Considering how concerned folks are these days about the possible health risks of EM from cell phones, I hate to think about the idea of being exposed to thousands of watts of microwave transmissions (or whatever EM wavelength) ALL THE TIME...
I seem to recall some kind of web-serving performance survey from a while back in which FreeBSD kicked Linux's ass (along with that of NT). Could this be an issue of the TCP stack in the 2.2 kernel series?
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I thought the conclusion in that case turned out to be not exposure to bio/chem warfare agents, but experimental pre-emptive treatments given to soldiers by the US military... I think the US highly overestimated Iraq's ability/willingness to use biological agents in that war.
Of course, the Iraqi gov't has shown itself to be quite content to use chemical weapons against the Kurds, but IIRC those chemical weapons were US-made anyway. So perhaps the biggest bio/chem warfare threat is actually the US military... they've no doubt spent the last 80 or so years researching and stockpiling, and they're happy to sell the technology if the price is right.
It's all too true... how else could they possibly maintain their price structures? I mean charging $15+ for an album that came out 20 or 30 years ago is par for the course these days. When they lose their monopoly on distribution, prices will realign themselves at a much lower margin... I'm guessing more like $5 to $7 per album.
I think the apt analogy here to TicketMaster. It's not as though the sertvice they provide is very difficult or complicated -- it's that they have a lock on distribution that makes them rich. Can you imagine what would happen to their business if they had real competion at the distribution level? I can tell you that you wouldn't see those $5 mystery charges anymore...
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Considering how concerned folks are these days about the possible health risks of EM from cell phones, I hate to think about the idea of being exposed to thousands of watts of microwave transmissions (or whatever EM wavelength) ALL THE TIME...
I seem to recall some kind of web-serving performance survey from a while back in which FreeBSD kicked Linux's ass (along with that of NT). Could this be an issue of the TCP stack in the 2.2 kernel series?
Of course, the Iraqi gov't has shown itself to be quite content to use chemical weapons against the Kurds, but IIRC those chemical weapons were US-made anyway. So perhaps the biggest bio/chem warfare threat is actually the US military... they've no doubt spent the last 80 or so years researching and stockpiling, and they're happy to sell the technology if the price is right.
I think the apt analogy here to TicketMaster. It's not as though the sertvice they provide is very difficult or complicated -- it's that they have a lock on distribution that makes them rich. Can you imagine what would happen to their business if they had real competion at the distribution level? I can tell you that you wouldn't see those $5 mystery charges anymore...