I had a neutral view of this company, now the only thing I can associate them with is as the company that sued the Red Cross for an inane trademark issue (so what if they lose the use of it? There is a point where frankly you have to let common sense take hold frankly, if anything this company should chose a different symbol for its trademark and quietely stop using the red cross....)
Conservative estimates say 30000 Iraqis are dead thanks to Bush and Co. Others go as far as 500000 (as calculated in The Lancet, a very reputable UK publication). Take your pick, it is horrific anyway you want to paint it.
And lets not forget the 2000000 (yes, two million) of people that have been displaced internally or to Syria and Jordan as refugees.
This disregard for Iraqi suffering is what reels to the core a lot of people out there in West Asia and other parts of the Islamic sphere of influence.
"We built it up for them, gave them beds, toilets, showers, water, food, weapons, ammo, training, etc"
You forgot to add:
"Invaded their country over false pretenses, killed many of them, and pretty much sent them back to the middle ages".
There, fixed for you.
Now tell me you will do any different if your country was the invaded one.
Nothing against you buddy, but if you have to do a job you have not chosen to do you msut understand why the situation you are facing is a complete clusterfuck.
I feel for you, but despair when I read about people that genuinely think they are helping a country that has been basically destroyed for no good reason.
Because there is no war going on. You don't bomb a city when you don't have an enemy, it is that simple.
Bush keeps parroting this "war on terror" nonsense (that the British have wisely emasculated from their vocabulary) because he can't find an identifiable enemy to bomb. At least in Afghanistan he knows they are fighting the Taliban and AL Quaeda, but in Iraq he does not have that dubious comfort.
Your country should not be in most places it invades in the first place.
All the rest is idle talk, the big issue is why the US deems necessary to send poor school or university age boys to die for nothing in far away lands.
When my dad heard for the first time CD he went back home, packaged is vinyl collection (500 disks or so), went to sell it to a second hand dealer and went back to the shop to the shop to buy a CD player and 3 disks:-)
In the UK the biggest demonstration ever, against the war in Iraq, changed squat. The idiotic Tony Blair even got a job as peace envoy in West Asia, it would be funny if it wasn't tragic.
Ditto with the loonies defending fox hunting, they managed to gather many thousends of people and thankfully that did not change anything and fox hunting was banned.
Ditto for all the empty headed anti globalization protesters that are not part of the political folklore but that nobody take seriously.
In the other hand blogging may be the catalyst to movilize people in effective ways, and most importantly, to know what some people are complaining about.
If I see a bunch of retards on TV bashing a Macdonalds during an international summit, I have no idea why hey do it and the only thing I want is their sorry ass sent to jail.
If I get to know about their blog or website I can see they are a bunch of retards all the same, but at least I know about their ideas, what they support and if I was brain dead they could gain a sympathizer and use the power of the internet to organize themselves efficient and effective political action.
Artistic movements of any kind become clearly identifiable much later after they occur.
When I was studying music in the 80s it was still unclear if Shostakovitch was the heir to the classical tradition (Bach-Mozart-Beethoven--Wagner-Stravinsky- Shostakovitch?), check dates and you'll see that he wasn't even news anymore.
Similarly it wasn't clear if twelve tone music, random music, minimalism or any of the many other movements would become the one to remember when talking about 20th century music (it may be minimalism, Steve Reich is a genius and desrves its place after Mr Shostakovitch in the queue above).
We are in no position to judge what is worthy culturally and artistically speaking when it comes to the last 15 years or so, we will have for one or two generations more to disintangle that.
There are products out there to secure connections, at the very least one can use an ssh tunnel, but that still leaves the problem of man in the middle attack (there are commercial products that do host authentication by meeans of key repositories, but none free I would know of, although making a key repository should not be beyond the realms of an enterprising Engineering team).
Paper is not searchable, is cumbersome to handle, expensive, and in any machine with a modicum of activity you'll not have enough of it (lets forego ecological considerations, which we shouldn't).
