Seriously, this has been discussed to death in the security / crypto circles and there are *a lot* of really good ideas floating around. All that's really needed is a competitive process to select the best one... like the crypto community did with AES.
This problem is so solvable the current state is infuriating.
Hi... If you are ever in Austria you are welcome to stop by my home for a cup of coffee and a snack. Then I will show you the Fernwärme I use to heat my home. It's quite common actually. There's a large incinerator facility south of the city and they pipe the hot water all over.
Not that this is the only way to heat, but it sure is the least expensive.
I'm not saying I agree with you (I haven't given it a whole lot of thought) but you are not the only one thinking along those lines. The guy that cooked up "How Stuff Works", Marshall Brain has also been down this path. He collected his thoughts into a story he calls "Robotic Nation": http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Having read all of this some time ago I came to the conclusion that this scenario requires some of the more fucking stupid self destructive elements of American culture to remain unchanged throughout a societal change at least as profound as the industrial revolution. Given American's general propensity to cling to ass stupid shit which isn't especially in their self interest I'm not saying that's improbable... I'm just saying it's a profound comment on cultures.
In the same way what Mr. Brain describes can only happen like that in the United States... it couldn't, for example, happen in Europe be they don't the same conditions. So what ever happens elsewhere would have to be really different, if only owing to the beginning cultural differences.
Right then... leaving that 'not' out sure changed the meaning of my comments! So while I doubt you are a minority of one, I've heard lots of people whine about the photoshop UI and never heard anyone hold it up as an example UI done right.
Someone else was talking about having the option of using a new UI or using the old one. That sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
I own a modern turbo diesel and it does not emit "huge plumes of black smoke that puff out are full of nasty shit". Thus I know that your statement is false.
This calls into question the rest of your statements which are probably false and certainly histrionic.
I have lived in both Europe and in the US for years. I think that the American's idea of "freedom of speech" is dysfunctional. Most people have no idea what constitutes protected or unprotected speech. They think they can say just whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, in whatever forum they want (and in the case of political speech with as many dollars as they want). In reality speech in the US isn't like that, rather it is as legislated as it is Europe, albeit with different nuances. In answer to your question: They have laws made by parliaments in Europe which define protected or forbidden speech. Just like in America they have laws made by Congress which define protected or forbidden speech. It's just that in response to horrors of WWII, several European countries have enacted 'Don't make the same mistake twice' laws. Which forbid denial of the events or glorification of perpetrators in public events.
I think you will find that the US has civil laws which can be used just as effectively end hate speech.
Seriously. Slashdot does not have, nor has it ever had, Editors. Slashdot has copyists which it calls 'Editors' much to the dismay of a certain segment of its readership. You can check the FAQ out (I haven't read it in years) and it basically says that they do not want to be editors. This is something they want the Slashdot participants to do. I find it annoying as hell but in their defense there are several posts with links claiming to be the blog in question.
While I seriously doubt anyone posting around here truly knows for sure. This didn't just come out of thin air. According one of their CEOs Sun & NetApp have been annoying each for a while before the lawsuits started.
Personally, I'm not inclined to believe either of them all that much... I was just pointing out that NetApp possibly could be responding to Sun's threats with a lawsuit and thus be suing first.
I am sort of vaguely interested in ZFS and I do hope that this does not prevent some of the more interesting bits from making their way into other filesystems... or for that matter a fully bug free ZFS making its way into other OS's.
As long as conventional energy sources like coal & coil continue to be subsidized by our tax dollars alternative energy sources will face an up hill battle. Then when those new energy sources finally can compete with the old ones and the old ones start to rise in cost why would the new ones not rise also (if remaining just lower in cost). Isn't that what capitalism is all about?
All of my Leopard update problems stem from 3rd party hardware.
Highpoint apparently will not be updating their drivers for the PCI-X RAID cards and using the Mac OS 10.4 drivers allows for accessing your drives in some sort of freaky read-only state. This caused a cascade of bizarre problems, culminating in my iTunes database and my iPod being corrupted. I suppose this comes from the actual MP3s residing on a read only partition (which claimed to be read write). So I guess I'll be buying a new RAID card soon and you can bet it won't be a highpoint product.
