If this is something most of the residents are willing to pay for, they would just raise property taxes. Since $40/mo is $480/year... adding an additional $500/year to the average property tax of a house in that area is pretty minor. Estimating the taxes are in the $4000-5000/year range anyway.
There is something seriously wrong with the education system when a grad student gets a masters in physics for writing a thesis on flipping a pancake.
What's next? Maybe, for his doctoral thesis, he should write a formula for the proper amount of syrup to be used based on it's rate of obsorbtion by the pancake.
... they're prepared to engage in one mother of an immoral battle, and have said their prayers, kissed their girls, and balanced their books. War in Iraq is *not* going to be pretty for you guys.
Immoral? It's very moral. We're attempting to stop a ruthless dictator from killing more people than he already has. Remember, he has already attempted in invade 2 neighbors, killed millions of his own citizens at a more fearsome rate than Hitler ever did, and continues to deceive the U.N.
Our military is a professional military knowing that they will be called into action... and know the consequences. I wonder, what country are you from? I'm sure at some point in your history, we have saved your ass from a problem or two.
The US is now what Germany was in the 30's... off to fight its merry war with 'justifiable cause'.
No, you are far off. Germany's original goal was to take back land that once belonged to them (before WWI). The U.S. does not plan to "take land" from Iraq. If we wanted to "take land", we'd invade Canada or Mexico.... or at least tell Puerto Rico they *must* join the union in order to continue to receive gov't aide. Your analogy is way off.
Don't you Americans realize that the UN was *made* to prevent countries like yours from abusing their power?
The U.N. was also formed to protect the people of the countries which hurt them and to protect the general internationl community. As I stated above, Iraq has killed millions of it's own people and invaded 2 neighboring states. Not to mention the attacks on Isreal for no apparent reason. It continues to be a threat to it's neighbors and will be until someone stops it. It's the U.N.'s responsibility to defend Iraq's neighbors from attacks.
That this war is now being trivialized into some sort of 'happy meme' worthy of idle discussion by tech nerds in the context of some sci-fi-turned-reality 'cyberwar' is really disturbing.
You obviously have trivialized the "war". The U.S. strategy, as it has always been, is to fight on multiple fronts. Espionage, counter-intelligence, military force, political force, etc. Now it adds the new form of cyber-warfare to it's lineup. It's important to "tech nerds" since it may affect how they will work in the future. Maybe someone would be interested in joining the military based on this type of work they can perform.
If globalization, McDonalds, Britney and all the other wonderful machinations of The American Way didn't turn me off your crappy country, then the robotic nature of its citizens kowtowing to the propaganda machine being operated by King George Bush II definitely is...
Globalization helps out everyone involved. If you don't like Britney, then don't buy her CDs. If you don't like McDonald's, then don't buy the BigMac. It's a simple choice, but it's a choice that is given to you because of the simple freedoms the U.S. fights for in situations like this one. Are you aware people in Iraq aren't allowed to have satelite dishes? They are restricted to state-run radio and TV programs. They do not have the option of a McDonald's, or a Wendy's... or even a local Chinese restaurant. Don't you think that maybe they'd like this kind of thing? Why not let them have the choice as well?
I don't care if there are guidelines for 'cyberwar against Iraq' being published... This war is NONSENSE!!
I have refrained from the personal insults this long, and I will continue to do so. All war is nonsense, and it's sad it has to come down to war in order to resolve matters. However, sometimes the only way to get through to a country is by using military action. If you think the Bush and the 30+ countries which now openly back up the U.S. are a bunch of war mongers, then I ask you to use North Korea as the counter-point to your own arguement. North Korea is a threat to U.S. allies and it's neighbors. It has nuclear weapons (most likely) and has threatened to use them. However, the U.S. and allies prefer to use political methods to dissolve the tensions. Will it work? No one knows. We have used political methods with Iraq for 12 years and 17 resolutions, but there has been no luck. As stated above, Iraq continues to be a threat and must be dealt with.
Remember, lots of communications between Osama/bin/Laden and his cronies was done with encrypted emails. This is the opposite of "low tech". In fact, they probably used PGP. So, while the attacks themselves were low tech, the planning and development stage of it was VERY high tech.
But this has always been the case. This did not simply change overnight. In fact, the same system has been used since 1932. So, to say that the unemployment rate is not 100% accurate may be true, but to say you can not compare the unemployment rate in 1997 and today is an invalid arguement.
Let's not forget that the economy is in the crapper.
