The correct solution to this problem isn't to add more and more layers of complexity on top
Haven't you heard? The solution to 'bad government' is always 'more bad government'.
The US Federal Government makes Microsoft Windows, with is bad security design and a bunch of bolt-on parts to work around that, look downright elegant in comparison.
Unless you're flying to receive an organ transplant the next day, it's always an option.
Granted, some people would rather reap the rewards of flying, but that's a value judgment.
In a world where everybody could band together to crush the ridiculous traffic ticket revenue machine by simply challenging every ticket in court - but they don't because they'd rather pay than confront - I don't see 'opt out' as an effective enough strategy. I guess it's better than nothing if that's the minimum you're willing to do, though.
neither is the physics of humongously strong signals next to a band where the signals are below the noise floor
Sometimes Slashdotters only see the technical arguments. Lightsquared has a somewhat-valid technical argument - if GPS receivers are intended to work on only one band they should take precautionary measures to reject potential interference from neighboring bands.
But, this was never a problem before, so nobody who makes civilian GPS receivers bothered to do so (I presume milspec receivers have decent filters). Lightsquared can be technically correct and still make everybody's GPS units worthless. Heck, a court might even agree with them - they tend to operate in a strict legalistic manner, ignoring reality.
I did this about 8 years ago. I just updated things as e-mails came in, I made orders, or whatever. I probably got the last one done about two years after I started, but the 98% bulk was done in 3 months.
Pick a name you're unlikely to lose interest in and plan on using it forever.
I agree with the other poster who said you should retain the domain for now and set up DNS records and mail rules for the other guy until you're done moving stuff over.
Right, Mozilla is going to compete with Google's Android resources.
I love Firefox, and they have one fabulous engineer working on memory leak problems, but just one (he should be managing a team by now).
They don't have the resources to compete or out-do Android, so any resources they spend on this project will essentially be wasted.
Here's a suggestion: allocate these resources into Mobile Firefox (is it still called 'fennec'?). Make that awesome. Make me want to run Mobile Firefox instead of Dolphin HD (a small independent browser).
Then, and only then, will it be worthwhile to start working down the stack. Replace the runtime next, then the subsystems, then the kernel. It just might wind up being excellent. Meanwhile, Android is OSS and there's no reason to re-invent that wheel at this time.
Oooh, look, we've got a Slashdotter who believes the propaganda. This should be enlightening.
How does your lying about the history and reality of binary explosives help whatever point you're trying to make?
Tell us how a 3oz prohibition, per bottle, helps with your Hollywood movie-script danger.
It's 3oz per bottle, not person. Bringing 6 bottles on board won't phase any TSA screener. The 9/11 hijackings were five men per plane. That's 90oz of binary explosive on board an airplane. Assuming it's possible to successfully mix it onboard, for the sake of argument, the TSA's rules have allowed way more explosive onboard than is needed to take the tail of the plane clean off from the rear bathroom.
Meanwhile, they don't even pressure-test checked baggage (like Israel does) for barometer bombs (something that actually has killed hundreds of Americans in airline terrorism) and 60% of penetration tests of the TSA have succeeded (or failed, depending on your perspective).
As a consequence, the US economy has lost over $600B (and climbing) in tourism revenue. Osama Bin Laden got the US Government to attack its own country with economic sanctions and blockades and infringe its people's liberties. Buy, hey, maybe they won't "hate us because we're free" anymore, since we aren't?
What level of evidence is necessary to convince you that this is all about propaganda and obedience conditioning? Is there no point where the critical thinking reflex kicks in, despite official pronouncements?
the fucked-up tax code where 46% pay no income tax at all.
Hey, only 54% more to go.
No, but really, your statement is false. Income taxes are part of the cost of goods. On an average basis, 22% of the price of good you pay in the store goes to pay the income taxes of those in the product stream.
If your taxes went up $10000, you'd want $10000 more from your employer (with a small margin of elasticity) and your employer would raise his prices to cover that. By time the income taxes of the farmer, the fertilizer manufacturer, the truck drivers (and the road maintenance crews), the grain mill operators, the bakers, the wholesalers, the grocery store owner, the stock boy, the checkout clerk, and the bagger are paid, the $2 loaf of bread contains about 50 cents in income taxes. That's a 22% income tax paid by the most needy.
And now that that loaf of bread is $3, they're paying a 12%-ish inflation tax every year too. To help fund the Wall Street bailouts to stockholders of the Federal Reserve Bank.
