Just stop paying taxes. Stop following their edicts.
Unfortunately, there are enough ignorant sending in their taxes that the one declaring themselves the supreme soviet...well, they've bought guns. Lot's of 'em. And they're more than willing to use them (ask what remains of the Branch Davidians).
If I don't pay the taxes they say I owe, then they will send a group of their people out with guns to take my life's work, which is for all intents and purposes, MY LIFE. The only way to fight back is to get my own collection guns, and enough people to man them behind me. At the point I do that, I've formed my own government.
DAMN!! Back to square one.
I'd like to form a political party call "Solitary". It'd only have one party plank...LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE. Unfortunately, I don't have enough votes to elect myself.
You've got $200 deposited in a savings account with our bank. We're sorry to tell you that you do not rate online security with our bank. You must do all of your banking at one of our two remaining national branches. Thank you for your business.
"This just in. This reporter has discovered that the Branch Bank of the Internet will not be providing security for small depositors. Their money will be left in cash in a brown paper bag outside of Lefty's Bar and Grill for late night pickup. This is being viewed as a direct attack aimed at minorities that are DISproportionally poor. More at eleven."
n the Bosnian conflict when the European nations were all to chicken-shit to clean up their own backyards. Yeah, everybody liked America then. But fast-forward a few years.
Where you brought up to believe that performing one good deed absolves you from a bad deed later down the line?
How the hell was sacrificing American lives in a backwater country like Bosnia where they've been fighting each other since they could pick up stick a good deed? Was it because that conflict was at your backdoor maybe? How do you decide that unilaterally invading country A is a good thing, but invading country B is a horrible deed? Because YOU said so?
There were clear ties between Al Queda and Saddam's regime when it came to terrorist attacks on Western nations. You may ignore inconvient facts at your will.
Facism is a state where what the goverment says, goes.
If you believe this situation applies in any way, shape or form to the United States that I live in, then I understand your utter confusion on other matters.
If the religious zealots where so powerful as to be able to kill science in America, why have we developed 3 or 4 medications for the express purpose of giving old guys a woody? Hmmm?
Science has died in America because the CEO's bonus is based on next quarter's stock price and nothing more. Plain and simple. End of story.
Deciding to join WWII (even if it was late and only after being attacked) only buys so much gratitude. Everyone is very grateful but it was 60 years and you can't expect people to just keep on being grateful and ignoring what happened afterward.
You mean, like maybe, spending untold BILLIONS to maintain military bases in your countries as a show of force against Soviet dominance? Yeah, I could see how you would easily forget all of that. You don't seem to consider it except when we start to shut down those bases. Then there is a diplomatic uproar that we may destroy the economic viability of towns that depend upon those bases.
Should the person who pays the piper be required to take dance lessons? Or is it enough that we get to enjoy the music (and laugh at the occassional MS exec)?
Will we end up eventually paying (or stealing) all of our future programming?
God, I hope so. Maybe then:
- the competition will shift from serving up eyeballs to advertisers and towards producing decent shows - people will limit their viewing to something they actually find interesting, instead of channel surfing - and most importantly, active interests/hobby will be able to stand on a more even footing with the always-on, always-free insanity box.
Why would you give jail time to Mike Brown when the poor response was a result of a pissing contest between the Governor of LA and the Mayor of NO?
You've not been paying attention have you. Bush proactively floated a test baloon to fix the systemic problems that caused the poor Federal response to the Katrina disaster. He proposed that the military be given immediate control, ie. no need to wait for a formal request from the governor. His proposal is being SOUNDLY rejected by the governors of ALL the states. The governors are saying, in effect, that they want the power during a natural disaster, and they don't want their power usurped by the President.
The problem with your proposal is the same problem the article has. You cannot lay the blame on people who don't have the power to change things.
What we are talking about is control of the servers that govern the way the internet works
Except the problem is that the servers don't control the way the internet works.
