"People who work with computers remain fixated on efficiency. Every week I hear the debates over whether businesses should use Linux or Windows, the commentators always wrangling over which systems will save the most money. I find this battle increasingly tiresome. I'm more interested in finding the systems that will put more people to work."...more people just muck things up!
Seriously, if competition is the engine of capitalism, then surely efficiency is the fuel.
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Agreed. Time for the Corporate Death Sentence.
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Seriously.
I am now of the opinion that corporate entities that break any securities or fraud laws should have their corporate charters revoked, their assets auctioned off to the higgest bidder and the entire list of principals each given a lifetime ban against serving as any kind of corporate officer.
"The Columbia Accident Investigation Board has recommended that NASA establish an independent Technical Engineering Authority. This would put responsibility for technical matters where it rightly belongs -- with the engineers who, because they know how the space shuttle was designed, also know best how it can fail."
After reading this, my immediate thought was, "Goodie, who going to be appointed to manage this new technical authority? A seasoned NASA manager, right?
Our best hope is that NASA is wise enough to make this Authority a panel of rotated, working engineers!
Hmmm....Prophylacticism....Did I just invent that word?
Kiddies, I've said this before and I'll say this again. If you HAVE to do P2P, install an open Wi-Fi access point on your home network. Keep all your goodies behind a firewall, but have that open Wi-Fi there. When the RIAA drags you into court, you will have a big wad of plausible denial on your side. There is NO LAW that makes you liable for unauthorized use of your network access.
Besides, if you're willing to share your music, why not share some bandwidth too?
Justin Frankel clearly knew the RIAA was headed this way which is why he created WASTE, a P2P that limits the pool to 50 connections and encrypts the streams. This cellularizes the activity dramatically increasing enforcement costs.
OK, file sharing kiddies. Now that the Evil RIAA(TM) has opened up its bad-nasty can of legal whoop-ass, you need to engineer "Plausible Deniability" into your activities. Go out right now and buy a Linksys Wi-Fi Broadband Router (or functional equivalent).
When you install it, install it wide open, no passwords, no encryption. Place all of your other boxen behind some other firewalling device.
When the RIAA hauls you into court with your IP addy as the star piece of incriminating evidence, produce your receipt for the Wi-Fi box and printouts of it's configuration and say "some neighbor must have been using my connection".
Exactly how does Microsoft profit from eliminating spam? Unless of course you are planning to introduce a whole new mail system protocol based upon the Palladium security model...
So does this mean that you're standing down from your goal of "Secure Computing" to something more akin to "Kinda Almost OurFingersAreCrossed WeKnowMoreThanTheHackers WeAllCarryRabbitsFeet Computing"?
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So if my car has a computer under the hood do I get a life sentence for speeding?
Kevin....My roof is almost done. Email me.
No amount of coolness can compensate for the Evilness(tm) of Disney's hand.
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"People who work with computers remain fixated on efficiency. Every week I hear the debates over whether businesses should use Linux or Windows, the commentators always wrangling over which systems will save the most money. I find this battle increasingly tiresome. I'm more interested in finding the systems that will put more people to work." ...more people just muck things up!
Seriously, if competition is the engine of capitalism, then surely efficiency is the fuel.
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Seriously.
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I am now of the opinion that corporate entities that break any securities or fraud laws should have their corporate charters revoked, their assets auctioned off to the higgest bidder and the entire list of principals each given a lifetime ban against serving as any kind of corporate officer.
Man, I am strict
Thats all I need. Chinese cruise missiles raining down on my ass.
BTW...anyone know what the state of our anti-sat weaponry capabilities are lately?
"Marge, prepare the emergency ham!"
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Been so lnog wtihuot an SCO sorty, I cna't tihnk sriathgt!
Taht souhld hvae satrted out as "Mmmmmh,".
RFTA!
Stumped, I am!
"The Columbia Accident Investigation Board has recommended that NASA establish an independent Technical Engineering Authority. This would put responsibility for technical matters where it rightly belongs -- with the engineers who, because they know how the space shuttle was designed, also know best how it can fail."
After reading this, my immediate thought was, "Goodie, who going to be appointed to manage this new technical authority? A seasoned NASA manager, right?
Our best hope is that NASA is wise enough to make this Authority a panel of rotated, working engineers!
Hmmm....Prophylacticism....Did I just invent that word?
Kiddies, I've said this before and I'll say this again. If you HAVE to do P2P, install an open Wi-Fi access point on your home network. Keep all your goodies behind a firewall, but have that open Wi-Fi there. When the RIAA drags you into court, you will have a big wad of plausible denial on your side. There is NO LAW that makes you liable for unauthorized use of your network access.
Besides, if you're willing to share your music, why not share some bandwidth too?
Hubble Altitude = 370 statute miles
Space Station Altitude = 240 statute miles
Difference = Waaaaay too much.
I suggest we call this tactic "Hump-And-Dump".
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Slashdot too?
Tough choice. I'll get back to you.
All this info is in "Please Understand Me."
Nothing new here. Move along.
http://keirsey.com/Please.html [SEE, NO GOATSE!]
Googling Marianne Rickenbach turned up the following info:
Photo and email address
(Near the bottom, and oh yea, turn up your beer goggles to "FULL")
MRICKENB@montcopa.org
Have fun...
"The speakers are each rated for 3W RMS"
Has Richard Stallman become so noisy that they've named a unit of measure after him? 8^)
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Since you can answer any juicy questions, I wont bother to ask any.
So...errrr...oh yea....what are your favorite colors?
Sure, just give it to a lawyer on a 90% contingency basis.
Ah...the sweet smell of greed.
Justin Frankel clearly knew the RIAA was headed this way which is why he created WASTE, a P2P that limits the pool to 50 connections and encrypts the streams. This cellularizes the activity dramatically increasing enforcement costs.
OK, file sharing kiddies. Now that the Evil RIAA(TM) has opened up its bad-nasty can of legal whoop-ass, you need to engineer "Plausible Deniability" into your activities. Go out right now and buy a Linksys Wi-Fi Broadband Router (or functional equivalent).
When you install it, install it wide open, no passwords, no encryption. Place all of your other boxen behind some other firewalling device.
When the RIAA hauls you into court with your IP addy as the star piece of incriminating evidence, produce your receipt for the Wi-Fi box and printouts of it's configuration and say "some neighbor must have been using my connection".
Case Dismissed.
Oh, IANAL, but that's a good thing.
Exactly how does Microsoft profit from eliminating spam? Unless of course you are planning to introduce a whole new mail system protocol based upon the Palladium security model...
The site said PROTel.
What a way to piss in Bill G's morning coffee.
Great timing too. I just got my copy of "Hacking the XBox" from "Bunny" Huang in the mail.
Now...where'd that bottle of Ferric Chloride go?
So does this mean that you're standing down from your goal of "Secure Computing" to something more akin to "Kinda Almost OurFingersAreCrossed WeKnowMoreThanTheHackers WeAllCarryRabbitsFeet Computing"?
And to think I once believed in you guys.