Do not forget that the EPA shut the incinerators off in these hospitals.
As for the dozen or so high isolation beds in the US that FoX and others wants all patients to be sent to... Oh wait there are many in isolation and only 13 beds... 1,2,3, many... none can count high enough for sure.
The way to think about these 13 beds is that they are 13 lab rat cages. Not designed for anything beyond experimental access to astoundingly ill individuals.
The CDC is a bureaucratic machine. It has a US centric view... it does not have a global charter. It does watch for things outside the US but depends on others.
They seem to be almost flat footed on this. Had the folk in Texas not stumbled they would look good. The folk in Texas did step on it and now are trying to catch up.
If they had done their job and the politicians done their day job we would have seen Governors, Mayors, President Obama formally introduce experts then sit down and listen. However they wanted camera time, they wanted to be in charge and here we go.
Early on I had a question about Ebola and because I could I submitted a question that took a day to frame (unlike this 40 second/.). A week later I got a reply... that was in effect "good question, we do not have an answer today, we will and here is where you need to look. Very responsible, very organized but navigates like three oil tankers and two aircraft carriers tied together with half a million rolls of duct tape. Slow ponderous relentless... comes to mind. Something about five captains and a couple dozen tug boat captains applies too.
I went looking for my favorite kitchen rubber gloves today at my favorite big box shop.... None. Like bottled water after the Napa quake they have apparently been shipped to high demand locations like Texas and I hope Africa. There were still gloves that work fine but not my favorite type in the large economy box. Lots of them at the local flu shot clinic today so the medical community here is golden.
I should give the important SUMMARY: My meatloaf smushing and habanero slicing is still safe.
As scary as Ebola is it may not qualify as an emergency we have common problems from influenza, food poisoning, pneumonia that kill more...
Wait, the flu, food poisoning and pneumonia kill 70% of those infected!?
WTF, why didnt you start telling us all that beforehand! This is a global catastrophe!!! Once the flu season hits again, billions of people are gong to die! BILLIONS!
FUCK, the end of civilization is less than a year away! What are we going to do!?...oh wait a second.....is this for real, or are you talking absolute shit and know figuratively nothing about ebola and its previous outbreaks?
Please let me know, so I can decide whether to start planning for the end of the world or not.
In one case we have tens of thousands infected and in the other case we have (today) less than a dozen in the US. 70% is nasty but 70% of a dozen small compared to the thousands of fatalities associated with influenza alone.
My point is that if we diminish the impact of viral infections we know how to manage we would free up staff to address Ebola correctly. Todays news noted that there had been 5000 false alarms. The same news noted that it takes 20 trained professionals to care for a patient in full quarantine. If Ebola and influenza+49 others get mixed at the intake of hospitals to the point that all influenza and food poisoning cases require twenty professionals for 48-72 hours our system will crumble.
Since sanitation is the common best tool society at large has at its disposal... and since hand washing is low cost, requires minimum training and has good impact to the larger problem I believe it is an important and necessary activity to encourage.
Time for me to wash my hands and go and give blood.
"general welfare" as part of the spending power section is all that congress needs to craft well considered laws.
Federal agencies could be funded to establish top level technical resources. States could then move forward.
Emergencies open doors as well....
As scary as Ebola is it may not qualify as an emergency we have common problems from influenza, food poisoning, pneumonia that kill more...
However congress could declare Ebola in Africa and others problems as a health risk to the US and fund emergency actions.
My gut reaction is if citizens were to take personal responsibility and act on all the common influenza, food handling, common cold basic sanitation programs Ebola would vanish only to be found in footnotes referencing a small number of individuals and hospitals in the US. Sadly Africa is still behind the eight ball in this disaster.
What would be like RaspPi, but without the USB problem?
The RaspPi model B+ with 4 USB ports. They've fixed electrical problems, added IO pins and greatly improved the physical layout.
Yes the latest revision is much improved.
The RaspPi as a teaching tool is unmatched. It is less expensive than most textbooks. Replace the SD card and it is a new OS or new test project.
As a teaching tool any part from u-boot up to modern computer languages and multiple OS distributions are all possible. Multiple node MPI clusters are easy to assemble which allows distributed multiple noded distributed computation research to begin (they are slow as slugs though).
