Do you want to move toward a world of peer-based routing and even a pure peer-based internet, with awesome redundancy and with no such thing as an ISP?
Are you are of your ever loving mind? Please pick up a book on BGP, OSPF, RIP or preferably routing protocols in general then rethink your rhetorical questions.
Exactly how do I get pure-peer connections across oceans? Ever heard of the term "packet storm"?
After that, take a basic course in physics and then try and explain how "wireless" will ever approach the bandwidth capabilities of fiber-optics.
It is not about "smart vs dumb", it is about convenience and wanting/not wanting to deal with a task someone doesn't find interesting.
Almost, but not quite. It is about not wanting to/not being ABLE to deal with a task... The difference lies in that KDE *CAN* and often is slicked back and all the extras removed for a "one choice" interface. If KDE's main desktop is too complex, then spend the 15 minutes and clean it up to your liking. If Gnome's is too simple, in many cases you are SOL because something was REMOVED and not just HIDDEN.
With KDE, you can. With Gnome, you don't want to. Honest. This is not the feature you are looking for./me waves hand immitating Jedi mind trick
This has nothing to do with KDE or Gnome and everything to do with the distro that packaged it that way.
15 minutes in KMenuEdit should solve your issues. Please don't tell me "I shouldn't have to do that". If Gnome's menu structure is 100% the way you like it then either something is wrong with you or you're the developer who decides what goes in that menu. I've never met a default menu that was 100% perfect fit for me out of the box and wanted to customize ALL of them, even if it is just a little tweak.
Once I thought the way you did. Then I actually looked at my system and changed my mind.
First step was to remove the kdetoys and kdegames packages. I never use any of that stuff, so away it goes. Then, noticing that I had 50 Gb of free space on my main drive and removing the "fluff" would have freed up about 300 Mb, I no longer cared. Hell, my computer is over 5 years old (dual P3-750 MHz, w/on board SCSI and IDE) and humming along fine. I do have a separate drive to store my ripped movies and music, but as far as the rest goes -- I'll never run out of space.
So, 15 minutes spent editing the K Menu to hide all of the other crap I never use, and then another 15 minutes double-checking all the MIME type references solved my problem. No more kaboodle, noatun, kwrite, or two dozen other items I never use.
There are half-a-dozen icons in the panel for things I use frequently: Firefox, Konqueror (Home), Kopete, Amarok, Kaffeine, and a sub-panel for games which as Neverwinter Nights, Doom 3, FreeCiv, Quake 3 and America's Army.
Since none of those extras consume RAM or CPU my fanaticism about "lean and mean" evaporated when I found the smallest hard drive I could buy was 40 Gb and that is almost IMPOSSIBLE to fill up if you EXCLUDE video & music clips.
If you really, really want to make them go away and not be on your hard drive, then use Konstruct and build your own version sans all the "cruft".
Well, with I, Robot I didn't have a big problem. Hell, I was looking at it like "Converse? Wow, they are digging. People who've read Asimov's works would remember those from 20 years ago. Buy them now? No."
Hey, a Chicago cop that makes enough to drive a Mercedes? And he isn't on the take? Right...
Also, "US Robotics" now THAT is funny. Are they still in business? Similar to the placement SGI had in "Lost In Space" -- is SGI still in business? Wow!
The product placements I can't stand are that every computer shown on TV is a Dell if it is a server and a Mac if it is a desktop. A Mac with a C: prompt, none-the-less. I've seen more Macs on TV than I have in real life, outside of an Apple store. Ugh!
If you have an infinite amount of random data, every pattern will be in there somewhere. At least, that's what I was led to believe.
Yes, but only if you look at smaller segments, which changes your dataset. For example, if you spot the first 30 digits of Pi in an infinitely random set, the question becomes is your random set Pi? If not, the pattern only applies to those 30 digits and thus your set changes and is no longer the infinite set of random data.
And they aren't dealing with an "infinite" set, but a smaller subset. Thus, the odds of finding the collective works of Shakespeare is significantly smaller.
Imagine a dial up user in India with your server sitting in the United States. The request is going to have to travel to the other side of the world and back with the slow speeds of dial-up.
Ummmm...no, it is not. UUCP is deader, thank God. It is going to travel from the dial-up users computer to his local ISP at the slow speed. After that, it gets routed on the rest of the Internet. Last I checked, that isn't using dial-up connections. The last link is going to be back to the user at dial-up speeds but everything in-between depends on the normal medium-to-high speed network.
