I concur. Though I would likely shift my job to somewhere "more risky". Like computer gaming or programming. Sure people already do this for a living, but what I do now isn't so bad, and more importantly it is more likely to be here.
(ironically I was just released via merger, and have enough of a payout from said merger to not work for a few years if I chose to. I will likely look for a similar job, and use said cash for a house elsewhere.)
Isn't this not terribly suprising? These things move in cycles, as people want to get more freedom, and then more control and vice versa.
anti-liquor moved to the free WWII moved to McCarthyism moved into the equal rights movement. America has enjoyed the boon of freedoms in the 90's and is now moving towards a less free time. Once that gets too opressive, it'll move back to freedom.
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Actually, most search engines exist to make a profit by selling off the results to the highest bidder.
heh, but in all seriousness, I use most of my speedy athlon machines for running algorithm confirmation tests, and silly things like mersenne checking.
Not in cases like the one you described. If you've enough suspicion for something that bad, then a keystroke/mouse logger would be a possible course of action that would note what you were sending out before it ever hit the encryption.
True, but even competition isn't going to lower prices that far as broadband is largely underpriced as it is. (or at least the bandwidth advertised it underpriced...)
AFAIK such information is preview of ther Freedom of Information Act. Most network configurations and machines ARE probably secret, for this exact reason.
The Act is around so that someone like you CAN actually check to see if various agencies have all encompassing databases of your personal information, even though they say they don't.
By law, the public has a right to know the government's network infrastructure unless it is deemed "secret" which iirc requires lives to be at stake if the knowledge was public.
I agree that such rights are perhaps overreaching, I'd much rather have them overreaching rather than under...
Come on, O'Rielly has no interest in pushing anything Microsoft. He's just saying that the government should use the best tools for the job, and not belabor it's choices with (more) bureaucracy.
The trouble with law though is the code needs to be clear cut, or else it allows for government abuse because they will interpret the law in the worst way...
Good sport that geeks seem to enjoy alot, great workout, good for bad weather (just bundle up if it's wet out), and it's not hard to get into, 'cuz everyone can throw a frisbee.
Humans also have reason. Humans have enough knowledge and foresight to know that it only takes one, or a few people to weigh greed over fucking his buddy over to exploit the system. People KNOW that people are imperfect, and make the decision that if the system is going to get screwed, might as well be them making the benefits from ruining it.
Are they wrong for doing it? Yeah, probably. But you cannot be so naive to think that someone wouldn't exploit a system so obviously exploitable when the gains are so vast.
currently Gemesis is America's primary manufacturer. They are building a $25m factory for making better/ different colored diamonds. Currently they can make yellow ones, though the show showed clear, and fanciful colored ones (in testing it seems).
They are "real" diamonds, pretty much seeded carbon crystal. Any gemologist can likely tell you they are real diamond, albeit manufactured. AFAIK the cost is a little higher, if not compriable for now.
Or at least it would not be countries, as much as competing parallel methods of doing it. For example the BSD teams. They compete alot, and share a bit, all trying to get the same goal.
Odd how rockets that can get a man to the moon are easily suitable to get a man sized nuclear bomb a few hundred miles down the road...
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I totally agree, but that should not keep microsoft from making users ABLE to choose if they want. There's absolutely no good reason not to. It's not as though standard apps, and the choice of non-standard apps/configuration are mutually exclusive...
SP1: reboot. SP2: reboot. misc patches from windows update.com: reboot. IE install: reboot? (don't remember) actual OS install: 2 reboots.
okay, so 6. And like I said, on any MODERN system, where boot times, even for win2k are ~1-2 minutes, this isn't a big deal. It'll take longer than that for Joe User to figure out what RedHat options to choose.
Right, but where are all the RedHat security patches or updates? There's at least a half dozen critical updates to commonly used libraries and applications that require recomilation.
In my experience RedHat boxes are so insecure that you have to use all the patches, even on a home system.
Does *nix have a great advantage by putting all of the apps in with the OS? yeah, but far too often you have to upgrade or patch them anyways.
And if you do that install with win2k pro on a modern system it takes nearly a whole 20 minutes. (40 if you need to reformat the drive)(60 if you need to hunt down drivers, which most people won't)
IMO it's patently simple to install win2k or RedHat these days, and is a non-issue.
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I concur. Though I would likely shift my job to somewhere "more risky". Like computer gaming or programming. Sure people already do this for a living, but what I do now isn't so bad, and more importantly it is more likely to be here.
(ironically I was just released via merger, and have enough of a payout from said merger to not work for a few years if I chose to. I will likely look for a similar job, and use said cash for a house elsewhere.)
Don't worry everyone, normal corperations over a few hundred people do the same exact thing. No input, just do it.
