But a single physical point of failure makes it easy to cut off the internet in the case of riots or protests. You don't even need network administrators, just an old woman with a shovel.
The question is whether or not they are detecting Iodine-129, which decays into Xenon-129, but has a half-life of 15.7 million years. I know nuke bombs and fission reactors create it, but haven't heard how much of this isotope has been found.
Unlike I-131, I-129 IS a problem in the environment over the long term.
That isn't a bad thing. It means the company will have trouble attracting quality talent unless it develops a system and policy to NOT do things like install root kits on computers. If you work for a company that does bad things, and you pay a price, you might want to go work somewhere else, or risk paying that price.
Is it "fair" to all the low level employees? Maybe not, but it will be effective in protecting the general public, which means it is worth the price, since it creates an incentive for companies to NOT be asshats and install root kits on devices.
What is fair is that companies (and shareholders) pay a price for breaking the law. This is the only way you can pressure stockholders and employees to pressure their management to do business in a fair and honest way, by having a "price" for not doing so.
Bell Labs did a lot of good things. The consumer branch of AT&T has always been run with the goal of treating the customer like shit. I wasn't bitching about the engineers, I was bitching about the management. And here in NC, when they bought out Bellsouth, they actually DOWNGRADED the technology that was in use. Ask a tech who works for them. Their uptime now is a joke, while their prices are sky high. They still have a 1980s business model: sales rep who calls every day until you sign the contract, then afterwards, you couldn't locate them with GPS if you wanted to.
Back when they made you lease their equipment, and charged you by the number of phones you had in the house, and when long distance rates were about the same per minute as the minimum wage?
Or maybe the near past, when they couldn't keep a pair of T1s running with even 2 9s of service? AND would switch your long distance plan to someone else, even though you are on a contract?
AT&T has always been a bunch of asshats. They are just fully capable of changing with the times in their asshattery.
The thing is, it's not exactly possible to censor a TLD.
Not only is it possible, it is relatively trivial to do. All they have to do is get all ISPs to redirect all port 53 requests to internal DNS servers, then filter their own DNS servers as they wish. Then it is a matter of the DNS server essentially returning "127.0.0.1" for *.xxx That should take care of more than 99% of users. Pretty effective by anyone's standards.
Yes, because everyone knows that no one under 18 every plays a game with an 18 rating. And teenagers don't look at porn on the net, no one under 21 drinks alcohol, etc. etc. etc.;)
That is exactly the problem with GPL, you have to think about it to be sure you aren't violating the license. You have to make sure that the way you are distributing software is appropriate and compliant, and in some circumstances, it is possible to violate it without trying to. As an end user, I like what the GPL stands for, but if I were a developer, I would be avoiding it simply because of the headaches.
Something else to add: Half the people who will buy the game, were not even alive when the game was announced. The game idea is literally older than the customer base.
While I can't think of an application for the domain (except the newspapers I mentioned earlier) it wouldn't be unheard of for another company to change their name to Sun, if they can get the domain and trademarks. Perhaps Levono or some other computer company that is large but not recognizable enough or wants the "street cred" to take it to the next level. Asus, Gigabyte, Biostar etc.
Maybe AMD will buy it to start a computer company of their own, to be more direct (thus more competitive) in the server market. They did buy ATI after all. Last but not least, look at SCO.
Not saying it WILL, just that it is within the realm of possibilities. In this industry, who knows.
It isn't about ease of use, it is about clout. Why would the Coca-Cola company care about coke.com? Clout. The big with the shortest domain name has the biggest penis, after all.
But isn't asking to have "more direct, low level access" to the hardware EXACTLY like asking for the DOS days again, in a way? That was the first thing I thought. In reality, it would allow for faster game experience and better utilization of the hardware. Of course, this makes programming games a freaking nightmare as there are a million possible combinations, which would mean fewer games in that mode.
I always thought a "dedicated game mode" for the OS would be interesting, where all other services are put to sleep and the system virtually reboots to a more plain Jane state, with just networking and low level services. (yes, like the old DOS days, but in a more controlled and predicable way) Of course, that would be a perfect vector to infect a system....that and MS doesn't use a microkernel design, which is what we are likely talking about.
The Chicago Sun. The U.K. paper "The Sun", etc. There are plenty of companies who would want it and would pay more than pocket change, although the economy won't support a premium price right now.
Maybe Oracle can make it one of those cheesy ad farms, complete with Google ads on both sides, top and bottom, complete with BizRate ads "Looking for a great price on sun?"
