It's pretty simple. When it's cheaper to deploy IPv6 in your organization than to buy new IPv4 address space then people will switch. Market forces, just as you said.
Now that you can't get real APM laptops anymore (IBM/Lenovo's T-series are the last few), and you have to buy an ACPI notebook, I highly recommend Panasonic Toughbooks. I have a CF-W2. The thing is rediculously light, great on batteries, and best of all, extremely durable. xorg worked with the default built-in xorg.conf, so I didn't even have to do any configuration. In OpenBSD, sleep and suspend don't work yet, but I suspect that it would probably work fine with Linux's limited ACPI support.
And more to the point-- how is it that Microsoft can get away offering a separate security product to make up for known deficiencies in their main product, and which is the very product they have used their dominating market position to bully their competitors with? Granted, their anti-spyware product is currently free, but will it always be?
After graduation he worked as an injection mold manager, and in the mid-eighties went to Compaq where he designed and built PCs.
With experience like that, I have full faith that he can prevent hackers from getting into an XBox. I have a whole set of bizarre driver bits for working on Compaq machines. WTF? How 'bout using a freaking Philips-head once in awhile. Thank God Compaq was bought out by HP-- maybe they can drag each other down now.
Of course the lack of screws on my iPod and Mac Mini didn't exactly stop me from getting into those (hint: putty knife).
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You're right, totally. Too bad they didn't think of that. What Google is doing is essentially free advertising.
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How aren't they able to see that allowing all published books to be searched online-- searched but not read -- will mean MORE REVENUE for publishers. This solves the "don't judge a book by it's cover" problem. The success of publishers like O'Reilly, who put huge excerpts of books on the web, and retailers like Amazon, who provide snippets for customers to read through, shows that providing a way of looking before you buy brings in MORE CUSTOMERS. And do we really need to point out... Google says that you won't be able to read the whole fucking book online!
If we'd had a "Napster of books" that blew the doors off of print like it did for music, publishers would be beyond this now. I know the RIAA/MPAA take the stance that P2P has had a negative effect on the music/movies biz, but with the massive success of the iPod/iTMS/[insert favorite online music store] does anyone really beleive that anymore?
True, but at least you can file a bug report with the maintainers. I have done so several times with OpenBSD, and I actually hear back from the developers. Usually the fix is in CVS the same day, and after a cvsup and recompile I'm back on my way.
Why? Easy! I can schedule stuff in cron, and I can string things together using pipes. There's little you can't do with the built-in tools in Linux and these two features.
I remember the day that I realized I could use my computer to record my weekly radio show, encode it, and move the whole thing to my iPod before I came home-- automatically! I was just totally floored. Now I'm building a system to monitor the temperature of my homebrew in my fermenters.
Sure, Windows has pipes. But most programs can't take input on stdin and require user interaction. Useless to me!
(And for clarification... I don't actually use Linux... I use BSD. But for most uses, they are essentially the same.)
I used Gentoo for a little more than a year because it had good support for PPC and lots of applications. But I've always been a BSD-head, and I moved my main machine back to OpenBSD after I got sick of awful manpages and the absolute mess I eventually created trying to install stuff in Gentoo.
A couple weeks ago, my dad tossed me a Ubuntu LiveCD, and said to try it. Another LiveCD? *yawn* It sat on my desk until I decided I needed some old files off of a hybrid ext3/HFS+ disk. Popped the CD into my laptop, plugged the USB drive in, and... WOW! I was expecting something like Knoppix, you know, the whole k- orgy, etc... I was pleasantly surprised to see that it booted into Gnome, and my disk automounted on the desktop. The whole layout was clean, no k- or g- crap everywhere. I used the built-in connect-to-server function, and did SFTP like it was a mounted volume. Awesome!
I still spend most of my day in OpenBSD/fluxbox, but I think I might give Ubuntu a try. It impressed the hell out of me. I am certainly going to recommend it to people who ask me about an easy-to-use linux.
Every lawsuit against people not judged to be criminals by their friends and family is just another mark against the recording and film industries. You know what they say about business: anger one customer and they tell 10 friends.
