I'm not sure why everyone's panties are getting bunched up. As the header states, Federal law already requires you to carry your visa around with you. People on H1B, tourist, and educational visas shouldn't have problems.
The issue will really hit illegals and US citizens. Citizens generally don't carry documentation around with them. Illegals generally have no documentation, or fake documentation. There's really no way to tell a non-english speaking citizen from a non-english speaking illegal. What'll probably happen is something like this:
Police: are you a US citizen? Potential perp: si Police: well then.
In general, the police have better things to do than walk around randomly asking people for their papers. The law really just allows them to export illegal immigrant criminals to other jurisdictions, saving the state of AZ money.
Extrinsic motivators are good for at least 80-85% of the people on the planet.
How many people would actually work if they weren't paid and were able to survive at a mostly decent level of comfort? The intrinsically motivated don't care about external motivation, so concentrating on that it pointless. The problem is those that don't, not those that do.
* xiph sent letters and got no responses. They interpret the lack of response to mean a lack of violation. The real world doesn't work that way. Lawyers are deployed strategically, and it may not be in the patent holder's interest to respond to a letter.
* MPEG-LA's credibility is low, because they license patents. However, you could just as easily say that theora's credibility is just as low, because they have just as much incentive to denigrate the claims of the MPEG-LA.
* why the reference to Apple? It's like a gratuitous call-out to apple h8trs. The MPEG-LA is more than Apple. Is Apple really the new M$?
The validity of patents are determined in the courts. You can send all the letters you want, but it's in the courtroom where the rubber meets the road. Your belief, or lack of belief, has no bearing on the validity or lack of validity of a patent.
Actually, it's not as straight-forward as you think. There are a few people who have successfully asserted rights to their blood chemistry, etc. The NYT did an article on it a while back, which I can't find.
The medical profession doesn't like this, because it complicates their finances. Your line is what they tell the public, because it benefits the medical community.
Your blood chemistry, etc is your property, if you want it to be.
My population model shows that in 100 years, 98% of everyone on earth right now will be dead. Obviously, we need to stop all human activity before this event!
If you have external access at your offices, leave everything as-is. Image everything, and use Amazon as a backup machine. Simple, low-cost, and basically on-demand.
More info about the setup would be good, but if everything's been running, don't touch it - back it up.
Not sure why virtualization made it into the potential snake-oil of the future. It's demonstrating real benefits today...practically all of the companies I deal with have virtualized big chunks of their infrastructure.
I'd vote for cloud computing, previously known as utility computing. It's a lot more work than expected to offload processing outside your organization.
1. the US is much bigger than Europe, with multiple overlapping jurisdictions. It's easy to cover any of the European countries, because they're small and there wasn't a technology transition.
2. there isn't as much rural subsidy for cellphones. Universal service was for landlines, mainly.
3. the problem is cost vs coverage. You can build out rural areas, but you make less money because there are less people. For urban areas, you start running into interference problems. Plus, you have to constantly build out your infrastructure (see AT&T's infrastructure problems).
Europe has it easy. It's not evil corporations (which, to be frank, is a retarded and simplistic view of how things work) - it's pure cost/benefit.
Example:
France: 211,207 square miles Texas: 268,601 square miles US: 3,537,441 square miles
If AT&T only had to operate in Texas, it would be able to do pretty well. AT&T's footprint is national, however. Do you develop Texas completely, or do you cover Michigan and Texas? How about extending to Missouri? etc etc.
Then that's current coverage; what about LTE? How about maintaining that infrastructure?
This sort of scheme already fits with how Apple has trained everyone. iTunes videos are authorized on up to 5 machines, all of which are supposed to be in your immediate control. The Apple TV and your iPhone/iPod don't count as devices, because they're somewhat locked down. Only computers need authorization. Devices are auto-synced, and by default are considered trusted devices.