At this price it is a computer any class can require for all their students.
Those expecting classes in MS word from their computer "science" department will be disappointed.
Hardware expansion is possible with minimum difficulty.
C++ is an enormously powerful and comprehensive language, and it relies on the programmer or organization to use a reasonable subset of it and use good judgement in applying any given feature.......
Good judgement... made me giggle. At this point C and C++ are both just wrong for a long list of reasons.... However there have been advanced in database technology and programming language design to a degree that one could be optimistic.
Knuth worked with a language subset to craft TeX and Metafont... translators like p2c took that cautious work and emitted C.
There is almost no assembler left in Linux because of compiler improvements. In a decade one might say "there is almost no C left".
C++ has power and is an interesting choice but the ability to muddy the design standards with C is just too easy.
Perhaps it is time to dust off some of the good old languages and make a short list -- and design the next player.
You are correct the problem with our modern hospitals is they would quickly be overwhelmed, my wife was in the local hospital last week inI the ICU ward, we live in a small town of about 10,000 people, the local hospital serves a population of about 25,000 people, and the ICU ward has a total of 8 beds, 3 to 5 of them were occupied when she was there.
And ICU is not full contagious in/out quarantine. i.e. It is most likely bias designed to keep bugs from getting into the ICU and infecting patients not out.
The necessary full feature Ebola medical facility is a difficult challenge and more involved than most MRSA protocols which are still a good start.
Why are you telling us? I'm sure the nincompoops at CDC are standing around by the water cooler trying to figure out what to do and they're certainly not reading slashdot! Quick! Get on the phone and lend them your expertise in this area!
My mental image of this has them in moon suites.
The big risks would be gatherings... even at work, at the market.
The key saving grace I can see is this is a fragile virus and common bleach and sunlight can knock it back a long way. Every fast food shop I know maintains a sufficient standard of sanitation that I know I will not starve as long as they stay open and the freezer stays full of processed food like stuff.
As I wrote here: http://www.pdfernhout.net/basi... "Right now, a profit driven health care system has sized emergency rooms for average needs, and those emergency rooms are often full..........
One awkward truth is the ability to quarantine and isolate the folk running a fever and complaining is beyond the system. Consider that some 5-20% of the US population get the flu and in the first 48 hours there is no easy way to isolate and maintain those folk with the flu. Heck hospital food is terrible but hospital kitchens could not muster meals for 5% of the population for 48 hours.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/h... "Initial signs and symptoms are nonspecific and may include fever, chills, myalgias, and malaise. Fever, anorexia, asthenia/weakness are the most common signs and symptoms...... "Due to these nonspecific symptoms particularly early in the course, EVD can often be confused with other more common infectious diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, meningococcemia, and other bacterial infections (e.g., pneumonia)."
Today it is novel and clearly has a "traveler from " component. Should it escape Africa and the bounded list become unbounded we have a problem Houston.
My answer is to reply "thank you". I so enjoy hearing "Thank you, your coffee is ready".
But here on/. some other negative or Enders Game name would play better.
Note that if you answer a phone the only approved answer in many TLA sites is the extension. Just the number... 69951 or whatever is marked on the phone.
As a visitor locked in a closet I always answered "Wei" or "Mushi Mushi"
Someone could freeze to death this winter. Infants could bake in the sun.... Head out stop to put snow chains on try and restart the car...
The liability of this is murky. The local police just arrested a mailbox thief. One payment missed by three days clearly lacks due diligence in communicating with the driver.
Not all cars are driven by the person making the payments so this sort of action does present some serious risk.... to people not in the loop as it were.
But a lot was learned about internet education....
A good MOOC is harder to do than authoring a common textbook and there are thousands directly involved being critical.
The most difficult part is the teaching assistants that make things work. A MOOC quickly exhausts the ranks of teaching assistant talent and taxes the normal teaching assistant pool with different tools and forces them to interact in low leverage ways. The professor high leverage but the middleware as it were is under provisioned for the extreme fan out of a MOOC.
They will be back... changed but ultimately the extreme leverage potential will be realized.
Full blown Win-Server software that can get the job done costs more than the hardware.