Isn't this not terribly suprising? These things move in cycles, as people want to get more freedom, and then more control and vice versa.
anti-liquor moved to the free WWII moved to McCarthyism moved into the equal rights movement. America has enjoyed the boon of freedoms in the 90's and is now moving towards a less free time. Once that gets too opressive, it'll move back to freedom.
Actually, most search engines exist to make a profit by selling off the results to the highest bidder.
Capitalism and Democracy are rarely congruent.
Why running windows of course!
heh, but in all seriousness, I use most of my speedy athlon machines for running algorithm confirmation tests, and silly things like mersenne checking.
Not in cases like the one you described. If you've enough suspicion for something that bad, then a keystroke/mouse logger would be a possible course of action that would note what you were sending out before it ever hit the encryption.
True, but even competition isn't going to lower prices that far as broadband is largely underpriced as it is. (or at least the bandwidth advertised it underpriced...)
Umm, no. There's tons of different reasons Americans generally don't have broadband, and probably top of that list is they don't want it.
Is uncompetative behavior a problem? Sure, but if you suddenly "fix it" America isn't going to buy up cable modems.
Oh yeah, god knows nobody on slashdot can do a simple google search...
This is cool, until of course an enterprising user just tapes the decoder to the laptop.
AFAIK such information is preview of ther Freedom of Information Act. Most network configurations and machines ARE probably secret, for this exact reason.
The Act is around so that someone like you CAN actually check to see if various agencies have all encompassing databases of your personal information, even though they say they don't.
By law, the public has a right to know the government's network infrastructure unless it is deemed "secret" which iirc requires lives to be at stake if the knowledge was public.
I agree that such rights are perhaps overreaching, I'd much rather have them overreaching rather than under...
Come on, O'Rielly has no interest in pushing anything Microsoft. He's just saying that the government should use the best tools for the job, and not belabor it's choices with (more) bureaucracy.
The trouble with law though is the code needs to be clear cut, or else it allows for government abuse because they will interpret the law in the worst way...
Good sport that geeks seem to enjoy alot, great workout, good for bad weather (just bundle up if it's wet out), and it's not hard to get into, 'cuz everyone can throw a frisbee.
Humans also have reason. Humans have enough knowledge and foresight to know that it only takes one, or a few people to weigh greed over fucking his buddy over to exploit the system. People KNOW that people are imperfect, and make the decision that if the system is going to get screwed, might as well be them making the benefits from ruining it.
Are they wrong for doing it? Yeah, probably. But you cannot be so naive to think that someone wouldn't exploit a system so obviously exploitable when the gains are so vast.
About manufactured diamonds and their history.
currently Gemesis is America's primary manufacturer. They are building a $25m factory for making better/ different colored diamonds. Currently they can make yellow ones, though the show showed clear, and fanciful colored ones (in testing it seems).
They are "real" diamonds, pretty much seeded carbon crystal. Any gemologist can likely tell you they are real diamond, albeit manufactured. AFAIK the cost is a little higher, if not compriable for now.
Or at least it would not be countries, as much as competing parallel methods of doing it. For example the BSD teams. They compete alot, and share a bit, all trying to get the same goal.
Odd how rockets that can get a man to the moon are easily suitable to get a man sized nuclear bomb a few hundred miles down the road...
I totally agree, but that should not keep microsoft from making users ABLE to choose if they want. There's absolutely no good reason not to. It's not as though standard apps, and the choice of non-standard apps/configuration are mutually exclusive...
Ahem, like I said, on any MODERN system, you have the network drivers and graphics drivers are on the install cd.
Norton is not required unless you're a moron, and does not require reboot.
Office is not required unless you're a moron with moron friends that send word docs to you, and does not require reboot.
a NTP client does not require reboot.
Acrobat, winzip, winamp, textpad, and general "useful" utilities do not require reboot.
In my experience Linux does NOT boot faster, it just outputs far more stuff when it does so.
Updates:
SP1: reboot.
SP2: reboot.
misc patches from windows update.com: reboot.
IE install: reboot? (don't remember)
actual OS install: 2 reboots.
okay, so 6. And like I said, on any MODERN system, where boot times, even for win2k are ~1-2 minutes, this isn't a big deal. It'll take longer than that for Joe User to figure out what RedHat options to choose.
Right, but where are all the RedHat security patches or updates? There's at least a half dozen critical updates to commonly used libraries and applications that require recomilation.
In my experience RedHat boxes are so insecure that you have to use all the patches, even on a home system.
Does *nix have a great advantage by putting all of the apps in with the OS? yeah, but far too often you have to upgrade or patch them anyways.
And if you do that install with win2k pro on a modern system it takes nearly a whole 20 minutes. (40 if you need to reformat the drive)(60 if you need to hunt down drivers, which most people won't)
IMO it's patently simple to install win2k or RedHat these days, and is a non-issue.
Have the program hooked up to a heartbeat monitor
beep beep beep beep beeeeeeeeeee.....