I used KeePass for a long time on linux, but having to use mono sucked, and I felt like there was minimal work going on with the plugin, and the software in general for that matter.
I feel like the weakest link to all password managers is the browser plugin. With that conclusion, I decided to go with LastPass, because I always see their name listed as paying well for bug bounties. I figure that significantly reduces the chances of there being a major 0 day vulnerability in their plugin over the other guys who in general have pretty lackluster dev cycles, and don't seem to have much of a bug bounty presence.
I also do things like: require multi factor, don't auto load passwords on any sites, etc to mitigate my risk using lastpass.
It's a risk - lastpass is a big target, but it seems like they do a good job of taking security seriously, so I decided I was better off with my passwords stored in a world that is actively attacked, but also actively defended instead of a world that is mostly ignored.
Whether or not those rockstars are also assholes is irrelevant. Mediocre skills will get you mediocre results. You need visionaries, and people who think outside the range of 3-7. Their ideas often fall outside the range of acceptability, and as a result aren't always implemented, but thats where part of the arrogance you're talking about comes from. They may come up with 15 ideas to solve a problem -- none of which get implemented. If they didn't have any self confidence they'd be discouraged (much like you are). It takes self confidence to be on the edge of something, and have the confidence to walk it.
I'm a consultant, and I've worked with a lot of startups. The ones with rockstars do great things. The ones without, trod along, and sometimes don't die.. but rarely do great things. That being said, the world needs 7's too. In fact we need more 7's than we do rock stars. But great things don't happen on their own. We need rockstars to push them forward.
I forgot about that... But at the time it didn't matter.. I must admit it would be cool to have a 2 or 3 digit number now.. but I guess 4 digit is still cool:)
Happy B-Day Slashdot... Maybe I'll attend the Palo Alto party
I got the same thing from him, he also noted that you cannot copy from your HP device TO Your computer. thats their attempt at, quote "avoiding napster like situations" According to him, the source code will not be available, at all. I will gladly spend my thousand bucks elsewhere.
pimpwar.com is a very hilarious game, which is turn based, although the turns to come about fairly quickly, its still turn based, and its a whole lot of fun!
I just tonight figured out how to get my aironet, and my 2.4GHz phone working in the same house. Up until tonight, anytime I used the phone, my wireless network would cut out (it defaulted ot using channel 6), It turns out I had to change the channel on the receiving base side (I changed it to 11, as far away from 6 as possible). Now when I pickup the phone, no matter how close to the base or PC card on laptop, the wireless continues to work as well as when the phone wasn't in use. I'm still only in the fair category though, and my guess is, because I live in an apartment complex in the silicon valley, probably full of 2.4GHz phones, other wireless networks, etc etc. This phone works ok, but I had to do the configuring with the wireless network, it would have been nice if I could have set the channels on both the network AND the phone side. But this model of phone simply doesn't offer that. That would be one thing to look for.
All those who colocate, in various datacenters (globalcenter here), be wary, of what your contracts say. If you have interruptable power supplies, you may get pulled. GlobalCenter is currently pulling all those who don't have massive power supply contracts... Buyer beware!:)
Google is fucked. They have 2000+ 1U boxes in their cage across from us. GlobalCenter keeps yelling at them to redistribute some of their boxes.. They haven't fast enough. If google slows down today.. thats why:) (PS.. their heat planning was so spectacular, that in a fit of panic, they stuck 15 giant home depot style, flood drying fans on top of their cages, to help disipate the heat (disipate it INTO our cage mind you..) *grumble grumble grumble*
this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.. Half of the things he uses to claim its not a community, have never been claimed to MAKE a community.. He says that because we 'log off' to do certain things, thats part of what makes it not a community.. Well, the town I live in, is a community. I go outside of my town all the time to do things. Shop, play, learn, etc. Not EVERYTHING can be done in your community.. it wouldn't be a community it would be a compound... or some type of religious cult. He also claims that the internet is only for the elitists... and thats balogna.. I paid about 600 dollars for a computer, which I can do everything I want to do online. IRC, web surf, read news groups, and login to a unix shell. All of that is a part of my community.. my realm. I know plenty of 'poor people' who spend more than 600 dollars on a bicycle.. or especially on a CAR... I don't think its quite the utopia, that sci fi books would write about.. But it certainly does have characteristics of a community.. or SEVERAL communities. people form together, and do stuff.. for one reason or another.. and yes it may contain commerce (too much if you ask me).. but thats PART of a community. After all.. you can have all the good will, and love, and voting, and all that stuff that you want.. but If you can't buy your groceries, and your bedroom furniture, how long will your community last? (I think the internet would be fine with a hell of a lot less commerce, but that doesn't make it a non-community..).
