"Yes, the GSEs(Govt Sponsered Enterprise) were making 'easy' money and it was only because they had government backing. This enticed non GSE to try and get into the game and it turned out it wasn't easy money after all."
So without the GSE's the whole market for Mortgage backed securities wouldn't have existed. Including all of the private companies that tried to beat Fannie and Freddie without the American Taxpayer (or so we thought pre bail-out) behind them.
The cause was manipulation by government to promote home ownership. In a variety of ways and methods. Unfortunately several of those methods had unintended consequences. I think the creation of mortgage backed securities was the biggest culprit.
They have the most comprehensive write-up I've seen on where the blame lies.
The republican reforms were probably to little to late but I can't see how the Dems opposed them when the crisis was so obvious. The main charge against McCain is that he got on board in 2006 after the bubble had burst, but while the Dems were still opposing the regulation.
How can you not blame Fannie or Freddie? These guys allowed banks to sell bad loans and gave an implicit US Government guarantee to any buyers. Basically the government was telling the market it was covering the risk for all of these loans.
This made an easy money opportunity for the Banks and Fannie and Freddie were the ones who were supposed to be making up the rules for lenders.
Private companies along with Insurance companies tried to copy cat Fannie and Freddies model and here we are today.
This is not a case of a pure free market failure. This is bad government interference pushing a complicated and inherently greedy market the wrong way.
We should either disband Fannie or Freddie or actually regulate and enforce good loans. The combination of government backing of mortgages and lack of regulations on loans is what caused this problem.
You never know who to believe. But I found this (obviously) partisan account of a 2005 bill to clean up Freddie and Fannie Mac interesting. I wonder what was the reason for the Democrat opposition? I wish we had more discussion of issues and alternatives and not just stumping and name calling.
My take, if you aren't going to regulate than the government should not insure or bail-out. Messy buyer beware captiatlism. If you are going to offer government insurance or bail-out than there needs to be strings attached. We can't give incentives for undue risk - just like the "government guarantee" of morgate backed securities.
Thanks for some actual info. I was on bugzilla just the other day trying to figure out if FireFox was actually going to have @font-face support for 3.1
This is a huge issue from web design perspective. Imagine the bandwidth we would save if we didn't create jpegs or gifs for our "branding" fonts.
Everyone is hung up on the DRM but the reason this is being considered is.
1) It's a good compresson algorithm. Fonts are smaller - Compressed and only the subset actually used by the font needs to be downloaded.
2) Prevents name subset collision
Personally, I hope they approve both EOT and straight TrueType or "OpenType" linking like in Safari and Opera.
I just hope they don't take the WC3 years to decide and that Mozilla doesn't wait for them. If FireFox would implement one of these 2 methods - doesn't really matter which one - I could quit hearing the graphic designers moan over how bad the page looks since we had to switch all the fonts to the same boring 10 ones.
I wouldn't have to support the evil IP DRM folks either. I could use eclusively free fonts and include both EOT non tethered and straight tty files on the site. A conditional comment, javascript, or CSS hacks later and We've finally overcome one the last hurdle to good static 2D web design for all the browsers I care about (IE, Safari, FireFox, Opera)
Remember that a lot of Fundamentalist have very little if any Church Hiearchy. So what keeps them together is their belief in the truth of scripture and a common "interpretive tradition" We do things this way because we think such and such scripture means this.....
To a Fundamentalist, Scriptures are the facts and the theology and interpretations are theories and hypothesis - subject to change but each group has their own pet theories that differentiate itself from other Christians.
Catholics and some of the "mainline" protestants have a more formal authority structure and the current teaching and theology of the church is as important or more important than the ancient writings about Jesus.
This is definately the key issue of the protestant reformation -
Martin Luthers - solo scripture, His belief that the written bible trumped church papal authority. Although even he acknowledged that we use tradition, logic, and experience to interpret the bible (Wesleyian Quadrangle).
While the Catholics point out that the bible was the writings that came out of the church -the community of faith and so it is the church that was primary.
Martin and others felt the Church had drifted through the centuries from the early witness of the scripture and pushed hard for changes and ultimately broke off into their own groups. Forsaking church authority for messy debates of scripture, logic, and intepretation.
Anyway Protestants get excited about newly discovered old testament manuscripts because they get us closer to the living, breathing, historic Jesus that is the real foundation of the faith.