I had FidoNet on my 3 line BBS in the early 90s. While it was a type of social media, it was only for those who cared to be technically savvy enough to use it, not the mainstream public. You are talking about something that was not even.01% as popular as Facebook or Twitter. It was cool in its day, but it was also.01% as usable when compared to the INSTANT nature of current social media.
I just don't see them selling it off right now. It isn't like Larry is broke and needs the bucks. And it isn't like the market for domain names is at a high point. He would get more selling the Sun name, domain, and some minor IP to someone as a set. He has already carved all the white meat off that turkey, which is the customer base and some software.
To compound the issue, it is very, very arguable that the Cold War made the social media possible quicker than not having a Cold War. It pushed the gov. into developing DARPANET, and was at least partially responsible for pushing technology into the mainstream faster. It might have taken another 10-20 years (maybe longer) if the whole world "just got along" after WW2.
And while many people say "if not for war, we could have developed even more", I call BS. Fear and paranoia will always make people spend more money and resources to develop defensive technology than love and peace. That said, a little love and peace would be nice right about now.
Once upon a time it was common knowledge amongst young boys that those boobies they wanted to see so badly were to be found on roughly 50% of their peers - they just needed to develop a certain skill and tact to achieve that goal. Today the porn shortcut has lead to a decline in much of those skills.
But thanks to the interweb, boys don't need to develop the social skills needed to talk a girl into showing his boobs. He doesn't even need to try to sneak a peek at the girls showers. Hell, who would want to see some random girl's boob from your school, when a kid can see any celebrity fake nude, or make his own with a pirated version of photoshop. More importantly, they can now wank while looking at the nudes, instead of seeing it one hour, then going home and reliving it.
The internet has taken a lot of the fun out of being a horny teenager, even if they don't realize it.
Seriously, isn't this cheaper than we can do ourselves? Granted, we need our own program for national security and all that, but this still sounds cheaper than what we have been doing, with the Shuttle program.
While you are correct on a technical basis, this isn't trivial to do, and doesn't avoid solid contact in any framed area, such as a window or door. There may be applications that would benefit from weaving this way, but I would imagine that the returns diminish rapidly due to the extra cost.
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But a single physical point of failure makes it easy to cut off the internet in the case of riots or protests. You don't even need network administrators, just an old woman with a shovel.
You're right, this is fast. At first I just though it was a dupe from a few weeks ago.
The question is whether or not they are detecting Iodine-129, which decays into Xenon-129, but has a half-life of 15.7 million years. I know nuke bombs and fission reactors create it, but haven't heard how much of this isotope has been found.
Unlike I-131, I-129 IS a problem in the environment over the long term.
That isn't a bad thing. It means the company will have trouble attracting quality talent unless it develops a system and policy to NOT do things like install root kits on computers. If you work for a company that does bad things, and you pay a price, you might want to go work somewhere else, or risk paying that price.
Is it "fair" to all the low level employees? Maybe not, but it will be effective in protecting the general public, which means it is worth the price, since it creates an incentive for companies to NOT be asshats and install root kits on devices.
What is fair is that companies (and shareholders) pay a price for breaking the law. This is the only way you can pressure stockholders and employees to pressure their management to do business in a fair and honest way, by having a "price" for not doing so.
I'll bite. What is Japan's definition of suicide?
Ever see John Belushi do his Samurai bit on SNL in the 1970s?
While DNS typically uses UDP, not TCP, you can redirect TCP just as easily as UDP. It is a single line of code in iptables, it is that easy: One line.
Bell Labs did a lot of good things. The consumer branch of AT&T has always been run with the goal of treating the customer like shit. I wasn't bitching about the engineers, I was bitching about the management. And here in NC, when they bought out Bellsouth, they actually DOWNGRADED the technology that was in use. Ask a tech who works for them. Their uptime now is a joke, while their prices are sky high. They still have a 1980s business model: sales rep who calls every day until you sign the contract, then afterwards, you couldn't locate them with GPS if you wanted to.
Back when they made you lease their equipment, and charged you by the number of phones you had in the house, and when long distance rates were about the same per minute as the minimum wage?
Or maybe the near past, when they couldn't keep a pair of T1s running with even 2 9s of service? AND would switch your long distance plan to someone else, even though you are on a contract?
AT&T has always been a bunch of asshats. They are just fully capable of changing with the times in their asshattery.
The thing is, it's not exactly possible to censor a TLD.
Not only is it possible, it is relatively trivial to do. All they have to do is get all ISPs to redirect all port 53 requests to internal DNS servers, then filter their own DNS servers as they wish. Then it is a matter of the DNS server essentially returning "127.0.0.1" for *.xxx That should take care of more than 99% of users. Pretty effective by anyone's standards.
