Without strong government-backed currency, there is NO stable financial system. This was fine back in the days when land was the basis of wealth, but is no longer acceptable today.
Before you start harping for 'the good old days' when men were men, and private banks issued private currency; do a little reading.
-- Private money was rarely accepted outside of a limited region. (Your county) If you needed to travel, you needed to get notes drawn from a large New York or Chicago bank, or haul metal with you.
-- Small bank failures created financial panic which wiped out farmers and businesses alike.
Setting your currency to some amount of some raw material sitting in a vault somewhere is a sure path to ruin in an expanding economy.
The gold standard resulted in a shortage of capital which starved capital markets for centuries. In addition, changes in gold prices relative to other precious metals (ie silver) made accurate cost accounting difficult and equitible taxation impossible, since taxes are payable in gold, while much of the money supply is actually backed by silver, since enough gold is not available.
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Since Java isn't open source, there's no telling what could happen to your DNA! Sun has code hidden within Java to steal your genetic information and email it to Microsoft!
How many computers, and what are these computers being used for?
If these machines are servers, you really shouldn't be running X at all. X wastes tons of cpu, and most of the newer window managers blow even more.
If these machines are being used as individual desktops and there is alot of them, you may want to consider purchasing a management solution like Tivoli.
Tivoli allows you to remote control, perform remote software installation, and take inventory of installed hardware and software. The downside is that Linux support is so-so until the end of the year, and the package is very expensive and requires dedicated staff.
try PGP'ing 27,000,000 1024 byte packets and see how big that grows. Then figure out how much CPU time is required to decrpyt all of those packets in real time.
You'll figure out who really is the fucking idiot.
Please shut up, since you are completely ignorant.
Advances in technology are nothing new. As amazing as computers are, there were far more societal changes between 1880 and 1920 than 1960-2000. Do you think leaders in 1910 fully understood the implications of increased industrialization and new technology like telephones and cars??
Young people with no experience and little sense are not in charge of things for a reason (witness the dotcom boondoggles) Not understanding how to operate a computer or code a website does not mean you are an idiot.
The issues behind intellectualy property have very little to do with technology and very much to do with power and influence.
Piracy of movies, books, academic papers have been around since these mediums came into existance. The consensus on Slashdot is that patents are evil tools of corporate greed; but patents were put in place long before the notion of a corporation even existed in western society. The issues haven't changed, the only thing that is different is that the speed and storage capacity is greater than most other mediums.
The only way to assure that the rights of society as a whole are protected is to shine the light of truth on all aspects of lawmaking. All interactions between lobbyists and lawmakers should be published on some permament medium. Closed committees and closed courts need to be eliminated from society.
Patents and copyright are GOOD things, as long as the influence of big money is reduced through legislative action.
I think that you missed my point. I did not mean to imply that a complete 'hands off' attitude on the part of a parent is ideal. I did say that parents should aim to be 'shepards' to their children, not wardens or bosses.
You need to take the time to RAISE YOUR CHILD and maintain an open, honest relationship with them. Kids with strong identities and confidence are not going to be damaged by whatever crap they see.
I do agree with you wholehartedly about the Disney and born-again shit. Parking your kid in front of some numbing disney movie is not a good thing.
Just to clarify, I don't have a problem with parents making rules for their children to follow. Kids are vulnerable to all sorts of lousy influences.
The notion of spying is what bothers me. An environment of paranoia and fear is no place for a child. Basically, if you feel a need to spy on your children, you have done something wrong. In fact, I'd say that a parent who behaves like that IS a poor influence on their child themselves!!
Keep in mind too that "The Net" is not as powerful as popular culture would have you believe.
In the 50's, comic books were regarded with the same sort of horror as the spectre of "The Internet"
High schools today really scare me. I came in as a speaker for an old teacher who is a friend and noticed the prison-like atmosphere. The degree of paranoia expressed by the administration was real scary. I think this is an outgrowth of the 'protect the children' mindset and is absolutely bizzare and disgusting.
