If privatization meant an end to subsidies, and an end to monopolies, and an end to price gouging and fixing.. sure. None of it has. We just give the profits to private entities.
Then that's fascism. Stop railing against privatization if the problem is fascism.
An example from the US is the Postal Service vs. FedEx, UPS, etc. The private delivery services have squeezed every single nickel out of the process of delivering packages, and one of the ways they do this is cherry-picking the easy services to perform.
UPS, FedEx, and DHL will bring packages to my house. If somebody mails me a USPS package, I have a 9 mile drive to get it. And that's only because I've convinced the carrier to drop it at the nearer post office to me that she drives by, so I don't have a 22 mile trip to my 'assigned' post office.
I live five miles from the nearest city center in an area with 60,000 people, but "that's not how the routes go". It *is* how the non-USPS routes go - UPS even sells a service to approximate Travelling Salesman solutions.
I'm gonna make the presumption here that you don't have Gold support from Dell. Their m.o. is to treat you like shit until you buy the gold contract, and then treat you like, um, gold. That's where the money is - the boxes are loss-leaders, or at least minimal-margin devices that probably just break even.
If you boss is a fanboi, tell him to buy the gold support contract - it will make your life easier, and if you're stuck in a Dell shop, you likely don't need more aggravation anyway. Heck, outsource all of the IT to this new Dell services arm if you're the last guy left.
There might be some people who love their Dell sales rep, but most see them as a commodity. Shops who order Wintel from Dell and have the Gold contract are about easy and mainstream, not about shopping for the best pricing on the best solutions, and those represent a lot of the well-monied corporate interests in the US.
Dell has as much a chance at this as anybody else. When it comes down to it, if both Dell and HP are offering the same service and the client is already a Dell customer, it's *very* unlikely that they're going to see any product differentiation between the two and even more unlikely that they're going to expend the energy to switch vendors.
t isn't this is kind of like expecting Microsoft to host articles detailing how to pirate Microsoft products?
If SocialFixer can disable ads, I sure haven't seen it.
Here's how SocialFixer works for me: Without it, I don't use Facebook. It's UI is too horrible for me to contemplate. I've tried using it once or twice in the past year on some browser I have that didn't have SF installed, and I just stopped after about two minutes.
SocialFixer allows me to set non-blinding colors and layout, set the sort order I like, hide (e.g.) my third cousin's posts about her insane animal breeding business (8 times a day) and get image views with a mouseover. Doesn't sounds like much, but it cuts my frustration level by 90%.
If FB wants to kill SF, they've killed some segment of their user base (apparently at least 300,000).
Quite remarkable idea for a Firefox extension. I have to try it immediately!
You must be a nerd. Most of my FB friends *like* to complain about Facebook.
Them: "God, I hate it when FB does [thing]". Me: "You can install the SocialFixer extension to avoid [thing]. [link]. If you need any help installing it, let me know, I'd be happy to walk you through the setup." Them (one week later): "God, I hate it when FB does [thing]".
You're probably going to pay less for a second cable modem line than you will to store that much data in the cloud. Cloud processing is fairly cheap - cloud storage is expensive.
And then you won't have to re-tool anything else in your processes, except maybe adding another route or two. If you're doing that much data processing, the $200/mo for the line shouldn't really be a huge expense on the contract.
If you're looking to scale out this service to lots of companies, then the calculus might be different.
but it certainly requires legal protection to sell something that requires almost no physical effort to reproduce.
Not if you want support from the guys who wrote it. Which, incidentally, describes some of the arrangements I'm involved with regarding open source software, on both sides. Copyright has never been a factor.
If it makes you feel any better, the Israeli government pinky-promised that they wouldn't use it for anything bad.
I hear they have a booming tech industry over there. No, wait, we're supposed to be afraid of the Chinese somehow, possibly, maybe, remotely, doing corporate espionage.
Just to add to what you're saying here, allow me to illustrate.
I was doing some embedded FreeBSD work on an Atom board, and it had the PowerVR GPU. The VGA text console was all scrambled. This was in 2011, it's not like VGA is all that new.
It turns out that the VGA spec itself says that data can be written to the frame buffer in half-byte words. Every VGA implementation that FreeBSD had ever encountered worked with writing VGA text console data to the frame buffer a byte at a time. Until 20[8-10] when PowerVR decided to implement the letter of the spec, making it incompatible with at least the entire BSD world, and not so much as bother to test it. I'm going to assume they never bothered to test BSD because the other option is that they did test it, knew it was broken, probably knew why, but failed to send up a simple patch to the devs.
This would all have been fine and dandy except Intel decided to bolt their GPU onto their Atom platform. I dunno, maybe there was a patent licensing deal that caused this to happen, but sheesh - good riddance!
