A switch isn't necessarily a computer but a router definitely is. Back in the day all routers were physical PC. Now they are embedded systems. And they store all sorts of information, most importantly routing information!
But a dunce cap on this guy and make him sit in the corner.
I don't think it really matters how old the nuclear plant was or that a 9.0 earthquake hit. It should be impossible for any of this to occur. You plan for these things... it's called a worst case senerio. All running reactors should be able to be shut down within minutes. In fact it should all be automatic, especially in the case of large earthquakes.
In fact I would go so far as to say that if it can melt down then they need to have a plan for what to do when it does. Retrofit the reactors. At the least have all the reactor rods retract and have robots that can transport the rods to a containment tank. Be able to pull the dam fuel! Have a gods dam meltdown plan in place!
All you need to do is actually buy something from spam. Whomever takes the money and where is goes should tell you who did the spamming. Buy stuff from multiple email and triangulate who is doing what. I would think Visa and Mastercard in cooperation with the big banks could track down everyone profiting.
I think it's reasonable cause that if you profit from spam your probably paying for it somehow and should be enough to get your financial records.
If you watch the video it seems clear to me what he said was basically that he couldn't deny it! Wikipedia undeniably had an effect and what has been exposed so far hasn't been quite so bad and has in fact to the surprise of his ilk let to possibly something good. But he still bashed Assange left and right in his disdain for him and his policies and politics, basically reiterating the company line.
Overall I felt the confrontation at the end of the video with the pretty woman was pointless. It would have been better spent talking about the topic he was there to address. That topic being the theoretical balance between government privacy, leaks, and free speech through technology.
You can either proxy the email connections or host them directly. Email doesn't take up that many resources. Another $20 with another company gives you a backup MX. As a bonus you can run them as your dns servers as well as maybe a couple other low priority jobs run in jails.
And it goes without saying I suggest that you consult with a couple external security hackers and audit all your servers a couple times a year. You may be a small business but your probably more of a target than the big companies. How much is your companies reputation worth?
Hasn't this guy read the constitution and amendments? You know the the one he took an oath to uphold?
It would be one thing if he were proposing an amendment but contradicting the constitution? We as American citizens need a way to impeach government officials ourselves.
I'm sure I could configure my own domain server to pull the master file and offer the sites to myself and anyone else that used my domain server. If enough of us did this and offered our DNS servers on a list... You get the idea.... We could do the same thing that Verisign did with non existent domains, but in this case redirect them them to where they belong.
I hate it when ignorant people think they understand how the net works. Alternate DNS is a concept that has been around a long time. An international organization with enough clout could pull off a coup on the United States at any time as far as TLD domains and root servers. And once that genie is out of the bottle every business on the net is going to be screaming at the US government.
This has to be a rumor. A deal like this would take at least six to ten years to go through even after they bought out enough government influence to push it through.
It would make more sense to me if they did a stock exchange deal with buyout prevention. AMD then designing the systems and licensing it to dell at nominal fees. One company does good and then the other does good. It might also form the groundwork for a joint fab and manufacturing arm for dell and AMD.
As an enthusiast I will never buy a Dell computer even though I'm old enough to remember when dell use to be a premium brand and I lusted over their servers. Nor will I ever fail to voice my opinion against dell in any organization I work work since I'm the one that has to deal with the headaches at the end of the day.
If a merger did go through I would jump ship on AMD overnight and I know a lot of other geeks will as well. The AMD legacy will disappear in 10 years and we will only be left with Intel. Intel will be the only one left with cutting edge fabs to make the fastest processors but development will stagnate without a competitor. And a decade or two later the public will be calling for the breakup of Intel.
Geeks like me made AMD the company that it is because we don't like product lock in. Geeks like me will stop recommending AMD products and essentially kill it. I don't buy Apple products but I would gladly buy Apple over Dell.
A buyout doesn't make sense to me unless Dell is working with Intel to destroy market competition or they want to become AMD and go up against Intel themselves. The latter is doubtful but if they did they better change their brand name and retire most of the board of directors. While Intel is the Megacorp we geeks love to hate they do make quality products and take their brand seriously You can for the most part count on Intel hardware to still be working ten years later. Dell vs Intel? My money and hardware investment will be on Intel.
