As reported Israel won over Intel after agreeing to pony up a $ 525 million grant, about 15 per cent of the $ 3.5 billion initial project cost.
In return ofcourse, Israel would get hi-tech jobs, supporting industries, and expertize.
I wish our politicians would look into future and invest wisely as Israel did.
Interestingly, Isreal received an estimated 2.7 billion dollars in foreign aid from the United States. With another proposed 2.7billion for 2005.
Israel just gave 20% of the aid it will receive from the United States this year to get an American company to build a plant there that could have supplied thousands of high-tech jobs here at home. Am I the only one that is bothered by what amounts to the United States paying for its companies to send yet more jobs overseas?
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The OpenVMS TCP/IP implementation costs less than the OpenVMS DECnet implementation.
Are you sure about that? The article states exactly the opposite. Quoth the article "The good news is that the DECnet fees are a bit less than those for TCP/IP." I was just curious which statment is correct.
They obviously don't release the code for the api.. how you know that when you call a function? from the api, it's not doing something malicious? how do you know they aren't using it to track users, send malicious code, etc? granted - it's Google, but still?
The API is written in javascript, the code for which is open by nature. The code is obfuscated/compressed, but it's easy to expand it out to readable syntax. This code is not going to do something on the clientside without everyone knowing it. That's not to say they're not doing tracking on the server side...but that's another matter entirely.
I suppose the question is, do they consider each tile you load from their map server a page view? If they do, it wouldn't take many users scrolling around on the maps to get their.
This is the US Government. Since when have they been known to go for the most logical/cheapest approach to solving a problem? I've worked for the government and let me tell you, they can come up with some pretty Rube Goldbergian schemes.
But from another perspective, all the reasons you stated for why it would be crazy to tap an undersea cable are also reasons why it's a good idea. If it takes a lot of resources to implement, it would also likly take a lot of resources for an enemy to undo it / turn it for his own use.
sure, as long as there's oil, ethanol doesn't really look efficient or affordable except as a fuel oxygenator. but if the oil reserves were to run out sometime soon, ethanol could be poured into most of our existing infrastructure and ease the transition. that's why it's important -- not because it's inherently superior to petroleum, but because it can be manufactured (from scratch) much more quickly.
Did you even read the article? You're missing the entire point! If the oil reserves run out you won't be able to get any ethanol to pour in your car either! Corn based ethanol requires far more energy in its production than it is capable of producing itself, almost all of which comes from fossil fuels. In fact, according to this article producing one unit of energy in ethanol requires 2.3 units of energy to produce. That's gotta come from somewhere, and right now its going to be fossil fuels.
The bottom line is that ethanol programs are, right now, nothing more than another farm subsidy. The politics such programs are beyond the scope of this article, but suffice it to say that touting ethanol as the solution to our energy problems is at best disingenuous, dishonest, and a potentially disasterous diversion from the real technologies we are going to need to maintain our current life styles in the future.
OpenOffice can open and save as pdf? If so then I think I'll download and install it today. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like to scan and save as pdf. I was thinking of getting Pagis Pro for this but if OpenOffice can do it forget the expense of Pagis.
If you scan a document into a pdf file what you will most typically get is an image of the document embedded in the pdf, unless your scanning software does some type of format retaining OCR. These files are usually more akin to multipage tiff files than to the editable pdf files that open office outputs/open.
It seems like ISPs are going to have to make a choice between increased costs due to the insane amounts of traffic caused by spyware and malware, or the cost of the loss of some customers. The whole point of such a strategy is to notify the customer and help him correct the problem if necessary. Customers with problems that would be caught by the gateway page would probably call support anyway, wondering why their connections are so slow. If they're not calling, they're probably complaining quietly about the ISPs crappy service. Tools like the one this article covers can be used to reduce to a minimum the number of false positives identified by the ISP because they have a good profile of problem traffic.
This should be an issue the industry should tackle together. Due the nature of broadband in most markets, these customers aren't really going to have many service alternatives either if they don't like the way their ISP is trying to help them help themselves. If the major players make it known that they won't let their customers unknowingly crush the internet under the load of their spyware and malware riddled boxen, it would go a long way to making a dent in the problem.