I've got a few other issues but nothing I can point back to Apple and complain about.
My biggest complaint is that I want to buy a new MacPro and they haven't updated them in quite some time.
Isn't all that new HD content, and Comcast's very own VOIP and, all those SD channels, and all those music channels, and all their other crap carried on the same network?
Surely they'd rather have all that bandwidth going to paying HD content subscribers, rather than those filthy file-sharers!
Oh and they'd like to continue to oversell capacity too, thanks!
I am not sure you are entirely accurate with this assessment. I'm not an audiophile by any means but I am a technophile. I quit buying music 20 years ago out of disinterest and only in the last few years started to listen to music again... Thanks to various music festivals and the internet. Now I have a *massive* collection with a variety I was completely unaware existed when I was actually buying music. I listen to my music with a tube amplifier that I built, driving a pair of loud speakers which I also built... which I find competitive with current commercial amplifier / speaker combos. And I can honestly hear the difference between various sources... low bit rate MP3, high bit rate MP3, Lossless encoded digital files, CD, and Vinyl. (but I can't hear the difference between the cable I use and cables like the $7,200 cable you can find on the market).
So I am really ready to begin spending money again however, I flat will not do business will any of the various music industry associations (for me that's GEMA) or with brick & mortar stores that sell their products. I'm not buying anything they're selling. I will not buy the latest top 10 formulaic hit, the Hollywood blockbuster movie soundtrack, or CD's which are flawed to begin with. But I'm still in the market to buy art... I buy music from performers that I see live. I donate to causes that produce benefit albums I like but I've never even _seen_ the CD for "Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur". One of the university students that works for me is into the electronica / DJ scene and he's brought some of these new LP vinyl albums to play for me and they're good, really good. He's also told me of one indie label who bundles lossless digital files with their vinyl.
This has led me to what I really want: I want *art*.
I want interesting album covers, I want artistic liner notes, I want Posters & T-Shirts, I want creative forms, colors and sounds. I want media to play on my home stereo which has a reasonably large dynamic range and is not overly compressed or overly amplified. I want a lossless encoded digital file that I can play on my Mac (at home, in my home office or at work, in the lab) or transcode into a codec of my choosing to play on my iPod or in my car. I want music produced in a studiio as well as music recorded at live performances. I want to pay *once* for the art I buy and only make additional payments when I want physical things and NOT for the ring tones that my Girlfriend & my Daughter 'have to have' of music we already have, or to listen to it on my iPod, or at work...
And I'd really, really like to see the music industry collapse and something else entirely arise from the wreckage before I start forking over my money.
So I can't imagine with all the technology shoved into my home I am Luddite and my setup would be ridiculed by self labeled audiophiles... and I'm not the only one, most of my friends feel the same way and I generally find a bunch of like minded adults at any music festival or show I go to. One last thought... as much as I hate CDs, they are infinitely better than audio cassette tapes.
I know a few people who think along the same lines. One German guy I work with claims Austria is far, far nicer than Germany and I know a family from Switzerland who agree. I have another co-worker who is moving to Panama because he feels repressed by all the regulations and restrictions in the EU.
Just because someone was born in a particular place doesn't mean that's the best place on Earth for them to live.
I have sort of mused for a while that adding native hypervisor functionality (or would it, in this case, be native para-hypervisor?) would be an interesting path for next generation firmware, like Open Boot Firmware, to take.
I also think that another one of Theo's point that is getting lost is that _anything_ that adds complexity also adds risk and should be considered unsafe. It may be that it adds value and is therefore worth to add and to audit but it still adds risk. This I wholly agree with, which is why I also don't see the rational behind wanting to run OpenBSD in any kind of virtualized environment unless you are a developer, tester, or researcher.
