"Given the honesty and competence of the USA in it's management of the Iraqi "liberation" and destruction of Iraqi "WMD" what kind of job can we expect them to do with the Internet?"
Similar sentence with as much thruth to it as yours.
The UN has alot of good things as well, Unicef, Unesco, several peace missions etc. Yet for some reason you dismiss all this for a single issue?
The UN has as much interest in the Internet working well as the the USA does. Or for that matter, most of the developed world has.
Take a look out there and see how much the world has started to rely on the internet as their single source of information and communication platform. The USA is no longer the only one relying on it.
More and more information is only available on the internet. Third World countries have a lot to gain as information gives them the opportunity to access that information in a easy and cheaper way then normal.
Having them to pony up the relatively high connection costs would only slow down the dissemination of this information to those who need it most.
And yes, Third World countries do have a need for the internet even though you consider it a luxury. The information on it allows it to grow better and quicker. It allows them access to agricultural information which otherwise would be slow to reach them, it allows them access to information on prospect markets to sell their goods. It gets them all the information they need to outgrow their perilous state.
Do not forget that the information on the internet is valuable for people who have otherwise no access to that information. Think libraries. You can easily go to your neighbourhood library, get the books and other sources of information. For them, this is a problem. The internet is their only library.
So for them it is a necessity of life.
Try to think a bit more globally instead of locally.
it's the cross contamination i'm afraid of... diseases which were once only threathening humans or sheep could eventually evolve into diseases able to affect both...
It is more common in Europe for someone to have a cell and no landline than it is for someone to have a landline and no cell.
This goes only for younger people. Most of the elder do not use a cell phone (or gsm as it's called here) indoors. They only use it when they have to leave the house or to call someone on a another gsm (since it's cheaper to call a gsm from another gsm then from a landline to gsm).
For most younger people a gsm is more convenient and used like a normal landline phone. Most of this is because it cost alot of money to have a gsm and a landline because you have to pay for subscription to the landline service and such, while most young people are never home anyway.
Cabling in the Netherlands tend to be underground. In fact almost no wiring is above ground, only powercables from the powerplants to distribution centers. From there on it is underground as well.
Pita if you ask me, because if you want to dig somewhere to build a house for instance you have ti check if there are no cables running in the spot your going to dig at.
However, it does keep the landscape nice and without too much poles and cables:-)
Most women in IT back then (96) were attracted for the y2k problems and were relatively young. A lot of them are now getting to an age where they choose for raising children and look for a job with less stressfull and more steady hours (ie 9 to 5 or parttime jobs) of which there aren't alot of in IT.
How many people just like to read the things they want to read instead of actually try to understand it.
If you want to understand Linus' reasoning i suggest you get your hands on a copy of Pekka Himanen's "The Hacker Ethic".
I consider myself "old skool" IT. I became an IT because i love the technology and it's possibilities. Around me i hear other reasons.. "the job opportunities were good and i saw a chance to get rich quickly" or "well.. i didn't know what to do so i chose this". Linus just asks people to question their reasons. Are you an IT worker who is just in it for the fun or are you one who wan't to make a big career but don't care in what? The first does not exclude the latter and in fact history has shown that the first often leads to the latter. However, of late, new FOSS developers became FOSS developers because they are looking for a career instead of having fun and/or creating art.
They don't care about FOSS, they only care about their career which happens to involve FOSS right now but that can easily be replaced by the "next big thing" come opportunity and chance. They have no real love for FOSS or it's possibilities.
You can have a career in FOSS. A good one in fact.. but please.. do it for the love it. If you create something in FOSS, be prepared to support and or develop it for a long time. Do not abbandon it when you decide to get a career change.
Some clarification, i'm not a software developer. All i know is out of what i experience and read about. Wish i had the drive and passion for software developing.. but simply put.. i'm scared of it... sometimes i'm just glad i can get a piece of software installed (be it on windows or Linux, doesn't matter).
Google allready uses it's own filesystem (see http://www.zdnet.co.uk/insight/hardware/0,39020433,39175560,00.htm for more info) so the next step to a complete OS for the sole function of running it's clusters is not so far off the mark. However, would it be an OS the normal users would need or could use, i very much doubt it. It will probably be a single purpose OS with little or no configurability for other uses.
RTFA. The copycat only copied Maillist King which is a mailing list management package not a mass mailer. He abused the images for other software by applying them to spam tools. The rest was not software or any other tools from the original site. So the copycat is the one with the spamsoftware.
got busted! I know I'm breaking the law so you won't see me whine when I get a ticket.