Even worse than this, unjust lawsuits undermine our faith in the justice system.
We're not talking about just a server. We're talking about the entire ISP's networking capability. Tier 1 ISPs own huge swaths of networks-- literally miles and miles of cable, and sometimes radio and other links. They route the traffic across these lines.
When a Tier 1 provider goes down, their customers go down too. That picture on the Boing Boing page shows a list of the Tier 1 providers. Every ISP that is NOT a Tier 1, gets their access from a Tier 1.
People speculate that Level 3 is dying because they've been making some really bad decisions lately, resulting in a lot of outages. A couple of weeks ago, they actively filtered out traffic from their competetor, Cogent, over a dispute from how much to charge at the point their networks exchanged traffic (called a 'peering point'). Now this. The rumor is that the company is in financial trouble.
Sure there are. You just don't understand the concept, which is why you brought it in the context of iPods.
Wikipedia, first sentence: "In economics, a natural monopoly occurs when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized via a single supplier." Obviously, this does not apply to music players. Apple may have a monopoly on the iPod, iTMS, etc, but it does not fit the definition of a 'natural monopoly' unlike, e.g., the activity of building and repairing roads.
I couldn't find any mention in the article or other linked articles that explained how Totoya created this new plant, but I suspect that this is the result of regular ol' breeding. The article doesn't even use the word species at all. I suppose it is possible for them to have created a new species, if they were tinkering down at the DNA level, but that seems like a lot of work for a publicity stunt. I think what we have here is just a new breed.
The article also doesn't mention how this shrub stacks up against, oh... trees in absorbing pollutants, although I suppose it would be less hazardous to grow shrubs than trees in rooftop gardens.
The very existence of the need for a government agency of child protection is proof that there are parents who don't parent.
I beg to differ. While the vast majority of cases handled by DSS (what they call the child-protection agency in MA) are probably abuse- and neglect-related, the real reason that these agencies exist is that certain types of parenting are not acceptable to the mainstream, or at least the politically-active. This obviously covers cases of abuse and neglect which I personally think should be outlawed. But unorthodox methods of parenting are also subject to this kind of interference. Children have been taken away because their parents are gay; children have been taken away because their parents want to homeschool them; children have been taken away because their parents have religious issues with healthcare; children have been taken away because their parents have different views on controlled substances. The list goes on.
It is the role of the state to look after the welfare of its citizens, including children. But this is also the role of parents. Where to draw the line and say, "this behavior is unacceptable, the state should step in" is contentious, and I believe, politically-motivated. The Republican Party may claim to stand for "family values", but what that really means is that they stand for orthodox families.
Yes, parents should be more active. But are video games an issue or a re-election tactic? (this is not a rhetorical question)
I don't doubt for a second that this Commissioner Reding woman actually believes the crap she's spewing. It's propaganda.
Instead Europe is suggesting a way of allowing countries to express their position on internet issues, though the details on how this would happen are vague.
Maybe the EU and UN should flesh this out a bit before they start claiming that US control will fragment the internet. "Who's controlling what" aside, what issues are member countries having? Since the internet is not currently fragmented under US control, I think we need to entertain the possibility that the internet will become more fragmented under such as system as the EU/UN is proposing (are they even proposing a system?). What I want to know is, where is this sudden push coming from? Does someone have an interest in fragmenting the internet? Because it seems to me that diving up control of DNS among member countries fragments the internet by definition.
I think the US has an important reason to make sure the internet remains non-fragmented: our economy has a growing internet-dependence. So if you reason from my line of conjecture above, I think the US really does want to keep the DNS system in its own hands, whether doing such a thing is internationally-friendly or not.
It would be very irresponsible to develop this weapon without clear data on what effect it has on wildlife.
That's silly. What if we have data that says that our potential weapon obliterates wildlife? Should we toss the idea and move on? Let's look at what we have now: Nuclear weapons obliterate wildlife. Fair enough, nuclear weapons are grossly indiscriminate; toss 'em. Conventional explosives obliterate wildlife. Ok, toss those too. Artillery isn't very green, either. In fact, machine guns aren't particularly enviro-friendly. Get rid of 'em. And let's just forget about a whole platoon of soldiers tramping through the forest, crushing wildlife, shooting guns, and throwing grenades.
