Yeah, it's a classic bubble. The whole thing can turn over just as quickly at those kind of P/E ratios. Whereas MSFT has been quietly stacking profits at around 30% of the P/E of Apple, and I wouldn't be surprised to see dividend declarations either. And look at YHOO, smaller company with great products (flckr, etc), great balance sheet, great presence in Asia (where the next 30 years of stock gains will be had). They aren't a search company but no one wants to look deeper than their homepage. When I look at a stock that just goes up up up, and when everyone I talk to wants to buy more because they "can't lose", that's when I take my money over to a real blue chip. And the fund managers are all having this same conversation right now, what with the tax situation uncertainty and the like.
Yep, it's a classic bubble. Apple doesn't want to support everyone having a iWhatever. They want the rich people who will buy in again and again. Just like at a poker table, you want the saps to keep coming back for more loss. They just happened to have the iPod at the right time, when all us GenXers had some money in the bank. And they took that money and went to smart phones, which was lacking a high-end consumer class device. I wouldn't want anything but a Blackberry for business but the iPhone was sure fun. But with phones, they got tons of cash up front from AT&T for each phone. If the competition was smart, they would start raising prices and increasing quality because that's what the American consumer wants. But, sadly, an iPhone 4 is over $900 in China, and Korea has around 40M cellphone users and only about 1% iPhone. Those are the growth markets, and Apple has NO PULL in ASIA. So anyway, that's why this is a classic bubble. There's not an endless supply of saps to buy iPhones and iPods. But, moore's law keeps marching on, and if battery technology can keep up there's going to be a lot more stuff to cram into the phone space. I think the "internet TV" might come of age soon as well. But as a user of Apple's stuff, it has enough flaws that there are some openings for competition and they don't have all the money yet.
Lets face it, if the server goes down - the server does down. You don't have to worry about watching it - someone will let you know when it goes down. And then you can deal with it when it goes down.
Kid, you gotta get yourself some monitoring software (Nagios, et al). You don't want to wait for someone else to let you know when a server goes down. Just have it kick off a notification to your SMS. Once you have that, you can also have it kick off scripts to automatically fix stuff (restart Tomcat, or whatever).
You will see that you can set the initial congestion window on a given route using
ip route change initcwnd NUMBER
*Where NUMBER=The maximum initial congestion window (cwnd) size in MSS of a TCP connection. I believe applications may also choose socket options although most of the time it's left to the OS. So go ahead and set it to 10 or whatever.
Thank you! This is a stupid idea. First of all, I want *RAM* in my DIMM slots if you're not going to make use of that fast bus.. Secondly, there are already 32 and 64GB microsd flash cards, which are about 1x2cm. So, why not just make a SATA *connector* that is just an SSD, 64-128-256GB. It wouldn't be much larger than the connector itself (think USB keychain flash drive only sata). The only issue is power, but that can be had pretty easily. These things only need 5v I bet, and worst case they need 4 thin wires to carry 1-2W 5 and 12v to them, just make an adapter, super thin daisy chain wire with about 5 or 6 little power connectors and then they plug in on the other side of the SSD. While you're at it, why not just put an SSD "slot" ON THE MOTHERBOARD. Are you serious, they are spending time to make a dimm form factor when they could just as easily design a whole new connector based on existing SATA chipsets and then just have solid state storage right on the motherboard like dimms. And if you're looking for the existing server market, why not just make a self-stick one you can just jam in some corner somewhere? Shit, why not use VELCRO. Anyway, I just got a SATA 90GB Vertex2 (3 1/2" form factor, the actual chips are like 4cm^2, and it's incredible. $2 a GB, but around $2 per MB/s of transfer, which you can't get anywhere else. Don't get me wrong, I want to see more solid state storage, but this DIMM idea is stupid, someone has to stop the children.
Yahoo actually has a pretty strong balance sheet. It's a well run company. They do a lot more than just portals, they have a nice strong tech arm. They sold off Zimbra for $500M to VMware. They have a strong base in Asia which is the fastest growing internet market. They are #2 in search and they have some other hot properties like Flickr.
And as far as new stuff, have you seen YQL? Very cool stuff.
However, they aren't trading at 30x earnings like Google and Apple because they aren't part of the "smartphone bubble" and they don't have a bunch of dumb money investing in them. The smart guys are going short on Apple after Christmas.
