Because believe it or not Canadians think it should be refined at home so we are trading in Canadian dollars.
For a canadian to buy gas it depends on what our money is worth to you americans. Just like the british. they have to be able to trade GBP for USD to buy gas. If they can't the price goes way up [even though the GBP is generally worth more].
Suppose the government just gave out student loans and grants instead?
Today's use of the military is nothing like that of yesteryear. Hell even Vietnam was a sham. "fighting communism" is a total bullshit reason to go to war.
You seem to think it's ok for your goverment to spend 400 to 500 billion a year [keep in mind what your deficit is] so they can in turn spend 20K on your education after you risk your life for several years.
Don't you see that by providing situations where you are that in need of help [e.g. by not funding education or work programs] you effectively ***ARE DRAFTED***. If your choice is the coal mine where you cut your life down by 15 years [or more] and live like shit compared to 3 squares and a cot... you effectively are driven into the only sensible choice.
Tell me you have a free nation when the government makes the "serve X years" bit optional.
First off, Canada has oil fields. Just we're as corrupt, sell the oil to you americans to be refined and then buy back the Gas at a higher price.
Second, defending an oil field, er, that is, liberating Ira{n|q} is NOT defending citizens of the United States of America.
My point is either they're robots and they don't know what they're getting into. Or they do and just don't care. And eitherway it's a position born out of ignorance and not enlightened values for which a proper society can be formed.
Do we really want people who will unquestoningly sacrifice their lives for a cause not of their own? Defending France in WW2 was just as much a matter of halting the Nazi advance [which could have arrived on North America] as it was about liberating them.
Saddam had neither the means nor the inclination of invading the states.
Face it, the "war on terror" or Iraq or Iran or NK or... is all about rich white men getting richer.
Where were you guys in Rwanda? Somalia? Basically anywhere in Africa where a coup is actively going on?
Where were you?
It's thinking like that I love. Because I don't endorse the misappropriation of the military I should go fight injustice myself.... Does that make sense?
First off, I'm Canadian so I'm not about to fix mistakes for the USA.
Second, I do my bit for the world [or at least I did] by writing public domain software that yes, even the military used.
Third, the big reason [after WMD] for fighting in Iraq is to liberate the people and bring democracy there. Or at least that's what CNN keeps telling me and you guys seem to be supporting. So my question about Rwanda was why the US [and the U.N.] didn't get involve? It's just a total fucking coincidence that Iraq has oil fields right?
That's my whole point. To the rest of the world it's fairly transparent that the military [even the British military] is used essentially to further the goals of capitalism. That is, protect oil fields.
If it really was about fighting injustice you wouldn't invent the patriot act, secret courts, etc, etc.
So... so.... so long story short is when young kids sign up for the military to "fight the injustices" it's because they don't know better and the government takes advantage of it. The kids end up in some hellhole fighting people who live in utter squaller then they come home with nightmares to last a lifetime [if they come home alive at all]. At the end of the day you didn't "win" the war, you didn't liberate a country and you haven't saved any lives. You just made sure the "greatness of our empire" is maintained.
How is murdering people in Iraq "defending our country"?
Last I checked Iraq was not sending people over to the states to kill your civilians.
"defending it's principles"... are you fucking kidding me? You're defending oil fields, no more, no less.
Where were you guys in Rwanda? Somalia? Basically anywhere in Africa where a coup is actively going on?
If you're so righteous about defending apple pie and the american way why are you not fighting against the patriot act? The dmca? The private secret courts? Why are you not fighting for education funding, health care for all? etc etc etc.
It seems on the one hand you think murdering civilians in Iraq is "defending the USA" while on the other hand you'll sell out all that made your country so great in the process.
War on terror is just some excuse to kill thousands of INNOCENT CIVILIANS under the guise of "intelligence snafus".
As for the "low threshold". If these people placed any value on the lives of others they would question being in the military and seriously give oppressing other nations a rest.
I'm sorry but are you folk seriously blinded to how one sided your news and media are?
*** TEN TIMES *** the number of dead on 9/11 have died in Iraq since March 2003.
*** YOU ARE *** the terrorists you sick fucking depraved lunatics!
First off, the average marine/army recruit is between the age of 17 and 22. Second, that amounts to jack squat in life experience.