People, before typing in so much overly considered verbiage, please do a google search on DNS and actually educate yourself on how the DNS system works. The Internet doesn't even NEED a dns system to work. DNS only makes it easier for humans to use.
As far as handing out IP address, that is a completely different issue and is controlled by routers, NOT DNS servers.
Yeah, it's jealosy alright. Those who don't like the US's actions just have a better knowledge of history. Hollywood history not withstanding of course, but that's the image you have of your country and who am I to get in the way of your facism?
Like the image of all the diplomatic pressure to get us involved in the Bosnian conflict when the European nations were all to chicken-shit to clean up their own backyards. Yeah, everybody liked America then. But fast-forward a few years. Backed by a UN resolution, we attack a country that has continually supported terrorist and constantly beat the war drum. All of a sudden the EU peaceniks roll out of the woodwork in full force. What's the difference.
Well, apparently in the latter situation the EU leaders were getting sizable kickbacks from the oil-for-food program, and didn't like the faucet being turned off on them. The former situation involved the leaders having to use their own countries' resources, so it would be much better if the more "resourceful" America sacrifice their men and women.
But, "who am I to get in the way of your facism?"
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Use a paper cutter for the aluminum sheet to get straight cuts.
Build a brake with a couple door hinges and 3 pieces of wood so that you can put in straight bends.
You've got $200 deposited in a savings account with our bank. Well, here is your $100 smart card with imbedded LCD display, thumb reader, and advance security algorithm generator. Thank you so much for your business, Mr. Averageman. We will expect to break even on your account in about...oh, I don't know...10,000 years maybe?
If there was ever a piece of software so central to an operating system, yet so fragile, vastly overburdened and insecure with a tendency to break if you just look at it, then it's the Windows Registry.
Dude, you're to young. The Window's Registry was preceded by the OS/2 Registry, which was equally hated and villified for years before Redmond picked up on the 'idea'.
My biggest beef with Microsoft is that when they do claim to innovate, it turns out that what they've done is either steal someone elses bad idea, or reimplement a good idea poorly.
Bryan admitted that Microsoft has 'knowledge and an understanding of the capabilities of the operating system'
Then why the hell do that make it so easy for the typical user to get owned? "We know how to defend against all this virus stuff, we've just chosen not to." What kind of foolish admittance of felonious lack of due diligence is THAT?!
For the 20year sysadmins trying to do damage control and convince us how secure this glorified interrupt handler is, I said TYPICAL user.
You can never get rid of governments...just change their form and names...
-democracy -autocracy -theocracy -beauracracy (government by mindless books of rules) -guy-with-stick-bigger-than-yours-ocracy
They all boil down to people organizing and giving up some percentage of their personal control to another group, in the hope that some part of the other group will support their own weakness. Since the vast majority of people are bleating sheep wishing someone would hide the real world from them, they are all to willing to let someone else be in charge and just make life easy for them. In steps the politician/king/brute willing to say, "I'll protect you, if all your base belong to us."
This will not change until people are willing to say, "Fsck you. I'll take care of myself!" Which is to say, never. So there will always be government.
But you miss the real point. Your solution is technically feasible, sensible, cheap, quick, easy and obviates all the contention. But then....
WHAT WILL THEY GRANDSTAND OVER!!??!!
I mean, who ever got elected for making sensible arguments. You get elected for mandating hearings on steroid use among professional athletes or intefering in state matters like the right of a husband to let his wife die a natural death. Yes, I realize these are particular instances of American issues, but it is the same in all democracies. All the politicians have to make a large hue and cry over insubstantial or trivial issues in order to remove attention from the fact that they're basically doing nothing or are powerless to do anything about real issues that they were elected/appointed to do.
I'm with one of the earlier posters. Tell 'em all to fuck off. They can create their own root servers any time they want. For redundancy reasons, it is something they should do anyway.
Friend or foe identification has always been a major problem. It was one of the first issues that surfaced when 'society' moved from tribal warfare to coordinated nation-state campaigns. Not everybody is from your village anymore. If everybody on both sides is wearing indistinquishable pieces of leather, how do we know who to hit with our big stick.
