Highly skilled workers are anyhow troubling people of rich countries like US by snatching away their jobs.
Your "highly skilled" workers are snatching away our jobs because they're willing to work for peanuts, but because they're any better technically, and this appeals to the short-sighted interests of American companies who don't see the long-range damage that this will do to the American economy.
Now with some checks and balances back in place, we can actually get some good work done for the country.
I'm hoping for the opposite. Now that one party doesn't control both houses, I'm hoping that there will be more logjams resulting in fewer new laws passed.
We have more than enough laws, regulations, and restrictions already without needing another few thousand more over the next few years. In fact, congress should take some time to go back and repeal all of the worthless, outdated, and stupid laws they've passed over the years (starting with the misnamed "Patriot Act").
When Chuckie Schumer was elected to the senate a few years ago, he declared that he had a "passion to legislate". Great, just what we need. In my opinion, a "passion to legislate" should be a federal crime.
This is total bullshit. There are root name servers in many cities in countries (via anycast) other than the U.S., including Madrid, Hong Kong, Rome, Auckland, Sao Paulo, Peking, Seoul, Moscow, Taipei, Dubai, Paris, Singapore, Brisbane, Toronto, Monterrey, Lisbon, Johannesburg, Tel Aviv, Jakarta, Munich, Osaka, Prague, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Nairobi, Madras, London, Santiago de Chile, Dhaka, Karachi and Buenos Aires.
Ah, a way for us to finally invade Cuba. We all contribute to this guy's defense fund, get declared enemy combatants, get shipped to Cuba, and, as a force 300 million strong, take over the island.
I won't run any background tasks on my machines until CPUs come out that use substantially less power and generate far less heat than current chips. I'm already paying $125 in electricity a month to run my systems and even in the winter the room temperature is consistently over 80 degrees.
And I'm just a home user. Expand this to large organizations and we're talking about lots of power and cooling. Unused CPU cycles are not free.
This is nothing new. All telephone central offices have been running on -48v DC for many years.
If you can swing it, a visit to a CO is very interesting. There are large rooms full of lead-acid batteries, and since the voltage is low, amperages are high and the equipment is connected to the battery banks by thick copper bus bars and cables that look like they could be used to jump start a 18-wheeler.
If AOL goes through with this, I'll just scrub all AOL email addresses from my mailing lists. If AOL subscribers complain, I'll tell them to complain to AOL, not me. I'll also tell them if they want back on the list(s), switch to a provider with a clue.
Nope. The protest is actually not that it accuses the religion of violence. It's that it included a picture of Muhammad. As such, it's properly against Islamic law. And it was published by a Danish newspaper with the explict goal of being against Islamic law
But the Danes are not Muslim, so why should they be bound by Islamic law? That's like saying the Danes are violating Islamic law by eating pork, or that the Saudis are violating Catholic law my practicing polygamy.
Human beings have produced great art, science, and engineering for millennia in the absence of copyright protection. The assertion that copyrights and patents have any social or economic merit at all is at best unproven.
And many of those producers of art, etc., lived life as paupers unless they could find a rich patron to support them because they certainly didn't make much of a living from their work.
Microsoft is a corporation. Their goal is to make money for their shareholders. What they've done here is weigh the risk of bad publicity if they don't fix this worm before it activates versus how much it would cost to fix it now. They apparantly feel that the risk of bad publicity outweighs the cost of the fix.
I've been keeping weather records where I live in Northern California for the last 21 years, and 2005 was the coolest year I've recorded. So average temps may be going up for the world as a whole, but the last several years here have been among the coolest I've seen since I started keeping records in 1985.
Last September, traditionally one of the hottest months here, with average high temperatues in the mid to upper 90's, had seven days with highs in the 60's and only two above 90.
If this is the affect of global warming on my area, then I'm all for it.;-)
It looks to be the popular slam of the day to attack Gibson over this.
I disagree. Look at the differences in style between the write-up on Gibson's web site and the article by Russinovich. Mark's article analyzes the technical issues and calmly points out what probably resulted in this vulnerability without making ridiculous claims--Gibson's site, on the other hand, spins all sorts of conspiracy theories and tries to make him look like a hero for "discovering" this evil deed perpetrated on us by Microsoft.