Anyway, Yahoo's going to be around for a long time. Yes, they should have taken Microsoft's $50B when they had the chance but they will probably get another chance before this bubble pops.
It's fucking retarded. If you use mac desktops and want to use HFS+ ACL's, you have to use AFP. If you try to use Samba, you're getting stuck with basically posix permissions. Plus, if you get a windows server and you try to connect your mac desktop, you'll find the mac Samba client doesn't respect all the NTFS ACLs. Linux AFP implementation is broken and sucks. Even the FUSE AFP is garbage. You simply cannot connect Mac desktops to a network without AFP in an enterprise environment.
I like their desktops, but someone has to do something. I've been trying to roll my own for some time but the ACLs thing is killing me. I'm about to dump it all for some sort of document management system that does sharepoint and WebDAV and hope for the best.
This was on Prototype This a LONG time ago. It's in the Flying Life Guard episode, and they shoot an inflating life preserver out of a canon. Actually, theirs is even better because the stranded person has a little box that transmits their location to the gun and it puts the life jacket within 10 feet of them. Good show, by the way, and Season One is available on netflix streaming..
That movie is a great metaphor for the hacking scene in the 90's--a metaphor for how you might have seen it from your computer. Sure, the roller blades and VR goggles might be cheesy, but it really captures the essence of the scene, kids vs. the corporate hackers, money vs. punk liberalism. Still brings a smile to my face 10 years later.
They would instantly have your MAC and then track down the person who you bought the laptop from who would describe you, and possibly still have some of the cash you gave them with your fingerprints. Tor is useless if they can watch both ends, and they can and are. U.S. Mail is far more secure than anything you can do on the internet...
There's probably some type of mutex or something (probably called something else in hardware-land) that grants access to a given core to the L2. The more cores you have running, the greater the chance of lock contention (probably called something else in hardware land). So what you do is split the L2 up into chunks, preferably 1-2x the number of cores. Then each one has their own lock. And then you have a massive crossbar switch that connects each core to all the caches. Wait, this sounds like the Opteron.
It already had a first life, and it was called Bob. The new product, Microsoft Bob 3D will feature a 3D environment that looks a lot like your house that you can "do" things in. It'll be amazing. It'll change computers forever.
Yeah, thank god. I'm glad I can spend the time I would have spent clicking the mute button on my remote.........sitting in front of the TV anyway. It's a great day for freedom people. We need to mark this with a special 4chan-style holiday, National Commercial Volume Law Day, where teenagers traditionally secretly turn up the volume of every television and stereo they can find and then mute it causing the next user to be reminded of the glorious freedom of America.
Actually, this is probably wikileaks decentralizing. These guys aren't idiots, there's quite a few PhDs and other savants on the team.
It rose from pretty much nothing, just a domain name. It can rise again as governmentleaks.com, etc. That's the internet. The site is too high profile now to be below the radar of politics. Instead they will release via bittorrent.
It's sad that the media still isn't doing their job and instead acting as shills to tarnish wikileaks. They are being used by the spin doctors. The media response is predictable. They could either go "why didn't we do that" or they can go "we would never do that, we're too professional". Which is the problem--this idea that educated journalism just rehashes what everyone else and the government is saying.
But when you look back in history you see the truely groundbreaking stories that really changed things (like tobacco, watergate, etc) were almost snuffed out by national security and governmental interference, put the reporters at risk of jail, and possibly even assassination attempts.
Yet they prevailed because the printing press enables them to copy their report and send to everyone and there's no way people can call it back. Now, obviously this great power requires responsibility, but in a case where the information is really telling about a war that they are asking us to vote for each year--telling in that it shows the government has lied to us to keep us voting for the war--I think that should come out. If soldiers should die because of the information release, remember who sent them over there to begin with. If they were safely at home it wouldn't be a problem now would it? Furthermore, if the information release leads to the war ending sooner, what about all the lives that will be saved?
Thus it's a bullshit ad-homium argument. "What about the troops?!" I can't believe we're so ignorant in this country that we believe we can have a war where no one dies except the enemy. And I have lots of friends in the military in various capacities, and none of them want to die, and most of them don't want to be there but they also know that it's their job. But the majority of them would give their life to end the war right now and bring all the rest home. I guarantee that.
So, wikileaks needs to decide if this is information that will help end the war, and cause political support for it to buckle in the US or not.