Yeah.. but this guy can get 15 years for something which isn't even close to doing a person bodily harm. However, if he did that he would face far less prison time.
C'mon ppl, these sentences are way too heavy for these kind of crimes. Punishment should be equal to the crime and not public (or corporate) outcry.
I can't wait to see the first death sentence spoken out for offering 100.000 illegal software titles.
It makes is possible that your second computer doesn't need another IP address and for that we don't really need IPv6.
Why do we give out all those IP address classes to companies while it isn't even necessary to do so? We could stop worrying about any form of shortage if we make proper use of the technologies. Give a company only a small set of IP addresses for publicly available services (ftp/mail/web etc.) and let them use private class ranges for internal usage behind a NAT capable router/firewall/whatever.
But IPv6 solves a bigger problem, namely that routing tables of the core internet routers (those which don't have a default route) are really getting too big with IPv4. With IPv6 the number of routes can be an order of mangitude smaller.
That's a point i never thought of. So basicly with IPv6 the internet could be more responsive because of lesser time needed to search for routes in the routing tables etc.?
With IPv6 we can also give everyone a range for personal use which would be publicly accessible, wether or not this is what we really want/need.
Why is IPv6 not already adopted widely where possible?
From the article: One big benefit of the IPv6 is to solve the problem of shortage of IP addresses. In the current Internet based on IPv4 technology, the United States controls 74 per cent of 4 billion IP addresses, while the amount that China has is only equal to a campus of the University of California, despite its 80 million Internet users.
Although people think that with NAT all IPv4 related problems could be solved here we see a very good reason why the rest of the world could use IPv6. Most of the IPv4 ranges are in the US. The rest of the world just has to get by with whatever is left (Big companies gobbling up entire classes of IP ranges which they never really use should be obliged to gives those ranges back so others can use them).
Would this step be beneficial to the transition to IPv6? With the advent of the internet in other countries then the western world it could well be that things need to be sped up so that we will not see different internets. Has anyone done some real research on this subject? I know i keep hearing that with NAT and similar technologies IPv6 might not be necessary but is that really so given the rise of internet usage in Asia and other countries?
If you have the need for such a processor you probably allready have multiple disks in the configuration you will be using it in.
Besides, this isn't your regular mainstream CPU we are talking about here. There will be very little use for it outside datacenters for the moment. The only exception will probably be geeks. The rest of the users wouldn't give a flying f*ck what their processor is capable of as long as they can view their favorite pr0n on the intarweb or play their EA branded games.
As far as i can tell, ESR did do alot of programming. Grep for his name in the Linux source tree and tell me then if he is only self aggrandizing or if he does more then that.
Check http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html for more information on what he has contributed to free software.
Where are your kernel patches anyway?
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You seem to miss the byline on under the title... "News for NERDS!!!"
So yes.. we astroturf for anything geeky, nerdy and slightly over the top products.. as long as it has that nerdy feel or look....
Mostly, stock investments are based on hunches, rumors, emotion and such. There is no real analysis they could use or which have any significant meaning. Even the outcome of those would still need to be interpreted with the above mentioned "criteria". Analysis is mostly supporting but certainly not the only reason to buy or sell stock.
You have to ask yourself a very serious question: Is it the responsibility of the USA to bring democracy to the middle east?
The rest of the world sees differently. It is not our responsibility to tell another nation whether their way of life is correct or not. Hell, the US has big problems of their own without fighting wars in other countries.
It is this mentality that has brought the problems to the US in the first place, their constant meddling into the affairs of foreign countries. Hell, Saddam Hussain, Osama bin Laden and their cohorts are PRODUCTS of this meddling.
The rest of the world is looking very cautiously at the actions of the worlds most powerfull country. Just like children look cautiously to the school bully. Because that's how the USA is percieved right now. A bully running around pushing other people out of it's way to get what it wants..
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ESR's only valid response should have been to accept an interview and show up roaring drunk.
Judging his response he did...
"Given the honesty and competence of the USA in it's management of the Iraqi "liberation" and destruction of Iraqi "WMD" what kind of job can we expect them to do with the Internet?"
Similar sentence with as much thruth to it as yours.
The UN has alot of good things as well, Unicef, Unesco, several peace missions etc. Yet for some reason you dismiss all this for a single issue?