Second point, not everyone has a global audience and has to worry about round-the-world latencies. I've done work for several financial institutions. They're heavily regulated and licensed to do business in limited geographic areas. Because of that 95%+ of their traffic originates and terminates inside that geographic area.
Even if you do have to worry about a decent percentage of dial-up users, there is nothing to stop you from dynamically turning on and off features based off of the detected connection speed of the client. Worst case, have "low bandwith" and "high bandwith" links.
I'm not the first person to have this idea, but this brings up the question: do we need to define a new tier e.g. something like a presentation services tier?
You mean like the Presentation Layer of the OSI model? The one below Application (second from the top)?
I placed a local classified ad (print newspaper in rural Idaho) to sell a puppy a couple weeks back. It included my e-mail address if anyone wanted pictures.
One response I received was one in broken English asking for pictures and if the price was firm. I responded with photos and the price. The next response was 4 paragraphs of an overdraft money order scam, telling me they'd arrange for someone to pick up the dog, but to wire the excess funds back to an account in London, etc.
I was sort of impressed, considering how targeted the scam was.
Correct. I should have specified. If you're encrypting the ENTIRE database, then indexes become meaningless. If you're talking about just encrypting a column or two it becomes feasable.
I work on a daily basis with databases that average 50-60 Gb in size. Not using indexes is not an option. Basic queries go from seconds to hours.
The problem still remains, that SOMETHING needs to be able to read the data. That something then needs the decrypt key. If that something is then compromised, encryption is meaningless. For example, if Program X reads encrypted data as part of its job, and someone buffer-overflows Program X and obtains the rights of Program X, then they can get the key and get the encrypted data.
Separation of duties would help. Program X can only WRITE PKI-encrypted data, but can't read it. Program Y can only READ it. Program Y isn't exposed to the world. Etc.
There must be a master key somewhere, so the database itself can see all the unencrypted data. If not, then indexes are meaningless as the fields to be indexed would be gibberish and not subject to any form of ordering. Database performance would tank and large systems would be unusable.
This master key must then be highly guarded. If it is kept on the machine, it is subject to pillage just like any other compromised machine and the encryption does no good. If it isn't, then whenever the database service is restarted the key must be fetched.
The current forms of database protections -- views & user rights -- limit the data available to the various users. These are usually not properly implemented and can provide a great deal of protection in shared databases.
Poorly defended? Sure. Still, not Internet routable.
No, not directly. But frequently routable from machines in the bank itself. Machines that frequently get viruses, spyware and end up as zombies.
The smaller the bank, the more vulnerable. Frequently in small banks the IT "staff" is just a loan officer who also "does the computers". Hell, I know one bank that requires employees to purchase their own anti-virus updates. I mean on their *work* desktops!:-)
The hurricanes this summer also showed why land lines are superior to cellphones. When almost no one could get through using cellphones, a good bit of land lines were still up and running.
And during the attacks in New York on 9/11/2001 it was the other way around. Most of the land lines were jammed and had issues whereas cell phones ruled the day.
Both have an infrastructure that if it gets whacked, will put them out of commission. It just depends on who gets whacked that day.
Chinese is not Chinese. I worked at a company that employed several Chinese engineers. While they could all read the same newspaper, they couldn't all talk to each other. Those from the south (Hong Kong and surrounding area) couldn't understand those from the north.
Also, the population of Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and the U.K. is > 322,000,000 and while you could subtract the minorities in the U.S. and Canada that don't speak English, you're still missing the 300,000,000+ in India who speak English. Throw in all the other places where English is known, to some usable degree, as a secondary language and you're probably looking at 750,000,000+ speakers.
It is also, along with Spanish and French, one of the most widely dispersed languages in the world. There may be a ton of Bengali speakers, but I'll be 95% of them are in the Bengal region of North-Eastern India and the surrounding area.
And then consider this is a Sony Japan product. Their market -- East Asia -- deals mostly in (surprise) East Asian languages and English.
Because Intelligent Design isn't science, it is religion. There is no basis for it that can be tested. Without being able to be tested, it isn't science.
MS Office XML? The one that almost NO data is in? Big deal.
What about the formats for all the billions of existing documents: Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Project/Visio 97/2000/XP? How about older formats, like Office 95 or MS Works?
THOSE are the ones I'd like to see opened up. Being able to get all that data read in without glitches or hitches would be fantastic. All that effort that is needlessly wasted in trying to reverse-engineer these formats could be beter directed elsewhere.