Brands (for the most part at least in my opinion): Intel - You get what you pay for. Cutting edge, best quality. AMD - The best price/performance trade off. Dell - Used car salesman.
What we need to explore the solar system are generation ships and manufacturing stations. Let's forget about going somewhere for the moment and concentrate on living in closed fault tolerant environments. Coping with the health consequences of living ones entire life in space. Develop the equivalent of street sweepers for planetary orbit to make living in orbit a lot safer. Let's forget about landing on a planet and instead build a manufacturing infrastructure to build exploratory stations and satellites. Perfect deflecting asteroids and comets to mars or one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter to be used for raw materials. Build monumental sun orbiting hydroponic farms and solar and nuclear power plants to beam clean energy across the solar system. Planetary colonization can wait. We need infrastructure.
Let's build stations people and then once the stations are built we can move them where we like and take our time getting there. We need to concentrate on permanency, building stuff that will be up there a thousand years and reusing the materials we put in orbit.
LibreOffice is just a name placeholder while the people involved get the leadership and politics sorted out. Just think of it as a project codename. No sense in wasting a good name and confusing people when you don't know if the program will fork again. It will take a couple years probably until we have a couple coder/software architects that can inspire others to follow them. It's actually a much better situation that the MySQL debacle.
We nerds have a responsibility to keep this quiet so that the wonderful future will happen. One where the metrics off all Hollywood stars and public figures body metrics are public knowledge through leaked files online and the metrics of anyone you want to know more intimately are available for $200 a pop.
Imagine all the websites that will pop up comparing peoples bodies. You know there will be sites comparing male stars packages and the T&A of women. Every time they get on a flight people will be comparing images and noting who is gaining and losing weight and who has had augmentation surgery. Who was pregnant and now no longer is... natural or abortion, I can already hear the gossip...
The government can't even design and adopt a proper electronic voting system (conflict of interest for political people selected for their ability to lie and cheat), they sure as heck won't be able to keep this data private very long. There will be leaks. Then the job will be subcontracted to the lowest bidder. Then the government will have budget trouble and relax the rules allowing this data to be sold. Then it's only a matter of time until the prices go down.
Imagine all the virtual reality sex, and the robot sex that is going to happen. There is no way to use this technology and prevent that future so it's unpatriotic to alarm the pubic. And if you don't care about keeping the public calm then your an anarchist and should think of the sex bots! For the sake the of the future sex bots we need to keep all this quiet...!!!!
Co pilots go back to before computers could fly a plane.
If and only if a computer is flying and landing on 9 out of 10 flights should it be OK to get rid of the copilot because that is what the pilot will be at that point. Of course we could always have flight attendants trained for a 1 in a 1000 emergency but at the point that both the primary and secondary computers give out and the pilot has a heart attack or gets knocked out the plane is probably doomed anyway; very unlikely situation. Pilots are glorified bus drivers. 2 in 10 people could learn to fly and land a 747. How quickly they can learn is another issue. Now a fighter/bomber pilot back in the 60/70's, now that's a pilot.
Some politician says ban this section and it will all go away...
Now the personals section is going to get even more polluted.
Casual Encounters will become the new adult section but it will spill over into the normal sections. Strictly platonic will probably become the "normal" area. If this is the intelligence of state attorney generals then we must have a lot of innocent people in jail.
Cisco already sells telecom equipment... now it's going to become a telecom company? Sorry I vote no. Better to have a separate company and spin a ten year or more deal to be a major producer of corporate equipment.
But thinking again about it I have to wonder maybe... but only if they do keep it a separate entity... they have enough money and clout to grow the company to later sell it off later for a profit... a successful Skype would mean a greater demand for tcp/ip telecom equipment... problem would be they would face antitrust problems if no one else were able to produce Skype specific/compatible equipment.
The signs of economic recovery are all around... companies are buying low and planning to sell high...
Sounds me to like Hawking has accepted string theory and gone from big bang to big bump...
But it doesn't change anything. In a cause and effect mentality you always have to end up with infinite causes if your being logical.
Furthermore giving god as a "cause" logically results the same way... well what or who created "God"... in a cause and effect reality there can be no first cause.
Separately... One of my pet peeves with "scientific" creationists is that they love the big bang when the truth is that once you understand and believe in God you have to accept that he could have created the whole of the universe at any particular moment; a logical universe that looks like it has existed much longer.
