I live in Vilnius, Lithuania (neighboring Latvia, for those who can't be bothered to look at the map) and pay 22 USD/month for 100 Mbps FTTH, no download caps. For additional 15 USD or so I can get cable TV with HD channels from the same provider.
But who the hell needs cable when torrents download at 70 Mbps or so?:)
Outsourcing to IBM has lead to a 30 to 60 day lead time.
I work for a major global outsourcing company (90K+ employees) and I sometimes wonder how do our clients put up with this. For example, a simple project (replacing one Wintel FTP server with another) is now taking more than 6 months to execute, and we are buying a complete server where a VMWare instance would be more than sufficient - load on that server is negligible. Entire project is costing maybe 30K $ just in time booked to the client - and that is something I could do in two days - but everybody takes it as "business as usual", including the client.
Makes me wanna go and start my own company, providing better quality services for 1/10th of a price. But then again, I wouldn't be able to claim that I've been in a market for 50 years and will not go bankrupt next year, crisis or no crisis.
If by universally you mean United States, then yes, mpg is universally recognized. Pretty much the rest of the world measures their cars performance in liters/100 km.
On my last trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, I just walked out the plane (I came from another EU country) without showing nor my passport nor my bags to anyone. Schengen Agreement FTW!:-)
"I've posted this before, but here's a survey that shows Americans are against Warrantless Wiretaps, Blanket Warrants, And Immunity For Telecom Companies."
Why is that disturbing or surprising at all? When american expats go to teach english in china, don't you think they bring their western ideologies with them?
Well, I suppose that is because american expact was actually asked by Chinese to come and teach English in China. See the difference?
I really like one feature in Kmail, KDE mail app - when you select some text in a mail message and click reply, only the selected text is included in your reply. Saves you much trouble if you like correct quoting:-)
When Czeslaw Milosz wrote it in Warsaw, Poland in 1944, the world didn't end either.
Sure. I don't think that "end of the world" should be taken literally here. I just think that this election is a beginning of a very difficult and perhaps sad period in world history. Just like in 1944, we are perhaps on the eve of major events (war on terrorism, erosion of civil liberties, Middle East issues, etc) that would change the world. Or maybe not, I'm not pretending to be a prophet here;-)
Thank you for posting this!
Take a look at this - Adbusters magazine. That's where I came across this poem.
There is a poem by a Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz that seems to be very appropriate here:
Song on the End of the World
On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A Fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through fields under their umbrellas
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels' trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet,
Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
No other end of the world there will be,
No other end of the world there will be.
I cannot say that I feel very comfortable about some of the broad-based stuff that the patriot act allows governmental agencies, but this country does have a history of curtailing civil rights during a wartime footing.
Just a quick note - America is not at war now. Do you think that a day will come, when the government will announce "Hey, the war on terror is over, all the terrorists are dead or captured, let's dissolve Department of Homeland Security and remove Patriot Act!"?
Not all terrorists are dumb, but the suicide variety are by definition fucking stupid.
If someone is willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes is The Good Thing (tm), I would not call that stupid. That his or her definition of The Good Thing is flawed is totally different matter.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter...
And no, I don't support terrorism. But it seems that nobody is willing to look for reasons behind suicide bombers - it is much easier to flag them as "fucking stupid".
I can't think of any reason why should anybody trust this analysis until they publish the methods used. Anybody can say "Hey, I tested something using my proprietary method, and $foo has more bugs than $bar!". Unfortunately, such tests really don't say anything substantial about the quality of software. IMHO.
Every time I read such comments about privacy, I wish that George Orwell's 1984 was made obligatory reading in schools.
Freedom, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental values in human life. Does everybody really want to be shed and protected from everything by the government? Safety, but no privacy is like living in the zoo: you are spoon fed, safe from dangers, but cannot go beyond your cage.
Sad, but it seems that this is most people want. The question is, what we can do about it?
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One of the best ideas I've read regarding this article. I have recently thought about using GnuPG, installed it, generated my key, tested it with my favorite mail reader (that's Kmail, by the way, and it works flawlessly with GnuPG), etc. So far, so good.
But the greatest problem I face is that 90% of people I communicate with are simply do not understand what PGP is and why do they need to bother to use it. Hey, most people haven't even heard about PGP, let alone tried using it. I think we need more end user education about security and privacy issues in the first place. Of course, making encryption as easy as 2 mouse clicks and passphrase entering in most popular email clients wouldn't hurt also.