I'm familiar with supply and demand. I'm also aware the oil companies are pumping record amounts of cash into R&D and development. The high gas prices have also pushed others to research into alternative fuels. I didn't mean to imply the profits were unreasonable. You reap what you sow, and the general public is reaping all those benefits of SUVs right now.:-)
I know, I drive a modified '83 Jeep that gets about 12 MPG and live 50 miles from my office. Just yesterday I purchased a second car (used) that gets ~32 MPG on the highway. The gas savings alone will pay for the second car in under 2 months.
Fundamentally, there is a problem with the way the US is underpricing fuel.
Please define "underpricing" for me. With the oil companies making record profits it seems there is plenty of room for the price to go down. That strikes me as "overpricing".
Or are you thinking along the lines of a nanny state where the children aren't doing what the gov't thinks they should so is going to raise taxes through the roof as an "incentive for proper behavior"?
My driver/license/ binds me to the/laws/ in my state. How is the GPL, being a license, any different?
No, it doesn't. The law, as passed by your State Legislature and enforced by the people with the badges and guns, binds you. The license is just a pretty piece of paper saying you were informed of the laws and took a basic skills/law/eye test. Not having a license doesn't necessarily unbind you from the law. Try driving a car without one (and get stopped) to see how far that gets you.
Idaho does charge Income Tax to non-residents who earn income there, though. Live in Spokane, work in Post Falls/Coeur d'Alene and they're charging you income tax.
By "work in" that means "the company that pays your check is in", regardless of whether you telecommute or not. So in that way, they are very similar to what New York is doing.
The other problem with switching to a consumption based tax is that it unfairly penalizes anyone who has been saving their (income)taxed income for the future. First they paid income tax when they earned it, now they're going to pay consumption tax when they spend it?
How is this different from the current system? You'll pay sales tax when you spend it, unless you spend it all in NH, OR, MT or one or two others. You'll pay a luxury tax if you buy something really big, like an expensive car or boat.
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Do you want to move toward a world of peer-based routing and even a pure peer-based internet, with awesome redundancy and with no such thing as an ISP?
Are you are of your ever loving mind? Please pick up a book on BGP, OSPF, RIP or preferably routing protocols in general then rethink your rhetorical questions.
Exactly how do I get pure-peer connections across oceans? Ever heard of the term "packet storm"?
After that, take a basic course in physics and then try and explain how "wireless" will ever approach the bandwidth capabilities of fiber-optics.
-Charles
It is not about "smart vs dumb", it is about convenience and wanting/not wanting to deal with a task someone doesn't find interesting.
/me waves hand immitating Jedi mind trick
Almost, but not quite. It is about not wanting to/not being ABLE to deal with a task... The difference lies in that KDE *CAN* and often is slicked back and all the extras removed for a "one choice" interface. If KDE's main desktop is too complex, then spend the 15 minutes and clean it up to your liking. If Gnome's is too simple, in many cases you are SOL because something was REMOVED and not just HIDDEN.
With KDE, you can. With Gnome, you don't want to. Honest. This is not the feature you are looking for.
-Charles
This has nothing to do with KDE or Gnome and everything to do with the distro that packaged it that way.
15 minutes in KMenuEdit should solve your issues. Please don't tell me "I shouldn't have to do that". If Gnome's menu structure is 100% the way you like it then either something is wrong with you or you're the developer who decides what goes in that menu. I've never met a default menu that was 100% perfect fit for me out of the box and wanted to customize ALL of them, even if it is just a little tweak.
-Charles
Once I thought the way you did. Then I actually looked at my system and changed my mind.
First step was to remove the kdetoys and kdegames packages. I never use any of that stuff, so away it goes. Then, noticing that I had 50 Gb of free space on my main drive and removing the "fluff" would have freed up about 300 Mb, I no longer cared. Hell, my computer is over 5 years old (dual P3-750 MHz, w/on board SCSI and IDE) and humming along fine. I do have a separate drive to store my ripped movies and music, but as far as the rest goes -- I'll never run out of space.
So, 15 minutes spent editing the K Menu to hide all of the other crap I never use, and then another 15 minutes double-checking all the MIME type references solved my problem. No more kaboodle, noatun, kwrite, or two dozen other items I never use.
There are half-a-dozen icons in the panel for things I use frequently: Firefox, Konqueror (Home), Kopete, Amarok, Kaffeine, and a sub-panel for games which as Neverwinter Nights, Doom 3, FreeCiv, Quake 3 and America's Army.
