Current technology is foolproof. You pick up a weapon, disable the saftey, aim and fire.
Compare the number of accidental gun deaths to the 65,000 people who die in accidents on US highways every year. Total firearm deaths are a fraction of that. Unfortunately accidents happen, but living under the illusion that a weapon can be "safe" is a nothing more than a empty lie.
Adding microprocessors, batteries and senory to a gun adds unneeded complexity and will kill far more people than it saves.
I exaggerated a little. My brother just bought a H&K USP.40 for about $900.
Still, losing $500 or $900 or even $300 arbitrarily is a bad thing. Fortunately, my brother is friendly with police & court people, so he was able to transport his collection to his new home in NYC.
There is no real computer in your watch or kitchen appliances.
A "smart" gun needs to make comparisions of various parts of your hand touching different sensors in different orientations in order to identify you. This is not a simple process to accomplish manually. It needs to have the power to control a mechanical saftey mechanism yet sit on a shelf for months or years.
Prototypes one year ago had frequent identification problems and unlocking when required.
If you had any clue about weapons, you'd know that in a real life situation the only thing more dangerous than a firearm is an unloaded firearm, and a disabled firearm with a dead battery is even worse.
I can't wait to see what the police unions say when some moron tries to arm cops with these things!
Buying a handgun legally in NY is pretty near impossible.
You need to get a permit from a local court, and have it endorsed every couple of years, or anytime to buy or sell a handgun.
At any time, some county judge can refuse to renew your permit and you are required to surrender your handgun to the local police without compensation. With a quality handgun costing well over $1200, this is a bad thing!
For all practical purposes, it is near impossible to get a firearm of any kind in NYC legally and impossible to get a firearm in any suburb of NYC. These laws have been very effective in removing weapons from the city. (hehe)
I tend to arrive at companies when they are transitioning from "small" companies with a cool culture to corporate culture.
At the last place that I worked, we had a really cool descriptive naming scheme that was funny and very descriptive of where the computers were. The one day the CEO decreed that we would use naming codes... database servers would be renamed db01 db02 db03... web www01 www02.
Where I am now (a very large environment) hostnames are 9-12 characters long. There is actually a spreadsheet to name a server! You get gobblygood names like oapapa1234a1p, because every character needs to mean something. (That example would be an powerpc aix server running oracle in production with redundant power in production)
I never said that DRM is a perfect technology, or even something that I am in favor of.
What will happen eventually is that conventional CDs will be replaced by some soft of Audio DVD or other format which includes public keys embedded with each song. Players will need to authenticate off of some sort of private or master key.
Each copywrited recording will have a CRC or MD5 fingerprint generated -- no need to do voice recognition.
The whole idea of copy protection isn't to make copying impossible -- just difficult enough to discourage the average user. Today $300 PC's are shipping with CDR drives that are capable of copying any CD. The people who peddle need to replace the CDs with another technology to survive.
You can make recording of new songs and use old clients to decode them, but the average person won't. I think the way music label's see it, the current methods of discourage copying of music are 0% effective. If they make it difficult for 40% of the population to copy CDs, they have just increased their market that much more.
The problem is the cost of reproducing media is nil.
The only way for the music industry to survive is to find other services to sell, implement draconic DRM solutions or push a large number of regional acts rather than a small number of national acts.
Technology combined with legislation will "fix" the problem.
It is unclear to systematically determine whether a person, object or animal is a legitimate target to shoot.
It is very clear that downloads of media amoung anonymous users are breaches of the law. Software and media companies are working on just such a tool to verify that fact and enforce the law -- and that tool is Digital Rights Management.
Just as SSH keys, PIN numbers and keys identify users, cryptographic hashes will identify media and software.
Call it whatever you will -- but it is still illegal.
The constructive solution is to put people in government who recognize that the anti-trust laws are insufficient and that organized cartels of music, movie, software, oil and food companies represent a threat to all of us.
Kazaa and Napster are forms of P2P, but do not really represent what P2P really is.
There is no "probaly" or "maybe" with Kazaa or Napster. A responsible P2P application would include some sort of technology designed to identify copyrighted material and not allow it to transfer.
P2P applications can do great things -- I am currently working on an internal enterprise-wide P2P app to allow office workers to easily share files and information. Eventually, this app may grow to transport and store internal email on overpowered, underutilized workstations, freenet-style.
