People forget that often government agencies can actually do good jobs, do them much better than private enterprises, do them without ipping anybody off, but it requires a number of things: funds, autonomy of the agency, especially in hiring, for projects to live and die thereby avoiding stagnation of purpose and bureaucracy, and it needs to be given (in the law that creates it) the right message on what it is suppose to be doing. I think the last is the most critical, when the government actually sets out to do something it, and wants to do it, it gets it done---lok at the highway system and NASA.
The present state of computers is amazing and is one of the few things holding up the american economy. Why is america the center of computing? because the government put a huge amount of funding into financial support for students to pursue technical fields. And the crazy thing is, it was all just to the next big asshole and prove that american penises are bigger than soviet ones, politicians who allocated these funds completely missed the point that technology is the key to economic and societal prosperity.
Remember: The easiest laws to pass hurt a vast diverse group of people while benefiting a small select group of individuals. Corporations and greed will always be attemping to set down these sort of laws and only people and government that can counterbalance.
When people think they get this right, when government thinks, and thinks with the people, it gets this really right. Even corporations, when they think can get this right, but their structure more often than not punishes good behavior and replaces it with bad and does this very quickly.
SWEET, this is one thing that we aren't quite there in Linux, top is the biggest competitor, both with a strength that it can be run from tty and weaknesses in both having to drop down to kill a process and less data/less pretty charts. also top uses much less resources
I honestly think strong identity verification such as XMPP additional headers or even the "who is allowed to send from my address" dns extentions are absolutely critical in getting anywhere. From there it provides the recievers more control in hard filtering
gmail provided exactally what we all had wanted for a long time and knew it should happen but didnt see the business model to implament, gmail did it and profited--mainly by garnering massive private information and email address lock-in. Now open source needs to improve already quite good tools such as Evolution and Thunderbird and Zimbra to catch up. (Zimbra is doing really well, we just need a better, easier way to host it IMHO)
the mods on wikipedia and the assholes are not like the real contributors, those with loud mouths are trying to censor and deleate everything that they didn't write because they are jealous and enjoys the attention they get when they turn to draconian ideas, the sad thing is that there are so many of these type of people (jimbo whales included) that wikipedia turns into this bureaucratic nightmare.
I have to say that this is a little bit of pndering
Improve America's Competitiveness
* Promote American Businesses Abroad: Barack Obama and Joe Biden support a trade policy that ensures our goods and services are treated fairly in foreign markets. President Bush has failed to address the fact that China has engaged in ongoing currency manipulation that undercuts US exports; that China fails to enforce U.S. copyrights and trademarks and that some of our competitors create regulatory and tax barriers to the delivery and sale of technology goods and services abroad. Barack Obama will fight for fair treatment of our companies abroad.
whats wrong with having pages on small topics as long as the information is good, well written, and the page has a well posted data so people know its out of date. seriously how much does it take to keep a few bytes around?
The base part works 100% in tests but the many OS-parts (encryption, security zones, file types, etc, etc unlike firefox chrome uses the os features) have not been built. sme with the GUI (which is also of course OS-dependant)
Arggg, its this type of politics bullshit that is holding america back in any technology field that not cutting edge and pure ideas and rather requires a diverse industry. (ie cell phones) American cant just look at facts and look forward and rather like harmful trenches and politics. If someone broke into the network and could write a 16 page report on it it the system admins should be forced to quickly implement it (hiring the guy if they need to) or loose their jobs.
No amount of the blame game will change the fact that their system is insecure and securing it is in everybody's interest and is really the only thing that matters.
The submitters policy is exactly what should be used, it reflects real life -- look at the that Switzerland man that got hundreds millions and a new identity from the USA IRS and Germany for his supposedly black-hat acquired data that uncovered millions in tax fraud.
Not all black hat work is always bad, however it is on the black-hat himself to both make prove this in his case and minimize his damage. This is simply reality.
Today's black hats do not make noise. Their work does not show up. If you are hacked you probably do not know, and most certainly will not if these type of guys are in charge.
It is not long till people realize that their personal data has long been available on the market due to bad practices like this and organizations get back lashed against. Sadly for both consumers and these organizations, and even the IT guys they are going to take the childish way out and wait for this to come to them.
I kinda went off topic, but its a fundamental thing. **playing this blame game destroys everybody, can makes white-hats turn black in disgust with the politics, and will eventually hurt both the general public and the industry greatly**
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People forget that often government agencies can actually do good jobs, do them much better than private enterprises, do them without ipping anybody off, but it requires a number of things: funds, autonomy of the agency, especially in hiring, for projects to live and die thereby avoiding stagnation of purpose and bureaucracy, and it needs to be given (in the law that creates it) the right message on what it is suppose to be doing. I think the last is the most critical, when the government actually sets out to do something it, and wants to do it, it gets it done---lok at the highway system and NASA.
