Libertarian party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in corporate anarchy and widespread environmental destruction, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Republican circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them.
Green party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in a much slowed economy and widespread poverty, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Democratic circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them.
Communist Party: etc. etc. ad nauseum.
The point at which the voters select between Democrat and the Republican is the very last step in the process. If you really care so much about US politics, get involved with either the Democratic party or the Republican party and work to get a candidate you believe in nominated as the party candidate. The platform for both parties is determined by its members. If your ideas for fixing the world are really so great, then it should be an easy job convincing your fellow party members.
The combined total bandwidth of all the endpoint broadband connections far exceeds their upstream bandwidth. When attacking multiple broadband connections at the same ISP, your DDOS attack will max out the ISP's uplink long before it takes out all the end-users' links.
Congratulations, you have now taken out an internet connection belonging to some Grandma who doesn't know anything about viruses (arguably a problem that needs to be dealt with in SOME way if not DDOS), but as a bonus you've also horked bandwidth for anyone else that uses the same ISP she does, and likely contributed significantly to bandwidth expenses all over the Internet. Completely unfair to many, many innocent third parties, especially the ISPs, but of course the ISP's expenses get passed down to the rest of us end-users eventually anyway. And all the spammers have to do is keep cycling from zombie to zombie every couple minutes. Like they already do.
Here's an idea. Give the spammers what they want, which is more traffic. Create a small client that anyone can install on their machines, all it does is use your spare CPU cycles and Bandwidth to repeatedly hit the links that are advertised in spam. If the servers can withstand the mass DDOS, then the bandwidth costs will make them think twice before sending out emails.
Yeah, that would be great except that it wouldn't work. There would just be more spammers hosting their web sites on Windows virus zombies, or at least proxied through zombies. Your idea would make their victims pay more, while increasing the overall negative effect spammers have on Internet bandwidth, and it wouldn't work anyway!
Yup. I think the average car puts out about six tons of carbon dioxide in a year. At more than five dollars per gallon of gas, people in Europe don't drive as much as we do here.
Green party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in a much slowed economy and widespread poverty, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Democratic circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them.
Libertarian party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in corporate anarchy and widespread environmental destruction, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Republican circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them.
That being the case, novels are written, to briefly take such men, out of that quiet desperation, even for a short while.
Shatner, is that you?
The two authors of The Mezonic Agenda have, respectively, a PhD in applied mathematics and a Master's in chemical engineering, and write in a someone choppy style representative of their technical backgrounds. Occasional errors in grammar and spelling are excused, save for the egregious misspelling of Learjet on page 154.
In a someone choppy style? I'm starting to wonder if the author of the book is the same guy who submitted this review. You'd think he would have given it a more positive spin, though.
All it will take is "Someone Like Larry." They will have to put up signs everywhere:
"No playing darts in inflatable space habitat"
"Soccer cleats will be confiscated"
"DO NOT RUN WITH SCISSORS"
I would go so far as to say that the case did its job just fine, and coupled with Microsoft's recent security problems, a door is opening for free market enterprise once more. I will go so far as to say that there are a lot more Firefox users out there than we'd have previously guessed. I read comments all the time on sites like FreeRepublic which aren't known for their technical insight saying how Firefox kicks ass. In fact, of the dozens or so on threads about Firefox, most are overwhelmingly "I can't believe I ever used IE now that I have Firefox."
Microsoft so thoroughly demolished the competition in many niche application market segments that only their stuff and open source software survives. I think it would have been nice if the Justice Department had actually done something to punish Microsoft for effectively killing large chunks of the small-proprietary-developer market.
You say that the case slowed Microsoft down enough to let Apple and Linux get a foothold. I don't think so... what possible mechanism could have made the Microsoft case affect Linux & Apple marketshare? Yeah, Microsoft is famous for pulling dirty tricks on the competition, but for most of the time they didn't consider Linux to be competition. I think Apple and Linux would be exactly where they are today if the case had never gone to trial in the first place. The Justice Department accomplished almost nothing as far as I'm concerned. Which is what Microsoft intended, of course. All they had to do was stall until the Republicans got control of the "Justice" Department again.