~fin~
I think you missed the point of that post.. the post wasn't a jab at your number of readers.. it was a jab at slashdot posting it MORE than you have;) Pretty funny..
I had ISDN for a few years, when DSL wasn't available where I lived. When I moved I was all hopped up on getting DSL, but was out of the area, so I got Cable. I loved cable. I moved one more time, and tried to keep my beloved cable, but I couldn't... So now I'm "stuck" with DSL.. granted its better than a modem.. and the speed is better than ISDN (most of the time).. but frankly the latency SUCKS.. I use pac bell.. and their radius servers are always going down, and it gets slow as hell sometimes. Its kinda like politics.. you choose the lesser of two evils.. and I'll take a shitty DSL connection over a shitty modem connection anyday.. its too bad though that such a cool product is so shitty... but thats what we were saying 2 or 3 years ago when DSL was ramping up.. "gee thats pretty cool... all that bandwidth for 70 bucks a month, but I wonder how long that will last?".. Our upstream provider (i worked at an ISP btw:)), started selling DSL, and in talking to them, they only provisioned enough for a 56k connection for all their customers they planned on having.. so at the beginning it was great.. now it sucks.
Thats not true.. Ever tried sending a DCC to someone not on IRC?:) you send the request over the IRC network, then the connection is finished, client to client, without the irc server. I'm not an expert on how napster does it, but I'm guessing its similar.
And whats wrong with a JC? I am the same type as these kids in the article. I actually started at 15, when I tested out of High School, moved out of my parents house, and got a job at an ISP.. Now I'm making almost 80k/year. The whole time I was taking junior college courses! Theres no other place where you can learn photography, radio broadcasting, television broadcasting, art, and geology, for couple of hundred bucks a semester! its wonderful. You get to meet all different kinds of people.. not everyone has lots of money behind them, and you get to experience different things. I'm not saying its BETTER than a university.. but they're certainly not worth shuddering about. Yeah, you'll find plenty of morons taking high school classes.. but if you take the right classes you'll also find an eclectic group of people, who can help expand your horizons, and who's horizons YOU can expand. I will continue taking JC courses my whole life. and be proud of it the whole time:)
Is it being rented out as a private party so us not quite so legal folk (18-20) can get in? Is there a charge? whats the deal here man?? Do I need a slick piece of paper to get in? if I print out the slashdot article does that count as an invitation???
I used to go through the same dillema every time I setup a system, then I discovered Veritas Volume Manager! You can adjust things as you need them changed. I don't know what type of environment you're in.. but I was always in fairly small environments, and sometimes a system purpose would change drastically, 6 months after it was up. And you don't want to have to move all the data over someplace else, rebuild another file system, etc etc.. With Veritas, you can just go in and change the size of the volume (partition), and the filesystem, with just a few short keyboard clicks.. and I think it even has a nifty GUI, where you can drag and pull and stuff. Check it out at veritas.com. as to your question.. make the place you'll be storing data big.. (not sure where that will be on your system).. make the place you'll be storing binaries, not so big (a gig or so over what you need initially).. and make the partition your logs will be on huge. theres nothing worse than having your/var partition fill up at 3am...
See if you can partner with a small local ISP (do they exist anymore) to help them architect something. Or get an intern type job that the whole class can do. Have them develop something that will be seen in a REAL environment (not just by school teachers, and parents, and on the schools website). That will really get them interested. And definately not boring, when they have deadlines, and requirements, that aren't just for grades! (depending on what grade they're in.. they might get really excited because if they do a good job, the company you partner with, might be more likely to hire them, or help them find a job.. a reference from a real business would be a great start for them!)
