Don't worry too much though, give it 20-30 years and it will start to even out I don't think it will. The problem is that a free flow of commerce and a free flow of capital only work their wonders if there is a free flow of labour. National and ethnic pride is holding up globalisation and distorting the effects of globalised trade and capital markets. Things are going to get worse before they get better in this regard.
Face it, Canada is a mini-US, but with a more reasonable immigration policy. yeesh, hardly. Although I realize many Americans might like to think that is the case. We're much more of a mini-UK than a mini-US.
If you want to compare Canada and the US, we're a nice imported bottle of wine and the US is an 8 gallon box of wine from walmart.
"Canada's claim to fame is that it is "perceived" to be universal. And it is sort of if you overlook the regional approvals that go on. Often based on age and are you paying taxes."
um, what? That is simply not correct. You are either mistaken or simply lying.
There is no connection between an individual's tax status and their health care in Canada. (see Canada Health Act section 10 'Universality' http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/C-6/bo-ga: s_7//en#anchorbo-ga:s_7 ) For your mother to be given different care because she isn't paying taxes would be in violation of several laws.
If you really think your mother was given inferior care because she is on cpp and not paying taxes then call the police and the media right now. I'm serious.
Not only is it illegal to deny or delay care to an individual based on their income or taxes it is also illegal for the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) to divulge an individual's tax status to anyone in the health care system. Even the police need a subpoena to see your tax information. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/newsroom/factsheets/2005/ nov/fs051110-e.html
I'll not bother to debunk the rest of the ridiculous assertions you made in that post as this one item clearly shows that you are trolling. Besides, trying to interpret your writing is giving me a headache. I really hope english is not your first language or that you were drunk/high when you wrote that text.
SuperMicro 3U rackmount chassis with 15 hotswap sata bays Intel core 2 duo @ 2.4ghz E6600 4x500GB drives.
Ubuntu Feisty Server edition for the dom0 (the root/master OS) Guest operating systems: - Ubuntu Feisty server edition - Windows server 2003 standard edition - more to be added later.
The disk drive i'm giving to windows is a re-sizable LVM2 partition on a software raid 5 array managed by the root domain.
I'm not sure i agree with you about the technological wonders of 2007.
Look at 1907 - The automobile, while not a standard item, was at least known. Trains were in extensive use, as were power tools. Automatic looms, various mechanical processes. So in 100 years we advanced from basic forms of mechanical locomotion with speeds of maybe 40kph (i'm totally guessing) and ranges in the hundreds of kilometers to vessels with interplanetary range and speeds in excess of 60,000kph (Voyageur 1). The Aussies recently tested their new scramjet engine in our atmosphere at mach 10. Also, 180kph automobiles with 400+km ranges are available to teenagers.
If you took an educated man from 1907 and brought him to 2007, he'd be able to understand just about everything we have except for our computational devices. They even understood a bit about nuclear energy. They (a few people) understood a bit about nuclear energy. Now we have the power the literally obliterate the entire habitable surface area of the planet. We have ships the size of small towns that can run for 25 years without refueling while putting out more electricity every day than all of civilization had done up until 1907.
Then there is the whole computerization thing... that is kinda a hard one to dismiss. The advances in Information Technology are probably THE most significant advance during that century.
Then there is the revolution in biotech. This one is arguably more significant than computerization. We have gone from categorizing life forms by their colours and shapes to a basic understanding of DNA and proteins and for the first time beginning to understand what life IS and to control/create it. We now have a basic understanding of the mechanics of biological systems. When this progresses to 'a mastery' of the mechanics of biological systems we will have what could easily be described as god-like powers to design and create life.
What else.... um, how about all the cyborgs walking around these days? Sure, an open-minded person in 1907 could conceive of an artificial heart or lung but we've got 'em and we can fit you with one if your heart stops working. (sometimes) Of course we can also make your boobs bigger or your penis harder... You can even have someone else carry your baby to term if there is a problem with your uterus.
What else... um, the majority of people in the western world can sit down at their desk on whim and look down on any part of the planet from space.
Actually physically leaving the planet is a vacation option for the rich. (this one would have to blow the mind of a 1907'er)
I think we're blase not because our advances are meager but because our advances have been so frequent and mind-blowing that we've come to expect new tech that is twice as good as the old tech every few years.
The use of the word 'impossible' shows that the author hasn't considered all the factors.
Most glaringly he seems to have failed to account for the passage of time. A rather large oversight.
He calculates that a 'low-ball' minimum estimate of the energy required to send a small ship to Proxima Centauri in less than a lifetime would be 5 days worth of our current planet-wide power production. Wow. how is that an argument against feasibility? He almost makes it sound like we could get started today! That comparison makes about as much sense as budgeting for my daughter's university education based on her (6yr old) allowance.
