Or does corporate America avoid this entire opportunity/entanglement/briar patch?
Yes, to a large degree, and they're stuck in the last century. IP has always been an imaginary government monopoly meant to enhance the business interests of a certain caste; originally that was the author/inventor, but that ship has long sailed - now it's corporate profits almost exclusively (and you may find exceptions that prove the rule).
The next century will be on the Internet and artificial scarcity will be seen as a quixotic relic. Understand this and move forward - businesses that do will outcompete businesses that don't because they're going with nature, not against it. You do still need to keep yourself out of courts, because the death throes of the old corporations will be violent, but use your legal team as protection from other corporations, not protection from customers.
If your company cannot embrace the future and *you* get it, then that's a great signal to move on to a place with a positive slope. These are, of course, long-term trends, but fighting the brushfires of a losing battle is no way to spend one's life.
Intel offered to replace any P5 with the FDIV bug upon request.
Fortunately most of the P5's were socketed with a trivial heatsink. People with i7 48xx and 49xx laptops are going to be caught up in this - those could have been a really nice portable KVM machine with TSX.
Then again, Intel chips are so expensive they must have the cost of a possible recall built into each one.
Wireline services aren't natural monopolies. Anybody watching TV on FiOS or making a phone call on Cable can attest to that.
But... they are very frequently granted cartel or hegemony status, benefit from all sorts of incumbent protection regulations, and almost certainly feature regulatory capture. These are features of fascism, not monopolies, which is arguably much worse.
Depending on geography, roads may be natural monopolies. Dams on rivers, extraction of resources on a given land, that sort of thing. Water, gas, and electric services are usually granted monopolies, but if they abuse prices enough there's nothing that explicitly prevents a competing water or gas line, other than government interference. In the presence of such regulations, you'll see rainwater collection, solar panels, propane tanks, etc.
There can also be a high barrier to entry that makes competition a poor finance decison. If your whole town is wired for cable it takes a lot of money to go after that market because you have a large investment with a slow initial pay-off. But again, FTTH has been done in competitive markets - there just needs to be billions to back it.
is probably worth eliminating the huge numbers of terrible employees who can't work it out.
Maybe it's like making pre-meds take organic chem. It's not very useful to them as a physician (c.f. biochem), but if you can't make it through organic chem you're never going to make it through med school. It's a well-known 'weed class'.
If you combine this with the fact that most high-level employees don't come through the front door, it starts to make some sense.
And, yeah, Layer6/7 confusion isn't the best way to get a tech job.
It looks pretty awful on anything with a HD resolution these days so that probably wouldn't help it.
So does Star Trek (TOS, heck even some of TNG) but people still love watching them for the stories and they always make the Netflix most-popular lists.
And, heck, arguably B5 has a better story than Trek ever did.
Lots of places can get a text through where voice calls will fail. Especially if you're down in a ravine off a road in a marginal area.
Now then, I've had a cell phone for 18 years and nothing has changed (regarding coverage gaps - the bills have gone way up). Curious that the FCC is just noticing this now - maybe one of the Commissioners left the metropolis for a few days.
For a company headquarters job I did recently we looked at a bunch of options, and went with a dozen WNDR3800 refurbs for about $50 a piece. Running OpenWRT with luci-ssl and wpad (not mini, for WPA2) installed on them.
Great for doing multiple SSID's over VLAN's back to the routers/firewalls for handling. After doing another job with a "big company brand" central controller and "dumb" AP's, I'd go the OpenWRT route again in a heartbeat. You waste a few hours configuring a dozen instead of a few weeks debugging a nasty, buggy, proprietary deployment.
There wasn't a huge budget so instead of buying twelve new ones we went with 16 refurbs. The 4 spares are still on the shelf a year later, knock on RSSI.
This model has a lot of users, projects like CeroWRT have chosen it as a target, and the OpenWRT wiki has it very well documented (port numbers, VLAN setup, etc.) Even a real power switch (next to the integrated gigabit switch) and a USB port. What it doesn't have is external connectors for big antennas, so if you need to do long-haul, either solder them on or look elsewhere.