YES it is that big.. but its all built on 'potential' not everybody turns profit, none of them actually OWN anything. my god, what if war breaks? nobodys going to give a patoot about flash animations, sun clusters, or 'high business availability' if canada is bombing Oklahoma! This area is so ridiculously expensive to live in, that once people come here, they leave after a few months (I'm considering doing the same thing, I'm making almost 80k/year and i'm not 'moving forward' with my life.. i'm only surviving).. and even if you want to pay 2400/month (what I'm paying) for a place to live, you're lucky if you can FIND it (the apt complex I live in has a 3 month waiting list). So once companies start moving out of the area to cheaper places with better housing, I can easily see all these huge mega corp buildings that were once orchards, turning into squats for (former dot-com ceo) bums. Can you imagine seeing Tasman drive without Cisco? (for all non Silicon Valley residents, CISCO has at least 20 huge buildings on Tasman road, which is basically owned by cisco)
Not that this really answers your question.. But I can tell you that I personally would never purchase a book to read online... I read PDF/HOWTO's/whitepapers/knowledgebases/etc all day long.. if I want to read a book.. I'll pay the extra 9 bucks (even 20! or more!) to have something i can flip through.. and something I can throw in my backpack (I don't care what kind of electronic device I have, Its still not as versatile as a paper book). Now.. SELLING it online might be good.. sort of bypassing the distributor.. but that would all depend on how good of a marketer you are.. Even then, if its your first book (not sure if you said it was or not), do it the regular ways.. you'll be much smarter in the long run.
I read the newspaper to get the local news.. which I wouldn't feel right clicking a mouse through... I live in a small town.. and reading about how theres a folk festival, at a local park, just wouldn't feel right unless it was on paper that made my fingers black... and don't forget about COUPONS! I live on coupons.. since I don't cook, and i never have any food in my house for others to cook for me (granted, there are few willing to actually do that).. I use LOTS of coupons.. to burrito joints, pizza joints, burger joints, etc etc.. and the newspaper is a great place to find out about sales and coupons and such... can't get that from slashdot, or news.com.
well, he does have the right unless he waives it.. which he does in his parole hearing.. they'll offer him an early release on the conditin of "X" things.. also, someone gave the example of a drivers license.. same type of situation.. when you sign up for your drivers license you agree that your license can be revoked on certain conditions (one of which is certain crimes like DUI). So while a JUDGE (or committee or whatever) cannot take away those privilages, he can sign them away in return for things to his advantage (escaping bubba).. although he was in lompoc federal prison for at least the last part (donno where he was before that)... i live near lompoc and its a pussy prison. its all crooked bankers, telemarketing scammers, etc etc... if anything he learned other ways to scam money from people while in there:) pretty good trade if you can't use computers.
If you look at the previews and go "hey cool, I think i'd like to see that", then go see it, you'll be very pleased by it. if you look at the previews and you think you'll hate it, then you probably will... so DON'T GO.. if you're not sure, then ask a friend who did see it.. I took my girlfriend who had never heard of andy kaufman, and she thought it was very funny, and she even cried at the end (of course, she cries when she burns a piece of chicken.. so i donno what that says). I thought the movie was hilarious.. in fact it was the first movie I went to in a long time wher I actually laughed _out loud_ during the film. so did at least half the audience. and if you hate jim carrey, I'd still see it. Jim is nothing like his normal characters. I am not a huge fan of the mask, and dumb and dumber, and the many others he's done.. but I thought this was a great movie.
I'd like to see a poll on how many hours we spend actively using the net each day. Constant connections don't count. Only time that you spend actively using the net. Sitting in front of the computer would be good criteria.. after all.. even if i'm watching my 100 meg file download.. i still consider that using the net. If I set it to download, then walk away however, i don't (for this context anyways). I probably spend 10 hours a day at least in front of my computer. maybe more. I work with computers, I go to school where i take mostly computer related courses. My girlfriend recently moved to another state, so we communicate mostly through the net.
being a microsoft employee is not like being an employee of any other comapny... if I were to stick up publicly for my company.. it wouldn't be a big deal. No one would think i'm evil. However, anyone from microsoft sticking up for microsoft is automatically considered evil by most. If I worked for microsoft, and wanted to state my opinion, I would do it anonymously as well. As for the lying about his consulting firm.. he has to establish somehow that he knows what he's talkin about and he's not just some crackpot. In short, its not a big deal.
if anything the government will start taxing backbone providers per packet sent. possibly under some sort of interstate tariff type law? Its much easier and cost efficient to tax the backbone, then let them worry about passing the extra charges along to the customers. (then the customers customers, etc etc)... of course.. this IS the US government we're talking about here... the home of the $250 2.5 gallon gas can.
After reading some of his comments I got a feeling of arrogance from him... Maybe he's just honest.. its hard to tell sometimes with really smart people if they're arogant a$$es or just being honest...
I love the fact that its 356 grand (plus a miniscule 17 grand to have it installed), and you can ORDER IT ON THIER WEBPAGE! hehehe I don't think my Visa limit is that high...