Now my little rant against: I, for one, want to know if I've been lied to. They are spending OUR MONEY (and our kids) on the war and they are asking for me to vote on it again. I want my vote to be based on the most true facts possible.
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C) Terrorists aren't common. This idea that there are millions of terrorists trying to kill you all the time is laughable and has no basis in fact.
Yep, and likewise, and even if the media may try to lead you to believe otherwise, there aren't millions of liberal pinkos trying to take over the country and there aren't millions of rabid christian nazis either. That's just how the politicians try to paint their opponents so they can win votes. Stereotypes are false, there's no one (or very few) that actually fit them! The truth is that, like you know if you look around at EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND WORK WITH, the vast majority of people are normal and fairly independent. There's no 50% LEFT 50% RIGHT. The graphs are wrong and are not a picture of the real reality on almost every issue. There's 95% in the middle with the remaining 5% swinging back and forth by a few points each year. But that would be boring and wouldn't sell papers..
If you read the article (yeah yeah, I'm not new here, but still) it's about updating the legal framework of wiretapping. This isn't Patriot Act stuff where they can just record everything. This is saying, IF we get a warrant, which they already can to wiretap your phone, can we also get email/text/IM/etc? Of course, as computer experts we know that's pretty ignorant because everyone has decent encryption in their computer already and there's nothing they can do about it, short of rooting the keys at Verisign creating duplicate certs and doing MIM attack, which they probably already have.. However, at least having a legal framework is a damn sight better than the Patriot Act style "record everything" which is probably still going on.
Look, even with the current law, there's nothing stopping criminals from using their own encryption to scramble their voice. The government is just trying to prevent companies from getting in the habit of providing secure communications by default. I think it's going to be bad for the digital economy and bad for freedom, but you can't blame them.
I think the current administration is definitely worried about domestic right wing terrorist organizations, who represent a much larger immediate threat at the the moment than your average Islamic terrorist group 5000 miles away. There are bad guys in the U.S. who aren't Muslims and who can use the encryption also. I don't believe this new act will solve anything, and I think there just needs to be more dialog but the problem is the politics today are so emotional that they can't show any "weakness".
Personally, I think we all need to take a step back and realize we're all not very different for one another. We all have to eat and stay warm. We all want our children to grow up healthy and hopefully have a better life than we did. If you look at the devisive issues, they are all of such minor import yet they are all highly emotional issues. This is classic political gamesmanship. The country, from the outside, and by the media portrayals, seems divided into two groups. But really there's just one big group in the middle that 90% belong to and the fringe emotional people pull it back and forth. So, don't believe those graphs that show 46% R 54% D, really it's 90% grey, 6%D 4%R. That's the facts, that's the truth and really doesn't it make you feel so much better that the vast majority of people in this country are so reasonable and normal? Isn't everyone you know kinda normal? Weird, huh!
I gotta say that like so much in this world, it's up to you. Save what you're interested in, and encourage others to do the same. It's all about the copies. Heck, if it wasn't for the invention of the printing press, there would be no bible.
Actually, on second thought, burn it all. All that matters is now anyway.
This shows the beginning of the end for Facebook. Reading the summary they provided provides many details such as the fact they don't have a QA environment or regional segments or anything. It's pretty dangerous to run a site that big like that. And I've read much more they've released that basically says they just hacked mysql replication to update their caches to get it real time across regions. What they should have done to horizontally scale is to implement regional shards and then some type of interregional messaging like how IRC works between servers. It's a huge hack job at this point and it's obvious they are way over their heads and this type of thing proves it. Some post mentioned that "it's not the it's the power company or something" and that's the real harm. Facebook's page views are driven by this national vanity addiction and even being away for 2 or 3 hours means you're not getting that reinforcement and maybe you start reevaluating your use of time. I wouldn't be surprised if they lost 1-2% of their users because of this. But it's going to happen again. Somewhere in that management code there's another one of these. And they just haven't spent the time to have a clean room environment to test updates so they're going to be running scared for the next 3-6 months because of this and they'll probably avoid most updates, which will cause the site to stagnate and (hopefully) die. Zuck gave away that 100M a few days too soon;) Bwahwhahahahah. No, seriously, they've done a lot for the world. I hope they make it. I really do..
