democracy keeps countries in a totally weakened state where ill-informed and self-serving majority groups decide who is to make decisions and who is not.
the result is that you get politicians who fear to make responsible decisions.
for example, in france, the politicians CANNOT sort out the pensions crisis that is due to hit in the next decade, because it involves increasing the retirement age of state-run jobs from 50 years of age, where the number of state-run jobs is some ridiculously large proportion of the working population.
see the press releases at globalcountry.org.uk for more details on the problems of democracy and the solutions.
and no keypad: then i'll write my own bluetooth keyboard driver.
how MS will make an easier, better, faster google
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they'll register thousands of logins on
http://www.google.com/apis , then use SOAP and.net from hundreds of IP addresses to make their own search engine proxy google's _own_ search engine.
then their marketing team will go into overdrive saying that they do a better than google, faster and easier, too.
... and the development team will actually have a _reliable_ product up and running in next-to-no-time.
the best bit is that the ineffectiveness of the US anti-trust laws won't need to be brought into play, because if google were to be put out of business by the above "scam", microsoft's own "search" engine would also coincidentally fail.
I think that the way it works is that the law defacement agencies believe that by collecting data on EVERYBODY they can then look for statistical anomalies in "normal" behaviour patterns.
so to look for you everyday terrorist, you look for people who should have been dead 12 years ago, etc. and for people who paid for something twice, 1000 miles apart in 5 minutes.
(it's _such_ a pity that they can't then actually tell the person whose credit card has been stolen and save them thousands...)
... the trouble is, as many people have pointed out, none of this actually works or solves the real problems!
now _where_ was that article that i've seen recently that said that if corporations were real people rather than just legal entities, then most of them would be sectioned or at best classified by psychiatrists as sociopaths.
large open source project open-ness "a sham".
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according to the article, IBM is basically going to maintain control of this project. it is also hinted, in the article, that the project is not going to accept code contributions from outside of the group of people who are members of the project.
in other words, it is possible to obtain the source code, but the open-ness of the project is a complete sham.
that's fine by me, because at least the code is available.
... but what may come as a shock to most open source developers is that as far as most individuals go, ALL the VERY LARGE open source projects are ALSO a complete sham as far as "open-ness" is concerned.
why?
because the entry-level requirements for contributing to such projects are way beyond most individuals skill, knowledge base and time constraints.
this does NOT apply to the smaller projects, which could potentially be replaced with a rewrite in, say... three months, by one person.
remember mozilla? remember openoffice? those projects have taken several years to get up-to-speed, and they nearly swamped the open source community's resources when they were first dumped by netscape and sun.
what about sapdb[.org]?
what about dce/rpc (www.opengroup.org)?
so i find it quite ironic that Sun is bitching about the "open-ness" of an alternative large code-base with which their developers stand absolutely zero chance of dealing with, unless Sun is prepared to spend at least $2m on salaries - excluding funding of development and maintenance of their alternative existing "open" source code base.
if they drive a truck, weighing 80 tons with a 500 HP diesel engine, that could easily squash a building let alone the email servers in it, _why_ are you letting them anywhere near email in the _first_ place?
the configuration for exim4 written for sa-exim by default goes a little further: it looks up not only a reverse-dns but also checks for an MX record.
the only problem is that if the ISP's configuration is piss-poor broken, e.g. they pretend to be a host for which they themselves do not have a DNS record (yes i have seen it happen), you will get a response sent to postmaster@sendersdomain.... and if, as most people do not, you don't _have_ an alias postmaster@sendersdomain, then the sender will get - to them - an unintelligable message about a postmaster not existing.
i prefer that to receiving trash: 600 messages a day get rejected by my site, most of them random systems on compromised windows hosts.
The issue is simple: it costs microsoft MONEY to put in security into their OS: i'm surprised people aren't aware of this, more.
scenario:
1) microsoft fixes security issues by switching off java, embedded javascript, etc.
2) customers receive OS.
3) customers try to do A,B or C.
4) customer cannot _do_ A, B, or C.
5) customer phones, writes, emails microsoft
6) microsoft _pays_ people to respond, pick up phone, stare at screen, open letters.
every phone picked up, every screen stared at, every letter opened EVEN BEFORE the customer BEGINS to communicate "i can't" is money down the microsoft toilet.
therefore there is ABSOLUTELY no chance that security will be microsoft's number one priority.
if you find a RAV4 EV or any of the other 75kW electric cars, BUY IT. don't ask any questions: BUY IT.
the platinum in a 75kW fuel cell is worth about $100,000 USD.
you have a cool vehicle pretty much for the next ten or fifteen years and when it goes belly up you can strip the platinum out for more than the vehicle is worth on the road.... now you know why toyota and the other manufacturers stopped selling these vehicles in march 2003.
Have you considered turning the question to your daughter, asking her to think about what _she_ should do?