So, the minimum effective tax rate in the US is now about 35%. People who pay direct income taxes can add that number to the top. And somehow US workers can't be labor price-competitive with China or Mexcio...
Remember when Steve Jobs came out on stage and told everybody the iPhone was going to have these great web apps you could write and download? And everyone said web apps suck and clamored for a real native API? And they were right?
That was Steve Jobs trying to snow people. The API wasn't ready, so he told everybody it wasn't necessary. That was purely a stalling tactic. He did the same thing over and over throughout his career and people actually bought it.
The Reality Distortion Field can have a powerful effect on the weak minded.
Probably the best way of looking at it; 360MJ can instantly flash boil about 500 or so gallons of water. Which, since your body is 80% water, and you weigh maybe 200 pounds? Would be enough to instantaniously flash boil YOU!
Oh, so it's a Disruptor set on 'max'. You could've just said that.
I'll make an educated guess here and suppose that Santorum figures by banning condoms that AIDS will pick up again in the gay community and God's wrath will finally be exacted upon the wicked.
He also willfully ignores Mark 7:15 and Matthew 19:12, so take heed of Matthew 7:15.
A number of his policies are beyond impractical, venturing into batshit crazy.
Name five.
seeing how Democrats forgotten that they are supposed to be (relatively, compared to Republicans, which does not say much) anti-war.
How do you figure?
World War I: Wilson, Democrat World War II: Roosevelt, Democrat Korea: Truman, Democrat Vietnam: Kennedy, Democrat (Johnson, Democrat escalated) (Nixon, Republican ended it.) Grenada: Reagan, Republican Desert Storm: Bush I, Republican Somalia: Clinton, Democrat Bosnia: Clinton, Democrat Haiti: Clinton, Democrat Afghanistan: Bush II, Republican Iraq: Bush II Republican Yemen: Bush II, Republican Pakistan: Obama, Democrat Libya: Obama, Democrat North East Africa: Obama, Democrat Syria, Iran: Obama, Democrat (TBA)
And all the CIA operations are too numerous to list. n.b. I'm not advocating for the Republicans here, but rather against the notion that Democrats have any kind of claim to an anti-war reputation. If you care about ending wars, Ron Paul is the only choice (Commanders in Chief get to just order the troops home).
How many troll points do I get for pointing out that despite that, Ron Paul is still fourth behind Romney, Santorum and Gingrich?
None really, that's expected. You don't need to read a small stack of economics text books to understand what the other three are talking about.
While Ron Paul has only 20% support nationally, there are very few former Ron Paul supporters. His support ratchets while others' oscillates. It was 8% in 2008 - 2012 is only the second inning in this game.
No kidding. I was amazed to see people all over NYC taking pictures with their iPads. They're far too big and unwieldy to make a good camera, but these people seemed to be looking around to see who was watching them take pictures with their iPads.
In my neck of the woods, lots of people have iPads, but nobody uses them as cameras. We also tend to walk around in the latest fashions from L.L. Bean and Carhardt.
Yeah, just deploy the tablet without a window manager. Make your viewer run full-size on the root window.
I did something like this at a hospital c. 1996. It was pre-802.11 and the hardware was a Vadem Clio, but essentially one the connection got through to the VNC Server, the problem is the same.
You give advice or material support They commit the crime You are a conspirator. You go to jail.
In many jurisdictions "They commit the crime" is not required. They can prosecute you and your D&D buddies for planning a bank robbery, even if there's no provable intent to actually do it.
because Hollywood loves dressing teenagers in provocative, sexual outfits
I've read that a major children's entertainment company actually has logistical plans about how to maximize revenue by sexualizing each of their starlets as they age at the optimum rate.
Reddit is the low-hanging fruit. I wonder when Something Awful is going to call out the Lawyer Machine.
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The correct solution to this problem isn't to add more and more layers of complexity on top
Haven't you heard? The solution to 'bad government' is always 'more bad government'.
The US Federal Government makes Microsoft Windows, with is bad security design and a bunch of bolt-on parts to work around that, look downright elegant in comparison.
All it requires is one person, anywhere in the entire world, that can act as carrier to get something inside the airport security system.
You're exactly right. That it's never happened is proof, at a very high confidence level, that nobody actually wants to try it.
Per usual, the 'Generals' are fighting the last war. That's OK, what's a few trillion dollars and a quarter million lives here and there?
Except we have a right to travel without assault.
49 USC Section 40103 (a) (2):
the state was counter-threatened by the feds
And the State backed down like a bunch of yellow cowards. All hat, no cattle.