No, not really. Windows has the easiest internet-sharing and vpn configuration wizard you'lll find. And its not half bad, but...
The above is a rather nice little box. At half this price I would buy two.
I have an equivalent box, Instead of pfSense (which, besides the gui and the easy VLAN setup, is a crappy system for everything else), I run FreeBSD 9.2. And I use it everyday to tunnel into my windows machines with RDP via SSH:)
One caution is that Windows is not as secure an OS perhaps because there is a rich set of stuff that is darn hard to replace or eliminate.
A FreeBSD or Linux based firewall+VPN system can be pruned to an astoundingly short list of services and binaries. I say this but most Linux system owners do not do this.... but it is better facilitated if you want to do it.
You open up a good context to make the point that a user should use what they know best. If the poster knows how to manage one system and not the other then the best answer for that user is obvious.
Opinionated discussions like this are really homework check lists for others. At some point consensus identifies a winner to learn first. Along the way issues, tools and options surface as alternatives worthy or research and may cause the consensus answer to change.
I am not a fan of consensus science but it does have its place.
This indeed. I have pfSense running on one of these with a 60 Gig SSD drive. If it wasn't for the cat trying to hide behind it I wouldn't even know it was there and running.
The above is a rather nice little box. At half this price I would buy two.
I was going to reply to the original poster that if he had to ask he could not get there from here. The above system has the critical two Gig-E network ports. He would have to install and learn how to administer a linux system or install a pile of odd things on top of an IMO fragile WindowZ OS. Full blown Win-Server software that can get the job done costs more than the hardware.
The best bet is to run the router that the ISP gives you and then use that as the basic firewall and allow one port access inside to a machine that runs VPN software. That machine could be the above or it could be anything else.
The obvious other place to start is to Google for "gig-e router vpn". When shopping VPN solutions make sure all three bits are working.... Client, server, firewall...
VPNs are interesting... they punch a hole in a firewall that once inside other security must be in place. Badly structured VPN solutions increase the footprint and enable many worms, viruses and other cruft to run free.
IMO, you should be able to patent processes that are based on new technological development, but not the logic/flowpath of the process. Software itself should fall under copyright law.
Copyright law has been polluted by Micky Mouse. As a result software should NOT fall under copyright law.
It is "Goofy" as heck that each time the Copyright of the old mouse comes up the bar moves is insane.
Copyright might cover the text of code as code tells a story of what is happening but to patent all stories about "Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, something happens under the covers and they live happily ever after" is not worthy of a patent or copyright.
Sadly many method and process patents are little more than outlines of a screenplay level abstractions of an idea. Further some of the Copyright laws cover characters and plot formats. To this end characters and plot formats are kin of an API. We have seen the nasty bits that can happen when API freedom is murky (Java: Oracle-Google). When the API is found to have value in and of itself the "owner" wants to pull in the reign and put a context on permissions. Hardback books might be OK but not paperback and not eBook stories.
Authors of Sherlock Holmes and other serialized character based stories protected their intellectual property with Copyright. Today I am prohibited from crafting stories and screenplays about a character "Sheldon Cooper" that..... Well you get the idea.
Copyright is the wrong choice. We need a better answer, a much better answer.
It is good to note that code is authored. Good code like a good story has structure, consistency, organization and purpose. Side effects are possible. It can be asynchronous perhaps in a Kurt Vonnegut way. The choice of language, punctuation and typography might reflect on e.e. cummings.. It can be vapid and return the empty set or return vastly more to the point that some spend a lifetime building on it.
It decreases the incentive for some people. There are plenty of counterexamples of unpatented innovative software. I know I know, don't feed the trolls.
The part about "don't feed the trolls" is the important part. If this shifts the balance of power such that patent trolls see less and less value in flexing legal muscle things are a win.
True innovation still has merit but if the same obvious to try permutations criteria that drug inventions are being held to apply we will be better off.
i.e. if a data link is used and a patent for RS-232 is issued it makes no sense that an RS-485 is novel enough to justify a new patent. Same for WiFi, Cell data, BlueTooth....
Design patents like rounded corners do need to be addressed.
