I said nothing about race, nor did I THINK anything about race. Why does that have to be a trump card that can be pulled out any time someone challenges offering safeharbour to all and sundry? I'm simply arguing that maybe the good done for many is not worth the occasional evil it helps flourish, no matter what nationality, race or religion the refugee is. For all we know, the latest anthrax scares are due to some crazy militia. Not sure what color of their skin is, nor do I care. I wonder if deep down somewhere you do =)
Considering I don't have much inside information on the process of checking out refugees, I can't really comment on where the weaknesses in the process lie. However, if you insist on classifying that as rascism, than I'll be more than happy to write you off as a knee-jerk bleeding heart.
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Distributed collection, perhaps distributed storage and forwarding of data over (possibly) private network. Collectors targeted to IPs under suspicion. All these means is more efficient data intercept orders with the sniffers already deployed. This would cost a helluva lot of money that should be spent on education or given back to the tax payers. Boxes that do this stuff aren't cheap.
Port mirroring or silimar tactics would be used to send copies of data to the collectors. Another big question raised by this is will these collectors be accessibly on public address space? How will they be secured? When (not "will") they become targets for crackers, info-terrorists, and hostile foreign governments?
Carnivore *IS* a baby monitor. Just be glad there aren't video cameras all over the place like in London, that'll give you the Orwellian feeling you've been craving.
It shouldn't really be that shocking that a device like Carnivor exists, is used, and has analogs in other jurisdictions as well. The Canadian RCMP have something like that. They don't have an equivalent to Echelon, but then again Canadians are passive and wouldn't dream of plotting to overturn our ineffective government. No need to spend money on that, might as well setup more social assistance programs to help "refugees" setup a few more terror cells.
Having been to IBM's "AIX for Solaris Administrators" course, I can confirm that not only is this public information, but its also a good chunk of their marketing speel. In fact, some of this is actually implemented.
AIX 5L has a Linux compatibility layer, didn't get much chance to play with it (the focus wasn't on Linux, but on admining AIX based on a Solaris background), and most/all IBM boxen support Linux. IBM gives you the choice of AIX or linux on their hardware playforms. They also released the source for JFS to the community.
Cable modems, xDSL, satellite and arguably even antiquated technologies such as ISDN (It Still Does Nothing) aim to speed up the last mile. The premise here is that the backbone of the network itself can handle much greater rates of data transfer than the last mile can, so we might as well take advantage of that. What this neglects to take into account is that the backbone is often a breath or two away from being congested and capacity planning is based on proportionally smaller pipes all the way down to the last mile. Servers are also designed with this kind of capacity planning.
Now imagine what happens when you plan the backbone around expensive fiber optic lines, costs charged by backbone providers for bandwidth and traffic utilization incurred by smaller ISPs, and a customer base using correspondingly smaller connections which, when aggragated, use up a big chunk of the big pipe while allowing some room for spikes in traffic, customer growth, etc. That all sounds pretty managable, right? Now imagine what happens when you give the users a connection that rivals what chunks of the backbone can do, eclipse the rates attainable by interfaces on routers, switches, and servers. Imagine what kind of damage someone like Mafiaboy could do? Imagine what kind of capactity problems you'd see just from normal usage?
Inovation is not a pretty box, and that is part of why Microsoft is wiping the market with Apple. Superiority in OS design aside, Job needs to stop pimping his elitist case designs and focus on making better computers. Better means ease of use and power, and the promise that Mac OS X shows could be the key to finally dethroning Microsoft. If Apple doesn't do it, look for IBM to make some serious waves with their support of Linux...
That will be a boon to cable providers branching into digital cable services includng Pay Per View. Currently, PPV events or movies go through a rotation and you have to wait for a movie to pop up in the schedule (at least in the cable system I'm in) in order to watch it.
Being able to select whatever you want to watch when you want to watch it will do more than just quash the concept of channels... it could seriously decrease the profitability of video stores if not mode them out. Of course, the same argument has been made for years about print media and the Internet, and print media is still around (but I think it can be argued that it is in transition and "downsizing").
You see, GPL is a mere cancer on intellectual property, Microsoft is a malignant tumor which has metastastized, seriously compromising the survivability of the entire organism. Or is it the new organism?
How come nobody even defends the right to life of tumors?
Of course they can... hell, Canada likes to sell fucking nuclear reactors to developing nations so they can get materials to build nuclear weapons. Corporations are nothing... the damage the idiots WE elect is a bigger deal. Hate to break it to y'all, but if you thought IRC was a nasty place then check out the real world.
