I went and read the link you provided. Here is a nice quote that I think summarizes the general feel of the report quite well:
"Our investigation and analysis reveal that more than one quarter of all voters in Ohio reported some kind of problem on Election Day, including long lines, problems with registration status and polling locations, absentee ballots and provisional ballots and unlawful identification requirements at the polls."
It goes on the describe some of the terrible experiences that voters had on election day. So I really don't know what you're talking about. This report clearly confirms what RFK was talking about in his article in Rolling Stone.
Before the days of the internet and such I remember reading my home's copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on American Indians. It was blatantly racist by today's standards. I'm sure Britannica has since changed their entry on American Indians and maybe even changed the title to something more in line with the times. Their previous version of the truth is no longer acceptable.
I'm tired of hearing these old world news agencies and/or previous purveyors of the truth complain about Wikipedia as if suddenly we're all being lied to. We've been lied to the whole damn time. The only difference is that now the people coming up with the lies aren't a small group of intellectuals. It's a much larger group of intellectuals, semi-intellectuals and armchair historians who have all kinds of differing motivations. Isn't this more interesting?
Let's setup another Wikipedia or ten more Wikipedias all with different versions of the truth. Then let the readers decide what the truth is. And maybe the readership will discover more and more that it's not what is said that matters most. But who is saying it.
What these people actually lament is a time when their small cabal could influence things. Your power is waning NYT. Get over it!
So is the US government finally admitting they don't understand the people they're displacing and killing. If they could have admitted that in the first place maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.
I see this as being indicative of a much larger problem with American imperialism. The US has the biggest army and sends it out the most to fight wars. But the US also has one of least internationally informed populaces.
Language is life people. How can we expect to help Iraqis if we can't even communicate with them without interpreters. And to all those people who complain about interpreters screwing stuff up. I've seen it first person as I am bilingual. I've acted as an interpreter before and it's tough. After a couple of hours you just want everyone to shut up.
Interpreters and gadgets aren't the answer. The only answer is daily cultural and language training for the troops stationed in Iraq. But they're burdened enough as it is. Maybe they should just leave and let the Iraqis figure it out?
Follow the $$$$. Microsoft is a founding member of Americans for Technology Leadership.
Other founding members:
* Association for Competitive Technology
* Citizens Against Government Waste
* Cityscape Filmworks
* Clarity Consulting
* CompTIA
* CompUSA
* 60Plus Association
* Small Business Survival Committee
* Staples, Inc.
No one ever claimed he molested anyone. You don't get a class B misdemeanor for molestation. The facts of the case are sealed but apparently he communicated with an FBI agent posing as a 16 year old. 16 years is the age of consent in some less puritanical countries. If you read the article you link to he wasn't even officially convicted as the case was dismissed with an ACOD.
...blurt out another lie.
I just caught you in a lie. Kind of ironic isn't it.
You have clearly never worked in the service sector. When I worked in the state of Virginia as a waiter I earned roughly half of minimum wage. The rest was expected to be made up with tips. The federal guvment assumes you will get 8-9% of each check in tips and the IRS taxes you for it. So if you don't tip your server still has to pay the IRS taxes on that tip they didn't receive. Please tip. If you can't afford to tip then go eat at McDonalds.
Call me lazy but working 80 hours of week while only getting paid for 40 is just stupid exploitation in my book.
Now I live in the EU where it's mostly against the law to make me work more than 40 hours a week without paying me for it. Of course I still work probably 50-60 hour weeks. Atleast it's my choise now and if I want to slow down I can.
You're right in a way. Sometimes you shouldn't compromise and sometimes you have to. What worries me is the people who stick to some idealistic notion without actually getting anywhere with it. You have to think pragmatically and you have to work towards your idealistic goals whatever they may be. But you also shouldn't go out on a limb if you know the tree is getting ready to fall down.
In other words it's fine if you want to vote your ideals but don't throw away your vote just to make a point about your disgust. All you're doing in that case is flagging yourself irrelevant. If you're really serious about your belief in a non-mainstream politico who has no chance of winning then democracy and voting is probably no longer the right way to express your ideals. Maybe a molotov cocktail or a sitin would be more effective.
