Solar is well and good, but it's not exactly reliable, as in you need the fricken Day Star to be shining in order to generate power. Clouds, night time, space needed, protecting the space needed from damage - lots of things can go wrong with current Solar generation methods. Your Solar-Power-Station-in-LEO idea has a lot of merit, but that solution is in the order of 50 years away. We just don't have the needed infrastructure to flip the switch and use Solar in a time frame that makes sense.
Nuclear is here now - and we don't have to invent a bunch of things to get it working with our current infrastructure. As a 40-50 year solution, it's about the best we've got. I'd rather have a few tons of nuclear waste vitrified in a mine somewhere that another 100 billion tons of carbon spewed into the atmosphere while we come up with something cleaner.
So they wouldn't embrace "Gphone design" and risk beeing delegated simply to make commodity hardware (?)
10 BEGIN TANGENT 20 Heh.
Anyway, that's exactly what Microsoft has done to the PC hardware makers - if it doesn't run Windows it ain't SHIT. So, hardware margins go to zero and Microsoft reaps all the benefits. Who pays to develop and support hardware drivers on Windows? All the kit makers who PAY Microsoft to get that fuckin' little "Designed for Vista" sticker, that's who.
Yup, Google is using Microsoft tactics to fight Microsoft. Evil? Maybe - I've always believed that turning the Devil's tools against him is doing good. YMMV, of course.
Theo is a very smart and resourceful individual - that's shown by his work
After reading the above post, it's highly probable he is a very abrasive and one sided individual.
That's an understatement to say the least. It's not "highly probable", it's an absolute certainty.
But this is a tech forum so I won't get into judging character.
You must be new here.;-)
Anyway, abrasive as he is, when Theo has something to say on security I tend to listen as he has a proven track record in that regard. Think about it - if you own one virtual machine (say through a poorly secured PHP application) and can then break into the virtualization layer, you can likely own every virtual machine hosted on the physical machine or even the cluster.
I tend to agree with Theo here - so far, security (other than on a theoretical level, i.e. OS isolation) has not been completely thought out at the virtualization layer, hence there's no true security benefits to using virtual machines (other than recovery). That's what he means, I think, when he talks about "something on the shelf" - the security selling point is not really there.
Once I realized all this, I was able to continue making contingency plans to keep my own stress under control, but I am now more careful about voicing my internal thought process around people who I know are optimists.
Hm. A pessimist has contingency plans for dealing with an optimist. Makes sense.
I'm guessing that's an anti-spam feature, not a limitation of the hardware. I think the time between posts is less for posters with better karma, too - not positive on that though.
The reason Thunderbird won't gain the same traction as Firefox has is Exchange. The Thunderbird developers have made a great email client, but they've hit the wrong target. They, along with GMail et. al. have killed off Eudora and Pegasus, not Outlook. (aside - here's hoping IncrediMail is next)
Email has evolved into a collaboration tool, not just a way of sending words in ASCII. Plain and simple, until your contacts can email you a meeting request and TBird puts it in your calendar automagically - and that meeting goes in your BlackBerry/Treo/Gizmo-of-the-week - it won't gain near the same buzz. Outlook + Exchange adds far too much business value to simply abandon in the name of Open and Free.
If you just need email, Thunderbird is OK-fine - if you need collaboration, you need Outlook. It's a damn shame, too.
As a shortcut, ask yourself, what would the BOFH do? He'd go for extortion?
The phone rings. It'll be him again, I know. That annoys me. I put on a gruff voice
"HELLO, SALARIES!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I've got the wrong number"
"YEAH? Well what's your name buddy? Do you know WASTED phone calls cost money? DO YOU? I've got a good mind to subtract your wasted time, my wasted time, and the cost of this call from your weekly wages! IN FACT I WILL! By the time I've finished with you, YOU'LL OWE US money! WHAT'S YOUR NAME - AND DON'T LIE, WE'VE GOT CALLER ID!!"
I hear the phone drop and the sound of running feet - he's obviously going to try and get an alibi by being at the Dean's office. I look up his username and find his department. I ring the Dean's secretary.
"Hello?" she answers
"Hi, SIMON, B.O.F.H. HERE, LISTEN, WHEN THAT GUY COMES RUNNING INTO YOUR OFFICE IN ABOUT 10 SECONDS, CAN YOU GIVE HIM A MESSAGE?"
"I think so..." she says
"TELL HIM `HE CAN RUN, BUT HE CAN'T HIDE'"
"Um. Ok"
"AND DON'T FORGET NOW, I WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT THAT FILE IN YOUR ACCOUNT WITH YOUR ANSWERS TO THE PURITY TEST IN IT..."