I guess we don't have many options left, do we?
I'm most certainly not a big supporter of war. It's fair to say that I am probably a bit of a peace-nik, and rather left-leaning. I'd say I'm rather environmentally-conscious, too; I hang my clothes to dry, my house is full of compact fluorescents, I try to avoid meat and eat a diet that consists primarily of organically-grown vegetables, fruits, and legumes, etc, etc, etc.
But war is a tradeoff. We survive. We harm the environment.
Don't get me wrong. Environmental damage is regrettable, and hopefully avoidable. But despite the fact that our politicians love to cry wolf, I do believe that malice really exists in the world. Sure, we haven't waged a legitimate (aka, just) war in 50 years. But we need to make sure we're prepared for that. If there's one thing that humans are good it, it's killing each other.
If, indeed, there are only two sides to this issue, here are your choices:
1. Allow the US, a country "comprised of tech-ignorant people with vested corporate interests" (your words), to control the root domain servers OR 2. Allow the, UN, an organization prone to infighting and which is essentially powerless, to control the root domain servers.
Considering that the internet has been running fine, I'm inclined to go with option #1. We don't have any evidence that the UN would do a better job. I suspect that they would do a worse job (what, exactly needs to be changed, here? Will the internet be "better" if they change things that are "running fine"?). Sure, it would be nice, in the spirit of international cooperation, if there was a truly international organization (read: not ICANN) running the show. But I don't think the UN is it. The US is, by far, the lesser of the two evils.
I could see the value if you had some sort of network-version of RAID. You would need to make sure you had 'striping' and 'parity', for when a host goes down, like when a drive goes down. But what would you do if you lost too many peers, like when employees go home for the day? How would you do off-site backups (if the building burns down, it doesn't matter how many copies are distributed among workstations)? How much bandwidth would this require? How would network latency affect performance? How do you make sure you can do atomic writes on your 'filesystem'? I agree, it's a good idea, but there are a lot of problems to solve to get there.
I think they're counting on the fact that it is extremely difficult for their to switch providers. We have Cogent-- it took months to get them in to light up our building. And the paperwork from our previous provider (Verizon, *shudder*) took months, too. Combine all of this with the fact that often the service agreement is written with your parent company (read: bureaucracy), and "just switching" isn't really an option. Our NY office is switching off of AT&T, but this is after, seriously, nearly two months of up-and-down, shitty service.
Outages piss me off, but I don't think I'd be motivated enough to deal with the hassle unless we we're talking about more than a week. We have direct links to all of our mission-critical stuff, and backup (T1 or slower, eugh) links to the internet, so we'd survive, but not without real irritation.
That's why there's an ever shrinking lower-class population.
I think what you mean is "That's why there's an ever shrinking need for a lower-class population." If I'm not mistaken, the "lower class" has been expanding while the "middle class" has been shrinking.
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It's pretty simple. When it's cheaper to deploy IPv6 in your organization than to buy new IPv4 address space then people will switch. Market forces, just as you said.
Now that you can't get real APM laptops anymore (IBM/Lenovo's T-series are the last few), and you have to buy an ACPI notebook, I highly recommend Panasonic Toughbooks. I have a CF-W2. The thing is rediculously light, great on batteries, and best of all, extremely durable. xorg worked with the default built-in xorg.conf, so I didn't even have to do any configuration. In OpenBSD, sleep and suspend don't work yet, but I suspect that it would probably work fine with Linux's limited ACPI support.
And more to the point-- how is it that Microsoft can get away offering a separate security product to make up for known deficiencies in their main product, and which is the very product they have used their dominating market position to bully their competitors with? Granted, their anti-spyware product is currently free, but will it always be?