Expand this to your tablet mac/media pad, throw in the content delivery people, and suddenly you have a DRM ecosystem that works. Loose DRM that's traceable back to you if you want to work at it, just like real DVDs. Just like it's difficult to watch 5 copies of a DVD at once, you won't be able to watch more than 5 copies on an untrusted device (or something like that).
It's fairplay for content. Maybe verisign, etc will sign on as key management providers?
From what I've heard from the nuke guys, the nuclear weapons industry is full of the highly religious. They feel that their religion makes them more careful and conscientious about their work, and I'd agree.
If you believe in that stuff, all of us are doing god's work (whether the g is upper or lower case), and that the extra precision and code tightness that you'd learn in the gambling industry would benefit everyone.
It's you, not the religious, that has the problem. I'm not very religious myself, but they are for the most part better developers than the non-religious in many ways. They definitely are more open-minded.
As you've discovered, the free systems will fall over and die once they're past a certain size. I've worked with Tivoli customers that have tens of thousands of servers, and for all of its problems, Tivoli is scalable.
They way they do it is, obviously, divide and conquer. There are specific ways that they do it. I'm mixing up the architecture and terminology on purpose, because the Tivoli terminology will confuse you.
* there are agents on every box that do the monitoring * they report to a region * those regions report to a top-level region
That doesn't mean that you can't have a poll engine somewhere, poking machines. What it means is that if you do have a poll engine, it manages a specific number of machines and reports results upwards if necessary.
Tivoli has a bunch of other stuff that makes things like this easier, like profile-based management and lightweight (relatively) endpoints. You can simulate that using a centralized source control system that everything pulls from - configuration of monitoring, etc comes from those config files, and every your agents pull their configs depending on criteria, like their hostname, ip, or by looking in some file for what they're supposed to get. This also becomes your shared filesystem of sorts, because you can pull monitoring binaries from them as well as config files.
Management of alerts is always a problem. Having worked on an EMS I can tell you that all the free ones suck, so it doesn't matter which one you pick. Spend some money and buy the BMC Event Manager.
Besides that, avoid UDP - it fails when you need it the most. And don't do management by exception - it's for lazy admins. Instead, do some kind of thresholding on your stuff, so you can tell before it fails. MBE gets you there 5 minutes before your users call. Real monitoring allows you to ignore the problem for weeks, or at least blame someone else for not acting when the systems finally do fail.
Yeah, but for 99% of the people on earth, the intrinsic motivation of their day job is somewhere near 0%. So get them used to that now, when they're kids.
"The previous imperialist model of exploitation of our natural resources will never be repeated in Bolivia"
No, instead we will us the new model of exploitation perfected in Latin America: corporate officials will skim 80% of the revenues and buy condos in Miami and Buenos Aires. Si muy bueno!
Actually, it sounds like you don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch.
To uninstall an app on the device, you hold down icons until they get wiggly, then you touch the 'x'. The OS asks you two questions:
* do you really want to remove the app, and * do you want to rate it
It's unobtrusive. Really.
This is a prime example of why direct experience trumps mental models/thought experiments. In real life, it's not a big deal. In the abstract world, it sounds like an unbelievably unwieldy thing. UI designers (and armchair quarterbacks) take note.
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I'm not sure why everyone's panties are getting bunched up. As the header states, Federal law already requires you to carry your visa around with you. People on H1B, tourist, and educational visas shouldn't have problems.
The issue will really hit illegals and US citizens. Citizens generally don't carry documentation around with them. Illegals generally have no documentation, or fake documentation. There's really no way to tell a non-english speaking citizen from a non-english speaking illegal. What'll probably happen is something like this:
Police: are you a US citizen?
Potential perp: si
Police: well then.
In general, the police have better things to do than walk around randomly asking people for their papers. The law really just allows them to export illegal immigrant criminals to other jurisdictions, saving the state of AZ money.
Extrinsic motivators are good for at least 80-85% of the people on the planet.