I hear her scrabbling at the terminal...
"DON'T BOTHER - I HAVE A COPY. BE A GOOD PERVY AND PASS THE MESSAGE ON.."
She sobs her assent and I hang up. And the worst thing is, I was just guessing about the purity test thing. I grab a quick copy anyway, it might make for some good late-night reading.
The quality of the Oz books is very uneven. Some of the later ones have long, extremely tedious sections that serve no purpose except to bring back a long list of favorite characters like Jack Pumpkinhead. A lot of the plots revolve around lame puns.
IOW, if you like the average Slashdot story and "discussion", you'll love the books?
Excessive? EXCESSIVE? No way dude. This guy got it right:
"Hi, we're a group of ominous looking people who happen to deal with way too much spam. We'd like to wander aimlessly around your house discussing vivid images of what should be done to spammers, their families and casual acquaintences, and make veiled threats as to the future of your limbs (attached or not), animals and the insertion of farming implements into your orifices".
Chris "Saundo" Saunderson He should be grateful most sysadmins are too cynical, moral, smart and busy to go to Law School and become judges. I would imagine "All rise for presiding Judge Simon Travaglia would strike abject terror into the heart of any spammer.
You'll have agreed to this in the EULA. Under the section where they reserve the right to install whatever updates they like.
Oh, that'll fly.
*in the nebulous future*
Me: Well, in order to get the latest security update, we have to install the service that scans our hard drives in order to provide targeted advertising. CIO: What? Repeat that. Me: Ummm. Well, Microsoft's latest service pack installs a service that gathers information from the files on your hard disks in order to provide more targeted ads an- CIO: Like FUCK it does. I don't fucking care how you do it, block that fucker from running. You go do that now - I'm calling our Microsoft rep to have a little chat...
If you honestly believe that a candidate's webserver reflects their political leanings, you're sadly delusional. Sadly delusional? Sadly??? Dude, I like my delusions, which is why they're still around.
I don't find that remarkable at all. I lived in the Netherlands for a few years, and one of the things that struck me was how Microsoft-centric the universities were.
Isn't marijuana legal, or at least decriminalized in The Netherlands? That would be a plausible explanation of that statement.
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PERC 5/i controller
You know what PERC stands for, don't you?
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Your bias is showing.
Solar is well and good, but it's not exactly reliable, as in you need the fricken Day Star to be shining in order to generate power. Clouds, night time, space needed, protecting the space needed from damage - lots of things can go wrong with current Solar generation methods. Your Solar-Power-Station-in-LEO idea has a lot of merit, but that solution is in the order of 50 years away. We just don't have the needed infrastructure to flip the switch and use Solar in a time frame that makes sense.
Nuclear is here now - and we don't have to invent a bunch of things to get it working with our current infrastructure. As a 40-50 year solution, it's about the best we've got. I'd rather have a few tons of nuclear waste vitrified in a mine somewhere that another 100 billion tons of carbon spewed into the atmosphere while we come up with something cleaner.
Soko
Yeah, but it took 4 years for the lawyering to be done.
It wants us to make him an undead kitty
I can has Braaaaaainssss...
Sorry guys, slashdot + mysql = tears. Randomized stupidity temporarily disabled until the load lightens up a touch.
Now, for the Irony filter...
Soko
So they wouldn't embrace "Gphone design" and risk beeing delegated simply to make commodity hardware (?)
10 BEGIN TANGENT
20 Heh.
Anyway, that's exactly what Microsoft has done to the PC hardware makers - if it doesn't run Windows it ain't SHIT. So, hardware margins go to zero and Microsoft reaps all the benefits. Who pays to develop and support hardware drivers on Windows? All the kit makers who PAY Microsoft to get that fuckin' little "Designed for Vista" sticker, that's who.
Yup, Google is using Microsoft tactics to fight Microsoft. Evil? Maybe - I've always believed that turning the Devil's tools against him is doing good. YMMV, of course.
30 IF INFORMED = 0 GOTO 10
40 ELSE END
Soko
The Apple iTube. Don't buy just one, buy the whole series.
Quick - someone call Ted Series of Tubes Stevens - we found what he's looking for.
Soko
the day mankind gave the gift of Howard Stern and American Top 40 and the traffic report to bacteria
*blink*
Gift? That list sounds like we're trying to find a new way to kill them.
Soko
WiLAN did make actual gear - very expensive IIRC - but the company's board decided being a patent troll was more profitable.
The "damages" aspect likely comes from being squeezed out of the high end market or something.
WiLAN wasn't born a patent troll, but has definitely become one.
