mind at some distant time in the past. But, today, you have no idea if your mind works or not. It disowned you, and left.
And, you probably thought you just lost your mind, right?
"Our insect overlords can't get here soon enough, if you ask me."
I agree. I've heard that they taste like chicken, if you deep fry them. Mmmm-mmmm. Southern fried insect overlords - a hillbilly delight!!
You, sir, are quite likely a real "Republican", as opposed to the "neoconservative" crowd that is so fashionably popular today.
I salute you. I could almost have been a Republican, because I am a conservative at heart. To bad the party has been hijacked.
Pretty damned good find. You deserve a mod point or two, just for taking my post seriously enough to look! ;^)
As the article makes obvious, no one in Washington takes the concept seriously. So, WTF are they doing in Washington? Send them all packing, I say.
The article falls a little short, though. There was a quote from some insider or another in the Chinese government, which defined the Assassin's Mace better. Their plan is, dominating us politically, economically, militarily, AND technologically, within a 20 year period. We are something like 6 or 8 years into that 20 years. It might even be ten years on - no one that I know of knows for certain when the plan was formulated.
Unless our government takes the threat seriously, then China will succeed. I mean, anyone who sets themselves a goal, and meets zero opposition, will indeed reach that goal.
The fact is, we are actively aiding and abetting them in reaching their goal. Every year, we export more jobs to China, we export more technology, we export more corporate secrets - everything which they need to reach that goal.
Hell, Bill Clinton took the first step, by selling them missile technology.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, and I take those rumors to seriously. After all, the Chinese must have a sense of humor, right? They were only joking when the said they meant to dominate the United States, right?