Since none of those extras consume RAM or CPU my fanaticism about "lean and mean" evaporated when I found the smallest hard drive I could buy was 40 Gb and that is almost IMPOSSIBLE to fill up if you EXCLUDE video & music clips.
If you really, really want to make them go away and not be on your hard drive, then use Konstruct and build your own version sans all the "cruft".
-Charles
Well, with I, Robot I didn't have a big problem. Hell, I was looking at it like "Converse? Wow, they are digging. People who've read Asimov's works would remember those from 20 years ago. Buy them now? No."
Hey, a Chicago cop that makes enough to drive a Mercedes? And he isn't on the take? Right...
Also, "US Robotics" now THAT is funny. Are they still in business? Similar to the placement SGI had in "Lost In Space" -- is SGI still in business? Wow!
The product placements I can't stand are that every computer shown on TV is a Dell if it is a server and a Mac if it is a desktop. A Mac with a C: prompt, none-the-less. I've seen more Macs on TV than I have in real life, outside of an Apple store. Ugh!
-Charles
If you have an infinite amount of random data, every pattern will be in there somewhere. At least, that's what I was led to believe.
Yes, but only if you look at smaller segments, which changes your dataset. For example, if you spot the first 30 digits of Pi in an infinitely random set, the question becomes is your random set Pi? If not, the pattern only applies to those 30 digits and thus your set changes and is no longer the infinite set of random data.
And they aren't dealing with an "infinite" set, but a smaller subset. Thus, the odds of finding the collective works of Shakespeare is significantly smaller.
-Charles
You're forgetting companies in India that want to export medicines based off of those patents. They'll be locked out of the most lucrative markets.
-Charles
Random has NO pattern what so ever. By detecting a pattern, however small, implies non-random data. QED
-Charles
Imagine a dial up user in India with your server sitting in the United States. The request is going to have to travel to the other side of the world and back with the slow speeds of dial-up.
Ummmm...no, it is not. UUCP is deader, thank God. It is going to travel from the dial-up users computer to his local ISP at the slow speed. After that, it gets routed on the rest of the Internet. Last I checked, that isn't using dial-up connections. The last link is going to be back to the user at dial-up speeds but everything in-between depends on the normal medium-to-high speed network.
Second point, not everyone has a global audience and has to worry about round-the-world latencies. I've done work for several financial institutions. They're heavily regulated and licensed to do business in limited geographic areas. Because of that 95%+ of their traffic originates and terminates inside that geographic area.
Even if you do have to worry about a decent percentage of dial-up users, there is nothing to stop you from dynamically turning on and off features based off of the detected connection speed of the client. Worst case, have "low bandwith" and "high bandwith" links.
-Charles
I'm not the first person to have this idea, but this brings up the question: do we need to define a new tier e.g. something like a presentation services tier?
You mean like the Presentation Layer of the OSI model? The one below Application (second from the top)?
-Charles
I placed a local classified ad (print newspaper in rural Idaho) to sell a puppy a couple weeks back. It included my e-mail address if anyone wanted pictures.
One response I received was one in broken English asking for pictures and if the price was firm. I responded with photos and the price. The next response was 4 paragraphs of an overdraft money order scam, telling me they'd arrange for someone to pick up the dog, but to wire the excess funds back to an account in London, etc.
I was sort of impressed, considering how targeted the scam was.
-Charles
Correct. I should have specified. If you're encrypting the ENTIRE database, then indexes become meaningless. If you're talking about just encrypting a column or two it becomes feasable.
I work on a daily basis with databases that average 50-60 Gb in size. Not using indexes is not an option. Basic queries go from seconds to hours.
The problem still remains, that SOMETHING needs to be able to read the data. That something then needs the decrypt key. If that something is then compromised, encryption is meaningless. For example, if Program X reads encrypted data as part of its job, and someone buffer-overflows Program X and obtains the rights of Program X, then they can get the key and get the encrypted data.
Separation of duties would help. Program X can only WRITE PKI-encrypted data, but can't read it. Program Y can only READ it. Program Y isn't exposed to the world. Etc.
-Charles
There must be a master key somewhere, so the database itself can see all the unencrypted data. If not, then indexes are meaningless as the fields to be indexed would be gibberish and not subject to any form of ordering. Database performance would tank and large systems would be unusable.
This master key must then be highly guarded. If it is kept on the machine, it is subject to pillage just like any other compromised machine and the encryption does no good. If it isn't, then whenever the database service is restarted the key must be fetched.
