That's great if it works for you... my openbsd box is a firewall, asterisk pbx, squid proxy and ntp endpoint. I'm sure that would all work dandy on your macbook pro, but it seems like a waste when my friends throw away athlon machine does it just fine and doesn't dedicate an expensive laptop to the tasks.
You guys are talking about a sliding scale for the booze, but you're missing the biggest opportunity here which is for people to pay for score inflation. And of course for other people to pay even more for transparency through the score inflation scheme. Bronze level is free and you get what you get. Silver level you get to shave 5 years and add a market adjusted 1 sigma to your income. Gold level is ten years and 2 sigmas, etc. Of course Gold level "peeper" subscriptions get to see the truth about all Silver level data hiders, and so on. Freeking goldmine. I'm calling the patent office, brb.
As long as you use key-only authentication you should be fine. I wouldn't leave password-only access open to the internet. Having said that, your best bet is to slowly stall connections in order to waste the other guy's resources. Any system with pf and probably ipf have allowances for that, along with logging and blocking the most abusive IPs altogether.
I carried a blackberry for years, both personally and corporate issued ones, and loved what they could do for me. The e-mail client and their address book are still untouched by Android. By contrast my corporate-issued ipad with Good stinks. Seriously it has the worst interface for searching e-mail I've ever seen! Not even on the level of 80's text only e-mail clients like ELM and PINE. Ugh.
Blackberry needs to switch to their own Android hardware - they can make it as secure as they like and bring their own apps to the platform, while hopefully integrating the "Android way" of doing things. I loved my BB, but my first Android device which ran 1.5 (ancient by today's standards) made me realize what I was missing on the BB. Android's multitasking and automated app integration was an epiphany in user design. On my old BB if I took a picture, that was it. I took a picture. Then I switched to whatever app I wanted to use the photo with - the facebook app, the twitter app and then typically had to navigate that app's interface to share the photo. Contrast that with Android's approach of extending the camera app's "share" button with a new icon for any new application that can share photos.
Blackberry's hardware security and their apps melded with Android would be an unbeatable combination. And let's face it - they could sell insecure versions in the Android app store and clean up.
If this is a Android 4.1 or newer tablet w/o the screen I'm game. There's plenty of compelling content available now, although a great deal of it is touch-screen oriented one controller is all it takes to fix that. Otherwise this will also (presumably) have a netflix client, pandora client, etc, etc. In other words it'll be a open-source google TV. Sign me up.
Oh yeah - one of those *totally* annoying things about the iPad is network based collaborative games don't work well or at all in network as an island situations. I should be able to sit on an airplane with my Google tablet and play anyone on the plane because one person's a IPV4 hub handing out local addresses, or we're taking advantage of IPv6's link local addresses. So simple, yet so much fun if we could make it happen.
I'm right there with you dude and own the developer G1 as well as the Nexus One. Technological obsolescence is annoying, but so is Google's erratic support for essential features. I want a *Google* reference phone (not carrier locked) that has a) a removable battery, b) NFC, c) removable SIM card, d) latest multicore processor, e) plenty of internal memory (2GB+) , f) forward (3MP) and rearward (8MP+) facing cameras, and g) either the processor or a second chip to handle 3d acceleration. The interesting phones all have some combination not all of those things combined, and we aren't even in to the nice to have options like an IPV6 capable stack, a chip to help with VPN encryption/decryption so heavy tunneling use doesn't burn the battery and a wifi/airplane mode combination that lets me use the handset as a SIP phone. Stop playing google phone footise with us Google - I need a mode to turn off the cell network, leave on wireless and use (if available) the carrier's internet-based call origination features, and if not at least the same for my Grandcentral/Google-voice number I've been carrying around for years.
That should read defender of *deregulation*, by the way. I'm ok with it if the striations are prevented from ownership or co-ownership by cooperative parties. I'm all for it if each layer is forced to compete and the market is efficient. I'm all against if it the competitors are simply allowed to by each other and integrate until choice is back to two or three bad choices instead of several good ones.
