There is a serious flaw in your argument... You relate the growth of Islam with the growth of radical "Islam". The rise in any population will more than likely have a rise in the "radical" factions within that group. If Chrisitianity was the fastest growing religion then radical Christianity would too be growing and could be seen as a growing threat... If it is true for all groups, then it is hardly worth mentioning as any sort of factor in the equation...
Lets also realize that there is a major problem with the sort of moral relativism that makes it somehow okay for a guidance mistake in a US war machine to kill an apartment building's worth of residents in Iraq but then on the same not points out the atrocity of a militant Muslim seeking to protect their homeland with an IED...
How many people died this year as a result of Religious extremism? How many died at the hands of political extremism? Is one worse than the other?
Maybe this is true from a percentage breakdown of current population, but I'm curious why bother mentioning this fact along with:
8-9b will live in countries currently engaged in either international or civil war, hundreds of millions will die each year of famine or genocide, global consumption of natural resources will more than double the levels they are now, wars will be fought over clean water (on top of other natural resources) and the distribution of wealth will be equally unevenly distributed as it is now - if not more.
Looks to me like you are grouping peoples' religious beliefs in with quite a number of undisputabably terrible things... I'm not sure how seriously anyone can take your opinions if you choose to put the practice of Islam on the same level as civil war, famine, and genocide....
Not to be a total pedant, but if you are going to say that because you can buy *A* 300GB disk for 50 AFTER rebates that 4*300GB is going to be 200 bucks then you have a very perilous grip on reality... That said, he said "double the cost of the box" so eve with your $200=1.2TB of storage arguement you are still not factoring the cost of the MB, PSU, chassis, etc... Which will certainly add another few hundred tot he cost of the box... So this theoretical box is still like $400-600 before the cost of a 4 channel SATA raid solution comes into the equation... There are certainly raid solutions which are cheaper then $4-600 which are of high quality and do not offload the proccessing...
If you are demanding pci-e then you are going to pay more... Duh...
Although if you really want someone to do your legwork for you I'd point out that there are cards in the 100 dollars range with 4 channel hardware raid 5 from LSI, Highpoint, and Promise. I can't really speak to the quality of these cards as I use 3ware cards myself. But as with most things the more $$$ the more features, support, and reliability. Then again I don't really understand the need for super high storage speeds for TB+ systems in a home environment. Most TB+ home users are probably going to use that space for a big ass file dump where they toss all their music and video files and perhaps stream them to other devices... This isn't really heavily IO intensive...
You are talking out your rear if yout think that going to a hardware raid is going to "double the cost" of a TB+ storage box. You can pickup an nice 3ware card for a few hundred bucks and if you want to go on the cheap a tekram or similar card is less than 100 bucks now days.
/me uses hardware raid at work (DataCenter) and at home and is perfectly satisfied with the price/performance ratio...
mod parent up. insightful! It had not occured to me that this is a good argument for "trusted computing platforms". although if the virtulization engine is one of the existing players from vmware, MS, etc I imagine it would alright be "certified" for the platform as the major users of these types of applications are corporate in nature and would require all those hoops to have been jumped through PRIOR to purchasing and implementing these types of software solutions.
Libertarians (big "L") have a platform which declares being for and against many things, their actual impact in government is quite small so their platform is of little consequence.
libertarians (little "l" are not a party, but people who subscribe to set of political philosophies which generally include small government, but can be more easily characterized by their promotion of personal responsibility and lack of centralized power and interventionist actions by such powers.
To glom the two groups together is as big as a mistake as saying "Democrats represent democracy and democrats are Democrats". While this statement may sometimes be true there is nothing inherintly true about the statement as the codified platform of the Democrats can easily change to be not in line with the philosophy of democracy...
As such, you will note that being a hippy does not preclude one from being a libertarian. While the ideals of hippy culture often times include things like support for social services they often do not specify that the source of those services be some sort of centralized power, to the contrary they often eschew a certain idealism which is based in people opting in to communal situations and excluding intervention from outside sources (be it corporations, governments, police, etc..). just as hippies can be anarchists and anarchists can be libertarians. There can be much mixing and matching of political and social philosophies and the general trend of assuming that they are definite and exclusive is quite shortsighted as well as being a major hurdle towards real political and social change in America.
(I don't spellcheck or proofread, so shoot me)
One of the things that's interesting about why Eisenhower pushed for the highway system was that he saw the Autobahn system in Germany during the occupation post-WWII and knew that that was one of the things that the United States needed to develop.
The Autobahn was built to showcase the third Recih's ability to accomplish huge civil works projects and also make the "beauty of the countryside" apparent to all who traveled through Germany. However it's use for military movement was largely overstated by the Hitler's propaganda machine. In reality very little military movement happened on the Autobahn and most of the big troop/equipment movements happened by the existing railway system which extended far beyond Germany's prewar borders... The only thing that was made more efficient by the autobahn was the eventual sweep across Germany by Allied forces which even then was slowed by the number of bridges which were destroyed by the retreating German forces in a effort to slow the Allied invasion. If indeed Eisenhower's reasoning was that as sited in the headline then he must've been a very stupid man... Building something which proved to be quite detrimental to the Axis in the end of the war in Europe..
