I've been periodically prompted by the Windows firewall for applications that want to access the network. Command-line FTP and telnet, for example, pop up, though FileZilla and putty did not.
If those clients are on one network, it's not hard at all to use either a group policy or, if you're not even that far on your network, a logon script to handle the entry.
It can be used for some kind of local (i.e., non-networked) work, but need enough security that a walk-up user cannot gain random access to it. The box itself could be locked away, with only keyboard and mouse physically touchable by the user, but contain information that would cause problems were it to become available to non-cleared personnel.
Granted, the number of uses for such a machine is probably fairly small, but they do exist. Many networks have an entire server that's never connected to any network (other than a sneakernet), because having your root CA accessible online can invalidate your entire trust chain if someone gets into it, or if it even looks like someone might have gotten into it.
That was Windows NT, and the setup also mandated that there be no removable media. However, that was for a secure non-networked workstation, which have their uses in some cases.
Then perhaps you would consider that McKittrick and McIntyre's latest paper (PDF warning) was published in the February 2005 Geophysical Research Letters?
You might also consider that Mann refuses to release the complete dataset on which he based his research as well as the algorithm used to generate the graph. This means his work cannot be validated by anyone else because he is not making available the conditions for the experiment.
McIntyre has also pointed out that the general method used by Mann tends to generate hockey-stick results even on random data.
Humans may well be warming the planet with their activities. Mann's work, until properly verified, should not be used as evidence of this.
Numbers I find online for plutonium toxicity suggest an average of 0.010 to 0.020 mg/kg, though these are estimates and are based on radioactivity. Botulism lethality depends on the exact toxin, but seems to be around 3ng/kg for Type A. That's friggin' scary, to be honest. It doesn't take much to make that, and it looks like it can kill very quickly.
I'd be willing to bet that the governor would not back this proposal, if only because it would create another bureaucracy when he's trying to streamline the state as it is, and because it adds another tax to Californians, something he's adamantly against.
Yes, he owns SUVs, and yes, he's a friend of several prominent members of the Republican party, but those have little to do with his politics, which are generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Many of his current proposals would eliminate pet projects of state legislators, particularly commissions which pay enormous salaries to people that meet only a couple of times a month, and would go a long way towards freeing up the money for the road projects that this kind of tax would be used for.
BTW, there is no guarantee that the Legislature (or the governor, for that matter) would not simply divert these funds to other projects, just as they have done for years with gas taxes. There are billions of dollars worth of projects that have been stalled because gas tax revenues have been sent elsewhere in the government. Schwarzeneggar hasn't been any better on this point -- he did it in his last budget, and has, IIRC, done it again in this one -- but he is pushing for an amendment to the state constitution that would block the currently-allowed exemptions for "emergency" situations taking precedence over highway projects when spending gasoline tax revenue is involved.
No, Walmart is running into exactly the same problems that most other capitalist super-successes have. Among them are citizen discontent leading to actual laws targeting their particular brand of business (and hitting all other big-box companies at the same time), suppliers that get tired of getting pushed around and either gang up or merge to get more leverage (the recent buyout of Gillette by Procter & Gamble is widely believed to be a sign of this), and investors become concerned about the corporate image.
I have nothing against Walmart itself. I don't like shopping there for the most part because it can be really hard to move around. The aisles of the stores near me are barely wide enough for two carts to scrape past each other without knocking things off of the shelves, and the place is usually too crowded. About the only thing I buy from Walmart is ammunition, because it's a pretty straight line to the sporting goods section, and they stock decent quality for a good price.
Real competition with the public school system is something I would support, even if it meant that the public school system shut down. California is spending $6700 per child in K-12, and that's below the national average of $7700 per student, and that's without federal spending included. Depending on the type of private school (Catholic, other religious, or sectarian), the average costs per pupil range from half below to half again the state spending, and private school students tend to do better in their classes.
But even being able to run schools more efficiently would be a welcome change. In California, schools may look to outside companies to provide non-teaching services such as custodial work, but the company may not pay less than industry standards, and no school employees may be demoted or laid off as a result of the awarding of the contract. This law prevents almost any work done by contractors from saving money for the school, because the cost of the delay due to bidding and contract preparation, combined with the inability to cut the costs the contract is intended to impact, make it more expensive than just letting school employees do it in the first place.