The UN has as much interest in the Internet working well as the the USA does. Or for that matter, most of the developed world has.
Take a look out there and see how much the world has started to rely on the internet as their single source of information and communication platform. The USA is no longer the only one relying on it.
More and more information is only available on the internet. Third World countries have a lot to gain as information gives them the opportunity to access that information in a easy and cheaper way then normal.
Having them to pony up the relatively high connection costs would only slow down the dissemination of this information to those who need it most.
And yes, Third World countries do have a need for the internet even though you consider it a luxury. The information on it allows it to grow better and quicker. It allows them access to agricultural information which otherwise would be slow to reach them, it allows them access to information on prospect markets to sell their goods. It gets them all the information they need to outgrow their perilous state.
Do not forget that the information on the internet is valuable for people who have otherwise no access to that information. Think libraries. You can easily go to your neighbourhood library, get the books and other sources of information. For them, this is a problem. The internet is their only library.
So for them it is a necessity of life.
Try to think a bit more globally instead of locally.
Yup.. moral bullshit... couldn't care less....
it's the cross contamination i'm afraid of... diseases which were once only threathening humans or sheep could eventually evolve into diseases able to affect both...
Public domain?
It is more common in Europe for someone to have a cell and no landline than it is for someone to have a landline and no cell.
This goes only for younger people. Most of the elder do not use a cell phone (or gsm as it's called here) indoors. They only use it when they have to leave the house or to call someone on a another gsm (since it's cheaper to call a gsm from another gsm then from a landline to gsm).
For most younger people a gsm is more convenient and used like a normal landline phone. Most of this is because it cost alot of money to have a gsm and a landline because you have to pay for subscription to the landline service and such, while most young people are never home anyway.
Cabling in the Netherlands tend to be underground. In fact almost no wiring is above ground, only powercables from the powerplants to distribution centers. From there on it is underground as well.
:-)
Pita if you ask me, because if you want to dig somewhere to build a house for instance you have ti check if there are no cables running in the spot your going to dig at.
However, it does keep the landscape nice and without too much poles and cables
Most women in IT back then (96) were attracted for the y2k problems and were relatively young. A lot of them are now getting to an age where they choose for raising children and look for a job with less stressfull and more steady hours (ie 9 to 5 or parttime jobs) of which there aren't alot of in IT.
Sigh,
How many people just like to read the things they want to read instead of actually try to understand it.
If you want to understand Linus' reasoning i suggest you get your hands on a copy of Pekka Himanen's "The Hacker Ethic".
I consider myself "old skool" IT. I became an IT because i love the technology and it's possibilities. Around me i hear other reasons.. "the job opportunities were good and i saw a chance to get rich quickly" or "well.. i didn't know what to do so i chose this". Linus just asks people to question their reasons. Are you an IT worker who is just in it for the fun or are you one who wan't to make a big career but don't care in what? The first does not exclude the latter and in fact history has shown that the first often leads to the latter. However, of late, new FOSS developers became FOSS developers because they are looking for a career instead of having fun and/or creating art.
They don't care about FOSS, they only care about their career which happens to involve FOSS right now but that can easily be replaced by the "next big thing" come opportunity and chance. They have no real love for FOSS or it's possibilities.
You can have a career in FOSS. A good one in fact.. but please.. do it for the love it. If you create something in FOSS, be prepared to support and or develop it for a long time. Do not abbandon it when you decide to get a career change.
Some clarification, i'm not a software developer. All i know is out of what i experience and read about. Wish i had the drive and passion for software developing.. but simply put.. i'm scared of it... sometimes i'm just glad i can get a piece of software installed (be it on windows or Linux, doesn't matter).
Google allready uses it's own filesystem (see http://www.zdnet.co.uk/insight/hardware/0,39020433 ,39175560,00.htm for more info) so the next step to a complete OS for the sole function of running it's clusters is not so far off the mark. However, would it be an OS the normal users would need or could use, i very much doubt it. It will probably be a single purpose OS with little or no configurability for other uses.
So refreshing to see he didn't live in his mothers basement....
Mod this down!!! This idiot doesn't know what he is talking about!!
Hey.. that's to attract all those Windows/IE users...
RTFA. The copycat only copied Maillist King which is a mailing list management package not a mass mailer. He abused the images for other software by applying them to spam tools. The rest was not software or any other tools from the original site. So the copycat is the one with the spamsoftware.
got busted! I know I'm breaking the law so you won't see me whine when I get a ticket.