I got disgusted with America years ago and left. I think you discount Canada & Europe too quickly and I think I would look closely at the UK and Australia before moving there because they both appear to have social problems that the US has.
I *really* like living in a smallish city in Europe. My family is subjected to fewer of the myriad of minor prejudices that exist (compared to Atlanta). The traffic is lighter and the drivers more disciplined. Despite living in city which is supposedly 96% catholic I am not subjected to any sort of wackiness that is so popular from the religious right in the US these days. There is *no* telemarketing. I worked out a contract where I have 6 weeks paid and 12 weeks unpaid holiday. It's easy to be Green. It's easy to bicycle. It's easy to buy primarily local food stuffs. It's possible to have a mostly positive political conversation with people with significantly disparate views and no one is accused of hating Europe or Austria. No one cares what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom or wants to make a law about it. The government isn't spying on me. Public works are properly funded so we don't have bridges collapsing nor have we completely run out of water. The beer is better.
I could go on for hours...
One more thing.... The ISP with the really, really fast fiber doesn't do intrusive traffic shaping... Yet.
Bottom line there are a lot of really, really cool places in the world to live. Sure not all of them are primarily English speaking and there is no perfect place but you shouldn't let that slow you down.
This is what is tempting me to update from a Quad G5 in what would be a little early in my normal upgrade cycle. Then again if Leopard doesn't do it for me, I'm going away from the Mac and just living with multiple computers for multiple tasks.
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There is a lot to be said about this.
I wonder what not allowing exit polling to be published for 72 hours (or so) would do for fair elections.
Because buying and selling votes is illegal.
Seriously, this has been discussed to death in the security / crypto circles and there are *a lot* of really good ideas floating around. All that's really needed is a competitive process to select the best one... like the crypto community did with AES.
This problem is so solvable the current state is infuriating.
Hi... If you are ever in Austria you are welcome to stop by my home for a cup of coffee and a snack. Then I will show you the Fernwärme I use to heat my home. It's quite common actually. There's a large incinerator facility south of the city and they pipe the hot water all over.
Not that this is the only way to heat, but it sure is the least expensive.
I'm not saying I agree with you (I haven't given it a whole lot of thought) but you are not the only one thinking along those lines. The guy that cooked up "How Stuff Works", Marshall Brain has also been down this path. He collected his thoughts into a story he calls "Robotic Nation": http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Having read all of this some time ago I came to the conclusion that this scenario requires some of the more fucking stupid self destructive elements of American culture to remain unchanged throughout a societal change at least as profound as the industrial revolution. Given American's general propensity to cling to ass stupid shit which isn't especially in their self interest I'm not saying that's improbable... I'm just saying it's a profound comment on cultures.
In the same way what Mr. Brain describes can only happen like that in the United States... it couldn't, for example, happen in Europe be they don't the same conditions. So what ever happens elsewhere would have to be really different, if only owing to the beginning cultural differences.
Right then... leaving that 'not' out sure changed the meaning of my comments! So while I doubt you are a minority of one, I've heard lots of people whine about the photoshop UI and never heard anyone hold it up as an example UI done right.
Someone else was talking about having the option of using a new UI or using the old one. That sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
While I'm sure you are the only one thinking that, I am also just as sure you are in the minority.
I really, really hate the current Photoshop UI and I use it nearly everyday.
That looks pretty cool, I'm going to try the beta this weekend.
Thanks
I own a modern turbo diesel and it does not emit "huge plumes of black smoke that puff out are full of nasty shit". Thus I know that your statement is false.
This calls into question the rest of your statements which are probably false and certainly histrionic.
There's a pretty sound argument along the lines of the peak has happened and the distruption from Katrina obscured the data.
I have lived in both Europe and in the US for years. I think that the American's idea of "freedom of speech" is dysfunctional. Most people have no idea what constitutes protected or unprotected speech. They think they can say just whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, in whatever forum they want (and in the case of political speech with as many dollars as they want). In reality speech in the US isn't like that, rather it is as legislated as it is Europe, albeit with different nuances.