Getting back on-topic, I welcome the cities getting involved in this kind of thing, because it just means more competition. For those that suggest that it would drive it away, look at what will happen with a free service like this. At some point, it will become saturated, and those fed up with it will pay independent companies for premium service. There are also those (like me) that do not trust wireless broadband, and will pay a premium for a wired service.
I have little trouble with government being involved in an industry, so long as it plays by the same rules as everyone else.
Or scare the hell out of him so that he may overreact to a problem. This is the reason that my mother either shuts up or doesn't ride in my car -- she panics about things I've already seen and am about to respond to, but communicates the problem poorly, so I'm distracted from the task at hand.
Look at where your traffic goes. For the most part, any given packet will only pass over the equipment of a tiny handful of companies. Between my system and Slashdot, I go over the systems of three companies: my provider, one backbone provider, and Slashdot's network.
And yes, I do expect a warrant before they go prying into my traffic if it never touches government servers. I expect a warrant before they go prying into my mail, too, even though it goes through several government offices prior to reaching my home.
A 13yr old with a camcorder can also set it up in the bushes to look inside your home and watch what you're doing. This doesn't mean the FBI shouldn't be required to get a warrant to do the same.
In the same realm, just because they can sniff the network traffic doesn't mean that they should. They have to get a warrant to tap your phone, and they should have to do the same to tap your IM conversations, e-mail correspondence, and web history.
Just because they can do something doesn't mean they should be able to without restrictions.
That works for those stations that have streams, and which have the bandwidth for their streams. I listen to a couple of stations that routinely get swamped (KLOS and KFI) during the popular shows, and being able to listen without that hassle would be great. And since I can't listen at work, it would be nice to be able to record the shows and catch them when I get home.
Judges are very, very wary about overturning Supreme Court precedent. While Sony v. Universal was a 5-4 decision, and so more easily challenged, lower courts are generally loathe to cross their superiors, and I would imagine that most cases where a Supreme Court decision is overturned is done after all lower courts ruled along the original SCOTUS guidelines.
Everything I see (CIA, World Bank, UNESCO, NationMaster) says 97%-99% for the current population, and that's above what it was 200 years ago, when literacy rates were between 65% and 95%, depending on location, status, and gender, and also depending on who did the study and how biased was its methodology. Generally speaking, women and non-whites had lower literacy rates.
Now, you can argue levels of literacy, which may well be a completely different story, but overall literacy is above what it was.
The total percentage of voters 18-29 was 17%, just about the same as usual. Yes, more of them went to the polls, but more people voted in general. I suspect the number of people 18-20 was pretty tiny as a total, but about in line with prior years.
They do have First Amendment rights in the US. If they're here legally, there's nothing stopping them from publishing as they see fit. Sometimes publishing in the US is the best way to awaken the world to problems overseas. The government may not act on it directly, but get a few thousand or a few million people to know about something, and social and financial support just might follow real fast.
The right not to self-incriminate is actively pushed in the form of Miranda warnings. People have literally gotten away with murder because the arresting officer never read the Miranda warnings, and the Supreme Court has largely upheld such issues.
It's interesting to note that people in other (mostly English-speaking) countries have occasionally confused their own laws with the laws they see on TV. Not all countries require search warrants or defense counsel in all cases, and police sometimes have to deal with people asserting non-existent rights they learned from television.
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Have they ever been contested? Shrink-wrap rules where a license is unavailable until the package is opened, and then the store refuses to accept it back, have been overturned, but EULAs have not, so far as I know, been formally challenged.
I know the new Camaro does. The whole thing is electronic -- even opening the car doors. There's still a physical key that can provide access to physical releases from the outside, and there are physical releases inside in case of a dead battery, but the system does give me the willies.
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It wasn't even written by a Fox staffer -- it was written by a staffer from the NY Post.
Then again, that alone should be reason to avoid it. I don't even believe the Post's sports pages.
Large-scale systems have other problems, like interconnects that can leak, suits that must be custom-fit, joints that limit mobility, and gloves that have little to no sense of touch. Just because one technology is difficult doesn't mean that we should scrap ideas for others.
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I've been periodically prompted by the Windows firewall for applications that want to access the network. Command-line FTP and telnet, for example, pop up, though FileZilla and putty did not.