Now the actual text is old news for bible readers - already incorporated by anyone who isn't clutching their old King James with a death grip. What's new here is the making it public which could kill a lot of FUD about "changes" and "conspiracies" and highlight some of the real issues of biblical scholorship.
Good listing of the major languages and why you would want to choose them.
If you are doing mainly web development then:php, asp.net, or something more trendy like python or ruby.
If you have other reasons for being a java shop you can go the tomcat route for your web portions.
Giving your whole development staff a consistent environment can definately help in hiring, maintenance coding, it operations, etc.
Your suggestion about frameworks is a good one. Having a few common frameworks will go far in adding standardization to your coding practices - a lot further than some document some where. Of cource you will propably need a few different frameworks - ie one for web apps another for thick clients, and allow the option of no framework for small or performance critical applications.
There is some evidence that the people who wrote the bible wrote what they knew to be true
(so they were credible witnesses as far as it goes since many of the verifiable parts of their stories check out).
There is some evidence that the supernatural stuff about jesus was already rumbling around that area in several other countries attached to several other dieties.
In all the accounts there is also unanimous agreement that he at least appeared to perform supernatural acts with critics denouncing him as a magician or demon possesed - Talmud, Roman accounts. I am not familiar with reports of other contemporaries/dieties but am not suprised either as even the bible mentions other magicians, etc.
There is some evidence that some of the books of the bible were not written by one person.
True, Gospel of Mark, Luke, and John are fairly well established, although John may have been compiled and written by some of his followers instead. Authorship of Matthew is more up in the air. Even modern books have editors and help - remember writing was rocket science for the day and almost anyone would need a lot of help to pull of a piece as long as any of the gospels.
There is some evidence that some books of the bible were suppressed by the early church.
There is also writings that show us the debates and reasons these books were deemed heretical. The vast majority of them were written 100 to 200 years after the earlier gospels and had a tendency to remove Jesus from the historical facts and use him to promote gnostic or other theologies. Feel free to pull out the gnostic gospels and decide if they offer a more historical account.
There is a lot of credible evidence that modern christians are anti-truth because they
ignore vast mounds of physical evidence because it contradicts genesis. They have been
caught lying and suppressing the truth. They are not acting christ like.. or even disciple
like. They do not value the truth. They do not respect honest seekers of truth. Now this is a damming charge. And I can't simply deny that many modern Christians argue and debate based on faith rather than facts.
This has a lot to do with History of course. Far from suppressing the truth the Church was the originator of Universities, higher education, and the scientific method. But along with a passion for truth and reason came an endless stream of debate, argument, bloodshed, and fighting. This gave rise to Evangelical movments with a "practical faith" with an anti-intellectual atittude - what you do is more important than what you say or debate. Despite many positive aspects of this movement (end of british slavery to name one), the church members started losing the firm rational backing on which their individual faith was based.
I categorically refute the charge that Christianity is only for the ignorant. There are plenty of arguments that would lead a thinking man in the direction of faith and lead many cynics to realize christianity is not baseless nor stupid as they have sterotyped it to be.
"Going to heaven" is very different than most people think. If your entire personality ceases to exist and only an animating spirit/soul sans personality goes to
heaven, then most people would view that as the same as death. So most people really don't believe christianity anyway... they engage in a mental kung-fu and think
that if some part of them survives completely sans their personality then that's okay... heck, let me clone their bloody cells and keep those alive forever-- would that be immortal life? Christianity is always portrayed in the media as i
Not really an answer to your question - mostly the big 3 don't address it. But I would reccomend reading C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy. This little fictional story does a neat job integrating extraterrestials and ancient pre-christian stories into a neat package. Gives a good example of something a quick-thinking clergy man might do.
A immediate cut over re-write is going to be the costliest, riskyest strategy.
If you can split your site into seperate applications and migrate them over one by one. Any decent web developer should be able to pick up your old platform enough to do minor maintenance edits.
Make all development on the new platform. It's helpful if you can use a common backend database for both platforms so that might limit your choices. Just stick to your guns on the transition plan and make sure that all the important decision makers understand.
You have to stick to your platform plan.