How do you emit less CO2 burning more coal? Most or all of these new coal plants are not intended to do underground sequestration as far as I can tell. And the reporting indicates that they expect to increase net coal consumption not just replace older plants. I think cleaner means fewer particulate emissions, which is good for lung diseases and quality of life, but still the plan is to burn more coal and therefore more CO2 which is bad for Global Climate Change.
And events that might naturally sequester CO2 are considered evil in the same context.
A large region of an ocean that flips into an anoxic state and starts to rain organics on the ocean floor would be seen as a global disaster. Yet such disasters may be necessary to reverse the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere.
I have not seen any credible science that shows good analysis for any reversal strategy. Without reversal strategies those with vast coal reserves might do well to level mountain tops, mine the coal and terraform the mountain top into agriculture or homes. Reclamation and terraforming is ill understood... and needs to be understood.
It's not likely that volcanic or tectonic activity has much of anything to do with it. Even the largest volcanic eruption of the past 100 years, Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 emitted only 42 megatonnes of CO2, only 0.2% of the 23 gigatonnes emitted by human activities that year.
And Mt Pinatubo was most famous for SO2 not CO2 emissions.
Historically, about half of the pollution from human sources has been absorbed by the oceans and by terrestrial plants,
The inability to absorb CO2 may have flipped and acidification may be generating CO2 from oolitic sands and coral.
If acidification has flipped the oceans from a net sink for CO2 to a source of CO2 we have issues with acceleration and underlying models in the science.
Sadly the global warming side may prove to be right for many wrong reasons and the nonbelievers may be wrong for other reasons.
This is a case where two wrongs does not make a right----.
I find myself at odds in this because I see bad science that puts me on one side of the issues and then I see observations that make it clear that as bad as the science is they are getting essentially the right answer. In this case it may only be necessary to get the sign correct.
Any that study statistics and the camel will understand.
i've read the legacy x86 instructions were virtualized in the CPU a long time ago and modern intel processors are effectively RISC that translate to x86 in the CPU
Well the folk at Transmeta Corporation made it obvious that the external ISA was no longer a necessary constraint on the way a modern processor works. The explosion of the fast transistor count made it possible to craft an instruction issue logic chain that was very rich in the clock times of modern days.
Strictly modern processors are more VLIW than RISC and trigger arrays of resources selected by the expanded long instruction words.
So my phone has FB installed by default and they know exactly what data plan I have.
There seems to be no reason to pay data overages because of vendor installed applications. There seems to be a fundamental conflict of interest, evidence of fraud or bait and switch.
I am not talking about an auto with a speedometer that goes to 120 mph sold in states with maximum speed limits well below but a clear misrepresentation of purpose in marketing.
Speaking about strange numbers. Phones are marketed with standby times and talk times that are impossible given the default software, default settings and most likely distance to cell tower service.
I am most likely moving my number to my old old old Nokia flip phone. It has standby time in days not hours. I see nothing smart in the battery support for most smart phones.
When a kid cannot mime splashing his friends with imaginary water balloons without getting removed from school and subjected to interrogation and counseling.... we have crossed a line.
I consider this issue to have its roots in "zero tolerance" policies that have morphed into "intolerance" policies. Worse they teach hide bound behaviour as ideal, remove negotiation and listening from the table. Intolerant management at work, school and yes parenting evokes despair and helplessness in people.
It is true that some find solace in the strict adherence to policy by administrators and bureaucrats mindset but when policy is wrong much more goes wrong. When we are lucky Kafka chuckles in his grave.
Currently in the news we are seeing a zero tolerance organization run amok in Iraq and Syria as ISIS fighters impose an extreme view of the rules and then enforce those rules with a "Zero Tolerance" policy.
Slashdot Mirror
Do not forget that the EPA shut the incinerators off in these hospitals.
As for the dozen or so high isolation beds in the US that FoX and others wants
all patients to be sent to... Oh wait there are many in isolation and only
13 beds... 1,2,3, many... none can count high enough for sure.
The way to think about these 13 beds is that they are 13 lab rat cages.
Not designed for anything beyond experimental access to astoundingly
ill individuals.
The CDC is a bureaucratic machine.
It has a US centric view... it does not have a global charter.
It does watch for things outside the US but depends on others.