In answer to your question: They have laws made by parliaments in Europe which define protected or forbidden speech. Just like in America they have laws made by Congress which define protected or forbidden speech. It's just that in response to horrors of WWII, several European countries have enacted 'Don't make the same mistake twice' laws. Which forbid denial of the events or glorification of perpetrators in public events.
I think you will find that the US has civil laws which can be used just as effectively end hate speech.
Seriously. Slashdot does not have, nor has it ever had, Editors. Slashdot has copyists which it calls 'Editors' much to the dismay of a certain segment of its readership. You can check the FAQ out (I haven't read it in years) and it basically says that they do not want to be editors. This is something they want the Slashdot participants to do. I find it annoying as hell but in their defense there are several posts with links claiming to be the blog in question.
'cause if we actually could just "teach people some common sense or something" we would have long ago done so.
People are the way they are and no amount of you (or me) being smarter than the herd is going to change it.
While I seriously doubt anyone posting around here truly knows for sure. This didn't just come out of thin air. According one of their CEOs Sun & NetApp have been annoying each for a while before the lawsuits started.
Personally, I'm not inclined to believe either of them all that much... I was just pointing out that NetApp possibly could be responding to Sun's threats with a lawsuit and thus be suing first.
I am sort of vaguely interested in ZFS and I do hope that this does not prevent some of the more interesting bits from making their way into other filesystems... or for that matter a fully bug free ZFS making its way into other OS's.
As long as conventional energy sources like coal & coil continue to be subsidized by our tax dollars alternative energy sources will face an up hill battle. Then when those new energy sources finally can compete with the old ones and the old ones start to rise in cost why would the new ones not rise also (if remaining just lower in cost). Isn't that what capitalism is all about?
I find news that MacBookPros were updated but not MacPros.
All of my Leopard update problems stem from 3rd party hardware.
Highpoint apparently will not be updating their drivers for the PCI-X RAID cards and using the Mac OS 10.4 drivers allows for accessing your drives in some sort of freaky read-only state. This caused a cascade of bizarre problems, culminating in my iTunes database and my iPod being corrupted. I suppose this comes from the actual MP3s residing on a read only partition (which claimed to be read write). So I guess I'll be buying a new RAID card soon and you can bet it won't be a highpoint product.
I've got a few other issues but nothing I can point back to Apple and complain about.
My biggest complaint is that I want to buy a new MacPro and they haven't updated them in quite some time.
Isn't all that new HD content, and Comcast's very own VOIP and, all those SD channels, and all those music channels, and all their other crap carried on the same network?
Surely they'd rather have all that bandwidth going to paying HD content subscribers, rather than those filthy file-sharers!
Oh and they'd like to continue to oversell capacity too, thanks!
Actually don't they get a cut on DVD player profits via the license of the 'DVD' symbol?
Not that I'm saying he shouldn't shit in his hat... I'd glad shit in it myself...
I am not sure you are entirely accurate with this assessment. I'm not an audiophile by any means but I am a technophile. I quit buying music 20 years ago out of disinterest and only in the last few years started to listen to music again... Thanks to various music festivals and the internet. Now I have a *massive* collection with a variety I was completely unaware existed when I was actually buying music. I listen to my music with a tube amplifier that I built, driving a pair of loud speakers which I also built... which I find competitive with current commercial amplifier / speaker combos. And I can honestly hear the difference between various sources... low bit rate MP3, high bit rate MP3, Lossless encoded digital files, CD, and Vinyl. (but I can't hear the difference between the cable I use and cables like the $7,200 cable you can find on the market).
So I am really ready to begin spending money again however, I flat will not do business will any of the various music industry associations (for me that's GEMA) or with brick & mortar stores that sell their products. I'm not buying anything they're selling. I will not buy the latest top 10 formulaic hit, the Hollywood blockbuster movie soundtrack, or CD's which are flawed to begin with. But I'm still in the market to buy art... I buy music from performers that I see live. I donate to causes that produce benefit albums I like but I've never even _seen_ the CD for "Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur". One of the university students that works for me is into the electronica / DJ scene and he's brought some of these new LP vinyl albums to play for me and they're good, really good. He's also told me of one indie label who bundles lossless digital files with their vinyl.