Tell me I'm not the first to think of this. Just pay and spam some traceable ads... It has to be illegal enough that you can subpoena financial records of individuals, probably mostly credit cards. If you know who first took the money surely one can trace it to the bot net(s) that finally emailed it... Surely there will be a number of middle men and they will try to hide their activities though stolen credit card number and such. But it would be traceable if anyone took the time to do it.
But legislation that establishes a group with the authority to establish mandatory and fair licensing rates. Some sort of clearing house that is solely charged with collecting fees and distributing the proceeds fairly. Something like what exists in England but way more progressive. Everything can be licensed, you can't withhold, and you must accept the established rate. Furthermore they can be petitioned/lobbied to create varied fair packaged licenses or even custom licenses. Of course whomever owns the copyright is free to accept less money... So all those books out of print and abandonware will still be purchasable.
Truth be told the government should be involved in the issue. Consumer licenses should be tracked and maintained by the government, it's in everyone best interest. It makes what you purchase more physical and non revocable. You should be able to lend your licenses as well as be able to sell and transfer them. So you really do own every book you purchase forever as well as all that music, you won't need to repurchase it over and over again.
Well I want to see a class action by farmers against all the bioengineering companies for complicit environmental contamination of the natural gene pools.
We have to remember that genes are not only transferred by sex/pollination but also by horizontal gene transfer with pests, parasites and diseases. If the bio companies can't prevent this then their products should not be on the market and should only be utilized in isolated environments. Unless of course they give up their patents and are globally approved by the majority of nations to modify the natural gene pool.
Please note that I am pro genetic engineering. And companies should make money for it. I just don't like corporate abuse.
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A switch isn't necessarily a computer but a router definitely is. Back in the day all routers were physical PC. Now they are embedded systems. And they store all sorts of information, most importantly routing information!
But a dunce cap on this guy and make him sit in the corner.
I don't think it really matters how old the nuclear plant was or that a 9.0 earthquake hit. It should be impossible for any of this to occur. You plan for these things... it's called a worst case senerio. All running reactors should be able to be shut down within minutes. In fact it should all be automatic, especially in the case of large earthquakes.
In fact I would go so far as to say that if it can melt down then they need to have a plan for what to do when it does. Retrofit the reactors. At the least have all the reactor rods retract and have robots that can transport the rods to a containment tank. Be able to pull the dam fuel! Have a gods dam meltdown plan in place!
All you need to do is actually buy something from spam. Whomever takes the money and where is goes should tell you who did the spamming. Buy stuff from multiple email and triangulate who is doing what. I would think Visa and Mastercard in cooperation with the big banks could track down everyone profiting.
I think it's reasonable cause that if you profit from spam your probably paying for it somehow and should be enough to get your financial records.
There can be no denying that torrents are speech. Torrent files in and of themselves are only contact data.
The supreme court can rule that giving money to political causes is free speech but publishing the phone number of a hooker isn't?
I find the post totally misharacterized.
If you watch the video it seems clear to me what he said was basically that he couldn't deny it! Wikipedia undeniably had an effect and what has been exposed so far hasn't been quite so bad and has in fact to the surprise of his ilk let to possibly something good. But he still bashed Assange left and right in his disdain for him and his policies and politics, basically reiterating the company line.
Overall I felt the confrontation at the end of the video with the pretty woman was pointless. It would have been better spent talking about the topic he was there to address. That topic being the theoretical balance between government privacy, leaks, and free speech through technology.
You can either proxy the email connections or host them directly. Email doesn't take up that many resources. Another $20 with another company gives you a backup MX. As a bonus you can run them as your dns servers as well as maybe a couple other low priority jobs run in jails.
And it goes without saying I suggest that you consult with a couple external security hackers and audit all your servers a couple times a year. You may be a small business but your probably more of a target than the big companies. How much is your companies reputation worth?
Hasn't this guy read the constitution and amendments? You know the the one he took an oath to uphold?
It would be one thing if he were proposing an amendment but contradicting the constitution? We as American citizens need a way to impeach government officials ourselves.
And a list of the sites banned?