The fact that you need to have such a degree of control over your children is a chilling and horrible thought.
Have you ever considered the consequences of seeking complete control of another humam being? A parent's role should be that of a shepard, not a guard dog. If you teach your child to think for himself (or herself) and use common sense, you'll end up with a free-thinking and mature young man or woman.
A controlling, domineering parent will result in nothing but a angry and rebellious child or someone incapable of dealing with life and society in general.
If you feel that you need to surreptitiously spy on your child, I pity you.
I'm sure you won't heel to any argument, but I'll try anyway.
According to the article, the main security report stated that "the main attack was routed through China Telecom from someone in Guangdong province in China"
James Sample, the Computer Security Officer at ISO stated "You don't know where people are really from".
Mr. Sample is certainly correct in stating that the hackers could have appeared from anywhere. But it is rather suspicious that such an attack which COULD have originated in China would occur at the height of a Sino-US diplomatic crisis.
This is especially suspicious given that fact that the article specifically states that "In early May, there were hundreds of publicly reported computer attacks apparently originating from China."
And my government is not feeding me propaganda regarding some imaginary Chinese cabal. The Los Angeles Times is not an agency of the United States government. The ISO is a public authority chartered by the State of California and also not an organ of the Federal Government.
I would humbly suggest that you drop the anti-government conspiracy theories and pay attention to facts.
I didn't say anything about military attacks, you ignorant karma whore.
Here is the complete text of my post:
"If the Chinese government is sponsoring these 'hacker attacks', this is an act of war and should be treated like one."
I had assumed that an intelligent human being would be able to reason what exactly the word 'If' means. 'If' implies that some sort of investigation would determine who exactly carried out these attacks.
Since many of the servers originated in China, and Chinese government officals recently stated publicly that 'angry chinese citizens' would likely launch such an attack in the wake of the US spy plane crisis, it stands to reason that the Chinese government may have had some involvement.
I'm glad that you were not attempting to ridicule me, because you completely failed to do so. Instead you displayed your own ignorant knee-jerk reaction to the term 'act of war' by implying that I am some sort of ignorant militarist straight out of The Manchurian Candidate calling for a shooting war with China.
These 'hackers' were just bored geeks. In fact, the chances are high that they were 'white hats' and simply wanted to let the administrators know there was a problem!
Chinese government officials stated about two months ago that the Chinese people were "very angry at the US spy plane situation and many retaliate by attacking US computers"
Two months later we find out that a critical piece of US infrastructure was hacked.
The fact that China is a black hole as far as law enforcement is concerned, and that Chinese authorities tightly control internet access makes it worthwhile to investigate whether or not there is any Chinese involvement.
Have you ever worked with archives? Or are you just a jackass sysadmin who has never tested a restore?
The chances of successfully restoring a 200-tape archive written by vintage hardware is down around 0% As it is, the tape drive probaly not aligned properly for a decade and tapes produced on it are more than likely completely useless.
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Without strong government-backed currency, there is NO stable financial system. This was fine back in the days when land was the basis of wealth, but is no longer acceptable today.
Before you start harping for 'the good old days' when men were men, and private banks issued private currency; do a little reading.
-- Private money was rarely accepted outside of a limited region. (Your county) If you needed to travel, you needed to get notes drawn from a large New York or Chicago bank, or haul metal with you.
-- Small bank failures created financial panic which wiped out farmers and businesses alike.
You are a moron or a troll.
Setting your currency to some amount of some raw material sitting in a vault somewhere is a sure path to ruin in an expanding economy.
The gold standard resulted in a shortage of capital which starved capital markets for centuries. In addition, changes in gold prices relative to other precious metals (ie silver) made accurate cost accounting difficult and equitible taxation impossible, since taxes are payable in gold, while much of the money supply is actually backed by silver, since enough gold is not available.