The ISP KNOWS the physical addresses of the cable/dsl modem a home user has. It's not like the ISP has no idea which ip addresses are home user or account is using at any given time. How do you think they can reliably (for the most part) identify people for the likes of the RIAA when they ask. Likewise, with modern hardware and software its a pretty trivial task for an ISP to turn your internet access down to a crawl or off with the click of a button. They can do this, they just don't want to.
Maybe it would be a good idea to throttle the users down to a bare minimum and redirect all http traffic to a gateway page to tell them they have a problem with their computer they need to correct. It seems to work for wireless access points in hotels/airports/coffeeshops. Why can't big ISPs do the same thing?
The shutdown tool will only shutdown/restart a computer if the account that issues the command has been granted "SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege" authority in the container in which the target computer is located. Without this privilege, the shutdown tool will have no effect at the target computer.
Why was this even tried in a state court? It's a case of interstate commerce...wouldn't that fall under federal jurisdiction? The fact that the state court didn't dismiss the case outright, to me, shows their bias and/or incompetence. Anybody have any insight into why a state court would hear this case?
ON the subject of the SciFi channel, does it bother anyone else that they are finally getting a decent set of shows (at least on Friday) with SG1,Atlantis, and BSG, that can garner them some credibility in the TV world but then they go and produce crap like "Mansquito". Mansquito...I think the title says all that needs to be said about this movie and about the quality of management at SciFi.
Are you insinuating that abstinence does not provide 100% protection against both unwanted pregnancy and STD?
No, I never said that. I was specifically talking about instances in which the abstinence curiculums make outlandish and false claims like HIV can be transmitted from person to person via sweat and tears, half of all gay teens are HIV positive, and that you can become pregnant just by touching someone's genitals, condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as much as 31% of the time, and that a 43 day old fetus is a thinking person. All of these are assertions pointed out in the Waxman report on abstinence education programs; and while you may respond that his report has been critisized as itself being factually inaccurate, I think that an honest assessment of that criticism will show that these are almost exclusively attacks from those that support or are involved with the abstinence programs. I'm not going to provide any links or references here because it's all easily available on google.
And hey, I totally agree with you that there are hundreds of other programs that waste government funds. Maybe someday we'll have a congress with the political will to honestly review them and make some honest and productive cuts. Right now, though, I still assert that it's the height of madness to cut something costing just $4.5 million that provides real science while funding programs that fill kids heads with misinformation for the low low price of just $209 million.
Now, how much of the budget goes to the (albeit stupid) programs you mentioned? (speaking of faith based initiatives, abstinence only education, and "my granpappy-ain't-no-monkey" stickers for textbooks from the grand parent post)
Bush has said that last year the government distributed$2 billion in grants to faith based organizations for social welfare purposes. His budget for the upcoming year includes $206 million for abstinence education, an increase of $39 million over last year! And the monkey stickers, that's a state issue; but you can be sure that some states have spent quite a lot of money on stickers that suggest creationism and evolution stand on the same level of scientific footing.
The point is that while its true that the government spends most of its money on Medicare and Social Security, Bush is also blowing ALOT of money on socially conservative programs. The $39 million increase in abstinence education this year would have been more than enough to keep these clearly worthwhile science programs going at NASA had it received those dollars instead. But no, we're going to spend it on programs that have a clear history of producing and disseminating false, misleading, and distorted information about reproductive health. There's your Bush science right there, people.
Seriously, I'm not so worried about terrorists getting raw material and building their own weapon from scratch as I am of them buying or "stealing" one. Building a weapon would require a lot of time, knowledge and raw material, but with an unknown number of unfriendy states posessing or already developing weapons who can say buying one outright is out of reach for some well monied extremist group? For all we know it might be a way for say, North Korea to detonate a weapon inside the US with plausible deniability. Can't you just hear Kim Jong-Il saying "Oh those darned terrorists, they stole one of our weapons!! We sure are sorry you lost Washington:(; maybe you shouldn't have been such capitalist pigs."