With experience like that, I have full faith that he can prevent hackers from getting into an XBox. I have a whole set of bizarre driver bits for working on Compaq machines. WTF? How 'bout using a freaking Philips-head once in awhile. Thank God Compaq was bought out by HP-- maybe they can drag each other down now.
Of course the lack of screws on my iPod and Mac Mini didn't exactly stop me from getting into those (hint: putty knife).
You're right, totally. Too bad they didn't think of that. What Google is doing is essentially free advertising.
If we'd had a "Napster of books" that blew the doors off of print like it did for music, publishers would be beyond this now. I know the RIAA/MPAA take the stance that P2P has had a negative effect on the music/movies biz, but with the massive success of the iPod/iTMS/[insert favorite online music store] does anyone really beleive that anymore?
So I'm not supposed to read the article this time? \confused
Forbes has the offices one floor below us. Sheesh, I guess that's what I get for stopping by on a Sunday.
True, but at least you can file a bug report with the maintainers. I have done so several times with OpenBSD, and I actually hear back from the developers. Usually the fix is in CVS the same day, and after a cvsup and recompile I'm back on my way.
I remember the day that I realized I could use my computer to record my weekly radio show, encode it, and move the whole thing to my iPod before I came home-- automatically! I was just totally floored. Now I'm building a system to monitor the temperature of my homebrew in my fermenters.
Sure, Windows has pipes. But most programs can't take input on stdin and require user interaction. Useless to me!
(And for clarification... I don't actually use Linux... I use BSD. But for most uses, they are essentially the same.)
Sounds like he wasn't running cpufreqd. It doesn't exactly install itself.
A couple weeks ago, my dad tossed me a Ubuntu LiveCD, and said to try it. Another LiveCD? *yawn* It sat on my desk until I decided I needed some old files off of a hybrid ext3/HFS+ disk. Popped the CD into my laptop, plugged the USB drive in, and... WOW! I was expecting something like Knoppix, you know, the whole k- orgy, etc... I was pleasantly surprised to see that it booted into Gnome, and my disk automounted on the desktop. The whole layout was clean, no k- or g- crap everywhere. I used the built-in connect-to-server function, and did SFTP like it was a mounted volume. Awesome!
I still spend most of my day in OpenBSD/fluxbox, but I think I might give Ubuntu a try. It impressed the hell out of me. I am certainly going to recommend it to people who ask me about an easy-to-use linux.
Even worse than this, unjust lawsuits undermine our faith in the justice system.
When a Tier 1 provider goes down, their customers go down too. That picture on the Boing Boing page shows a list of the Tier 1 providers. Every ISP that is NOT a Tier 1, gets their access from a Tier 1.
People speculate that Level 3 is dying because they've been making some really bad decisions lately, resulting in a lot of outages. A couple of weeks ago, they actively filtered out traffic from their competetor, Cogent, over a dispute from how much to charge at the point their networks exchanged traffic (called a 'peering point'). Now this. The rumor is that the company is in financial trouble.
Wikipedia, first sentence: "In economics, a natural monopoly occurs when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized via a single supplier." Obviously, this does not apply to music players. Apple may have a monopoly on the iPod, iTMS, etc, but it does not fit the definition of a 'natural monopoly' unlike, e.g., the activity of building and repairing roads.
The ones who get it laugh inside.
The article also doesn't mention how this shrub stacks up against, oh... trees in absorbing pollutants, although I suppose it would be less hazardous to grow shrubs than trees in rooftop gardens.
I beg to differ. While the vast majority of cases handled by DSS (what they call the child-protection agency in MA) are probably abuse- and neglect-related, the real reason that these agencies exist is that certain types of parenting are not acceptable to the mainstream, or at least the politically-active. This obviously covers cases of abuse and neglect which I personally think should be outlawed. But unorthodox methods of parenting are also subject to this kind of interference. Children have been taken away because their parents are gay; children have been taken away because their parents want to homeschool them; children have been taken away because their parents have religious issues with healthcare; children have been taken away because their parents have different views on controlled substances. The list goes on.
