No Shit. I appluad your big balls to put this so clearly.
This nation was started with a religious belief in tolerance. Tolerance of religion was a big one. Does this mean that the Founding Fathers meant tolerance of religion just so long as you weren't a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist...? Probably not.
I consider any political party that tends to align itself with any church doctrines or promotion of religious ideals onto the country at large to be as threatening as the Iranian Mullahs in power there. It's the belief in a religiously based morality that is not so threatening provided that it is compatable with, or overridden by the ideal of Freedom of Religion or Seperation of Church and State.
Just to be annoying, I do not believe that this applies to religious beliefs consistent with Satanic cults or human sacrifices. How do I draw that distinction between one religion and another? Because of my own moral fiber based on my own religious beliefs. So my tolerance of Relious practices is itself flawed because I demand some compliance to my beliefs at the same time.
But at least I can be consistent and recognize that I do not have a perfect system. But there is a common thread through all major religions with a long lifespan and that is, "Don't be an Ass."
H1B Visas are bringing in all this really cheap labor into the states.
Software is being outsourced to contract companies.
Contract companies are set up overseas to permit lower labor related expenses.
These are the essential elements that would keep anyone from going into a CS degree in the states. There is no crime here. It's the same Free Market forces at work that Gates and Bush say will allow free innovation of software and solve global warming.
Now here's the interesting twist that I see.
Microsoft software licensing and version incompatability forcing hardware upgrades remove a very considerable sum of money from the corporate coffers from being available for IT wages and salary related expenses. Because the money isn't available, there is even less opportunity for a local CS employment to be cost effective against the current cost of living expenses in this country.
To be honest, even if the software costs were removed, the companies would very likely continue following the lowest price options regardless of the availability of funds for wages and salary. This is not a silver bullet.
Until corporations recognize the value of having CS related employees to have improved skills like:
Communication proficiency.
Experience. A lot of people who I run into who do CS work have no practical field experience and quite frankly write really bad code. But they are the cheapest bidder.
There is a disconnect between the business philosopy, thinking, methods of the US companies and the non-US software developers. You cannot develop a business solution software product without some understanding of the business.
things aren't going to change. We will, as a nation, fall into a non-leadership role in the field.
Ask about writing an application that will only run with Windows Outlook for playing sounds when email arrives.
It's a cute idea, until you realize that most people who actually leave their speakers on at work, with all those event noises, are loathed by their coworkers for all that noise pollution. It's as bad as loudly farting every few minutes.
Of course a UPS is required for VOIP to work in an emergency. But then I don't know anyone who is enough of a geed to get VOIP who doesn't have their computers protected by UPS anyways.
I don't think this is sufficient motivational force. With cell phone penetration into the market, it's more likely that someone will already have a cell phone than a UPS power supply on their computers. Considering that cell phones already have an E911 requirement with GPS location transmission with the E911 call, the point is moot.
Given another decade plus, land based phones will be something reserved for call centers, office complexes, and a minority of the world population.
Your goal in life is to blend your vocation and avocation as your eyes make one in sight.
This doesn't mean that you work for free, rather you work on something you enjoy enough that you are willing to work on it at home in some sense.
Even if you can't do the same thing at home and at work is somewhat irrelevant.
I have yet to meet a CPA who is an advanced software developer in any language beyond Excel Macros. But then again, I haven't met every CPA in the world either. This isn't to slight them, but to point out that his logic is kind of fucked up when he says no one will work for free. That's why we have things like Clubs and Organizations surrounding any subject you wish, from LUGS to garden shows. They all impart their members efforts towards a goal of making that subject better. The alternative would be to pay someone to do it. But they would rather do it themselves.
Consider an organization like the Special Olympics. The people who contribute to that organization do not get paid for it. They do it out of that Hippie Love they have for the work they do. And it works and it has a net positive effect on society. In a sense, it is not a Zero Sum game.