Actually, hHopefully that new open source p2p one will come out soon, where you can host your own data in a decentralized fashion, like we're supposed to do. Is there nothing in the computer world cryptographically secure hashes and fast networks can't solve?;) Just virally copy your stuff to your friends (you already know them, ask for their IP and enter it in to your p2p social network client) and hope for the best. Crap, you could probably just use existing IM networks as a transmission protocol to seed the friends database. It's almost too easy. And it will be so much better.
Look at it like this, you can either be centralized (Papist or Catholic tradition) or decentralized (Protestant). There are now more Protestants than Catholics, after many centuries of that not being the case. The Catholics were toppled due to the inability to control their network edge. You're social network is really a decentralized network concept, and they are trying to jam it into a centralized service model. It just won't work. It won't scale. It has to end and it will. SELL YOUR STOCK. (Sell apple too;) Actually, they aren't public, so the IPO should be fairly soon, because their lawyers are telling them to cash out right now as we speak. And yes, I have been drinking.
Yes, companies are "milking the recession". This usually happens at the tail end of a recession, when interest rates are low and inflation is also low, companies are making profits but they are not investing in labor supply. The main thing is maybe capacity isn't fully utilized, maybe they want to buy new equipment, maybe they want to reward the shareholders that stayed through the rough times. I see it at a lot of places, and people I know are seeing it as well. Companies with good balance sheets aren't replacing people as fast, they are milking more work hours out of salary people and they are utilizing temps and contractors as a way to avoid permanent expenses. A few more good quarters and things should start trending back down to the normal structural unemployment rate of around 5-7%. IT is a growth industry so it in turn should return to a normal growth structural unemployment of 3-5%. Having been present on more than a few interviews recently, there's not too many good people out there. If you're out there and you're good, you shouldn't have trouble getting a job. If you can't, you should consider washing your beard and not wearing that T-shirt that looks like the front of a tuxedo to interviews...
I don't know about anyone else, but if congress wants to take over pager patrol and fix my servers at 3am, they are crazier than I thought. Or maybe I'm crazy.
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Yeah, it's a classic bubble. The whole thing can turn over just as quickly at those kind of P/E ratios. Whereas MSFT has been quietly stacking profits at around 30% of the P/E of Apple, and I wouldn't be surprised to see dividend declarations either. And look at YHOO, smaller company with great products (flckr, etc), great balance sheet, great presence in Asia (where the next 30 years of stock gains will be had). They aren't a search company but no one wants to look deeper than their homepage. When I look at a stock that just goes up up up, and when everyone I talk to wants to buy more because they "can't lose", that's when I take my money over to a real blue chip. And the fund managers are all having this same conversation right now, what with the tax situation uncertainty and the like.
Yep, it's a classic bubble. Apple doesn't want to support everyone having a iWhatever. They want the rich people who will buy in again and again. Just like at a poker table, you want the saps to keep coming back for more loss. They just happened to have the iPod at the right time, when all us GenXers had some money in the bank. And they took that money and went to smart phones, which was lacking a high-end consumer class device. I wouldn't want anything but a Blackberry for business but the iPhone was sure fun. But with phones, they got tons of cash up front from AT&T for each phone. If the competition was smart, they would start raising prices and increasing quality because that's what the American consumer wants. But, sadly, an iPhone 4 is over $900 in China, and Korea has around 40M cellphone users and only about 1% iPhone. Those are the growth markets, and Apple has NO PULL in ASIA. So anyway, that's why this is a classic bubble. There's not an endless supply of saps to buy iPhones and iPods. But, moore's law keeps marching on, and if battery technology can keep up there's going to be a lot more stuff to cram into the phone space. I think the "internet TV" might come of age soon as well. But as a user of Apple's stuff, it has enough flaws that there are some openings for competition and they don't have all the money yet.
Lets face it, if the server goes down - the server does down. You don't have to worry about watching it - someone will let you know when it goes down. And then you can deal with it when it goes down.
Kid, you gotta get yourself some monitoring software (Nagios, et al). You don't want to wait for someone else to let you know when a server goes down. Just have it kick off a notification to your SMS. Once you have that, you can also have it kick off scripts to automatically fix stuff (restart Tomcat, or whatever).