How many people would actually work if they weren't paid and were able to survive at a mostly decent level of comfort? The intrinsically motivated don't care about external motivation, so concentrating on that it pointless. The problem is those that don't, not those that do.
Heck, I'd buy Mame for the iPad.
Off with your heads, you environmentally insensitive clods!
There are key facts that pop out in the article:
* xiph sent letters and got no responses. They interpret the lack of response to mean a lack of violation. The real world doesn't work that way. Lawyers are deployed strategically, and it may not be in the patent holder's interest to respond to a letter.
* MPEG-LA's credibility is low, because they license patents. However, you could just as easily say that theora's credibility is just as low, because they have just as much incentive to denigrate the claims of the MPEG-LA.
* why the reference to Apple? It's like a gratuitous call-out to apple h8trs. The MPEG-LA is more than Apple. Is Apple really the new M$?
The validity of patents are determined in the courts. You can send all the letters you want, but it's in the courtroom where the rubber meets the road. Your belief, or lack of belief, has no bearing on the validity or lack of validity of a patent.
Actually, it's not as straight-forward as you think. There are a few people who have successfully asserted rights to their blood chemistry, etc. The NYT did an article on it a while back, which I can't find.
The medical profession doesn't like this, because it complicates their finances. Your line is what they tell the public, because it benefits the medical community.
Your blood chemistry, etc is your property, if you want it to be.
Digeo worked on Charter's network along with the Moto boxes. Of course, they were bought by Arris a few months ago, but still.
As I've explained many times at work, code is not documentation.
Code only tells you what it does. It doesn't say why it was done that way...and the "why is it doing this" is really almost always the problem.
The above comment shows a complete lack of understanding of how "Science" fits into reality.
Science: eating fatty food is bad for you
Public: f*ck off
Science: oh, some fatty foods are good
Public: f*ck off
Science: oh, some fatty foods are bad, some are good, depending on you
Public: f*ck off
My population model shows that in 100 years, 98% of everyone on earth right now will be dead. Obviously, we need to stop all human activity before this event!
If you have external access at your offices, leave everything as-is. Image everything, and use Amazon as a backup machine. Simple, low-cost, and basically on-demand.
More info about the setup would be good, but if everything's been running, don't touch it - back it up.
Not sure why virtualization made it into the potential snake-oil of the future. It's demonstrating real benefits today...practically all of the companies I deal with have virtualized big chunks of their infrastructure.
I'd vote for cloud computing, previously known as utility computing. It's a lot more work than expected to offload processing outside your organization.
1. the US is much bigger than Europe, with multiple overlapping jurisdictions. It's easy to cover any of the European countries, because they're small and there wasn't a technology transition.
2. there isn't as much rural subsidy for cellphones. Universal service was for landlines, mainly.
3. the problem is cost vs coverage. You can build out rural areas, but you make less money because there are less people. For urban areas, you start running into interference problems. Plus, you have to constantly build out your infrastructure (see AT&T's infrastructure problems).
Europe has it easy. It's not evil corporations (which, to be frank, is a retarded and simplistic view of how things work) - it's pure cost/benefit.
Example:
France: 211,207 square miles
Texas: 268,601 square miles
US: 3,537,441 square miles
If AT&T only had to operate in Texas, it would be able to do pretty well. AT&T's footprint is national, however. Do you develop Texas completely, or do you cover Michigan and Texas? How about extending to Missouri? etc etc.
Then that's current coverage; what about LTE? How about maintaining that infrastructure?
This sort of scheme already fits with how Apple has trained everyone. iTunes videos are authorized on up to 5 machines, all of which are supposed to be in your immediate control. The Apple TV and your iPhone/iPod don't count as devices, because they're somewhat locked down. Only computers need authorization. Devices are auto-synced, and by default are considered trusted devices.