Look at some of the other things Gibson has done over the years and in the responses to it you'll see much more valid criticism than slams.
Gibson is the king of hype. He jumps on whatever the current security "hot button" currently is, applies his own peculiar bit of spin, and then pats himself on the back for being so cleaver.
Remember, this is the guy who, dispite claiming to be a security expert, "invented" his own broken implementation of SYN Cookies (G.E.N.E.S.Y.S.) and then claimed he had no prior knowledge of the invention of SYN Cookies several years earlier by DJB et. al. See http://grc.com/r&d/nomoredos.htm
I know there are a few efforts to port it in the *BSD world, so it seems they're not too worried about any patents.
The thing that really makes ZFS cool is its simple, but powerful administrative interface. It literally takes me two minutes to set up a complex system in ZFS that takes over an hour to do the equivalent in Linux.
Yep, I remember this as well. One of the routine things I had to do years ago was replace the filters in all of the drives. They had replaceable microfilters that looked similar to the air filter on a car that filtered out all the airbourne stuff that could make the drive crash. Letting them get too dirty was a sure way to wreck a $10,000 drive.
Another fun thing I did back then was write a program that made the drive seek in such a way as to make it "walk" across the floor. Of course, we're talking about drives the size of a washing machine here, not the tiny drives we have today.
This law, if passed, would result in everyone going out and buying the soon-to-be-banned equipment in the one-year grace period.
This will be just like the assault weapon ban in California where people who otherwise would never have bought one went out and did so just because of the impending ban. The end result in that case was far more assault weapons in circulation as a direct result of the ban than ever would have been otherwise.
If this law passes, Hollywood is shooting themselves in the foot in more ways than one.
In fact, hiding behind NAT gives you about 17 million potential addresses. Anybody trying to get info on your computer or network has to first find the needle in the hay stack.
That's true, but I'd be willing to bet that more than 90% of all NAT addresses currently in use fall in the range 192.168.1.1 through 192.168.1.10.
I don't want my refrigerator, lighting, A/C & furnace controls (hypothetically) on a public IP. I also don't need my printer, TiVo, Myth box to have a dedicated public IP because those too are private devices and I'd rather keep layer of abstraction for them with port forwarding and some form of authentication to restrict unwanted accesses.
Fine. There's nothing in the IPv6 spec that says you can't still use NAT if you want to. It's just that eliminating the need to NAT because of an address space shortage will make things better for people who want to have devices with globally reachable addresses but can't do it now because of the shortage.
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Your "highly skilled" workers are snatching away our jobs because they're willing to work for peanuts, but because they're any better technically, and this appeals to the short-sighted interests of American companies who don't see the long-range damage that this will do to the American economy.
I'm hoping for the opposite. Now that one party doesn't control both houses, I'm hoping that there will be more logjams resulting in fewer new laws passed.
We have more than enough laws, regulations, and restrictions already without needing another few thousand more over the next few years. In fact, congress should take some time to go back and repeal all of the worthless, outdated, and stupid laws they've passed over the years (starting with the misnamed "Patriot Act").
When Chuckie Schumer was elected to the senate a few years ago, he declared that he had a "passion to legislate". Great, just what we need. In my opinion, a "passion to legislate" should be a federal crime.
This is total bullshit. There are root name servers in many cities in countries (via anycast) other than the U.S., including Madrid, Hong Kong, Rome, Auckland, Sao Paulo, Peking, Seoul, Moscow, Taipei, Dubai, Paris, Singapore, Brisbane, Toronto, Monterrey, Lisbon, Johannesburg, Tel Aviv, Jakarta, Munich, Osaka, Prague, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Nairobi, Madras, London, Santiago de Chile, Dhaka, Karachi and Buenos Aires.
Is this an international enough list for you?
Strange comments coming from a guy who's distro has always been known for its dirt brown look.
Ah, a way for us to finally invade Cuba. We all contribute to this guy's defense fund, get declared enemy combatants, get shipped to Cuba, and, as a force 300 million strong, take over the island.
And I'm just a home user. Expand this to large organizations and we're talking about lots of power and cooling. Unused CPU cycles are not free.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I don't know about you guys, but I will truely morn when Armstrong, Aldrin, Bean, etc., pass on.