In a more realistic scenario, say a colony ship launch 100 years from now. If our power production continues to grow at the rate it has since we discovered how to use electricity we will have enough excess power to charge-up on of these ships every few minutes.
He even mentions that we have that much portable power in the form of useless nukes sitting around doing nothing right now! Yet he somehow takes this as further evidence that it is NOT feasible... I don't get it.
I think the flaws in his reasoning flow from two key points: 1) No accounting for the (almost inevitable) growth in our production capacity and technology over time. 2) An assumption of a 'me-first' attitude when in fact most people around the world are quite willing to work their entire lives for the sole benefit of their children and grandchildren. (I'm going to guess that the author does not have any children and may himself be quite young)
Here in Canada the largest ISP is Bell Sympatico (alias: bell nexxia). They are pure evil when it comes to privacy. Less than a year ago they ammended their terms of service to give themselves the right to monitor (content included) anything and everything you do on the internet at their whim and share the information with any government agency that asks for it. (no stipulations that the agency must be Canadian or be making a legal request for information).
That was presumably an attempt to protect themselves from lawsuits because of what they've been doing for fracking years. Bell routes almost all their traffic through new york and/or boston! Thus all Canadian Internet traffic carried by Bell is snooped by the out-of-control american spy agencies. It is shocking really, to get a packet literally across the street here in Ottawa Bell will route you through New York.
I have not been able to think of a reason for this behaviour other than for the express purpose of facilitating privacy violations.
Furthermore, our national security agencies have to be aware of this and the ramifications for Canadian citizens. (unless they are shockingly incompetent) Thus I have to conclude that our own government is complicit. Perhaps our government is receiving some of the fruits of this spying. Such a scheme would be consistent with historic agreements between our countries. In fact, this could even be happening as part of one of our existing co-spy agreements.
The fact that you give your executive branch the authority to fire your prosecutors (judicial branch) is laughable. The US system of government has failed so many times to uphold its stated goals that it has become literally a laughing stock.
The universal application of the law is one of the fundamental requirements of a free society. I think that this is obvious and that anyone who stops to think about it will agree. This is hardly a revolutionary or subversive idea and yet the US has moved further and further from this ideal each year for as long as I have been following the situation.
The fact that each new administration fires all the prosecutors is an explicit admission that the judicial branch has failed in its mission. (to uphold the law)
Frankly, the fact that you elect some of your judges by popular vote puts the lie to the whole affair. A judge's job is to interpret the law, not to advance an agenda. An imaginary ideal judge would produce nearly deterministic judgments. Logic and reason are the right tools for judicial deliberation. There is NO ROOM FOR IDEOLOGY in the application of the law. There is therefore no reason for elections unless you are incapable of business-like hiring practices.
Honestly, there is nothing I would like more than for the americans to get their act together and restore the rule of law to that great nation. Sadly I fear it is much more likely that they will continue their downward spiral from enlightenment to lawlessness and superstition. Economic collapse and violent revolution lie further down this road. For your god's sake wake up! pay attention! and demand an independent judicial branch!
Perhaps, but the US, Israel, Russia and China together manage to do a startling amount of shady shit. Their efforts really do put the rest of the world to shame (er, maybe i mean the opposite of that)
That being said; the fact that this product was developed in Israel is not a reason to avoid it. *That* being said; the fact that this security product relies on closed-source binary drivers and runs on XP *IS* a reason to avoid it.
I would trust this product about as much I would trust Norton or Mcafee.
that is really quite cool but it is clearly not a 'complete hardware firewall' as it lacks the key component of a hardware firewall.... physically separate hardware.
Their webmail service was compromised this week, and spammers got hold of customers' e-mail addresses who they've been happily spamming away ever since. yeesh, What the hell is that sentence supposed to mean? Aside from the grammatical problems, what does the author mean by "spammers got hold of customers' e-mail addresses"? Do they actually mean that spammers aquired login access to email accounts?
oh, and no, I don't feel like reading the fine article.
I don't know about you guys but I'm about as tech-freindly as they come and I will not be ditching my land line.
It comes down to this: my land line will allow me to call the cops/ambulance 99.999% of the time. When mobile phones or voip can match those numbers I'll switch. Also, mobile phone systems are waaay too over-subscribed. I have NEVER picked up my land-line and failed to make a connection (except for mis-dialing). In an emergency/disaster situation mobile phone system regularly
also, I can use it as a 56k internet connection of last resort if everything else is dead.
Heck, even during a massive regional power outage I can take my laptop with it's built-in modem and get online for an hour or so.
Slashdot Mirror
No! gad damn it!
"h4rdw4r3" is however an acceptable alternate spelling.
