It wouldn't be "unhackable" but it would be far more difficult to hack.
Consider: it'll almost certainly use different protocols. But unlike systems running on the Internet the average person won't be able to have a system on the network to test for vulnerabilities.
Further to "hack" the system you'd have to be physically at a computer on the network. However since the network will almost certainly just be at government facilities, this will be much harder to accomplish.
Yeah it can still be hacked. But it will be much, much more difficult. Basically all you have is an alternative network that is somewhat in between the really secure systems that the military and intelligence communities use and the fully open network for the public.
Wasn't it partially the elimination of Gods that the communists were against? Anyone remember the Chinese forcing their citizens to stop practicing religion? Anyone who thinks religion is the problem needs to look a little closer. It is the abuses of ideology (any ideology) that is the problem.
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Just as a note - this editorial was originally written back during the Viet Nam war. You can tell because the author isn't aware of Airbus. This editorial has been making the rounds of the internet as if it were current. However the author actually died about 15 years ago.
Doesn't OSX give *BSD strength? While Apple certainly has troubles, it seems that basing it's OS on BSD means that Darwin has a lot of support.
What's more, the problems of Open Source software that *BSD faces most Linux face as well. With Apple supporting DVD playing in OSX 10.1 we'll have a Unix with far more important software than Linux.
My understanding is they charge a restocking fee only if you don't accept a replacement. And lots of places charge restocking fees. If they don't they are stuck with an opened box that someone has rummaged through. Do you want to buy one of those? If no one wants to buy it at list price, how do they avoid having to write off the product?
If the product is defective (really defective, not just "it's slower than I thought it would be") then they can return it to the manufacturer.
Actually I've found CompUSA to be fairly responsive, which is why I still shop there rather than online. A lot of times if you have a valid problem or even "sweet talk" them they'll break their guidelines to help you. For instance I had one of those new MS optical mice and broke the cable. I didn't have a receipt any more and it had been four months, but CompUSA replaced it free of charge.
Arrghh. No. No. No. There is often no reason to have a 55 mph speed limit. Maybe in congested areas back east. But rarely in the west and mid-west. And forcing us to drive slow because "it saves quite a bit of fuel and it's much easier" is big brother at his worst. This is supposed to be a land of freedom. Why should *you* care how fast I drive so long as I'm driving safely?
Now I don't mind a car rental place putting limits on how you use their car. That seems fair. But if I own the car and am driving responsibly then I ought to be allow to do what I wish. Don't tell me I should drive a small car. Don't tell me how fuel efficient *I* should be. Don't tell me to use public transportation. If you want to, more power to you.
The P4 probably has many flaws, but for compute-intensive applications, the fastest P4 is significantly faster than the fastest Athlon.
Is this right? Over at Firing Squad they did a huge slew of benchmarks and at best the P4 was equivalent to a slower clocked AMD chip. Where are you getting your info? Or are you just looking at very specialized applications?
In general ads or press releases don't seem to work too well. I can sympathize as we once had similar problems. I've found the following work:
1. Work with some consultants in the field you sell in. A lot of sales on technical items come by word of mouth. These people know a lot of people, including journalists. They'll forward people to you who are looking for what you sell.
2. Find out companies who've hired sales people who once worked for your competitors. This isn't always easy and sometimes comes by chance. However they often still know a lot of the people they used to sell to. Since they are usually in a related field still they can leverage their current company to you and also help you get your competitor's clients to boot. . .
3. Make a superior product. Eventually people will talk about it. Especially if your competitors tend to be alienating people. (Which the big boys always do)
4. Don't post question which look like Spam - even if they aren't. You tend to piss people off.
5. Hit the trade shows. Most people at the trade shows are looking to talk to other companies at the trade show and not necessarily sell their products. (I don't know if that is true of all trade shows - but it sure seemed true at the ones I've been to) You can do a lot of partnering and make a lot of contacts. However if you aren't naturally the social type (I'm not) then this can take some practice. Be prepared to bump into a competitor who will be very mean to you. Keep talking to everyone anyway! Especially the smaller companies more like you. (They're usually nicer too - even if they are in the same field)
6. When you are big enough hire full time salesmen. Yeah they can be annoying at times. But they are well worth it. They really do know how to network and sell. However you have to stay involved, especially if you are a very technically oriented company. Chances are there are few salesmen who specialize in your field.
In general ads don't seem to work too well. I can sympathize as we once had similar problems. I've found the following work:
1. Work with some consultants in the field you sell in. A lot of sales on technical items come by word of mouth. These people know a lot of people, including journalists. They'll forward people to you who are looking for what you sell.
