give them guys a chance and send your proposal to them, with very detailed information of what the "funding" is exactly (an amount would be nice) and see the reply's. Ask on the mailing list if a person you want to hire is reasonably competent, or ask him to give recommendations from people and check them. Then decide for yourself if you are willing to take the risk... it's just like hiring an employee
You don't seem to understand why the unix support would be cheaper... it is for the very simple reason that there are no clients, there are only programs running on 1 computer, that send images to dumb terminals. The support for the desktops would be nonexistent. Any and all malfunctions on the terminals themselves can only be hardware problems, and the hardware is switched before you can say cappucino, furthermore it has no components that stick in the way, conflict, require drivers, etc. ( we all know at least one windows horror story, it is nonexistent with X terminals )
The programs on the server run strictly in their own adress space, and without write access to themselves or any system files at all. That means that there are no software problems that can lead to system or network failure, because everyone is truly isolated, and well isolated. You and I both know that windows theoretically also meets these criteria... but the simple truth is that linux is more secure by design, which will never be beaten by any security measures at all, you can fix specific software problems, but you cannot fix the design (never mind fixing the design without source availability)
The sysadmin for the unix system will know exactly which programs users execute, how they work, and if he finds a problem he has the option of modifying the program(s) to circumvent it. I can also assure you that there is only 1 way to really customize a program... modifying the source
Furthermore, as with any business you depend on, you can expect "surprises" with the windows systems ( eg licence expiration,... , I'm quite sure you can name some yourself ). While the linux counterparts are guaranteed no-surprises licenses
The main thing that strikes me as odd in the article is that you REALLY should have an environment to experiment, and that usually means another server (both for win and unix)
I don't know about America, but in belgium the law on the subject is pretty specific, ONLY a law officer can legally search you without your permission, and if they are not police they have to give back ANYTHING they find immediately, and cannot hold you ( they can NOT hold you till the police get there, not even if you stole from them ). They can only refuse access to their property (and only if they prove they have that authority, if not you can defend your rights, and if they do anything, all you do to them is self defense.
Hint : refuse the search on the way out, and have them call the police EVERY time you walk out, and defend yourself against them if they try anything.
I am not suggesting you kill someone, but if you cause a serious enough incident, it will cause them to rethink their policy ( take 15 of your coworkers, refuse the search, overpower the security agents, and have them arrested for example )
Ashcroft distorted the record of Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White and misled his Senate colleagues in order to sabotage White's nomination to a federal district court
He has opposed legislation designed to end workplace discrimination (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) and to protect vulnerable groups of Americans against hate crimes (the Hate Crimes Prevention Act). He voted to weaken a federal law that helps protect minority communities against "redlining" by banks and other financial institutions.
He voted to roll back clean water protections and introduced legislation to undercut efforts to limit emissions of man-made greenhouse gases.
He has praised the far right magazine Southern Partisan, a neo-Confederate publication that promotes the view, among others, that slavery was beneficial to the slaves.
In just six years in the Senate he introduced or sponsored no fewer than seven different attempted amendments to the Constitution. In 1996 he proposed a radical amendment that would have made it much easier to amend the Constitution, opening the way for disastrous political and ideological mischief.
He voted to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
Can anyone explain why this guy gets to be attourney general ?
How do you give 10000000000+ people access to the key to a certain door (the key to decrypting the content you've sold them) without at least one of them being smart enough to realize he has a key in his hands ?
Any sane person should realize this simply cannot be done. Try all you want - law - encryption schemes - watermarks -...
The only thing it *might* be able to do is give you a very strong argument in court that you indeed produced the content (watermarks can be used for this purpose). that is if they are undetectable, otherwise nothing can be accomplished with them.
Now the smart *NOT* thing to do is to prevent academics from working out a decent theory about this, so that in turn one may be able to use it to actually put a decent lock on one's content (although I think they will probably prove mathematically that it cannot be done)
As terrible as this action was, a number of people (enough to find at least 5 experienced pilots under them) were prepared to give their lives for a chance to deliver a blow to America.
these people were not criminals, criminals do not sacrifice their own lives.
A lot of people were prepared to give their lives in trade for a chance to strike a blow to America. Consider that before you retaliate. You cannot fight those people, and that is perhaps a good thing. America is not under attack, people are trying to tell something to it.
GPL is free, now and forever. I've not seen anybody deny that one yet. GPL is free as in beer, the only thing not allowed is for you to take away my beer and sell it as your own.