"what should i wear?" is answered with "what do _you_ think you should wear?". "which is my bowl" is answered with "which one you _you_ think is your bowl?".
and patience and love, and praise for when she gets it right.
regarding teleportation. it's simple. when you fire one photon at another, they interact [they're waves, but also particles]. in this way, you get one photon passing through another, or you get one photon imparting "mass" to another photon, and a change of direction of the two photons, conserving momentum.
when you fire one photon at an "entangled" pair, if the momentums are matched, then the "fired" photon can actually disappear at the location where it hits one of the "entangled" pair, and reappear at the location of the SECOND "entangled" pair.
in this way, you have instant teleportation - of photons.
now make that many photons, and you have instantaneous quantum communication
it's not really FTL because it's actually the same photon that happens to have more than one point-of-presence in the physical universe.
now, step that up to particles, instead of just photons, and you have instantaneous teleportation. however, i theorise that this would require some _seriously_ cohesive photons, which probably implies that they must have intelligence built-in to the photons, and it's at the word "intelligence" as associated with "photons" that i diverge from current "accepted" theories regarding the nature of the universe and i'm going to shut up because there is a lot more to learn than meets the eye.
well i specifically mention ms a lot because the number of ms platforms out there with well-established and really quite important dce/rpc applications far exceeds those available on unix (most likely because dce/rpc has not been available up until now as open source...)
you are right: DCE/RPC was originally developed for Unix, although it includes support for ECBDIC, VMS and IBM floating-point representations as well as ASCII and IEEE fp.
it was developed by Apollo/HP as NCA 1.0. see http://advogato.org/article/333.html for a little more of the history and details, including comments from one of the people who worked on dce/rpc for the OSF. [Sun were *not* involved: they _really_ didn't want DCE/RPC to take off:):)]
TOG's license of $100,000 is for an unlimited distribution binary-only license, i believe: the top rate you ever have to pay.
[but _why_ pay, when freedce is there?:)]
yes, The Open Group have considered releasing their code - under the LGPL. however, their charter, written by the people who _gave_ them the code, doesn't allow them to release under alternative licenses without permission.
so, it's with the lawyers. basically, the dce 1.22 codebase is stagnating, they've lost the plot [all of the programmers and most of the documentation except that which is on-line, already] and so are having a hard time:)
i wish them well, because i want that code out there and to be taken up again!
thanks for the corrections, guy: i'm not familiar with ONC/RPC. which are the transports and security mechanisms most commonly used? feel free to email me something more technically accurate that i can put on the site, i've neither experience nor authority on ONC/RPC to write accurately about it, but i _do_ want to give a comparative assessement.
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all of this is completely missing the point.
see http://www.globalcountry.org.uk.
democracy keeps countries in a totally weakened state where ill-informed and self-serving majority groups decide who is to make decisions and who is not.
the result is that you get politicians who fear to make responsible decisions.
for example, in france, the politicians CANNOT sort out the pensions crisis that is due to hit in the next decade, because it involves increasing the retirement age of state-run jobs from 50 years of age, where the number of state-run jobs is some ridiculously large proportion of the working population.
see the press releases at globalcountry.org.uk for more details on the problems of democracy and the solutions.
technology is _not_ the answer.
there are very few sales order management systems available as open source.
custom is one that i started doing, it's based on some e-commerce software i wrote, which is in turn based on a distributed python os system.
all i really want is a phone that runs linux.
and has bluetooth. and 80211b.
and no keypad: then i'll write my own bluetooth keyboard driver.
then their marketing team will go into overdrive saying that they do a better than google, faster and easier, too.
the best bit is that the ineffectiveness of the US anti-trust laws won't need to be brought into play, because if google were to be put out of business by the above "scam", microsoft's own "search" engine would also coincidentally fail.
so to look for you everyday terrorist, you look for people who should have been dead 12 years ago, etc. and for people who paid for something twice, 1000 miles apart in 5 minutes.
(it's _such_ a pity that they can't then actually tell the person whose credit card has been stolen and save them thousands...)
for _that_, you need something like this: http://www.globalcountry.org.uk/ /a
now _where_ was that article that i've seen recently that said that if corporations were real people rather than just legal entities, then most of them would be sectioned or at best classified by psychiatrists as sociopaths.
according to the article, IBM is basically going to maintain control of this project. it is also hinted, in the article, that the project is not going to accept code contributions from outside of the group of people who are members of the project.
in other words, it is possible to obtain the source code, but the open-ness of the project is a complete sham.
that's fine by me, because at least the code is available.
why?
because the entry-level requirements for contributing to such projects are way beyond most individuals skill, knowledge base and time constraints.
this does NOT apply to the smaller projects, which could potentially be replaced with a rewrite in, say... three months, by one person.
remember mozilla? remember openoffice? those projects have taken several years to get up-to-speed, and they nearly swamped the open source community's resources when they were first dumped by netscape and sun.
what about sapdb[.org]?