Since Java isn't open source, there's no telling what could happen to your DNA! Sun has code hidden within Java to steal your genetic information and email it to Microsoft!
How many computers, and what are these computers being used for?
If these machines are servers, you really shouldn't be running X at all. X wastes tons of cpu, and most of the newer window managers blow even more.
If these machines are being used as individual desktops and there is alot of them, you may want to consider purchasing a management solution like Tivoli.
Tivoli allows you to remote control, perform remote software installation, and take inventory of installed hardware and software. The downside is that Linux support is so-so until the end of the year, and the package is very expensive and requires dedicated staff.
Sounds great. I'd love to pay $250 for every game I want to play to accomodate the encryption co-processor.
try PGP'ing 27,000,000 1024 byte packets and see how big that grows. Then figure out how much CPU time is required to decrpyt all of those packets in real time.
You'll figure out who really is the fucking idiot.
That's true. Also keep in mind that Solaris is ass-slow on IDE systems.
If they were testing on an Ultra-5 or 10, that would make Solaris look lousy.
Please shut up, since you are completely ignorant.
Advances in technology are nothing new. As amazing as computers are, there were far more societal changes between 1880 and 1920 than 1960-2000. Do you think leaders in 1910 fully understood the implications of increased industrialization and new technology like telephones and cars??
Young people with no experience and little sense are not in charge of things for a reason (witness the dotcom boondoggles) Not understanding how to operate a computer or code a website does not mean you are an idiot.
The issues behind intellectualy property have very little to do with technology and very much to do with power and influence.
Piracy of movies, books, academic papers have been around since these mediums came into existance. The consensus on Slashdot is that patents are evil tools of corporate greed; but patents were put in place long before the notion of a corporation even existed in western society. The issues haven't changed, the only thing that is different is that the speed and storage capacity is greater than most other mediums.
The only way to assure that the rights of society as a whole are protected is to shine the light of truth on all aspects of lawmaking. All interactions between lobbyists and lawmakers should be published on some permament medium. Closed committees and closed courts need to be eliminated from society.
Patents and copyright are GOOD things, as long as the influence of big money is reduced through legislative action.
I think that you missed my point. I did not mean to imply that a complete 'hands off' attitude on the part of a parent is ideal. I did say that parents should aim to be 'shepards' to their children, not wardens or bosses.
You need to take the time to RAISE YOUR CHILD and maintain an open, honest relationship with them. Kids with strong identities and confidence are not going to be damaged by whatever crap they see.
I do agree with you wholehartedly about the Disney and born-again shit. Parking your kid in front of some numbing disney movie is not a good thing.
Ask Slashdot is a forum for whining bitching and trolling. Just accept it.
No offense taken.
Just to clarify, I don't have a problem with parents making rules for their children to follow. Kids are vulnerable to all sorts of lousy influences.
The notion of spying is what bothers me. An environment of paranoia and fear is no place for a child. Basically, if you feel a need to spy on your children, you have done something wrong. In fact, I'd say that a parent who behaves like that IS a poor influence on their child themselves!!
Keep in mind too that "The Net" is not as powerful as popular culture would have you believe.
In the 50's, comic books were regarded with the same sort of horror as the spectre of "The Internet"
High schools today really scare me. I came in as a speaker for an old teacher who is a friend and noticed the prison-like atmosphere. The degree of paranoia expressed by the administration was real scary. I think this is an outgrowth of the 'protect the children' mindset and is absolutely bizzare and disgusting.
The fact that you need to have such a degree of control over your children is a chilling and horrible thought.
Have you ever considered the consequences of seeking complete control of another humam being? A parent's role should be that of a shepard, not a guard dog. If you teach your child to think for himself (or herself) and use common sense, you'll end up with a free-thinking and mature young man or woman.
A controlling, domineering parent will result in nothing but a angry and rebellious child or someone incapable of dealing with life and society in general.