Its not all suburbs and Walmarts. Microsoft is a lesser evil. They make people stupid, but at least they aren't making GUIs for weapons...
I think not... if they were doing seriously Wrong things like killing people then they would catch heat. Merely doing business like cutthroat bastards is the American way. Enough jealousy over MS's successful exploitation of the ignorance of the masses.
Besides, without Microsoft, who would we use as a baseline of evil to make us feel elite and pure?
Don't discount the political maneuvering of the techies =) We're can be a little more draconian than most managers give us credit for. At least in my experience... I've seen (been in) more than one mini-revolt/powerplay that has significantly changed management structure. Managers who piss us off don't tend to last that long.
... its not all that different from the reality of working in a competitive field. Companies would rather not have staff leave, especially ones wherein they've invested much time, money, training, and have made plans around. That is natural, and previous posts have pointed that out.
Keeping valuable employees is necessary. A company must try to keep their employees, or they will fail. The crucial difference lies in how they do this. My previous employer was smallish on a global scale, but was a huge and successful local ISP. They didn't understand much about how to keep valuable employees, payed extremely poorly, tended to ask for too much of the staff in terms of volunteer time, didn't offer training or benefits packages, and generally treated us all like slaves. Myself and two other teammates in the corporate tech services group brought these concerns to our manager, were told they wouldn't do anything about it, so I left. They since got bought by PSINet and now face an uncertain future. A few good people remain there, but mostly due to inertia (the company did improve their compensation a little after a mini-wave of people left, including myself)... many more good people have left because of the company's lack of respect or reward programs. I resigned when I accepted an offer from a major competitor. When chatting with the GM of the company I was leaving, she tried to get me to stay using a little bit of FUD. Was that dirty tactics or honest misinformation about the company I was going to?
Either way, they held their employees back. The only thing that could have made me stay was loyalty and enjoyment of the workplace. Companies like the Japanese developer (don't forget that we are also talking about a very different culture with we discuss Japan) wouldn't be well tolerated by most North American workers, and lack of mere acknowledgement for your work is likely to drive employees away. We all need pats on the back, money, perks, etc... otherwise we get PUSHED away.
How does a seemingly well-adjusted child like that take such a drastic action? Its not a normal reaction. It shows severe lack of understanding of the world he actually lives in. It shows a severe lack of good parenting. Looking for someone to blame.
The parents are who we should be looking at.
What did they say to the child after he got suspended? Perhaps they were supportive, or angry, or silent... or perhaps they filed him with guilt, berated him about how much of a failure he is, how unlike his successful older brother he is, how he's going to jail now and will stain the families reputation. Or maybe they just ranted about how inappropriate the suspension is. There is a wide range of possible reactions they could have had. I don't think a supportive one would have led to suicide. I don't think its even remotely logical that the parents could not have played a part in this.
Is 10 days extreme? Sure. Is hacking into the computer system of your school and doing who knows what extreme? You betcha. I don't think the suspension is out of line. Breaking and entering, even virtually, into property is a real crime. I don't really want to downplay the seriousness of threats, but people, kids especially, threaten each other all the time. Following through on those threats is another matter. This child didn't threaten to break in to a computer system. He did.
Echoing comments earlier... I've done tech support. I've dealt with the gamut of customers from the new user who just doesn't know and asks for help to the asshole MSCE that thinks they know how things work and blaim you for being confronted with the fact that they don't.
What you seem to forget in your blatantly one-sided and biased post, Jon, is that Tech Support Reps are people too. They are intelligent in most cases, people who have little training but have taken the time or effort to learn. They are not necessarily trained to support whatever product or service they are using. The, in most cases, are just smart and can figure things out. That is often a big difference between people calling for Tech Support and people answering the phone... trying to solve the problem yourself, whether it be thinking about it logically, reading the fsking manual, or trying some basic troubleshooting. It doesn't take much more to solve 80% of problems.
There is something to be said for making the effort to solve one's own problems, research a bit to learn on your own, and trying to be independant. People who refuse or are too lazy to help themselves should be despised. People who have tried to help themselves are wonderful, and Tech Support people love them.
One more comment before this gets written off as a "you've obviously worked at a small operation" or "you've obviously forgotten that Profession X doesn't treat their customer like shit" comment, remember that being a Comp Sci grad (or any other graduate for that matter) is overqualified for Tech Support. Someone with a PEng does not have the right to treat a non-engineering like shit for not knowing how much load a structure they've built can hold. That is why the Engineer has a parchment on their wall. You don't get a parchment for knowing how to use a computer, a TV, a VCR, or a toaster. You just have to read the directions and use your brain, and when that fails, call Tech Support and ask, not demand help.