N-range is not good on any compliant hardware, so for a typical house I just get two of these and give them the same SSID's on different channels and then there's great signal everywhere. The OpenWRT wiki's HOWTO on deploying a Guest SSID works well (I've done those for neighbors) but given the option I prefer to send the traffic back over a VLAN to a pfSense firewall and handle it there instead. That's fine for commercial but makes less sense in a typical residential install.
Oracle is Blocking Downloads to Russian IP addresses? Is there anybody who thinks this will in anyway help?
Some idiots at the State Department, apparently. As much as Oracle will do whatever they're told to keep the gravy train rolling, I doubt/they/ think it's a sensible idea.
Which, considering how much of their stuff runs on Java, you'd think they'd have an interest in keeping the platform working and widely used.
Why? That's an expense. Oracle bought Sun for two things: to get SPARC's highly threadded architecture to make the existing database product continue to scale, and also to get the Java patents to sue Google into cross-licensing its very large distributed database patents. They still haven't given up on the latter and the former will run out of steam in the not too distant future.
If everybody hates Java and uninstalls it, that's one fewer thing for Oracle to maintain. The patents will be legal even if the product is cancelled. That's also why you don't see them just dumping it on Apache, which would be a good thing for the community, but bad for patent prosecution.
Google has been using dozens of quality metrics for years to adjust its rankings. This isn't a new concept.
It's not clear to me which HTTPS configurations it's favoring, though. Is Strict Transport Security a requirement? People with high-longevity system needs are going to need to upgrade to EL7 to make good HTTPS feasible, so there will be a transition period.
As far as standards - look, W3C, IETF, et. al. have completely failed to keep up. From 1993 to 1997 we went from HTTP 0.9 to to HTTP 1.1, which is where we are today. HTTP 2.0 will have been languishing for two decades by time there's a standard and any significant adoption. That's not Internet-time.
Google has made some mistakes with SPDY and QIC but at least they're actually trying to move the ball down the field instead of just arguing on the sidelines. It used to be that lots of players would do the same thing and fairly quickly a concensus would emerge. We have a serious breakage problem in the current community process. Google is doing it right - it's everybody else that's not.
You have to upgrade to 4.3.0.37 on Linux to obtain connections. They've cut off earlier versions.
Yeah, tell me about it. I have some *hardware* Skype devices (embedded linux at the heart of them) that Microsoft has cut off.
Several $250 video phones, now e-waste. It would be nice if the vendor upgraded them to a current version, but I realize that's a major engineering effort with the changes in Skype from v2 to v4, and it's a discontinued hardware model year. I'm more surprised that the vendor did not have a good contract with Skype to keep the service running (it's only been 2-3 years since purchase). Or maybe Microsoft is just taking the "yeah, sue us, we have forty billion dollars and 2000 lawyers" approach.
A proper response would be to sending out an email to ALL active accounts and their billing addresses notifying them of all the versions that were being discontinued due to the change.
That seems like overkill - they only need to send messages to people who have recently connected from a discontinued version.
So, either you have to conclude that everybody who works for these agencies has bought into the Kool-Aid of fascism
Did you miss how this went last time? These employees are "just following orders." Or perhaps we should change that to "just paying the mortgage" this time around. Also, 'cause terrists.
Snowden is a leaker, but unless you suppose a fifth column inside the TLA's, then they're all sticking their necks really far out to just do that. The entire abuse reporting process is a sham, so the only option is to go all the way. Many people would rather "pay the mortgage" than to be prosecuted for treason. The sham of a reporting process is a well-known factor and really good for keeping such a tight self-reinforcing environment.
Have you not been paying attention? It clearly doesn't bind the FBI, NSA, or CIA. In maybe one in a thousand cases you might catch them and you might get redress, but 999/1000 is the reality.