But the crop of "sharing" applications currently identified as P2P apps are no such thing. They are parasitic software that allow anonymous users to break the law.
P2P is very useful and many companies are deploying enterprise apps to take advantage of it.
Kazza is not such a program. Kazza or Morpheus or any of the other P2P apps make no effort whatsoever to even identify material as copyrighted. Slashdotters are whining and bitching about losing access to live music, amateur videos, etc. The reality is people do not want to lose a source of free stuff.
Please... don't start a gun argument. You don't "get" guns... plenty of people think that you are retarded for typing shit into a computer all day -- and they are no less ignorant than you.
You claim to not share commercial material via P2P. Let's assume that anyone here believes you. The fact remains that 95% of the traffic moving across P2P networks are pirated music, movies, porn clips and software.
The point here should not criticizing Optimum Online for following the law -- that is reasonable and responsible. The point is that the law is unenforcable and the business models of the companies is untenable.
The unfortunate outcome of all of this piracy will be DRM. In 2-3 years you'll be unable to copy movies, music and software.
All of the traditional air carriers are in trouble and the entire industry to due for a shakeout. Southwest, JetBlue, and RyanAir are setting the new standard in cheap, efficient travel.
Making a gargantuan aircraft introduces more liabilities than benefits. Insurance rates will be higher, airport terminals will be stressed too much and the cost will be too high to support any kind of volume.
Learn to read and write -- maybe you wouldn't sound like a blithering idiot.
Do you think maybe the companies who sell inkjet printers (with high-margin consumables) at a loss don't mark up the price of smaller laser printers to discourage their sale?
Who has $500 to spend on a shitty workgroup laser printer? Most people, even most geeks have better places to spend their limited funds.
When did the bonehead government raise the prices of gas and food?
Gas prices are kept at high levels by a cartel of oil-producing nations who keep prices at a level that makes it difficult for competitors to prosper, yet very lucrative for themselves.
Food are kept at high prices because a relaxation of government regulations allow conglomorates to buy up all of the smaller food companies. 85% of the food you eat is produced by 4 cartels.
Market "efficency" introduces savings for large consumers. For example, Wal-Mart has the buying power to force companies to provide goods at lower wholesale cost. This results is higher margins for Wal-Mart, but forces manufacturers to move offshore and lower quality.
The Russian command-economy (not communist after Lenin died) did not work because the cost of turning an agricultural backwater into an industrial power was simply too high. A more reasonable command-economy is China, which will be far stronger than the United States or Europe economically in a decade or two.
If you'd rather pay market value for gas -- good for you. You end up sending so much money to the oil cartels, you'll probaly find yourself living in that car.
Please, go fuck off and get a clue. Why do think they sell the printer at a loss? Not to be nice.
The printing companies release inferior printers on a regular basis to keep selling old ink. Ink cartidges for a circa-1990 Cannon or HP inkjet printer are still being installed on $29.99 printers to keep the sales of old inks going.
Drug dealers conduct business in a similar manner.
The only people who benefit from an unregulated "free" market are the cartels who control the supply chain.
Any kind of standard high-speed networking will not function in a high EMI area -- cabled or uncabled.
I think the military uses a semi peer-to-peer wireless network between armored vehicles and some helicoptors. It is some sort of spread-spectrum technology that violates FCC rules and costs millions of dollars.
If you cannot run shielded cable or fiber optics, you need to redesign your facility, period.
Normally I would agree with this... but I've seen first hand that domain registrars are beyond incompetent in handling renewals and providing warnings to about-to-expire accounts.
There should be some sort of regulation that puts these bulk-registering or domain name extortion rackets out of business. There is no legitimate need for any organization to register thousands of domain names.
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Yes, they did.
The nearest fighter aircraft was stationed in Massachusetts (Andover AFB i think) and was at Ready-30 status since we are not at war and budget cuts removed fueled interceptors from the flightline.
Therefore it took 30 minutes to launch the plane once the order was received, and another 35 minutes to reach the hijacked plane. The fighters would have had to intercept the airliners at least 50 miles from the city.
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Current technology is foolproof. You pick up a weapon, disable the saftey, aim and fire.
Compare the number of accidental gun deaths to the 65,000 people who die in accidents on US highways every year. Total firearm deaths are a fraction of that. Unfortunately accidents happen, but living under the illusion that a weapon can be "safe" is a nothing more than a empty lie.