I'm sure I could configure my own domain server to pull the master file and offer the sites to myself and anyone else that used my domain server. If enough of us did this and offered our DNS servers on a list... You get the idea.... We could do the same thing that Verisign did with non existent domains, but in this case redirect them them to where they belong.
I hate it when ignorant people think they understand how the net works. Alternate DNS is a concept that has been around a long time. An international organization with enough clout could pull off a coup on the United States at any time as far as TLD domains and root servers. And once that genie is out of the bottle every business on the net is going to be screaming at the US government.
Seriously.
Obama is hardly a nerd that cares directly about these things... he's just listening to his cabinet.
This has to be a rumor. A deal like this would take at least six to ten years to go through even after they bought out enough government influence to push it through.
It would make more sense to me if they did a stock exchange deal with buyout prevention. AMD then designing the systems and licensing it to dell at nominal fees. One company does good and then the other does good. It might also form the groundwork for a joint fab and manufacturing arm for dell and AMD.
As an enthusiast I will never buy a Dell computer even though I'm old enough to remember when dell use to be a premium brand and I lusted over their servers. Nor will I ever fail to voice my opinion against dell in any organization I work work since I'm the one that has to deal with the headaches at the end of the day.
If a merger did go through I would jump ship on AMD overnight and I know a lot of other geeks will as well. The AMD legacy will disappear in 10 years and we will only be left with Intel. Intel will be the only one left with cutting edge fabs to make the fastest processors but development will stagnate without a competitor. And a decade or two later the public will be calling for the breakup of Intel.
Geeks like me made AMD the company that it is because we don't like product lock in. Geeks like me will stop recommending AMD products and essentially kill it. I don't buy Apple products but I would gladly buy Apple over Dell.
A buyout doesn't make sense to me unless Dell is working with Intel to destroy market competition or they want to become AMD and go up against Intel themselves. The latter is doubtful but if they did they better change their brand name and retire most of the board of directors. While Intel is the Megacorp we geeks love to hate they do make quality products and take their brand seriously You can for the most part count on Intel hardware to still be working ten years later. Dell vs Intel? My money and hardware investment will be on Intel.
Brands (for the most part at least in my opinion):
Intel - You get what you pay for. Cutting edge, best quality.
AMD - The best price/performance trade off.
Dell - Used car salesman.
What we need to explore the solar system are generation ships and manufacturing stations. Let's forget about going somewhere for the moment and concentrate on living in closed fault tolerant environments. Coping with the health consequences of living ones entire life in space. Develop the equivalent of street sweepers for planetary orbit to make living in orbit a lot safer. Let's forget about landing on a planet and instead build a manufacturing infrastructure to build exploratory stations and satellites. Perfect deflecting asteroids and comets to mars or one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter to be used for raw materials. Build monumental sun orbiting hydroponic farms and solar and nuclear power plants to beam clean energy across the solar system. Planetary colonization can wait. We need infrastructure.
Let's build stations people and then once the stations are built we can move them where we like and take our time getting there. We need to concentrate on permanency, building stuff that will be up there a thousand years and reusing the materials we put in orbit.
LibreOffice is just a name placeholder while the people involved get the leadership and politics sorted out. Just think of it as a project codename. No sense in wasting a good name and confusing people when you don't know if the program will fork again. It will take a couple years probably until we have a couple coder/software architects that can inspire others to follow them. It's actually a much better situation that the MySQL debacle.
We nerds have a responsibility to keep this quiet so that the wonderful future will happen. One where the metrics off all Hollywood stars and public figures body metrics are public knowledge through leaked files online and the metrics of anyone you want to know more intimately are available for $200 a pop.
Imagine all the websites that will pop up comparing peoples bodies. You know there will be sites comparing male stars packages and the T&A of women. Every time they get on a flight people will be comparing images and noting who is gaining and losing weight and who has had augmentation surgery. Who was pregnant and now no longer is... natural or abortion, I can already hear the gossip...
The government can't even design and adopt a proper electronic voting system (conflict of interest for political people selected for their ability to lie and cheat), they sure as heck won't be able to keep this data private very long. There will be leaks. Then the job will be subcontracted to the lowest bidder. Then the government will have budget trouble and relax the rules allowing this data to be sold. Then it's only a matter of time until the prices go down.