Some might say it's a little kooky to imagine a black market for ready-made nukes, but is it really any less likely than a group like Al Queda building one from scratch? These people have money, lots of money; and everyone, even countries, has their price. All I'm saying is that we shouldn't focus all our attention on the raw materials and brains required to build one for an independent organization like Al Queda, when they could just as easily follow our American lead and outsource their dirty work to someone else.
I think the real question here is where are you going to find a projector that can output 1920x1440. The closest thing I found was an Eiki LC-HDT10 (1980x1080) for the bargain price of $51k...and you want two? I think a suitable graphics card would be the last of my worries if I'm already spending 102k on displays.
Have you found a cheaper alternative projector for that resolution? I might be interested in one if it was sub 20k.
I suspect they want to control who has access to the patch to stave off creation of viruses that take advantage of this problem. If everyone could get their hands on the patch, some l33t hacker might be able to tell just exactly what is required to exploit the hole.
And as an added benefit, we get an orbital power station that can beam 60megawatts of microwave energy to earth for converstion to electricity when it's not sending craft to mars. But wait there's more! We ALSO get an amazing orbital weapons platform capable of baking small countries to a lovely golden brown in just seconds!
But seriously, I think the only way we'll ever see anything like that built in space is if the military realizes it's dual use potential. There would be a lot of love in the government for a friendly scientific project that just happened to also be capable of being one of the most destructive weapons ever.
Members of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, including the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security, worry that Chinese operatives might use an IBM facility in North Carolina to engage in industrial espionage, using stolen technologies for military purposes, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Here:
In 2003, Global Crossing Ltd. was forced to abandon a planned sale of its telecommunications network to Hutchison- Whampoa Ltd., the Hong Kong-based conglomerate controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing. The Defense Department and others on the committee refused to approve the transaction on national-security grounds.
and Here:
In its negotiations with the committee, IBM has discussed the possibility of implementing measures to address the security concerns over the facility, which is located in Research Triangle Park, the people familiar with the matter said.
The U.S. recently sanctioned eight Chinese companies for exporting technology to Iran for use in a missile program, the New York Times reported Jan. 18. The newspaper said it was ``unclear'' whether the technology was ``dual-use.''
This Bloomberg article has a little more substance than the Xinhua version. There's a little more in there on the espionage aspects that Xinhua left out.
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OMFG, I nearly shot coffee out of my nose from laughing. Good Job.
As reported Israel won over Intel after agreeing to pony up a $ 525 million grant, about 15 per cent of the $ 3.5 billion initial project cost.
In return ofcourse, Israel would get hi-tech jobs, supporting industries, and expertize.
I wish our politicians would look into future and invest wisely as Israel did.
Interestingly, Isreal received an estimated 2.7 billion dollars in foreign aid from the United States. With another proposed 2.7billion for 2005.
Israel just gave 20% of the aid it will receive from the United States this year to get an American company to build a plant there that could have supplied thousands of high-tech jobs here at home. Am I the only one that is bothered by what amounts to the United States paying for its companies to send yet more jobs overseas?
Not anymore.
The OpenVMS TCP/IP implementation costs less than the OpenVMS DECnet implementation.
Are you sure about that? The article states exactly the opposite. Quoth the article "The good news is that the DECnet fees are a bit less than those for TCP/IP." I was just curious which statment is correct.
They obviously don't release the code for the api .. how you know that when you call a function? from the api, it's not doing something malicious? how do you know they aren't using it to track users, send malicious code, etc? granted - it's Google, but still?
The API is written in javascript, the code for which is open by nature. The code is obfuscated/compressed, but it's easy to expand it out to readable syntax. This code is not going to do something on the clientside without everyone knowing it. That's not to say they're not doing tracking on the server side...but that's another matter entirely.
I suppose the question is, do they consider each tile you load from their map server a page view? If they do, it wouldn't take many users scrolling around on the maps to get their.
This is the US Government. Since when have they been known to go for the most logical/cheapest approach to solving a problem? I've worked for the government and let me tell you, they can come up with some pretty Rube Goldbergian schemes.