Yes, because everyone knows that no one under 18 every plays a game with an 18 rating. And teenagers don't look at porn on the net, no one under 21 drinks alcohol, etc. etc. etc. ;)
That is exactly the problem with GPL, you have to think about it to be sure you aren't violating the license. You have to make sure that the way you are distributing software is appropriate and compliant, and in some circumstances, it is possible to violate it without trying to. As an end user, I like what the GPL stands for, but if I were a developer, I would be avoiding it simply because of the headaches.
Something else to add: Half the people who will buy the game, were not even alive when the game was announced. The game idea is literally older than the customer base.
Do you have to buy the Pro version to get the templates for suicide and ransom notes?
While I can't think of an application for the domain (except the newspapers I mentioned earlier) it wouldn't be unheard of for another company to change their name to Sun, if they can get the domain and trademarks. Perhaps Levono or some other computer company that is large but not recognizable enough or wants the "street cred" to take it to the next level. Asus, Gigabyte, Biostar etc.
Maybe AMD will buy it to start a computer company of their own, to be more direct (thus more competitive) in the server market. They did buy ATI after all. Last but not least, look at SCO.
Not saying it WILL, just that it is within the realm of possibilities. In this industry, who knows.
It isn't about ease of use, it is about clout. Why would the Coca-Cola company care about coke.com? Clout. The big with the shortest domain name has the biggest penis, after all.
But isn't asking to have "more direct, low level access" to the hardware EXACTLY like asking for the DOS days again, in a way? That was the first thing I thought. In reality, it would allow for faster game experience and better utilization of the hardware. Of course, this makes programming games a freaking nightmare as there are a million possible combinations, which would mean fewer games in that mode.
I always thought a "dedicated game mode" for the OS would be interesting, where all other services are put to sleep and the system virtually reboots to a more plain Jane state, with just networking and low level services. (yes, like the old DOS days, but in a more controlled and predicable way) Of course, that would be a perfect vector to infect a system....that and MS doesn't use a microkernel design, which is what we are likely talking about.
The Chicago Sun. The U.K. paper "The Sun", etc. There are plenty of companies who would want it and would pay more than pocket change, although the economy won't support a premium price right now.
Maybe Oracle can make it one of those cheesy ad farms, complete with Google ads on both sides, top and bottom, complete with BizRate ads "Looking for a great price on sun?"
I had FidoNet on my 3 line BBS in the early 90s. While it was a type of social media, it was only for those who cared to be technically savvy enough to use it, not the mainstream public. You are talking about something that was not even .01% as popular as Facebook or Twitter. It was cool in its day, but it was also .01% as usable when compared to the INSTANT nature of current social media.
I just don't see them selling it off right now. It isn't like Larry is broke and needs the bucks. And it isn't like the market for domain names is at a high point. He would get more selling the Sun name, domain, and some minor IP to someone as a set. He has already carved all the white meat off that turkey, which is the customer base and some software.
To compound the issue, it is very, very arguable that the Cold War made the social media possible quicker than not having a Cold War. It pushed the gov. into developing DARPANET, and was at least partially responsible for pushing technology into the mainstream faster. It might have taken another 10-20 years (maybe longer) if the whole world "just got along" after WW2.
And while many people say "if not for war, we could have developed even more", I call BS. Fear and paranoia will always make people spend more money and resources to develop defensive technology than love and peace. That said, a little love and peace would be nice right about now.
Once upon a time it was common knowledge amongst young boys that those boobies they wanted to see so badly were to be found on roughly 50% of their peers - they just needed to develop a certain skill and tact to achieve that goal. Today the porn shortcut has lead to a decline in much of those skills.
But thanks to the interweb, boys don't need to develop the social skills needed to talk a girl into showing his boobs. He doesn't even need to try to sneak a peek at the girls showers. Hell, who would want to see some random girl's boob from your school, when a kid can see any celebrity fake nude, or make his own with a pirated version of photoshop. More importantly, they can now wank while looking at the nudes, instead of seeing it one hour, then going home and reliving it.
The internet has taken a lot of the fun out of being a horny teenager, even if they don't realize it.
So it depends on what the definition of "is", is?
To be fair, you really should have a few years experience handling a weapon before you try to do it drunk.
Seriously, isn't this cheaper than we can do ourselves? Granted, we need our own program for national security and all that, but this still sounds cheaper than what we have been doing, with the Shuttle program.
While you are correct on a technical basis, this isn't trivial to do, and doesn't avoid solid contact in any framed area, such as a window or door. There may be applications that would benefit from weaving this way, but I would imagine that the returns diminish rapidly due to the extra cost.