Third, the Military preys on the poor and least educated folk under the guise of "military education". E.g. give us 5 years of your life and we might give you a college education. These people are vulnerable in that they come from poor families and/or don't think they have any chances to make it in the real world.
Fourth, it's no secret that the US goals in the middle east are far less than altruistic. You [including other UN nations of which I'm ashamed to say Canada was party to] let the Rwandans get slaughtered, you let blood diamond mining go on, etc, etc, etc, yet it's SOOOOO important to "liberate" Iraq and Iran. Despite the fact you basically brought Iraq to a civil war....
They are just supposed to be unique identifiers. For all it matters they could be random strings of 128-bits.
The point is you use the RFID tag as a key in your database.
Say I receive 12 widgets from a company to put on my shelf. Each widget has an RFID tag. I enter each of them into my database. Now as I sell them they're scanned the tag is used to search the database [e.g. it's the key] and I mark it as gone.
The actual value of the tag doesn't matter so long as it's unique. E.g. two widgets don't have the same ID. So for all intents and purposes you could order a box of 5000 random RFID tags and make good use of them.
Exactly. this has nothing to do with a "virus" [ooo spooky!] in the RFID tag. It's no different than SQL injection attacks on the web or user interface bugs in video games.
Design crap software, expect user stimulus to break it.
This is only "news" because it has RFID in it and everyone loves to beat up on what they don't understand.
Besides, the average marine has about a high school education, no morals and a low threshold for the sanctity of life. They might as well be robots anyways.:-)
Sorry folks there ain't no draft and it isn't a mystery that the US war machine is a "tad" corrupt. you sign up for the military because you want to profit from the misery of others. That is unless you sign up for the military to do something outside of being a grunt [e.g. doctor, engineer, etc]. Then you're ok.
It has nothing to do with the "evilness of RFID" and with the stupidity of the backend. An RFID tag is just a string of text. It's up to the backend application to sort it out.
This really is no different than replacing the barcodes on packages.
To each their own. I'm Canadian. I think all of you Americans are fucked up. But we love you just the same <3:-)
Mostly it isn't left vs. right but just the conclusions they make. AT&T out sources 200 jobs to a tech firm in England [or something] and all of a sudden they're "unamerican". Or there is such a thing as "war on terror" or "civil war in Iraq was inevitable anyways".
You guys really need to headsmack the whole media and stop going for the juicy soundbites which have irrelevant usefulness and actually come to the root of things.
I mean why was Enron so successful for so long? Was the media really looking that hard?
Why is Cheney not in prison? What exactly is a "hunting accident" anyways?
etc, etc.
You guys seem to skim over the real issues when they're new and juicy then just give up on them.
"They" would be the corrupt businesses who bill you $50,000 for a hammer and then say they'll look into "troubling allegations" when caught.
They are the people who effectively own your government. On both sides of the aisle [cuz really Demo == Republican].
Fact of the matter is they want to put on this show that there is a huge conflict of ideals so you're not paying attention to the fact that both parties voted for the DMCA, the patriot act, neither side is shutting down the prison in Cuba or calling for a cessation overseas.
You obviously are blind to his rants on outsourcing.
See you call it out sourcing. I call it a global economy.
Not every company that finds workers elsewhere is doing it to find the cheapest least qualified folk to script-monkey a product together. Granted that is a pervalent theme it's not the be-all. And he'd know that if he wasn't just trying to make the audience dance like the puppets they are.
who's left? I don't consider democrats any more reliable or honest or motivated [in agood direction] than the republicans.
Besides, stations like CNN and Fox are clearly republican slanted. Like lou fucking dobbs. he's just a complete asshat who thinks that nobody outside of the USA is entitled to work. Then he bitches that people come to the USA for work.
Second, if you think the USA is so peachy clean with respective rights I suggest you actually *read* a history text instead of summarizing the press kit.
