I always thought that torrents seem an ideal mechanism to spread viruses. If this becomes epidemic it could very well totally cripple the P2P community.
With pirated software this risk can be mitigated if you have a verified trustworthy hash code of the untempered original version. On the other hand if there is an exploitable vulnerability in a popular codec movie torrents could become a massive security problem (obviously not for enterprise computing but the already more vulnerable home user).
I work for a > $1 billion company that still kind of works like that. The key is this company is privately held and the majority owner still runs the place. At our annual kick-off meeting he stated that there won't be any pay raises but that he also won't lay off anybody. He confidently stated that our company had enough money in the bank to sit out and even grow through this recession. It doesn't hurt that we still managed a double digit revenue increase last year.
This has been my first employer and I've been with the company for 10 years now (in three different countries).
... requires the coordination of huge departments and highly specialized staff. Chen happens to be the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With a budget of half a billion $ it doesn't get much bigger than that in the US.
You obviously don't know much about what it takes to be successful in modern day experimental physics nor did you perform any research on Chen. Implying that this man doesn't have an impressive administrative resume is ludicrous.
That this comment is moderated 5 goes to show that your ignorance is pretty widely shared.
... to find it ironic that the will be a world wide "cloud" grid. And yet the thing that gave it the name i.e. the power grid is anything but world wide - barely continent wide with infrastructure taxed to the breaking point.
... and in the long term best interest of the US of A would be a refreshing change. Two years of Bush weakened the USA considerably. Unfortunately this also had severe negative effects outside the US. Otherwise who'd care.
Bankrupted by an out-of bounds banking industry that was totally deregulated and ten times larger than the Iceland GDP i.e. the real Icelandic economy. These banks were counter parties to many Wall street institutions that pushed their toxic sludge bonds on the Icelandic banks. Totally not related to their welfare system.
Good luck with traversing African Bushland on foot while suffering from hunger and thirst. I can almost picture this a yet another reality show made for TV.
Problem is there are no fertile places in Africa that are not already occupied. If a large amount of people were to cross borders in search of a new home this means automatically war. This is really not a new dynamic. Pretty much all of humanity's history looks like it. It guess it is just hard to fathom from a US perspective since your country is pretty much empty in comparison to how densely the rest of the globe is populated.
Khalidi has been accused of having ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, based on his work for Wafa in the late 1980s, and later serving as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Conference of 1991.[18][19] Khalidi denied the allegation that he served as a PLO spokesman.[20] Khalidi explained that he often spoke to journalists in Beirut, and was usually cited, without attribution, as a well-informed Palestinian source. He also said that he was unaware of any misidentification as a PLO spokesman.[18]
Wikipedia is of course not gospel. But this information is very much in line with the JTA report.
The WAFA has no reason to hide its list of former directors. It should be easy to establish this fact if wikipedia has this wrong.
You should update your terrorist file. The PLO is accepted as partner for negations to represent the Palestinians by Israel and the US. Hamas are now the new nasties.
individuals are too stupid to make their own decisions and that therefore Government must make their decisions for them.
What kind of idiot would take a a black and white position on this?
Obviously individuals can't know everything. That it is why it is nice that government make some decisions for them e.g. as encoded in a building code or requiring that only people with qualified degrees are allowed to practice medicine.
On the other hand individuals are clearly able to make decisions on a wide range of issues. Finding the balance is part of a mature political process.
You're version of socialism seems to be very much a unique construct of your mind that has very little to do what real political left is about.
As the previous poster was pointing out by creating this straw man in your head you're just shutting the door for any nuanced political discourse.
If you read Obama's entire statement from six years ago it is pretty clear that he argues against using the courts for wealth redistribution. Although he obviously favors redistributive policies as evident in his tax plan:
"I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement, was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways, we still stuffer from that."
As someone who has seen the ugliness of communist tyranny up close I feel obliged to add that to classify this policy stance as Marxism is a callous hyperbole that is insulting to those who have suffered under and fought against real communism.
Recently I was forced to sit through an online training with regards to US export controls. The regulations are insane. I came away wondering why any high tech company would want to incorporate in the US with these kind of laws on the book. For instance you could be in violation if you show foreign visitors around your company and they get a fleeting look at a white-board that discusses a strong encryption algorithm. Same thing if you discuss such a "sensitive" technology on the phone with a foreigner. Absolutely and totally nuts.
IMHO I strongly agree with you that the US press is a joke. All copying the same crap spoon fed to them from the wire services. The first time I read about the La Nina effect bringing us a cold year was in April on a German site. If you throw the text in an automatic translation app (such as babelfish.yahoo.com) you should be able to get the gist of it.
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I always thought that torrents seem an ideal mechanism to spread viruses. If this becomes epidemic it could very well totally cripple the P2P community.
With pirated software this risk can be mitigated if you have a verified trustworthy hash code of the untempered original version. On the other hand if there is an exploitable vulnerability in a popular codec movie torrents could become a massive security problem (obviously not for enterprise computing but the already more vulnerable home user).
I work for a > $1 billion company that still kind of works like that. The key is this company is privately held and the majority owner still runs the place. At our annual kick-off meeting he stated that there won't be any pay raises but that he also won't lay off anybody. He confidently stated that our company had enough money in the bank to sit out and even grow through this recession. It doesn't hurt that we still managed a double digit revenue increase last year.
This has been my first employer and I've been with the company for 10 years now (in three different countries).
Because the scientist want to mock them and prove them wrong.