Expand this to your tablet mac/media pad, throw in the content delivery people, and suddenly you have a DRM ecosystem that works. Loose DRM that's traceable back to you if you want to work at it, just like real DVDs. Just like it's difficult to watch 5 copies of a DVD at once, you won't be able to watch more than 5 copies on an untrusted device (or something like that).
It's fairplay for content. Maybe verisign, etc will sign on as key management providers?
LMCO and Microsoft: here's your protocol (hands them a copy of the ipv6 std doc).
US: thanks, that's great work! Here's your check.
From what I've heard from the nuke guys, the nuclear weapons industry is full of the highly religious. They feel that their religion makes them more careful and conscientious about their work, and I'd agree.
If you believe in that stuff, all of us are doing god's work (whether the g is upper or lower case), and that the extra precision and code tightness that you'd learn in the gambling industry would benefit everyone.
It's you, not the religious, that has the problem. I'm not very religious myself, but they are for the most part better developers than the non-religious in many ways. They definitely are more open-minded.
Those damn environmentalists were right!
As you've discovered, the free systems will fall over and die once they're past a certain size. I've worked with Tivoli customers that have tens of thousands of servers, and for all of its problems, Tivoli is scalable.
They way they do it is, obviously, divide and conquer. There are specific ways that they do it. I'm mixing up the architecture and terminology on purpose, because the Tivoli terminology will confuse you.
* there are agents on every box that do the monitoring
* they report to a region
* those regions report to a top-level region
That doesn't mean that you can't have a poll engine somewhere, poking machines. What it means is that if you do have a poll engine, it manages a specific number of machines and reports results upwards if necessary.
Tivoli has a bunch of other stuff that makes things like this easier, like profile-based management and lightweight (relatively) endpoints. You can simulate that using a centralized source control system that everything pulls from - configuration of monitoring, etc comes from those config files, and every your agents pull their configs depending on criteria, like their hostname, ip, or by looking in some file for what they're supposed to get. This also becomes your shared filesystem of sorts, because you can pull monitoring binaries from them as well as config files.
Management of alerts is always a problem. Having worked on an EMS I can tell you that all the free ones suck, so it doesn't matter which one you pick. Spend some money and buy the BMC Event Manager.
Besides that, avoid UDP - it fails when you need it the most. And don't do management by exception - it's for lazy admins. Instead, do some kind of thresholding on your stuff, so you can tell before it fails. MBE gets you there 5 minutes before your users call. Real monitoring allows you to ignore the problem for weeks, or at least blame someone else for not acting when the systems finally do fail.
"I want any drive and its data to be as safe and portable as possible [...] even if the OS or the controller screw up big time."
If the controller screws up and writes crap to your raid, your data is dead. Not sure if your expectations are realistic.
Try a drobo instead.
It's this mentality of urban fear that shows how screwed up US cities really are.
Yeah, but for 99% of the people on earth, the intrinsic motivation of their day job is somewhere near 0%. So get them used to that now, when they're kids.
Hi Blowhard66,
What happens when your kid says "I'm on the wrong bus" and the driver/proctor/whatever says "no you're not, sit there."
In 99.99% of the cases, the child will sit there on the wrong bus.
You have a grasp of childhood cognition that isn't so great.
Wasn't this a Sci-Fi movie staple back in the 80s? They used it for body and object scanning, not books...but still.
"The previous imperialist model of exploitation of our natural resources will never be repeated in Bolivia"
No, instead we will us the new model of exploitation perfected in Latin America: corporate officials will skim 80% of the revenues and buy condos in Miami and Buenos Aires. Si muy bueno!
Actually, it sounds like you don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch.
To uninstall an app on the device, you hold down icons until they get wiggly, then you touch the 'x'. The OS asks you two questions:
* do you really want to remove the app, and
* do you want to rate it
It's unobtrusive. Really.
This is a prime example of why direct experience trumps mental models/thought experiments. In real life, it's not a big deal. In the abstract world, it sounds like an unbelievably unwieldy thing. UI designers (and armchair quarterbacks) take note.