One company I worked for was in the middle of a transition from Cold Fusion to.NET (yes they were a microsoft shop). When one of the marketing execs hires an outside design firm to do a major rewrite in php we ended up having to rent a second dedicated server after having stability problems with php on iis (although zend and microsoft are currently working on that - don't touch it until they have the mssql driver done ). It effectively killed.net transition as we scrambled to maintain all 3 platforms.
p.s. before you flame me, at my current job we use php exclusively on LAMP. Note at my former company we had a huge exisiting mssql database that we had to integrate with the web on virtually every project so.net made more sense.
Not much support for net neutrality legistation on the republicain side. As the conservative position of "let the market decide" is the general consensus. i'll let you decide wether thats pro or con for techies.
On the plus side making the internet tax free and keeping the fed out of cell phone bills is definately a strong republicain position.
What we can be sure of none of these issues are on the map for the canidates or the mainstream media - unless some brain cells fire and the "it's the economy, stupid" people realize that tech is a huge driver of the current US ecomony.
So virtually no canidates are talking about these issues and only Ron Paul and McCain have any track record to look at.
I'm from Texas so I don't have much say. We're too late in the game to affect the republican primary and the state will go republicain in the national election unless something drastic happens ie: Democrats come to Jesus, go pro-gun, pro-life, anti-tax, limited government
Not much support for net neutrality legistation on the republicain side. As the conservative position of "let the market decide" is the general consensus. i'll let you decide wether thats pro or con for techies.
On the plus side making the internet tax free and keeping the fed out of cell phone bills is definately a strong republicain position.
What we can be sure of none of these issues are on the map for the canidates or the mainstream media - unless some brain cells fire and the "it's the economy, stupid" people realize that tech is a huge driver of the current US ecomony.
So virtually no canidates are talking about these issues and only Ron Paul and McCain have any track record to look at.
I'm from Texas so I don't have much say. We're too late in the game to affect the republican primary and the state will go republicain in the national election unless something drastic happens ie: Democrats come to Jesus, go pro-gun, pro-life, anti-tax, limited government
Bruce has done a great job becoming the journalistic expert on cryptography and computer security. You want to do an expert interview, ask Bruce he is ready and waiting to answer your questions.
I found it fun that his website listed an old company I used to work for ultimateprivacy.com. Long since defunct it raises fun memories of loony, paranoid owners, former CIA agent employees and general start-up hoopla before the bust.
As far as Bruce's snake oil label it really did hurt us, he has and does have a lot of power in the industry.
I'm sure I saw his comments before, but they were worth a re-read. I was pleased to see that he conceded that we probably were doing a one-time-pad correctly and I have to admit he is spot on in his analysis that key distribution makes it a dead end. We could get a workable system for point to point email to talk with your lawyer, vinnie, or terrorist operative. But it started to get strained once you added attachments (even word docs) and would fall over if you ever started trying to use if for picts, videos, and other binary data on a network with many users.
The reality is a widespread security protocol has to be easy and One time pads while mathematically unbreakable require never quantities of secret bits and will never be low maintenance.
For anyone with Pets a Roomba is great - I haven't tried the new special pet brushes.
Before the Roomba I actually got around to vacuming every other week or less. Now the floors get vacumed twice a week - A lot less cat hair in our house.
We just purchased a Scooba - It's a good deal more work to get setup and cleaned up afterwards so the verdict is still out on the usefullness.
Of course you would need to go a comedy route. Kind of a Red Dwarf anti-adventure. As bad as the last installments have been making it intentionally laughable would be a wise move (Lego Star Wars, Chad Vader -- all the good stuff is comedy). The Imperial Janitor Squad having to contatly clean up all the mess of blown up storm troopers and chocked to death officers along with some imperial beaurocrat.
I don't really expect George Lucas would make fun of his franchise or allow someone else to do it with official baking from his Studio.
I remember seeing these birds when I was in Papua New Guinea. Almost as big as an ostrich and very unpredictable and dangerous
The wicked claw is the main threat but don't forget the boney head going crashing through the jungle at automobile speeds.
Some villagers would keep them as pets till they got old and turned on somebody. Guess they didn't have any pet tigers to get mauled by so they had to make do with a gigantic bird. The salt water croks and the cassowaries were definately at the top of the food chain on the island and were the two largest animials.
I've used CakePhp extensively and have researched rails and symphony.