The plural of hardware is hardware, not hardwares.
Does slashdot not have a "check spelling" feature on the submission page?
Honesty is the most important quality for a senior admin.
Things are going to get worse before they get better in this regard.
We're much more of a mini-UK than a mini-US.
If you want to compare Canada and the US, we're a nice imported bottle of wine and the US is an 8 gallon box of wine from walmart.
"Canada's claim to fame is that it is "perceived" to be universal. And it is sort of if you overlook the regional approvals that go on. Often based on age and are you paying taxes."
: s_7//en#anchorbo-ga:s_7 )
/ nov/fs051110-e.html
um, what?
That is simply not correct. You are either mistaken or simply lying.
There is no connection between an individual's tax status and their health care in Canada. (see Canada Health Act section 10 'Universality' http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/C-6/bo-ga
For your mother to be given different care because she isn't paying taxes would be in violation of several laws.
If you really think your mother was given inferior care because she is on cpp and not paying taxes then call the police and the media right now. I'm serious.
Not only is it illegal to deny or delay care to an individual based on their income or taxes it is also illegal for the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) to divulge an individual's tax status to anyone in the health care system. Even the police need a subpoena to see your tax information.
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/newsroom/factsheets/2005
I'll not bother to debunk the rest of the ridiculous assertions you made in that post as this one item clearly shows that you are trolling.
Besides, trying to interpret your writing is giving me a headache. I really hope english is not your first language or that you were drunk/high when you wrote that text.
SuperMicro 3U rackmount chassis with 15 hotswap sata bays
Intel core 2 duo @ 2.4ghz E6600
4x500GB drives.
Ubuntu Feisty Server edition for the dom0 (the root/master OS)
Guest operating systems:
- Ubuntu Feisty server edition
- Windows server 2003 standard edition
- more to be added later.
The disk drive i'm giving to windows is a re-sizable LVM2 partition on a software raid 5 array managed by the root domain.
On page 5 they start to list the jewels and number one on the list is fully redacted, any guesses on what that might be?
On Fark this would have to have a Ric Romero reference.
Sadly my government here in Canada is not bright enough to recognise the danger.
flamebait my-ass.
You may be right, I think that our technological advancement is very hard to quantitatively measure.
I shall now present conclusive evidence of our fantastic technological prowess:
http://www.prankplace.com/rockpaperscissors.htm
The Aussies recently tested their new scramjet engine in our atmosphere at mach 10.
Also, 180kph automobiles with 400+km ranges are available to teenagers. If you took an educated man from 1907 and brought him to 2007, he'd be able to understand just about everything we have except for our computational devices. They even understood a bit about nuclear energy. They (a few people) understood a bit about nuclear energy. Now we have the power the literally obliterate the entire habitable surface area of the planet. We have ships the size of small towns that can run for 25 years without refueling while putting out more electricity every day than all of civilization had done up until 1907.
Then there is the whole computerization thing... that is kinda a hard one to dismiss.
The advances in Information Technology are probably THE most significant advance during that century.
Then there is the revolution in biotech.
This one is arguably more significant than computerization.
We have gone from categorizing life forms by their colours and shapes to a basic understanding of DNA and proteins and for the first time beginning to understand what life IS and to control/create it.
We now have a basic understanding of the mechanics of biological systems. When this progresses to 'a mastery' of the mechanics of biological systems we will have what could easily be described as god-like powers to design and create life.
What else.... um, how about all the cyborgs walking around these days?
Sure, an open-minded person in 1907 could conceive of an artificial heart or lung but we've got 'em and we can fit you with one if your heart stops working. (sometimes)
Of course we can also make your boobs bigger or your penis harder... You can even have someone else carry your baby to term if there is a problem with your uterus.
What else... um, the majority of people in the western world can sit down at their desk on whim and look down on any part of the planet from space.
Actually physically leaving the planet is a vacation option for the rich. (this one would have to blow the mind of a 1907'er)
I think we're blase not because our advances are meager but because our advances have been so frequent and mind-blowing that we've come to expect new tech that is twice as good as the old tech every few years.
The use of the word 'impossible' shows that the author hasn't considered all the factors.
Most glaringly he seems to have failed to account for the passage of time.
A rather large oversight.
He calculates that a 'low-ball' minimum estimate of the energy required to send a small ship to Proxima Centauri in less than a lifetime would be 5 days worth of our current planet-wide power production.
Wow. how is that an argument against feasibility?
He almost makes it sound like we could get started today!
That comparison makes about as much sense as budgeting for my daughter's university education based on her (6yr old) allowance.
In a more realistic scenario, say a colony ship launch 100 years from now. If our power production continues to grow at the rate it has since we discovered how to use electricity we will have enough excess power to charge-up on of these ships every few minutes.