Third, fuck off. Media in the USA *is* censored for all intents and purposes. They make you fear what they want you to fear [immigrants, slackers, foreign beef, dignity] and they make you hear what they want you to hear [bipartisan bullshit, new freedom in distant lands, etc].
or just use distcc and put -m32 in your CFLAGS.:-)
Point is I don't really have a lot installed so doing a weekly [re: monthly] update isn't a significant problem.
Mostly my point was even though the C3 lacks ALU horsepower it's more than enough to act as a highly flexible NAT/router/etc box. Certainly more flexible than say a $100 linksys router and only costs slightly more anyways.
This is an oft-quoted but totally unsubstantiated comment.
I can forward an X session from any Unix box to any Linux [or BSD] box. My cupsd in Gentoo speaks to the one in Redhat. My NFS in freebsd speaks Fedoraese [e.g. Fedora implements NFS properly], etc.
While it's true some [mostly C++] applications are not as binary portable as they should be the actual platforms themselves are stable. The programs I run in Gentoo are the same ones you can run in Fedora or SUSE or...
If anything the Unix, Linux and BSD OSes provide greater platform portability. My CLI or even X11/Motif application which I built on an O2 box during college built and ran fine on my Gentoo Linux laptop. Without source changes.
Try saying that about Windows. Does your wince application build in Win3.11 or Vista without source changes? Does the binary run across platforms anyways?
Windows is portable across Windows. I've yet to see a Win32 application natively run on anything else.
Um? First off I play AAC files I ripped from CDs on my ipod. Second I don't use itunes at all [it's shit].
Go look up "Gnupod". It's a command line set of tools for dealing with the ipod.... Seriously people it's like you've never heard of a search engine.
The iPod is not locked to DRM controlled music. You can basically play any mp3/aac (low profile) audio. Heck I used ffmpeg to encode movies to fit on it just fine even.
On an unrelated topic [but usefull if you're considering buying an ipod]. The one big downside to the iPod is it relies on spinning down the HD for most of it's power saving features. This means if you have say 9 songs in your playlist it will buffer half or more of them to memory which involves a lot of reading. Then shut off the disk and play from buffer.
This works great. Except if you're like me and like jumping around in the tracks. The iPod doesn't have a "don't buffer mode" so each time you skip tracks it reads ~25MB of data off disk then spins down. Spinning up again when you change tracks.
In my primitive tests I found it could play straight for about 2 hours before going down a "tick" on the battery meter. Now if you swap songs every ~6-10 mins or so it goes down the same tick in about 45 mins. So if you want an iPod I suggest you invest in a second spare battery (external works best). I've flown over the Atlantic with mine and a spare battery...:-)
You don't need a 2Ghz part for a router. My C3 1.2Ghz part runs Gentoo Linux [yes, I build stuff on the thing] and it handles traffic just fine. It can ipchains NAT traffic at full modem speed [which admitedly at 700Kbyte/sec isn't that fast].
The newer 2Ghz parts may give you more oomph but for a router/nat/dhcp/bind box they're not required.
First, don't have your homedir on your workstation. Then, don't do auto-updates on the file servers.
Then, for your workstations create images of the disks. Don't let users perform upgrades unless they assume the responsibility for the box. Next, test the update on a limited subset of boxes. If it works then roll it out. If by chance you screwed up rollback to images that are stable and perform the safer updates.
Generally this is trivial with a proper OS distribution like freebsd, openbsd, Gentoo, etc.
This is what you get when you have an insecure kernel coupled with the fact most users run as Administrator.
In a real OS you don't have to worry about that because even if the user did get a virus only their accessible mount points would be a problem. Since they can't write to dirs like/sbin or/usr/bin you don't have to worry....
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I'd be willing to pay more for a gaming console if I had control to produce my own content [e.g. programs, games, whatever].
I'd pay 800$ for a PS3 if it meant I could ssh to the thing and play with the cell processor or beam media to it or something.
If all I can do is play games then I wouldn't pay more than 200$ for it. Cuz at that point I'd just play my xbox1 out of spite.
Tom
Because believe it or not Canadians think it should be refined at home so we are trading in Canadian dollars.
For a canadian to buy gas it depends on what our money is worth to you americans. Just like the british. they have to be able to trade GBP for USD to buy gas. If they can't the price goes way up [even though the GBP is generally worth more].