Ok. And then there's the reality of today. Idealism is great and all but I don't want 4 more years of Bush. So I'm going to vote for Kerry. Of course I'm picking the lesser of 2 evils but I also realize that compromise is the essence of the political circus. The problem with idealists is they don't compromise.
The site that scared me enough to take all my money out of paypal and never use it again. They're not a real bank and they're not held up to the same standard as real banks. Just read some of the horror stories in their forums.
Whether they are biased or not is not the issue. At issue is whether it's OK for the 'powers that be' to raid journalist sites and confiscate material. I don't think Indymedia is unbiased either, nor do I think most people that read Indymedia think Indymedia is unbiased. It's just a group of amateur journalists reporting on what they choose to report on.
Your comment really missed the point.
What's amazing to me is how they've managed to piss so many people off just by reporting on things that most media outlets ignore. They're not particularly revolutionary in their reportage, nor are they very good reporters. They come accross as very amateurish and sometimes naive. The fact they've managed to piss off someone enough to get their hardware seized just points out how easy it is to piss 'the powers that be' off. Which just further illustrates how thin their veil of power is. If a bunch of ragtag amateur journalists can ignite this kind of reaction from the government then how much longer can 'the powers that be' keep this facade going?
I have a Nike laptop bag that I bought about 2 months ago and love. I ride my bike to work everyday with my laptop and no complaints. It's got 2 compartments; 1 for the laptop and 1 for whatever else. There is padding between your back and the laptop and it keeps things nice and snug.
Anyone who is worth his salt as a coder/geek has done some questionable things before. The question is whether or not they got caught. You can be sure there are people working at major tech companies already who have done some questionable things. Only they weren't caught. If you can trust a person and they're good, hire them. Chances are you've already got someone working for you who has broken the law only you don't know it.
Your story on the Mydoom virus makes irresponsible assumptions about who is responsible. I'm really surprised that this is coming from the BBC whom I normally regard as having very high journalistic integrity.
"If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source). So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge." Are you sure that the Linux zealots anger has no measure? What kind of loaded statement is that? You infer that the attackers are open source zealots. But do you have any evidence of this?
What would the logical motive of DDOSing the SCO website be for Linux zealots? SCO and spammers have more to gain by being seen as a poor victim. Read this: http://perens.com/SCO/DOS/
For some reason whenever major media outlets report on technology issues they often come accross as extreme and alarmist. I believe this is because of ignorance and poor research on the part of individual journalists. I also believe their editors fail to adequately temper them because their editors also fail to understand the issues. It's time this practice was stopped and I expect the BBC to lead the fray as I view the BBC as a major progressive journalistic force that can set industry trends. Hire some people that know what they're talking about!!! Not all geeks are bad communicators. I'm sick of reading technology articles written by people that aren't hip to the latest trends and that have no real technical experience.
If some scam artist ordered a rifle scope with a stolen credit card in the US, would you assume he was a terrorist? Obviously anyone who owns a gun in the middle east MUST be a terrorist.
This is as easy as it might seem. Or it wasn't for me at least. I got one of those gold plated splitters from Radio Crack and plugged it in only to find that my modem wouldn't sync up. The problem was that most splitters you buy come with resistors on both ends that get split. I had to crack open the splitter and solder on a piece of wire that circumvented the resistor for the cable modem, but the TV still wanted a resistor. Your splitter should end up looking like this, R is for resistor. This worked for me.
Now if I could tell this box, "take calles on this line and send them to port 5433 on 192.168.1.23 as a 64k mu-law stream" then I would have 99% of what I need for a VoIP gateway to the telephone company. How are you going to handle call setup and teardown? There are a multitude of things you have to deal with in IP telephoney that go beyond the functionality provided by protocols like TCP and UDP. All SIP does is provide call signalling. The actual voice stream is handed off to SDP which specifies which voice encoding type to use. Such as G.711 Mulaw which you referred to.