The first response was the creation of uniforms. (Don't hit the guy is blue. He's on your side.) Sea-faring ships sported flags to identify their country of origin. If you didn't fly the correct flag, you stood the chance of being taken down by a 'privateer'. When airplanes were introduced, they had to be painted in the correct markings so that they didn't get shot when heading home. 'Transponders' were even a very big plot element to the Battlestar Galactica series.
I think you will find that the military powers would not be so quick to reject foot soldier transponders. Configure them as a wristwatch that self-destructs when the human's heartbeat is lost, and can be turned off when it would be prudent to do so. It would be a boon for close air support.
Why would Dell ship any OS with this, and when shipping with an OS, why such an obscure one?
So if you were Dell, would you just stick a bunch of parts in a box and ship it, or would you at least want to boot it up first? Maybe run a diagnostic or two?
Consider that Dell may have a set of diagnostic programs that have been around a while...not real reason to change, just keep adding to the set of tests as new hardware is introduced. This test suite is based on DOS. No problem to run that on Win(whatever), but there is a porting effort needed to make it run on Linux. But wait!! There is an Open Source DOS product that will fill the niche! You don't know which distro the end-user will want, and it is so easy for them to download and install their choice since, unlike Windows, Linux installers actually work now.
And the States above the Mason-Dixon line are still holding the Confederacy hostage ever since the War of Northern Agression. But don't worry. The South's gonna do it again.
I'm the most cynical person I know. I always assume the worst is going to happen. I'm a crochety old bastard.
But I'm completely content. When things actually go bad, I just say, "WTF, we knew it was going to happen." and then I deal with it. Example. Ice storm. Power's gone. Wife wakes up..."What're we going to do? What're we going to do? We need help." I wake up, roll the grill around into the garage so that I don't have to stand on the ice, and fry up some bacon and eggs. I couldn't cut any steel for the airplane, but there were some welds to run and I needed to carve a few handles, so there was plenty of work to keep me going till the electricity comes back on.
If you want to be happy, truly happy, forever, repeat this to yourself every time something doesn't go your way: "50 yrs ago, I wouldn't have air-conditioning. 100 yrs ago, I wouldn't have electricity or running water. 200 yrs ago, I wouldn't have medicine. 400yrs ago, things were really bad. Yet somehow people lived long enough for me to get here. The problems I'm facing are insignificant."
Shit never seems very deep after I remind myself of that.
Did he take into account that no matter what the technological advancements may be, the vast majority of people will sit on their fat arses in front of a big TV and whine about:
- how they are bored by the latest sitcom/sureality/game show?
- how the latest round of full-immersion, virtual reality video games only differ from last weeks releases by a few interface ehancements and a couple pieces of eye-candy?
- how the big box retailers are pushing the small stores out of the market, and it's nearly impossible to build anything from scratch without ordering everything through the mail?
Did he consider that a large portion of that majority will simply sit on their arses and demand a larger welfare check, whining that there are no jobs to be had since the nanobots automated all industry?
If these issues aren't considered, then his views are as worthless as Disney's "World of Tomorrow".
You only need to know about your own little world. "Jack of all trades" are irrelevant in just about every other community these days what makes computers different?
Like the engineer I worked with that wanted to used division and exponentials in a hash function of a real-time system? The idea that you can abstract away the hardware and just wait for faster hardware is the main reason that we don't really see how much faster todays computers are than they were a decade ago. For the most part, we're doing nothing more interesting with computers today than we were 10 years ago.
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Just stop paying taxes. Stop following their edicts.
Unfortunately, there are enough ignorant sending in their taxes that the one declaring themselves the supreme soviet...well, they've bought guns. Lot's of 'em. And they're more than willing to use them (ask what remains of the Branch Davidians).