what about dce/rpc (www.opengroup.org)?
so i find it quite ironic that Sun is bitching about the "open-ness" of an alternative large code-base with which their developers stand absolutely zero chance of dealing with, unless Sun is prepared to spend at least $2m on salaries - excluding funding of development and maintenance of their alternative existing "open" source code base.
if they drive a truck, weighing 80 tons with a 500 HP diesel engine, that could easily squash a building let alone the email servers in it, _why_ are you letting them anywhere near email in the _first_ place?
the configuration for exim4 written for sa-exim by default goes a little further: it looks up not only a reverse-dns but also checks for an MX record. the only problem is that if the ISP's configuration is piss-poor broken, e.g. they pretend to be a host for which they themselves do not have a DNS record (yes i have seen it happen), you will get a response sent to postmaster@sendersdomain. ... and if, as most people do not, you don't _have_ an alias postmaster@sendersdomain, then the sender will get - to them - an unintelligable message about a postmaster not existing.
i prefer that to receiving trash: 600 messages a day get rejected by my site, most of them random systems on compromised windows hosts.
The issue is simple: it costs microsoft MONEY to put in security into their OS: i'm surprised people aren't aware of this, more.
scenario:
1) microsoft fixes security issues by switching off java, embedded javascript, etc.
2) customers receive OS.
3) customers try to do A,B or C.
4) customer cannot _do_ A, B, or C.
5) customer phones, writes, emails microsoft
6) microsoft _pays_ people to respond, pick up phone, stare at screen, open letters.
every phone picked up, every screen stared at, every letter opened EVEN BEFORE the customer BEGINS to communicate "i can't" is money down the microsoft toilet.
therefore there is ABSOLUTELY no chance that security will be microsoft's number one priority.
if you find a RAV4 EV or any of the other 75kW electric cars, BUY IT. don't ask any questions: BUY IT. the platinum in a 75kW fuel cell is worth about $100,000 USD. you have a cool vehicle pretty much for the next ten or fifteen years and when it goes belly up you can strip the platinum out for more than the vehicle is worth on the road. ... now you know why toyota and the other manufacturers stopped selling these vehicles in march 2003.
Have you considered turning the question to your daughter, asking her to think about what _she_ should do?
"what should i wear?" is answered with "what do _you_ think you should wear?". "which is my bowl" is answered with "which one you _you_ think is your bowl?".
and patience and love, and praise for when she gets it right.
Re: clarification here is an explanation of teleportation [posted as another part of this thread].
regarding teleportation. it's simple. when you fire one photon at another, they interact [they're waves, but also particles]. in this way, you get one photon passing through another, or you get one photon imparting "mass" to another photon, and a change of direction of the two photons, conserving momentum. when you fire one photon at an "entangled" pair, if the momentums are matched, then the "fired" photon can actually disappear at the location where it hits one of the "entangled" pair, and reappear at the location of the SECOND "entangled" pair. in this way, you have instant teleportation - of photons. now make that many photons, and you have instantaneous quantum communication it's not really FTL because it's actually the same photon that happens to have more than one point-of-presence in the physical universe. now, step that up to particles, instead of just photons, and you have instantaneous teleportation. however, i theorise that this would require some _seriously_ cohesive photons, which probably implies that they must have intelligence built-in to the photons, and it's at the word "intelligence" as associated with "photons" that i diverge from current "accepted" theories regarding the nature of the universe and i'm going to shut up because there is a lot more to learn than meets the eye.
well i specifically mention ms a lot because the number of ms platforms out there with well-established and really quite important dce/rpc applications far exceeds those available on unix (most likely because dce/rpc has not been available up until now as open source...)
you are right: DCE/RPC was originally developed for Unix, although it includes support for ECBDIC, VMS and IBM floating-point representations as well as ASCII and IEEE fp.
it was developed by Apollo/HP as NCA 1.0. see http://advogato.org/article/333.html for a little more of the history and details, including comments from one of the people who worked on dce/rpc for the OSF. [Sun were *not* involved: they _really_ didn't want DCE/RPC to take off :) :)]
TOG's license of $100,000 is for an unlimited distribution binary-only license, i believe: the top rate you ever have to pay.
[but _why_ pay, when freedce is there? :)]
yes, The Open Group have considered releasing their code - under the LGPL. however, their charter, written by the people who _gave_ them the code, doesn't allow them to release under alternative licenses without permission.
so, it's with the lawyers. basically, the dce 1.22 codebase is stagnating, they've lost the plot [all of the programmers and most of the documentation except that which is on-line, already] and so are having a hard time :)
i wish them well, because i want that code out there and to be taken up again!
thanks for the corrections, guy: i'm not familiar with ONC/RPC. which are the transports and security mechanisms most commonly used? feel free to email me something more technically accurate that i can put on the site, i've neither experience nor authority on ONC/RPC to write accurately about it, but i _do_ want to give a comparative assessement.