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I used KeePass for a long time on linux, but having to use mono sucked, and I felt like there was minimal work going on with the plugin, and the software in general for that matter.
I feel like the weakest link to all password managers is the browser plugin. With that conclusion, I decided to go with LastPass, because I always see their name listed as paying well for bug bounties. I figure that significantly reduces the chances of there being a major 0 day vulnerability in their plugin over the other guys who in general have pretty lackluster dev cycles, and don't seem to have much of a bug bounty presence.
I also do things like: require multi factor, don't auto load passwords on any sites, etc to mitigate my risk using lastpass.
It's a risk - lastpass is a big target, but it seems like they do a good job of taking security seriously, so I decided I was better off with my passwords stored in a world that is actively attacked, but also actively defended instead of a world that is mostly ignored.
Whether or not those rockstars are also assholes is irrelevant. Mediocre skills will get you mediocre results. You need visionaries, and people who think outside the range of 3-7. Their ideas often fall outside the range of acceptability, and as a result aren't always implemented, but thats where part of the arrogance you're talking about comes from. They may come up with 15 ideas to solve a problem -- none of which get implemented. If they didn't have any self confidence they'd be discouraged (much like you are). It takes self confidence to be on the edge of something, and have the confidence to walk it.
I'm a consultant, and I've worked with a lot of startups. The ones with rockstars do great things. The ones without, trod along, and sometimes don't die.. but rarely do great things. That being said, the world needs 7's too. In fact we need more 7's than we do rock stars. But great things don't happen on their own. We need rockstars to push them forward.
I forgot about that... But at the time it didn't matter.. I must admit it would be cool to have a 2 or 3 digit number now.. but I guess 4 digit is still cool :)
Happy B-Day Slashdot... Maybe I'll attend the Palo Alto party
I got the same thing from him, he also noted that you cannot copy from your HP device TO Your computer. thats their attempt at, quote "avoiding napster like situations" According to him, the source code will not be available, at all. I will gladly spend my thousand bucks elsewhere.
pimpwar.com is a very hilarious game, which is turn based, although the turns to come about fairly quickly, its still turn based, and its a whole lot of fun!
I just tonight figured out how to get my aironet, and my 2.4GHz phone working in the same house. Up until tonight, anytime I used the phone, my wireless network would cut out (it defaulted ot using channel 6), It turns out I had to change the channel on the receiving base side (I changed it to 11, as far away from 6 as possible). Now when I pickup the phone, no matter how close to the base or PC card on laptop, the wireless continues to work as well as when the phone wasn't in use. I'm still only in the fair category though, and my guess is, because I live in an apartment complex in the silicon valley, probably full of 2.4GHz phones, other wireless networks, etc etc. This phone works ok, but I had to do the configuring with the wireless network, it would have been nice if I could have set the channels on both the network AND the phone side. But this model of phone simply doesn't offer that. That would be one thing to look for.
All those who colocate, in various datacenters (globalcenter here), be wary, of what your contracts say. If you have interruptable power supplies, you may get pulled. GlobalCenter is currently pulling all those who don't have massive power supply contracts... Buyer beware! :)
Google is fucked. They have 2000+ 1U boxes in their cage across from us. GlobalCenter keeps yelling at them to redistribute some of their boxes.. They haven't fast enough. If google slows down today.. thats why :) (PS.. their heat planning was so spectacular, that in a fit of panic, they stuck 15 giant home depot style, flood drying fans on top of their cages, to help disipate the heat (disipate it INTO our cage mind you..) *grumble grumble grumble*
this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.. Half of the things he uses to claim its not a community, have never been claimed to MAKE a community.. He says that because we 'log off' to do certain things, thats part of what makes it not a community.. Well, the town I live in, is a community. I go outside of my town all the time to do things. Shop, play, learn, etc. Not EVERYTHING can be done in your community.. it wouldn't be a community it would be a compound... or some type of religious cult. He also claims that the internet is only for the elitists... and thats balogna.. I paid about 600 dollars for a computer, which I can do everything I want to do online. IRC, web surf, read news groups, and login to a unix shell. All of that is a part of my community.. my realm. I know plenty of 'poor people' who spend more than 600 dollars on a bicycle.. or especially on a CAR... I don't think its quite the utopia, that sci fi books would write about.. But it certainly does have characteristics of a community.. or SEVERAL communities. people form together, and do stuff.. for one reason or another.. and yes it may contain commerce (too much if you ask me).. but thats PART of a community. After all.. you can have all the good will, and love, and voting, and all that stuff that you want.. but If you can't buy your groceries, and your bedroom furniture, how long will your community last? (I think the internet would be fine with a hell of a lot less commerce, but that doesn't make it a non-community..).