But from another perspective, all the reasons you stated for why it would be crazy to tap an undersea cable are also reasons why it's a good idea. If it takes a lot of resources to implement, it would also likly take a lot of resources for an enemy to undo it / turn it for his own use.
sure, as long as there's oil, ethanol doesn't really look efficient or affordable except as a fuel oxygenator. but if the oil reserves were to run out sometime soon, ethanol could be poured into most of our existing infrastructure and ease the transition. that's why it's important -- not because it's inherently superior to petroleum, but because it can be manufactured (from scratch) much more quickly.
Did you even read the article? You're missing the entire point! If the oil reserves run out you won't be able to get any ethanol to pour in your car either! Corn based ethanol requires far more energy in its production than it is capable of producing itself, almost all of which comes from fossil fuels. In fact, according to this article producing one unit of energy in ethanol requires 2.3 units of energy to produce. That's gotta come from somewhere, and right now its going to be fossil fuels.
The bottom line is that ethanol programs are, right now, nothing more than another farm subsidy. The politics such programs are beyond the scope of this article, but suffice it to say that touting ethanol as the solution to our energy problems is at best disingenuous, dishonest, and a potentially disasterous diversion from the real technologies we are going to need to maintain our current life styles in the future.
OpenOffice can open and save as pdf? If so then I think I'll download and install it today. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like to scan and save as pdf. I was thinking of getting Pagis Pro for this but if OpenOffice can do it forget the expense of Pagis.
If you scan a document into a pdf file what you will most typically get is an image of the document embedded in the pdf, unless your scanning software does some type of format retaining OCR. These files are usually more akin to multipage tiff files than to the editable pdf files that open office outputs/open.
Keep your trap shut about the hidden resources! Sure everybody knows about them, but not everybody knows about them.
It seems like ISPs are going to have to make a choice between increased costs due to the insane amounts of traffic caused by spyware and malware, or the cost of the loss of some customers. The whole point of such a strategy is to notify the customer and help him correct the problem if necessary. Customers with problems that would be caught by the gateway page would probably call support anyway, wondering why their connections are so slow. If they're not calling, they're probably complaining quietly about the ISPs crappy service. Tools like the one this article covers can be used to reduce to a minimum the number of false positives identified by the ISP because they have a good profile of problem traffic.
This should be an issue the industry should tackle together. Due the nature of broadband in most markets, these customers aren't really going to have many service alternatives either if they don't like the way their ISP is trying to help them help themselves. If the major players make it known that they won't let their customers unknowingly crush the internet under the load of their spyware and malware riddled boxen, it would go a long way to making a dent in the problem.
The ISP KNOWS the physical addresses of the cable/dsl modem a home user has. It's not like the ISP has no idea which ip addresses are home user or account is using at any given time. How do you think they can reliably (for the most part) identify people for the likes of the RIAA when they ask. Likewise, with modern hardware and software its a pretty trivial task for an ISP to turn your internet access down to a crawl or off with the click of a button. They can do this, they just don't want to.
Maybe it would be a good idea to throttle the users down to a bare minimum and redirect all http traffic to a gateway page to tell them they have a problem with their computer they need to correct. It seems to work for wireless access points in hotels/airports/coffeeshops. Why can't big ISPs do the same thing?
The shutdown tool will only shutdown/restart a computer if the account that issues the command has been granted "SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege" authority in the container in which the target computer is located. Without this privilege, the shutdown tool will have no effect at the target computer.
Here's a couple of random references to the procedure and required Windows privleges
Restart or shut down remotely and document the reason
User Privilege List
Why was this even tried in a state court? It's a case of interstate commerce...wouldn't that fall under federal jurisdiction? The fact that the state court didn't dismiss the case outright, to me, shows their bias and/or incompetence. Anybody have any insight into why a state court would hear this case?
ON the subject of the SciFi channel, does it bother anyone else that they are finally getting a decent set of shows (at least on Friday) with SG1,Atlantis, and BSG, that can garner them some credibility in the TV world but then they go and produce crap like "Mansquito". Mansquito...I think the title says all that needs to be said about this movie and about the quality of management at SciFi.
Mansquito.
Are you insinuating that abstinence does not provide 100% protection against both unwanted pregnancy and STD?