Thousands of clients?
If those clients are on one network, it's not hard at all to use either a group policy or, if you're not even that far on your network, a logon script to handle the entry.
It can be used for some kind of local (i.e., non-networked) work, but need enough security that a walk-up user cannot gain random access to it. The box itself could be locked away, with only keyboard and mouse physically touchable by the user, but contain information that would cause problems were it to become available to non-cleared personnel.
Granted, the number of uses for such a machine is probably fairly small, but they do exist. Many networks have an entire server that's never connected to any network (other than a sneakernet), because having your root CA accessible online can invalidate your entire trust chain if someone gets into it, or if it even looks like someone might have gotten into it.
That was Windows NT, and the setup also mandated that there be no removable media. However, that was for a secure non-networked workstation, which have their uses in some cases.
Then perhaps you would consider that McKittrick and McIntyre's latest paper (PDF warning) was published in the February 2005 Geophysical Research Letters?
You might also consider that Mann refuses to release the complete dataset on which he based his research as well as the algorithm used to generate the graph. This means his work cannot be validated by anyone else because he is not making available the conditions for the experiment.
McIntyre has also pointed out that the general method used by Mann tends to generate hockey-stick results even on random data.
Humans may well be warming the planet with their activities. Mann's work, until properly verified, should not be used as evidence of this.
Numbers I find online for plutonium toxicity suggest an average of 0.010 to 0.020 mg/kg, though these are estimates and are based on radioactivity. Botulism lethality depends on the exact toxin, but seems to be around 3ng/kg for Type A. That's friggin' scary, to be honest. It doesn't take much to make that, and it looks like it can kill very quickly.
I'd be willing to bet that the governor would not back this proposal, if only because it would create another bureaucracy when he's trying to streamline the state as it is, and because it adds another tax to Californians, something he's adamantly against.
Yes, he owns SUVs, and yes, he's a friend of several prominent members of the Republican party, but those have little to do with his politics, which are generally socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Many of his current proposals would eliminate pet projects of state legislators, particularly commissions which pay enormous salaries to people that meet only a couple of times a month, and would go a long way towards freeing up the money for the road projects that this kind of tax would be used for.
BTW, there is no guarantee that the Legislature (or the governor, for that matter) would not simply divert these funds to other projects, just as they have done for years with gas taxes. There are billions of dollars worth of projects that have been stalled because gas tax revenues have been sent elsewhere in the government. Schwarzeneggar hasn't been any better on this point -- he did it in his last budget, and has, IIRC, done it again in this one -- but he is pushing for an amendment to the state constitution that would block the currently-allowed exemptions for "emergency" situations taking precedence over highway projects when spending gasoline tax revenue is involved.
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No, Walmart is running into exactly the same problems that most other capitalist super-successes have. Among them are citizen discontent leading to actual laws targeting their particular brand of business (and hitting all other big-box companies at the same time), suppliers that get tired of getting pushed around and either gang up or merge to get more leverage (the recent buyout of Gillette by Procter & Gamble is widely believed to be a sign of this), and investors become concerned about the corporate image.
I have nothing against Walmart itself. I don't like shopping there for the most part because it can be really hard to move around. The aisles of the stores near me are barely wide enough for two carts to scrape past each other without knocking things off of the shelves, and the place is usually too crowded. About the only thing I buy from Walmart is ammunition, because it's a pretty straight line to the sporting goods section, and they stock decent quality for a good price.
Real competition with the public school system is something I would support, even if it meant that the public school system shut down. California is spending $6700 per child in K-12, and that's below the national average of $7700 per student, and that's without federal spending included. Depending on the type of private school (Catholic, other religious, or sectarian), the average costs per pupil range from half below to half again the state spending, and private school students tend to do better in their classes.
But even being able to run schools more efficiently would be a welcome change. In California, schools may look to outside companies to provide non-teaching services such as custodial work, but the company may not pay less than industry standards, and no school employees may be demoted or laid off as a result of the awarding of the contract. This law prevents almost any work done by contractors from saving money for the school, because the cost of the delay due to bidding and contract preparation, combined with the inability to cut the costs the contract is intended to impact, make it more expensive than just letting school employees do it in the first place.