PHP is a great choice for web development because of its ubiquiteness you are going to be running on an apache/linux stack or Windows/IIS webserver and I would choose between php or.net respectively. (or maybe JAVA if you are already using it) as your programming language. There are other options but I'm just looking at cheap hosting, available programmers, and free and example code.
A framework is a huge benefit for keeping a medium or large project on track and organized amongst multiple programmers.
The downside is extra overhead. If your business model/application requirements require a lot of hits/volume per server you may not have the option of the overhead. I would recommend load testing earlier than later. You may want to go with the framework to get the app working quickly and then rewrite it once successful to handle the volume.
Ask yourself can you afford a front controller, Can you afford not to have a front controller? If the answer is no - you don't need a framework you need a library.
More importantly can you afford an ActiveRecord implementation? - Does the caching help you or do you really need to hit the database everytime? Is it worth your time just to write your own queries?
A good framework or library will get you over so many hurdles quickly so I highly reccomend it, but it is not going to perform as well as carefully crafted code that does only what it needs to and no more. Is speed of development or volume per server your biggest hurdle?
Symphony and CakePHP are both great choices and can both be used with PHP5
Something like Corrupt countries are usually less technologically developed and don't have a political stance on technology, have fewer computer geeks, and like pre-packaged solutions.
If the relationship is more direct do you think it's M$ bribing or rapant pirating in the country makes M$ very popular and reduces interest in nix alternatives.
Slashdot Mirror
"Yes, the GSEs(Govt Sponsered Enterprise) were making 'easy' money and it was only because they had government backing. This enticed non GSE to try and get into the game and it turned out it wasn't easy money after all."
So without the GSE's the whole market for Mortgage backed securities wouldn't have existed. Including all of the private companies that tried to beat Fannie and Freddie without the American Taxpayer (or so we thought pre bail-out) behind them.
The cause was manipulation by government to promote home ownership. In a variety of ways and methods. Unfortunately several of those methods had unintended consequences. I think the creation of mortgage backed securities was the biggest culprit.
Actually I think his quote was that Fannie and Freddie are
"a fundamentally flawed model, which privatizes profits and socializes losses."
I'll buy the argument that Freddie and Fannie alone aren't the whole problem but I don't see this crisis happening without them.
Take a look at the write-up on factcheck.org
The deregulation of Glass-Steagall provisions had little or nothing to do with this despite what Moveon.org says.
CRA is way overblown but Fannie and Freddie were the root cause.
I wish I had mod points.
Take a look at factcheck.org
They have the most comprehensive write-up I've seen on where the blame lies.
The republican reforms were probably to little to late but I can't see how the Dems opposed them when the crisis was so obvious. The main charge against McCain is that he got on board in 2006 after the bubble had burst, but while the Dems were still opposing the regulation.
How can you not blame Fannie or Freddie? These guys allowed banks to sell bad loans and gave an implicit US Government guarantee to any buyers. Basically the government was telling the market it was covering the risk for all of these loans.
This made an easy money opportunity for the Banks and Fannie and Freddie were the ones who were supposed to be making up the rules for lenders.
Private companies along with Insurance companies tried to copy cat Fannie and Freddies model and here we are today.
This is not a case of a pure free market failure. This is bad government interference pushing a complicated and inherently greedy market the wrong way.
We should either disband Fannie or Freddie or actually regulate and enforce good loans. The combination of government backing of mortgages and lack of regulations on loans is what caused this problem.
You never know who to believe. But I found this (obviously) partisan account of a 2005 bill to clean up Freddie and Fannie Mac interesting. I wonder what was the reason for the Democrat opposition? I wish we had more discussion of issues and alternatives and not just stumping and name calling.
My take, if you aren't going to regulate than the government should not insure or bail-out. Messy buyer beware captiatlism. If you are going to offer government insurance or bail-out than there needs to be strings attached. We can't give incentives for undue risk - just like the "government guarantee" of morgate backed securities.
Thanks for some actual info. I was on bugzilla just the other day trying to figure out if FireFox was actually going to have @font-face support for 3.1
This is a huge issue from web design perspective. Imagine the bandwidth we would save if we didn't create jpegs or gifs for our "branding" fonts.
Everyone is hung up on the DRM but the reason this is being considered is.
1) It's a good compresson algorithm.
Fonts are smaller - Compressed and only the subset actually used by the font needs to be downloaded.