I've wondered why they chose NH for that -- seems to me a state with more resources and more space, and already more rooted in a culture of freedom and independence, might have been more appropriate, not to mention having more ability to sustain itself if need be. WY or MT or ND, maybe.
NH does have a culture of freedom and independence - most locals are libertarian in nature, if not political. But the biggest issue is that a large state is bad for activism. In NH, every activist can be in any place in the State in less than 3 hours, and the median time is under an hour. There was a protest rally a few weeks ago, organized in less than a week, and 300 people showed up. Montana can be 14 hours from corner to corner.
It's also very important to have a seaport, to keep options open. A landlocked State can ultimately only exert a certain amount of power. Montana at least has Canada as a border, but no access to shipping itself.
At least with FreeBSD 9 there were two compilers in the base install (GCC, LLVM), and you have the option of keeping GCC in 10 if you really want.
Right, FreeBSD 9 was doing it the best way, and now FreeBSD 10 is doing it a worse way.
IOW, you're complaint is baseless and backwards.
If my complaint is "removing additional compilers from the base install will discourage their use", please describe how the complaint is baseless. Do you feel that having multiple compilers per platform is not an advantage for the platform's security posture? Please explain how that assertion is backwards, specifically in regards to the issue of trusting compilers.
When will we wake up... When will the common man stand his ground and tell those in power to go fuck themselves? When?
Historically, these things don't change with the common man. In 1775, about 17-18% of the American Colonists were secessionists, about 10% were loyalists, and the rest just went along with the status quo.
I don't think I've seen Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust come up more in the past decade than it has in the past week. Right now seems like a particularly inauspicious time to switch to a one-compiler-to-rule-them-all strategy.
I'm particularly interested in trying to build the gcc phase-1 bootstrap compiler with llvm to see how that works out (TODO list...).
I'm with you. The iPhone is just getting too damn small for my 2000 year-old eyes to see anymore. Make it bigger FFS! Stupid kids...
I don't intend to be mean, but cultural marketing is very much a part of Apple's brand strategy. They've sold a lot of iGear because they're *cool*. Not having "old people" use them may be part of that brand strategy.
That's actually not correct. RDRAND is an instruction in an Intel processor. You know what it is _supposed_ to do according to the documentation, but you don't know what it actually does.
And you can't even get to RNDRAND directly - you have to access it through Intel's "magic box in the middle that salts the hardware RNG with some magic FIPS algorithm involving some "secret" Intel key" - Jake Hamby.
Generate a public/private key using whatever entropy is on hand
I happened to read a discussion of this on Ted Tso's Google+ last night (stayed up way too late...) and the short answer is that there's not enough entropy on the newly booted system to make the strong keys required to bootstrap the equation.
To paraphrase, Ted called ISC retarded for creating a DNSSEC where the validation of a key required a strong entropy source on the client. He likened it to needing a private key to validate a GPG signature, which one does not.
So, the TODO list is to create a replacement for DNSSEC that does not require an entropy source to validate the transaction. I don't think this needs to replace DNSSEC - it can be narrow enough for only this usage. Bootstrapping protocols are often both stunted and useful.
Since I haven't had time to think about it myself, allow me to invite comments: does an encoded GPG-signed TXT record in plain-old DNS suffice here?
They can't discuss _WHAT_ they are being prevented from saying but they can most certainly say that they aren't allowed to say something.
The NSL's say that you cannot say that you got an NSL. The First Amendment says you can, so it's a matter of who wants to bring the fight. Apparently Google, et. al. are bringing this one.
The voting numbers don't reflect that. 98% vote to keep things as they are. If people are so angry about it, they should be angry and embarrassed with themselves. Our communications systems are better than ever. There is no excuse.
The 2% is moving to New Hampshire. It's the communication systems you mention that even makes this possible. Where it goes from here, only time will tell, but keeping that 2% spread out and politically powerless is not a solution. Political migrations are slow and difficult, but have a proven track record over a long-enough time period.
It's not entirely the fault of the populace that they are ignorant. Have you tried finding out in what way GMO foods at your local supermarket have been modified?
It's precisely the fault of the FDA - they attack companies who try to label foods as non-GMO. It's a blatant First Amendment violation, but who can fault the the companies for not funding a challenge when there are Monsanto lawyers on the Supreme Court?
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If privatization meant an end to subsidies, and an end to monopolies, and an end to price gouging and fixing.. sure. None of it has. We just give the profits to private entities.
Then that's fascism. Stop railing against privatization if the problem is fascism.
An example from the US is the Postal Service vs. FedEx, UPS, etc. The private delivery services have squeezed every single nickel out of the process of delivering packages, and one of the ways they do this is cherry-picking the easy services to perform.