I totally agree, but this isn't always an option
Unless you're flying to receive an organ transplant the next day, it's always an option.
Granted, some people would rather reap the rewards of flying, but that's a value judgment.
In a world where everybody could band together to crush the ridiculous traffic ticket revenue machine by simply challenging every ticket in court - but they don't because they'd rather pay than confront - I don't see 'opt out' as an effective enough strategy. I guess it's better than nothing if that's the minimum you're willing to do, though.
neither is the physics of humongously strong signals next to a band where the signals are below the noise floor
Sometimes Slashdotters only see the technical arguments. Lightsquared has a somewhat-valid technical argument - if GPS receivers are intended to work on only one band they should take precautionary measures to reject potential interference from neighboring bands.
But, this was never a problem before, so nobody who makes civilian GPS receivers bothered to do so (I presume milspec receivers have decent filters). Lightsquared can be technically correct and still make everybody's GPS units worthless. Heck, a court might even agree with them - they tend to operate in a strict legalistic manner, ignoring reality.
Combine that with some over-simplifications, magic thinking and space aliens
Ah, you've discovered Phase II.
Certainly "Profit" worked out nicely.
I did this about 8 years ago. I just updated things as e-mails came in, I made orders, or whatever. I probably got the last one done about two years after I started, but the 98% bulk was done in 3 months.
Pick a name you're unlikely to lose interest in and plan on using it forever.
I agree with the other poster who said you should retain the domain for now and set up DNS records and mail rules for the other guy until you're done moving stuff over.
Will they send a driver to get me from Budapest to Addis Ababa on Thursday?
You don't need to go from Budapest to Addis Ababa, The grain is just sweet.
Right, Mozilla is going to compete with Google's Android resources.
I love Firefox, and they have one fabulous engineer working on memory leak problems, but just one (he should be managing a team by now).
They don't have the resources to compete or out-do Android, so any resources they spend on this project will essentially be wasted.
Here's a suggestion: allocate these resources into Mobile Firefox (is it still called 'fennec'?). Make that awesome. Make me want to run Mobile Firefox instead of Dolphin HD (a small independent browser).
Then, and only then, will it be worthwhile to start working down the stack. Replace the runtime next, then the subsystems, then the kernel. It just might wind up being excellent. Meanwhile, Android is OSS and there's no reason to re-invent that wheel at this time.
Oooh, look, we've got a Slashdotter who believes the propaganda. This should be enlightening.
How does your lying about the history and reality of binary explosives help whatever point you're trying to make?
Tell us how a 3oz prohibition, per bottle, helps with your Hollywood movie-script danger.
It's 3oz per bottle, not person. Bringing 6 bottles on board won't phase any TSA screener. The 9/11 hijackings were five men per plane. That's 90oz of binary explosive on board an airplane. Assuming it's possible to successfully mix it onboard, for the sake of argument, the TSA's rules have allowed way more explosive onboard than is needed to take the tail of the plane clean off from the rear bathroom.
Meanwhile, they don't even pressure-test checked baggage (like Israel does) for barometer bombs (something that actually has killed hundreds of Americans in airline terrorism) and 60% of penetration tests of the TSA have succeeded (or failed, depending on your perspective).
As a consequence, the US economy has lost over $600B (and climbing) in tourism revenue. Osama Bin Laden got the US Government to attack its own country with economic sanctions and blockades and infringe its people's liberties. Buy, hey, maybe they won't "hate us because we're free" anymore, since we aren't?
What level of evidence is necessary to convince you that this is all about propaganda and obedience conditioning? Is there no point where the critical thinking reflex kicks in, despite official pronouncements?
Can they develop a laser scanner to find my dignity again?
Found it - it's here. Don't allow yourself to be treated like sheep, no matter how sweet the grain looks. That corridor leads to the slaughterhouse.
the fucked-up tax code where 46% pay no income tax at all.
Hey, only 54% more to go.
No, but really, your statement is false. Income taxes are part of the cost of goods. On an average basis, 22% of the price of good you pay in the store goes to pay the income taxes of those in the product stream.
If your taxes went up $10000, you'd want $10000 more from your employer (with a small margin of elasticity) and your employer would raise his prices to cover that. By time the income taxes of the farmer, the fertilizer manufacturer, the truck drivers (and the road maintenance crews), the grain mill operators, the bakers, the wholesalers, the grocery store owner, the stock boy, the checkout clerk, and the bagger are paid, the $2 loaf of bread contains about 50 cents in income taxes. That's a 22% income tax paid by the most needy.