Tom
Suppose the government just gave out student loans and grants instead?
... you effectively are driven into the only sensible choice.
Today's use of the military is nothing like that of yesteryear. Hell even Vietnam was a sham. "fighting communism" is a total bullshit reason to go to war.
You seem to think it's ok for your goverment to spend 400 to 500 billion a year [keep in mind what your deficit is] so they can in turn spend 20K on your education after you risk your life for several years.
Don't you see that by providing situations where you are that in need of help [e.g. by not funding education or work programs] you effectively ***ARE DRAFTED***. If your choice is the coal mine where you cut your life down by 15 years [or more] and live like shit compared to 3 squares and a cot
Tell me you have a free nation when the government makes the "serve X years" bit optional.
Tom
Where does this come from?
... is all about rich white men getting richer.
First off, Canada has oil fields. Just we're as corrupt, sell the oil to you americans to be refined and then buy back the Gas at a higher price.
Second, defending an oil field, er, that is, liberating Ira{n|q} is NOT defending citizens of the United States of America.
My point is either they're robots and they don't know what they're getting into. Or they do and just don't care. And eitherway it's a position born out of ignorance and not enlightened values for which a proper society can be formed.
Do we really want people who will unquestoningly sacrifice their lives for a cause not of their own? Defending France in WW2 was just as much a matter of halting the Nazi advance [which could have arrived on North America] as it was about liberating them.
Saddam had neither the means nor the inclination of invading the states.
Face it, the "war on terror" or Iraq or Iran or NK or
Tom
Where were you guys in Rwanda? Somalia? Basically anywhere in Africa where a coup is actively going on?
... so .... so long story short is when young kids sign up for the military to "fight the injustices" it's because they don't know better and the government takes advantage of it. The kids end up in some hellhole fighting people who live in utter squaller then they come home with nightmares to last a lifetime [if they come home alive at all]. At the end of the day you didn't "win" the war, you didn't liberate a country and you haven't saved any lives. You just made sure the "greatness of our empire" is maintained.
Where were you?
It's thinking like that I love. Because I don't endorse the misappropriation of the military I should go fight injustice myself.... Does that make sense?
First off, I'm Canadian so I'm not about to fix mistakes for the USA.
Second, I do my bit for the world [or at least I did] by writing public domain software that yes, even the military used.
Third, the big reason [after WMD] for fighting in Iraq is to liberate the people and bring democracy there. Or at least that's what CNN keeps telling me and you guys seem to be supporting. So my question about Rwanda was why the US [and the U.N.] didn't get involve? It's just a total fucking coincidence that Iraq has oil fields right?
That's my whole point. To the rest of the world it's fairly transparent that the military [even the British military] is used essentially to further the goals of capitalism. That is, protect oil fields.
If it really was about fighting injustice you wouldn't invent the patriot act, secret courts, etc, etc.
So
Tom
... hitmen in the Mob work hard too you know. We don't celebrate them either.
Point is where the military is being deployed is very, how you say, "selective".
Tom
How is murdering people in Iraq "defending our country"?
Last I checked Iraq was not sending people over to the states to kill your civilians.
"defending it's principles"... are you fucking kidding me? You're defending oil fields, no more, no less.
Where were you guys in Rwanda? Somalia? Basically anywhere in Africa where a coup is actively going on?
If you're so righteous about defending apple pie and the american way why are you not fighting against the patriot act? The dmca? The private secret courts? Why are you not fighting for education funding, health care for all? etc etc etc.
It seems on the one hand you think murdering civilians in Iraq is "defending the USA" while on the other hand you'll sell out all that made your country so great in the process.
Tom
First off, "war on terror" != "WW2".
War on terror is just some excuse to kill thousands of INNOCENT CIVILIANS under the guise of "intelligence snafus".
As for the "low threshold". If these people placed any value on the lives of others they would question being in the military and seriously give oppressing other nations a rest.
I'm sorry but are you folk seriously blinded to how one sided your news and media are?
*** TEN TIMES *** the number of dead on 9/11 have died in Iraq since March 2003.
*** YOU ARE *** the terrorists you sick fucking depraved lunatics!
Tom
First off, the average marine/army recruit is between the age of 17 and 22. Second, that amounts to jack squat in life experience.