If you type
man ip
You will see that you can set the initial congestion window on a given route using
ip route change initcwnd NUMBER
*Where NUMBER=The maximum initial congestion window (cwnd) size in MSS of a TCP connection. I believe applications may also choose socket options although most of the time it's left to the OS. So go ahead and set it to 10 or whatever.
Thank you! This is a stupid idea. First of all, I want *RAM* in my DIMM slots if you're not going to make use of that fast bus.. Secondly, there are already 32 and 64GB microsd flash cards, which are about 1x2cm. So, why not just make a SATA *connector* that is just an SSD, 64-128-256GB. It wouldn't be much larger than the connector itself (think USB keychain flash drive only sata). The only issue is power, but that can be had pretty easily. These things only need 5v I bet, and worst case they need 4 thin wires to carry 1-2W 5 and 12v to them, just make an adapter, super thin daisy chain wire with about 5 or 6 little power connectors and then they plug in on the other side of the SSD. While you're at it, why not just put an SSD "slot" ON THE MOTHERBOARD. Are you serious, they are spending time to make a dimm form factor when they could just as easily design a whole new connector based on existing SATA chipsets and then just have solid state storage right on the motherboard like dimms. And if you're looking for the existing server market, why not just make a self-stick one you can just jam in some corner somewhere? Shit, why not use VELCRO. Anyway, I just got a SATA 90GB Vertex2 (3 1/2" form factor, the actual chips are like 4cm^2, and it's incredible. $2 a GB, but around $2 per MB/s of transfer, which you can't get anywhere else. Don't get me wrong, I want to see more solid state storage, but this DIMM idea is stupid, someone has to stop the children.
Yahoo actually has a pretty strong balance sheet. It's a well run company. They do a lot more than just portals, they have a nice strong tech arm. They sold off Zimbra for $500M to VMware. They have a strong base in Asia which is the fastest growing internet market. They are #2 in search and they have some other hot properties like Flickr.
And as far as new stuff, have you seen YQL? Very cool stuff.
However, they aren't trading at 30x earnings like Google and Apple because they aren't part of the "smartphone bubble" and they don't have a bunch of dumb money investing in them. The smart guys are going short on Apple after Christmas.
Anyway, Yahoo's going to be around for a long time. Yes, they should have taken Microsoft's $50B when they had the chance but they will probably get another chance before this bubble pops.
It's fucking retarded. If you use mac desktops and want to use HFS+ ACL's, you have to use AFP. If you try to use Samba, you're getting stuck with basically posix permissions. Plus, if you get a windows server and you try to connect your mac desktop, you'll find the mac Samba client doesn't respect all the NTFS ACLs. Linux AFP implementation is broken and sucks. Even the FUSE AFP is garbage. You simply cannot connect Mac desktops to a network without AFP in an enterprise environment.
I like their desktops, but someone has to do something. I've been trying to roll my own for some time but the ACLs thing is killing me. I'm about to dump it all for some sort of document management system that does sharepoint and WebDAV and hope for the best.
This was on Prototype This a LONG time ago. It's in the Flying Life Guard episode, and they shoot an inflating life preserver out of a canon. Actually, theirs is even better because the stranded person has a little box that transmits their location to the gun and it puts the life jacket within 10 feet of them. Good show, by the way, and Season One is available on netflix streaming..
That movie is a great metaphor for the hacking scene in the 90's--a metaphor for how you might have seen it from your computer. Sure, the roller blades and VR goggles might be cheesy, but it really captures the essence of the scene, kids vs. the corporate hackers, money vs. punk liberalism. Still brings a smile to my face 10 years later.
They would instantly have your MAC and then track down the person who you bought the laptop from who would describe you, and possibly still have some of the cash you gave them with your fingerprints. Tor is useless if they can watch both ends, and they can and are. U.S. Mail is far more secure than anything you can do on the internet...
There's probably some type of mutex or something (probably called something else in hardware-land) that grants access to a given core to the L2. The more cores you have running, the greater the chance of lock contention (probably called something else in hardware land). So what you do is split the L2 up into chunks, preferably 1-2x the number of cores. Then each one has their own lock. And then you have a massive crossbar switch that connects each core to all the caches. Wait, this sounds like the Opteron.
You must be new here.
Thanks, that ruined my day.
3 Words: Microsoft Bob 3D.
It already had a first life, and it was called Bob. The new product, Microsoft Bob 3D will feature a 3D environment that looks a lot like your house that you can "do" things in. It'll be amazing. It'll change computers forever.
