Ok let's see....this story is actually a few months old.
Compaq tried this but they don't have the size and clout of "Big Blue"....
Hmmm IBM, Linux on the desktop....
Hmmm....IBM is introducing Linux on the desktop, the Linux vs Windoze wet dream, in a market with the potential for 1.5 Billion new customers and suddenly SCO, with the aid of M$, starts suing IBM for copyright and/or patent infringement and/or contract breach (depending on which day of the week it is) on Linux source code, spreading FUD and trying to chill the acceptance of Linux everywhere.
Hmmm.... combine this with the large IT labour market in India that many firms are "taking advantage of" and suddenly Windoze doesn't look so good as a future enterprise solution.
Perhaps my tinfoil hat is on crooked, but doesn't all of this, timed with the SCO lawsuit and M$ purchasing SCO licensing seem a little to coincidental?
Just a thought on a Monday morning...(going to get some more coffee now)
My brother is a Sgt. in the Canadian Forces, in an Armoured Unit. From what he tells me, the problem is not over-reliance on technology or "gadgets" but the over-reliance on soldiers with highly specialized job functions. Too specialized, especially in the US armed forces.
Case in point.
A few years ago, he joined in some desert warfare training and war games against a Marine Armoured unit in Arizona. Despite being quite technologically out-classed by the Marines (our army has a few old tanks that are no match for an M1 Abrahms and none of the modern computer equipment) my brother reports that on this and other ocassions (mostly in Wainwright Alberta), his unit matched and defeated the Marines, despite their better equipment.
Why?
They got a "kill" on the guy who drives the tank. No-one else could drive the tank. Or get a "kill" on the guy who can fire the gun. No-one else could fire the gun. Knock out the track. No-one in the tank was also a trained infantry soldier so they could not abandon their tank to fight. Meanwhile, my brother and everyone in his unit are highly trained infrantry soldiers and can do any other soldiers job in the tank. My brother can fire the gun, drive the tank, load the ammo, fire the machine guns. The tank can be operational with only two crew remaining. The tank crew can also act as an infantry unit if their tank is knocked out. Loose one crew member and somebody else can take over immediately.
In the Canadian Forces, this kind of training takes place not because are generals are brilliant, but because we just don't have the manpower to be so specialized. It certainly appears to have worked out well for us.
So I guess instead of thinking up these (albeit cool) high-tech solutions, perhaps the US military should worry about an enemy's ability to render an entire artillary piece useless by shooting the guy who carries the shell from the back of the truck.
At NO TIME did Canada EVER offer to let Saddam stay in our country.
You sir are a LIAR and a propogandist. Why sould the world trust you with anything when you can't even tell the truth about your largest trading partner and closest friend? Imagine what you will say about your enemies.
It's people like you -ignorant,self-centred LIARS- that makes the world hate America. When I was kid, the US was the beacon of freedom and the envy of the world. It hasn't been like that since Jimmy Carter left the White House.
I picked that sig back in 1999 when I first signed up for/. because I was disgusted with America's (and to some extent the UN as well, but not as much) lack of action toward Kosovo. The US finally did something after being badgered by NATO for years to take a stand in the Balkans(how many rape-camps and Srebnitza's (sp?) does it take?). After Dutch, French and Canadians put their lives on the line for years as part of the UN trying to make peace in the region in other places like Bosnia and Croatia. And don't even get me started on Rawanda. Hundreds of thousands killed in an active genocide, and not one American bullet fired, not one precious American life put on the line to stop it. Ask Maj. General Romeo Dalaire what he thinks of the US (and the UN) in that situation.
Too bad someone didn't discover oil in any of those places...the Marine Expiditionary Force would have been in there in a heart beat.
As for Saddam, where was this US action back in 1988 when he was gassing the Kurds? Oh yeah, Rummy and the gang were in Bagdad shaking Saddam's hand. Regean was selling him (and OBL) weapons! Hell, you guy's only did it after your second try, and for what appears to be no legal reason (no WMD yet! I guess the UN actually did it).