UPS, FedEx, and DHL will bring packages to my house. If somebody mails me a USPS package, I have a 9 mile drive to get it. And that's only because I've convinced the carrier to drop it at the nearer post office to me that she drives by, so I don't have a 22 mile trip to my 'assigned' post office.
I live five miles from the nearest city center in an area with 60,000 people, but "that's not how the routes go". It *is* how the non-USPS routes go - UPS even sells a service to approximate Travelling Salesman solutions.
USPS is the one that cherry-picks easy services.
I'm gonna make the presumption here that you don't have Gold support from Dell. Their m.o. is to treat you like shit until you buy the gold contract, and then treat you like, um, gold. That's where the money is - the boxes are loss-leaders, or at least minimal-margin devices that probably just break even.
If you boss is a fanboi, tell him to buy the gold support contract - it will make your life easier, and if you're stuck in a Dell shop, you likely don't need more aggravation anyway. Heck, outsource all of the IT to this new Dell services arm if you're the last guy left.
There might be some people who love their Dell sales rep, but most see them as a commodity. Shops who order Wintel from Dell and have the Gold contract are about easy and mainstream, not about shopping for the best pricing on the best solutions, and those represent a lot of the well-monied corporate interests in the US.
Dell has as much a chance at this as anybody else. When it comes down to it, if both Dell and HP are offering the same service and the client is already a Dell customer, it's *very* unlikely that they're going to see any product differentiation between the two and even more unlikely that they're going to expend the energy to switch vendors.
t isn't this is kind of like expecting Microsoft to host articles detailing how to pirate Microsoft products?
If SocialFixer can disable ads, I sure haven't seen it.
Here's how SocialFixer works for me: Without it, I don't use Facebook. It's UI is too horrible for me to contemplate. I've tried using it once or twice in the past year on some browser I have that didn't have SF installed, and I just stopped after about two minutes.
SocialFixer allows me to set non-blinding colors and layout, set the sort order I like, hide (e.g.) my third cousin's posts about her insane animal breeding business (8 times a day) and get image views with a mouseover. Doesn't sounds like much, but it cuts my frustration level by 90%.
If FB wants to kill SF, they've killed some segment of their user base (apparently at least 300,000).
Quite remarkable idea for a Firefox extension. I have to try it immediately!
You must be a nerd. Most of my FB friends *like* to complain about Facebook.
Them: "God, I hate it when FB does [thing]".
Me: "You can install the SocialFixer extension to avoid [thing]. [link]. If you need any help installing it, let me know, I'd be happy to walk you through the setup."
Them (one week later): "God, I hate it when FB does [thing]".
Like every updated forcing me to "like" his page automatically, so I have to unlike it on every update.
It's easier to set it to not show in news feed, unless you really want the NSA to not know that you use SocialFixer.
And go where, Yahoo, G+, Geocities?
See .sig. But we need somebody with resources to monetize the tech. Academics and business plans don't always (often?) come from the same place.
The Web won out over AOL (et. al.), despite AOL's early-mover advantage. Social networking will eventually do the same thing, for the same reasons.
nah, look at the comments - most people are debating the SSD Hot/Crazy Scale and arguing about the best backup strategies.
You're probably going to pay less for a second cable modem line than you will to store that much data in the cloud. Cloud processing is fairly cheap - cloud storage is expensive.
And then you won't have to re-tool anything else in your processes, except maybe adding another route or two. If you're doing that much data processing, the $200/mo for the line shouldn't really be a huge expense on the contract.
If you're looking to scale out this service to lots of companies, then the calculus might be different.
but it certainly requires legal protection to sell something that requires almost no physical effort to reproduce.
Not if you want support from the guys who wrote it. Which, incidentally, describes some of the arrangements I'm involved with regarding open source software, on both sides. Copyright has never been a factor.
If it makes you feel any better, the Israeli government pinky-promised that they wouldn't use it for anything bad.
I hear they have a booming tech industry over there. No, wait, we're supposed to be afraid of the Chinese somehow, possibly, maybe, remotely, doing corporate espionage.
the Constitution, that is, the social contract that separates our country and society from Malthusian consequences
That Constitution has either enabled the current situation or has been powerless to prevent it. I'm leading more towards Jefferson's distrust of it.
Wasn't this the whole basis of the Echelon program?
Just to add to what you're saying here, allow me to illustrate.
I was doing some embedded FreeBSD work on an Atom board, and it had the PowerVR GPU. The VGA text console was all scrambled. This was in 2011, it's not like VGA is all that new.
It turns out that the VGA spec itself says that data can be written to the frame buffer in half-byte words. Every VGA implementation that FreeBSD had ever encountered worked with writing VGA text console data to the frame buffer a byte at a time. Until 20[8-10] when PowerVR decided to implement the letter of the spec, making it incompatible with at least the entire BSD world, and not so much as bother to test it. I'm going to assume they never bothered to test BSD because the other option is that they did test it, knew it was broken, probably knew why, but failed to send up a simple patch to the devs.