It might be possible for him to make some points, but I think he is essentially an arrogant prick who believes more in the almighty buck than he does in his own humanity. There are those that believe money is the only path to true happiness, security, or self worth. Just as my ex-wife. But there are a lot of others, especially those with more experience and years, who will disagree with you and caveat that while money is not necessarily the root of all evil is certainly isn't going to gaurantee you satisfaction or self-worth.
All this guy is running into is the notion that some software that companies want developed won't get developed by Open Source community because it's something that is such a fucking bad idea that no one wants to touch it or there is no right solution and we are all better off doing it ourselves on a custom basis.
CRM is a good example of this. CRM is a product need designed by Marketing to sell a product when all it really is is a glorified address book / database that meets some but never all of your goals or objectives as a company.
Those companies that have a CRM requirement list that is so simple as to be handily met by the COTS CRM products will not impliment them. Rather they will simply purchase the services of a Call Center in India or the Phillipines to run all of it for them.
Actually, I do think you're wrong, but I am biased in that I'm a Debian Developer. Developers only have to get involved in "politics" if they really wish, but the bulk of developers happily work on the half-a-dozen or so packages they're maintaining and leave the "politics" to the people who care about them.
Glad to hear it. I didn't think there were very many people who cared for the political game, but I've heard people whining over the years.
I guess as a long term Debian user I need to find out more about this security team and their choke point. Sounds like upping the team makes sense.
It would be a hell of a lot easier if they only supported X86 architecture like all those other Distros you refer to as the ones to lag behind.
I think what they really suffer from, and I am not expert, is politics of a large system and the perception of lots of power sitting on top. I could be wrong.
Regardless of what anyone might want to say against Debian, I still believe that they are extremely good at what they do and don't get credit for it. There is no other distro out there that attempts to support as many architectures as effectively (or at all) and if Debian decided to just delete them all except X86/X86-64 then their job would be a hell of a lot easier to execute.
Sorry, but I think it will take decades for the United States to recover from the damage that this president is doing to our country.
George managed to blow of the Kyoto Accord in the name of economics, but have pissed off most of our trade nations in the process.
George invaded Iraq and didn't have the intelligence to know that there was no such thing as Weapons of Mass Destruction there. Making us look like a bunch of fucking idiots.
George continues to deny that there is any such thing as a human contribution to Global Warning and as such is managing to piss off what few allies we have in Europe as they being experiencing another summer of heat waves and droughts.
And he thinks Pu is going to solve the problem with this nation consuming almost 80% of the worlds energy supply? Not unless he plans on making a Mr. Fusion for every car.
While we spend Billions on Fuel Cells, he forgets the concept of a global economy. Who in their right mind would purchase a Fuel Cell vehicle when the only place you can get Fuel for it is in the US? Considering that the American market makes up
I would like to see him sponsor something a little more reasonable as a fuel source, like bio-diesel. Check it out for yourselves, but it's just diesel from the sun. Good economics, proven technologies, easy to distribute, and you can sell bio-diesel fuel and diesel vehicles everywhere. What's better is we have the agricultural capacity to become a diesel fuel exporter nation.
But Bush seems to be totally ignoring all of this and all the while he's just pissing everyone off.
I'm in Toronto right now and whenever I get into a conversation with someone here, they are rather polite in expression how fucked up they think we are. Personally, I think we have made a lot more mistakes in the last 6 years than we have done things right.
No longer proud to be called an American, I have to apologize for our president and government policies.
As you may have guessed from the posts, don't use software solutions. Use an independent hardware firewall between your servers and the internet.
After that, things get muddied by preferences...
I use IPCOP for mine and it's very nice, simple, and inexpensive (free, you just need a computer). Smoothwall is very similar and also has corporate support if you have the bling for it.
Products like these allow you to configure a reasonably complete network firewall solution in about an hour. Doing your own installation of things like OpenBSD, while excellent, are not as quickly realized.