The next great leap in VoIT will come from someone thats got the balls to do ISDN over IP and write some sample code that works and then an RFC. Till then its just a sick game. What do you think H.323 is? Take a look at the signalling required to setup a call in H.225 compared to Q.931. The only thing you're missing in H.225 is the ACK's and those are provided by the underlying TCP protocol.
The people from cyclades said they looked at doing VoIP but everyone wanted "standards" which they didn't or couldn't squeeze into the RAS box. I don't think they ever thought that it wasn't that hard. My Cisco AS5300 doesn't have any problems with converting incoming ISDN to H.323 or SIP. Try a 2600 even.
My organization chose OpenLDAP after doing extensive testing with IPlanet and DC Directory. We measure the size of our deployments in the 10's of thousands of users. I'm talking big honking SUN boxes with fiber channel, Gig-E and SAN's. I've found OpenLDAP(configured properly) stable and easily scalable. It's not the easiest thing in the world to setup, but at least it behaves deterministically and scales.
I work in a UNIX(Sun, Linux) shop where we develop a product that relies heavily on LDAP(IPlanet, OpenLdap). This tool has been extremely valuable in my work. A couple of months ago this link started floating around the office as the LDAP browser to end all LDAP browsers and I haven't looked back. Now everyone uses this tool as our standard LDAP browser. It ROX! I love the ldif features. The only downside is it's reliance on Java. But hey it's portable.
I remember when this shit went down, and I remember when they arrested Mafiaboy. I think they ended up arresting Mafiaboy because of something he said on IRC, but the truth of the matter is that the authorities have absolutely no idea who launched those DOS attacks. Mafiaboy was just the easiest target.
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I went and read the link you provided. Here is a nice quote that I think summarizes the general feel of the report quite well:
"Our investigation and analysis reveal that more than one quarter of all voters in Ohio reported some kind
of problem on Election Day, including long lines, problems with registration status and polling locations,
absentee ballots and provisional ballots and unlawful identification requirements at the polls."
It goes on the describe some of the terrible experiences that voters had on election day. So I really don't know what you're talking about.
This report clearly confirms what RFK was talking about in his article in Rolling Stone.
You should do what I did when that exact same thing happened to me. Leave!
Before the days of the internet and such I remember reading my home's copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on American Indians. It was blatantly racist by today's standards. I'm sure Britannica has since changed their entry on American Indians and maybe even changed the title to something more in line with the times. Their previous version of the truth is no longer acceptable.
I'm tired of hearing these old world news agencies and/or previous purveyors of the truth complain about Wikipedia as if suddenly we're all being lied to. We've been lied to the whole damn time. The only difference is that now the people coming up with the lies aren't a small group of intellectuals. It's a much larger group of intellectuals, semi-intellectuals and armchair historians who have all kinds of differing motivations. Isn't this more interesting?
Let's setup another Wikipedia or ten more Wikipedias all with different versions of the truth. Then let the readers decide what the truth is. And maybe the readership will discover more and more that it's not what is said that matters most. But who is saying it.
What these people actually lament is a time when their small cabal could influence things. Your power is waning NYT. Get over it!
So is the US government finally admitting they don't understand the people they're displacing and killing. If they could have admitted that in the first place maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.
I see this as being indicative of a much larger problem with American imperialism. The US has the biggest army and sends it out the most to fight wars. But the US also has one of least internationally informed populaces.
Language is life people. How can we expect to help Iraqis if we can't even communicate with them without interpreters. And to all those people who complain about interpreters screwing stuff up. I've seen it first person as I am bilingual. I've acted as an interpreter before and it's tough. After a couple of hours you just want everyone to shut up.
Interpreters and gadgets aren't the answer. The only answer is daily cultural and language training for the troops stationed in Iraq. But they're burdened enough as it is. Maybe they should just leave and let the Iraqis figure it out?
Follow the $$$$. Microsoft is a founding member of Americans for Technology Leadership.