Adding microprocessors, batteries and senory to a gun adds unneeded complexity and will kill far more people than it saves.
I exaggerated a little. My brother just bought a H&K USP .40 for about $900.
Still, losing $500 or $900 or even $300 arbitrarily is a bad thing. Fortunately, my brother is friendly with police & court people, so he was able to transport his collection to his new home in NYC.
Computer crashes have crippled E-3 Sentry radar aircraft and aborted 5-6 shuttle launches.
Arrogant and superficial "geeks" give software engineering a bad name.
There is no real computer in your watch or kitchen appliances.
A "smart" gun needs to make comparisions of various parts of your hand touching different sensors in different orientations in order to identify you. This is not a simple process to accomplish manually. It needs to have the power to control a mechanical saftey mechanism yet sit on a shelf for months or years.
Prototypes one year ago had frequent identification problems and unlocking when required.
If you had any clue about weapons, you'd know that in a real life situation the only thing more dangerous than a firearm is an unloaded firearm, and a disabled firearm with a dead battery is even worse.
I can't wait to see what the police unions say when some moron tries to arm cops with these things!
Buying a handgun legally in NY is pretty near impossible.
You need to get a permit from a local court, and have it endorsed every couple of years, or anytime to buy or sell a handgun.
At any time, some county judge can refuse to renew your permit and you are required to surrender your handgun to the local police without compensation. With a quality handgun costing well over $1200, this is a bad thing!
For all practical purposes, it is near impossible to get a firearm of any kind in NYC legally and impossible to get a firearm in any suburb of NYC. These laws have been very effective in removing weapons from the city. (hehe)
Did you do any research at all?
Oracle makes an exchange server replacement. There are probaly like 5 others .
Notes is designed to be SECURE...
If I know that your password is 6 or 7 or 8 characters long, it makes it just that much easier to crack your pw.
Also, if you lose your private key, nobody can ever read your email.
Compare this to Exchange/Outlook, where the admins get their rocks off reading people's email.
I tend to arrive at companies when they are transitioning from "small" companies with a cool culture to corporate culture.
At the last place that I worked, we had a really cool descriptive naming scheme that was funny and very descriptive of where the computers were. The one day the CEO decreed that we would use naming codes... database servers would be renamed db01 db02 db03... web www01 www02.
Where I am now (a very large environment) hostnames are 9-12 characters long. There is actually a spreadsheet to name a server! You get gobblygood names like oapapa1234a1p, because every character needs to mean something. (That example would be an powerpc aix server running oracle in production with redundant power in production)
I never said that DRM is a perfect technology, or even something that I am in favor of.
What will happen eventually is that conventional CDs will be replaced by some soft of Audio DVD or other format which includes public keys embedded with each song. Players will need to authenticate off of some sort of private or master key.
Each copywrited recording will have a CRC or MD5 fingerprint generated -- no need to do voice recognition.
The whole idea of copy protection isn't to make copying impossible -- just difficult enough to discourage the average user. Today $300 PC's are shipping with CDR drives that are capable of copying any CD. The people who peddle need to replace the CDs with another technology to survive.
You can make recording of new songs and use old clients to decode them, but the average person won't. I think the way music label's see it, the current methods of discourage copying of music are 0% effective. If they make it difficult for 40% of the population to copy CDs, they have just increased their market that much more.
The problem is the cost of reproducing media is nil.
The only way for the music industry to survive is to find other services to sell, implement draconic DRM solutions or push a large number of regional acts rather than a small number of national acts.
Technology combined with legislation will "fix" the problem.
It is unclear to systematically determine whether a person, object or animal is a legitimate target to shoot.
It is very clear that downloads of media amoung anonymous users are breaches of the law. Software and media companies are working on just such a tool to verify that fact and enforce the law -- and that tool is Digital Rights Management.
Just as SSH keys, PIN numbers and keys identify users, cryptographic hashes will identify media and software.
Call it whatever you will -- but it is still illegal.
The constructive solution is to put people in government who recognize that the anti-trust laws are insufficient and that organized cartels of music, movie, software, oil and food companies represent a threat to all of us.
Kazaa and Napster are forms of P2P, but do not really represent what P2P really is.
There is no "probaly" or "maybe" with Kazaa or Napster. A responsible P2P application would include some sort of technology designed to identify copyrighted material and not allow it to transfer.