It's just an effort to condense the workforce into a lower cost employee model. No different than the previous efforts to find people with 18 years of Java experience, 20 years of Perl experience, and a fluency in at least 9 other languages. Sounds like super man, doesn't it? But the super man they hire typically can't code his way out of a wet paper bag, but his BullShit is unsurpassed.
You can go cross platform if you want, but it will diminish your capabilities in each. The Military, who can afford far fewer mistakes than a business, is very cautious about cross-functional equipment or troops. It's not that they don't have fighter-bombers, but they certainly haven't done away with all their bombers.
ComCast is well known for shutting down port 25 for the subnets that they provide for consumer use. This is done as a move to block Spammers from sending directly.
Now Spammers send through the ComCast ISP mail servers directly. So the ISP response is to limit the number of emails you can send in a period of time.
These two approach the model of we can shut you down based upon the traffic you send
Regarding your assumption that ISP's consider Linux to be the Hacker OS I have already experienced first hand a consistent pattern from Time Warner Broadband services that they simply refuse to engage in a conversation with me of any sort once they find out that I am running Linux, a firewall, or anything else short of one of a specified list of Windows OS.
In conclusion I think it would be a resonable assumption that not only have ISP's started in this direction, but they've been working on it for years. And as long as their user community sheepishly run around telling the ISP's that something must be done and yet refuse to do anything themselves, they guarantee that the ISP's will have no choice but to take more draconian measures, such as you have described, and they will be glad to have it.
I fully expect the Final Solution to be a variety of Terminals installed in homes with a core server at the ISP and all your data belong to us.
At this point in time I think that the capability of OpenOffice is a long ways beyond these guys.. Initially I would say, "why bother", but then that's not the Open Source way. There needs to be competition for every software application even if someone like me judges one to be far superior to the competition.
Too many people are like this, what would you expect. It's Da Rules
Anything that can be perceived as a problem is a problem and it is someone's responsibility to do something about it.
It sure as hell isn't my responsibility, I have things to do. Too busy to be bothered.
So what happens? You get a problem that is vaguely defined by one group of people given to another group of people who could give a rats ass about the problem. They have no personal involvement in addressing the problem itself. At the very most, all they really have an interest in is making it appear to the first group that they are doing something effective about whatever the problem is.
I'm certain that Douglas Adams has written something to this effect. If not him, then Dilbert has probably covered it.
Is for identification of relays only. This can be easily tested and confirmed by remote queries on the SMTP server. It's not very aggressive, but it definitely captures a lot of potential spam.
Sorry Paul has to start a public bitch session against SBL but he's mostly right. RBL's have a tendency to turn into evangelical power mongers who start attacking a lot of people who are more innocent than guilty and if proven wrong, simply blow them off.
The concept of RBL is probably still valid. But it's so poorly managed...
Sounds like a load of hooey to me. If he was going broke, and he was any good, he could probably get a job at someplace else other than MSFT. That was his choice to take that job and it's a reflection of his character.
As for the technical superiority of the Gentoo distribution, it could do well if it had some safe guards built in. I've never used a piece of software that was so easily capable of a complete meltdown. With the right safeguards it could do well, but I think now it will be labelled as Sith-OS.
A curious development. The Evil Empire of MSFT has managed to recruit one of the lead developers of what has been touted as a bleeding edge development in the F/OSS community.
I've also heard a lot of things about how this guy is a bit of an asshole by pushing everything into his company instead of really keeping things open. Personally I didn't like Gentoo because they tended to be pretty high and mighty of themselves. But this isn't about me.
So, in short, the question remains to be answered: Are all the Gentoo supporters getting gang raped by MSFT MCSE's or not? Personally, if I was one of those who put time and effort into Gentoo development and found all the IP going into MSFT I would be pretty fucking pissed off.
