The most equitable way to do this would be to have everything of value slowly trickle a small amount of its value to the government. Obviously, that's not going to happen. 1: You just described inflation. By printing(borrowing) money the government devalues all of the current money in circulation, the value accrues to the government and it's immediate suppliers. So it is possible to have a small percentage of everything accrue to the government. They're already doing it.
2: Inflation isn't equitable. It hits the poorest hardest. The rich can easily move their value to the source of the inflation or to areas which benefit most. That is, the government, government contracts etc and the stock and property markets. The poor on the other hand are largely unable to do so, and in fact are also likely not even to match inflation with pay increases. The result is that larger portions of the economy find their way into fewer hands.
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with with theirs. - Adam Smith (From the Wealth of Nations)
In the case you mention, the logs of the mail servers would still be available on the backup media though the email itself may be gone, often the email system will retain deleted mails for a couple of days just in case they were deleted by accident, I know that UW-imapd will store deleted mails in a hidden namespace.
What you're saying essentially though is that the IT system has to prevent deliberate circumvention. Sorry, it's just not possible to be 100% leak proof. It's always possible to get round such measures. It's as simple as buying a prepaid mobile phone and sending a text or setting up a gmail account and doing it through a browser.
You can usually define retention policies there. I'm pretty sure that while not quite as flexible or manageable as commercial systems, Bacula can define retention on a per job/filesystem basis. It can back up to tape, library and/or a BFO disk.
Ummm I dont think this would work in the US, where (considering our educational system) some people might answer "yes". The system would be performing it's function admirably.
Really it is. It's a one to one technology, mailing lists are a kludge which have been grafted on top. Things which are currently sent via mailing list to groups of people (and this applies in the corporate world too) should really use a one to many technology, historically that would be usenet, though today I think we're talking RSS feed.
So frankly if you are abusing email by sending them out to hundreds or thousands of people when you could be using RSS, or even your own Usenet server then I really don't have much sympathy when they mark your emails as spam and cut you off from customers.
Though many businesses find a higher TCO with Linux than Windows, this is because they are willingly investing more into their networks. Hence, it can fit any budget... Actually I've found it's because the management haven't done their job properly/don't know any better and aren't really being pulled up on it by upper management who are similarly not doing their job properly.
Managing and supporting systems is predictable, the costs are entirely predictable, you can calculate them with a high degree of accuracy in advance given an particular network architecture. However everyone thinks they are unique and special and know why X or Y can't work and why Z is better. This is currently why I.T. is not a profession but a trade, and the use of the word engineer wrt anything I.T. related is utterly laughable.
Basically, high TCO is a sign of incompetence. Windows or Linux.
taking money from people who produced it and randomly spreading it to a bunch of speculators. So... Where does money come from then? No, really. You say produced, but do you really know how money comes to exist?
There's no need to do any weeding, the religious nuts happily weed their genes out of the pool by variously blowing themselves and other religious nuts up.
What kind of altered state do you have to get yourself wrapped up in to believe this stuff? This counts as a serious mental illness as far as I'm concerned. It's like someone took all the spaced out nutiness in the bible seriously and then put it in one place. Which, well, is exactly what they did.
Hmmm, y'know, with a population of whacked out nut jobs who'll believe anything you tell them no matter how insane, you could conquer the world.
Give the robot a menacing look with red eyes, a gun, 500 pounds of Ammo That's the other one. The one they're not telling you about. This one is the one they use to get funding.
What we need now is for some enterprising journalist to break into the lab, find the other one, be hunted down and killed by it. Then we have an episode of the X files in the making.
You don't think the University should attempt to sell or license the information or otherwise make a business out of it? You know that information easily spreads outwith US borders?
Some way to express the amount of FUD which is being deliberately spread by businesses, politicians and lobby groups.
I propose we group it into grades: Grade A, B, C, D and E.
Grade A FUD would be designed to and have a good chance of changing laws to the benefit of the FUD spreaders. Grade B FUD would be just outside the scope of grade A without the likelyhood of the law being changed. Grade C FUD is anti competitor FUD. "Theirs is crap because." Grade D FUD is your standard off the wall lobby group FUD. Grade E FUD is for the lone nut. Funnily enough though it's grade E it still has some potency, the Unabomber would be classed as a grade E FUD spreader.
If you want the default/special icons ("Computer", "Documents", your home folder, Network browser, or Trash Can), I know of no easier way to get them than to launch gconf-editor, navigate to/apps/nautilus/desktop, and enable the desired items. There could very well be an easier way, I don't know. There should be. Actually I agree that Ubuntu needs some work, why I stated that it only gets it more right than Windows. The Computer icon should go away, it isn't needed and it purely exists because Windows has one. The network browser should likewise go away, again, it isn't needed there should be no differentiation between network and local files. Network and local filesystems which hold for example group files should appear on the desktop as folders. The default action should be to symbolically link, not to copy or to move files.
Basically, the important bits the information you need to do your job should be sitting there on the desktop staring you in the face, all the techical stuff which frankly just gets in the way should be hidden out of sight. Unfortunately techies and developers with over large egos are overenamoured with software and applications.
you can go into the file manager or get to your files through My Computer->local and/or network drives. Again, blowing the desktop metaphor. The file manager opens the whole file system to search. My computer the same, even worse there are drives and drive letters(WTF?) you have to deal with. Your files should be right there, in a folder on the desktop. The closest Windows has come to decent usability is the My Documents folder.