You make it sound like the Bush Administration are the only ones exploiting technology. (Warning: Link contents objectionable) Technology exploitation is a huge problem pervasively spread throughout the Internet. You can't just blame the Republicans.
When red wine was declared (in moderation) to be healthy, the price went up. A bottle of merlot that used to cost 5 dollars a bottle (when it wasn't good for you) now costs 8 dollars.
Maybe you were just watching a particular brand...? I can still find $5 wine all over the place. As a brand establishes itself, especially in wineries, they raise the prices as the market will bear them. Didn't notice any changes in the price of oatmeal. Maybe you should get into commodities trading.:-)
"IBM has transformed Linux from a bicycle to a Rolls-Royce, making it almost an enterprise-class operating system."
So they're accusing IBM of somehow using the plans from SCO's obsolete junk (OpenServer/UNIXware) to turn the Linux "bicycle" into a Rolls-Royce. I must be missing something. How could stealing the plans for SCO's old Schwinns help anyone build a Rolls-Royce?
They must think those playing cards in the spokes make a very convincing engine noise.
one in 19 of AOL users clicks the links in his mortgage spam
I wonder what percentage of his "clicks" are actually spamtraps that load URLs with embedded ID tags in order to increase spam traffic to the trap. I'm not sayin' those spamtraps are a good idea, I'm just sayin' they're out there.
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)" Scupper Scup"per, n. OF. escopir, escupir, to spit, perhaps
for escospir, L. ex + conspuere to spit upon; pref. con- +
spuere to spit. Cf. Spit, v.
(Naut.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship,
so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called
also scupper hole.
We must be as polite as possible to all Unisys employees, no matter what they say for public consumption.
Hey Taco, thanks for all your help over the years, pre-packaging my opinions for me so I don't have to think for myself. That takes so much effort. I much prefer doing exactly what you say, so my peers and I can present a precisely united front without actually having to understand anything ourselves.
I read an article a while ago proposing that black holes with high rotational velocities lose more radiation near the equator. I wonder what would happen if two black holes collided at extreme velocity and broke apart enough to lose the "black hole" effect, becoming many small scattered chunks of high-density space debris. Is that possible? If so, wouldn't that count as returning information too? Hawking's new work seems to support that possiblility...
Yeah, everything you said is pretty much completely right. But my point was that if Microsoft succeeds in its "trustworthy computing" and it becomes economically impossible to pirate Microsoft software, what kind of effects do you think that would have?
Suddenly all of those people that pirated software and just didnt care if it was right or wrong, have to pay! And what about those countries where people's average annual income is around $420 and over 98% of software is pirated? Would trusted computing actually help free software in this sense?
Oh, absolutely, but I don't think the money will be the main factor. People losing their license keys is a problem right now. If they implement TC, when people buy a new computer they will have trouble migrating the software they bought to the new computer. Or a gal who has two computers wants to buy one copy of the software and install it on both computers, which used to be OK (since she can only use one copy at a time), but now she needs to buy two copies. Suddenly managing their fully-paid-up software licenses becomes such a pain in the ass that they consider trying free software.
Its interesting because almost every one of my friends doesnt see Linux as being free as any sort of advantage. They all say "Its not like I actually paid for Windows!"
Most people pay for Windows without realizing it when they buy a new computer. It's included in the price.
If anyone needs any sort of Microsoft product someone will ask and the next day someone will show up with a burned copy of it. So who cares if you can download Debian for free?
A lot of people care. At many offices you can get fired for pirating software. It's wrong, and it's illegal. If that doesn't matter to you, there's nothing else I can say.
I also realize that my group of friends are somewhat more technical than most normal people. But I've noticed this kind of software pirating from even very non-technical people.
Some people (technical or not) care about things like right and wrong. Some people don't. If you don't, there's not really anything I can do about it. Yeah, it doesn't really hurt any single person very much. You can justify corporate embezzlement or insurance fraud the same way. The insurance company will cover the crime, and raise rates a fraction of a percent. No single person is hurt very much. But that doesn't make it right. Using free software is accepting a gift. Pirating software is stealing. That's the difference. If you can't see it, go pull wings off flies, or whatever you do with your spare time.