Perhaps this is a sign of things to come. Will we all be watching on the sidelines as our various pet projects of the F/OSS community as the teams of corporate dogs rip every piece of meat from the bones. This is an ugly time.
If the SMB method of networking file servers and print servers is hopeless, has anyone considered making an alternative for NFS? Essnetially doing the End Round maneuver on these asswipes? As an example for comparison purposes, you can get plug-ins to the Explorer that give you access to FTP sights in a similar manner that you would access a network drive. Can something like this be accomplished for the NFS protocol?
Similarly for LPR/CUPS to close out the functional space that SMB occupies. I probably forgot some other aspects of Windows networking, but I haven't really used it since Windows 95 so I'm not one in the know.
The point to this is that it's far easier to smuggle physical items with 1000x more data on it than anything you might pass in the email. Considering the costs involved between scanning email (assumption here is automated tools to flag suspicious content) and having everyone searched to the level of a flash drive, it's far more practical to just carry it out the door in your pocket, sock, shoe, or other place of security.
The other interesting tid bit here is the type of informatin that companies try to block these days. The purpose of this kind of security these days is not so much the classic corporate espionage as the modern legal protection. If someone got wind that the GruntMaster 6000 had a flaw in one of the LED circuits, it might lead to a lawsuit or a news media smear campaign.
They will, when it has more established support for the different architectures.
These things take time to do them right the first time. But possibly not as long as doing it wrong and trying to fix it a few times, but who wants to spend their entire life playing at a keyboard?
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No Shit. I appluad your big balls to put this so clearly.
This nation was started with a religious belief in tolerance. Tolerance of religion was a big one. Does this mean that the Founding Fathers meant tolerance of religion just so long as you weren't a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist...? Probably not.
I consider any political party that tends to align itself with any church doctrines or promotion of religious ideals onto the country at large to be as threatening as the Iranian Mullahs in power there. It's the belief in a religiously based morality that is not so threatening provided that it is compatable with, or overridden by the ideal of Freedom of Religion or Seperation of Church and State.
Just to be annoying, I do not believe that this applies to religious beliefs consistent with Satanic cults or human sacrifices. How do I draw that distinction between one religion and another? Because of my own moral fiber based on my own religious beliefs. So my tolerance of Relious practices is itself flawed because I demand some compliance to my beliefs at the same time.
But at least I can be consistent and recognize that I do not have a perfect system. But there is a common thread through all major religions with a long lifespan and that is, "Don't be an Ass."
And all the fights we would have in school throwing all those little dots of paper at each other from the teletype.
And playing Star Trek on the teletype.
- round keys.
- endless scrolls of manilla paper.
- paper tape punch/reader
- and BASIC was cool!
This was right around 1975.I would certainly entertain shipping if you were up to it, but since you aren't....
A dual P3 would have been very useful as would a Sparc.
These are the essential elements that would keep anyone from going into a CS degree in the states. There is no crime here. It's the same Free Market forces at work that Gates and Bush say will allow free innovation of software and solve global warming.
Now here's the interesting twist that I see.
Microsoft software licensing and version incompatability forcing hardware upgrades remove a very considerable sum of money from the corporate coffers from being available for IT wages and salary related expenses. Because the money isn't available, there is even less opportunity for a local CS employment to be cost effective against the current cost of living expenses in this country.
To be honest, even if the software costs were removed, the companies would very likely continue following the lowest price options regardless of the availability of funds for wages and salary. This is not a silver bullet.
Until corporations recognize the value of having CS related employees to have improved skills like:
- Communication proficiency.
- Experience. A lot of people who I run into who do CS work have no practical field experience and quite frankly write really bad code. But they are the cheapest bidder.
- There is a disconnect between the business philosopy, thinking, methods of the US companies and the non-US software developers. You cannot develop a business solution software product without some understanding of the business.
things aren't going to change. We will, as a nation, fall into a non-leadership role in the field.It's better than that.
