You're right. Microsoft has done lots for the information security industry by selling a desktop and desktop derived server OS that has an security model that is insecure by default.
Just because we're Microsoft bashing, doesn't mean we don't have a point.
In much of the EU, hate speech is indeed illegal. This is because they experienced first-hand the destruction that would happen if revisionism, racism and incendiary rhetoric were to take over political discourse.
Government is an apparatus that is mainly used to keep people in line. Now think who would have a use for such an apparatus?
The reason why we have representative democracy is to ensure that the policy and execution of government is accountable to the people. As you can see in this day and age, powerful interests have found an easy solution to this by controlling the media and changing the "narrative". That's why you watch FOX news.
If you lack the capacity to the see that the government is controlled by the rich and powerful, then honestly, you are beyond saving.
The GPs point is that the repression that these societies endured was a direct result of the rich enslaving the poor in various capacities and through various apparatuses. When this changes by revolution, the immediate aftermath is often bloody and grim.
Oh please! The abuse of power by local government is as much as, or even more astounding. You just don't see this because most of it is isn't big enough to make the evening news nationwide.
The real solution is to make corporations accountable when they screw the little guys - it's got nothing to do with where government is.
Corporations are the center of power now. What makes you think that state governments can withstand pressure from corporations any better than the federal government?
If you have to increase the amount of L2 and L3 cache and implement pipelining to get the type of integer performance that x86/AMD64 processors are achieving for this type of workload, then all of the savings that you should automagically get from ARM pretty much dissipated. The translations between the CISC x84 instruction set and the internal RISC core of modern x86 CPU are relatively efficient.
The only reason I see that MS is moving to ARM is because from a power consumption and scalability standpoint, it is more efficient to have a massive cluster of low-power cores rather than a handful of high-performance cores. This is most likely due to the pressure from mobile/tablet and cloud arms of the business.
People who bought netbooks didn't really wanted a netbook - what they wanted was a very small, mobile and cheap version of the notebook computer they used before (hence in the end most netbooks came with Windows). Unfortunately this combination makes for very poor usability.
This is what killed the netbook market and why the iPad is reigning supreme. It takes a while for people to figure out that what they originally wanted from a particular product does not perform as they originally envisaged.
Sales tax is applied on the buyer at the point of purchase, but state law requires the seller to collect it. The issue we have now is that the seller is out of state but the point of purchase is in-state. Amazon is arguing that they have no obligation to collect this tax as they have no presence in-state.
At the end of the day, the federal government has to step in and legislate. It is most unfair to physical independent retailers as they have no way to compete with mail-order/online retailers which in effect encourages people to evade taxes.
It is not taxation without representation as sales tax is applied not on the seller of the goods, but the buyer. The seller is only required by law to collect this tax. The definition of sales tax is a consumption tax that is applied at the point of purchase. As the buyer lives in-state, she is subject to taxation laws within that state.
Furthermore, most businesses operating in this fashion are legal but not natural persons and should not have representation anyway.
Jurisprudence is only a small part of what most lawyers do. Everything else are just arbitrary rules that can be simplified so that the common man can understand (and therefore negate the need for 95% of lawyers).
In English law, all restrictive covenants (ie non-compete) clauses in employment contracts are by default void as they are in effect a restraint of trade. The employer will have to take the ex-employee to court and the burden of proof is on them to show that there are legitimate business interests (eg. sales contacts) to be protected, and that the restraint of trade is proportional to the business interests being protected.
In most cases, 1 year is held not to be a proportional time frame (it is thought 6 months to be the maximum unless in exceptional cases). Furthermore, the restrictive covenant has to be proportional in terms of the geographical location in which it applies, as well as the industry/commercial sectors that have been barred.
Unless this MS guy is of the CXO level, I fail to see how this agreement can be deemed reasonable and proportional. Also, unless the court in the case is ruling on statutory instruction, I can not see how a common-law court (even in WA) can find for the plaintiff.
You have the gall to call others spreading propaganda. Unbelievable.
Simply put, nuclear has been shown to have catastrophic failure scenarios which we do not have a complete cost model for. So far, we have had 2 major nuclear accidents in which a significant exclusion zone has been defined due to high concentration of escaped radioactive material. It is likely that these exclusion zones will have dangerous levels of radioactivity for the duration of our lifetime.
Nice try deflecting the argument with coal, but that's not what it's about.