If this war in Iraq signals a change in US policy making them willing to support NATO and UN led peace keeping and peace making operations around the world, I'm all for it. But considering that a genocide on the scale of Rawanda is currently unfolding in the Congo, with such attrocities as cannabalism occuring daily, and not one peep about it from the US administration, I don't think that's the case (leave alone that they did this last war without support of the UN and most of it's NATO allies). Hell, even Canada is preparing to send troops, and our military is woefully underfunded. But I guess we pick our military conflicts based on morals and needs and not on the number of barrels of oil in the ground.
I believe it is the actions of the current US government that is evil and the good American people who are doing nothing.
I am personally offended by the use of the term 'crimes against humanity' because using it in such a a way diminishes and changes it's real meaning. Eventually we get a watered down, "nice" version, that applies to all sorts of petty "crimes".
For instance, take the phrase 'rule of thumb'. Most of you probably use it every day. It has a 'nice' neutral meaning. It's a 'saying'. About 120 years ago it was the legal definition of the size of the rod you could use to 'legally' beat your wife.
Totally differnt, eh? Do we want that to happen to 'crime against humanity'? Do we want our grandchildren or great-grandchildren snickering when they do something wrong 'woops what a crime against humanity'?
The current situation in the Congo is clearly a "crime against humanity". Systematically enslaving, raping and murdering entire populations based on race, tribe, religion, sex and ethnicity are 'crimes against humanity'.
This term is (and should be) reserved for the worst of the worst, like Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Milosovic, the Holocuast, the Armenian Genocide, Rawanda and their ilk.
All the arguments in this article may make copy protection a 'global tradgedy', 'a historical injustice' etc and should be fought as hard as a 'crime against humanity'. But make no mistake, it is not a crime against humanity.
Language is very important. By voluntarily changing the meaning of such phrases to mean something less than they do, to take away their power, we are all doing Winston Smith's job for him...no police state government needed.
Like Hiesenberg...oh wait, he stayed in Germany. Ok Einstien...oh wait, he came to the States in the 30's due to Nazi persecution of the Jews, years AFTER he had come up with Relativity and Special Relativity. Ok, AGB...oh wait, he invented the telephone in Brantford Ontario, just outside Toronto and simply patented it in the US. How bout Bohr...oh wait, wasn't he in Norway until the end of WWII?
I guess these people just SOLD their ideas to you guys and your corporations created the "we invented it" myth to sell more crap....
It's the "America is the greatest, the rest of the world sucks" attitude that makes other countries and people not like you.
As for you, ass-wipe, no I don't find it ironic at all. Your "American" invention (I assume you mean the net) and all the components that runs on it (or it runs on) are based on the scientific knowledge and inventions of at least one Canadian (Alexander Graham Bell)and a bunch of Europeans (Niels Bohr, Werner Hiesenberg, Marconi, Einstein, Tesla just to name a few).
Where does it say I have to give up my freedom to criticize, my opinions and my freedom of expression to use something that was invented in a particular nation? If that's the logic, all you diabetic Yanks better stop criticizing Canada and Canadians - it's ironic that you are still alive to criticize a country whose techology/invention keeps you alive (insulin).
Don't you find it ironic that you are using a technology originally intended for the free exchange of scientific ideas to stifle freedom and to blindly agree with everything your country does?
Just because an opinion is not the same as that of mainstream US culture doesn't make it evil or wrong.
I don't hate Americans (since a big chunk of my family live there and are US citizens). Call our criticizm "constructive".
Easy Brother...these guys around here get a little testy when you piss in their corn flakes.
God, whatever you do, don't express your own opinion, especially if it runs counter to that of the Americans here or you may be labelled a troll.
Trust me....
Re:firewall? we don't need no stinkin' firewall!
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IT at the CIA
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Otherwise known as "sneaker net"...
Seems better than a firewall to me. They can't hack you if you're not on the network. Isolated networks are always more secure than public ones, as long as the location they are at is physically secure and trust me, places like CSIS, CSE (our NSA) and the Mounties are VERY secure.
Besides, your "friend" could lose his job if he told you what firewall they use on their public facing networks....