Ask about writing an application that will only run with Windows Outlook for playing sounds when email arrives.
It's a cute idea, until you realize that most people who actually leave their speakers on at work, with all those event noises, are loathed by their coworkers for all that noise pollution. It's as bad as loudly farting every few minutes.
Of course a UPS is required for VOIP to work in an emergency. But then I don't know anyone who is enough of a geed to get VOIP who doesn't have their computers protected by UPS anyways.
I don't think this is sufficient motivational force. With cell phone penetration into the market, it's more likely that someone will already have a cell phone than a UPS power supply on their computers. Considering that cell phones already have an E911 requirement with GPS location transmission with the E911 call, the point is moot.
Given another decade plus, land based phones will be something reserved for call centers, office complexes, and a minority of the world population.
I once saw a poster that read:
This doesn't mean that you work for free, rather you work on something you enjoy enough that you are willing to work on it at home in some sense.Even if you can't do the same thing at home and at work is somewhat irrelevant.
I have yet to meet a CPA who is an advanced software developer in any language beyond Excel Macros. But then again, I haven't met every CPA in the world either. This isn't to slight them, but to point out that his logic is kind of fucked up when he says no one will work for free. That's why we have things like Clubs and Organizations surrounding any subject you wish, from LUGS to garden shows. They all impart their members efforts towards a goal of making that subject better. The alternative would be to pay someone to do it. But they would rather do it themselves.
Consider an organization like the Special Olympics. The people who contribute to that organization do not get paid for it. They do it out of that Hippie Love they have for the work they do. And it works and it has a net positive effect on society. In a sense, it is not a Zero Sum game.
It might be possible for him to make some points, but I think he is essentially an arrogant prick who believes more in the almighty buck than he does in his own humanity. There are those that believe money is the only path to true happiness, security, or self worth. Just as my ex-wife. But there are a lot of others, especially those with more experience and years, who will disagree with you and caveat that while money is not necessarily the root of all evil is certainly isn't going to gaurantee you satisfaction or self-worth.
All this guy is running into is the notion that some software that companies want developed won't get developed by Open Source community because it's something that is such a fucking bad idea that no one wants to touch it or there is no right solution and we are all better off doing it ourselves on a custom basis.
CRM is a good example of this. CRM is a product need designed by Marketing to sell a product when all it really is is a glorified address book / database that meets some but never all of your goals or objectives as a company.
Those companies that have a CRM requirement list that is so simple as to be handily met by the COTS CRM products will not impliment them. Rather they will simply purchase the services of a Call Center in India or the Phillipines to run all of it for them.
You are kidding right? That or your pretty wrong.
Microsoft and AOL have been adopting something called SPF that was originally presented by one of these F/OSS Hippies.
IIRC TCP/IP was originally developed in F/OSS software because it was Open.
Who did transparent GUI design?
Who first developed a XML based solution for the general group of Office Products?
Who developed and presented the rssmail whitepaper? Hippies or Suits?
What was the first tool for real time chat? IRC or AIM? Who developed it?
Was the first implimentation of a Web Browser (Mosaic) open source or coompany derived?
You forgot to wrap your comments in sarcasm tags or you are an idiot.
Actually, I do think you're wrong, but I am biased in that I'm a Debian Developer. Developers only have to get involved in "politics" if they really wish, but the bulk of developers happily work on the half-a-dozen or so packages they're maintaining and leave the "politics" to the people who care about them.
Glad to hear it. I didn't think there were very many people who cared for the political game, but I've heard people whining over the years.
I guess as a long term Debian user I need to find out more about this security team and their choke point. Sounds like upping the team makes sense.
It would be a hell of a lot easier if they only supported X86 architecture like all those other Distros you refer to as the ones to lag behind.
I think what they really suffer from, and I am not expert, is politics of a large system and the perception of lots of power sitting on top. I could be wrong.