P2P applications can do great things -- I am currently working on an internal enterprise-wide P2P app to allow office workers to easily share files and information. Eventually, this app may grow to transport and store internal email on overpowered, underutilized workstations, freenet-style.
But the crop of "sharing" applications currently identified as P2P apps are no such thing. They are parasitic software that allow anonymous users to break the law.
P2P is very useful and many companies are deploying enterprise apps to take advantage of it.
Kazza is not such a program. Kazza or Morpheus or any of the other P2P apps make no effort whatsoever to even identify material as copyrighted. Slashdotters are whining and bitching about losing access to live music, amateur videos, etc. The reality is people do not want to lose a source of free stuff.
Please... don't start a gun argument. You don't "get" guns... plenty of people think that you are retarded for typing shit into a computer all day -- and they are no less ignorant than you.
You claim to not share commercial material via P2P. Let's assume that anyone here believes you. The fact remains that 95% of the traffic moving across P2P networks are pirated music, movies, porn clips and software.
The point here should not criticizing Optimum Online for following the law -- that is reasonable and responsible. The point is that the law is unenforcable and the business models of the companies is untenable.
The unfortunate outcome of all of this piracy will be DRM. In 2-3 years you'll be unable to copy movies, music and software.
Great idea... let's also put sweatshop factories aboard the planes so that passengers may work off the $10,000 airfare.
They are right.
All of the traditional air carriers are in trouble and the entire industry to due for a shakeout. Southwest, JetBlue, and RyanAir are setting the new standard in cheap, efficient travel.
Making a gargantuan aircraft introduces more liabilities than benefits. Insurance rates will be higher, airport terminals will be stressed too much and the cost will be too high to support any kind of volume.
Learn to read and write -- maybe you wouldn't sound like a blithering idiot.
Do you think maybe the companies who sell inkjet printers (with high-margin consumables) at a loss don't mark up the price of smaller laser printers to discourage their sale?
Who has $500 to spend on a shitty workgroup laser printer? Most people, even most geeks have better places to spend their limited funds.
When did the bonehead government raise the prices of gas and food?
Gas prices are kept at high levels by a cartel of oil-producing nations who keep prices at a level that makes it difficult for competitors to prosper, yet very lucrative for themselves.
Food are kept at high prices because a relaxation of government regulations allow conglomorates to buy up all of the smaller food companies. 85% of the food you eat is produced by 4 cartels.
Market "efficency" introduces savings for large consumers. For example, Wal-Mart has the buying power to force companies to provide goods at lower wholesale cost. This results is higher margins for Wal-Mart, but forces manufacturers to move offshore and lower quality.
The Russian command-economy (not communist after Lenin died) did not work because the cost of turning an agricultural backwater into an industrial power was simply too high. A more reasonable command-economy is China, which will be far stronger than the United States or Europe economically in a decade or two.
If you'd rather pay market value for gas -- good for you. You end up sending so much money to the oil cartels, you'll probaly find yourself living in that car.
Please, go fuck off and get a clue. Why do think they sell the printer at a loss? Not to be nice.
The printing companies release inferior printers on a regular basis to keep selling old ink. Ink cartidges for a circa-1990 Cannon or HP inkjet printer are still being installed on $29.99 printers to keep the sales of old inks going.
Drug dealers conduct business in a similar manner.
The only people who benefit from an unregulated "free" market are the cartels who control the supply chain.
Any kind of standard high-speed networking will not function in a high EMI area -- cabled or uncabled.
I think the military uses a semi peer-to-peer wireless network between armored vehicles and some helicoptors. It is some sort of spread-spectrum technology that violates FCC rules and costs millions of dollars.
If you cannot run shielded cable or fiber optics, you need to redesign your facility, period.
That's true -- but the company did benefit by not using electricity at inflated rates.
Normally I would agree with this... but I've seen first hand that domain registrars are beyond incompetent in handling renewals and providing warnings to about-to-expire accounts.
There should be some sort of regulation that puts these bulk-registering or domain name extortion rackets out of business. There is no legitimate need for any organization to register thousands of domain names.
Yes, they did.
The nearest fighter aircraft was stationed in Massachusetts (Andover AFB i think) and was at Ready-30 status since we are not at war and budget cuts removed fueled interceptors from the flightline.
Therefore it took 30 minutes to launch the plane once the order was received, and another 35 minutes to reach the hijacked plane. The fighters would have had to intercept the airliners at least 50 miles from the city.
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