~fin~
I think you missed the point of that post.. the post wasn't a jab at your number of readers.. it was a jab at slashdot posting it MORE than you have ;) Pretty funny..
I had ISDN for a few years, when DSL wasn't available where I lived. When I moved I was all hopped up on getting DSL, but was out of the area, so I got Cable. I loved cable. I moved one more time, and tried to keep my beloved cable, but I couldn't... So now I'm "stuck" with DSL.. granted its better than a modem.. and the speed is better than ISDN (most of the time).. but frankly the latency SUCKS.. I use pac bell.. and their radius servers are always going down, and it gets slow as hell sometimes. Its kinda like politics.. you choose the lesser of two evils.. and I'll take a shitty DSL connection over a shitty modem connection anyday.. its too bad though that such a cool product is so shitty... but thats what we were saying 2 or 3 years ago when DSL was ramping up.. "gee thats pretty cool... all that bandwidth for 70 bucks a month, but I wonder how long that will last?".. Our upstream provider (i worked at an ISP btw :)), started selling DSL, and in talking to them, they only provisioned enough for a 56k connection for all their customers they planned on having.. so at the beginning it was great.. now it sucks.
Thats not true.. Ever tried sending a DCC to someone not on IRC? :) you send the request over the IRC network, then the connection is finished, client to client, without the irc server. I'm not an expert on how napster does it, but I'm guessing its similar.
And whats wrong with a JC? I am the same type as these kids in the article. I actually started at 15, when I tested out of High School, moved out of my parents house, and got a job at an ISP.. Now I'm making almost 80k/year. The whole time I was taking junior college courses! Theres no other place where you can learn photography, radio broadcasting, television broadcasting, art, and geology, for couple of hundred bucks a semester! its wonderful. You get to meet all different kinds of people.. not everyone has lots of money behind them, and you get to experience different things. I'm not saying its BETTER than a university.. but they're certainly not worth shuddering about. Yeah, you'll find plenty of morons taking high school classes.. but if you take the right classes you'll also find an eclectic group of people, who can help expand your horizons, and who's horizons YOU can expand. I will continue taking JC courses my whole life. and be proud of it the whole time :)
Is it being rented out as a private party so us not quite so legal folk (18-20) can get in? Is there a charge? whats the deal here man?? Do I need a slick piece of paper to get in? if I print out the slashdot article does that count as an invitation???
I used to go through the same dillema every time I setup a system, then I discovered Veritas Volume Manager! You can adjust things as you need them changed. I don't know what type of environment you're in.. but I was always in fairly small environments, and sometimes a system purpose would change drastically, 6 months after it was up. And you don't want to have to move all the data over someplace else, rebuild another file system, etc etc.. With Veritas, you can just go in and change the size of the volume (partition), and the filesystem, with just a few short keyboard clicks.. and I think it even has a nifty GUI, where you can drag and pull and stuff. Check it out at veritas.com. as to your question.. make the place you'll be storing data big.. (not sure where that will be on your system).. make the place you'll be storing binaries, not so big (a gig or so over what you need initially).. and make the partition your logs will be on huge. theres nothing worse than having your /var partition fill up at 3am...
See if you can partner with a small local ISP (do they exist anymore) to help them architect something. Or get an intern type job that the whole class can do. Have them develop something that will be seen in a REAL environment (not just by school teachers, and parents, and on the schools website). That will really get them interested. And definately not boring, when they have deadlines, and requirements, that aren't just for grades! (depending on what grade they're in.. they might get really excited because if they do a good job, the company you partner with, might be more likely to hire them, or help them find a job.. a reference from a real business would be a great start for them!)
