> The fact is before the event started, Bush was told that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Bush, not 6 weeks earlier had been given a briefing called "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States".
To me, this whole argument about the briefing is just silly. How many briefings a year do you supposes an American president gets in which he is warned about some group, somewhere, planning something? I'm willing to bet it's a pretty darn big number. If all our gevernment did was run around trying to prepare a response for every wisper of intelligence we recieved about a possible attack, that would be the only thing it did.
Here at Georgia Tech the CMPE program is part of the school of Electrical Engineering, and deals more with the hardware side of computing, where the CS dapartment is it's own school which focuses more on the software side.
So what if all the commercial software companies go to a subscription model? If consumers don't like it, they will look for alternatives and they will find piles of open source applications. This could be a very good thing for open source...
There is a direct corolation between the people who "have" and "have not" got computers are the same people who "have" and "have not" got jobs.
It's not our governments job to provide anyone in this country with anything. Show me where it says in the constitution that people are entitled to a handout from the federal government.
The fundamental flaw in the logic of this oft repeated argument is that this argument makes the (very silly) assumption that you can effectively take away ALL guns from ALL people by making them illegal to own.
Making DRUGS illegal to posses certainly hasen't rid the US of drugs, so why do you people think it's going to work with guns?
The simple fact is that CRIMINALS will, because they are CRIMINALS, simply ignore the laws which say you can't carry a gun! They WILL find ways to get them, just like people find ways to get drugs.
There is a saying you may or may not have heard before that sums it up well: "Criminalize guns, and only criminals will have guns".
It seems to me, that what gun control advocates are really advocating is that all non-violent, non-criminals give up our guns and put ourselves at the mercy of the CRIMINALS who are going to have them ANYWAY whether they are illegal or not.
My project team is writing an entire Open Source Web based Groupware suite, which can be found here: www.eridu.org. We are in a QA code freeze and will be doing our first release this friday.
I would be VERY happy to see an open source calendar server that actually complied to some real standards. Calendaring has been the hardest thing for us to handle since there are currently no real open standards or servers out there.
First of all, the poster's interpretation of what this clause means is incorrect and what the term "VPN" means is incorrect. VPN is a way of securely connecting two networks over an insecure network and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with IP Masquerading / NAT.
Still the interesting question is, what would they have against VPN tunnels... I use them all the time to create encrypted links to the servers I administer... hmm... what would a huge ISP have against encrypted VPN links.. encrypted...
Could it be that encrypted tunnels would prevent them fromm sniffing your packets and thus participating in echelon or court ordered wiretaps? Nahh.....
This is a subject near and dear to my heart so here are all the details I have uncovered while researching this subject my self:
It all revoles around the calendaring problem. We have POP/IMAP for e-mail, LDAP for contacts/address book, but no calendar server! Why not? Because there is no internet standard protocol for calendering... YET. The IETF's calendaring and scheduling working group has invented such a protocol and named it CAP (calendar access protocol). CAP is currently in draft phase and thus no server implementations have been written yet. Once CAP is finished you could see several interesting possible situations develop...
Say you are required to run windows and Outlook on the desktop, but have linux in the server room. Someone could reverse engineer the Outlook+Exchange protocol and create a linux based Exchange to IMAP/LDAP/CAP translating gateway. You would point outlook at a computer running this translator daemon and it would think it was talking to an exchange server, but really the outlook+exchange protocol commands would be translated into the appropriate IMAP/LDAP/CAP commands and passed along. No more having to run exchange server!
I am currently the lead developer for project Eridu which is aiming to create a web based clone of outlook that provides all the functionality of outlook+exchange but using internet standard servers. We are forced to use SQL for the calendar server portion for now, but as soon as the first CAP server becomes available we will use that.
I also think that as soon as CAP servers become available, you will see KDE and Gnome's e-mail client support it and all the propriatary methods they are using now will go away.
They didn't ask what Harry Browne thinks, but I bet I can guess. How are most slashdot readers planing to vote? Almost every geek I know is a libertarian, though many don't realize it..
This encourages me to begin a project that was partially inspired by Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and partially by "Cryptonomicon".
The idea is for a "CryptNet" Here is the idea...