Falicy. Truth is, the unemployment rate is only at 6% which is close to the average since World War II (average I believe in 5.8%)
In fact, in 1997 when the jobless rate was at 4.8% (which is actually very good), the DJIA was at about 8100 points. That's not far off from what it was this morning as I looked at it (before market open, 8053).
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Oh... and don't blame George Bush on the decline. In 2000, when Bill Clinton was still president, the DJIA dropped nearly 2000 points. In the two years following, it has dropped another 2000 points. The single largest drop in the economy since the dotcom era occured under the final year of the Clinton presidency. While, in the two years following, it dropped a similar amount.
If the gov't is going to require certification, all you need is your A+ and Network Security certs. You know how "advanced" the A+ is with all of it's DOS and Windows 3.1 questions.
Anyone who passes these tests is definately qualified to repair my computer running my favorite flavor of *BSD or Linux!
Many comments from people have said we have already lost our innovation! Well, if you read the first paragraph, he says we are ALREADY down the road on a LOT of these ideas! He acknowledges right at the beginning we are already falling on our face.
If you can get better IT from offshore, this is a huge problem. His editorial proves the point that we are losing out due to the things he mentions. To criticize Ben Stein on his point that we've already lost any innovative advantage is to PROVE HIS POINT!!!!!
"Oh, those are just doctored images" That will be the excuse... then you'd have conspiracy theorists showing how the pixalation of the photo near the landing sites show that there was no activity at this region, etc etc..
Like someone said originally... those who don't want to believe it, will continue to not believe it no matter how much evidence you have. If you flew them into space and plopped them into a crater, they still wouldn't believe it!
I agree! The linux kernel is at least 2 years behind in any IPsec implementation compared to OpenBSD or even FreeBSD. What's going on here? Does that make sense? Usually it's the Linux folks that are ahead of the game, but not this time.
I guess the Linux folks wanted to make EXTRA SURE they didn't leave any BSD code in the kernel without a copyright before they added it to CVS.
"People see any additional expenditure as fun and that means you don't have to go for that additional comfort for your employees because you don't need to do it anymore because you don't need to compete to hold on to your employees," Rush adds.
How does a lax dress code cause 'additional expenditure'?? If the current policy states a more lenient dress code, then it seems changing the dress code policy to something more strict would not only require more money spent in HR's time to transmit this statement to the employees, but also more time wasted in the management chain dealing with delinquent employees!
Now I'm not one to be completely for walking into work in jeans and a ripped T-shirt, but I just think this idiot they got for the interview is just... well, an idiot!
"The increase in productivity is not worth the extra cost and it takes away from the key focus, which has to be work."
This is a great quote! The increase in productivity (i.e. the AMOUNT of work done per unit of time) is NOT worth the extra cost of taking away from uhm work... right?
"Install it or find another server to play on". Question remains, is it going too far?"
No, it's not going too far. The game server admins can run the server however they choose fit. If you don't like the rules, don't use the server!
Definitely not- unfortunately it won't work since MACs are changable.
However, the majority of people don't know how to reset their MAC addresses. Also, as I believe to be true, some broadband providers specifically use MAC addresses to verify access. For instance, my Comcast cable modem does everything by MAC, so if I change my NIC in my machine, I need to power off/on the cable modem in order to get back through to the Internet. Although this is sort of a minor issue, some other ISPs may be more strict about MAC changes.
Overall, the admins figure they will cut out 99% of the hacking attempts as people would just go elsewhere, or once they did cheat, just wouldn't know how to change their MAC.
First, if you are a 'security officer' means you are a VP level or better. Are you paid for this? As an officer, you have the authority to tell people to do what you want, you also have the authority to hire and fire as needed, etc....
Look, I work for a pharmacy benefits company, and we've been dealing with HIPAA regulations for about 3 years now... the fact your organization chose to wait until 6 months before the mandatory date just says they are ill prepared to be in business. HIPAA is not something that showed up overnight... it's been known about for a few years now, and any decent company would have already arranged for the changes to be put into place.
Also, referring to my first statement, if you are an "officier" of the company, it means you COULD go to jail if you break the law (e.g. like not being HIPAA compliant), so I would be VERY careful about accepting that title. Maybe they made you the fall guy?
The United States is the strongest economic, political, and military power in the world. The fact is, the U.S. is not bound to run out of money anytime soon. The economic resources of the country allow us to keep spending the money on such things.