They seem to be almost flat footed on this. Had the folk in
Texas not stumbled they would look good. The folk in Texas did
step on it and now are trying to catch up.
If they had done their job and the politicians done their day job
we would have seen Governors, Mayors, President Obama formally
introduce experts then sit down and listen. However they wanted
camera time, they wanted to be in charge and here we go.
Early on I had a question about Ebola and because I could I submitted /.). A week
a question that took a day to frame (unlike this 40 second
later I got a reply... that was in effect "good question, we do not have
an answer today, we will and here is where you need to look.
Very responsible, very organized but navigates like three oil tankers
and two aircraft carriers tied together with half a million rolls of duct
tape. Slow ponderous relentless... comes to mind. Something about
five captains and a couple dozen tug boat captains applies too.
I went looking for my favorite kitchen rubber gloves today at my
favorite big box shop.... None. Like bottled water after the Napa
quake they have apparently been shipped to high demand locations like Texas
and I hope Africa. There were still gloves that work fine but not
my favorite type in the large economy box. Lots of them at the
local flu shot clinic today so the medical community here is golden.
I should give the important SUMMARY:
My meatloaf smushing and habanero slicing is still safe.
As scary as Ebola is it may not qualify as an emergency we have
common problems from influenza, food poisoning, pneumonia that
kill more...
Wait, the flu, food poisoning and pneumonia kill 70% of those infected!?
WTF, why didnt you start telling us all that beforehand! This is a global catastrophe!!! Once the flu season hits again, billions of people are gong to die! BILLIONS!
FUCK, the end of civilization is less than a year away! What are we going to do!? ...oh wait a second.....is this for real, or are you talking absolute shit and know figuratively nothing about ebola and its previous outbreaks?
Please let me know, so I can decide whether to start planning for the end of the world or not.
In one case we have tens of thousands infected and in the other case we have (today) less than a dozen in the US.
70% is nasty but 70% of a dozen small compared to the thousands of fatalities associated with influenza alone.
My point is that if we diminish the impact of viral infections we know how to manage we would free up
staff to address Ebola correctly. Todays news noted that there had been 5000 false alarms.
The same news noted that it takes 20 trained professionals to care for a patient in full quarantine.
If Ebola and influenza+49 others get mixed at the intake of hospitals to the point that all influenza and food poisoning
cases require twenty professionals for 48-72 hours our system will crumble.
Since sanitation is the common best tool society at large has at its disposal... and since
hand washing is low cost, requires minimum training and has good impact to the larger problem
I believe it is an important and necessary activity to encourage.
Time for me to wash my hands and go and give blood.
"general welfare" as part of the spending power section is all that congress
needs to craft well considered laws.
Federal agencies could be funded to establish top level technical resources.
States could then move forward.
Emergencies open doors as well....
As scary as Ebola is it may not qualify as an emergency we have
common problems from influenza, food poisoning, pneumonia that
kill more...
However congress could declare Ebola in Africa and others problems
as a health risk to the US and fund emergency actions.
My gut reaction is if citizens were to take personal responsibility
and act on all the common influenza, food handling, common cold
basic sanitation programs Ebola would vanish only to be found in
footnotes referencing a small number of individuals and hospitals in
the US. Sadly Africa is still behind the eight ball in this disaster.
What would be like RaspPi, but without the USB problem?
The RaspPi model B+ with 4 USB ports. They've fixed electrical problems, added IO pins and greatly improved the physical layout.
Yes the latest revision is much improved.
The RaspPi as a teaching tool is unmatched.
It is less expensive than most textbooks.
Replace the SD card and it is a new OS or new test project.
As a teaching tool any part from u-boot up to modern computer languages
and multiple OS distributions are all possible. Multiple node MPI clusters
are easy to assemble which allows distributed multiple noded distributed
computation research to begin (they are slow as slugs though).
At this price it is a computer any class can require for all their students.
Those expecting classes in MS word from their computer "science" department
will be disappointed.
Hardware expansion is possible with minimum difficulty.
You get administrative rights, ...... ......
1.The bug enables unknown users to gain administrative privileges
I suspect the NSA noticed they were not the only ones lurking and slurping up bugs.
Too early in the season for snow to tell anyone they were done.