Imagine all the virtual reality sex, and the robot sex that is going to happen. There is no way to use this technology and prevent that future so it's unpatriotic to alarm the pubic. And if you don't care about keeping the public calm then your an anarchist and should think of the sex bots! For the sake the of the future sex bots we need to keep all this quiet...!!!!
Co pilots go back to before computers could fly a plane.
If and only if a computer is flying and landing on 9 out of 10 flights should it be OK to get rid of the copilot because that is what the pilot will be at that point. Of course we could always have flight attendants trained for a 1 in a 1000 emergency but at the point that both the primary and secondary computers give out and the pilot has a heart attack or gets knocked out the plane is probably doomed anyway; very unlikely situation. Pilots are glorified bus drivers. 2 in 10 people could learn to fly and land a 747. How quickly they can learn is another issue. Now a fighter/bomber pilot back in the 60/70's, now that's a pilot.
Some politician says ban this section and it will all go away...
Now the personals section is going to get even more polluted.
Casual Encounters will become the new adult section but it will spill over into the normal sections. Strictly platonic will probably become the "normal" area. If this is the intelligence of state attorney generals then we must have a lot of innocent people in jail.
That sounds reasonable.
On the other hand defending a lawsuit would probably cost more irrelevant of how innocent you are. It's still legal extortion.
Cisco already sells telecom equipment... now it's going to become a telecom company? Sorry I vote no. Better to have a separate company and spin a ten year or more deal to be a major producer of corporate equipment.
But thinking again about it I have to wonder maybe... but only if they do keep it a separate entity... they have enough money and clout to grow the company to later sell it off later for a profit... a successful Skype would mean a greater demand for tcp/ip telecom equipment... problem would be they would face antitrust problems if no one else were able to produce Skype specific/compatible equipment.
The signs of economic recovery are all around... companies are buying low and planning to sell high...
Sounds me to like Hawking has accepted string theory and gone from big bang to big bump...
But it doesn't change anything. In a cause and effect mentality you always have to end up with infinite causes if your being logical.
Furthermore giving god as a "cause" logically results the same way... well what or who created "God"... in a cause and effect reality there can be no first cause.
Separately... One of my pet peeves with "scientific" creationists is that they love the big bang when the truth is that once you understand and believe in God you have to accept that he could have created the whole of the universe at any particular moment; a logical universe that looks like it has existed much longer.
How about hacked quantum systems downgraded to std transmission?
There was no hacking of quantum crypto here.
You can't have it open just for police. If the police can plant a bug on my neighbors then why can't I bug my neighbors?
What is so freaking hard about getting a warrant?
Tell me I'm not the first to think of this. Just pay and spam some traceable ads... It has to be illegal enough that you can subpoena financial records of individuals, probably mostly credit cards. If you know who first took the money surely one can trace it to the bot net(s) that finally emailed it... Surely there will be a number of middle men and they will try to hide their activities though stolen credit card number and such. But it would be traceable if anyone took the time to do it.
But legislation that establishes a group with the authority to establish mandatory and fair licensing rates. Some sort of clearing house that is solely charged with collecting fees and distributing the proceeds fairly. Something like what exists in England but way more progressive. Everything can be licensed, you can't withhold, and you must accept the established rate. Furthermore they can be petitioned/lobbied to create varied fair packaged licenses or even custom licenses. Of course whomever owns the copyright is free to accept less money... So all those books out of print and abandonware will still be purchasable.
Truth be told the government should be involved in the issue. Consumer licenses should be tracked and maintained by the government, it's in everyone best interest. It makes what you purchase more physical and non revocable. You should be able to lend your licenses as well as be able to sell and transfer them. So you really do own every book you purchase forever as well as all that music, you won't need to repurchase it over and over again.
Of course it can't compete with the black market though but it's a good first step.
Well I want to see a class action by farmers against all the bioengineering companies for complicit environmental contamination of the natural gene pools.
We have to remember that genes are not only transferred by sex/pollination but also by horizontal gene transfer with pests, parasites and diseases. If the bio companies can't prevent this then their products should not be on the market and should only be utilized in isolated environments. Unless of course they give up their patents and are globally approved by the majority of nations to modify the natural gene pool.
Please note that I am pro genetic engineering. And companies should make money for it. I just don't like corporate abuse.