+3 Insightful? WTF? Did the all the anti-Java FUD/.ers get their mod points today?
First you place the blame on Java as one of the bloat/UI "candies" that are forcing people to upgrade thier PC. Then you say that Java has mostly expanded on the server market. So which is it? They aren't big currently big in the GUI department (although if you go here, you'll see that is changing). So tell me again how Java, which runs mostly on servers, is forcing people to upgrade their PC because of UI bloat?
Or how this is part of this conspiracy since Java is made by a company that doesn't make a desktop PC, a company that until recently didn't even support the x86 architecture very well, a company that makes high-end servers and workstations that have exceeded your "typical" PC mentioned above for years?
I agree that Java does on the server "what was easy to program and cheap to run using Apache/CGI/PHP/Perl/Python". It also does it faster (Python, by about 20%), with more maintainable code (Perl) and more securely (CGI). Apache (and by extension Jakarta) has always worked hand-in hand with Java quite well. But then, there are times when Perl and Python are the better choice, so use the right tool for the job.
Comparing Swing to Flash is like comparing Gnome with HTML. That's right....apples and oranges. Excellent strawman attack but it doesn't work. The two are for totally different UI environments.
Mods, just because you don't know Java or agree with the FUD doesn't make this guys tripe right.
Slashdot Mirror
American law, Canadian researcher.
Figure it out.
How the hell did Eric Rudolph get access to a computer?
"What then with all the money spent and effort at "Microsoft Labs"?"
Don't Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker work there?
Damn it, where are those mod points?
Somebody mod this guy up.
If that's the case I stand corrected.
Perhaps he was refering to Artillary....
Oh well, live and learn.
Ok let's see....this story is actually a few months old.
Compaq tried this but they don't have the size and clout of "Big Blue"....
Hmmm IBM, Linux on the desktop....
Hmmm....IBM is introducing Linux on the desktop, the Linux vs Windoze wet dream, in a market with the potential for 1.5 Billion new customers and suddenly SCO, with the aid of M$, starts suing IBM for copyright and/or patent infringement and/or contract breach (depending on which day of the week it is) on Linux source code, spreading FUD and trying to chill the acceptance of Linux everywhere.
Hmmm.... combine this with the large IT labour market in India that many firms are "taking advantage of" and suddenly Windoze doesn't look so good as a future enterprise solution.
Perhaps my tinfoil hat is on crooked, but doesn't all of this, timed with the SCO lawsuit and M$ purchasing SCO licensing seem a little to coincidental?
Just a thought on a Monday morning...(going to get some more coffee now)
Bring it on baby.... ;)
My brother is a Sgt. in the Canadian Forces, in an Armoured Unit. From what he tells me, the problem is not over-reliance on technology or "gadgets" but the over-reliance on soldiers with highly specialized job functions. Too specialized, especially in the US armed forces.
Case in point.
A few years ago, he joined in some desert warfare training and war games against a Marine Armoured unit in Arizona. Despite being quite technologically out-classed by the Marines (our army has a few old tanks that are no match for an M1 Abrahms and none of the modern computer equipment) my brother reports that on this and other ocassions (mostly in Wainwright Alberta), his unit matched and defeated the Marines, despite their better equipment.
Why?
They got a "kill" on the guy who drives the tank. No-one else could drive the tank. Or get a "kill" on the guy who can fire the gun. No-one else could fire the gun. Knock out the track. No-one in the tank was also a trained infantry soldier so they could not abandon their tank to fight. Meanwhile, my brother and everyone in his unit are highly trained infrantry soldiers and can do any other soldiers job in the tank. My brother can fire the gun, drive the tank, load the ammo, fire the machine guns. The tank can be operational with only two crew remaining. The tank crew can also act as an infantry unit if their tank is knocked out. Loose one crew member and somebody else can take over immediately.
In the Canadian Forces, this kind of training takes place not because are generals are brilliant, but because we just don't have the manpower to be so specialized. It certainly appears to have worked out well for us.