This would all have been fine and dandy except Intel decided to bolt their GPU onto their Atom platform. I dunno, maybe there was a patent licensing deal that caused this to happen, but sheesh - good riddance!
I've wondered why they chose NH for that -- seems to me a state with more resources and more space, and already more rooted in a culture of freedom and independence, might have been more appropriate, not to mention having more ability to sustain itself if need be. WY or MT or ND, maybe.
NH does have a culture of freedom and independence - most locals are libertarian in nature, if not political. But the biggest issue is that a large state is bad for activism. In NH, every activist can be in any place in the State in less than 3 hours, and the median time is under an hour. There was a protest rally a few weeks ago, organized in less than a week, and 300 people showed up. Montana can be 14 hours from corner to corner.
It's also very important to have a seaport, to keep options open. A landlocked State can ultimately only exert a certain amount of power. Montana at least has Canada as a border, but no access to shipping itself.
They also list more reasons here.
At least with FreeBSD 9 there were two compilers in the base install (GCC, LLVM), and you have the option of keeping GCC in 10 if you really want.
Right, FreeBSD 9 was doing it the best way, and now FreeBSD 10 is doing it a worse way.
IOW, you're complaint is baseless and backwards.
If my complaint is "removing additional compilers from the base install will discourage their use", please describe how the complaint is baseless. Do you feel that having multiple compilers per platform is not an advantage for the platform's security posture? Please explain how that assertion is backwards, specifically in regards to the issue of trusting compilers.
When will we wake up... When will the common man stand his ground and tell those in power to go fuck themselves? When?
Historically, these things don't change with the common man. In 1775, about 17-18% of the American Colonists were secessionists, about 10% were loyalists, and the rest just went along with the status quo.
I don't think I've seen Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust come up more in the past decade than it has in the past week. Right now seems like a particularly inauspicious time to switch to a one-compiler-to-rule-them-all strategy.
I'm particularly interested in trying to build the gcc phase-1 bootstrap compiler with llvm to see how that works out (TODO list...).
I'm with you. The iPhone is just getting too damn small for my 2000 year-old eyes to see anymore. Make it bigger FFS! Stupid kids...
I don't intend to be mean, but cultural marketing is very much a part of Apple's brand strategy. They've sold a lot of iGear because they're *cool*. Not having "old people" use them may be part of that brand strategy.
That's actually not correct. RDRAND is an instruction in an Intel processor. You know what it is _supposed_ to do according to the documentation, but you don't know what it actually does.
And you can't even get to RNDRAND directly - you have to access it through Intel's "magic box in the middle that salts the hardware RNG with some magic FIPS algorithm involving some "secret" Intel key" - Jake Hamby.
But, sure, mix it in to the pool.
Generate a public/private key using whatever entropy is on hand
I happened to read a discussion of this on Ted Tso's Google+ last night (stayed up way too late...) and the short answer is that there's not enough entropy on the newly booted system to make the strong keys required to bootstrap the equation.
To paraphrase, Ted called ISC retarded for creating a DNSSEC where the validation of a key required a strong entropy source on the client. He likened it to needing a private key to validate a GPG signature, which one does not.
So, the TODO list is to create a replacement for DNSSEC that does not require an entropy source to validate the transaction. I don't think this needs to replace DNSSEC - it can be narrow enough for only this usage. Bootstrapping protocols are often both stunted and useful.
Since I haven't had time to think about it myself, allow me to invite comments: does an encoded GPG-signed TXT record in plain-old DNS suffice here?
They can't discuss _WHAT_ they are being prevented from saying but they can most certainly say that they aren't allowed to say something.
The NSL's say that you cannot say that you got an NSL. The First Amendment says you can, so it's a matter of who wants to bring the fight. Apparently Google, et. al. are bringing this one.
The voting numbers don't reflect that. 98% vote to keep things as they are. If people are so angry about it, they should be angry and embarrassed with themselves. Our communications systems are better than ever. There is no excuse.
The 2% is moving to New Hampshire. It's the communication systems you mention that even makes this possible. Where it goes from here, only time will tell, but keeping that 2% spread out and politically powerless is not a solution. Political migrations are slow and difficult, but have a proven track record over a long-enough time period.
It's not entirely the fault of the populace that they are ignorant. Have you tried finding out in what way GMO foods at your local supermarket have been modified?
It's precisely the fault of the FDA - they attack companies who try to label foods as non-GMO. It's a blatant First Amendment violation, but who can fault the the companies for not funding a challenge when there are Monsanto lawyers on the Supreme Court?