Other founding members:
* Association for Competitive Technology
* Citizens Against Government Waste
* Cityscape Filmworks
* Clarity Consulting
* CompTIA
* CompUSA
* 60Plus Association
* Small Business Survival Committee
* Staples, Inc.
No one ever claimed he molested anyone. You don't get a class B misdemeanor for molestation. The facts of the case are sealed but apparently he communicated with an FBI agent posing as a 16 year old. 16 years is the age of consent in some less puritanical countries. If you read the article you link to he wasn't even officially convicted as the case was dismissed with an ACOD.
...blurt out another lie.
I just caught you in a lie. Kind of ironic isn't it.
--Smutt
You have clearly never worked in the service sector. When I worked in the state of Virginia as a waiter I earned roughly half of minimum wage. The rest was expected to be made up with tips. The federal guvment assumes you will get 8-9% of each check in tips and the IRS taxes you for it. So if you don't tip your server still has to pay the IRS taxes on that tip they didn't receive.
Please tip. If you can't afford to tip then go eat at McDonalds.
Call me lazy but working 80 hours of week while only getting paid for 40 is just stupid exploitation in my book.
Now I live in the EU where it's mostly against the law to make me work more than 40 hours a week without paying me for it. Of course I still work probably 50-60 hour weeks. Atleast it's my choise now and if I want to slow down I can.
--Smutt
Mod parent up. This is exactly spot on. Mickeysoft is further spreading the FUD that Linux carries the risk of IP infringement. Thereby lawsuit.
You're right in a way. Sometimes you shouldn't compromise and sometimes you have to. What worries me is the people who stick to some idealistic notion without actually getting anywhere with it. You have to think pragmatically and you have to work towards your idealistic goals whatever they may be. But you also shouldn't go out on a limb if you know the tree is getting ready to fall down.
In other words it's fine if you want to vote your ideals but don't throw away your vote just to make a point about your disgust. All you're doing in that case is flagging yourself irrelevant. If you're really serious about your belief in a non-mainstream politico who has no chance of winning then democracy and voting is probably no longer the right way to express your ideals. Maybe a molotov cocktail or a sitin would be more effective.
--Smutt
Ok. And then there's the reality of today. Idealism is great and all but I don't want 4 more years of Bush. So I'm going to vote for Kerry. Of course I'm picking the lesser of 2 evils but I also realize that compromise is the essence of the political circus. The problem with idealists is they don't compromise.
--Smutt
Read all about it here
The site that scared me enough to take all my money out of paypal and never use it again. They're not a real bank and they're not held up to the same standard as real banks. Just read some of the horror stories in their forums.
--Smutt
Whether they are biased or not is not the issue. At issue is whether it's OK for the 'powers that be' to raid journalist sites and confiscate material. I don't think Indymedia is unbiased either, nor do I think most people that read Indymedia think Indymedia is unbiased. It's just a group of amateur journalists reporting on what they choose to report on.
Your comment really missed the point.
What's amazing to me is how they've managed to piss so many people off just by reporting on things that most media outlets ignore. They're not particularly revolutionary in their reportage, nor are they very good reporters. They come accross as very amateurish and sometimes naive. The fact they've managed to piss off someone enough to get their hardware seized just points out how easy it is to piss 'the powers that be' off. Which just further illustrates how thin their veil of power is. If a bunch of ragtag amateur journalists can ignite this kind of reaction from the government then how much longer can 'the powers that be' keep this facade going?
I have a Nike laptop bag that I bought about 2 months ago and love. I ride my bike to work everyday with my laptop and no complaints. It's got 2 compartments; 1 for the laptop and 1 for whatever else. There is padding between your back and the laptop and it keeps things nice and snug.
Anyone who is worth his salt as a coder/geek has done some questionable things before. The question is whether or not they got caught. You can be sure there are people working at major tech companies already who have done some questionable things. Only they weren't caught. If you can trust a person and they're good, hire them. Chances are you've already got someone working for you who has broken the law only you don't know it.
Your story on the Mydoom virus makes irresponsible assumptions about who is responsible. I'm really surprised that this is coming from the BBC whom I normally regard as having very high journalistic integrity.