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I live in Vilnius, Lithuania (neighboring Latvia, for those who can't be bothered to look at the map) and pay 22 USD/month for 100 Mbps FTTH, no download caps. For additional 15 USD or so I can get cable TV with HD channels from the same provider.
But who the hell needs cable when torrents download at 70 Mbps or so? :)
Possibilities for a DDOS attack on the roads are simply amazing :)
Outsourcing to IBM has lead to a 30 to 60 day lead time.
I work for a major global outsourcing company (90K+ employees) and I sometimes wonder how do our clients put up with this. For example, a simple project (replacing one Wintel FTP server with another) is now taking more than 6 months to execute, and we are buying a complete server where a VMWare instance would be more than sufficient - load on that server is negligible. Entire project is costing maybe 30K $ just in time booked to the client - and that is something I could do in two days - but everybody takes it as "business as usual", including the client.
Makes me wanna go and start my own company, providing better quality services for 1/10th of a price. But then again, I wouldn't be able to claim that I've been in a market for 50 years and will not go bankrupt next year, crisis or no crisis.
I, for one, would be willing to put my money where my mouth is and pay double the amount of normal ticket to flight with _zero_ security checks.
Wow, first use of "I am a moron" I've seen in the field!
Hmm, or it is Mormon?
What's the difference?
If by universally you mean United States, then yes, mpg is universally recognized. Pretty much the rest of the world measures their cars performance in liters/100 km.
Glad to hear that drug smuggling and all other forms of contraband have been discontinued. Somehow missed that on the news...
On my last trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, I just walked out the plane (I came from another EU country) without showing nor my passport nor my bags to anyone. Schengen Agreement FTW! :-)
"I've posted this before, but here's a survey that shows Americans are against Warrantless Wiretaps, Blanket Warrants, And Immunity For Telecom Companies."
So what, if they don't do anything about it?
Well, I suppose that is because american expact was actually asked by Chinese to come and teach English in China. See the difference?
Hasn't this happened already?
I wish I had mod points.
More people should see this. I couldn't even imagine some people think like that...
Shame they don't implement this in Thunderbird.
Sure. I don't think that "end of the world" should be taken literally here. I just think that this election is a beginning of a very difficult and perhaps sad period in world history. Just like in 1944, we are perhaps on the eve of major events (war on terrorism, erosion of civil liberties, Middle East issues, etc) that would change the world. Or maybe not, I'm not pretending to be a prophet here ;-)
Thank you for posting this!
Take a look at this - Adbusters magazine. That's where I came across this poem.
Song on the End of the World
On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A Fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through fields under their umbrellas
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels' trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet,
Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
No other end of the world there will be,
No other end of the world there will be.
Anybody have a link to the changes compared to the last stable version?
Hey, it was probably her geek boyfriend who installed it (not that it makes a difference, anyway)! ;-)
Just a quick note - America is not at war now. Do you think that a day will come, when the government will announce "Hey, the war on terror is over, all the terrorists are dead or captured, let's dissolve Department of Homeland Security and remove Patriot Act!"?
Somehow I don't think so.
Not all terrorists are dumb, but the suicide variety are by definition fucking stupid.
If someone is willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes is The Good Thing (tm), I would not call that stupid. That his or her definition of The Good Thing is flawed is totally different matter.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter...
And no, I don't support terrorism. But it seems that nobody is willing to look for reasons behind suicide bombers - it is much easier to flag them as "fucking stupid".
...is he still alive? Would not be if I lived in the US :-)
I can't think of any reason why should anybody trust this analysis until they publish the methods used. Anybody can say "Hey, I tested something using my proprietary method, and $foo has more bugs than $bar!". Unfortunately, such tests really don't say anything substantial about the quality of software. IMHO.
Freedom, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental values in human life. Does everybody really want to be shed and protected from everything by the government? Safety, but no privacy is like living in the zoo: you are spoon fed, safe from dangers, but cannot go beyond your cage.
Sad, but it seems that this is most people want. The question is, what we can do about it?
One of the best ideas I've read regarding this article. I have recently thought about using GnuPG, installed it, generated my key, tested it with my favorite mail reader (that's Kmail, by the way, and it works flawlessly with GnuPG), etc. So far, so good.
But the greatest problem I face is that 90% of people I communicate with are simply do not understand what PGP is and why do they need to bother to use it. Hey, most people haven't even heard about PGP, let alone tried using it. I think we need more end user education about security and privacy issues in the first place. Of course, making encryption as easy as 2 mouse clicks and passphrase entering in most popular email clients wouldn't hurt also.
Just my 2 cents.