Everyone knows that the 747 crashed into the Capitol building, not the Pentagon. Oh wait, that was a Tom Clancy novel. Damn it.
This is nothing new. All telephone central offices have been running on -48v DC for many years.
If you can swing it, a visit to a CO is very interesting. There are large rooms full of lead-acid batteries, and since the voltage is low, amperages are high and the equipment is connected to the battery banks by thick copper bus bars and cables that look like they could be used to jump start a 18-wheeler.
If AOL goes through with this, I'll just scrub all AOL email addresses from my mailing lists. If AOL subscribers complain, I'll tell them to complain to AOL, not me. I'll also tell them if they want back on the list(s), switch to a provider with a clue.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
But the Danes are not Muslim, so why should they be bound by Islamic law? That's like saying the Danes are violating Islamic law by eating pork, or that the Saudis are violating Catholic law my practicing polygamy.
And many of those producers of art, etc., lived life as paupers unless they could find a rich patron to support them because they certainly didn't make much of a living from their work.
Microsoft is a corporation. Their goal is to make money for their shareholders. What they've done here is weigh the risk of bad publicity if they don't fix this worm before it activates versus how much it would cost to fix it now. They apparantly feel that the risk of bad publicity outweighs the cost of the fix.
I've been keeping weather records where I live in Northern California for the last 21 years, and 2005 was the coolest year I've recorded. So average temps may be going up for the world as a whole, but the last several years here have been among the coolest I've seen since I started keeping records in 1985.
;-)
Last September, traditionally one of the hottest months here, with average high temperatues in the mid to upper 90's, had seven days with highs in the 60's and only two above 90.
If this is the affect of global warming on my area, then I'm all for it.
I disagree. Look at the differences in style between the write-up on Gibson's web site and the article by Russinovich. Mark's article analyzes the technical issues and calmly points out what probably resulted in this vulnerability without making ridiculous claims--Gibson's site, on the other hand, spins all sorts of conspiracy theories and tries to make him look like a hero for "discovering" this evil deed perpetrated on us by Microsoft.
Look at some of the other things Gibson has done over the years and in the responses to it you'll see much more valid criticism than slams.
Gibson is the king of hype. He jumps on whatever the current security "hot button" currently is, applies his own peculiar bit of spin, and then pats himself on the back for being so cleaver.
Remember, this is the guy who, dispite claiming to be a security expert, "invented" his own broken implementation of SYN Cookies (G.E.N.E.S.Y.S.) and then claimed he had no prior knowledge of the invention of SYN Cookies several years earlier by DJB et. al. See http://grc.com/r&d/nomoredos.htm
I know there are a few efforts to port it in the *BSD world, so it seems they're not too worried about any patents.
The thing that really makes ZFS cool is its simple, but powerful administrative interface. It literally takes me two minutes to set up a complex system in ZFS that takes over an hour to do the equivalent in Linux.
Is anyone working on porting Sun's ZFS to Linux? Now that's a really cool filesystem.
Yep, I remember this as well. One of the routine things I had to do years ago was replace the filters in all of the drives. They had replaceable microfilters that looked similar to the air filter on a car that filtered out all the airbourne stuff that could make the drive crash. Letting them get too dirty was a sure way to wreck a $10,000 drive.
Another fun thing I did back then was write a program that made the drive seek in such a way as to make it "walk" across the floor. Of course, we're talking about drives the size of a washing machine here, not the tiny drives we have today.
This law, if passed, would result in everyone going out and buying the soon-to-be-banned equipment in the one-year grace period.
This will be just like the assault weapon ban in California where people who otherwise would never have bought one went out and did so just because of the impending ban. The end result in that case was far more assault weapons in circulation as a direct result of the ban than ever would have been otherwise.
If this law passes, Hollywood is shooting themselves in the foot in more ways than one.
So does this mean that using the Vista UI will feel like wading through a knee-deep pool of molassis just like it does on Mac OS X?
So it can install its rootkit?
That's true, but I'd be willing to bet that more than 90% of all NAT addresses currently in use fall in the range 192.168.1.1 through 192.168.1.10.
Fine. There's nothing in the IPv6 spec that says you can't still use NAT if you want to. It's just that eliminating the need to NAT because of an address space shortage will make things better for people who want to have devices with globally reachable addresses but can't do it now because of the shortage.