If I don't pay the taxes they say I owe, then they will send a group of their people out with guns to take my life's work, which is for all intents and purposes, MY LIFE. The only way to fight back is to get my own collection guns, and enough people to man them behind me. At the point I do that, I've formed my own government.
DAMN!! Back to square one.
I'd like to form a political party call "Solitary". It'd only have one party plank...LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE. Unfortunately, I don't have enough votes to elect myself.
You've got $200 deposited in a savings account with our bank. We're sorry to tell you that you do not rate online security with our bank. You must do all of your banking at one of our two remaining national branches. Thank you for your business.
"This just in. This reporter has discovered that the Branch Bank of the Internet will not be providing security for small depositors. Their money will be left in cash in a brown paper bag outside of Lefty's Bar and Grill for late night pickup. This is being viewed as a direct attack aimed at minorities that are DISproportionally poor. More at eleven."
(C'mon. You know it would happen.)
n the Bosnian conflict when the European nations were all to chicken-shit to clean up their own backyards. Yeah, everybody liked America then. But fast-forward a few years.
Where you brought up to believe that performing one good deed absolves you from a bad deed later down the line?
How the hell was sacrificing American lives in a backwater country like Bosnia where they've been fighting each other since they could pick up stick a good deed? Was it because that conflict was at your backdoor maybe? How do you decide that unilaterally invading country A is a good thing, but invading country B is a horrible deed? Because YOU said so?
There were clear ties between Al Queda and Saddam's regime when it came to terrorist attacks on Western nations. You may ignore inconvient facts at your will.
Facism is a state where what the goverment says, goes.
If you believe this situation applies in any way, shape or form to the United States that I live in, then I understand your utter confusion on other matters.
You're theory does not square with the facts.
If the religious zealots where so powerful as to be able to kill science in America, why have we developed 3 or 4 medications for the express purpose of giving old guys a woody? Hmmm?
Science has died in America because the CEO's bonus is based on next quarter's stock price and nothing more. Plain and simple. End of story.
Deciding to join WWII (even if it was late and only after being attacked) only buys so much gratitude. Everyone is very grateful but it was 60 years and you can't expect people to just keep on being grateful and ignoring what happened afterward.
You mean, like maybe, spending untold BILLIONS to maintain military bases in your countries as a show of force against Soviet dominance? Yeah, I could see how you would easily forget all of that. You don't seem to consider it except when we start to shut down those bases. Then there is a diplomatic uproar that we may destroy the economic viability of towns that depend upon those bases.
Should the person who pays the piper be required to take dance lessons? Or is it enough that we get to enjoy the music (and laugh at the occassional MS exec)?
Will we end up eventually paying (or stealing) all of our future programming?
God, I hope so. Maybe then:
- the competition will shift from serving up eyeballs to advertisers and towards producing decent shows
- people will limit their viewing to something they actually find interesting, instead of channel surfing
- and most importantly, active interests/hobby will be able to stand on a more even footing with the always-on, always-free insanity box.
Why would you give jail time to Mike Brown when the poor response was a result of a pissing contest between the Governor of LA and the Mayor of NO?
You've not been paying attention have you. Bush proactively floated a test baloon to fix the systemic problems that caused the poor Federal response to the Katrina disaster. He proposed that the military be given immediate control, ie. no need to wait for a formal request from the governor. His proposal is being SOUNDLY rejected by the governors of ALL the states. The governors are saying, in effect, that they want the power during a natural disaster, and they don't want their power usurped by the President.
The problem with your proposal is the same problem the article has. You cannot lay the blame on people who don't have the power to change things.
What we are talking about is control of the servers that govern the way the internet works
Except the problem is that the servers don't control the way the internet works.
People, before typing in so much overly considered verbiage, please do a google search on DNS and actually educate yourself on how the DNS system works. The Internet doesn't even NEED a dns system to work. DNS only makes it easier for humans to use.
As far as handing out IP address, that is a completely different issue and is controlled by routers, NOT DNS servers.