And now that that loaf of bread is $3, they're paying a 12%-ish inflation tax every year too. To help fund the Wall Street bailouts to stockholders of the Federal Reserve Bank.
So, the minimum effective tax rate in the US is now about 35%. People who pay direct income taxes can add that number to the top. And somehow US workers can't be labor price-competitive with China or Mexcio...
Remember when Steve Jobs came out on stage and told everybody the iPhone was going to have these great web apps you could write and download? And everyone said web apps suck and clamored for a real native API? And they were right?
That was Steve Jobs trying to snow people. The API wasn't ready, so he told everybody it wasn't necessary. That was purely a stalling tactic. He did the same thing over and over throughout his career and people actually bought it.
The Reality Distortion Field can have a powerful effect on the weak minded.
Probably the best way of looking at it; 360MJ can instantly flash boil about 500 or so gallons of water. Which, since your body is 80% water, and you weigh maybe 200 pounds? Would be enough to instantaniously flash boil YOU!
Oh, so it's a Disruptor set on 'max'. You could've just said that.
If you ever used a condom
I'll make an educated guess here and suppose that Santorum figures by banning condoms that AIDS will pick up again in the gay community and God's wrath will finally be exacted upon the wicked.
He also willfully ignores Mark 7:15 and Matthew 19:12, so take heed of Matthew 7:15.
A number of his policies are beyond impractical, venturing into batshit crazy.
Name five.
seeing how Democrats forgotten that they are supposed to be (relatively, compared to Republicans, which does not say much) anti-war.
How do you figure?
World War I: Wilson, Democrat
World War II: Roosevelt, Democrat
Korea: Truman, Democrat
Vietnam: Kennedy, Democrat (Johnson, Democrat escalated) (Nixon, Republican ended it.)
Grenada: Reagan, Republican
Desert Storm: Bush I, Republican
Somalia: Clinton, Democrat
Bosnia: Clinton, Democrat
Haiti: Clinton, Democrat
Afghanistan: Bush II, Republican
Iraq: Bush II Republican
Yemen: Bush II, Republican
Pakistan: Obama, Democrat
Libya: Obama, Democrat
North East Africa: Obama, Democrat
Syria, Iran: Obama, Democrat (TBA)
And all the CIA operations are too numerous to list. n.b. I'm not advocating for the Republicans here, but rather against the notion that Democrats have any kind of claim to an anti-war reputation. If you care about ending wars, Ron Paul is the only choice (Commanders in Chief get to just order the troops home).
How many troll points do I get for pointing out that despite that, Ron Paul is still fourth behind Romney, Santorum and Gingrich?
None really, that's expected. You don't need to read a small stack of economics text books to understand what the other three are talking about.
While Ron Paul has only 20% support nationally, there are very few former Ron Paul supporters. His support ratchets while others' oscillates. It was 8% in 2008 - 2012 is only the second inning in this game.
Two Words: Social Status
No kidding. I was amazed to see people all over NYC taking pictures with their iPads. They're far too big and unwieldy to make a good camera, but these people seemed to be looking around to see who was watching them take pictures with their iPads.
In my neck of the woods, lots of people have iPads, but nobody uses them as cameras. We also tend to walk around in the latest fashions from L.L. Bean and Carhardt.
Ark - meets design requirements.
Signed-off-by: God
Easy if the tablet runs Windows or Linux
Yeah, just deploy the tablet without a window manager. Make your viewer run full-size on the root window.
I did something like this at a hospital c. 1996. It was pre-802.11 and the hardware was a Vadem Clio, but essentially one the connection got through to the VNC Server, the problem is the same.
You give advice or material support
They commit the crime
You are a conspirator. You go to jail.
In many jurisdictions "They commit the crime" is not required. They can prosecute you and your D&D buddies for planning a bank robbery, even if there's no provable intent to actually do it.
Then why do we let them join the military
Because 25-year-olds rarely sign up to take bullets for some corrupt politician's psychopathic ambitions.
because Hollywood loves dressing teenagers in provocative, sexual outfits
I've read that a major children's entertainment company actually has logistical plans about how to maximize revenue by sexualizing each of their starlets as they age at the optimum rate.
Reddit is the low-hanging fruit. I wonder when Something Awful is going to call out the Lawyer Machine.
It's basically like having multiple independent servers for each thing, but more reliable and more flexible.
How does this compare with virtual machines with live migration that most virtualization systems support these days?