The present state of computers is amazing and is one of the few things holding up the american economy. Why is america the center of computing? because the government put a huge amount of funding into financial support for students to pursue technical fields. And the crazy thing is, it was all just to the next big asshole and prove that american penises are bigger than soviet ones, politicians who allocated these funds completely missed the point that technology is the key to economic and societal prosperity.
Remember: The easiest laws to pass hurt a vast diverse group of people while benefiting a small select group of individuals. Corporations and greed will always be attemping to set down these sort of laws and only people and government that can counterbalance.
When people think they get this right, when government thinks, and thinks with the people, it gets this really right. Even corporations, when they think can get this right, but their structure more often than not punishes good behavior and replaces it with bad and does this very quickly.
Applaud to parent comment, he said it best.
Im really getting sick of Microsofts ever-escalating eulas. The more ground they loose the more draconian they have to get, protecting their castle.
SWEET, this is one thing that we aren't quite there in Linux, top is the biggest competitor, both with a strength that it can be run from tty and weaknesses in both having to drop down to kill a process and less data/less pretty charts. also top uses much less resources
Not if its a OEM, my dads takes about 10 minutes seriously its horrible (3GB)
My nVideo software will allow me to change the hue of the whole screen, its ugly and anoying but it works in such cases.
I honestly think strong identity verification such as XMPP additional headers or even the "who is allowed to send from my address" dns extentions are absolutely critical in getting anywhere. From there it provides the recievers more control in hard filtering
gmail provided exactally what we all had wanted for a long time and knew it should happen but didnt see the business model to implament, gmail did it and profited--mainly by garnering massive private information and email address lock-in. Now open source needs to improve already quite good tools such as Evolution and Thunderbird and Zimbra to catch up. (Zimbra is doing really well, we just need a better, easier way to host it IMHO)
the mods on wikipedia and the assholes are not like the real contributors, those with loud mouths are trying to censor and deleate everything that they didn't write because they are jealous and enjoys the attention they get when they turn to draconian ideas, the sad thing is that there are so many of these type of people (jimbo whales included) that wikipedia turns into this bureaucratic nightmare.
I have to say that this is a little bit of pndering Improve America's Competitiveness * Promote American Businesses Abroad: Barack Obama and Joe Biden support a trade policy that ensures our goods and services are treated fairly in foreign markets. President Bush has failed to address the fact that China has engaged in ongoing currency manipulation that undercuts US exports; that China fails to enforce U.S. copyrights and trademarks and that some of our competitors create regulatory and tax barriers to the delivery and sale of technology goods and services abroad. Barack Obama will fight for fair treatment of our companies abroad.
He better support net neutrality.
whats wrong with having pages on small topics as long as the information is good, well written, and the page has a well posted data so people know its out of date. seriously how much does it take to keep a few bytes around?
they cant get the password/private keys unless you give it to them, its called the fifth amendment, protection against self-incrimination.
sorry, the core works 100% on linux not mac OSX :) JK
The base part works 100% in tests but the many OS-parts (encryption, security zones, file types, etc, etc unlike firefox chrome uses the os features) have not been built. sme with the GUI (which is also of course OS-dependant)
Arggg, its this type of politics bullshit that is holding america back in any technology field that not cutting edge and pure ideas and rather requires a diverse industry. (ie cell phones) American cant just look at facts and look forward and rather like harmful trenches and politics. If someone broke into the network and could write a 16 page report on it it the system admins should be forced to quickly implement it (hiring the guy if they need to) or loose their jobs.
No amount of the blame game will change the fact that their system is insecure and securing it is in everybody's interest and is really the only thing that matters.
The submitters policy is exactly what should be used, it reflects real life -- look at the that Switzerland man that got hundreds millions and a new identity from the USA IRS and Germany for his supposedly black-hat acquired data that uncovered millions in tax fraud.
Not all black hat work is always bad, however it is on the black-hat himself to both make prove this in his case and minimize his damage. This is simply reality.
Today's black hats do not make noise. Their work does not show up. If you are hacked you probably do not know, and most certainly will not if these type of guys are in charge.
It is not long till people realize that their personal data has long been available on the market due to bad practices like this and organizations get back lashed against. Sadly for both consumers and these organizations, and even the IT guys they are going to take the childish way out and wait for this to come to them.
I kinda went off topic, but its a fundamental thing. **playing this blame game destroys everybody, can makes white-hats turn black in disgust with the politics, and will eventually hurt both the general public and the industry greatly**