2) Prevents name subset collision
Personally, I hope they approve both EOT and straight TrueType or "OpenType" linking like in Safari and Opera.
I just hope they don't take the WC3 years to decide and that Mozilla doesn't wait for them. If FireFox would implement one of these 2 methods - doesn't really matter which one - I could quit hearing the graphic designers moan over how bad the page looks since we had to switch all the fonts to the same boring 10 ones.
I wouldn't have to support the evil IP DRM folks either. I could use eclusively free fonts and include both EOT non tethered and straight tty files on the site. A conditional comment, javascript, or CSS hacks later and We've finally overcome one the last hurdle to good static 2D web design for all the browsers I care about (IE, Safari, FireFox, Opera)
That's why this is a CSS specification and not an HTML one. @font-face goes in the style sheet (or style tag) and controls presentation.
That's right out of an old "get smart" episode.
But he knows that I know that he knows that I know...
Good explaination of what is going on here.
Remember that a lot of Fundamentalist have very little if any Church Hiearchy. So what keeps them together is their belief in the truth of scripture and a common "interpretive tradition"
We do things this way because we think such and such scripture means this.....
To a Fundamentalist, Scriptures are the facts and the theology and interpretations are theories and hypothesis - subject to change but each group has their own pet theories that differentiate itself from other Christians.
Catholics and some of the "mainline" protestants have a more formal authority structure and the current teaching and theology of the church is as important or more important than the ancient writings about Jesus.
This is definately the key issue of the protestant reformation -
Martin Luthers - solo scripture, His belief that the written bible trumped church papal authority. Although even he acknowledged that we use tradition, logic, and experience to interpret the bible (Wesleyian Quadrangle).
While the Catholics point out that the bible was the writings that came out of the church -the community of faith and so it is the church that was primary.
Martin and others felt the Church had drifted through the centuries from the early witness of the scripture and pushed hard for changes and ultimately broke off into their own groups. Forsaking church authority for messy debates of scripture, logic, and intepretation.
Anyway Protestants get excited about newly discovered old testament manuscripts because they get us closer to the living, breathing, historic Jesus that is the real foundation of the faith.
Now the actual text is old news for bible readers - already incorporated by anyone who isn't clutching their old King James with a death grip. What's new here is the making it public which could kill a lot of FUD about "changes" and "conspiracies" and highlight some of the real issues of biblical scholorship.
Good listing of the major languages and why you would want to choose them.
If you are doing mainly web development then:php, asp.net, or something more trendy like python or ruby.
If you have other reasons for being a java shop you can go the tomcat route for your web portions.
Giving your whole development staff a consistent environment can definately help in hiring, maintenance coding, it operations, etc.
Your suggestion about frameworks is a good one. Having a few common frameworks will go far in adding standardization to your coding practices - a lot further than some document some where. Of cource you will propably need a few different frameworks - ie one for web apps another for thick clients, and allow the option of no framework for small or performance critical applications.
There is some evidence that the supernatural stuff about jesus was already rumbling around that area in several other countries attached to several other dieties.
In all the accounts there is also unanimous agreement that he at least appeared to perform supernatural acts with critics denouncing him as a magician or demon possesed - Talmud, Roman accounts. I am not familiar with reports of other contemporaries/dieties but am not suprised either as even the bible mentions other magicians, etc.
There is some evidence that some of the books of the bible were not written by one person.
True, Gospel of Mark, Luke, and John are fairly well established, although John may have been compiled and written by some of his followers instead. Authorship of Matthew is more up in the air. Even modern books have editors and help - remember writing was rocket science for the day and almost anyone would need a lot of help to pull of a piece as long as any of the gospels.
There is some evidence that some books of the bible were suppressed by the early church.
There is also writings that show us the debates and reasons these books were deemed heretical. The vast majority of them were written 100 to 200 years after the earlier gospels and had a tendency to remove Jesus from the historical facts and use him to promote gnostic or other theologies. Feel free to pull out the gnostic gospels and decide if they offer a more historical account.
There is a lot of credible evidence that modern christians are anti-truth because they ignore vast mounds of physical evidence because it contradicts genesis. They have been caught lying and suppressing the truth. They are not acting christ like.. or even disciple like. They do not value the truth. They do not respect honest seekers of truth.