This has led me to what I really want: I want *art*.
I want interesting album covers, I want artistic liner notes, I want Posters & T-Shirts, I want creative forms, colors and sounds.
I want media to play on my home stereo which has a reasonably large dynamic range and is not overly compressed or overly amplified.
I want a lossless encoded digital file that I can play on my Mac (at home, in my home office or at work, in the lab) or transcode into a codec of my choosing to play on my iPod or in my car.
I want music produced in a studiio as well as music recorded at live performances.
I want to pay *once* for the art I buy and only make additional payments when I want physical things and NOT for the ring tones that my Girlfriend & my Daughter 'have to have' of music we already have, or to listen to it on my iPod, or at work...
And I'd really, really like to see the music industry collapse and something else entirely arise from the wreckage before I start forking over my money.
So I can't imagine with all the technology shoved into my home I am Luddite and my setup would be ridiculed by self labeled audiophiles... and I'm not the only one, most of my friends feel the same way and I generally find a bunch of like minded adults at any music festival or show I go to. One last thought... as much as I hate CDs, they are infinitely better than audio cassette tapes.
My take is that the motivation to publish the article is that Russia has been in news recently criticizing US foreign policy.
Now is it the true motivation that Russia has criticized US foreign policy or that Russia has been in the news?
Somehow I doubt a bunch of people posting on Slashdot could accurately assess that.
I know a few people who think along the same lines. One German guy I work with claims Austria is far, far nicer than Germany and I know a family from Switzerland who agree. I have another co-worker who is moving to Panama because he feels repressed by all the regulations and restrictions in the EU.
Just because someone was born in a particular place doesn't mean that's the best place on Earth for them to live.
I have sort of mused for a while that adding native hypervisor functionality (or would it, in this case, be native para-hypervisor?) would be an interesting path for next generation firmware, like Open Boot Firmware, to take.
I also think that another one of Theo's point that is getting lost is that _anything_ that adds complexity also adds risk and should be considered unsafe. It may be that it adds value and is therefore worth to add and to audit but it still adds risk. This I wholly agree with, which is why I also don't see the rational behind wanting to run OpenBSD in any kind of virtualized environment unless you are a developer, tester, or researcher.
I got disgusted with America years ago and left. I think you discount Canada & Europe too quickly and I think I would look closely at the UK and Australia before moving there because they both appear to have social problems that the US has.
I *really* like living in a smallish city in Europe. My family is subjected to fewer of the myriad of minor prejudices that exist (compared to Atlanta). The traffic is lighter and the drivers more disciplined. Despite living in city which is supposedly 96% catholic I am not subjected to any sort of wackiness that is so popular from the religious right in the US these days. There is *no* telemarketing. I worked out a contract where I have 6 weeks paid and 12 weeks unpaid holiday. It's easy to be Green. It's easy to bicycle. It's easy to buy primarily local food stuffs. It's possible to have a mostly positive political conversation with people with significantly disparate views and no one is accused of hating Europe or Austria. No one cares what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom or wants to make a law about it. The government isn't spying on me. Public works are properly funded so we don't have bridges collapsing nor have we completely run out of water. The beer is better.
I could go on for hours...
One more thing.... The ISP with the really, really fast fiber doesn't do intrusive traffic shaping... Yet.
Bottom line there are a lot of really, really cool places in the world to live. Sure not all of them are primarily English speaking and there is no perfect place but you shouldn't let that slow you down.
Parallels may the motivation.
This is what is tempting me to update from a Quad G5 in what would be a little early in my normal upgrade cycle. Then again if Leopard doesn't do it for me, I'm going away from the Mac and just living with multiple computers for multiple tasks.
AMEN!
You can have a pretty fine document in just rich text. And it's tiny too.