I any moderately sized datacentre the proposition of using printed logs is frankly childish.
What would one do when a machine in the network goes bananas and generates 1000000 alerts you where not anticipating. I hope you have a warehouse big enough for all that paper.
It seems other civilized countries have established beacons of freedom on the beautiful island. Hungary should follow the lead of such enlightened nations and lease Varadero bay.
I have seen scientists in different fields, of international renoun, that could not grasp the difference between a RS232 serial port and an ethernet one, or why the chaps using Linux could display programs running in any machine in the network in their own workstation while he could not without installing software on his Windows laptop (he did not want me to put viruses on it, so he wanted not extra software...).
And of course there was no point in explaining more esoteric stuff.
The NASA guys are brilliant, but I would not put it pass them having many funny and amusing computing mishaps here and there (I am surprised they would keep any serious data in a Windows NTFS machine, if you need to apply a patch and you have a computation taking several days accessing data there, well, lets say your patch would have to wait, in other machines, depending on the nature of the patch, most likely you can apply it on the fly).
I have 2 Ubuntu machines and in general do not need to reboot after upgrades (if you let pass to long between updates you may accumulate enough of the ones that require a reboot, but I have seen only one or two of those since Ubuntu7.x was introduced.
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You do know that the Red Cross symbol is derived from the Swiss flag, don't you?
I had a neutral view of this company, now the only thing I can associate them with is as the company that sued the Red Cross for an inane trademark issue (so what if they lose the use of it? There is a point where frankly you have to let common sense take hold frankly, if anything this company should chose a different symbol for its trademark and quietely stop using the red cross....)
Before you guys got there, those malign terrorists were heavy at work bombing infrastructure.
Some of you are genetically impeded to see the obvious.
Conservative estimates say 30000 Iraqis are dead thanks to Bush and Co. Others go as far as 500000 (as calculated in The Lancet, a very reputable UK publication). Take your pick, it is horrific anyway you want to paint it.
And lets not forget the 2000000 (yes, two million) of people that have been displaced internally or to Syria and Jordan as refugees.
This disregard for Iraqi suffering is what reels to the core a lot of people out there in West Asia and other parts of the Islamic sphere of influence.
"We built it up for them, gave them beds, toilets, showers, water, food, weapons, ammo, training, etc"
You forgot to add:
"Invaded their country over false pretenses, killed many of them, and pretty much sent them back to the middle ages".
There, fixed for you.
Now tell me you will do any different if your country was the invaded one.
Nothing against you buddy, but if you have to do a job you have not chosen to do you msut understand why the situation you are facing is a complete clusterfuck.
I feel for you, but despair when I read about people that genuinely think they are helping a country that has been basically destroyed for no good reason.
Because there is no war going on. You don't bomb a city when you don't have an enemy, it is that simple.
Bush keeps parroting this "war on terror" nonsense (that the British have wisely emasculated from their vocabulary) because he can't find an identifiable enemy to bomb. At least in Afghanistan he knows they are fighting the Taliban and AL Quaeda, but in Iraq he does not have that dubious comfort.
In the run off to this debacle?
Sir, I salute you, how political and military leaders lack this clarity of vision is most worrying.
And a legal system that makes sure he does not even think about it.
Rule #1 is you don't kill civilians willy-nilly.
Your country should not be in most places it invades in the first place.
All the rest is idle talk, the big issue is why the US deems necessary to send poor school or university age boys to die for nothing in far away lands.
Not a library or piece of code.
An standard is not such a thing if you attach strings.
.... is suspicious even of ice cream.
Or something like that goes a Mexican saying.
MS threatens patent litigation against Linux and then comes with a new graphics format that will be "open" to all.
Well, sorry, but the mixed messages are splitting my brain, so I err on the side of paranoiac caution.
When my dad heard for the first time CD he went back home, packaged is vinyl collection (500 disks or so), went to sell it to a second hand dealer and went back to the shop to the shop to buy a CD player and 3 disks :-)
20 something years later it is still working!