You have it completely wrong if you think California was any sort of example of "proper" deregulation. Power companies were required to sell their power at the same cost they always had, but were "free" to purchase power at market prices. Unfortunately for them, Enron's traders simply traded power back and forth across the California border with neighboring states until they'd soaked up capacity and created an "emergency", allowing an explosion in power prices. When I say explosion I mean up to 10x prior costs. PG & E was not allowed to pass that cost onto consumers. I'm not actually a defender of regulation but it's clear what happens when you let the interested parties write the rules. They write in loopholes and profit, too.
I certainly understand and appreciate your straw man (bad blood transfused) is so important to you that chipping everyone seems justified. Crime is an unfortunate reality which no technology can solve; not everyone can or will subscribe to John Locke's social contract. Solve that problem without technology first, because otherwise the technology is a tool like any other - most will use it for good, but not all.
Hi, paranoid science lady. Thank you for putting a friend or foe chip in every enemy soldier fighting against my glorious and righteous cause. I have adapted all my improvised incindiery devices to trigger from their presence. My soldiers can now quickly and safely sweep an area for enemy combatants with nothing more than an RFID gun. Encryption, you say? We destroy all the chips in our equipment so any response at all whether we understand it or not is enough to attack or retreat as we see fit. Of course the secret back door installed by your government was easily reverse engineered and decoded with a few million dollars invested with the right Chinese lab and their scanning-tunneling microscope. I understand your government is enjoying similar benefits now that there are no more anonymous protests, or really anonymity of any kind. You were so right! "something could happen", you said. And now that everyone is chipped it has! We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Just as a single data point counterpoint, Forth is used in openboot proms so if you were to admin any Sun gear, you'd be using Forth whether you knew it or not even today. Having said that, it's a nice skill to have, but you probably won't get a job programming in that language.
My standard developer desktop is an HP 8540W with 16GB of memory. Laptops aren't known for speedy disk i/o so it would probably take 50-100% longer, but still, these sized machines in a corp environment aren't hard to find.
Yow. I can see why... My parallel programming experience stretches from Haskell and Erlang today (just keeping my hand in, not paid for it) back to the ncube and Cray 1. Still, I'd have to think long and hard before taking a job as a Fortran+parallel programmer today. Sounds like being a Cobol programmer back in the y2k days: how long will it really last?
Yeah the "I'm not keeping it that long" mentality is the issue. I think the economic downtown and rising gas prices may shift consumer attitudes, though. Personally I do plan to keep my next car 10+ years, so my car *will* be a Diesel - the heavier engine blocks and components required by higher compression ratios simply last longer. The only reason I'm thinking about replacing my current car is that it's developing electrical problems - probably some part of the wiring harness has chafed and shorted, and no 15 year old car is worth the investment to fix that. Owning many used cars and now one 15 years from its purchase date, I can state drive train is only part of the puzzle. At some point door and window seals start to wear out or stiffen and crack, leather wears down and wears out, and components never designed to exceed 100,000 miles are at or beyond the end of their life -everything from belts and hoses to air conditioning components. South Texas is a particularly brutal environment for cars, so I'm sure mileage varies on that, but when the seals between door handle and door are gone and it rains 50" a year, that's a problem. Potentially much more of a problem than whether your car burns diesel or gasoline. Anecdotal evidence suggests my car only lasted as long as it did because it's German. My point is the manufacturers may want to increase quality in other areas before investing in powerplant changes, even though I myself would love to see diesel be much more popular.
Eve's economy is an interesting beast. They are one of the few companies who employ a full time PhD economist. In fact he publishes a quarterly report much like any publicly traded company does. CCP benefits from the sale of Pilot's License Extension (PLEX) using real-world cash, which are traded for in-game items. These items are sold for in-game currency and eventually exchanged with CCP for a 1 month game play extension. In other words CCP has been in the Real Money Trade (RMT) business for years. And a large part of the EVE universe make enough in-game currency each month (ISK) in order to play for "free", barring the cost of their time. Since the inception of Eve there's been a set hierarchy - the folks who have been playing the longest have the greatest advantage because item use is directly related to Skill Points (SP) invested and player skill. Obviously nobody can purchase skill, but neither could anyone purchase SP to gain an advantage, or more importantly to close the advantage gap with older players. RMT for better ships or SP would change all that. Because the sale of characters is allowed there is a secondary market and many players depend on "baking" a kind of character for many months and selling it for in-game currency as well. RMT for SP would also impact this market. Just as the "old guard" have no interest in CCP allowing the re-release of unique and limited supply items, neither do they wish for the introduction of any other mechanisms that could close economic or skill gaps. This is one of the reasons Goonswarm was so very reviled with their entry into the EVE universe - they tried to play nice and were ignored or mocked by older players, so the Goons invented tactics to counter the older player's play style, resulting in a huge upset in the balance of power and required game play. This is more of the same and although the source is CCP, the reaction is the same. Nobody wants change as long as they have an advantage over everyone else.