C++ is an enormously powerful and comprehensive language, and it relies on the programmer or organization to use a reasonable subset of it and use good judgement in applying any given feature. ......
Good judgement... made me giggle.
At this point C and C++ are both just wrong for a long list of reasons....
However there have been advanced in database technology and programming
language design to a degree that one could be optimistic.
Knuth worked with a language subset to craft TeX and Metafont... translators like p2c
took that cautious work and emitted C.
There is almost no assembler left in Linux because of compiler improvements.
In a decade one might say "there is almost no C left".
C++ has power and is an interesting choice but the ability to muddy the
design standards with C is just too easy.
Perhaps it is time to dust off some of the good old languages and make
a short list -- and design the next player.
You are correct the problem with our modern hospitals is they would quickly be overwhelmed, my wife was in the local hospital last week inI the ICU ward, we live in a small town of about 10,000 people, the local hospital serves a population of about 25,000 people, and the ICU ward has a total of 8 beds, 3 to 5 of them were occupied when she was there.
And ICU is not full contagious in/out quarantine. i.e. It is most likely bias designed to
keep bugs from getting into the ICU and infecting patients not out.
The necessary full feature Ebola medical facility is a difficult challenge
and more involved than most MRSA protocols which are still a good start.
Why are you telling us? I'm sure the nincompoops at CDC are standing around by the water cooler trying to figure out what to do and they're certainly not reading slashdot! Quick! Get on the phone and lend them your expertise in this area!
My mental image of this has them in moon suites.
The big risks would be gatherings... even at work, at the market.
The key saving grace I can see is this is a fragile virus and common bleach and sunlight can knock it back a long way.
Every fast food shop I know maintains a sufficient standard of sanitation that I know I will not starve
as long as they stay open and the freezer stays full of processed food like stuff.
As I wrote here: http://www.pdfernhout.net/basi... .........
"Right now, a profit driven health care system has sized emergency rooms for average needs, and those emergency rooms are often full.
One awkward truth is the ability to quarantine and isolate the folk running a fever and complaining is beyond the system.
Consider that some 5-20% of the US population get the flu and in the first 48 hours there is no easy way to isolate and maintain those
folk with the flu. Heck hospital food is terrible but hospital kitchens could not muster meals for 5% of the population for 48 hours.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/h...
"Initial signs and symptoms are nonspecific and may include fever, chills, myalgias, and malaise. Fever, anorexia, asthenia/weakness are the most common signs and symptoms.
"Due to these nonspecific symptoms particularly early in the course, EVD can often be confused with other more common infectious diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, meningococcemia, and other bacterial infections (e.g., pneumonia)."
Today it is novel and clearly has a "traveler from " component. Should it escape Africa and the
bounded list become unbounded we have a problem Houston.
My answer is to reply "thank you". I so enjoy
hearing "Thank you, your coffee is ready".
But here on /. some other negative or Enders Game name would play better.
Note that if you answer a phone the only approved answer in
many TLA sites is the extension. Just the number... 69951 or
whatever is marked on the phone.
As a visitor locked in a closet I always answered "Wei" or "Mushi Mushi"
Someone could freeze to death this winter.
Infants could bake in the sun....
Head out stop to put snow chains on try and restart the car...
The liability of this is murky. The local police just arrested a mailbox thief.
One payment missed by three days clearly lacks due diligence in communicating
with the driver.
Not all cars are driven by the person making the payments so this sort
of action does present some serious risk.... to people not in the loop
as it were.
But a lot was learned about internet education....
A good MOOC is harder to do than authoring a common textbook
and there are thousands directly involved being critical.
The most difficult part is the teaching assistants that make things work.
A MOOC quickly exhausts the ranks of teaching assistant talent and
taxes the normal teaching assistant pool with different tools and forces
them to interact in low leverage ways. The professor high leverage
but the middleware as it were is under provisioned for the extreme
fan out of a MOOC.
They will be back... changed but ultimately the extreme leverage potential
will be realized.
Now where is my source for BSD learn?
Full blown Win-Server
software that can get the job done costs more than the hardware.
No, not really. Windows has the easiest internet-sharing and vpn configuration wizard you'lll find. And its not half bad, but...
The above is a rather nice little box. At half this price I would buy two.