The current forms of database protections -- views & user rights -- limit the data available to the various users. These are usually not properly implemented and can provide a great deal of protection in shared databases.
-Charles
Poorly defended? Sure. Still, not Internet routable.
:-)
No, not directly. But frequently routable from machines in the bank itself. Machines that frequently get viruses, spyware and end up as zombies.
The smaller the bank, the more vulnerable. Frequently in small banks the IT "staff" is just a loan officer who also "does the computers". Hell, I know one bank that requires employees to purchase their own anti-virus updates. I mean on their *work* desktops!
-Charles
The hurricanes this summer also showed why land lines are superior to cellphones. When almost no one could get through using cellphones, a good bit of land lines were still up and running.
And during the attacks in New York on 9/11/2001 it was the other way around. Most of the land lines were jammed and had issues whereas cell phones ruled the day.
Both have an infrastructure that if it gets whacked, will put them out of commission. It just depends on who gets whacked that day.
-Charles
Not quite.
Chinese is not Chinese. I worked at a company that employed several Chinese engineers. While they could all read the same newspaper, they couldn't all talk to each other. Those from the south (Hong Kong and surrounding area) couldn't understand those from the north.
Also, the population of Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and the U.K. is > 322,000,000 and while you could subtract the minorities in the U.S. and Canada that don't speak English, you're still missing the 300,000,000+ in India who speak English. Throw in all the other places where English is known, to some usable degree, as a secondary language and you're probably looking at 750,000,000+ speakers.
It is also, along with Spanish and French, one of the most widely dispersed languages in the world. There may be a ton of Bengali speakers, but I'll be 95% of them are in the Bengal region of North-Eastern India and the surrounding area.
And then consider this is a Sony Japan product. Their market -- East Asia -- deals mostly in (surprise) East Asian languages and English.
-Charles
Because Intelligent Design isn't science, it is religion. There is no basis for it that can be tested. Without being able to be tested, it isn't science.
-Charles
MS Office XML? The one that almost NO data is in? Big deal.
What about the formats for all the billions of existing documents: Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Project/Visio 97/2000/XP? How about older formats, like Office 95 or MS Works?
THOSE are the ones I'd like to see opened up. Being able to get all that data read in without glitches or hitches would be fantastic. All that effort that is needlessly wasted in trying to reverse-engineer these formats could be beter directed elsewhere.
-Charles
I'm familiar with supply and demand. I'm also aware the oil companies are pumping record amounts of cash into R&D and development. The high gas prices have also pushed others to research into alternative fuels. I didn't mean to imply the profits were unreasonable. You reap what you sow, and the general public is reaping all those benefits of SUVs right now. :-)
I know, I drive a modified '83 Jeep that gets about 12 MPG and live 50 miles from my office. Just yesterday I purchased a second car (used) that gets ~32 MPG on the highway. The gas savings alone will pay for the second car in under 2 months.
-Charles
Fundamentally, there is a problem with the way the US is underpricing fuel.
Please define "underpricing" for me. With the oil companies making record profits it seems there is plenty of room for the price to go down. That strikes me as "overpricing".
Or are you thinking along the lines of a nanny state where the children aren't doing what the gov't thinks they should so is going to raise taxes through the roof as an "incentive for proper behavior"?
-Charles
My driver /license/ binds me to the /laws/ in my state. How is the GPL, being a license, any different?
No, it doesn't. The law, as passed by your State Legislature and enforced by the people with the badges and guns, binds you. The license is just a pretty piece of paper saying you were informed of the laws and took a basic skills/law/eye test. Not having a license doesn't necessarily unbind you from the law. Try driving a car without one (and get stopped) to see how far that gets you.
-Charles
RTFA. They included the Pentium D 820 and AMD handily beat that as well.
Idaho does charge Income Tax to non-residents who earn income there, though. Live in Spokane, work in Post Falls/Coeur d'Alene and they're charging you income tax.
By "work in" that means "the company that pays your check is in", regardless of whether you telecommute or not. So in that way, they are very similar to what New York is doing.
-Charles
The other problem with switching to a consumption based tax is that it unfairly penalizes anyone who has been saving their (income)taxed income for the future. First they paid income tax when they earned it, now they're going to pay consumption tax when they spend it?
How is this different from the current system? You'll pay sales tax when you spend it, unless you spend it all in NH, OR, MT or one or two others. You'll pay a luxury tax if you buy something really big, like an expensive car or boat.
-Charles
I did, and it wasn't there.
It WAS, however, on the FFMPEG website. I just had to dig.
Thanks.
-Charles