Windows sucks as a desktop. It just does, it's completely arse backwards. To make it usable you have to find and link all the wee file folders on to your desktop.
Someone stopping by and using Linux shouldn't be anywhere near the etc, bin or sbin directories. Those are for an administrator or someone who otherwise knows what's actually going on. The only directories they should be near are the folders on their desktop which contain images and text files and music etc. And they should be able to manipulate their information without having to know which applications are required.
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2: Inflation isn't equitable. It hits the poorest hardest. The rich can easily move their value to the source of the inflation or to areas which benefit most. That is, the government, government contracts etc and the stock and property markets. The poor on the other hand are largely unable to do so, and in fact are also likely not even to match inflation with pay increases. The result is that larger portions of the economy find their way into fewer hands.
In the case you mention, the logs of the mail servers would still be available on the backup media though the email itself may be gone, often the email system will retain deleted mails for a couple of days just in case they were deleted by accident, I know that UW-imapd will store deleted mails in a hidden namespace.
What you're saying essentially though is that the IT system has to prevent deliberate circumvention. Sorry, it's just not possible to be 100% leak proof. It's always possible to get round such measures. It's as simple as buying a prepaid mobile phone and sending a text or setting up a gmail account and doing it through a browser.
The evil laugh at the end. Mwhahahaaha. There, put it in for you.
Have a decent backup system.
You can usually define retention policies there. I'm pretty sure that while not quite as flexible or manageable as commercial systems, Bacula can define retention on a per job/filesystem basis. It can back up to tape, library and/or a BFO disk.
Because spending more money always makes things better and not worse.
Really it is. It's a one to one technology, mailing lists are a kludge which have been grafted on top. Things which are currently sent via mailing list to groups of people (and this applies in the corporate world too) should really use a one to many technology, historically that would be usenet, though today I think we're talking RSS feed.
So frankly if you are abusing email by sending them out to hundreds or thousands of people when you could be using RSS, or even your own Usenet server then I really don't have much sympathy when they mark your emails as spam and cut you off from customers.
Managing and supporting systems is predictable, the costs are entirely predictable, you can calculate them with a high degree of accuracy in advance given an particular network architecture. However everyone thinks they are unique and special and know why X or Y can't work and why Z is better. This is currently why I.T. is not a profession but a trade, and the use of the word engineer wrt anything I.T. related is utterly laughable.
Basically, high TCO is a sign of incompetence. Windows or Linux.
Hmm. Very Stalinist of you.
There's no need to do any weeding, the religious nuts happily weed their genes out of the pool by variously blowing themselves and other religious nuts up.
What kind of altered state do you have to get yourself wrapped up in to believe this stuff? This counts as a serious mental illness as far as I'm concerned. It's like someone took all the spaced out nutiness in the bible seriously and then put it in one place. Which, well, is exactly what they did.
Hmmm, y'know, with a population of whacked out nut jobs who'll believe anything you tell them no matter how insane, you could conquer the world.
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But who do you have to blame?
They powered a whole light bulb, what is MIT coming to?
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What we need now is for some enterprising journalist to break into the lab, find the other one, be hunted down and killed by it. Then we have an episode of the X files in the making.
You don't think the University should attempt to sell or license the information or otherwise make a business out of it? You know that information easily spreads outwith US borders?
What a bunch of retarded voters you have. Shouldn't there be some way to prevent such people from voting?
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In Scotland we simply make the ballot papers too difficult for them to understand:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/66373
Even with trivial to follow instructions...
10 PRINT "You are a good parent."
20 GOTO 10
What d'ya reckon?
Some way to express the amount of FUD which is being deliberately spread by businesses, politicians and lobby groups.
I propose we group it into grades: Grade A, B, C, D and E.
Grade A FUD would be designed to and have a good chance of changing laws to the benefit of the FUD spreaders.
Grade B FUD would be just outside the scope of grade A without the likelyhood of the law being changed.
Grade C FUD is anti competitor FUD. "Theirs is crap because."
Grade D FUD is your standard off the wall lobby group FUD.
Grade E FUD is for the lone nut. Funnily enough though it's grade E it still has some potency, the Unabomber would be classed as a grade E FUD spreader.
Some FUD can migrate between grades.
If you want the default/special icons ("Computer", "Documents", your home folder, Network browser, or Trash Can), I know of no easier way to get them than to launch gconf-editor, navigate to /apps/nautilus/desktop, and enable the desired items. There could very well be an easier way, I don't know. There should be. Actually I agree that Ubuntu needs some work, why I stated that it only gets it more right than Windows. The Computer icon should go away, it isn't needed and it purely exists because Windows has one. The network browser should likewise go away, again, it isn't needed there should be no differentiation between network and local files. Network and local filesystems which hold for example group files should appear on the desktop as folders. The default action should be to symbolically link, not to copy or to move files.
Basically, the important bits the information you need to do your job should be sitting there on the desktop staring you in the face, all the techical stuff which frankly just gets in the way should be hidden out of sight. Unfortunately techies and developers with over large egos are overenamoured with software and applications.
Windows sucks as a desktop. It just does, it's completely arse backwards. To make it usable you have to find and link all the wee file folders on to your desktop.
Someone stopping by and using Linux shouldn't be anywhere near the etc, bin or sbin directories. Those are for an administrator or someone who otherwise knows what's actually going on. The only directories they should be near are the folders on their desktop which contain images and text files and music etc. And they should be able to manipulate their information without having to know which applications are required.