I have an equivalent box, Instead of pfSense (which, besides the gui and the easy VLAN setup, is a crappy system for everything else), I run FreeBSD 9.2. And I use it everyday to tunnel into my windows machines with RDP via SSH :)
One caution is that Windows is not as secure an OS perhaps because
there is a rich set of stuff that is darn hard to replace or eliminate.
A FreeBSD or Linux based firewall+VPN system can be pruned to an astoundingly
short list of services and binaries. I say this but most Linux system owners
do not do this.... but it is better facilitated if you want to do it.
You open up a good context to make the point that a user should use what
they know best. If the poster knows how to manage one system and not
the other then the best answer for that user is obvious.
Opinionated discussions like this are really homework check lists
for others. At some point consensus identifies a winner to learn first.
Along the way issues, tools and options surface as alternatives worthy
or research and may cause the consensus answer to change.
I am not a fan of consensus science but it does have its place.
This indeed. I have pfSense running on one of these with a 60 Gig SSD drive. If it wasn't for the cat trying to hide behind it I wouldn't even know it was there and running.
The above is a rather nice little box. At half this price I would buy two.
I was going to reply to the original poster that if he had to ask
he could not get there from here. The above system has the
critical two Gig-E network ports. He would have to install
and learn how to administer a linux system or install a pile of odd
things on top of an IMO fragile WindowZ OS. Full blown Win-Server
software that can get the job done costs more than the hardware.
The best bet is to run the router that the ISP gives you and
then use that as the basic firewall and allow one port
access inside to a machine that runs VPN software.
That machine could be the above or it could be anything
else.
The obvious other place to start is to Google for "gig-e router vpn".
When shopping VPN solutions make sure all three bits are
working.... Client, server, firewall...
VPNs are interesting... they punch a hole in a firewall that
once inside other security must be in place. Badly structured
VPN solutions increase the footprint and enable many
worms, viruses and other cruft to run free.
Well structured good things happen.
IMO, you should be able to patent processes that are based on new technological development, but not the logic/flowpath of the process. Software itself should fall under copyright law.
Copyright law has been polluted by Micky Mouse.
As a result software should NOT fall under copyright law.
It is "Goofy" as heck that each time the Copyright of the old
mouse comes up the bar moves is insane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Copyright might cover the text of code as code tells a story of what
is happening but to patent all stories about "Boy meets girl, boy and
girl fall in love, something happens under the covers and they live
happily ever after" is not worthy of a patent or copyright.
Sadly many method and process patents are little more than outlines
of a screenplay level abstractions of an idea. Further some of the
Copyright laws cover characters and plot formats. To this end characters
and plot formats are kin of an API. We have seen the nasty bits
that can happen when API freedom is murky (Java: Oracle-Google).
When the API is found to have value in and of itself the "owner" wants
to pull in the reign and put a context on permissions. Hardback books
might be OK but not paperback and not eBook stories.
Authors of Sherlock Holmes and other serialized character based stories ..... Well you get the idea.
protected their intellectual property with Copyright. Today I am prohibited
from crafting stories and screenplays about a character "Sheldon Cooper"
that
Copyright is the wrong choice. We need a better answer, a much better answer.
It is good to note that code is authored. Good code like a good story has structure,
consistency, organization and purpose. Side effects are possible. It can be asynchronous
perhaps in a Kurt Vonnegut way. The choice of language, punctuation and typography
might reflect on e.e. cummings.. It can be vapid and return the empty set or return
vastly more to the point that some spend a lifetime building on it.
It decreases the incentive for some people. There are plenty of counterexamples of unpatented innovative software. I know I know, don't feed the trolls.
The part about "don't feed the trolls" is the important part.
If this shifts the balance of power such that patent trolls see less and less
value in flexing legal muscle things are a win.
True innovation still has merit but if the same obvious to try permutations criteria
that drug inventions are being held to apply we will be better off.
i.e. if a data link is used and a patent for RS-232 is issued it makes no
sense that an RS-485 is novel enough to justify a new patent. Same for
WiFi, Cell data, BlueTooth....
Design patents like rounded corners do need to be addressed.
OK, "there is about three times less lithium in stars than expected."
Unless....