No, I find this the most exciting advancement I've heard of in a long long time. This could finally trigger the paradygm shift that is due. After millions of iterations, these chips will show emergent properties that will put Lorenz's weather research and studies of the instinctual organizational behavior of termites to shame.
This makes me want to go back to school and chase a few more degrees. Does it have the potential to be disasterous? Absolutely. The academic in me doesn't care.
Yes too easy. Most users don't matter, the majority, often clueless, don't define an Operating system intended for a user population that should know what they are doing. MacOS made their business on an OS for people who don't have to know what they are doing, Microsoft has tried to do the same with a more unstable product, and Linux (and the BSDs) are Operating Systems for and by the competant. Unfortunately, many distributions of Linux are trying to broaden their appeal by making it convenient for newbies to get things running quickly without having to obtain the clue they need to do it properly. By design, Linux does not sacrifice power for ease of usability like MacOS does, however they still battle a lag in features in order to maintain as much stability as possible.
Yes, Lard British is no longer with Origin. He left following the fiasco known as the last Ultima. The success of UO notwithstanding, LB's hippocracy in the face of the obviously weak state of the released final chapter of the Ultima franchise lead to him losing face with his remaining fans.
Its only marginally worse than the Canadian Dollar, which many of us Canucks lovingly refer to as the Northern Peso. That's not a slight against Mexico. Its awesome down there, one of my favorite places to vacation. Ever. Unfortunately, our federal gov'ment in Canada has bitched the country so badly over the past many decades that our economy has fallen to complete and utter shite over recently, at least compared to the "haves" down south in the US.
Comparing all three currencies gives us some funky numbers:
100,000,000 Mexican New Pesos
16,300,010 Canadian Dollars
10,449,320.79 USD
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Exactly, right on the money... something has to do the work of dropping that traffic, whether its at the peer, a firewall close to the target, or whatever.
Yet more FUD tactics from Microsoft. The idiocy behind the denial of the OBVIOUS (perhaps self-evident) benefit of Open Source to innovation is verging on criminal. Microsoft has a number of spokespeople intent on undermining trust of Open Source projects such as Apache and Linux, however all they really accomplish is to further damage the public image of the company.
The segment of the population who is offended by such statements are in many cases the same people who are in a position to influence the corporate world away from companies like Microsoft who play dirty, put out inferior products, and fail to adapt the best of what the competition has to offer.
Microsoft may very well represent the American way, not the enlightened intelligent aspects of society, but the insulated, xenophobic and intellectually incestuous America that holds the principles of freedom, innovation, and cooperation in check.
This is why America is not the leader of innovation in the UNIX world. Individuals and companies within the US make significant contributions, but European and Asian contributions to the advancement of technology are stronger. Linux is from North American, but many enlightened North Americans make a contribution. The last thing the world needs is for the government to step in and stifle the creativity and innovation coming from Open Source projects like Linux, Apache, OpenBSD, etc.
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I said nothing about race, nor did I THINK anything about race. Why does that have to be a trump card that can be pulled out any time someone challenges offering safeharbour to all and sundry? I'm simply arguing that maybe the good done for many is not worth the occasional evil it helps flourish, no matter what nationality, race or religion the refugee is. For all we know, the latest anthrax scares are due to some crazy militia. Not sure what color of their skin is, nor do I care. I wonder if deep down somewhere you do =)
Considering I don't have much inside information on the process of checking out refugees, I can't really comment on where the weaknesses in the process lie. However, if you insist on classifying that as rascism, than I'll be more than happy to write you off as a knee-jerk bleeding heart.
Distributed collection, perhaps distributed storage and forwarding of data over (possibly) private network. Collectors targeted to IPs under suspicion. All these means is more efficient data intercept orders with the sniffers already deployed. This would cost a helluva lot of money that should be spent on education or given back to the tax payers. Boxes that do this stuff aren't cheap.
Port mirroring or silimar tactics would be used to send copies of data to the collectors. Another big question raised by this is will these collectors be accessibly on public address space? How will they be secured? When (not "will") they become targets for crackers, info-terrorists, and hostile foreign governments?
Carnivore *IS* a baby monitor. Just be glad there aren't video cameras all over the place like in London, that'll give you the Orwellian feeling you've been craving.
It shouldn't really be that shocking that a device like Carnivor exists, is used, and has analogs in other jurisdictions as well. The Canadian RCMP have something like that. They don't have an equivalent to Echelon, but then again Canadians are passive and wouldn't dream of plotting to overturn our ineffective government. No need to spend money on that, might as well setup more social assistance programs to help "refugees" setup a few more terror cells.