It is the role of the state to look after the welfare of its citizens, including children. But this is also the role of parents. Where to draw the line and say, "this behavior is unacceptable, the state should step in" is contentious, and I believe, politically-motivated. The Republican Party may claim to stand for "family values", but what that really means is that they stand for orthodox families.
Yes, parents should be more active. But are video games an issue or a re-election tactic? (this is not a rhetorical question)
Instead Europe is suggesting a way of allowing countries to express their position on internet issues, though the details on how this would happen are vague.
Maybe the EU and UN should flesh this out a bit before they start claiming that US control will fragment the internet. "Who's controlling what" aside, what issues are member countries having? Since the internet is not currently fragmented under US control, I think we need to entertain the possibility that the internet will become more fragmented under such as system as the EU/UN is proposing (are they even proposing a system?). What I want to know is, where is this sudden push coming from? Does someone have an interest in fragmenting the internet? Because it seems to me that diving up control of DNS among member countries fragments the internet by definition.
I think the US has an important reason to make sure the internet remains non-fragmented: our economy has a growing internet-dependence. So if you reason from my line of conjecture above, I think the US really does want to keep the DNS system in its own hands, whether doing such a thing is internationally-friendly or not.
That's silly. What if we have data that says that our potential weapon obliterates wildlife? Should we toss the idea and move on? Let's look at what we have now: Nuclear weapons obliterate wildlife. Fair enough, nuclear weapons are grossly indiscriminate; toss 'em. Conventional explosives obliterate wildlife. Ok, toss those too. Artillery isn't very green, either. In fact, machine guns aren't particularly enviro-friendly. Get rid of 'em. And let's just forget about a whole platoon of soldiers tramping through the forest, crushing wildlife, shooting guns, and throwing grenades.
I guess we don't have many options left, do we?
I'm most certainly not a big supporter of war. It's fair to say that I am probably a bit of a peace-nik, and rather left-leaning. I'd say I'm rather environmentally-conscious, too; I hang my clothes to dry, my house is full of compact fluorescents, I try to avoid meat and eat a diet that consists primarily of organically-grown vegetables, fruits, and legumes, etc, etc, etc.
But war is a tradeoff. We survive. We harm the environment.
Don't get me wrong. Environmental damage is regrettable, and hopefully avoidable. But despite the fact that our politicians love to cry wolf, I do believe that malice really exists in the world. Sure, we haven't waged a legitimate (aka, just) war in 50 years. But we need to make sure we're prepared for that. If there's one thing that humans are good it, it's killing each other.
...so that they can find out what's wrong with their shitty VPN software.
If, indeed, there are only two sides to this issue, here are your choices:
1. Allow the US, a country "comprised of tech-ignorant people with vested corporate interests" (your words), to control the root domain servers
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2. Allow the, UN, an organization prone to infighting and which is essentially powerless, to control the root domain servers.
Considering that the internet has been running fine, I'm inclined to go with option #1. We don't have any evidence that the UN would do a better job. I suspect that they would do a worse job (what, exactly needs to be changed, here? Will the internet be "better" if they change things that are "running fine"?). Sure, it would be nice, in the spirit of international cooperation, if there was a truly international organization (read: not ICANN) running the show. But I don't think the UN is it. The US is, by far, the lesser of the two evils.
I could see the value if you had some sort of network-version of RAID. You would need to make sure you had 'striping' and 'parity', for when a host goes down, like when a drive goes down. But what would you do if you lost too many peers, like when employees go home for the day? How would you do off-site backups (if the building burns down, it doesn't matter how many copies are distributed among workstations)? How much bandwidth would this require? How would network latency affect performance? How do you make sure you can do atomic writes on your 'filesystem'? I agree, it's a good idea, but there are a lot of problems to solve to get there.
Outages piss me off, but I don't think I'd be motivated enough to deal with the hassle unless we we're talking about more than a week. We have direct links to all of our mission-critical stuff, and backup (T1 or slower, eugh) links to the internet, so we'd survive, but not without real irritation.
I think what you mean is "That's why there's an ever shrinking need for a lower-class population." If I'm not mistaken, the "lower class" has been expanding while the "middle class" has been shrinking.