Whoever allowed that data to be connected to the web should have their security clearance yanked, and be fired.
It's been quite a few years since I dealt with any DoD customers directly, but back in the late 1980s I remember they were all about air-gap security. I'm astounded that any machines containing classified materials were allowed to be connected to the internet.
-jcr
ORCL down 5.5% as I write this.
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Oracle Buys Sun
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Looks like the market doesn't think it's a good idea, either.
-jcr
This doesn't sound like a good move.
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Oracle Buys Sun
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I think Oracle's underestimated the cost of integration between companies with such dissimilar cultures. Not to mention, by jumping into the hardware business, they've given all of the other hardware makers a very strong reason to steer their customers away from Oracle.
You do know that the "Federal" Reserve is a corporation owned and run by the largest private banks?
Yes, I've been paying attention to monetary issues for quite a while now, thanks. The Fed is not a free-market institution, it's a government-created monopoly. The government prevents competing currencies.
The workaround for that problem is to get a signature notarized, so that the signer can't disavow it. Same solution we've had for a long time before this technology came along.
I know for a fact that stricter copyright laws will NOT be saving any jobs in the trucking industry.
Well, shipping bits pressed into plastic disks on the highways in trucks certainly requires more truckers than delivering those same bits over the net, but the point here is that truckers hauling disks around are a misallocation of transportation capabilities. You can't ship lumber and washing machines over the net, so it makes more sense for truckers to be hauling those goods instead.
The war didn't end the depression. War production isn't wealth; you can't eat bullets, and you can't live in a B-17.
Ask any of your older relatives who lived through the 1940s when they were able to quit living hand-to-mouth. In 1946, the wartime economic controls were lifted, about a million men were released from military service, and government spending dropped by 2/3. The Keynesians all predicted a crash from the winding down of war materiel production, but they were as wrong about that as they were about the New Deal programs.
America came out of the GD by having people go back to work
Not all employment is productive. The Soviets allegedly had full employment, but their economy was still a basket case.
Well, since you asked, yes I do. The better idea is to stop trying to re-inflate the bubble, let the necessary liquidation of misallocated capital happen, let people keep what they earn, and quit inflating the money.
We got out of the first great depression in 1946 by cutting government spending by two thirds.
Maybe he read Atlas Shrugged back in college and now he thinks he knows how the world works?
Or maybe I spent a couple of decades working in companies ranging from Fortune-50 to four-man start ups, seeing some succeed and others fail. Maybe I've been reading a lot more history than you have. Maybe I've noticed that prosperity goes hand in hand with liberty, as countless historical and contemporary examples prove.
holding himself up as the shining example of humanity
subsidizing union employment with taxpayer money to gain votes is not capitalism
More to the point, trying to keep unprofitable businesses afloat is not capitalism. Capitalism is a profit and loss system, and if you shelter investors from their losses, capital is misallocated.
Translation: giving jobs to poor people is bad. Better to leave the money in the hands of the elite in the form of tax cuts and let it "trickle down" to people who are losing their jobs and homes right now.
So much vitriol, and so little understanding. My position is that it's better to leave money in the hands of those who earn it, whether they're rich or poor. The government's grand plans for "redistribution" are always going to hurt the poor more. Where do you think the money for the bailouts is coming from? The amounts are so massive, that taxing or borrowing it isn't even possible. It's being inflated into existence, and you're paying for it by the loss of purchasing power of every dollar you have.
You fucking objectivists had your chance to prove that an unregulated free market would make us all rich and prosperous and like the communists YOU FAILED.
Guess again, pinkbot. We were regulated into this mess by the Federal Reserve, who proved that they are no better at picking the right interest rates than the soviet industrial planners were at setting production quotas.
So called "pork barrel" projects were why the Republican Party was founded to begin with.
No, the Republican party was founded as an anti-slavery party. It wasn't until the remnants of the Whigs infiltrated it and took it over that it became a federal-supremacy mercantilist party.
Some people believed that investing in the national infastructure was just good business.
More like, they saw that getting the federal government involved in building canals and railroads was a useful pretext for power grabbing.
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Most of their business is government-granted monopolies on cable service. Speaking as a hard-line Libertarian, I say fuck 'em.
-jcr
they could do like they did with Rolm and transfer all their dead end managers to it and then sell it.
IBM hasn't been shy about laying off deadwood lately. They really don't need a pretext like that anymore.
-jcr
Oh, I've got my faults, but at least I've never thrown a tantrum over four characters at the end of a post on a web page.
-jcr
why do you sign your username?
Because I feel like it. What's it to you?
-jcr
IBM saved themselves another Rolm disaster. If they'd bought Sun, they'd have to write down 80% of it within five years.
-jcr
Whoever allowed that data to be connected to the web should have their security clearance yanked, and be fired.
It's been quite a few years since I dealt with any DoD customers directly, but back in the late 1980s I remember they were all about air-gap security. I'm astounded that any machines containing classified materials were allowed to be connected to the internet.
-jcr
Looks like the market doesn't think it's a good idea, either.