No, I never said that. I was specifically talking about instances in which the abstinence curiculums make outlandish and false claims like HIV can be transmitted from person to person via sweat and tears, half of all gay teens are HIV positive, and that you can become pregnant just by touching someone's genitals, condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as much as 31% of the time, and that a 43 day old fetus is a thinking person. All of these are assertions pointed out in the Waxman report on abstinence education programs; and while you may respond that his report has been critisized as itself being factually inaccurate, I think that an honest assessment of that criticism will show that these are almost exclusively attacks from those that support or are involved with the abstinence programs. I'm not going to provide any links or references here because it's all easily available on google.
And hey, I totally agree with you that there are hundreds of other programs that waste government funds. Maybe someday we'll have a congress with the political will to honestly review them and make some honest and productive cuts. Right now, though, I still assert that it's the height of madness to cut something costing just $4.5 million that provides real science while funding programs that fill kids heads with misinformation for the low low price of just $209 million.
Now, how much of the budget goes to the (albeit stupid) programs you mentioned?
(speaking of faith based initiatives, abstinence only education, and "my granpappy-ain't-no-monkey" stickers for textbooks from the grand parent post)
Bush has said that last year the government distributed$2 billion in grants to faith based organizations for social welfare purposes. His budget for the upcoming year includes $206 million for abstinence education, an increase of $39 million over last year! And the monkey stickers, that's a state issue; but you can be sure that some states have spent quite a lot of money on stickers that suggest creationism and evolution stand on the same level of scientific footing.
The point is that while its true that the government spends most of its money on Medicare and Social Security, Bush is also blowing ALOT of money on socially conservative programs. The $39 million increase in abstinence education this year would have been more than enough to keep these clearly worthwhile science programs going at NASA had it received those dollars instead. But no, we're going to spend it on programs that have a clear history of producing and disseminating false, misleading, and distorted information about reproductive health. There's your Bush science right there, people.
Seriously, I'm not so worried about terrorists getting raw material and building their own weapon from scratch as I am of them buying or "stealing" one. Building a weapon would require a lot of time, knowledge and raw material, but with an unknown number of unfriendy states posessing or already developing weapons who can say buying one outright is out of reach for some well monied extremist group? For all we know it might be a way for say, North Korea to detonate a weapon inside the US with plausible deniability. Can't you just hear Kim Jong-Il saying "Oh those darned terrorists, they stole one of our weapons!! We sure are sorry you lost Washington :(; maybe you shouldn't have been such capitalist pigs."
Some might say it's a little kooky to imagine a black market for ready-made nukes, but is it really any less likely than a group like Al Queda building one from scratch? These people have money, lots of money; and everyone, even countries, has their price. All I'm saying is that we shouldn't focus all our attention on the raw materials and brains required to build one for an independent organization like Al Queda, when they could just as easily follow our American lead and outsource their dirty work to someone else.
I think the real question here is where are you going to find a projector that can output 1920x1440. The closest thing I found was an Eiki LC-HDT10 (1980x1080) for the bargain price of $51k...and you want two? I think a suitable graphics card would be the last of my worries if I'm already spending 102k on displays.
Have you found a cheaper alternative projector for that resolution? I might be interested in one if it was sub 20k.
I suspect they want to control who has access to the patch to stave off creation of viruses that take advantage of this problem. If everyone could get their hands on the patch, some l33t hacker might be able to tell just exactly what is required to exploit the hole.
And as an added benefit, we get an orbital power station that can beam 60megawatts of microwave energy to earth for converstion to electricity when it's not sending craft to mars. But wait there's more! We ALSO get an amazing orbital weapons platform capable of baking small countries to a lovely golden brown in just seconds!
But seriously, I think the only way we'll ever see anything like that built in space is if the military realizes it's dual use potential. There would be a lot of love in the government for a friendly scientific project that just happened to also be capable of being one of the most destructive weapons ever.
Here:
and Here:
This Bloomberg article has a little more substance than the Xinhua version. There's a little more in there on the espionage aspects that Xinhua left out.
we exchange secret-admin handshakes and have a beer with lunch whenever the latest virus comes out.
damn, you must be an alcoholic by now.
Where are you located? I'm lucky to break 1.5mbit/sec with my cox service.