Third, the Military preys on the poor and least educated folk under the guise of "military education". E.g. give us 5 years of your life and we might give you a college education. These people are vulnerable in that they come from poor families and/or don't think they have any chances to make it in the real world.
Fourth, it's no secret that the US goals in the middle east are far less than altruistic. You [including other UN nations of which I'm ashamed to say Canada was party to] let the Rwandans get slaughtered, you let blood diamond mining go on, etc, etc, etc, yet it's SOOOOO important to "liberate" Iraq and Iran. Despite the fact you basically brought Iraq to a civil war....
Tom
They are just supposed to be unique identifiers. For all it matters they could be random strings of 128-bits.
The point is you use the RFID tag as a key in your database.
Say I receive 12 widgets from a company to put on my shelf. Each widget has an RFID tag. I enter each of them into my database. Now as I sell them they're scanned the tag is used to search the database [e.g. it's the key] and I mark it as gone.
The actual value of the tag doesn't matter so long as it's unique. E.g. two widgets don't have the same ID. So for all intents and purposes you could order a box of 5000 random RFID tags and make good use of them.
Tom
Exactly. this has nothing to do with a "virus" [ooo spooky!] in the RFID tag. It's no different than SQL injection attacks on the web or user interface bugs in video games.
Design crap software, expect user stimulus to break it.
This is only "news" because it has RFID in it and everyone loves to beat up on what they don't understand.
Tom
And who cares about fictional "laws", anyway?
:-)
It ain't news, it's sensationalist bullshit.
Besides, the average marine has about a high school education, no morals and a low threshold for the sanctity of life. They might as well be robots anyways.
Sorry folks there ain't no draft and it isn't a mystery that the US war machine is a "tad" corrupt. you sign up for the military because you want to profit from the misery of others. That is unless you sign up for the military to do something outside of being a grunt [e.g. doctor, engineer, etc]. Then you're ok.
Tom
It has nothing to do with the "evilness of RFID" and with the stupidity of the backend. An RFID tag is just a string of text. It's up to the backend application to sort it out.
This really is no different than replacing the barcodes on packages.
Tom
To each their own. I'm Canadian. I think all of you Americans are fucked up. But we love you just the same <3 :-)
Mostly it isn't left vs. right but just the conclusions they make. AT&T out sources 200 jobs to a tech firm in England [or something] and all of a sudden they're "unamerican". Or there is such a thing as "war on terror" or "civil war in Iraq was inevitable anyways".
You guys really need to headsmack the whole media and stop going for the juicy soundbites which have irrelevant usefulness and actually come to the root of things.
I mean why was Enron so successful for so long? Was the media really looking that hard?
Why is Cheney not in prison? What exactly is a "hunting accident" anyways?
etc, etc.
You guys seem to skim over the real issues when they're new and juicy then just give up on them.
Tom
I only watch CNN when I want to
a) laugh at the patriotic bs
or
b) Yell at my TV.
I don't watch CNN only any sort of scheduled basis because I don't trust 1% of what I see on the station [and I don't care for the other 99%].
Tom
"They" would be the corrupt businesses who bill you $50,000 for a hammer and then say they'll look into "troubling allegations" when caught.
They are the people who effectively own your government. On both sides of the aisle [cuz really Demo == Republican].
Fact of the matter is they want to put on this show that there is a huge conflict of ideals so you're not paying attention to the fact that both parties voted for the DMCA, the patriot act, neither side is shutting down the prison in Cuba or calling for a cessation overseas.
Wake up and smell the pwnage.
Tom
You obviously are blind to his rants on outsourcing.
See you call it out sourcing. I call it a global economy.
Not every company that finds workers elsewhere is doing it to find the cheapest least qualified folk to script-monkey a product together. Granted that is a pervalent theme it's not the be-all. And he'd know that if he wasn't just trying to make the audience dance like the puppets they are.
Tom
who's left? I don't consider democrats any more reliable or honest or motivated [in agood direction] than the republicans.