Frankly, what has street protest changed?
In the UK the biggest demonstration ever, against the war in Iraq, changed squat. The idiotic Tony Blair even got a job as peace envoy in West Asia, it would be funny if it wasn't tragic.
Ditto with the loonies defending fox hunting, they managed to gather many thousends of people and thankfully that did not change anything and fox hunting was banned.
Ditto for all the empty headed anti globalization protesters that are not part of the political folklore but that nobody take seriously.
In the other hand blogging may be the catalyst to movilize people in effective ways, and most importantly, to know what some people are complaining about.
If I see a bunch of retards on TV bashing a Macdonalds during an international summit, I have no idea why hey do it and the only thing I want is their sorry ass sent to jail.
If I get to know about their blog or website I can see they are a bunch of retards all the same, but at least I know about their ideas, what they support and if I was brain dead they could gain a sympathizer and use the power of the internet to organize themselves efficient and effective political action.
Artistic movements of any kind become clearly identifiable much later after they occur.
When I was studying music in the 80s it was still unclear if Shostakovitch was the heir to the classical tradition (Bach-Mozart-Beethoven--Wagner-Stravinsky- Shostakovitch?), check dates and you'll see that he wasn't even news anymore.
Similarly it wasn't clear if twelve tone music, random music, minimalism or any of the many other movements would become the one to remember when talking about 20th century music (it may be minimalism, Steve Reich is a genius and desrves its place after Mr Shostakovitch in the queue above).
We are in no position to judge what is worthy culturally and artistically speaking when it comes to the last 15 years or so, we will have for one or two generations more to disintangle that.
And let the crooks run amok again.
What is needed is sensible controls, many of the provisions are unnecessary, but a law like that is needed to make sure the big wigs behave.
There are products out there to secure connections, at the very least one can use an ssh tunnel, but that still leaves the problem of man in the middle attack (there are commercial products that do host authentication by meeans of key repositories, but none free I would know of, although making a key repository should not be beyond the realms of an enterprising Engineering team).
As long as the people administering the CA hosts are not the same administering the log servers and this is demonstrable (password file :-) )
Unless your computing infrastructure is a sole machine doing pretty much nothing, this "solution" is bullshit.
Once you have a few tens of servers only a mad man would consider this "alternative" seriously.
Paper is not searchable, is cumbersome to handle, expensive, and in any machine with a modicum of activity you'll not have enough of it (lets forego ecological considerations, which we shouldn't).
I any moderately sized datacentre the proposition of using printed logs is frankly childish.
You are joking? Ha, ha, ha, good one.
What would one do when a machine in the network goes bananas and generates 1000000 alerts you where not anticipating. I hope you have a warehouse big enough for all that paper.
It seems other civilized countries have established beacons of freedom on the beautiful island. Hungary should follow the lead of such enlightened nations and lease Varadero bay.
Then somebody brings a timely reminder about the kind of company we are dealing with in the thread, and that somehow is off topic.
Enough said frankly....
I have seen scientists in different fields, of international renoun, that could not grasp the difference between a RS232 serial port and an ethernet one, or why the chaps using Linux could display programs running in any machine in the network in their own workstation while he could not without installing software on his Windows laptop (he did not want me to put viruses on it, so he wanted not extra software ...).
And of course there was no point in explaining more esoteric stuff.
The NASA guys are brilliant, but I would not put it pass them having many funny and amusing computing mishaps here and there (I am surprised they would keep any serious data in a Windows NTFS machine, if you need to apply a patch and you have a computation taking several days accessing data there, well, lets say your patch would have to wait, in other machines, depending on the nature of the patch, most likely you can apply it on the fly).
I have 2 Ubuntu machines and in general do not need to reboot after upgrades (if you let pass to long between updates you may accumulate enough of the ones that require a reboot, but I have seen only one or two of those since Ubuntu7.x was introduced.