Getting back on-topic, I welcome the cities getting involved in this kind of thing, because it just means more competition. For those that suggest that it would drive it away, look at what will happen with a free service like this. At some point, it will become saturated, and those fed up with it will pay independent companies for premium service. There are also those (like me) that do not trust wireless broadband, and will pay a premium for a wired service.
I have little trouble with government being involved in an industry, so long as it plays by the same rules as everyone else.
Or scare the hell out of him so that he may overreact to a problem. This is the reason that my mother either shuts up or doesn't ride in my car -- she panics about things I've already seen and am about to respond to, but communicates the problem poorly, so I'm distracted from the task at hand.
Look at where your traffic goes. For the most part, any given packet will only pass over the equipment of a tiny handful of companies. Between my system and Slashdot, I go over the systems of three companies: my provider, one backbone provider, and Slashdot's network.
And yes, I do expect a warrant before they go prying into my traffic if it never touches government servers. I expect a warrant before they go prying into my mail, too, even though it goes through several government offices prior to reaching my home.
A 13yr old with a camcorder can also set it up in the bushes to look inside your home and watch what you're doing. This doesn't mean the FBI shouldn't be required to get a warrant to do the same.
In the same realm, just because they can sniff the network traffic doesn't mean that they should. They have to get a warrant to tap your phone, and they should have to do the same to tap your IM conversations, e-mail correspondence, and web history.
Just because they can do something doesn't mean they should be able to without restrictions.
That works for those stations that have streams, and which have the bandwidth for their streams. I listen to a couple of stations that routinely get swamped (KLOS and KFI) during the popular shows, and being able to listen without that hassle would be great. And since I can't listen at work, it would be nice to be able to record the shows and catch them when I get home.
Judges are very, very wary about overturning Supreme Court precedent. While Sony v. Universal was a 5-4 decision, and so more easily challenged, lower courts are generally loathe to cross their superiors, and I would imagine that most cases where a Supreme Court decision is overturned is done after all lower courts ruled along the original SCOTUS guidelines.
Was she arrested before the first confession, or brought in for questioning, confessed, arrested, then asked to confess again?
Everything I see (CIA, World Bank, UNESCO, NationMaster) says 97%-99% for the current population, and that's above what it was 200 years ago, when literacy rates were between 65% and 95%, depending on location, status, and gender, and also depending on who did the study and how biased was its methodology. Generally speaking, women and non-whites had lower literacy rates.
Now, you can argue levels of literacy, which may well be a completely different story, but overall literacy is above what it was.
The total percentage of voters 18-29 was 17%, just about the same as usual. Yes, more of them went to the polls, but more people voted in general. I suspect the number of people 18-20 was pretty tiny as a total, but about in line with prior years.
They do have First Amendment rights in the US. If they're here legally, there's nothing stopping them from publishing as they see fit. Sometimes publishing in the US is the best way to awaken the world to problems overseas. The government may not act on it directly, but get a few thousand or a few million people to know about something, and social and financial support just might follow real fast.
The right not to self-incriminate is actively pushed in the form of Miranda warnings. People have literally gotten away with murder because the arresting officer never read the Miranda warnings, and the Supreme Court has largely upheld such issues.
It's interesting to note that people in other (mostly English-speaking) countries have occasionally confused their own laws with the laws they see on TV. Not all countries require search warrants or defense counsel in all cases, and police sometimes have to deal with people asserting non-existent rights they learned from television.
Have they ever been contested? Shrink-wrap rules where a license is unavailable until the package is opened, and then the store refuses to accept it back, have been overturned, but EULAs have not, so far as I know, been formally challenged.
Dammit... New Corvette...
Yes, I know the Camaro isn't being made anymore.
I know the new Camaro does. The whole thing is electronic -- even opening the car doors. There's still a physical key that can provide access to physical releases from the outside, and there are physical releases inside in case of a dead battery, but the system does give me the willies.
It wasn't even written by a Fox staffer -- it was written by a staffer from the NY Post.
Then again, that alone should be reason to avoid it. I don't even believe the Post's sports pages.
Large-scale systems have other problems, like interconnects that can leak, suits that must be custom-fit, joints that limit mobility, and gloves that have little to no sense of touch. Just because one technology is difficult doesn't mean that we should scrap ideas for others.
Besides, the technology is likely decades off.