2. Find out companies who've hired sales people who once worked for your competitors. This isn't always easy and sometimes comes by chance. However they often still know a lot of the people they used to sell to. Since they are usually in a related field still they can leverage their current company to you and also help you get your competitor's clients to boot. . .
3. Make a superior product. Eventually people will talk about it. Especially if your competitors tend to be alienating people. (Which the big boys always do)
4. Don't post question which look like Spam - even if they aren't. You tend to piss people off.
5. Hit the trade shows. Most people at the trade shows are looking to talk to other companies at the trade show and not necessarily sell their products. (I don't know if that is true of all trade shows - but it sure seemed true at the ones I've been to) You can do a lot of partnering and make a lot of contacts. However if you aren't naturally the social type (I'm not) then this can take some practice. Be prepared to bump into a competitor who will be very mean to you. Keep talking to everyone anyway! Especially the smaller companies more like you. (They're usually nicer too - even if they are in the same field)
Clark Goble -- Clark@lextek.com -- www.lextek.com
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Actually while I liked Requiem for a Dream it suffered from the same problem as Blow. Neither had terribly sympathetic characters. I think that is fairly important. That's why I think Traffic is a vastly superior film. (It also has a much stronger script and better direction)
I think Aronofsky will make an excellent director, but honestly, do you really feel that sorry for any of the characters in Requiem? They are all idiots. I mean you have an infection in your arm and instead of doing anything you keep shooting heroin or whatever the drug was he was using. Come on! Likewise their schemes? Amazingly stupid. I mean I can accept that their addictions were horrible. But the fact is that they knew things were going to hell and simply accepted it.
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His first wife never betrayed him and he remained in love with her. His second wife did and really was the mirror image of his own mother.
The theme of the movie wasn't that women screwed him. The theme was that he screwed himself. He ends up mimicking his own father all the while he was trying to avoid his fathers mistakes.
The problem with the movie is about halfway through you realize he is an idiot. As sad as the ending is - it is more like feeling sad for the drunk who becomes homeless. You feel sad for someone screwing up their life. Yet your don't really feel sympathetic.
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It wasn't the government's assault on him that ruined his life! It was his own dumb-ass decisions. The whole theme of the movie was summed up when he went on that idiotic rant in front of the judge during his first arrest. He kept talking about how all he did was move some plants across an imaginary line. The judge replied, "your problem was that you didn't realize it was a real line and illegal plants." What happened was inevitable. It's just that he was too stupid to realize it. Over, and over again. . .
Maybe IBM is doing what they are supposed to do. Sell things. Surprising as it may be to you - people in developing nations don't have as much money to spend. I'm fairly sure that most people in 3rd world nations have much better things to spend their money on than internet access. Perhaps you have just been jaded because of your own wealth?
(Not that web enabled appliances make any sense in my mind. Get a BSR controller if that's what you want - much safer)
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It wouldn't be "unhackable" but it would be far more difficult to hack.
Consider: it'll almost certainly use different protocols. But unlike systems running on the Internet the average person won't be able to have a system on the network to test for vulnerabilities.
Further to "hack" the system you'd have to be physically at a computer on the network. However since the network will almost certainly just be at government facilities, this will be much harder to accomplish.
Yeah it can still be hacked. But it will be much, much more difficult. Basically all you have is an alternative network that is somewhat in between the really secure systems that the military and intelligence communities use and the fully open network for the public.
It makes a lot of sense in my mind.
Wasn't it partially the elimination of Gods that the communists were against? Anyone remember the Chinese forcing their citizens to stop practicing religion? Anyone who thinks religion is the problem needs to look a little closer. It is the abuses of ideology (any ideology) that is the problem.
Just as a note - this editorial was originally written back during the Viet Nam war. You can tell because the author isn't aware of Airbus. This editorial has been making the rounds of the internet as if it were current. However the author actually died about 15 years ago.
Doesn't OSX give *BSD strength? While Apple certainly has troubles, it seems that basing it's OS on BSD means that Darwin has a lot of support. What's more, the problems of Open Source software that *BSD faces most Linux face as well. With Apple supporting DVD playing in OSX 10.1 we'll have a Unix with far more important software than Linux.