Anyone who has a Net connected computer with some space and wants to be part of the network sets up a cryptnet server daemon and allocates some disk space to it. The space allocated is encrypted and the site admin has NO direct access to the data stored there. He has no control over or access to the contents. All these servers are linked together to form what ammounts to a big distributed file system that anyone can store data in. (Or maybe instead of opening it to the public completely, you can only store as much data as the space you donate to crypt net?) Several "Gateway" servers are set up to display what is IN the "filesystem". The "gateway" would act as a sort of proxy server to the gateway, so that the actual physical location of the data is unknown (or maybe we can avoid going through the directory server if the packet source can be anonymized some other way). Suddenly, physical location of the data is no longer an issue. The only problem I see is if a node goes down, suddenly that data in unavailable, but this can be avoided by only allowing responsible admins to join the network, not just anyone (similar to IRC?) or making sure each byte of data is stored in two or more locations. Anyway.. thats the general idea, and thats all it is. Anyone interested in helping start a project like this?
This encourages me to begin a project that was partially inspired by Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and partially by "Cryptonomicon".
The idea is for a "CryptNet" Here is the idea... Anyone who has a Net connected computer with some space and wants to be part of the network sets up a cryptnet server daemon and allocates some disk space to it. The space allocated is encrypted and the site admin has NO direct access to the data stored there. He has no control over or access to the contents. All these servers are linked together to form what ammounts to a big distributed file system that anyone can store data in. (Or maybe instead of opening it to the public completely, you can only store as much data as the space you donate to crypt net?) Several "Gateway" servers are set up to display what is IN the "filesystem". The "gateway" would act as a sort of proxy server to the gateway, so that the actual physical location of the data is unknown (or maybe we can avoid going through the directory server if the packet source can be anonymized some other way). Suddenly, physical location of the data is no longer an issue. The only problem I see is if a node goes down, suddenly that data in unavailable, but this can be avoided by only allowing responsible admins to join the network, not just anyone (similar to IRC?) or making sure each byte of data is stored in two or more locations. Anyway.. thats the general idea, and thats all it is. Anyone interested in helping start a project like this?
About 2-3 months ago I wrote IBM a letter asking them to port via voice to linux, sighting a need for good voice recognition software for linux. I want to be able to voice control the linux powered PC in my car:)
Though it's probably not likely my e-mail had any effect on this decision, it's kind cool to think it might have.
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> The fact is before the event started, Bush was told that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Bush, not 6 weeks earlier had been given a briefing called "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States".
To me, this whole argument about the briefing is just silly. How many briefings a year do you supposes an American president gets in which he is warned about some group, somewhere, planning something? I'm willing to bet it's a pretty darn big number. If all our gevernment did was run around trying to prepare a response for every wisper of intelligence we recieved about a possible attack, that would be the only thing it did.
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We don't have high school health teachers handing out guns, or otherwise promoting their use.
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Guess i'll just have to use a different distribution... oh wait.. I already DO use a different distribution...
Seriously though.. IS there anyone who uses Caldera Linux?
Here at Georgia Tech the CMPE program is part of the school of Electrical Engineering, and deals more with the hardware side of computing, where the CS dapartment is it's own school which focuses more on the software side.
So what if all the commercial software companies go to a subscription model? If consumers don't like it, they will look for alternatives and they will find piles of open source applications. This could be a very good thing for open source...
For 2-3 yeare the Georgia Tech Residential Network has been run by student voulenteers.
There is a direct corolation between the people who "have" and "have not" got computers are the same people who "have" and "have not" got jobs.
It's not our governments job to provide anyone in this country with anything. Show me where it says in the constitution that people are entitled to a handout from the federal government.
The fundamental flaw in the logic of this oft repeated argument is that this argument makes the (very silly) assumption that you can effectively take away ALL guns from ALL people by making them illegal to own.
Making DRUGS illegal to posses certainly hasen't rid the US of drugs, so why do you people think it's going to work with guns?
The simple fact is that CRIMINALS will, because they are CRIMINALS, simply ignore the laws which say you can't carry a gun! They WILL find ways to get them, just like people find ways to get drugs.
There is a saying you may or may not have heard before that sums it up well: "Criminalize guns, and only criminals will have guns".
It seems to me, that what gun control advocates are really advocating is that all non-violent, non-criminals give up our guns and put ourselves at the mercy of the CRIMINALS who are going to have them ANYWAY whether they are illegal or not.
NO THANKS!
You can find some stuff here:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2001/cs3210_
My project team is writing an entire Open Source Web based Groupware suite, which can be found here: www.eridu.org. We are in a QA code freeze and will be doing our first release this friday.
I would be VERY happy to see an open source calendar server that actually complied to some real standards. Calendaring has been the hardest thing for us to handle since there are currently no real open standards or servers out there.
First of all, the poster's interpretation of what this clause means is incorrect and what the term "VPN" means is incorrect. VPN is a way of securely connecting two networks over an insecure network and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with IP Masquerading / NAT.
Still the interesting question is, what would they have against VPN tunnels... I use them all the time to create encrypted links to the servers I administer... hmm... what would a huge ISP have against encrypted VPN links.. encrypted...