BSD is free, but anyone has the power to make it non-free, is that freedom ? "You are free to take everyone else's freedom !" ? No it isn't. You're free to HAVE a gun, not free to take away other's rights to guns, and you are most defineately not allowed to use that gun to accomplish this.
Microsoft Shared Source licence, you are free to improve windows on the small condition that you give these improvements to microsoft and relinquish ALL rights to your modificaition. *ahem* WHAT A DEAL, i mean even a greedy bastard like most CEO should realise that there working for free
GPL -> you work for yourself and the rest of the community
BSD -> you work "for the community" but everyone is free to take it from the community.
MIC -> you work for microsoft, more you PAY to work for microsoft, last time I checked, I worked to get paid not the other way around.
And 1 slightly political statement, in america it is legal to shoot someone, it is legal to take away a persons privacy without his/her consent, it is legal for anyone to buy politicians, laws are bought and paid for in hard cash, some laws are copyrighted, meaning that you cannot read them freely, it is legal for an attorney to blatantly lie in front of the court for money, it is legal to buy experts, DAMN you have a problem, and no it's not just about software, it is a matter of time till the GPL is outlawed, i do hope you are aware of that... (you know in grade school in history we get stories about regimes that let one buy witnesses, it is one of the distinct properties of a dictatorial regime, and there are presidential dictatorial regimes you know)
Slashdot Mirror
And it will start up (text mode will defineately work)
then you recompile the kernel to include the new drivers ( or you compile them as modules and you're done in 30 sec )
voila
let's start with cnn.com ... they are at least partly responsible for the average united states IQ and that is responsible for ... well ....
precision bombing (AGAIN)
terror laws (well, one cannot argue that the name isn't accurate)
they're firing on our invasion force !!! THE BASTARDS (ok you didn't do it, but you provided the invasion force)
America's online losers
Microsoft Stupidity Network (this is slashdot, and there was no mention of microsoft in this post, I'm no karma whore, but I'm not stupid
Don't listen to these people ... ;-)
give them guys a chance and send your proposal to them, with very detailed information of what the "funding" is exactly (an amount would be nice) and see the reply's. Ask on the mailing list if a person you want to hire is reasonably competent, or ask him to give recommendations from people and check them. Then decide for yourself if you are willing to take the risk ... it's just like hiring an employee
just my 2 cents
You don't seem to understand why the unix support would be cheaper ... it is for the very simple reason that there are no clients, there are only programs running on 1 computer, that send images to dumb terminals. The support for the desktops would be nonexistent. Any and all malfunctions on the terminals themselves can only be hardware problems, and the hardware is switched before you can say cappucino, furthermore it has no components that stick in the way, conflict, require drivers, etc. ( we all know at least one windows horror story, it is nonexistent with X terminals )
The programs on the server run strictly in their own adress space, and without write access to themselves or any system files at all. That means that there are no software problems that can lead to system or network failure, because everyone is truly isolated, and well isolated. You and I both know that windows theoretically also meets these criteria ... but the simple truth is that linux is more secure by design, which will never be beaten by any security measures at all, you can fix specific software problems, but you cannot fix the design (never mind fixing the design without source availability)
The sysadmin for the unix system will know exactly which programs users execute, how they work, and if he finds a problem he has the option of modifying the program(s) to circumvent it. I can also assure you that there is only 1 way to really customize a program ... modifying the source
Furthermore, as with any business you depend on, you can expect "surprises" with the windows systems ( eg licence expiration, ... , I'm quite sure you can name some yourself ). While the linux counterparts are guaranteed no-surprises licenses
The main thing that strikes me as odd in the article is that you REALLY should have an environment to experiment, and that usually means another server (both for win and unix)
Developing centralized authentications system - 5 mil
Building and connecting the required datacenters - 250 mil
Preventing Hackers from gaining access - unknown (but don't worry, they didn't pay this one)
Having it cracked less than a day after it's release, which will cost million after million to your customers - PRICLESS
substances don't kill people ! people kill people
... oops ;-)
Anthrax doesn't
I don't know about America, but in belgium the law on the subject is pretty specific, ONLY a law officer can legally search you without your permission, and if they are not police they have to give back ANYTHING they find immediately, and cannot hold you ( they can NOT hold you till the police get there, not even if you stole from them ). They can only refuse access to their property (and only if they prove they have that authority, if not you can defend your rights, and if they do anything, all you do to them is self defense.