Soko
It's highly probable that Theo is right.
;-)
Theo is a very smart and resourceful individual - that's shown by his work
After reading the above post, it's highly probable he is a very abrasive and one sided individual.
That's an understatement to say the least. It's not "highly probable", it's an absolute certainty.
But this is a tech forum so I won't get into judging character.
You must be new here.
Anyway, abrasive as he is, when Theo has something to say on security I tend to listen as he has a proven track record in that regard. Think about it - if you own one virtual machine (say through a poorly secured PHP application) and can then break into the virtualization layer, you can likely own every virtual machine hosted on the physical machine or even the cluster.
I tend to agree with Theo here - so far, security (other than on a theoretical level, i.e. OS isolation) has not been completely thought out at the virtualization layer, hence there's no true security benefits to using virtual machines (other than recovery). That's what he means, I think, when he talks about "something on the shelf" - the security selling point is not really there.
Soko
Once I realized all this, I was able to continue making contingency plans to keep my own stress under control, but I am now more careful about voicing my internal thought process around people who I know are optimists.
Hm. A pessimist has contingency plans for dealing with an optimist. Makes sense.
Soko
I'm guessing that's an anti-spam feature, not a limitation of the hardware. I think the time between posts is less for posters with better karma, too - not positive on that though.
Soko
There is no such thing as a free lunch,
;-)
Yup
and there is no such thing as a free internet connection.
My neighbours WiFi disagrees with you.
Economies of scale apply as well, and I doubt this model is easily scalable.
Well, if the government sanctions it...
Less regulation and more privatization is the way to go, not socialized internet.
Is it this easy to piss of a Republican?
Pretty much all of my free time is consumed by Zachary, the currently 12 lb. terror that exploded out of Kathleen last August. He's awesome.
o_O
Hopefully Zachary isn't 3 feet long with a rather elongated head...
The reason Thunderbird won't gain the same traction as Firefox has is Exchange. The Thunderbird developers have made a great email client, but they've hit the wrong target. They, along with GMail et. al. have killed off Eudora and Pegasus, not Outlook. (aside - here's hoping IncrediMail is next)
Email has evolved into a collaboration tool, not just a way of sending words in ASCII. Plain and simple, until your contacts can email you a meeting request and TBird puts it in your calendar automagically - and that meeting goes in your BlackBerry/Treo/Gizmo-of-the-week - it won't gain near the same buzz. Outlook + Exchange adds far too much business value to simply abandon in the name of Open and Free.
If you just need email, Thunderbird is OK-fine - if you need collaboration, you need Outlook. It's a damn shame, too.
If I can make a drug that causes you to think that a dog is in the room when there isn't one, it does not prove the non-existence of dogs.
Maybe it's dyslexia?
Shamelessly re-posted from here: http://members.iinet.com.au/~bofh/bofh/bofh1.html
The quality of the Oz books is very uneven. Some of the later ones have long, extremely tedious sections that serve no purpose except to bring back a long list of favorite characters like Jack Pumpkinhead. A lot of the plots revolve around lame puns.
IOW, if you like the average Slashdot story and "discussion", you'll love the books?
Soko
Chris "Saundo" Saunderson He should be grateful most sysadmins are too cynical, moral, smart and busy to go to Law School and become judges. I would imagine "All rise for presiding Judge Simon Travaglia would strike abject terror into the heart of any spammer.
That would be cool.
Soko
You'll have agreed to this in the EULA. Under the section where they reserve the right to install whatever updates they like.
Oh, that'll fly.
*in the nebulous future*
Me: Well, in order to get the latest security update, we have to install the service that scans our hard drives in order to provide targeted advertising.
CIO: What? Repeat that.
Me: Ummm. Well, Microsoft's latest service pack installs a service that gathers information from the files on your hard disks in order to provide more targeted ads an-
CIO: Like FUCK it does. I don't fucking care how you do it, block that fucker from running. You go do that now - I'm calling our Microsoft rep to have a little chat...
As far as I can see, this will die on the vine.
Soko
Since there was no link in the story, I figured it'd be prudent to provide one sowing that SCO is indeed in peril of having their stock de-listed.
As usual, PJ provides the relevant and proper info.
Soko
You really know how to play to the worst in human nature, especially with the word "Probe" in TFA's title.
A tip o' the hat to you, sir.
Soko
I don't find that remarkable at all. I lived in the Netherlands for a few years, and one of the things that struck me was how Microsoft-centric the universities were.
Isn't marijuana legal, or at least decriminalized in The Netherlands? That would be a plausible explanation of that statement.
Soko