That is exactly what makes me get up in the morning. Mocking creationists. Just can not live without it. It's like catnip to me.
Geez,what self-absorbed buffoons.
... requires the coordination of huge departments and highly specialized staff. Chen happens to be the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With a budget of half a billion $ it doesn't get much bigger than that in the US.
You obviously don't know much about what it takes to be successful in modern day experimental physics nor did you perform any research on Chen. Implying that this man doesn't have an impressive administrative resume is ludicrous.
That this comment is moderated 5 goes to show that your ignorance is pretty widely shared.
... who bitch about the /. moderating system remember what this site looked like before it was introduced.
Then maybe you should take the test yourself?
I scored 78% and I am not a US citizen.
... to find it ironic that the will be a world wide "cloud" grid. And yet the thing that gave it the name i.e. the power grid is anything but world wide - barely continent wide with infrastructure taxed to the breaking point.
Nicely said. Apologies accepted - now let's move on on make the world a better place shall we?
... and in the long term best interest of the US of A would be a refreshing change. Two years of Bush weakened the USA considerably. Unfortunately this also had severe negative effects outside the US. Otherwise who'd care.
Bankrupted by an out-of bounds banking industry that was totally deregulated and ten times larger than the Iceland GDP i.e. the real Icelandic economy. These banks were counter parties to many Wall street institutions that pushed their toxic sludge bonds on the Icelandic banks. Totally not related to their welfare system.
Nice try though.
Fun. Now even Lou Dobbs is weighing in on the issue
Good luck with traversing African Bushland on foot while suffering from hunger and thirst. I can almost picture this a yet another reality show made for TV.
Problem is there are no fertile places in Africa that are not already occupied. If a large amount of people were to cross borders in search of a new home this means automatically war. This is really not a new dynamic. Pretty much all of humanity's history looks like it. It guess it is just hard to fathom from a US perspective since your country is pretty much empty in comparison to how densely the rest of the globe is populated.
According to the current Wikipedia entry this is indeed untrue.
Khalidi has been accused of having ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, based on his work for Wafa in the late 1980s, and later serving as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Conference of 1991.[18][19] Khalidi denied the allegation that he served as a PLO spokesman.[20] Khalidi explained that he often spoke to journalists in Beirut, and was usually cited, without attribution, as a well-informed Palestinian source. He also said that he was unaware of any misidentification as a PLO spokesman.[18]
Wikipedia is of course not gospel. But this information is very much in line with the JTA report.
The WAFA has no reason to hide its list of former directors. It should be easy to establish this fact if wikipedia has this wrong.
You are of course entitled to your opinions - yet I may want to bring this little piece from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) to your attention. They hardly qualify as a hot bed of fringe left anti-semites or crazed Muslim terrorist sympathizers.
If the JTA account is correct Khalidi has a good case to sue the McCain campaign for defamation.
We are talking 2003 here. Almost 10 years after Rabin signed the peace treaty with Arafat. Rewriting history a bit are we?
You should update your terrorist file. The PLO is accepted as partner for negations to represent the Palestinians by Israel and the US. Hamas are now the new nasties.
individuals are too stupid to make their own decisions and that therefore Government must make their decisions for them.
What kind of idiot would take a a black and white position on this?
Obviously individuals can't know everything. That it is why it is nice that government make some decisions for them e.g. as encoded in a building code or requiring that only people with qualified degrees are allowed to practice medicine.
On the other hand individuals are clearly able to make decisions on a wide range of issues. Finding the balance is part of a mature political process.
You're version of socialism seems to be very much a unique construct of your mind that has very little to do what real political left is about.
As the previous poster was pointing out by creating this straw man in your head you're just shutting the door for any nuanced political discourse.
Oh do you mean this terrifying Rashid Khalidi who is a professor at this well know terrorist training camp called Columbia University?
You fell for campaign spin.
His views that he wished the Supreme Court would rule on "economic justice" (60's style codewords for Marxism) is evidence enough.
As ABC News documented the quote that Sarah Palin based this claim on has been completely taken out of context.
If you read Obama's entire statement from six years ago it is pretty clear that he argues against using the courts for wealth redistribution. Although he obviously favors redistributive policies as evident in his tax plan:
"I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement, was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways, we still stuffer from that."
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As someone who has seen the ugliness of communist tyranny up close I feel obliged to add that to classify this policy stance as Marxism is a callous hyperbole that is insulting to those who have suffered under and fought against real communism.
Ever heard of the concept of borders?
There is only one candidate who is over 70 years old.
There is one candidate who is a cancer survivor.
And then there is Sarah Palin.
Good luck with that!
You may want to run your numbers again.
If you make less than six figures Obama's tax plan will reduce your federal tax.
Recently I was forced to sit through an online training with regards to US export controls. The regulations are insane. I came away wondering why any high tech company would want to incorporate in the US with these kind of laws on the book. For instance you could be in violation if you show foreign visitors around your company and they get a fleeting look at a white-board that discusses a strong encryption algorithm. Same thing if you discuss such a "sensitive" technology on the phone with a foreigner. Absolutely and totally nuts.
... after the radio control that this other ranch head has implanted? This 'leader' of the free world?
IMHO I strongly agree with you that the US press is a joke. All copying the same crap spoon fed to them from the wire services. The first time I read about the La Nina effect bringing us a cold year was in April on a German site. If you throw the text in an automatic translation app (such as babelfish.yahoo.com) you should be able to get the gist of it.