Besides, stations like CNN and Fox are clearly republican slanted. Like lou fucking dobbs. he's just a complete asshat who thinks that nobody outside of the USA is entitled to work. Then he bitches that people come to the USA for work.
Tom
First off "rights" are subjective.
Second, if you think the USA is so peachy clean with respective rights I suggest you actually *read* a history text instead of summarizing the press kit.
Third, fuck off. Media in the USA *is* censored for all intents and purposes. They make you fear what they want you to fear [immigrants, slackers, foreign beef, dignity] and they make you hear what they want you to hear [bipartisan bullshit, new freedom in distant lands, etc].
Tom
or just use distcc and put -m32 in your CFLAGS. :-)
Point is I don't really have a lot installed so doing a weekly [re: monthly] update isn't a significant problem.
Mostly my point was even though the C3 lacks ALU horsepower it's more than enough to act as a highly flexible NAT/router/etc box. Certainly more flexible than say a $100 linksys router and only costs slightly more anyways.
Tom
This is an oft-quoted but totally unsubstantiated comment.
...
I can forward an X session from any Unix box to any Linux [or BSD] box. My cupsd in Gentoo speaks to the one in Redhat. My NFS in freebsd speaks Fedoraese [e.g. Fedora implements NFS properly], etc.
While it's true some [mostly C++] applications are not as binary portable as they should be the actual platforms themselves are stable. The programs I run in Gentoo are the same ones you can run in Fedora or SUSE or
If anything the Unix, Linux and BSD OSes provide greater platform portability. My CLI or even X11/Motif application which I built on an O2 box during college built and ran fine on my Gentoo Linux laptop. Without source changes.
Try saying that about Windows. Does your wince application build in Win3.11 or Vista without source changes? Does the binary run across platforms anyways?
Windows is portable across Windows. I've yet to see a Win32 application natively run on anything else.
Tom
Um? First off I play AAC files I ripped from CDs on my ipod. Second I don't use itunes at all [it's shit].
... Seriously people it's like you've never heard of a search engine.
:-)
Go look up "Gnupod". It's a command line set of tools for dealing with the ipod.
The iPod is not locked to DRM controlled music. You can basically play any mp3/aac (low profile) audio. Heck I used ffmpeg to encode movies to fit on it just fine even.
On an unrelated topic [but usefull if you're considering buying an ipod]. The one big downside to the iPod is it relies on spinning down the HD for most of it's power saving features. This means if you have say 9 songs in your playlist it will buffer half or more of them to memory which involves a lot of reading. Then shut off the disk and play from buffer.
This works great. Except if you're like me and like jumping around in the tracks. The iPod doesn't have a "don't buffer mode" so each time you skip tracks it reads ~25MB of data off disk then spins down. Spinning up again when you change tracks.
In my primitive tests I found it could play straight for about 2 hours before going down a "tick" on the battery meter. Now if you swap songs every ~6-10 mins or so it goes down the same tick in about 45 mins. So if you want an iPod I suggest you invest in a second spare battery (external works best). I've flown over the Atlantic with mine and a spare battery...
Tom
You don't need a 2Ghz part for a router. My C3 1.2Ghz part runs Gentoo Linux [yes, I build stuff on the thing] and it handles traffic just fine. It can ipchains NAT traffic at full modem speed [which admitedly at 700Kbyte/sec isn't that fast].
The newer 2Ghz parts may give you more oomph but for a router/nat/dhcp/bind box they're not required.
Tom
Rollback the OS.
First, don't have your homedir on your workstation. Then, don't do auto-updates on the file servers.
Then, for your workstations create images of the disks. Don't let users perform upgrades unless they assume the responsibility for the box. Next, test the update on a limited subset of boxes. If it works then roll it out. If by chance you screwed up rollback to images that are stable and perform the safer updates.
Generally this is trivial with a proper OS distribution like freebsd, openbsd, Gentoo, etc.
Tom
Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
/sbin or /usr/bin you don't have to worry. ...
Hahahahahahahahahhahahaha....
phew...
This is what you get when you have an insecure kernel coupled with the fact most users run as Administrator.
In a real OS you don't have to worry about that because even if the user did get a virus only their accessible mount points would be a problem. Since they can't write to dirs like
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Tom