Traffic handling at private airports rely upon a common shared radio band. If you're in a Cessna 150 doing touch and goes at your local uncontrolled airport, and someone in a King Air announces on direct approach and a 3 mile final, this is useful information that keeps you both safe. Technically the lower of the two planes on approach gets the right of way, but if someone's flying a plane that stalls near what's considered a moderate speed for your plane, you get the hell out of the way.
With the King Air's announcement you know which direction he's landing (assuming you don't already know from normal operations or cross-winds), roughly when he's going to get there, and that you need to either park yourself in the pattern* or land and get the hell out of his way.
Most people think there's air traffic control everywhere. There is not, so traffic follows a predefined pattern with customary entrance and exit protocols. If you need to stay out of the final approach for someone, you have control to do that without asking anyone else, assuming you follow the predefined rules.
I was a AT&T / Cingular customer for more than a decade... until I switched to T-Mobile and got two blackberries with data plans for what AT&T charged for one. When the T-mobile buyout happens I anticipate flipping to prepaid minutes and wireless for data, I guess, or maybe just selling my Nexus One entirely as that phone really NEEDS data to be at its best.
I bought two of them - The original G1 developer's version and the Nexus One when it was available. The Nexus One was slightly less "flash the OS' friendly in that you had to void the warranty, but one command and done.
Clearly there's a big market for decent linux-based devices. Not huge, not earth-shattering, but big. Joe Consumer doesn't really care but Joe Consumer can just buy a Droid or an Iphone and call it done... I'm talking about slashdotters here. GOOG needs to keep up the trend of releasing unlocked devices that leapfrog phones currently found on the market. Their trendsetting really helps and lets those of us who want an unlocked device an easy way to buy one.
I have found this to be pretty effective. There's one computer where I always surf as a non-admin user and the system is adobe-free. Still, if I'm really paranoid and going to known problem sites (yohoho bay), it's time to boot up linux, preferably from static media. Evince also works for 99.9999% of my PDF viewing pleasure, as you mentioned, there are plenty of alternatives.
Yeah, that's true -- senior managers get fired and everyone rejoices. There is a serious disconnect between the skills required to do the technical work and the skills required to manage and run a large corporation. Unfortunately for everyone the best senior managers are often really, really good at managing up and *maybe* across and not so great and managing anything else. In fact there seems to be a natural barrier between those who are good technically, good at managing people and relationships and those who excel at the latter two. At some point your ability to "win friends and influence enemies" becomes more important than your understanding what the hell a RAID level is and why someone's complaining that engineering has dictated all storage be on RAID-5 partitions and they want their database on RAID 10*. You're much more concerned about whether your division is going to make their budget numbers and the what next quarter's are going to be. When a manger says to me "that has to be easy" it's a classic case of management myopia - anything I don't understand must be easy. Similarly technical people often have trouble with the concept that some detail that's really, really easy for them is nearly impossible for a manager to grasp. So both view the other with a bit of contempt because they don't understand each other's world view. It's an interesting conundrum; those who understand the technology rarely make good leaders, and the senior managers often do not understand the details well enough to make an informed decision.
*Ignoring the fact that supposedly hardware acceleration has made RAID 5 write penalties moot.
I just laughed at the "we aren't anywhere near 48 cores" comment - there are already commercial products with more than 48 cores now. I mean even a crappy old T5220 pretends to have 64 CPUs due to the 8 CPU, 8 thread design.
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That's great if it works for you... my openbsd box is a firewall, asterisk pbx, squid proxy and ntp endpoint. I'm sure that would all work dandy on your macbook pro, but it seems like a waste when my friends throw away athlon machine does it just fine and doesn't dedicate an expensive laptop to the tasks.