My understanding is they charge a restocking fee only if you don't accept a replacement. And lots of places charge restocking fees. If they don't they are stuck with an opened box that someone has rummaged through. Do you want to buy one of those? If no one wants to buy it at list price, how do they avoid having to write off the product? If the product is defective (really defective, not just "it's slower than I thought it would be") then they can return it to the manufacturer. Actually I've found CompUSA to be fairly responsive, which is why I still shop there rather than online. A lot of times if you have a valid problem or even "sweet talk" them they'll break their guidelines to help you. For instance I had one of those new MS optical mice and broke the cable. I didn't have a receipt any more and it had been four months, but CompUSA replaced it free of charge.
Shouldn't a GPS jammer be relatively trivial to make? I mean the frequencies are all published.
Good - you rent from Hertz - I'll save the $10 bucks and rent from the other place.
Montana has speed limits now. It's 75 on most stretches, although to be fair their often isn't a lot of enforcement.
Arrghh. No. No. No. There is often no reason to have a 55 mph speed limit. Maybe in congested areas back east. But rarely in the west and mid-west. And forcing us to drive slow because "it saves quite a bit of fuel and it's much easier" is big brother at his worst. This is supposed to be a land of freedom. Why should *you* care how fast I drive so long as I'm driving safely? Now I don't mind a car rental place putting limits on how you use their car. That seems fair. But if I own the car and am driving responsibly then I ought to be allow to do what I wish. Don't tell me I should drive a small car. Don't tell me how fuel efficient *I* should be. Don't tell me to use public transportation. If you want to, more power to you.
Is this right? Over at Firing Squad they did a huge slew of benchmarks and at best the P4 was equivalent to a slower clocked AMD chip. Where are you getting your info? Or are you just looking at very specialized applications?
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/pentium4170 0/default.asp
In general ads or press releases don't seem to work too well. I can sympathize as we once had similar problems. I've found the following work:
Clark Goble -- Clark@lextek.com -- www.lextek.comIn general ads don't seem to work too well. I can sympathize as we once had similar problems. I've found the following work: 1. Work with some consultants in the field you sell in. A lot of sales on technical items come by word of mouth. These people know a lot of people, including journalists. They'll forward people to you who are looking for what you sell. 2. Find out companies who've hired sales people who once worked for your competitors. This isn't always easy and sometimes comes by chance. However they often still know a lot of the people they used to sell to. Since they are usually in a related field still they can leverage their current company to you and also help you get your competitor's clients to boot. . . 3. Make a superior product. Eventually people will talk about it. Especially if your competitors tend to be alienating people. (Which the big boys always do) 4. Don't post question which look like Spam - even if they aren't. You tend to piss people off. 5. Hit the trade shows. Most people at the trade shows are looking to talk to other companies at the trade show and not necessarily sell their products. (I don't know if that is true of all trade shows - but it sure seemed true at the ones I've been to) You can do a lot of partnering and make a lot of contacts. However if you aren't naturally the social type (I'm not) then this can take some practice. Be prepared to bump into a competitor who will be very mean to you. Keep talking to everyone anyway! Especially the smaller companies more like you. (They're usually nicer too - even if they are in the same field) Clark Goble -- Clark@lextek.com -- www.lextek.com
I think Aronofsky will make an excellent director, but honestly, do you really feel that sorry for any of the characters in Requiem? They are all idiots. I mean you have an infection in your arm and instead of doing anything you keep shooting heroin or whatever the drug was he was using. Come on! Likewise their schemes? Amazingly stupid. I mean I can accept that their addictions were horrible. But the fact is that they knew things were going to hell and simply accepted it.
The theme of the movie wasn't that women screwed him. The theme was that he screwed himself. He ends up mimicking his own father all the while he was trying to avoid his fathers mistakes.
The problem with the movie is about halfway through you realize he is an idiot. As sad as the ending is - it is more like feeling sad for the drunk who becomes homeless. You feel sad for someone screwing up their life. Yet your don't really feel sympathetic.
It wasn't the government's assault on him that ruined his life! It was his own dumb-ass decisions. The whole theme of the movie was summed up when he went on that idiotic rant in front of the judge during his first arrest. He kept talking about how all he did was move some plants across an imaginary line. The judge replied, "your problem was that you didn't realize it was a real line and illegal plants." What happened was inevitable. It's just that he was too stupid to realize it. Over, and over again. . .
Maybe IBM is doing what they are supposed to do. Sell things. Surprising as it may be to you - people in developing nations don't have as much money to spend. I'm fairly sure that most people in 3rd world nations have much better things to spend their money on than internet access. Perhaps you have just been jaded because of your own wealth? (Not that web enabled appliances make any sense in my mind. Get a BSR controller if that's what you want - much safer)