The business can choose to not distance sell to particular states if they have reservations about their sales tax policy. When someone buys an item remotely, the point of sale is at the point of delivery. See Independiente Ltd & Ors v Music Trading On-Line (HK) Ltd (t/a CD-WOW) & Ors, Court of Appeal - Chancery Division, March 20, 2007, [2007] EWHC 533, for the UK stance on this.
Besides, more interstate commerce is carried out by legal entities which are not natural persons (ie. LLC, LLP) and do not have suffrage.
Your argument is misplaced. I never said that coal does not release radioactive material. I said it doesn't release it in the same concentration that would cause an area to be deemed out-of-bounds such as Fukushima or Chernobyl.
Furthermore, the article you linked makes the same mistake - arguing the wrong argument.
They concluded that Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations. This ironic situation remains true today and is addressed in this article.
That's not the point. When you make these FUD arguments, alarm bells ring in the back of people's heads. The real issue is that Americans living near a nuclear plant accident would certainly receive a higher radiation does than if he was swimming in fly ash. And we still don't know how to decommission a nuclear plant that had a INES level 7 accident (ie. Fukushima and Chernobyl).
Radiation released from coal does not include concentrated levels of harmful isotopes of iodine, caesium, strontium and plutonium that will not only kill people through elevated cancer risks, but also poison the ecosystem for centuries in the exclusion zone around the nuclear plant which had the accident.
You're not familiar with government certification are you? If you're talking about stuff like EAL4+ compliance under common criteria, technically, every deployment need to be certified. However, you can certify a product as "the next best thing", but that certification is only valid for that particular version of software and it's tested environment, and most vendors use a special locked down mode to ensure compliance. Most people don't deploy EAL4+ devices in the real world under this mode as there are built in security controls such as the lack of remote management.
I expect the FISMA regulations to be just a anal retentive and arcane.
It's not broken, it's just not "optimized" for your hardware.:)
Seriously though, because hardware companies tend to discount Linux users on the desktop, you have to put in your own "investment" to make things work. However, the rewards are great. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for the past 12 years. If I had to do my own Windows installs, it will take a similar amount of time to get everything working, including dealing with bad or conflicting drivers, etc.
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How about creating for the user by default an account that has administrator privileges? Or autorun of removable media turned on by default?
You're right. Microsoft has done lots for the information security industry by selling a desktop and desktop derived server OS that has an security model that is insecure by default.
Just because we're Microsoft bashing, doesn't mean we don't have a point.
In much of the EU, hate speech is indeed illegal. This is because they experienced first-hand the destruction that would happen if revisionism, racism and incendiary rhetoric were to take over political discourse.
Government is an apparatus that is mainly used to keep people in line. Now think who would have a use for such an apparatus?
The reason why we have representative democracy is to ensure that the policy and execution of government is accountable to the people. As you can see in this day and age, powerful interests have found an easy solution to this by controlling the media and changing the "narrative". That's why you watch FOX news.
If you lack the capacity to the see that the government is controlled by the rich and powerful, then honestly, you are beyond saving.
The GPs point is that the repression that these societies endured was a direct result of the rich enslaving the poor in various capacities and through various apparatuses. When this changes by revolution, the immediate aftermath is often bloody and grim.
Oh please! The abuse of power by local government is as much as, or even more astounding. You just don't see this because most of it is isn't big enough to make the evening news nationwide.
The real solution is to make corporations accountable when they screw the little guys - it's got nothing to do with where government is.
Corporations are the center of power now. What makes you think that state governments can withstand pressure from corporations any better than the federal government?
First rule of the r@pe club - you do not force oral unless you want to end up like John Bobbit.
If you have to increase the amount of L2 and L3 cache and implement pipelining to get the type of integer performance that x86/AMD64 processors are achieving for this type of workload, then all of the savings that you should automagically get from ARM pretty much dissipated. The translations between the CISC x84 instruction set and the internal RISC core of modern x86 CPU are relatively efficient.
The only reason I see that MS is moving to ARM is because from a power consumption and scalability standpoint, it is more efficient to have a massive cluster of low-power cores rather than a handful of high-performance cores. This is most likely due to the pressure from mobile/tablet and cloud arms of the business.
Um.. shenzhen has officially 3.3 million people.. closer to 4.0 if you include illegals.
People who bought netbooks didn't really wanted a netbook - what they wanted was a very small, mobile and cheap version of the notebook computer they used before (hence in the end most netbooks came with Windows). Unfortunately this combination makes for very poor usability.
This is what killed the netbook market and why the iPad is reigning supreme. It takes a while for people to figure out that what they originally wanted from a particular product does not perform as they originally envisaged.