I wish this joke was original with me... Slashdot: News for turds, Stuff that splatters. Saw it when we were last fascinated with Japanese toilets.
You guys are talking about a sliding scale for the booze, but you're missing the biggest opportunity here which is for people to pay for score inflation. And of course for other people to pay even more for transparency through the score inflation scheme. Bronze level is free and you get what you get. Silver level you get to shave 5 years and add a market adjusted 1 sigma to your income. Gold level is ten years and 2 sigmas, etc. Of course Gold level "peeper" subscriptions get to see the truth about all Silver level data hiders, and so on. Freeking goldmine. I'm calling the patent office, brb.
As long as you use key-only authentication you should be fine. I wouldn't leave password-only access open to the internet. Having said that, your best bet is to slowly stall connections in order to waste the other guy's resources. Any system with pf and probably ipf have allowances for that, along with logging and blocking the most abusive IPs altogether.
I carried a blackberry for years, both personally and corporate issued ones, and loved what they could do for me. The e-mail client and their address book are still untouched by Android. By contrast my corporate-issued ipad with Good stinks. Seriously it has the worst interface for searching e-mail I've ever seen! Not even on the level of 80's text only e-mail clients like ELM and PINE. Ugh. Blackberry needs to switch to their own Android hardware - they can make it as secure as they like and bring their own apps to the platform, while hopefully integrating the "Android way" of doing things. I loved my BB, but my first Android device which ran 1.5 (ancient by today's standards) made me realize what I was missing on the BB. Android's multitasking and automated app integration was an epiphany in user design. On my old BB if I took a picture, that was it. I took a picture. Then I switched to whatever app I wanted to use the photo with - the facebook app, the twitter app and then typically had to navigate that app's interface to share the photo. Contrast that with Android's approach of extending the camera app's "share" button with a new icon for any new application that can share photos. Blackberry's hardware security and their apps melded with Android would be an unbeatable combination. And let's face it - they could sell insecure versions in the Android app store and clean up.
If this is a Android 4.1 or newer tablet w/o the screen I'm game. There's plenty of compelling content available now, although a great deal of it is touch-screen oriented one controller is all it takes to fix that. Otherwise this will also (presumably) have a netflix client, pandora client, etc, etc. In other words it'll be a open-source google TV. Sign me up.
Oh yeah - one of those *totally* annoying things about the iPad is network based collaborative games don't work well or at all in network as an island situations. I should be able to sit on an airplane with my Google tablet and play anyone on the plane because one person's a IPV4 hub handing out local addresses, or we're taking advantage of IPv6's link local addresses. So simple, yet so much fun if we could make it happen.
I'm right there with you dude and own the developer G1 as well as the Nexus One. Technological obsolescence is annoying, but so is Google's erratic support for essential features. I want a *Google* reference phone (not carrier locked) that has a) a removable battery, b) NFC, c) removable SIM card, d) latest multicore processor, e) plenty of internal memory (2GB+) , f) forward (3MP) and rearward (8MP+) facing cameras, and g) either the processor or a second chip to handle 3d acceleration. The interesting phones all have some combination not all of those things combined, and we aren't even in to the nice to have options like an IPV6 capable stack, a chip to help with VPN encryption/decryption so heavy tunneling use doesn't burn the battery and a wifi/airplane mode combination that lets me use the handset as a SIP phone. Stop playing google phone footise with us Google - I need a mode to turn off the cell network, leave on wireless and use (if available) the carrier's internet-based call origination features, and if not at least the same for my Grandcentral/Google-voice number I've been carrying around for years.
That should read defender of *deregulation*, by the way. I'm ok with it if the striations are prevented from ownership or co-ownership by cooperative parties. I'm all for it if each layer is forced to compete and the market is efficient. I'm all against if it the competitors are simply allowed to by each other and integrate until choice is back to two or three bad choices instead of several good ones.