Could it be that encrypted tunnels would prevent them fromm sniffing your packets and thus participating in echelon or court ordered wiretaps? Nahh.....
This is a subject near and dear to my heart so here are all the details I have uncovered while researching this subject my self:
It all revoles around the calendaring problem. We have POP/IMAP for e-mail, LDAP for contacts/address book, but no calendar server! Why not? Because there is no internet standard protocol for calendering... YET. The IETF's calendaring and scheduling working group has invented such a protocol and named it CAP (calendar access protocol). CAP is currently in draft phase and thus no server implementations have been written yet. Once CAP is finished you could see several interesting possible situations develop...
Say you are required to run windows and Outlook on the desktop, but have linux in the server room. Someone could reverse engineer the Outlook+Exchange protocol and create a linux based Exchange to IMAP/LDAP/CAP translating gateway. You would point outlook at a computer running this translator daemon and it would think it was talking to an exchange server, but really the outlook+exchange protocol commands would be translated into the appropriate IMAP/LDAP/CAP commands and passed along. No more having to run exchange server!
I am currently the lead developer for project Eridu which is aiming to create a web based clone of outlook that provides all the functionality of outlook+exchange but using internet standard servers. We are forced to use SQL for the calendar server portion for now, but as soon as the first CAP server becomes available we will use that.
I also think that as soon as CAP servers become available, you will see KDE and Gnome's e-mail client support it and all the propriatary methods they are using now will go away.
I'de really like to see that. How do we get Rob to ask? :)
Correct! We should treat all taxes the same.. by eliminating them all! And NOT taxing the internet is a good way to start.
They didn't ask what Harry Browne thinks, but I bet I can guess. How are most slashdot readers planing to vote? Almost every geek I know is a libertarian, though many don't realize it..
Libertarian.org
Harry Browne for President!
How about Windows POWERED?!?
HEY MICROSOFT! CHANGING THE NAME OF A PRODUCT DOSEN"T MAKE IT SUCK LESS!
3COM has an x86 implementation of IEEE 802.11 called AirConnect
This encourages me to begin a project that was partially inspired by Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and partially by "Cryptonomicon".
The idea is for a "CryptNet" Here is the idea...
Anyone who has a Net connected computer with some space and wants to be part of the network sets up a cryptnet server daemon and allocates some disk space to it. The space allocated is encrypted and the site admin has NO direct access to the data stored there. He has no control over or access to the contents. All these servers are linked together to form what ammounts to a big distributed file system that anyone can store data in. (Or maybe instead of opening it to the public completely, you can only store as much data as the space you donate to crypt net?) Several "Gateway" servers are set up to display what is IN the "filesystem". The "gateway" would act as a sort of proxy server to the gateway, so that the actual physical location of the data is unknown (or maybe we can avoid going through the directory server if the packet source can be anonymized some other way). Suddenly, physical location of the data is no longer an issue. The only problem I see is if a node goes down, suddenly that data in unavailable, but this can be avoided by only allowing responsible admins to join the network, not just anyone (similar to IRC?) or making sure each byte of data is stored in two or more locations. Anyway.. thats the general idea, and thats all it is. Anyone interested in helping start a project like this?
This encourages me to begin a project that was partially inspired by Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and partially by "Cryptonomicon".
The idea is for a "CryptNet" Here is the idea...
Anyone who has a Net connected computer with some space and wants to be part of the network sets up a cryptnet server daemon and allocates some disk space to it. The space allocated is encrypted and the site admin has NO direct access to the data stored there. He has no control over or access to the contents. All these servers are linked together to form what ammounts to a big distributed file system that anyone can store data in. (Or maybe instead of opening it to the public completely, you can only store as much data as the space you donate to crypt net?) Several "Gateway" servers are set up to display what is IN the "filesystem". The "gateway" would act as a sort of proxy server to the gateway, so that the actual physical location of the data is unknown (or maybe we can avoid going through the directory server if the packet source can be anonymized some other way). Suddenly, physical location of the data is no longer an issue. The only problem I see is if a node goes down, suddenly that data in unavailable, but this can be avoided by only allowing responsible admins to join the network, not just anyone (similar to IRC?) or making sure each byte of data is stored in two or more locations. Anyway.. thats the general idea, and thats all it is. Anyone interested in helping start a project like this?
About 2-3 months ago I wrote IBM a letter asking them to port via voice to linux, sighting a need for good voice recognition software for linux. I want to be able to voice control the linux powered PC in my car :)
Though it's probably not likely my e-mail had any effect on this decision, it's kind cool to think it might have.