YES it is that big.. but its all built on 'potential' not everybody turns profit, none of them actually OWN anything. my god, what if war breaks? nobodys going to give a patoot about flash animations, sun clusters, or 'high business availability' if canada is bombing Oklahoma! This area is so ridiculously expensive to live in, that once people come here, they leave after a few months (I'm considering doing the same thing, I'm making almost 80k/year and i'm not 'moving forward' with my life.. i'm only surviving).. and even if you want to pay 2400/month (what I'm paying) for a place to live, you're lucky if you can FIND it (the apt complex I live in has a 3 month waiting list). So once companies start moving out of the area to cheaper places with better housing, I can easily see all these huge mega corp buildings that were once orchards, turning into squats for (former dot-com ceo) bums. Can you imagine seeing Tasman drive without Cisco? (for all non Silicon Valley residents, CISCO has at least 20 huge buildings on Tasman road, which is basically owned by cisco)
Not that this really answers your question.. But I can tell you that I personally would never purchase a book to read online... I read PDF/HOWTO's/whitepapers/knowledgebases/etc all day long.. if I want to read a book.. I'll pay the extra 9 bucks (even 20! or more!) to have something i can flip through.. and something I can throw in my backpack (I don't care what kind of electronic device I have, Its still not as versatile as a paper book). Now.. SELLING it online might be good.. sort of bypassing the distributor.. but that would all depend on how good of a marketer you are.. Even then, if its your first book (not sure if you said it was or not), do it the regular ways.. you'll be much smarter in the long run.
I read the newspaper to get the local news.. which I wouldn't feel right clicking a mouse through... I live in a small town.. and reading about how theres a folk festival, at a local park, just wouldn't feel right unless it was on paper that made my fingers black... and don't forget about COUPONS! I live on coupons.. since I don't cook, and i never have any food in my house for others to cook for me (granted, there are few willing to actually do that).. I use LOTS of coupons.. to burrito joints, pizza joints, burger joints, etc etc.. and the newspaper is a great place to find out about sales and coupons and such... can't get that from slashdot, or news.com.
well, he does have the right unless he waives it.. which he does in his parole hearing.. they'll offer him an early release on the conditin of "X" things.. also, someone gave the example of a drivers license.. same type of situation.. when you sign up for your drivers license you agree that your license can be revoked on certain conditions (one of which is certain crimes like DUI). So while a JUDGE (or committee or whatever) cannot take away those privilages, he can sign them away in return for things to his advantage (escaping bubba).. although he was in lompoc federal prison for at least the last part (donno where he was before that)... i live near lompoc and its a pussy prison. its all crooked bankers, telemarketing scammers, etc etc... if anything he learned other ways to scam money from people while in there :) pretty good trade if you can't use computers.
If you look at the previews and go "hey cool, I think i'd like to see that", then go see it, you'll be very pleased by it. if you look at the previews and you think you'll hate it, then you probably will... so DON'T GO.. if you're not sure, then ask a friend who did see it.. I took my girlfriend who had never heard of andy kaufman, and she thought it was very funny, and she even cried at the end (of course, she cries when she burns a piece of chicken.. so i donno what that says). I thought the movie was hilarious.. in fact it was the first movie I went to in a long time wher I actually laughed _out loud_ during the film. so did at least half the audience. and if you hate jim carrey, I'd still see it. Jim is nothing like his normal characters. I am not a huge fan of the mask, and dumb and dumber, and the many others he's done.. but I thought this was a great movie.
I'd like to see a poll on how many hours we spend actively using the net each day. Constant connections don't count. Only time that you spend actively using the net. Sitting in front of the computer would be good criteria.. after all.. even if i'm watching my 100 meg file download.. i still consider that using the net. If I set it to download, then walk away however, i don't (for this context anyways). I probably spend 10 hours a day at least in front of my computer. maybe more. I work with computers, I go to school where i take mostly computer related courses. My girlfriend recently moved to another state, so we communicate mostly through the net.
being a microsoft employee is not like being an employee of any other comapny... if I were to stick up publicly for my company.. it wouldn't be a big deal. No one would think i'm evil. However, anyone from microsoft sticking up for microsoft is automatically considered evil by most. If I worked for microsoft, and wanted to state my opinion, I would do it anonymously as well. As for the lying about his consulting firm.. he has to establish somehow that he knows what he's talkin about and he's not just some crackpot. In short, its not a big deal.
if anything the government will start taxing backbone providers per packet sent. possibly under some sort of interstate tariff type law? Its much easier and cost efficient to tax the backbone, then let them worry about passing the extra charges along to the customers. (then the customers customers, etc etc)... of course.. this IS the US government we're talking about here... the home of the $250 2.5 gallon gas can.
After reading some of his comments I got a feeling of arrogance from him... Maybe he's just honest.. its hard to tell sometimes with really smart people if they're arogant a$$es or just being honest...
I love the fact that its 356 grand (plus a miniscule 17 grand to have it installed), and you can ORDER IT ON THIER WEBPAGE! hehehe I don't think my Visa limit is that high...