Regardless of what anyone might want to say against Debian, I still believe that they are extremely good at what they do and don't get credit for it. There is no other distro out there that attempts to support as many architectures as effectively (or at all) and if Debian decided to just delete them all except X86/X86-64 then their job would be a hell of a lot easier to execute.
Sorry, but I think it will take decades for the United States to recover from the damage that this president is doing to our country.
George managed to blow of the Kyoto Accord in the name of economics, but have pissed off most of our trade nations in the process.
George invaded Iraq and didn't have the intelligence to know that there was no such thing as Weapons of Mass Destruction there. Making us look like a bunch of fucking idiots.
George continues to deny that there is any such thing as a human contribution to Global Warning and as such is managing to piss off what few allies we have in Europe as they being experiencing another summer of heat waves and droughts.
And he thinks Pu is going to solve the problem with this nation consuming almost 80% of the worlds energy supply? Not unless he plans on making a Mr. Fusion for every car.
While we spend Billions on Fuel Cells, he forgets the concept of a global economy. Who in their right mind would purchase a Fuel Cell vehicle when the only place you can get Fuel for it is in the US? Considering that the American market makes up
I would like to see him sponsor something a little more reasonable as a fuel source, like bio-diesel. Check it out for yourselves, but it's just diesel from the sun. Good economics, proven technologies, easy to distribute, and you can sell bio-diesel fuel and diesel vehicles everywhere. What's better is we have the agricultural capacity to become a diesel fuel exporter nation.
But Bush seems to be totally ignoring all of this and all the while he's just pissing everyone off.
I'm in Toronto right now and whenever I get into a conversation with someone here, they are rather polite in expression how fucked up they think we are. Personally, I think we have made a lot more mistakes in the last 6 years than we have done things right.
No longer proud to be called an American, I have to apologize for our president and government policies.
As you may have guessed from the posts, don't use software solutions. Use an independent hardware firewall between your servers and the internet.
After that, things get muddied by preferences...
I use IPCOP for mine and it's very nice, simple, and inexpensive (free, you just need a computer). Smoothwall is very similar and also has corporate support if you have the bling for it.
Products like these allow you to configure a reasonably complete network firewall solution in about an hour. Doing your own installation of things like OpenBSD, while excellent, are not as quickly realized.
It's just an effort to condense the workforce into a lower cost employee model. No different than the previous efforts to find people with 18 years of Java experience, 20 years of Perl experience, and a fluency in at least 9 other languages. Sounds like super man, doesn't it? But the super man they hire typically can't code his way out of a wet paper bag, but his BullShit is unsurpassed.
You can go cross platform if you want, but it will diminish your capabilities in each. The Military, who can afford far fewer mistakes than a business, is very cautious about cross-functional equipment or troops. It's not that they don't have fighter-bombers, but they certainly haven't done away with all their bombers.
I think you are a little late on your opinions.
ComCast is well known for shutting down port 25 for the subnets that they provide for consumer use. This is done as a move to block Spammers from sending directly.
Now Spammers send through the ComCast ISP mail servers directly. So the ISP response is to limit the number of emails you can send in a period of time.
These two approach the model of we can shut you down based upon the traffic you send
Regarding your assumption that ISP's consider Linux to be the Hacker OS I have already experienced first hand a consistent pattern from Time Warner Broadband services that they simply refuse to engage in a conversation with me of any sort once they find out that I am running Linux, a firewall, or anything else short of one of a specified list of Windows OS.
In conclusion I think it would be a resonable assumption that not only have ISP's started in this direction, but they've been working on it for years. And as long as their user community sheepishly run around telling the ISP's that something must be done and yet refuse to do anything themselves, they guarantee that the ISP's will have no choice but to take more draconian measures, such as you have described, and they will be glad to have it.
I fully expect the Final Solution to be a variety of Terminals installed in homes with a core server at the ISP and all your data belong to us.
I applaud the work accomplished with KDE.
but....