Yeah, thank god. I'm glad I can spend the time I would have spent clicking the mute button on my remote.........sitting in front of the TV anyway. It's a great day for freedom people. We need to mark this with a special 4chan-style holiday, National Commercial Volume Law Day, where teenagers traditionally secretly turn up the volume of every television and stereo they can find and then mute it causing the next user to be reminded of the glorious freedom of America.
Actually, this is probably wikileaks decentralizing. These guys aren't idiots, there's quite a few PhDs and other savants on the team.
It rose from pretty much nothing, just a domain name. It can rise again as governmentleaks.com, etc. That's the internet. The site is too high profile now to be below the radar of politics. Instead they will release via bittorrent.
It's sad that the media still isn't doing their job and instead acting as shills to tarnish wikileaks. They are being used by the spin doctors. The media response is predictable. They could either go "why didn't we do that" or they can go "we would never do that, we're too professional". Which is the problem--this idea that educated journalism just rehashes what everyone else and the government is saying.
But when you look back in history you see the truely groundbreaking stories that really changed things (like tobacco, watergate, etc) were almost snuffed out by national security and governmental interference, put the reporters at risk of jail, and possibly even assassination attempts.
Yet they prevailed because the printing press enables them to copy their report and send to everyone and there's no way people can call it back. Now, obviously this great power requires responsibility, but in a case where the information is really telling about a war that they are asking us to vote for each year--telling in that it shows the government has lied to us to keep us voting for the war--I think that should come out. If soldiers should die because of the information release, remember who sent them over there to begin with. If they were safely at home it wouldn't be a problem now would it? Furthermore, if the information release leads to the war ending sooner, what about all the lives that will be saved?
Thus it's a bullshit ad-homium argument. "What about the troops?!" I can't believe we're so ignorant in this country that we believe we can have a war where no one dies except the enemy. And I have lots of friends in the military in various capacities, and none of them want to die, and most of them don't want to be there but they also know that it's their job. But the majority of them would give their life to end the war right now and bring all the rest home. I guarantee that.
So, wikileaks needs to decide if this is information that will help end the war, and cause political support for it to buckle in the US or not.
Now my little rant against: I, for one, want to know if I've been lied to. They are spending OUR MONEY (and our kids) on the war and they are asking for me to vote on it again. I want my vote to be based on the most true facts possible.
You know what this site could use? Editors.
You must be new here.
C) Terrorists aren't common. This idea that there are millions of terrorists trying to kill you all the time is laughable and has no basis in fact.
Yep, and likewise, and even if the media may try to lead you to believe otherwise, there aren't millions of liberal pinkos trying to take over the country and there aren't millions of rabid christian nazis either. That's just how the politicians try to paint their opponents so they can win votes. Stereotypes are false, there's no one (or very few) that actually fit them! The truth is that, like you know if you look around at EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND WORK WITH, the vast majority of people are normal and fairly independent. There's no 50% LEFT 50% RIGHT. The graphs are wrong and are not a picture of the real reality on almost every issue. There's 95% in the middle with the remaining 5% swinging back and forth by a few points each year. But that would be boring and wouldn't sell papers..
If you read the article (yeah yeah, I'm not new here, but still) it's about updating the legal framework of wiretapping. This isn't Patriot Act stuff where they can just record everything. This is saying, IF we get a warrant, which they already can to wiretap your phone, can we also get email/text/IM/etc? Of course, as computer experts we know that's pretty ignorant because everyone has decent encryption in their computer already and there's nothing they can do about it, short of rooting the keys at Verisign creating duplicate certs and doing MIM attack, which they probably already have.. However, at least having a legal framework is a damn sight better than the Patriot Act style "record everything" which is probably still going on.
Look, even with the current law, there's nothing stopping criminals from using their own encryption to scramble their voice. The government is just trying to prevent companies from getting in the habit of providing secure communications by default. I think it's going to be bad for the digital economy and bad for freedom, but you can't blame them.
I think the current administration is definitely worried about domestic right wing terrorist organizations, who represent a much larger immediate threat at the the moment than your average Islamic terrorist group 5000 miles away. There are bad guys in the U.S. who aren't Muslims and who can use the encryption also. I don't believe this new act will solve anything, and I think there just needs to be more dialog but the problem is the politics today are so emotional that they can't show any "weakness".