Yeah, it's jealosy alright. Those who don't like the US's actions just have a better knowledge of history. Hollywood history not withstanding of course, but that's the image you have of your country and who am I to get in the way of your facism?
Like the image of all the diplomatic pressure to get us involved in the Bosnian conflict when the European nations were all to chicken-shit to clean up their own backyards. Yeah, everybody liked America then. But fast-forward a few years. Backed by a UN resolution, we attack a country that has continually supported terrorist and constantly beat the war drum. All of a sudden the EU peaceniks roll out of the woodwork in full force. What's the difference.
Well, apparently in the latter situation the EU leaders were getting sizable kickbacks from the oil-for-food program, and didn't like the faucet being turned off on them. The former situation involved the leaders having to use their own countries' resources, so it would be much better if the more "resourceful" America sacrifice their men and women.
But, "who am I to get in the way of your facism?"
Use a paper cutter for the aluminum sheet to get straight cuts.
Build a brake with a couple door hinges and 3 pieces of wood so that you can put in straight bends.
You've got $200 deposited in a savings account with our bank. Well, here is your $100 smart card with imbedded LCD display, thumb reader, and advance security algorithm generator. Thank you so much for your business, Mr. Averageman. We will expect to break even on your account in about...oh, I don't know...10,000 years maybe?
If there was ever a piece of software so central to an operating system, yet so fragile, vastly overburdened and insecure with a tendency to break if you just look at it, then it's the Windows Registry.
Dude, you're to young. The Window's Registry was preceded by the OS/2 Registry, which was equally hated and villified for years before Redmond picked up on the 'idea'.
My biggest beef with Microsoft is that when they do claim to innovate, it turns out that what they've done is either steal someone elses bad idea, or reimplement a good idea poorly.
Jokes aside, Windows has *always* been ahead in terms of user experience.
How can you put the jokes aside when the PCMag review of Win95 contained the joke...
Something old
Something new
Like a lot from Mac
And OS/2
Linux wasn't on the radar then, but MS is starting to steal the Linux innovations now. And yes, tabbed browsing is a significant enhancement.
Bryan admitted that Microsoft has 'knowledge and an understanding of the capabilities of the operating system'
Then why the hell do that make it so easy for the typical user to get owned? "We know how to defend against all this virus stuff, we've just chosen not to." What kind of foolish admittance of felonious lack of due diligence is THAT?!
For the 20year sysadmins trying to do damage control and convince us how secure this glorified interrupt handler is, I said TYPICAL user.
It's not even proof of life in a Mars-like environment, unless Mars has winds from the Gulf Coast blowing over it somehow.
You can never get rid of governments...just change their form and names...
-democracy
-autocracy
-theocracy
-beauracracy (government by mindless books of rules)
-guy-with-stick-bigger-than-yours-ocracy
They all boil down to people organizing and giving up some percentage of their personal control to another group, in the hope that some part of the other group will support their own weakness. Since the vast majority of people are bleating sheep wishing someone would hide the real world from them, they are all to willing to let someone else be in charge and just make life easy for them. In steps the politician/king/brute willing to say, "I'll protect you, if all your base belong to us."
This will not change until people are willing to say, "Fsck you. I'll take care of myself!" Which is to say, never. So there will always be government.
But you miss the real point. Your solution is technically feasible, sensible, cheap, quick, easy and obviates all the contention. But then....
WHAT WILL THEY GRANDSTAND OVER!!??!!
I mean, who ever got elected for making sensible arguments. You get elected for mandating hearings on steroid use among professional athletes or intefering in state matters like the right of a husband to let his wife die a natural death. Yes, I realize these are particular instances of American issues, but it is the same in all democracies. All the politicians have to make a large hue and cry over insubstantial or trivial issues in order to remove attention from the fact that they're basically doing nothing or are powerless to do anything about real issues that they were elected/appointed to do.
I'm with one of the earlier posters. Tell 'em all to fuck off. They can create their own root servers any time they want. For redundancy reasons, it is something they should do anyway.