Why do you think the U.S. pushing global trade? How can you live without a country that provides important resources for other countries? If all countries had one or two strategic resources, then international trade would pretty much guarentee the success of that nation. In the case of the U.S., we are the #1 exporter of food products throughout the world, #1 exporter of military technology, and probably the #1 exporter of civilian technology (although, Japan or Germany may be better, I don't know off hand... the U.S. is still up there).
The U.S. is also home to something like 7 of the world's top 10 largest companies. AND, the U.S. is home to something like 70% of the world's banks. This is a pretty significant thing!
just look at the one that got shot down several years ago.
You mean the U2... in the 60s... which wasn't necessarily stealth, but simply because it could fly higher than any missile at that time (or at least they thought... until Russia shot one down!)
Also, regarding your post in general, it's kind of an ignorant statement. Your opinion is a popular one. Why do we need to continue spending? Why waste the money? There is no war out there to fight anymore!
WRONG, there is always a war to fight. Spending money on technology NOW prevents wars in the future. Spending money is what caused the USSR to fall (they ran out of money quicker than we did). Smart weapons must be delivered somehow. You can not launch a "smart weapon" from the U.S. and expect it to hit Baghdad. You need to have a platform to launch it from.
In the specific case of the "Bird of Prey", it is a concept only... says so in the Popular Science article. Concepts are used all the time from our friends in Detroit (ever been to a big auto show) to CPU manufacturers. Concepts are to prove something can be done... which then lead into more useful items later on.
As with much military technology, lessons learned from this concept vehicle could possibly make it into everyday life.
I specifically said "rsync" does not support that. Whether he fools around with a script to do it for him, is another story. MY POINT is that dump does this ALL FOR YOU, and would have required LESS time to implement and would be a more reliable solution, as it was designed for doing filesystem backups!
The other thing I forgot to mention is that rsync does not support incremental backups. Sure, it will incrementally update the tree on the other end, but it will not allow you to go back to your filesystem snapshot from last saturday if you have done an rsync of your data since that point. It doesn't effectively keep a backup of old data, it just syncs the current data. This would make it difficult to recover from, for example, a box that was hacked and trojanned last week when you've done an rsync since.
What's wrong with dump? It works great, and you can send stuff to gzip, bzip2, etc for data compression... even pipe the stuff over ssh to a server somewhere else. Dump also supports incremental backups. It also works on a lower level than rsync (which works on the filesystem level) and supports multiple volumes easily.
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If this is something most of the residents are willing to pay for, they would just raise property taxes. Since $40/mo is $480/year... adding an additional $500/year to the average property tax of a house in that area is pretty minor. Estimating the taxes are in the $4000-5000/year range anyway.
What else would use that kind of bandwidth?
Eh?
There is something seriously wrong with the education system when a grad student gets a masters in physics for writing a thesis on flipping a pancake.
What's next? Maybe, for his doctoral thesis, he should write a formula for the proper amount of syrup to be used based on it's rate of obsorbtion by the pancake.
Immoral? It's very moral. We're attempting to stop a ruthless dictator from killing more people than he already has. Remember, he has already attempted in invade 2 neighbors, killed millions of his own citizens at a more fearsome rate than Hitler ever did, and continues to deceive the U.N.
Our military is a professional military knowing that they will be called into action... and know the consequences. I wonder, what country are you from? I'm sure at some point in your history, we have saved your ass from a problem or two.
The US is now what Germany was in the 30's... off to fight its merry war with 'justifiable cause'.No, you are far off. Germany's original goal was to take back land that once belonged to them (before WWI). The U.S. does not plan to "take land" from Iraq. If we wanted to "take land", we'd invade Canada or Mexico.... or at least tell Puerto Rico they *must* join the union in order to continue to receive gov't aide. Your analogy is way off.
Don't you Americans realize that the UN was *made* to prevent countries like yours from abusing their power?The U.N. was also formed to protect the people of the countries which hurt them and to protect the general internationl community. As I stated above, Iraq has killed millions of it's own people and invaded 2 neighboring states. Not to mention the attacks on Isreal for no apparent reason. It continues to be a threat to it's neighbors and will be until someone stops it. It's the U.N.'s responsibility to defend Iraq's neighbors from attacks.
That this war is now being trivialized into some sort of 'happy meme' worthy of idle discussion by tech nerds in the context of some sci-fi-turned-reality 'cyberwar' is really disturbing.You obviously have trivialized the "war". The U.S. strategy, as it has always been, is to fight on multiple fronts. Espionage, counter-intelligence, military force, political force, etc. Now it adds the new form of cyber-warfare to it's lineup. It's important to "tech nerds" since it may affect how they will work in the future. Maybe someone would be interested in joining the military based on this type of work they can perform.