So I guess instead of thinking up these (albeit cool) high-tech solutions, perhaps the US military should worry about an enemy's ability to render an entire artillary piece useless by shooting the guy who carries the shell from the back of the truck.
At NO TIME did Canada EVER offer to let Saddam stay in our country.
You sir are a LIAR and a propogandist. Why sould the world trust you with anything when you can't even tell the truth about your largest trading partner and closest friend? Imagine what you will say about your enemies.
It's people like you -ignorant,self-centred LIARS- that makes the world hate America. When I was kid, the US was the beacon of freedom and the envy of the world. It hasn't been like that since Jimmy Carter left the White House.
It was a -1 Troll when I made the comment fuck-nut.
At least I have the balls to use my real nic.
Right on brother...you just got a friend.
Thanks.
Ironic? Sure. If that's the way you see it.
/. because I was disgusted with America's (and to some extent the UN as well, but not as much) lack of action toward Kosovo. The US finally did something after being badgered by NATO for years to take a stand in the Balkans(how many rape-camps and Srebnitza's (sp?) does it take?). After Dutch, French and Canadians put their lives on the line for years as part of the UN trying to make peace in the region in other places like Bosnia and Croatia. And don't even get me started on Rawanda. Hundreds of thousands killed in an active genocide, and not one American bullet fired, not one precious American life put on the line to stop it. Ask Maj. General Romeo Dalaire what he thinks of the US (and the UN) in that situation.
I picked that sig back in 1999 when I first signed up for
Too bad someone didn't discover oil in any of those places...the Marine Expiditionary Force would have been in there in a heart beat.
As for Saddam, where was this US action back in 1988 when he was gassing the Kurds? Oh yeah, Rummy and the gang were in Bagdad shaking Saddam's hand. Regean was selling him (and OBL) weapons! Hell, you guy's only did it after your second try, and for what appears to be no legal reason (no WMD yet! I guess the UN actually did it).
If this war in Iraq signals a change in US policy making them willing to support NATO and UN led peace keeping and peace making operations around the world, I'm all for it. But considering that a genocide on the scale of Rawanda is currently unfolding in the Congo, with such attrocities as cannabalism occuring daily, and not one peep about it from the US administration, I don't think that's the case (leave alone that they did this last war without support of the UN and most of it's NATO allies). Hell, even Canada is preparing to send troops, and our military is woefully underfunded. But I guess we pick our military conflicts based on morals and needs and not on the number of barrels of oil in the ground.
I believe it is the actions of the current US government that is evil and the good American people who are doing nothing.
I stand by my sig.
Yep I did. My mistake.
Right on brother!!!
Funny as hell. I guess the American mods can't take a little ribbing.
I get modded down for stuff like this all the time.
If speaking your opinion make you a troll, I don't want any karma points!
Nope...
:)
If I recall
"You might think it's goofy,
buty the Man on the Moon is a Newfie..."
BTW, Only the other Canadians out there will likely get that one, and probably only if they are over 30....
I am personally offended by the use of the term 'crimes against humanity' because using it in such a a way diminishes and changes it's real meaning. Eventually we get a watered down, "nice" version, that applies to all sorts of petty "crimes".
For instance, take the phrase 'rule of thumb'. Most of you probably use it every day. It has a 'nice' neutral meaning. It's a 'saying'. About 120 years ago it was the legal definition of the size of the rod you could use to 'legally' beat your wife.
Totally differnt, eh? Do we want that to happen to 'crime against humanity'? Do we want our grandchildren or great-grandchildren snickering when they do something wrong 'woops what a crime against humanity'?
The current situation in the Congo is clearly a "crime against humanity". Systematically enslaving, raping and murdering entire populations based on race, tribe, religion, sex and ethnicity are 'crimes against humanity'.
This term is (and should be) reserved for the worst of the worst, like Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Milosovic, the Holocuast, the Armenian Genocide, Rawanda and their ilk.
All the arguments in this article may make copy protection a 'global tradgedy', 'a historical injustice' etc and should be fought as hard as a 'crime against humanity'. But make no mistake, it is not a crime against humanity.