-jcr
I think Oracle's underestimated the cost of integration between companies with such dissimilar cultures. Not to mention, by jumping into the hardware business, they've given all of the other hardware makers a very strong reason to steer their customers away from Oracle.
-jcr
You do know that the "Federal" Reserve is a corporation owned and run by the largest private banks?
Yes, I've been paying attention to monetary issues for quite a while now, thanks. The Fed is not a free-market institution, it's a government-created monopoly. The government prevents competing currencies.
-jcr
Just so you know, yor username is above the text of your post
Newb,
I've been signing my posts since my FIDONET days, and I'm not going to stop because some AC kid on /. gets snotty about it.
-jcr
I have signed documents and later found that someone had them notarized without my knowledge.
That's fraud. Did you file charges, or complain to the authority who issued the notary's license?
-jcr
The workaround for that problem is to get a signature notarized, so that the signer can't disavow it. Same solution we've had for a long time before this technology came along.
-jcr
No, the more reasonable stance is: "the house is on fire. More gasoline won't help."
The US economy is choking on debt. This can not be remedied by adding a couple more trillion to the tab.
-jcr
I know for a fact that stricter copyright laws will NOT be saving any jobs in the trucking industry.
Well, shipping bits pressed into plastic disks on the highways in trucks certainly requires more truckers than delivering those same bits over the net, but the point here is that truckers hauling disks around are a misallocation of transportation capabilities. You can't ship lumber and washing machines over the net, so it makes more sense for truckers to be hauling those goods instead.
-jcr
HS Rail is beneficial for everyone.
Oh, ye of little proof!
-jcr
The war didn't end the depression. War production isn't wealth; you can't eat bullets, and you can't live in a B-17.
Ask any of your older relatives who lived through the 1940s when they were able to quit living hand-to-mouth. In 1946, the wartime economic controls were lifted, about a million men were released from military service, and government spending dropped by 2/3. The Keynesians all predicted a crash from the winding down of war materiel production, but they were as wrong about that as they were about the New Deal programs.
America came out of the GD by having people go back to work
Not all employment is productive. The Soviets allegedly had full employment, but their economy was still a basket case.
-jcr
you could probably get a few billion dollars just to "study the problem".
Oh, sure. I could probably get federal funding for all kinds of things like that. If only I didn't have this hang-up about taking stolen money.
-jcr
Got a better idea?
Well, since you asked, yes I do. The better idea is to stop trying to re-inflate the bubble, let the necessary liquidation of misallocated capital happen, let people keep what they earn, and quit inflating the money.
We got out of the first great depression in 1946 by cutting government spending by two thirds.
-jcr
Maybe he read Atlas Shrugged back in college and now he thinks he knows how the world works?
Or maybe I spent a couple of decades working in companies ranging from Fortune-50 to four-man start ups, seeing some succeed and others fail. Maybe I've been reading a lot more history than you have. Maybe I've noticed that prosperity goes hand in hand with liberty, as countless historical and contemporary examples prove.
holding himself up as the shining example of humanity
Project much, O enlightened one?
-jcr
subsidizing union employment with taxpayer money to gain votes is not capitalism
More to the point, trying to keep unprofitable businesses afloat is not capitalism. Capitalism is a profit and loss system, and if you shelter investors from their losses, capital is misallocated.
-jcr
Translation: giving jobs to poor people is bad. Better to leave the money in the hands of the elite in the form of tax cuts and let it "trickle down" to people who are losing their jobs and homes right now.
So much vitriol, and so little understanding. My position is that it's better to leave money in the hands of those who earn it, whether they're rich or poor. The government's grand plans for "redistribution" are always going to hurt the poor more. Where do you think the money for the bailouts is coming from? The amounts are so massive, that taxing or borrowing it isn't even possible. It's being inflated into existence, and you're paying for it by the loss of purchasing power of every dollar you have.
You fucking objectivists had your chance to prove that an unregulated free market would make us all rich and prosperous and like the communists YOU FAILED.
Guess again, pinkbot. We were regulated into this mess by the Federal Reserve, who proved that they are no better at picking the right interest rates than the soviet industrial planners were at setting production quotas.
-jcr
So called "pork barrel" projects were why the Republican Party was founded to begin with.
No, the Republican party was founded as an anti-slavery party. It wasn't until the remnants of the Whigs infiltrated it and took it over that it became a federal-supremacy mercantilist party.
Some people believed that investing in the national infastructure was just good business.
More like, they saw that getting the federal government involved in building canals and railroads was a useful pretext for power grabbing.
-jcr
I'm fairly certain McCain would have been as bad or worse
I'm sure McCain's ideas would have been just as stupid, but he would have less ability to get people to go along with them.
-jcr
A couple major cargo shipment companies are looking at sail again
Hey, I'm all for people experimenting with any kind of propulsion they're interested in, at private expense.
-jcr
Cut the tax money for, let's say, highway maintenance, and let's see how well those cars do.
Excellent idea. I'm all for privatizing roads.
-jcr