1. There is no motive for a conspiracy. 2. There is no evidence of a conspiracy.
We should be honest in our assessment of what these people think, even if we disagree with their conclusions. The predominant theory holds that MH370 was hijacked to Diego Garcia for future use as a false flag operation (motive). They point to things like the window configurations being the same in the MH17 wreckage and MH370 but different in ground shots of MH17, or rotten corpses in the wreckage (evidence, if it were true).
Their theories have trouble more on the level of "OK, so what happened to the real MH17 then?" and other logical inconsistencies, or even just showing evidence that "evidence" is in fact true ("why do you think that window configuration photo is MH17, because somebody said so? - where's the wide shot with the tail number?").
It doesn't help them much that Joe Biden's son just got appointed to the board of Gazprom in Ukraine or that Israel launched a ground invasion of Gaza as soon as MH17 went down - the willingness of certain groups of people to do evil, nefarious things isn't in question.
$20M isn't all that much when you're talking about the costs of building a space center. The savings from not having to jump through neverending bureaucratic hoops probably far exceeds $20M.
And not just monetary savings, but the cost of delays, probably more significantly.
Except that IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc all have extensive documentation with examples. It's basically open source that sucks in this regard.
Sun always had fantastic documentation as well (try to find an old SunSolve CD). And you needed it, because it was Solaris, but if you followed it to the T, stuff worked. Unless it was buggy, but that wasn't the writers' problem.
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Or does corporate America avoid this entire opportunity/entanglement/briar patch?
Yes, to a large degree, and they're stuck in the last century. IP has always been an imaginary government monopoly meant to enhance the business interests of a certain caste; originally that was the author/inventor, but that ship has long sailed - now it's corporate profits almost exclusively (and you may find exceptions that prove the rule).
The next century will be on the Internet and artificial scarcity will be seen as a quixotic relic. Understand this and move forward - businesses that do will outcompete businesses that don't because they're going with nature, not against it. You do still need to keep yourself out of courts, because the death throes of the old corporations will be violent, but use your legal team as protection from other corporations, not protection from customers.
If your company cannot embrace the future and *you* get it, then that's a great signal to move on to a place with a positive slope. These are, of course, long-term trends, but fighting the brushfires of a losing battle is no way to spend one's life.
No good reason? Really?
Look on the bright side - with Type-D they'll figure out how to go reversible and genderless and then we'll be done for good.
Intel offered to replace any P5 with the FDIV bug upon request.
Fortunately most of the P5's were socketed with a trivial heatsink. People with i7 48xx and 49xx laptops are going to be caught up in this - those could have been a really nice portable KVM machine with TSX.
Then again, Intel chips are so expensive they must have the cost of a possible recall built into each one.
Natural monopolies should never be for profit.
Wireline services aren't natural monopolies. Anybody watching TV on FiOS or making a phone call on Cable can attest to that.
But ... they are very frequently granted cartel or hegemony status, benefit from all sorts of incumbent protection regulations, and almost certainly feature regulatory capture. These are features of fascism, not monopolies, which is arguably much worse.
Depending on geography, roads may be natural monopolies. Dams on rivers, extraction of resources on a given land, that sort of thing. Water, gas, and electric services are usually granted monopolies, but if they abuse prices enough there's nothing that explicitly prevents a competing water or gas line, other than government interference. In the presence of such regulations, you'll see rainwater collection, solar panels, propane tanks, etc.
There can also be a high barrier to entry that makes competition a poor finance decison. If your whole town is wired for cable it takes a lot of money to go after that market because you have a large investment with a slow initial pay-off. But again, FTTH has been done in competitive markets - there just needs to be billions to back it.
is probably worth eliminating the huge numbers of terrible employees who can't work it out.
Maybe it's like making pre-meds take organic chem. It's not very useful to them as a physician (c.f. biochem), but if you can't make it through organic chem you're never going to make it through med school. It's a well-known 'weed class'.