Now this is a damming charge. And I can't simply deny that many modern Christians argue and debate based on faith rather than facts.
This has a lot to do with History of course. Far from suppressing the truth the Church was the originator of Universities, higher education, and the scientific method. But along with a passion for truth and reason came an endless stream of debate, argument, bloodshed, and fighting. This gave rise to Evangelical movments with a "practical faith" with an anti-intellectual atittude - what you do is more important than what you say or debate. Despite many positive aspects of this movement (end of british slavery to name one), the church members started losing the firm rational backing on which their individual faith was based.
For more on this read http://www.missionfrontiers.org/2008/02/PDFs/15-18%20Mangalwadi.pdf. Also a look at Britians Evangelical Movement http://www.missionfrontiers.org/2008/02/PDFs/11-14%20Rice%20Article.pdf
I categorically refute the charge that Christianity is only for the ignorant. There are plenty of arguments that would lead a thinking man in the direction of faith and lead many cynics to realize christianity is not baseless nor stupid as they have sterotyped it to be.
"Going to heaven" is very different than most people think. If your entire personality ceases to exist and only an animating spirit/soul sans personality goes to heaven, then most people would view that as the same as death. So most people really don't believe christianity anyway... they engage in a mental kung-fu and think that if some part of them survives completely sans their personality then that's okay... heck, let me clone their bloody cells and keep those alive forever-- would that be immortal life? Christianity is always portrayed in the media as i
Not really an answer to your question - mostly the big 3 don't address it. But I would reccomend reading C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy. This little fictional story does a neat job integrating extraterrestials and ancient pre-christian stories into a neat package. Gives a good example of something a quick-thinking clergy man might do.
Oh no! we might run out of 1's and 0's!
A immediate cut over re-write is going to be the costliest, riskyest strategy. If you can split your site into seperate applications and migrate them over one by one. Any decent web developer should be able to pick up your old platform enough to do minor maintenance edits. Make all development on the new platform. It's helpful if you can use a common backend database for both platforms so that might limit your choices. Just stick to your guns on the transition plan and make sure that all the important decision makers understand. You have to stick to your platform plan. One company I worked for was in the middle of a transition from Cold Fusion to .NET (yes they were a microsoft shop). When one of the marketing execs hires an outside design firm to do a major rewrite in php we ended up having to rent a second dedicated server after having stability problems with php on iis (although zend and microsoft are currently working on that - don't touch it until they have the mssql driver done ). It effectively killed .net transition as we scrambled to maintain all 3 platforms.
p.s. before you flame me, at my current job we use php exclusively on LAMP. Note at my former company we had a huge exisiting mssql database that we had to integrate with the web on virtually every project so .net made more sense.
Okay lets talk about Tech issues then since it would be on topic
Here are two sites take on tech positions for canidates.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/29/the-techcrunch-tech-president-endorsements-barack-obama-and-john-mccain/
http://www.itconsulting.com/features/technology-presidential-vote-candidate-positions-020507/
Not much support for net neutrality legistation on the republicain side.
As the conservative position of "let the market decide" is the general consensus. i'll let you decide wether thats pro or con for techies.
On the plus side making the internet tax free and keeping the fed out of cell phone bills is definately a strong republicain position.
What we can be sure of none of these issues are on the map for the canidates or the mainstream media - unless some brain cells fire
and the "it's the economy, stupid" people realize that tech is a huge driver of the current US ecomony.
So virtually no canidates are talking about these issues and only Ron Paul and McCain have any track record to look at.
I'm from Texas so I don't have much say. We're too late in the game to affect the republican primary and the state will go
republicain in the national election unless something drastic happens ie: Democrats come to Jesus, go pro-gun, pro-life, anti-tax, limited government
At the risk of talking on topic. How about tech issues?
Here are two sites take on tech positions for canidates.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/29/the-techcrunch-tech-president-endorsements-barack-obama-and-john-mccain/
http://www.itconsulting.com/features/technology-presidential-vote-candidate-positions-020507/
Not much support for net neutrality legistation on the republicain side.
As the conservative position of "let the market decide" is the general consensus. i'll let you decide wether thats pro or con for techies.
On the plus side making the internet tax free and keeping the fed out of cell phone bills is definately a strong republicain position.