If globalization, McDonalds, Britney and all the other wonderful machinations of The American Way didn't turn me off your crappy country, then the robotic nature of its citizens kowtowing to the propaganda machine being operated by King George Bush II definitely isGlobalization helps out everyone involved. If you don't like Britney, then don't buy her CDs. If you don't like McDonald's, then don't buy the BigMac. It's a simple choice, but it's a choice that is given to you because of the simple freedoms the U.S. fights for in situations like this one. Are you aware people in Iraq aren't allowed to have satelite dishes? They are restricted to state-run radio and TV programs. They do not have the option of a McDonald's, or a Wendy's... or even a local Chinese restaurant. Don't you think that maybe they'd like this kind of thing? Why not let them have the choice as well?
I don't care if there are guidelines for 'cyberwar against Iraq' being published... This war is NONSENSE!!I have refrained from the personal insults this long, and I will continue to do so. All war is nonsense, and it's sad it has to come down to war in order to resolve matters. However, sometimes the only way to get through to a country is by using military action. If you think the Bush and the 30+ countries which now openly back up the U.S. are a bunch of war mongers, then I ask you to use North Korea as the counter-point to your own arguement. North Korea is a threat to U.S. allies and it's neighbors. It has nuclear weapons (most likely) and has threatened to use them. However, the U.S. and allies prefer to use political methods to dissolve the tensions. Will it work? No one knows. We have used political methods with Iraq for 12 years and 17 resolutions, but there has been no luck. As stated above, Iraq continues to be a threat and must be dealt with.
Low tech?
/bin/Laden and his cronies was done with encrypted emails. This is the opposite of "low tech". In fact, they probably used PGP. So, while the attacks themselves were low tech, the planning and development stage of it was VERY high tech.
Remember, lots of communications between Osama
But this has always been the case. This did not simply change overnight. In fact, the same system has been used since 1932. So, to say that the unemployment rate is not 100% accurate may be true, but to say you can not compare the unemployment rate in 1997 and today is an invalid arguement.
Falicy. Truth is, the unemployment rate is only at 6% which is close to the average since World War II (average I believe in 5.8%)
In fact, in 1997 when the jobless rate was at 4.8% (which is actually very good), the DJIA was at about 8100 points. That's not far off from what it was this morning as I looked at it (before market open, 8053).
<warding off bush criticism>
Oh... and don't blame George Bush on the decline. In 2000, when Bill Clinton was still president, the DJIA dropped nearly 2000 points. In the two years following, it has dropped another 2000 points. The single largest drop in the economy since the dotcom era occured under the final year of the Clinton presidency. While, in the two years following, it dropped a similar amount.
</warding off bush criticism>
If the gov't is going to require certification, all you need is your A+ and Network Security certs. You know how "advanced" the A+ is with all of it's DOS and Windows 3.1 questions.
Anyone who passes these tests is definately qualified to repair my computer running my favorite flavor of *BSD or Linux!
Many comments from people have said we have already lost our innovation! Well, if you read the first paragraph, he says we are ALREADY down the road on a LOT of these ideas! He acknowledges right at the beginning we are already falling on our face.
If you can get better IT from offshore, this is a huge problem. His editorial proves the point that we are losing out due to the things he mentions. To criticize Ben Stein on his point that we've already lost any innovative advantage is to PROVE HIS POINT!!!!!
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"Oh, those are just doctored images" That will be the excuse... then you'd have conspiracy theorists showing how the pixalation of the photo near the landing sites show that there was no activity at this region, etc etc..
Like someone said originally... those who don't want to believe it, will continue to not believe it no matter how much evidence you have. If you flew them into space and plopped them into a crater, they still wouldn't believe it!
Who is Example? Is that some kind of hacker nick? What qualifications does he/she have to write a book about Linux programming? I'm confused!
I agree! The linux kernel is at least 2 years behind in any IPsec implementation compared to OpenBSD or even FreeBSD. What's going on here? Does that make sense? Usually it's the Linux folks that are ahead of the game, but not this time.
I guess the Linux folks wanted to make EXTRA SURE they didn't leave any BSD code in the kernel without a copyright before they added it to CVS.
Go ahead... troll me! I dare you!
Well, they could get my benefits straightened out and answer the f'ing phone when I call them!