Then again it is my theory that much of what the US does is simply the laying the groundwork for building our own demise... see arms race...
I regularly click on well targetted banner ads, particularly on forums which I frequent. I find that the forums admins generally keep the crap to a minimum and only run banners for retailers or sites which they endorse. In the web forum format getting an endorsement from a popular and heavily frequented forum often times is indicitive that other forum members have and do use those sellers/sites and have been generally pleased with their products/services/etc...
For instance when I bought a new car I searched out a good forum for owners of that particular model and found that the banner advertisers were good reasonable places from which to purchase the accessories which others on the forums were recomending. Also, banner advertisers who recieved bad feedback from forums members were quick to either change their policies/practices or they were removed from the banner rotation.
It truly is/was a "one hand washing the other" sort of dynamic where users provide revenue for the site admins by clickinbg through to their "sponsors" and the sponsors who provide good service/product recieved more revenue. And I as an end user recieved the benefits provided by both the forums and it's retail partners...
The basic flaw in your argument is that it is based on the premise that banner ads are spread scattershot throughout the web and that they have little relevence to the enduser OR are primarily directing people to less than savory establishments. This simply is not true and even less true if you combine some reasonable adblocking rules to your browser to allow banner ads only on sites which you frequent or where the ads are often useful to you (which requires some level of paying attention in the first place)...
A while back there was a case where a publisher outsourced their production to a company that also happened to print covers for pornographic movies. The Publisher put in an order for some childrens' books to be printed and the manufacturer reused some material from the porno covers to print the children's book on top of. If used as intended the pornography was never visible, HOWEVER if one modified the book by tearing off layers of paper from it's hardcover pornographic material would be present.
The publisher was soon IIRC and they in turn sued the printing company. This all sounds good and reasonable to me...
No replace the apropriate bits from that story with the bits from the GTA/hot coffee story and you can easily see where the problem is at least partly the fault of the publisher for not sufficiently ensuring that their product was shipped with everything it was supposed to have and nothing that it wasn't supposed to have.
This hack assumes that the intruder already has write access to the nvram of the system. Also, the headline is just a cut/paste of a small portion of a poor article with few technical details. There is no PoC code, nor any specific chip mentioned. The headline refers to Pentium chips specifically and the articles says "any x86 based architecture, needless to say these are not interchangable terms...
Shame on you Slashdot editors for posting this garbage...
Google to create its own Internet? Unlikely.
The whole reason that Google is an important company is that it crawls through the publicly-accessible parts of the Internet in order to index its contents.
If Google is to retain its premier position in the search engine market, then it will very much so remain firmly connected to the existing Internet.
This is why I agree with the parent post: It is quite reasonable to believe that Google might require this bandwidth for its own purposes.
There is nothing at all wrong with this. The Internet, after all, is merely a network of networks. All this means is that behind Google's accessible IP addresses lurks a mammoth network of its own.
Google plans to offer free universal wifi. Al Gore plans to help create the next internet, and bring internet TV to the masses with current TV. Apple plans to offer Itunes over the new internet, through Googles new internet based linux operating system.
Now all we have to do is bring Sony into the fold and get some of the gaming companies involved. I look forward to the day where I can play games online through wifi from anywhere.
Here are some URLs to back up my statements.
Al Gore, Google, Current TV, free wifi for allInformation on who Google is hiring Google Hiring
Google will hire all the best Phd students from the elite universities first. Once Google becomes so large that they run out of Phd students from elite universities, then they will begin hiring us! So I'm now in love with Google. Google if you are reading this PLEASE PLEASE give me a job, even if I'm just doing something completely stupid, I'm sure with all the millions of jobs you are creating that you'll find something for me.
I hope Google continues to innovate because these innovations are creating jobs by the millions. Building a new internet would create millions of jobs for all of us. Building a new OS would create thousands of jobs. I hope Google gets involved with the gaming industry and lets me have access to a video game search engine. I hope they let us gamble and bet on games. I hope Google creates a new video game stock market where we can bet on the success or failure of games. GIMME MONEY DAMNIT!
I almost can't wait for Google's facade of goodness to slip. They're just like any other large company who are more concerned about their stock price and making money - than about taking care of their end-users. For example, they still don't have an email service that isn't plastered with advertising (even for a small fee) - which ought to be a clue that they're an advertising company first, functionality is secondary.
If Google went dark tomorrow the extent would be to click Firefox over to using Teoma or Yahoo as the default search engine. I'd barely notice. As reluctant I am to admit it, Yahoo is still the single most important suite of web services to me, and I'd be lost without it (if I was stranded on a desert island and could only pick one website to bring with me, Yahoo would be it).
(And now that I think about it, I wonder how many of these "Google is doing X" posts are purely to try and keep their stock price artificially inflated.)
