So explain again... why storing all your data on some company's servers is a good idea?
Because managing an email server is not my core concern.
Say that you business is selling fruitcakes. You make awesome fruitcakes. That's your core. Everything else that you do is not fruitcakes.
Do you grow the fruit yourself? Nope. You order them from some fruit company.
Do you make the box that the cake goes in? Nope. You order boxes from a box making company.
Do you make the machines that run in your plant? Nope. They come from an automation company.
Do you generate the electricity to run your plant? Nope. The electric company does that.
Do you sell the cakes directly to consumers? Nope. Retail grocery chains deal with the consumers.
Do you sell them directly to retailers? Nope. You have a distributor who deals with them.
Do you transport the cakes yourself? Nope. You contract to a logistics (trucking) company.
Do you even clean your own toilets? Nope. There's a cleaning service.
Why should you manage your own email servers? Contract that to a company who's core business is IT infrastructure. They are going to be better at it than you.
The problem is, Google isn't that good at it. Their core business is search. Everything else is just someone's cool project idea, and not a real product with real resources and real support. It's all just "hey, look at this cool thing with a cool UI" and that's then end of it.
Then put god damn bandwidth limits on students in both gb/month and kb/s with an easy to use system to apply for exceptions.
No no no! This will actually solve the problem while maintaining the neutrality of the network!
By telling students what they can and can't do, the University maintains its mommy/daddy role to the students, and further leaves themselves open to more legal actions, allowing them to parent the students more in the future.
The goal is to have as much administration involved as possible (administrators only exist to create more administration) and to control the students as overtly as possible!
RTFA dude. You objections are all addressed in the section "Galactic bow shock".
In short, our galaxy isn't the problem. It's that the sun moves to the front of the direction in which our galaxy is travelling, becoming part of the leading edge.
WHY is the (used to be) world leader of technology and one of the richest nations on Earth (USA) still dragging it's feet and living in the past?...
These companies have no interest in providing a quality service, their only interest is milking their customers for as much as possible as long as they can.
You answered your own question.
The entire telecom industry is an absolute scam. Nothing comes close.
Go work in telecom for a while and you will be amazed. The focus is never on providing service or creating new products. It's always "how can we maximize return on our existing customers and infrastructure" and "how much can we leverage this incremental improvement"?
Invent something that costs 1/1000th of a cent to deploy and use? Let's price it at 10cents per use.
Handheld makers invent a technology that lets customers play music on their phones? How can we block them from loading their own music so that they must buy it through our storefront?
Convert your network to be digital, so now you can carry data as well as voice? Oh.. hold on there. It costs us less to move data than voice, but we should be charging 100-200 times more for this great new feature.
Don't let any ISVs run a service over your network. That's revenue that you should be getting from your customers directly. Yes, it would make our service more useful, but you can't have anyone else interacting with your customers.
I could go on and on for days (and I was only in it for four months!) It's an absolute scam.
Heath-care and banking are just blips on the radar compared to the telecom scam Goliath.
If Washington DC, Beijing, and a few other capital cities had several inches of standing water from increased sea level, you can bet something would be getting done.
I'm not convinced of that. I think it would be easier to relocate a few miles inland than trying to change the world and it's economic structure (especially if you are sitting on top of that economic structure).
If you're a power hungry political type, would you want to be on the top of a shitty world, or risk giving that all up to be on the bottom of a nice one?
This is a terrible idea. Harnessing wind down by the ground is local, but sucking energy out of the jet stream will cause problems "down stream". Operate a sizable "facility", sit back, and watch the "unintended side effects" proliferate.
You're right. We should stick to burning coal, firing gas, building dams, and fissioning radioactive materials. Those have all proven to have no unintended consequences.
There is insufficient technical information to say that women wearing tops in my apartment do not interfere with the operation of my couch. Therefore, any woman who wants to use my couch must remove her top.
Virtually every Canadian news agency that covered this event highlighted how the law was voted down purely for political reasons, not for morale ones. The law was originally introduced by the Liberal party which is the exact same party that voted against it this time.
... because circumstances and opinions never change.
This has absolutely nothing to do with moral objection, as many Liberal members broke rank from their party and actually voted *for* the bill.
Does it have the same problem I've seen with most encryption types: It totally fails if you know the contents of something that should already be on there that you want to decrypt? So if you have a reference string, and its location, it becomes trivial to compute the key?
What you are referring to is called a "known plaintext" attack. Any real encryption algorithm is immune to it.