How does a lax dress code cause 'additional expenditure'?? If the current policy states a more lenient dress code, then it seems changing the dress code policy to something more strict would not only require more money spent in HR's time to transmit this statement to the employees, but also more time wasted in the management chain dealing with delinquent employees!
Now I'm not one to be completely for walking into work in jeans and a ripped T-shirt, but I just think this idiot they got for the interview is just... well, an idiot!
This is a great quote! The increase in productivity (i.e. the AMOUNT of work done per unit of time) is NOT worth the extra cost of taking away from uhm work... right?
No, it's not going too far. The game server admins can run the server however they choose fit. If you don't like the rules, don't use the server!
However, the majority of people don't know how to reset their MAC addresses. Also, as I believe to be true, some broadband providers specifically use MAC addresses to verify access. For instance, my Comcast cable modem does everything by MAC, so if I change my NIC in my machine, I need to power off/on the cable modem in order to get back through to the Internet. Although this is sort of a minor issue, some other ISPs may be more strict about MAC changes.
Overall, the admins figure they will cut out 99% of the hacking attempts as people would just go elsewhere, or once they did cheat, just wouldn't know how to change their MAC.
First, if you are a 'security officer' means you are a VP level or better. Are you paid for this? As an officer, you have the authority to tell people to do what you want, you also have the authority to hire and fire as needed, etc....
Look, I work for a pharmacy benefits company, and we've been dealing with HIPAA regulations for about 3 years now... the fact your organization chose to wait until 6 months before the mandatory date just says they are ill prepared to be in business. HIPAA is not something that showed up overnight... it's been known about for a few years now, and any decent company would have already arranged for the changes to be put into place.
Also, referring to my first statement, if you are an "officier" of the company, it means you COULD go to jail if you break the law (e.g. like not being HIPAA compliant), so I would be VERY careful about accepting that title. Maybe they made you the fall guy?
Ah yes, ignorance must be bliss....
The United States is the strongest economic, political, and military power in the world. The fact is, the U.S. is not bound to run out of money anytime soon. The economic resources of the country allow us to keep spending the money on such things.
Why do you think the U.S. pushing global trade? How can you live without a country that provides important resources for other countries? If all countries had one or two strategic resources, then international trade would pretty much guarentee the success of that nation. In the case of the U.S., we are the #1 exporter of food products throughout the world, #1 exporter of military technology, and probably the #1 exporter of civilian technology (although, Japan or Germany may be better, I don't know off hand... the U.S. is still up there).
The U.S. is also home to something like 7 of the world's top 10 largest companies. AND, the U.S. is home to something like 70% of the world's banks. This is a pretty significant thing!
You mean the U2... in the 60s... which wasn't necessarily stealth, but simply because it could fly higher than any missile at that time (or at least they thought... until Russia shot one down!)
Also, regarding your post in general, it's kind of an ignorant statement. Your opinion is a popular one. Why do we need to continue spending? Why waste the money? There is no war out there to fight anymore!
WRONG, there is always a war to fight. Spending money on technology NOW prevents wars in the future. Spending money is what caused the USSR to fall (they ran out of money quicker than we did). Smart weapons must be delivered somehow. You can not launch a "smart weapon" from the U.S. and expect it to hit Baghdad. You need to have a platform to launch it from.
In the specific case of the "Bird of Prey", it is a concept only... says so in the Popular Science article. Concepts are used all the time from our friends in Detroit (ever been to a big auto show) to CPU manufacturers. Concepts are to prove something can be done... which then lead into more useful items later on.
As with much military technology, lessons learned from this concept vehicle could possibly make it into everyday life.
High throughput... high latency :(
There's no need to get abusive, geesh... grow up.
I specifically said "rsync" does not support that. Whether he fools around with a script to do it for him, is another story. MY POINT is that dump does this ALL FOR YOU, and would have required LESS time to implement and would be a more reliable solution, as it was designed for doing filesystem backups!
The other thing I forgot to mention is that rsync does not support incremental backups. Sure, it will incrementally update the tree on the other end, but it will not allow you to go back to your filesystem snapshot from last saturday if you have done an rsync of your data since that point. It doesn't effectively keep a backup of old data, it just syncs the current data. This would make it difficult to recover from, for example, a box that was hacked and trojanned last week when you've done an rsync since.
What's wrong with dump? It works great, and you can send stuff to gzip, bzip2, etc for data compression... even pipe the stuff over ssh to a server somewhere else. Dump also supports incremental backups. It also works on a lower level than rsync (which works on the filesystem level) and supports multiple volumes easily.