Language is very important. By voluntarily changing the meaning of such phrases to mean something less than they do, to take away their power, we are all doing Winston Smith's job for him...no police state government needed.
I'm sure we'll find out about the offending code when it's presented at a news conference by the worlds first cloned human.... :|
Ummm, according to the GPL, it's not theirs if they distributed it under the GPL (which they did).
Like Hiesenberg...oh wait, he stayed in Germany. Ok Einstien...oh wait, he came to the States in the 30's due to Nazi persecution of the Jews, years AFTER he had come up with Relativity and Special Relativity. Ok, AGB...oh wait, he invented the telephone in Brantford Ontario, just outside Toronto and simply patented it in the US. How bout Bohr...oh wait, wasn't he in Norway until the end of WWII?
I guess these people just SOLD their ideas to you guys and your corporations created the "we invented it" myth to sell more crap....
It's the "America is the greatest, the rest of the world sucks" attitude that makes other countries and people not like you.
See? I'm modded as a troll!
Wow.
As for you, ass-wipe, no I don't find it ironic at all. Your "American" invention (I assume you mean the net) and all the components that runs on it (or it runs on) are based on the scientific knowledge and inventions of at least one Canadian (Alexander Graham Bell)and a bunch of Europeans (Niels Bohr, Werner Hiesenberg, Marconi, Einstein, Tesla just to name a few).
Where does it say I have to give up my freedom to criticize, my opinions and my freedom of expression to use something that was invented in a particular nation? If that's the logic, all you diabetic Yanks better stop criticizing Canada and Canadians - it's ironic that you are still alive to criticize a country whose techology/invention keeps you alive (insulin).
Don't you find it ironic that you are using a technology originally intended for the free exchange of scientific ideas to stifle freedom and to blindly agree with everything your country does?
Just because an opinion is not the same as that of mainstream US culture doesn't make it evil or wrong.
I don't hate Americans (since a big chunk of my family live there and are US citizens). Call our criticizm "constructive".
Easy Brother...these guys around here get a little testy when you piss in their corn flakes.
God, whatever you do, don't express your own opinion, especially if it runs counter to that of the Americans here or you may be labelled a troll.
Trust me....
Otherwise known as "sneaker net"...
Seems better than a firewall to me. They can't hack you if you're not on the network. Isolated networks are always more secure than public ones, as long as the location they are at is physically secure and trust me, places like CSIS, CSE (our NSA) and the Mounties are VERY secure.
Besides, your "friend" could lose his job if he told you what firewall they use on their public facing networks....
+3 Insightful? WTF? Did the all the anti-Java FUD /.ers get their mod points today?
First you place the blame on Java as one of the bloat/UI "candies" that are forcing people to upgrade thier PC. Then you say that Java has mostly expanded on the server market. So which is it? They aren't big currently big in the GUI department (although if you go here, you'll see that is changing). So tell me again how Java, which runs mostly on servers, is forcing people to upgrade their PC because of UI bloat?
Or how this is part of this conspiracy since Java is made by a company that doesn't make a desktop PC, a company that until recently didn't even support the x86 architecture very well, a company that makes high-end servers and workstations that have exceeded your "typical" PC mentioned above for years?
I agree that Java does on the server "what was easy to program and cheap to run using Apache/CGI/PHP/Perl/Python". It also does it faster (Python, by about 20%), with more maintainable code (Perl) and more securely (CGI). Apache (and by extension Jakarta) has always worked hand-in hand with Java quite well. But then, there are times when Perl and Python are the better choice, so use the right tool for the job.
Comparing Swing to Flash is like comparing Gnome with HTML. That's right....apples and oranges. Excellent strawman attack but it doesn't work. The two are for totally different UI environments.
Mods, just because you don't know Java or agree with the FUD doesn't make this guys tripe right.
Ok I agree with everything you wrote except the part about the Leafs
:)
GO HABS GO!
or today
GO SENS GO!!!
(I live in Ottawa)
"Know your enemy, know yourself and in a hundred battles you shall not lose"
:)
Sun Tzu