Yeah.. but this guy can get 15 years for something which isn't even close to doing a person bodily harm. However, if he did that he would face far less prison time.
C'mon ppl, these sentences are way too heavy for these kind of crimes. Punishment should be equal to the crime and not public (or corporate) outcry.
I can't wait to see the first death sentence spoken out for offering 100.000 illegal software titles.
It makes is possible that your second computer doesn't need another IP address and for that we don't really need IPv6.
Why do we give out all those IP address classes to companies while it isn't even necessary to do so?
We could stop worrying about any form of shortage if we make proper use of the technologies. Give a company only a small set of IP addresses for publicly available services (ftp/mail/web etc.) and let them use private class ranges for internal usage behind a NAT capable router/firewall/whatever.
But IPv6 solves a bigger problem, namely that routing tables of the core internet routers (those which don't have a default route) are really getting too big with IPv4. With IPv6 the number of routes can be an order of mangitude smaller.
That's a point i never thought of. So basicly with IPv6 the internet could be more responsive because of lesser time needed to search for routes in the routing tables etc.?
With IPv6 we can also give everyone a range for personal use which would be publicly accessible, wether or not this is what we really want/need.
Why is IPv6 not already adopted widely where possible?
From the article: One big benefit of the IPv6 is to solve the problem of shortage of IP addresses. In the current Internet based on IPv4 technology, the United States controls 74 per cent of 4 billion IP addresses, while the amount that China has is only equal to a campus of the University of California, despite its 80 million Internet users.
Although people think that with NAT all IPv4 related problems could be solved here we see a very good reason why the rest of the world could use IPv6. Most of the IPv4 ranges are in the US. The rest of the world just has to get by with whatever is left (Big companies gobbling up entire classes of IP ranges which they never really use should be obliged to gives those ranges back so others can use them).
Would this step be beneficial to the transition to IPv6? With the advent of the internet in other countries then the western world it could well be that things need to be sped up so that we will not see different internets. Has anyone done some real research on this subject? I know i keep hearing that with NAT and similar technologies IPv6 might not be necessary but is that really so given the rise of internet usage in Asia and other countries?
This is insightfull in what way?
If you have the need for such a processor you probably allready have multiple disks in the configuration you will be using it in.
Besides, this isn't your regular mainstream CPU we are talking about here. There will be very little use for it outside datacenters for the moment. The only exception will probably be geeks. The rest of the users wouldn't give a flying f*ck what their processor is capable of as long as they can view their favorite pr0n on the intarweb or play their EA branded games.
There allready is a name for bad lawyers, sharks.
Too bad it is reflecting badly on the real sharks (the fish) who aren't nearly as bad in comparison...
Insightfull my ass,
Do you think it is perfectly legal or moral to dive under a girls skirt to take a look at her panties (or to check if she wears any)?
Using a camera doesn't make it any more legal or moral....
As far as i can tell, ESR did do alot of programming. Grep for his name in the Linux source tree and tell me then if he is only self aggrandizing or if he does more then that.
Check http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html for more information on what he has contributed to free software.
Where are your kernel patches anyway?
You seem to miss the byline on under the title... "News for NERDS!!!"
So yes.. we astroturf for anything geeky, nerdy and slightly over the top products.. as long as it has that nerdy feel or look....
Mostly, stock investments are based on hunches, rumors, emotion and such. There is no real analysis they could use or which have any significant meaning. Even the outcome of those would still need to be interpreted with the above mentioned "criteria". Analysis is mostly supporting but certainly not the only reason to buy or sell stock.
My feeling on it is when they had a meeting with a blank piece of paper to design this chip
Hmm.. they had alot of help from the alpha design they bought.. however, they managed to cripple it beyond recognition....
You have to ask yourself a very serious question: Is it the responsibility of the USA to bring democracy to the middle east?
The rest of the world sees differently. It is not our responsibility to tell another nation whether their way of life is correct or not. Hell, the US has big problems of their own without fighting wars in other countries.
It is this mentality that has brought the problems to the US in the first place, their constant meddling into the affairs of foreign countries. Hell, Saddam Hussain, Osama bin Laden and their cohorts are PRODUCTS of this meddling.
The rest of the world is looking very cautiously at the actions of the worlds most powerfull country. Just like children look cautiously to the school bully. Because that's how the USA is percieved right now. A bully running around pushing other people out of it's way to get what it wants..