Friend or foe identification has always been a major problem. It was one of the first issues that surfaced when 'society' moved from tribal warfare to coordinated nation-state campaigns. Not everybody is from your village anymore. If everybody on both sides is wearing indistinquishable pieces of leather, how do we know who to hit with our big stick.
The first response was the creation of uniforms. (Don't hit the guy is blue. He's on your side.) Sea-faring ships sported flags to identify their country of origin. If you didn't fly the correct flag, you stood the chance of being taken down by a 'privateer'. When airplanes were introduced, they had to be painted in the correct markings so that they didn't get shot when heading home. 'Transponders' were even a very big plot element to the Battlestar Galactica series.
I think you will find that the military powers would not be so quick to reject foot soldier transponders. Configure them as a wristwatch that self-destructs when the human's heartbeat is lost, and can be turned off when it would be prudent to do so. It would be a boon for close air support.
Why would Dell ship any OS with this, and when shipping with an OS, why such an obscure one?
So if you were Dell, would you just stick a bunch of parts in a box and ship it, or would you at least want to boot it up first? Maybe run a diagnostic or two?
Consider that Dell may have a set of diagnostic programs that have been around a while...not real reason to change, just keep adding to the set of tests as new hardware is introduced. This test suite is based on DOS. No problem to run that on Win(whatever), but there is a porting effort needed to make it run on Linux. But wait!! There is an Open Source DOS product that will fill the niche! You don't know which distro the end-user will want, and it is so easy for them to download and install their choice since, unlike Windows, Linux installers actually work now.
I see FreeDOS as a logical choice on Dell's part.
And the States above the Mason-Dixon line are still holding the Confederacy hostage ever since the War of Northern Agression. But don't worry. The South's gonna do it again.
I'm the most cynical person I know. I always assume the worst is going to happen. I'm a crochety old bastard.
But I'm completely content. When things actually go bad, I just say, "WTF, we knew it was going to happen." and then I deal with it. Example. Ice storm. Power's gone. Wife wakes up..."What're we going to do? What're we going to do? We need help." I wake up, roll the grill around into the garage so that I don't have to stand on the ice, and fry up some bacon and eggs. I couldn't cut any steel for the airplane, but there were some welds to run and I needed to carve a few handles, so there was plenty of work to keep me going till the electricity comes back on.
If you want to be happy, truly happy, forever, repeat this to yourself every time something doesn't go your way: "50 yrs ago, I wouldn't have air-conditioning. 100 yrs ago, I wouldn't have electricity or running water. 200 yrs ago, I wouldn't have medicine. 400yrs ago, things were really bad. Yet somehow people lived long enough for me to get here. The problems I'm facing are insignificant."
Shit never seems very deep after I remind myself of that.
Misery makes people self-obsessed and inactive.
My experience is the exact opposite. Self-obsession and inactivity make people miserable. And it IS a positive feedback loop.
Did he take into account that no matter what the technological advancements may be, the vast majority of people will sit on their fat arses in front of a big TV and whine about:
- how they are bored by the latest sitcom/sureality/game show?
- how the latest round of full-immersion, virtual reality video games only differ from last weeks releases by a few interface ehancements and a couple pieces of eye-candy?
- how the big box retailers are pushing the small stores out of the market, and it's nearly impossible to build anything from scratch without ordering everything through the mail?
Did he consider that a large portion of that majority will simply sit on their arses and demand a larger welfare check, whining that there are no jobs to be had since the nanobots automated all industry?
If these issues aren't considered, then his views are as worthless as Disney's "World of Tomorrow".
You only need to know about your own little world. "Jack of all trades" are irrelevant in just about every other community these days what makes computers different?
Like the engineer I worked with that wanted to used division and exponentials in a hash function of a real-time system? The idea that you can abstract away the hardware and just wait for faster hardware is the main reason that we don't really see how much faster todays computers are than they were a decade ago. For the most part, we're doing nothing more interesting with computers today than we were 10 years ago.