Sales tax is applied on the buyer at the point of purchase, but state law requires the seller to collect it. The issue we have now is that the seller is out of state but the point of purchase is in-state. Amazon is arguing that they have no obligation to collect this tax as they have no presence in-state.
At the end of the day, the federal government has to step in and legislate. It is most unfair to physical independent retailers as they have no way to compete with mail-order/online retailers which in effect encourages people to evade taxes.
It is not taxation without representation as sales tax is applied not on the seller of the goods, but the buyer. The seller is only required by law to collect this tax. The definition of sales tax is a consumption tax that is applied at the point of purchase. As the buyer lives in-state, she is subject to taxation laws within that state.
Furthermore, most businesses operating in this fashion are legal but not natural persons and should not have representation anyway.
Behold, the iPad generation!
Jurisprudence is only a small part of what most lawyers do. Everything else are just arbitrary rules that can be simplified so that the common man can understand (and therefore negate the need for 95% of lawyers).
In English law, all restrictive covenants (ie non-compete) clauses in employment contracts are by default void as they are in effect a restraint of trade. The employer will have to take the ex-employee to court and the burden of proof is on them to show that there are legitimate business interests (eg. sales contacts) to be protected, and that the restraint of trade is proportional to the business interests being protected.
In most cases, 1 year is held not to be a proportional time frame (it is thought 6 months to be the maximum unless in exceptional cases). Furthermore, the restrictive covenant has to be proportional in terms of the geographical location in which it applies, as well as the industry/commercial sectors that have been barred.
Unless this MS guy is of the CXO level, I fail to see how this agreement can be deemed reasonable and proportional. Also, unless the court in the case is ruling on statutory instruction, I can not see how a common-law court (even in WA) can find for the plaintiff.
You have the gall to call others spreading propaganda. Unbelievable.
Simply put, nuclear has been shown to have catastrophic failure scenarios which we do not have a complete cost model for. So far, we have had 2 major nuclear accidents in which a significant exclusion zone has been defined due to high concentration of escaped radioactive material. It is likely that these exclusion zones will have dangerous levels of radioactivity for the duration of our lifetime.
Nice try deflecting the argument with coal, but that's not what it's about.
The business can choose to not distance sell to particular states if they have reservations about their sales tax policy. When someone buys an item remotely, the point of sale is at the point of delivery. See Independiente Ltd & Ors v Music Trading On-Line (HK) Ltd (t/a CD-WOW) & Ors, Court of Appeal - Chancery Division, March 20, 2007, [2007] EWHC 533, for the UK stance on this.
Besides, more interstate commerce is carried out by legal entities which are not natural persons (ie. LLC, LLP) and do not have suffrage.
typo - s/4/3/g
You conveniently forgot to mention that the other 4 were shutdown for routine maintenance.
Your argument is misplaced. I never said that coal does not release radioactive material. I said it doesn't release it in the same concentration that would cause an area to be deemed out-of-bounds such as Fukushima or Chernobyl.
Furthermore, the article you linked makes the same mistake - arguing the wrong argument.
They concluded that Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations. This ironic situation remains true today and is addressed in this article.
That's not the point. When you make these FUD arguments, alarm bells ring in the back of people's heads. The real issue is that Americans living near a nuclear plant accident would certainly receive a higher radiation does than if he was swimming in fly ash. And we still don't know how to decommission a nuclear plant that had a INES level 7 accident (ie. Fukushima and Chernobyl).
Radiation released from coal does not include concentrated levels of harmful isotopes of iodine, caesium, strontium and plutonium that will not only kill people through elevated cancer risks, but also poison the ecosystem for centuries in the exclusion zone around the nuclear plant which had the accident.
Did you read the comment surrounding this? it's looks like classic Microsoft FUD as usual.
You're not familiar with government certification are you? If you're talking about stuff like EAL4+ compliance under common criteria, technically, every deployment need to be certified. However, you can certify a product as "the next best thing", but that certification is only valid for that particular version of software and it's tested environment, and most vendors use a special locked down mode to ensure compliance. Most people don't deploy EAL4+ devices in the real world under this mode as there are built in security controls such as the lack of remote management.
I expect the FISMA regulations to be just a anal retentive and arcane.
It's not broken, it's just not "optimized" for your hardware. :)
Seriously though, because hardware companies tend to discount Linux users on the desktop, you have to put in your own "investment" to make things work. However, the rewards are great. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for the past 12 years. If I had to do my own Windows installs, it will take a similar amount of time to get everything working, including dealing with bad or conflicting drivers, etc.