Having been to IBM's "AIX for Solaris Administrators" course, I can confirm that not only is this public information, but its also a good chunk of their marketing speel. In fact, some of this is actually implemented.
AIX 5L has a Linux compatibility layer, didn't get much chance to play with it (the focus wasn't on Linux, but on admining AIX based on a Solaris background), and most/all IBM boxen support Linux. IBM gives you the choice of AIX or linux on their hardware playforms. They also released the source for JFS to the community.
Now imagine what happens when you plan the backbone around expensive fiber optic lines, costs charged by backbone providers for bandwidth and traffic utilization incurred by smaller ISPs, and a customer base using correspondingly smaller connections which, when aggragated, use up a big chunk of the big pipe while allowing some room for spikes in traffic, customer growth, etc. That all sounds pretty managable, right? Now imagine what happens when you give the users a connection that rivals what chunks of the backbone can do, eclipse the rates attainable by interfaces on routers, switches, and servers. Imagine what kind of damage someone like Mafiaboy could do? Imagine what kind of capactity problems you'd see just from normal usage?
Inovation is not a pretty box, and that is part of why Microsoft is wiping the market with Apple. Superiority in OS design aside, Job needs to stop pimping his elitist case designs and focus on making better computers. Better means ease of use and power, and the promise that Mac OS X shows could be the key to finally dethroning Microsoft. If Apple doesn't do it, look for IBM to make some serious waves with their support of Linux...
That will be a boon to cable providers branching into digital cable services includng Pay Per View. Currently, PPV events or movies go through a rotation and you have to wait for a movie to pop up in the schedule (at least in the cable system I'm in) in order to watch it.
Being able to select whatever you want to watch when you want to watch it will do more than just quash the concept of channels... it could seriously decrease the profitability of video stores if not mode them out. Of course, the same argument has been made for years about print media and the Internet, and print media is still around (but I think it can be argued that it is in transition and "downsizing").
Sounds like a cheap competitor to Sun's Sunray terminals =)
How come nobody even defends the right to life of tumors?
Ya, except you got moderated up, so quit whining =)
Its been cool to bash MS for some time. That's the role of the underdog. Its only cool to bash MacOS because its a has-been. Speaking of trolls...
You know that's just a game right? And that the real world is far more complex, even more than the ShadowRun system?
Then again, I think I saw a woman who looked like a troll pushing a cart around downtown the other day...
Its not all suburbs and Walmarts. Microsoft is a lesser evil. They make people stupid, but at least they aren't making GUIs for weapons...
Or are they? Heh.
Besides, without Microsoft, who would we use as a baseline of evil to make us feel elite and pure?
Don't discount the political maneuvering of the techies =) We're can be a little more draconian than most managers give us credit for. At least in my experience... I've seen (been in) more than one mini-revolt/powerplay that has significantly changed management structure. Managers who piss us off don't tend to last that long.
Keeping valuable employees is necessary. A company must try to keep their employees, or they will fail. The crucial difference lies in how they do this. My previous employer was smallish on a global scale, but was a huge and successful local ISP. They didn't understand much about how to keep valuable employees, payed extremely poorly, tended to ask for too much of the staff in terms of volunteer time, didn't offer training or benefits packages, and generally treated us all like slaves. Myself and two other teammates in the corporate tech services group brought these concerns to our manager, were told they wouldn't do anything about it, so I left. They since got bought by PSINet and now face an uncertain future. A few good people remain there, but mostly due to inertia (the company did improve their compensation a little after a mini-wave of people left, including myself)... many more good people have left because of the company's lack of respect or reward programs. I resigned when I accepted an offer from a major competitor. When chatting with the GM of the company I was leaving, she tried to get me to stay using a little bit of FUD. Was that dirty tactics or honest misinformation about the company I was going to?
Either way, they held their employees back. The only thing that could have made me stay was loyalty and enjoyment of the workplace. Companies like the Japanese developer (don't forget that we are also talking about a very different culture with we discuss Japan) wouldn't be well tolerated by most North American workers, and lack of mere acknowledgement for your work is likely to drive employees away. We all need pats on the back, money, perks, etc... otherwise we get PUSHED away.
Couldn't have said it better myself, mod the parent comment up =)
The parents are who we should be looking at.
What did they say to the child after he got suspended? Perhaps they were supportive, or angry, or silent... or perhaps they filed him with guilt, berated him about how much of a failure he is, how unlike his successful older brother he is, how he's going to jail now and will stain the families reputation. Or maybe they just ranted about how inappropriate the suspension is. There is a wide range of possible reactions they could have had. I don't think a supportive one would have led to suicide. I don't think its even remotely logical that the parents could not have played a part in this.