You have it completely wrong if you think California was any sort of example of "proper" deregulation. Power companies were required to sell their power at the same cost they always had, but were "free" to purchase power at market prices. Unfortunately for them, Enron's traders simply traded power back and forth across the California border with neighboring states until they'd soaked up capacity and created an "emergency", allowing an explosion in power prices. When I say explosion I mean up to 10x prior costs. PG & E was not allowed to pass that cost onto consumers. I'm not actually a defender of regulation but it's clear what happens when you let the interested parties write the rules. They write in loopholes and profit, too.
I certainly understand and appreciate your straw man (bad blood transfused) is so important to you that chipping everyone seems justified. Crime is an unfortunate reality which no technology can solve; not everyone can or will subscribe to John Locke's social contract. Solve that problem without technology first, because otherwise the technology is a tool like any other - most will use it for good, but not all.
Hi, paranoid science lady. Thank you for putting a friend or foe chip in every enemy soldier fighting against my glorious and righteous cause. I have adapted all my improvised incindiery devices to trigger from their presence. My soldiers can now quickly and safely sweep an area for enemy combatants with nothing more than an RFID gun. Encryption, you say? We destroy all the chips in our equipment so any response at all whether we understand it or not is enough to attack or retreat as we see fit. Of course the secret back door installed by your government was easily reverse engineered and decoded with a few million dollars invested with the right Chinese lab and their scanning-tunneling microscope. I understand your government is enjoying similar benefits now that there are no more anonymous protests, or really anonymity of any kind. You were so right! "something could happen", you said. And now that everyone is chipped it has! We've always been at war with Eurasia.
With the down economy it's unfortunate that states can't afford to call that particular bluff.
Just as a single data point counterpoint, Forth is used in openboot proms so if you were to admin any Sun gear, you'd be using Forth whether you knew it or not even today. Having said that, it's a nice skill to have, but you probably won't get a job programming in that language.
My standard developer desktop is an HP 8540W with 16GB of memory. Laptops aren't known for speedy disk i/o so it would probably take 50-100% longer, but still, these sized machines in a corp environment aren't hard to find.
Yeah I have one right now, actually. My 40+ employee ended up doing her job, the BA's job and writing code to boot.
Yow. I can see why... My parallel programming experience stretches from Haskell and Erlang today (just keeping my hand in, not paid for it) back to the ncube and Cray 1. Still, I'd have to think long and hard before taking a job as a Fortran+parallel programmer today. Sounds like being a Cobol programmer back in the y2k days: how long will it really last?
Yeah the "I'm not keeping it that long" mentality is the issue. I think the economic downtown and rising gas prices may shift consumer attitudes, though. Personally I do plan to keep my next car 10+ years, so my car *will* be a Diesel - the heavier engine blocks and components required by higher compression ratios simply last longer. The only reason I'm thinking about replacing my current car is that it's developing electrical problems - probably some part of the wiring harness has chafed and shorted, and no 15 year old car is worth the investment to fix that. Owning many used cars and now one 15 years from its purchase date, I can state drive train is only part of the puzzle. At some point door and window seals start to wear out or stiffen and crack, leather wears down and wears out, and components never designed to exceed 100,000 miles are at or beyond the end of their life -everything from belts and hoses to air conditioning components. South Texas is a particularly brutal environment for cars, so I'm sure mileage varies on that, but when the seals between door handle and door are gone and it rains 50" a year, that's a problem. Potentially much more of a problem than whether your car burns diesel or gasoline. Anecdotal evidence suggests my car only lasted as long as it did because it's German. My point is the manufacturers may want to increase quality in other areas before investing in powerplant changes, even though I myself would love to see diesel be much more popular.