Hint : refuse the search on the way out, and have them call the police EVERY time you walk out, and defend yourself against them if they try anything.
I am not suggesting you kill someone, but if you cause a serious enough incident, it will cause them to rethink their policy ( take 15 of your coworkers, refuse the search, overpower the security agents, and have them arrested for example )
Ashcroft distorted the record of Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White and misled his Senate colleagues in order to sabotage White's nomination to a federal district court
He has opposed legislation designed to end workplace discrimination (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) and to protect vulnerable groups of Americans against hate crimes (the Hate Crimes Prevention Act). He voted to weaken a federal law that helps protect minority communities against "redlining" by banks and other financial institutions.
He voted to roll back clean water protections and introduced legislation to undercut efforts to limit emissions of man-made greenhouse gases.
He has praised the far right magazine Southern Partisan, a neo-Confederate publication that promotes the view, among others, that slavery was beneficial to the slaves.
In just six years in the Senate he introduced or sponsored no fewer than seven different attempted amendments to the Constitution. In 1996 he proposed a radical amendment that would have made it much easier to amend the Constitution, opening the way for disastrous political and ideological mischief.
He voted to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
Can anyone explain why this guy gets to be attourney general ?
even more
"Only In America" gets a whole new meaning
Getting arrested when you did nothing wrong ? Jep
Getting executed when you did nothing wrong ? jep
Rich kids getting of cheap ? duh
How do you give 10000000000+ people access to the key to a certain door (the key to decrypting the content you've sold them) without at least one of them being smart enough to realize he has a key in his hands ?
...
Any sane person should realize this simply cannot be done. Try all you want - law - encryption schemes - watermarks -
The only thing it *might* be able to do is give you a very strong argument in court that you indeed produced the content (watermarks can be used for this purpose). that is if they are undetectable, otherwise nothing can be accomplished with them.
Now the smart *NOT* thing to do is to prevent academics from working out a decent theory about this, so that in turn one may be able to use it to actually put a decent lock on one's content (although I think they will probably prove mathematically that it cannot be done)
any thoughts ?
As terrible as this action was, a number of people (enough to find at least 5 experienced pilots under them) were prepared to give their lives for a chance to deliver a blow to America.
Think about that before you make things worse.
You can only make things worse
these people were not criminals, criminals do not sacrifice their own lives.
A lot of people were prepared to give their lives in trade for a chance to strike a blow to America. Consider that before you retaliate. You cannot fight those people, and that is perhaps a good thing. America is not under attack, people are trying to tell something to it.
we are the borg ... just not yet ;-)
GPL is free, now and forever. I've not seen anybody deny that one yet. GPL is free as in beer, the only thing not allowed is for you to take away my beer and sell it as your own.
... (you know in grade school in history we get stories about regimes that let one buy witnesses, it is one of the distinct properties of a dictatorial regime, and there are presidential dictatorial regimes you know)
BSD is free, but anyone has the power to make it non-free, is that freedom ? "You are free to take everyone else's freedom !" ? No it isn't. You're free to HAVE a gun, not free to take away other's rights to guns, and you are most defineately not allowed to use that gun to accomplish this.
Microsoft Shared Source licence, you are free to improve windows on the small condition that you give these improvements to microsoft and relinquish ALL rights to your modificaition. *ahem* WHAT A DEAL, i mean even a greedy bastard like most CEO should realise that there working for free
GPL -> you work for yourself and the rest of the community
BSD -> you work "for the community" but everyone is free to take it from the community.
MIC -> you work for microsoft, more you PAY to work for microsoft, last time I checked, I worked to get paid not the other way around.
And 1 slightly political statement, in america it is legal to shoot someone, it is legal to take away a persons privacy without his/her consent, it is legal for anyone to buy politicians, laws are bought and paid for in hard cash, some laws are copyrighted, meaning that you cannot read them freely, it is legal for an attorney to blatantly lie in front of the court for money, it is legal to buy experts, DAMN you have a problem, and no it's not just about software, it is a matter of time till the GPL is outlawed, i do hope you are aware of that
Just close the box really tight and use water
cooling for the cooling. I think that could work
for decades on end.
Just an idea.
Oelewapperke
It won't be the reactor that's melting down ... ;-)
Well I guess that everyone is finally going to see what your mother-in-law does when she is being microwaved after all.
GPL -> All derivative works are also GPL
MIC -> All derivative works are also MIC
GPL -> improvements must be released under GPL
MIC -> improvements must not be released, only to us
comments ?