If trustworthy computing succeeds, and Microsoft software will only install on TC-enabled PC's, what kind of effect do you all think this will have on Microsoft? Do you think they'll actually lower their prices if more people are paying for Windows?
No, they're basically printing money, they don't care. Anyway, if it was worth their time (and bad PR) to go after single users pirating software, they would have already sent the SBA to your house. It's not as if they can't find out that you're using an illegal copy.
And do you think it might help more technical home users to start using free software?
I think most people who are deeply interested in computer science and technology started using free software a long time ago. It's an environment that's very conducive to research and exploration. If all you care about is getting your VB scripts working and playing video games, sure, keep using Winders. Whatever works best for you. IMHO, most poeple in the Free Software community generally don't care whether Free Software takes over the desktop for average users, because we have our freedom right now. A lot of us think it will probably happen eventually anyway, because we think it's the inevitable path of progress. I hope we're right.
I could swear BIND and its config file is considered, along with Sendmail, one of the most convoluted programs in Internetdom.
As far as potential complexity in config files go, Bind ain't bad. No worse than Apache, anyway. Comparing BIND with Sendmail is like comparing a bicycle to the Space Shuttle.:-)
tho Sendmail got a lot easier to configure when m4 configuration became available, and lately bugs and patches have been few and far between.
What I really want to know is what sort of performance you get from software raid solutions. After all, the concept of being able to get redundancy without forking money over for a raid card (even from ebay, they're expensive), is rather tempting.
Depends what kind of RAID you're doing. If it's just a mirror, writes are slowed slightly, and read performance is significantly improved over a single drive. Don't even bother trying to do RAID 5 in software. Buy a 3ware Escalade controller or a SCSI RAID controller if you need RAID 5. Keep in mind that many of the cheaper RAID IDE cards (Promise, for one) do much of their work in software too, and often perform about as well or even worse than straight software RAID.
Of course, one hard drive (since the other is used for mirroring) hardly makes a file server now does it?
Whether it's a file server or not doesn't depend on the amount of available drive space. And considering the size of current hard drives, for a *personal* file server, I would expect very few people would find it necessary to buy a hardware raid controller.
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Libertarian party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in corporate anarchy and widespread environmental destruction, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Republican circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them.
Green party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in a much slowed economy and widespread poverty, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Democratic circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them.
Communist Party: etc. etc. ad nauseum.
The point at which the voters select between Democrat and the Republican is the very last step in the process. If you really care so much about US politics, get involved with either the Democratic party or the Republican party and work to get a candidate you believe in nominated as the party candidate. The platform for both parties is determined by its members. If your ideas for fixing the world are really so great, then it should be an easy job convincing your fellow party members.
The combined total bandwidth of all the endpoint broadband connections far exceeds their upstream bandwidth. When attacking multiple broadband connections at the same ISP, your DDOS attack will max out the ISP's uplink long before it takes out all the end-users' links.
Congratulations, you have now taken out an internet connection belonging to some Grandma who doesn't know anything about viruses (arguably a problem that needs to be dealt with in SOME way if not DDOS), but as a bonus you've also horked bandwidth for anyone else that uses the same ISP she does, and likely contributed significantly to bandwidth expenses all over the Internet. Completely unfair to many, many innocent third parties, especially the ISPs, but of course the ISP's expenses get passed down to the rest of us end-users eventually anyway. And all the spammers have to do is keep cycling from zombie to zombie every couple minutes. Like they already do.
Yup. I think the average car puts out about six tons of carbon dioxide in a year. At more than five dollars per gallon of gas, people in Europe don't drive as much as we do here.
Green party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in a much slowed economy and widespread poverty, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Democratic circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them. Libertarian party: A group of naive idealists who believe that our complex world can be made to fit their 'perfect' but relatively simple philosophical framework. Unfortunately their philosophy if applied in the real world would result in corporate anarchy and widespread environmental destruction, which is why their candidates wouldn't make it in Republican circles. When it comes down to it, most people just don't agree with them.