Unless the start of it all was coordinated by a gazilion elves
all co-ordinating things with cell phones (Li batteries).
How do you emit less CO2 burning more coal? Most or all of these new coal plants are not intended to do underground sequestration as far as I can tell. And the reporting indicates that they expect to increase net coal consumption not just replace older plants. I think cleaner means fewer particulate emissions, which is good for lung diseases and quality of life, but still the plan is to burn more coal and therefore more CO2 which is bad for Global Climate Change.
And events that might naturally sequester CO2 are considered evil in the same context.
A large region of an ocean that flips into an anoxic state and starts to rain organics
on the ocean floor would be seen as a global disaster. Yet such disasters may
be necessary to reverse the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere.
I have not seen any credible science that shows good analysis for any reversal
strategy. Without reversal strategies those with vast coal reserves might do
well to level mountain tops, mine the coal and terraform the mountain top into
agriculture or homes. Reclamation and terraforming is ill understood... and needs
to be understood.
It's not likely that volcanic or tectonic activity has much of anything to do with it. Even the largest volcanic eruption of the past 100 years, Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 emitted only 42 megatonnes of CO2, only 0.2% of the 23 gigatonnes emitted by human activities that year.
And Mt Pinatubo was most famous for SO2 not CO2 emissions.
Historically, about half of the pollution from human sources has been absorbed by the oceans and by terrestrial plants,
The inability to absorb CO2 may have flipped and acidification may be
generating CO2 from oolitic sands and coral.
If acidification has flipped the oceans from a net sink for CO2 to a source
of CO2 we have issues with acceleration and underlying models in the
science.
Sadly the global warming side may prove to be right for many wrong reasons
and the nonbelievers may be wrong for other reasons.
This is a case where two wrongs does not make a right----.
I find myself at odds in this because I see bad science that puts
me on one side of the issues and then I see observations that make
it clear that as bad as the science is they are getting essentially
the right answer. In this case it may only be necessary to get the
sign correct.
Any that study statistics and the camel will understand.
i've read the legacy x86 instructions were virtualized in the CPU a long time ago and modern intel processors are effectively RISC that translate to x86 in the CPU
Well the folk at Transmeta Corporation made it obvious that the external
ISA was no longer a necessary constraint on the way a modern processor
works. The explosion of the fast transistor count made it possible to craft
an instruction issue logic chain that was very rich in the clock times of modern
days.
Strictly modern processors are more VLIW than RISC and trigger arrays
of resources selected by the expanded long instruction words.
Most interesting are the first five min...
It is not a debate....
Positions in writing... have already been submitted.
Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City sits where
in the chain.
Email is not covered... but there are parallel email issues.
Grand jury issues too. Bulk collection...
Back in a couple of hours.
So my phone has FB installed by default and they know exactly what
data plan I have.
There seems to be no reason to pay data overages because of
vendor installed applications. There seems to be a fundamental
conflict of interest, evidence of fraud or bait and switch.
I am not talking about an auto with a speedometer that goes to 120 mph
sold in states with maximum speed limits well below but a clear misrepresentation
of purpose in marketing.
Speaking about strange numbers. Phones are marketed with standby
times and talk times that are impossible given the default software,
default settings and most likely distance to cell tower service.
I am most likely moving my number to my old old old Nokia flip phone.
It has standby time in days not hours. I see nothing smart in the battery
support for most smart phones.
Does it take nineteen minutes to understand this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
When a kid cannot mime splashing his friends with imaginary
water balloons without getting removed from school and subjected
to interrogation and counseling.... we have crossed a line.
I consider this issue to have its roots in "zero tolerance" policies
that have morphed into "intolerance" policies. Worse they teach
hide bound behaviour as ideal, remove negotiation and listening
from the table. Intolerant management at work, school and yes
parenting evokes despair and helplessness in people.
It is true that some find solace in the strict adherence to policy
by administrators and bureaucrats mindset but when policy is
wrong much more goes wrong. When we are lucky Kafka chuckles
in his grave.
Currently in the news we are seeing a zero tolerance organization
run amok in Iraq and Syria as ISIS fighters impose an extreme
view of the rules and then enforce those rules with a "Zero Tolerance"
policy.