Eve's economy is an interesting beast. They are one of the few companies who employ a full time PhD economist. In fact he publishes a quarterly report much like any publicly traded company does. CCP benefits from the sale of Pilot's License Extension (PLEX) using real-world cash, which are traded for in-game items. These items are sold for in-game currency and eventually exchanged with CCP for a 1 month game play extension. In other words CCP has been in the Real Money Trade (RMT) business for years. And a large part of the EVE universe make enough in-game currency each month (ISK) in order to play for "free", barring the cost of their time. Since the inception of Eve there's been a set hierarchy - the folks who have been playing the longest have the greatest advantage because item use is directly related to Skill Points (SP) invested and player skill. Obviously nobody can purchase skill, but neither could anyone purchase SP to gain an advantage, or more importantly to close the advantage gap with older players. RMT for better ships or SP would change all that. Because the sale of characters is allowed there is a secondary market and many players depend on "baking" a kind of character for many months and selling it for in-game currency as well. RMT for SP would also impact this market. Just as the "old guard" have no interest in CCP allowing the re-release of unique and limited supply items, neither do they wish for the introduction of any other mechanisms that could close economic or skill gaps. This is one of the reasons Goonswarm was so very reviled with their entry into the EVE universe - they tried to play nice and were ignored or mocked by older players, so the Goons invented tactics to counter the older player's play style, resulting in a huge upset in the balance of power and required game play. This is more of the same and although the source is CCP, the reaction is the same. Nobody wants change as long as they have an advantage over everyone else.
Traffic handling at private airports rely upon a common shared radio band. If you're in a Cessna 150 doing touch and goes at your local uncontrolled airport, and someone in a King Air announces on direct approach and a 3 mile final, this is useful information that keeps you both safe. Technically the lower of the two planes on approach gets the right of way, but if someone's flying a plane that stalls near what's considered a moderate speed for your plane, you get the hell out of the way.
With the King Air's announcement you know which direction he's landing (assuming you don't already know from normal operations or cross-winds), roughly when he's going to get there, and that you need to either park yourself in the pattern* or land and get the hell out of his way.
Most people think there's air traffic control everywhere. There is not, so traffic follows a predefined pattern with customary entrance and exit protocols. If you need to stay out of the final approach for someone, you have control to do that without asking anyone else, assuming you follow the predefined rules.
I was a AT&T / Cingular customer for more than a decade... until I switched to T-Mobile and got two blackberries with data plans for what AT&T charged for one. When the T-mobile buyout happens I anticipate flipping to prepaid minutes and wireless for data, I guess, or maybe just selling my Nexus One entirely as that phone really NEEDS data to be at its best.
Oh well.
I bought two of them - The original G1 developer's version and the Nexus One when it was available. The Nexus One was slightly less "flash the OS' friendly in that you had to void the warranty, but one command and done.
Clearly there's a big market for decent linux-based devices. Not huge, not earth-shattering, but big. Joe Consumer doesn't really care but Joe Consumer can just buy a Droid or an Iphone and call it done... I'm talking about slashdotters here. GOOG needs to keep up the trend of releasing unlocked devices that leapfrog phones currently found on the market. Their trendsetting really helps and lets those of us who want an unlocked device an easy way to buy one.
I have found this to be pretty effective. There's one computer where I always surf as a non-admin user and the system is adobe-free. Still, if I'm really paranoid and going to known problem sites (yohoho bay), it's time to boot up linux, preferably from static media. Evince also works for 99.9999% of my PDF viewing pleasure, as you mentioned, there are plenty of alternatives.
Yeah, that's true -- senior managers get fired and everyone rejoices. There is a serious disconnect between the skills required to do the technical work and the skills required to manage and run a large corporation. Unfortunately for everyone the best senior managers are often really, really good at managing up and *maybe* across and not so great and managing anything else. In fact there seems to be a natural barrier between those who are good technically, good at managing people and relationships and those who excel at the latter two. At some point your ability to "win friends and influence enemies" becomes more important than your understanding what the hell a RAID level is and why someone's complaining that engineering has dictated all storage be on RAID-5 partitions and they want their database on RAID 10*. You're much more concerned about whether your division is going to make their budget numbers and the what next quarter's are going to be. When a manger says to me "that has to be easy" it's a classic case of management myopia - anything I don't understand must be easy. Similarly technical people often have trouble with the concept that some detail that's really, really easy for them is nearly impossible for a manager to grasp. So both view the other with a bit of contempt because they don't understand each other's world view. It's an interesting conundrum; those who understand the technology rarely make good leaders, and the senior managers often do not understand the details well enough to make an informed decision.
*Ignoring the fact that supposedly hardware acceleration has made RAID 5 write penalties moot.
I just laughed at the "we aren't anywhere near 48 cores" comment - there are already commercial products with more than 48 cores now. I mean even a crappy old T5220 pretends to have 64 CPUs due to the 8 CPU, 8 thread design.