If you combine this with the fact that most high-level employees don't come through the front door, it starts to make some sense.
And, yeah, Layer6/7 confusion isn't the best way to get a tech job.
DARPA: send beer
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Blackphone is the "you can't look at it, but trust us" self-proclaimed "security" company, right? And it's easily exploitable?
Dog-bites-man story.
It looks pretty awful on anything with a HD resolution these days so that probably wouldn't help it.
So does Star Trek (TOS, heck even some of TNG) but people still love watching them for the stories and they always make the Netflix most-popular lists.
And, heck, arguably B5 has a better story than Trek ever did.
Desktop is over. Everything is now tablet, and a few years ago was "The Year Of Linux On The Tablet," or Android anyway...
Yeah, the headline is misleading - Netflix has been working on linux for several years. Now there will be an X11 app that it will work with too.
Lots of places can get a text through where voice calls will fail. Especially if you're down in a ravine off a road in a marginal area.
Now then, I've had a cell phone for 18 years and nothing has changed (regarding coverage gaps - the bills have gone way up). Curious that the FCC is just noticing this now - maybe one of the Commissioners left the metropolis for a few days.
For a company headquarters job I did recently we looked at a bunch of options, and went with a dozen WNDR3800 refurbs for about $50 a piece. Running OpenWRT with luci-ssl and wpad (not mini, for WPA2) installed on them.
Great for doing multiple SSID's over VLAN's back to the routers/firewalls for handling. After doing another job with a "big company brand" central controller and "dumb" AP's, I'd go the OpenWRT route again in a heartbeat. You waste a few hours configuring a dozen instead of a few weeks debugging a nasty, buggy, proprietary deployment.
There wasn't a huge budget so instead of buying twelve new ones we went with 16 refurbs. The 4 spares are still on the shelf a year later, knock on RSSI.
This model has a lot of users, projects like CeroWRT have chosen it as a target, and the OpenWRT wiki has it very well documented (port numbers, VLAN setup, etc.) Even a real power switch (next to the integrated gigabit switch) and a USB port. What it doesn't have is external connectors for big antennas, so if you need to do long-haul, either solder them on or look elsewhere.
N-range is not good on any compliant hardware, so for a typical house I just get two of these and give them the same SSID's on different channels and then there's great signal everywhere. The OpenWRT wiki's HOWTO on deploying a Guest SSID works well (I've done those for neighbors) but given the option I prefer to send the traffic back over a VLAN to a pfSense firewall and handle it there instead. That's fine for commercial but makes less sense in a typical residential install.
Oracle is Blocking Downloads to Russian IP addresses? Is there anybody who thinks this will in anyway help?
Some idiots at the State Department, apparently. As much as Oracle will do whatever they're told to keep the gravy train rolling, I doubt /they/ think it's a sensible idea.
what Snowden has done is pretty much as if
Your spy bosses should fire you for being incompetent at online propaganda. Did you sleep through the training classes?
Two paygrade reductions would be the most kind you should expect.
Which, considering how much of their stuff runs on Java, you'd think they'd have an interest in keeping the platform working and widely used.
Why? That's an expense. Oracle bought Sun for two things: to get SPARC's highly threadded architecture to make the existing database product continue to scale, and also to get the Java patents to sue Google into cross-licensing its very large distributed database patents. They still haven't given up on the latter and the former will run out of steam in the not too distant future.
If everybody hates Java and uninstalls it, that's one fewer thing for Oracle to maintain. The patents will be legal even if the product is cancelled. That's also why you don't see them just dumping it on Apache, which would be a good thing for the community, but bad for patent prosecution.
Google has been using dozens of quality metrics for years to adjust its rankings. This isn't a new concept.
It's not clear to me which HTTPS configurations it's favoring, though. Is Strict Transport Security a requirement? People with high-longevity system needs are going to need to upgrade to EL7 to make good HTTPS feasible, so there will be a transition period.