Personally, I think we all need to take a step back and realize we're all not very different for one another. We all have to eat and stay warm. We all want our children to grow up healthy and hopefully have a better life than we did. If you look at the devisive issues, they are all of such minor import yet they are all highly emotional issues. This is classic political gamesmanship. The country, from the outside, and by the media portrayals, seems divided into two groups. But really there's just one big group in the middle that 90% belong to and the fringe emotional people pull it back and forth. So, don't believe those graphs that show 46% R 54% D, really it's 90% grey, 6%D 4%R. That's the facts, that's the truth and really doesn't it make you feel so much better that the vast majority of people in this country are so reasonable and normal? Isn't everyone you know kinda normal? Weird, huh!
Who's taking that responsibility?
I gotta say that like so much in this world, it's up to you. Save what you're interested in, and encourage others to do the same. It's all about the copies. Heck, if it wasn't for the invention of the printing press, there would be no bible.
Actually, on second thought, burn it all. All that matters is now anyway.
This shows the beginning of the end for Facebook. Reading the summary they provided provides many details such as the fact they don't have a QA environment or regional segments or anything. It's pretty dangerous to run a site that big like that. And I've read much more they've released that basically says they just hacked mysql replication to update their caches to get it real time across regions. What they should have done to horizontally scale is to implement regional shards and then some type of interregional messaging like how IRC works between servers. It's a huge hack job at this point and it's obvious they are way over their heads and this type of thing proves it. Some post mentioned that "it's not the it's the power company or something" and that's the real harm. Facebook's page views are driven by this national vanity addiction and even being away for 2 or 3 hours means you're not getting that reinforcement and maybe you start reevaluating your use of time. I wouldn't be surprised if they lost 1-2% of their users because of this. But it's going to happen again. Somewhere in that management code there's another one of these. And they just haven't spent the time to have a clean room environment to test updates so they're going to be running scared for the next 3-6 months because of this and they'll probably avoid most updates, which will cause the site to stagnate and (hopefully) die. Zuck gave away that 100M a few days too soon ;) Bwahwhahahahah. No, seriously, they've done a lot for the world. I hope they make it. I really do..
Actually, hHopefully that new open source p2p one will come out soon, where you can host your own data in a decentralized fashion, like we're supposed to do. Is there nothing in the computer world cryptographically secure hashes and fast networks can't solve? ;) Just virally copy your stuff to your friends (you already know them, ask for their IP and enter it in to your p2p social network client) and hope for the best. Crap, you could probably just use existing IM networks as a transmission protocol to seed the friends database. It's almost too easy. And it will be so much better.
Look at it like this, you can either be centralized (Papist or Catholic tradition) or decentralized (Protestant). There are now more Protestants than Catholics, after many centuries of that not being the case. The Catholics were toppled due to the inability to control their network edge. You're social network is really a decentralized network concept, and they are trying to jam it into a centralized service model. It just won't work. It won't scale. It has to end and it will. SELL YOUR STOCK. (Sell apple too ;) Actually, they aren't public, so the IPO should be fairly soon, because their lawyers are telling them to cash out right now as we speak. And yes, I have been drinking.
Yes, companies are "milking the recession". This usually happens at the tail end of a recession, when interest rates are low and inflation is also low, companies are making profits but they are not investing in labor supply. The main thing is maybe capacity isn't fully utilized, maybe they want to buy new equipment, maybe they want to reward the shareholders that stayed through the rough times. I see it at a lot of places, and people I know are seeing it as well. Companies with good balance sheets aren't replacing people as fast, they are milking more work hours out of salary people and they are utilizing temps and contractors as a way to avoid permanent expenses. A few more good quarters and things should start trending back down to the normal structural unemployment rate of around 5-7%. IT is a growth industry so it in turn should return to a normal growth structural unemployment of 3-5%. Having been present on more than a few interviews recently, there's not too many good people out there. If you're out there and you're good, you shouldn't have trouble getting a job. If you can't, you should consider washing your beard and not wearing that T-shirt that looks like the front of a tuxedo to interviews...
I know it's a lot to ask these days to get people to read the comments that they are replying to,
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I don't know about anyone else, but if congress wants to take over pager patrol and fix my servers at 3am, they are crazier than I thought. Or maybe I'm crazy.