If you feel that you need to surreptitiously spy on your child, I pity you.
This is an 'advanced' course designed to churn out habib H-1Bs to come to this country and work for 1/2 of what you get paid.
I'm sure the graduates will be as literate in their 'specialty' as most H-1B types.
I was afraid we were going to not have a weekly 'I found an ancient X-Terminal now tell me how to use it' article.
Just made my week.
That you idiots have a problem with manipulative advertising in almost every form, but regard ThinkGeek as some sort of 'community' icon.
ThinkGeek is the Slashdot equivalent of 'South of the Border' on the North Carolina-South Carolina border or any gaudy tourist trap.
It's pretty damn sad that VA Linux is so desperate for ad dollars that it needs to plant troll advertising as a legitimate 'Ask Slashdot Question'.
This is almost as pathetic as the multiple front-page ads (...err stories) for the dude who sells Atari 2600 games.
I might not, but I would have the Freedom to waste my time doing so.
I'm interesting in selling some stuff, I would like to know how much it costs to get a front page 'news' story on slashdot?
Do I need to pay per click, or can I pay a flat rate for the story?
And it it does not come with MD5 keys... you could easily be downloading a virus or trojan...
I suggest that Slashdot Whitehat hackers take down this company to protect the world.
I'm sure you won't heel to any argument, but I'll try anyway.
According to the article, the main security report stated that "the main attack was routed through China Telecom from someone in Guangdong province in China"
James Sample, the Computer Security Officer at ISO stated "You don't know where people are really from".
Mr. Sample is certainly correct in stating that the hackers could have appeared from anywhere. But it is rather suspicious that such an attack which COULD have originated in China would occur at the height of a Sino-US diplomatic crisis.
This is especially suspicious given that fact that the article specifically states that "In early May, there were hundreds of publicly reported computer attacks apparently originating from China."
And my government is not feeding me propaganda regarding some imaginary Chinese cabal. The Los Angeles Times is not an agency of the United States government. The ISO is a public authority chartered by the State of California and also not an organ of the Federal Government.
I would humbly suggest that you drop the anti-government conspiracy theories and pay attention to facts.
I didn't say anything about military attacks, you ignorant karma whore.
Here is the complete text of my post:
"If the Chinese government is sponsoring these 'hacker attacks', this is an act of war and should be treated like one."
I had assumed that an intelligent human being would be able to reason what exactly the word 'If' means. 'If' implies that some sort of investigation would determine who exactly carried out these attacks.
Since many of the servers originated in China, and Chinese government officals recently stated publicly that 'angry chinese citizens' would likely launch such an attack in the wake of the US spy plane crisis, it stands to reason that the Chinese government may have had some involvement.
I'm glad that you were not attempting to ridicule me, because you completely failed to do so. Instead you displayed your own ignorant knee-jerk reaction to the term 'act of war' by implying that I am some sort of ignorant militarist straight out of The Manchurian Candidate calling for a shooting war with China.
Are you crazy? This is Slashdot!
These 'hackers' were just bored geeks. In fact, the chances are high that they were 'white hats' and simply wanted to let the administrators know there was a problem!
Chinese government officials stated about two months ago that the Chinese people were "very angry at the US spy plane situation and many retaliate by attacking US computers"
Two months later we find out that a critical piece of US infrastructure was hacked.
The fact that China is a black hole as far as law enforcement is concerned, and that Chinese authorities tightly control internet access makes it worthwhile to investigate whether or not there is any Chinese involvement.
Have you ever worked with archives? Or are you just a jackass sysadmin who has never tested a restore?
The chances of successfully restoring a 200-tape archive written by vintage hardware is down around 0% As it is, the tape drive probaly not aligned properly for a decade and tapes produced on it are more than likely completely useless.
No, that is not possible.
In order to use an OS, you need to develop another license so that Slashdot fanatics can start a holy war