Jesus Christ, people. It was a joke. Haven't you ever heard of Geek Pr0n?
10 Terawatt laser? This is really a diversion to fund laser weapons research. I mean, what do you think a phase conjugate tracking system is *FOR*?
All it will take is "Someone Like Larry." They will have to put up signs everywhere: "No playing darts in inflatable space habitat" "Soccer cleats will be confiscated" "DO NOT RUN WITH SCISSORS"
Microsoft so thoroughly demolished the competition in many niche application market segments that only their stuff and open source software survives. I think it would have been nice if the Justice Department had actually done something to punish Microsoft for effectively killing large chunks of the small-proprietary-developer market.
You say that the case slowed Microsoft down enough to let Apple and Linux get a foothold. I don't think so... what possible mechanism could have made the Microsoft case affect Linux & Apple marketshare? Yeah, Microsoft is famous for pulling dirty tricks on the competition, but for most of the time they didn't consider Linux to be competition. I think Apple and Linux would be exactly where they are today if the case had never gone to trial in the first place. The Justice Department accomplished almost nothing as far as I'm concerned. Which is what Microsoft intended, of course. All they had to do was stall until the Republicans got control of the "Justice" Department again.
They must think those playing cards in the spokes make a very convincing engine noise.
U 2 r kinky, spittin etc.
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Scupper Scup"per, n. OF. escopir, escupir, to spit, perhaps
for escospir, L. ex + conspuere to spit upon; pref. con- +
spuere to spit. Cf. Spit, v.
(Naut.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship,
so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called
also scupper hole.
I read an article a while ago proposing that black holes with high rotational velocities lose more radiation near the equator. I wonder what would happen if two black holes collided at extreme velocity and broke apart enough to lose the "black hole" effect, becoming many small scattered chunks of high-density space debris. Is that possible? If so, wouldn't that count as returning information too? Hawking's new work seems to support that possiblility...
Its interesting because almost every one of my friends doesnt see Linux as being free as any sort of advantage. They all say "Its not like I actually paid for Windows!"
Most people pay for Windows without realizing it when they buy a new computer. It's included in the price.
If anyone needs any sort of Microsoft product someone will ask and the next day someone will show up with a burned copy of it. So who cares if you can download Debian for free?
A lot of people care. At many offices you can get fired for pirating software. It's wrong, and it's illegal. If that doesn't matter to you, there's nothing else I can say.
I also realize that my group of friends are somewhat more technical than most normal people. But I've noticed this kind of software pirating from even very non-technical people.
Some people (technical or not) care about things like right and wrong. Some people don't. If you don't, there's not really anything I can do about it. Yeah, it doesn't really hurt any single person very much. You can justify corporate embezzlement or insurance fraud the same way. The insurance company will cover the crime, and raise rates a fraction of a percent. No single person is hurt very much. But that doesn't make it right. Using free software is accepting a gift. Pirating software is stealing. That's the difference. If you can't see it, go pull wings off flies, or whatever you do with your spare time.
If trustworthy computing succeeds, and Microsoft software will only install on TC-enabled PC's, what kind of effect do you all think this will have on Microsoft? Do you think they'll actually lower their prices if more people are paying for Windows?
No, they're basically printing money, they don't care. Anyway, if it was worth their time (and bad PR) to go after single users pirating software, they would have already sent the SBA to your house. It's not as if they can't find out that you're using an illegal copy.
And do you think it might help more technical home users to start using free software?
I think most people who are deeply interested in computer science and technology started using free software a long time ago. It's an environment that's very conducive to research and exploration. If all you care about is getting your VB scripts working and playing video games, sure, keep using Winders. Whatever works best for you. IMHO, most poeple in the Free Software community generally don't care whether Free Software takes over the desktop for average users, because we have our freedom right now. A lot of us think it will probably happen eventually anyway, because we think it's the inevitable path of progress. I hope we're right.
tho Sendmail got a lot easier to configure when m4 configuration became available, and lately bugs and patches have been few and far between.
And you have to store all that on hard drives why? Ever heard of a DVD burner?
Yeah, and the OP misspelled "teh"