In fact, for an algorithm to be considered secure, it's assumed that you can choose any plaintext ("chosen plaintext" attack), feed it into the cypher, get back cyphertext, and not be able to recover the key.
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Ummm... you can buy a real laptop for that price.
Because managing an email server is not my core concern.
Say that you business is selling fruitcakes. You make awesome fruitcakes. That's your core. Everything else that you do is not fruitcakes.
Do you grow the fruit yourself? Nope. You order them from some fruit company.
Do you make the box that the cake goes in? Nope. You order boxes from a box making company.
Do you make the machines that run in your plant? Nope. They come from an automation company.
Do you generate the electricity to run your plant? Nope. The electric company does that.
Do you sell the cakes directly to consumers? Nope. Retail grocery chains deal with the consumers.
Do you sell them directly to retailers? Nope. You have a distributor who deals with them.
Do you transport the cakes yourself? Nope. You contract to a logistics (trucking) company.
Do you even clean your own toilets? Nope. There's a cleaning service.
Why should you manage your own email servers? Contract that to a company who's core business is IT infrastructure. They are going to be better at it than you.
The problem is, Google isn't that good at it. Their core business is search. Everything else is just someone's cool project idea, and not a real product with real resources and real support. It's all just "hey, look at this cool thing with a cool UI" and that's then end of it.
No no no! This will actually solve the problem while maintaining the neutrality of the network!
By telling students what they can and can't do, the University maintains its mommy/daddy role to the students, and further leaves themselves open to more legal actions, allowing them to parent the students more in the future.
The goal is to have as much administration involved as possible (administrators only exist to create more administration) and to control the students as overtly as possible!
RTFA dude. You objections are all addressed in the section "Galactic bow shock".
In short, our galaxy isn't the problem. It's that the sun moves to the front of the direction in which our galaxy is travelling, becoming part of the leading edge.
Godwined on the 5th post. Good one.
Really? I would like to see the code which does this without generating a warning.
...that is all.
Tag proposal: correlationdoesnotimplycausation
Yes, and that really helped us track him down.
-Bill Gates
You answered your own question.
The entire telecom industry is an absolute scam. Nothing comes close.
Go work in telecom for a while and you will be amazed. The focus is never on providing service or creating new products. It's always "how can we maximize return on our existing customers and infrastructure" and "how much can we leverage this incremental improvement"?
Invent something that costs 1/1000th of a cent to deploy and use? Let's price it at 10cents per use.
Handheld makers invent a technology that lets customers play music on their phones? How can we block them from loading their own music so that they must buy it through our storefront?
Convert your network to be digital, so now you can carry data as well as voice? Oh.. hold on there. It costs us less to move data than voice, but we should be charging 100-200 times more for this great new feature.
Don't let any ISVs run a service over your network. That's revenue that you should be getting from your customers directly. Yes, it would make our service more useful, but you can't have anyone else interacting with your customers.
I could go on and on for days (and I was only in it for four months!) It's an absolute scam.
Heath-care and banking are just blips on the radar compared to the telecom scam Goliath.
I'm not convinced of that. I think it would be easier to relocate a few miles inland than trying to change the world and it's economic structure (especially if you are sitting on top of that economic structure).
If you're a power hungry political type, would you want to be on the top of a shitty world, or risk giving that all up to be on the bottom of a nice one?
Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? Nov 20, '05
Sun To Unveil Project Blackbox Oct 17, '06
Yes, they are about Google and Sun, but does "OMG Micro$oft is doing it too!!!!1111" count as news?
You're right. We should stick to burning coal, firing gas, building dams, and fissioning radioactive materials. Those have all proven to have no unintended consequences.
There is insufficient technical information to say that women wearing tops in my apartment do not interfere with the operation of my couch. Therefore, any woman who wants to use my couch must remove her top.
I'm serious.
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Dude, do it with a little style.
Dupe: Reflectivity Reaches a New Low
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There was exactly one: MP Tom Wappel (source).
Someone once told me that salary correlates most to level of responsibility; not skill, not demand, not value added.
It opened my eyes....
Godwined on the first post. Awesome.
I use the script. This is what I see as the story:
New hotness: Slashdot creates system to stop dupes. ;)
Old and busted: still no cure for cancer.
It's only hope is to be prescribed as an "off-label" treatment, or for a University to foot the bill for the betterment of mankind.
Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent
Thanks for playing.
In fact, for an algorithm to be considered secure, it's assumed that you can choose any plaintext ("chosen plaintext" attack), feed it into the cypher, get back cyphertext, and not be able to recover the key.