He even mentions that we have that much portable power in the form of useless nukes sitting around doing nothing right now!
Yet he somehow takes this as further evidence that it is NOT feasible... I don't get it.
I think the flaws in his reasoning flow from two key points:
1) No accounting for the (almost inevitable) growth in our production capacity and technology over time.
2) An assumption of a 'me-first' attitude when in fact most people around the world are quite willing to work their entire lives for the sole benefit of their children and grandchildren.
(I'm going to guess that the author does not have any children and may himself be quite young)
Here in Canada the largest ISP is Bell Sympatico (alias: bell nexxia).
They are pure evil when it comes to privacy. Less than a year ago they ammended their terms of service to give themselves the right to monitor (content included) anything and everything you do on the internet at their whim and share the information with any government agency that asks for it. (no stipulations that the agency must be Canadian or be making a legal request for information).
That was presumably an attempt to protect themselves from lawsuits because of what they've been doing for fracking years.
Bell routes almost all their traffic through new york and/or boston!
Thus all Canadian Internet traffic carried by Bell is snooped by the out-of-control american spy agencies.
It is shocking really, to get a packet literally across the street here in Ottawa Bell will route you through New York.
I have not been able to think of a reason for this behaviour other than for the express purpose of facilitating privacy violations.
Furthermore, our national security agencies have to be aware of this and the ramifications for Canadian citizens.
(unless they are shockingly incompetent) Thus I have to conclude that our own government is complicit. Perhaps our government is receiving some of the fruits of this spying.
Such a scheme would be consistent with historic agreements between our countries.
In fact, this could even be happening as part of one of our existing co-spy agreements.
The fact that you give your executive branch the authority to fire your prosecutors (judicial branch) is laughable.
The US system of government has failed so many times to uphold its stated goals that it has become literally a laughing stock.
The universal application of the law is one of the fundamental requirements of a free society.
I think that this is obvious and that anyone who stops to think about it will agree.
This is hardly a revolutionary or subversive idea and yet the US has moved further and further from this ideal each year for as long as I have been following the situation.
The fact that each new administration fires all the prosecutors is an explicit admission that the judicial branch has failed in its mission. (to uphold the law)
Frankly, the fact that you elect some of your judges by popular vote puts the lie to the whole affair. A judge's job is to interpret the law, not to advance an agenda. An imaginary ideal judge would produce nearly deterministic judgments.
Logic and reason are the right tools for judicial deliberation. There is NO ROOM FOR IDEOLOGY in the application of the law. There is therefore no reason for elections unless you are incapable of business-like hiring practices.
Honestly, there is nothing I would like more than for the americans to get their act together and restore the rule of law to that great nation.
Sadly I fear it is much more likely that they will continue their downward spiral from enlightenment to lawlessness and superstition. Economic collapse and violent revolution lie further down this road. For your god's sake wake up! pay attention! and demand an independent judicial branch!
'For your safety'?
Sounds like a threat to me...
Have you reported this to the police?
I know that show! in the department store..
it was mildly entertaining.
Mrs. Slocombe scared me; too much makeup
Sure, gig-e is 120MB/s in theory but you missed the part about his gigabit switch costing $20 ;)
Perhaps, but the US, Israel, Russia and China together manage to do a startling amount of shady shit.
Their efforts really do put the rest of the world to shame (er, maybe i mean the opposite of that)
That being said; the fact that this product was developed in Israel is not a reason to avoid it.
*That* being said; the fact that this security product relies on closed-source binary drivers and runs on XP *IS* a reason to avoid it.
I would trust this product about as much I would trust Norton or Mcafee.
of course I haven't...
jeez, why would do something like that to myself?
that is really quite cool but it is clearly not a 'complete hardware firewall' as it lacks the key component of a hardware firewall.... physically separate hardware.
The key difference is that sanctions and traditional methods are (generally) open and aboveboard
That is the funniest thing I've heard today.
Aside from the grammatical problems, what does the author mean by "spammers got hold of customers' e-mail addresses"? Do they actually mean that spammers aquired login access to email accounts?
oh, and no, I don't feel like reading the fine article.
I don't know about you guys but I'm about as tech-freindly as they come and I will not be ditching my land line.
It comes down to this: my land line will allow me to call the cops/ambulance 99.999% of the time.
When mobile phones or voip can match those numbers I'll switch.
Also, mobile phone systems are waaay too over-subscribed. I have NEVER picked up my land-line and failed to make a connection (except for mis-dialing).
In an emergency/disaster situation mobile phone system regularly
also, I can use it as a 56k internet connection of last resort if everything else is dead.
Heck, even during a massive regional power outage I can take my laptop with it's built-in modem and get online for an hour or so.