Is 10 days extreme? Sure. Is hacking into the computer system of your school and doing who knows what extreme? You betcha. I don't think the suspension is out of line. Breaking and entering, even virtually, into property is a real crime. I don't really want to downplay the seriousness of threats, but people, kids especially, threaten each other all the time. Following through on those threats is another matter. This child didn't threaten to break in to a computer system. He did.
Blame the parents.
What you seem to forget in your blatantly one-sided and biased post, Jon, is that Tech Support Reps are people too. They are intelligent in most cases, people who have little training but have taken the time or effort to learn. They are not necessarily trained to support whatever product or service they are using. The, in most cases, are just smart and can figure things out. That is often a big difference between people calling for Tech Support and people answering the phone... trying to solve the problem yourself, whether it be thinking about it logically, reading the fsking manual, or trying some basic troubleshooting. It doesn't take much more to solve 80% of problems.
There is something to be said for making the effort to solve one's own problems, research a bit to learn on your own, and trying to be independant. People who refuse or are too lazy to help themselves should be despised. People who have tried to help themselves are wonderful, and Tech Support people love them.
One more comment before this gets written off as a "you've obviously worked at a small operation" or "you've obviously forgotten that Profession X doesn't treat their customer like shit" comment, remember that being a Comp Sci grad (or any other graduate for that matter) is overqualified for Tech Support. Someone with a PEng does not have the right to treat a non-engineering like shit for not knowing how much load a structure they've built can hold. That is why the Engineer has a parchment on their wall. You don't get a parchment for knowing how to use a computer, a TV, a VCR, or a toaster. You just have to read the directions and use your brain, and when that fails, call Tech Support and ask, not demand help.
This makes me want to go back to school and chase a few more degrees. Does it have the potential to be disasterous? Absolutely. The academic in me doesn't care.
Yes too easy. Most users don't matter, the majority, often clueless, don't define an Operating system intended for a user population that should know what they are doing. MacOS made their business on an OS for people who don't have to know what they are doing, Microsoft has tried to do the same with a more unstable product, and Linux (and the BSDs) are Operating Systems for and by the competant. Unfortunately, many distributions of Linux are trying to broaden their appeal by making it convenient for newbies to get things running quickly without having to obtain the clue they need to do it properly. By design, Linux does not sacrifice power for ease of usability like MacOS does, however they still battle a lag in features in order to maintain as much stability as possible.
Yes, Lard British is no longer with Origin. He left following the fiasco known as the last Ultima. The success of UO notwithstanding, LB's hippocracy in the face of the obviously weak state of the released final chapter of the Ultima franchise lead to him losing face with his remaining fans.
I think he begs for change now or something =)
Its only marginally worse than the Canadian Dollar, which many of us Canucks lovingly refer to as the Northern Peso. That's not a slight against Mexico. Its awesome down there, one of my favorite places to vacation. Ever. Unfortunately, our federal gov'ment in Canada has bitched the country so badly over the past many decades that our economy has fallen to complete and utter shite over recently, at least compared to the "haves" down south in the US.
Comparing all three currencies gives us some funky numbers:
100,000,000 Mexican New Pesos
16,300,010 Canadian Dollars
10,449,320.79 USD
We're not so bad I suppose... Could be worse.
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Exactly, right on the money... something has to do the work of dropping that traffic, whether its at the peer, a firewall close to the target, or whatever.
Yet more FUD tactics from Microsoft. The idiocy behind the denial of the OBVIOUS (perhaps self-evident) benefit of Open Source to innovation is verging on criminal. Microsoft has a number of spokespeople intent on undermining trust of Open Source projects such as Apache and Linux, however all they really accomplish is to further damage the public image of the company. The segment of the population who is offended by such statements are in many cases the same people who are in a position to influence the corporate world away from companies like Microsoft who play dirty, put out inferior products, and fail to adapt the best of what the competition has to offer. Microsoft may very well represent the American way, not the enlightened intelligent aspects of society, but the insulated, xenophobic and intellectually incestuous America that holds the principles of freedom, innovation, and cooperation in check. This is why America is not the leader of innovation in the UNIX world. Individuals and companies within the US make significant contributions, but European and Asian contributions to the advancement of technology are stronger. Linux is from North American, but many enlightened North Americans make a contribution. The last thing the world needs is for the government to step in and stifle the creativity and innovation coming from Open Source projects like Linux, Apache, OpenBSD, etc.