"If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source). So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge."
Are you sure that the Linux zealots anger has no measure? What kind of loaded statement is that? You infer that the attackers are open source zealots. But do you have any evidence of this?
What would the logical motive of DDOSing the SCO website be for Linux zealots? SCO and spammers have more to gain by being seen as a poor victim. Read this: http://perens.com/SCO/DOS/
For some reason whenever major media outlets report on technology issues they often come accross as extreme and alarmist. I believe this is because of ignorance and poor research on the part of individual journalists. I also believe their editors fail to adequately temper them because their editors also fail to understand the issues. It's time this practice was stopped and I expect the BBC to lead the fray as I view the BBC as a major progressive journalistic force that can set industry trends. Hire some people that know what they're talking about!!! Not all geeks are bad communicators. I'm sick of reading technology articles written by people that aren't hip to the latest trends and that have no real technical experience.
If some scam artist ordered a rifle scope with a stolen credit card in the US, would you assume he was a terrorist? Obviously anyone who owns a gun in the middle east MUST be a terrorist.
This is as easy as it might seem. Or it wasn't for me at least. I got one of those gold plated splitters from Radio Crack and plugged it in only to find that my modem wouldn't sync up. The problem was that most splitters you buy come with resistors on both ends that get split. I had to crack open the splitter and solder on a piece of wire that circumvented the resistor for the cable modem, but the TV still wanted a resistor. Your splitter should end up looking like this, R is for resistor. This worked for me.
|-----> Modem
AT+T =====
|--R--> TV
-- Smutt
Now if I could tell this box, "take calles on this line and send them to port 5433 on 192.168.1.23 as a 64k mu-law stream" then I would have 99% of what I need for a VoIP gateway to the telephone company.
How are you going to handle call setup and teardown? There are a multitude of things you have to deal with in IP telephoney that go beyond the functionality provided by protocols like TCP and UDP. All SIP does is provide call signalling. The actual voice stream is handed off to SDP which specifies which voice encoding type to use. Such as G.711 Mulaw which you referred to.
The next great leap in VoIT will come from someone thats got the balls to do ISDN over IP and write some sample code that works and then an RFC. Till then its just a sick game.
What do you think H.323 is? Take a look at the signalling required to setup a call in H.225 compared to Q.931. The only thing you're missing in H.225 is the ACK's and those are provided by the underlying TCP protocol.
The people from cyclades said they looked at doing VoIP but everyone wanted "standards" which they didn't or couldn't squeeze into the RAS box. I don't think they ever thought that it wasn't that hard. My Cisco AS5300 doesn't have any problems with converting incoming ISDN to H.323 or SIP. Try a 2600 even.
My organization chose OpenLDAP after doing extensive testing with IPlanet and DC Directory. We measure the size of our deployments in the 10's of thousands of users. I'm talking big honking SUN boxes with fiber channel, Gig-E and SAN's. I've found OpenLDAP(configured properly) stable and easily scalable. It's not the easiest thing in the world to setup, but at least it behaves deterministically and scales.
I work in a UNIX(Sun, Linux) shop where we develop a product that relies heavily on LDAP(IPlanet, OpenLdap). This tool has been extremely valuable in my work. A couple of months ago this link started floating around the office as the LDAP browser to end all LDAP browsers and I haven't looked back. Now everyone uses this tool as our standard LDAP browser. It ROX! I love the ldif features. The only downside is it's reliance on Java. But hey it's portable.
Man, and to think I just took out the last spare monitor I had with a .45 calibre.
Was it worh it??
Hell yeah!
I remember when this shit went down, and I remember when they arrested Mafiaboy. I think they ended up arresting Mafiaboy because of something he said on IRC, but the truth of the matter is that the authorities have absolutely no idea who launched those DOS attacks. Mafiaboy was just the easiest target.
Being a devout Washington Post reader for over 15 years I whole heartedly agree with you. The Washington Times sucks.
I've done full H.323 decodes using NAI Sniffer Pro
4.0 and it's great. Everything is displayed in a nice pretty and colorful tree format.