As far as standards - look, W3C, IETF, et. al. have completely failed to keep up. From 1993 to 1997 we went from HTTP 0.9 to to HTTP 1.1, which is where we are today. HTTP 2.0 will have been languishing for two decades by time there's a standard and any significant adoption. That's not Internet-time.
Google has made some mistakes with SPDY and QIC but at least they're actually trying to move the ball down the field instead of just arguing on the sidelines. It used to be that lots of players would do the same thing and fairly quickly a concensus would emerge. We have a serious breakage problem in the current community process. Google is doing it right - it's everybody else that's not.
You have to upgrade to 4.3.0.37 on Linux to obtain connections. They've cut off earlier versions.
Yeah, tell me about it. I have some *hardware* Skype devices (embedded linux at the heart of them) that Microsoft has cut off.
Several $250 video phones, now e-waste. It would be nice if the vendor upgraded them to a current version, but I realize that's a major engineering effort with the changes in Skype from v2 to v4, and it's a discontinued hardware model year. I'm more surprised that the vendor did not have a good contract with Skype to keep the service running (it's only been 2-3 years since purchase). Or maybe Microsoft is just taking the "yeah, sue us, we have forty billion dollars and 2000 lawyers" approach.
A proper response would be to sending out an email to ALL active accounts and their billing addresses notifying them of all the versions that were being discontinued due to the change.
That seems like overkill - they only need to send messages to people who have recently connected from a discontinued version.
Hey, we told the IT guy to change the permissions on that folder to keep himself out. He must have been some kind of super-hacker to get past us...
He wrote the bloody backup system...
So, either you have to conclude that everybody who works for these agencies has bought into the Kool-Aid of fascism
Did you miss how this went last time? These employees are "just following orders." Or perhaps we should change that to "just paying the mortgage" this time around. Also, 'cause terrists.
Snowden is a leaker, but unless you suppose a fifth column inside the TLA's, then they're all sticking their necks really far out to just do that. The entire abuse reporting process is a sham, so the only option is to go all the way. Many people would rather "pay the mortgage" than to be prosecuted for treason. The sham of a reporting process is a well-known factor and really good for keeping such a tight self-reinforcing environment.
"turn it up to eleven " /me finally gets M-theory.
Have you not been paying attention? It clearly doesn't bind the FBI, NSA, or CIA. In maybe one in a thousand cases you might catch them and you might get redress, but 999/1000 is the reality.
1. There is no motive for a conspiracy.
2. There is no evidence of a conspiracy.
We should be honest in our assessment of what these people think, even if we disagree with their conclusions. The predominant theory holds that MH370 was hijacked to Diego Garcia for future use as a false flag operation (motive). They point to things like the window configurations being the same in the MH17 wreckage and MH370 but different in ground shots of MH17, or rotten corpses in the wreckage (evidence, if it were true).
Their theories have trouble more on the level of "OK, so what happened to the real MH17 then?" and other logical inconsistencies, or even just showing evidence that "evidence" is in fact true ("why do you think that window configuration photo is MH17, because somebody said so? - where's the wide shot with the tail number?").
It doesn't help them much that Joe Biden's son just got appointed to the board of Gazprom in Ukraine or that Israel launched a ground invasion of Gaza as soon as MH17 went down - the willingness of certain groups of people to do evil, nefarious things isn't in question.
$20M isn't all that much when you're talking about the costs of building a space center. The savings from not having to jump through neverending bureaucratic hoops probably far exceeds $20M.
And not just monetary savings, but the cost of delays, probably more significantly.
and building substantially more infrastructure. The economics does not support building a spaceport there.
And that's even before you figure in the administrative costs of dealing with all the corruption.
Except that IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc all have extensive documentation with examples. It's basically open source that sucks in this regard.
Sun always had fantastic documentation as well (try to find an old SunSolve CD). And you needed it, because it was Solaris, but if you followed it to the T, stuff worked. Unless it was buggy, but that wasn't the writers' problem.