What we can be sure of none of these issues are on the map for the canidates or the mainstream media - unless some brain cells fire
and the "it's the economy, stupid" people realize that tech is a huge driver of the current US ecomony.
So virtually no canidates are talking about these issues and only Ron Paul and McCain have any track record to look at.
I'm from Texas so I don't have much say. We're too late in the game to affect the republican primary and the state will go
republicain in the national election unless something drastic happens ie: Democrats come to Jesus, go pro-gun, pro-life, anti-tax, limited government
Bruce has done a great job becoming the journalistic expert on cryptography and computer security. You want to do an expert interview, ask Bruce he is ready and waiting to answer your questions.
I found it fun that his website listed an old company I used to work for ultimateprivacy.com. Long since defunct it raises fun memories of loony, paranoid owners, former CIA agent employees and general start-up hoopla before the bust.
As far as Bruce's snake oil label it really did hurt us, he has and does have a lot of power in the industry.
I'm sure I saw his comments before, but they were worth a re-read. I was pleased to see that he conceded that we probably were doing a one-time-pad correctly and I have to admit he is spot on in his analysis that key distribution makes it a dead end. We could get a workable system for point to point email to talk with your lawyer, vinnie, or terrorist operative. But it started to get strained once you added attachments (even word docs) and would fall over if you ever started trying to use if for picts, videos, and other binary data on a network with many users.
The reality is a widespread security protocol has to be easy and One time pads while mathematically unbreakable require never quantities of secret bits and will never be low maintenance.
For anyone with Pets a Roomba is great - I haven't tried the new special pet brushes.
Before the Roomba I actually got around to vacuming every other week or less. Now the floors get vacumed twice a week - A lot less cat hair in our house.
We just purchased a Scooba - It's a good deal more work to get setup and cleaned up afterwards so the verdict is still out on the usefullness.
Of course you would need to go a comedy route. Kind of a Red Dwarf anti-adventure. As bad as the last installments have been making it intentionally laughable would be a wise move (Lego Star Wars, Chad Vader -- all the good stuff is comedy). The Imperial Janitor Squad having to contatly clean up all the mess of blown up storm troopers and chocked to death officers along with some imperial beaurocrat.
I don't really expect George Lucas would make fun of his franchise or allow someone else to do it with official baking from his Studio.
Sounds kind of familar you could be "The head". What a great way to run a colony or research institute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength
I remember seeing these birds when I was in Papua New Guinea.
Almost as big as an ostrich and very unpredictable and dangerous
The wicked claw is the main threat but don't forget the boney head
going crashing through the jungle at automobile speeds.
Some villagers would keep them as pets till they got old and turned on somebody.
Guess they didn't have any pet tigers to get mauled by so they had to make do with a gigantic bird.
The salt water croks and the cassowaries were definately at the top of the food chain on the island and were the two largest animials.
So feathered dinosaurs can be scary.
I've used CakePhp extensively and have researched rails and symphony.
.net respectively. (or maybe JAVA if you are already using it) as your programming language. There are other options but I'm just looking at cheap hosting, available programmers, and free and example code.
PHP is a great choice for web development because of its ubiquiteness you are going to be running on an apache/linux stack or Windows/IIS webserver and I would choose between php or
A framework is a huge benefit for keeping a medium or large project on track and organized amongst multiple programmers.
The downside is extra overhead. If your business model/application requirements require a lot of hits/volume per server you may not have the option of the overhead. I would recommend load testing earlier than later. You may want to go with the framework to get the app working quickly and then rewrite it once successful to handle the volume.
Ask yourself can you afford a front controller, Can you afford not to have a front controller?
If the answer is no - you don't need a framework you need a library.
More importantly can you afford an ActiveRecord implementation? - Does the caching help you or do you really need to hit the database everytime? Is it worth your time just to write your own queries?
A good framework or library will get you over so many hurdles quickly so I highly reccomend it, but it is not going to perform as well as carefully crafted code that does only what it needs to and no more. Is speed of development or volume per server your biggest hurdle?
Symphony and CakePHP are both great choices and can both be used with PHP5
No, there could be a third factor involved.
Something like Corrupt countries are usually less technologically developed and don't have a political stance on technology, have fewer computer geeks, and like pre-packaged solutions.
If the relationship is more direct do you think it's M$ bribing or rapant pirating in the country makes M$ very popular and reduces interest in nix alternatives.