At this point in time I think that the capability of OpenOffice is a long ways beyond these guys.. Initially I would say, "why bother", but then that's not the Open Source way. There needs to be competition for every software application even if someone like me judges one to be far superior to the competition.
So I applaud the work accomplished.
Too many people are like this, what would you expect. It's Da Rules
So what happens? You get a problem that is vaguely defined by one group of people given to another group of people who could give a rats ass about the problem. They have no personal involvement in addressing the problem itself. At the very most, all they really have an interest in is making it appear to the first group that they are doing something effective about whatever the problem is.
I'm certain that Douglas Adams has written something to this effect. If not him, then Dilbert has probably covered it.
Is for identification of relays only. This can be easily tested and confirmed by remote queries on the SMTP server. It's not very aggressive, but it definitely captures a lot of potential spam.
Sorry Paul has to start a public bitch session against SBL but he's mostly right. RBL's have a tendency to turn into evangelical power mongers who start attacking a lot of people who are more innocent than guilty and if proven wrong, simply blow them off.
The concept of RBL is probably still valid. But it's so poorly managed...
Sounds like a load of hooey to me. If he was going broke, and he was any good, he could probably get a job at someplace else other than MSFT. That was his choice to take that job and it's a reflection of his character.
As for the technical superiority of the Gentoo distribution, it could do well if it had some safe guards built in. I've never used a piece of software that was so easily capable of a complete meltdown. With the right safeguards it could do well, but I think now it will be labelled as Sith-OS.
A curious development. The Evil Empire of MSFT has managed to recruit one of the lead developers of what has been touted as a bleeding edge development in the F/OSS community.
I've also heard a lot of things about how this guy is a bit of an asshole by pushing everything into his company instead of really keeping things open. Personally I didn't like Gentoo because they tended to be pretty high and mighty of themselves. But this isn't about me.
So, in short, the question remains to be answered: Are all the Gentoo supporters getting gang raped by MSFT MCSE's or not? Personally, if I was one of those who put time and effort into Gentoo development and found all the IP going into MSFT I would be pretty fucking pissed off.
Perhaps this is a sign of things to come. Will we all be watching on the sidelines as our various pet projects of the F/OSS community as the teams of corporate dogs rip every piece of meat from the bones. This is an ugly time.
OK, I have an obvious question.
If the SMB method of networking file servers and print servers is hopeless, has anyone considered making an alternative for NFS? Essnetially doing the End Round maneuver on these asswipes? As an example for comparison purposes, you can get plug-ins to the Explorer that give you access to FTP sights in a similar manner that you would access a network drive. Can something like this be accomplished for the NFS protocol?
Similarly for LPR/CUPS to close out the functional space that SMB occupies. I probably forgot some other aspects of Windows networking, but I haven't really used it since Windows 95 so I'm not one in the know.
The point to this is that it's far easier to smuggle physical items with 1000x more data on it than anything you might pass in the email. Considering the costs involved between scanning email (assumption here is automated tools to flag suspicious content) and having everyone searched to the level of a flash drive, it's far more practical to just carry it out the door in your pocket, sock, shoe, or other place of security.
The other interesting tid bit here is the type of informatin that companies try to block these days. The purpose of this kind of security these days is not so much the classic corporate espionage as the modern legal protection. If someone got wind that the GruntMaster 6000 had a flaw in one of the LED circuits, it might lead to a lawsuit or a news media smear campaign.
This is so far ahead of it's time I just don't know what to say...
I can't send more than maybe one or two MB of data through my email.
But I can easily shove a 1GB USB stick up my ass and walk out past the guards.
Dude, this rocks. They really should just link this from the debian home page.
I predict that the sun will explode and we'll all be dead.
They will, when it has more established support for the different architectures.
These things take time to do them right the first time. But possibly not as long as doing it wrong and trying to fix it a few times, but who wants to spend their entire life playing at a keyboard?