Pepsi is already marketing a coffee flavored cola in much of Asia. I personally bought it in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam (both Hanoi and HCMC) just a few weeks ago... Interesting flavor, although I'm not sure I'd buy it on any sort of regular basis. In Vietnam it was marked "Pepsi Cafe Da" and in Thailand it was "Pepsi Latte" I'm not gonna bother trying to figure out how to make Khmer letter to describe the cambodia brand though... Click here for a photo of the packaging on flikr
There was a recent class action lawsuit due to the practice of chopping fullscreen movies and selling them as "letterboxed widescreen" I think it was MGM who got caught with their pants down on this one but don't recall the details exactly.
While I'm as big a proponent of free speech as the next guy, I have to say this will likely have little to no impact on actual internet speech. There won't be a "chilling effect" as some would have you believe. In the end there just isn't the budget or the manpower to enforce the same FCC political advertising guidelines online as are enforced in major boradcast media. and the big topper is that the first time Big Brother tries to enforce this we will quickly see it in front of 9 of the US's top justices whom will in all likelyhood vote to remove FCC regulation from the whole realm of internet publishing.... Anyone who tells you otherwise is just a chickenlittle...
Whoops, didn't mean to misrepresent my source, I was actually looking at the kde wiki. Type kopete video into google and you will get a page of links which refer to MSV voice/video support with kopete under kde..
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Even better, on the hacked *dev* machine one just needs to hack the compilers so that they automagically backdoor things at compile time. Voila!
2|=2.5 that 50 cents a gig makes a big price difference... when you are talking about 2.50*24*1024 that 50 cents adds 12 grand to the final price...
Lets also realize that there is a major problem with the sort of moral relativism that makes it somehow okay for a guidance mistake in a US war machine to kill an apartment building's worth of residents in Iraq but then on the same not points out the atrocity of a militant Muslim seeking to protect their homeland with an IED...
How many people died this year as a result of Religious extremism? How many died at the hands of political extremism? Is one worse than the other?
Maybe this is true from a percentage breakdown of current population, but I'm curious why bother mentioning this fact along with:
Looks to me like you are grouping peoples' religious beliefs in with quite a number of undisputabably terrible things... I'm not sure how seriously anyone can take your opinions if you choose to put the practice of Islam on the same level as civil war, famine, and genocide....
I'm just trying to be real here folks....
Although if you really want someone to do your legwork for you I'd point out that there are cards in the 100 dollars range with 4 channel hardware raid 5 from LSI, Highpoint, and Promise. I can't really speak to the quality of these cards as I use 3ware cards myself. But as with most things the more $$$ the more features, support, and reliability. Then again I don't really understand the need for super high storage speeds for TB+ systems in a home environment. Most TB+ home users are probably going to use that space for a big ass file dump where they toss all their music and video files and perhaps stream them to other devices... This isn't really heavily IO intensive...
Any chance we will get some more Hot Al Gore Action?!?!
mod parent up. insightful! It had not occured to me that this is a good argument for "trusted computing platforms". although if the virtulization engine is one of the existing players from vmware, MS, etc I imagine it would alright be "certified" for the platform as the major users of these types of applications are corporate in nature and would require all those hoops to have been jumped through PRIOR to purchasing and implementing these types of software solutions.
libertarians (little "l" are not a party, but people who subscribe to set of political philosophies which generally include small government, but can be more easily characterized by their promotion of personal responsibility and lack of centralized power and interventionist actions by such powers.
To glom the two groups together is as big as a mistake as saying "Democrats represent democracy and democrats are Democrats". While this statement may sometimes be true there is nothing inherintly true about the statement as the codified platform of the Democrats can easily change to be not in line with the philosophy of democracy...
As such, you will note that being a hippy does not preclude one from being a libertarian. While the ideals of hippy culture often times include things like support for social services they often do not specify that the source of those services be some sort of centralized power, to the contrary they often eschew a certain idealism which is based in people opting in to communal situations and excluding intervention from outside sources (be it corporations, governments, police, etc..). just as hippies can be anarchists and anarchists can be libertarians. There can be much mixing and matching of political and social philosophies and the general trend of assuming that they are definite and exclusive is quite shortsighted as well as being a major hurdle towards real political and social change in America. (I don't spellcheck or proofread, so shoot me)
The Autobahn was built to showcase the third Recih's ability to accomplish huge civil works projects and also make the "beauty of the countryside" apparent to all who traveled through Germany. However it's use for military movement was largely overstated by the Hitler's propaganda machine. In reality very little military movement happened on the Autobahn and most of the big troop/equipment movements happened by the existing railway system which extended far beyond Germany's prewar borders... The only thing that was made more efficient by the autobahn was the eventual sweep across Germany by Allied forces which even then was slowed by the number of bridges which were destroyed by the retreating German forces in a effort to slow the Allied invasion. If indeed Eisenhower's reasoning was that as sited in the headline then he must've been a very stupid man... Building something which proved to be quite detrimental to the Axis in the end of the war in Europe..
Then again it is my theory that much of what the US does is simply the laying the groundwork for building our own demise... see arms race...
For instance when I bought a new car I searched out a good forum for owners of that particular model and found that the banner advertisers were good reasonable places from which to purchase the accessories which others on the forums were recomending. Also, banner advertisers who recieved bad feedback from forums members were quick to either change their policies/practices or they were removed from the banner rotation.
It truly is/was a "one hand washing the other" sort of dynamic where users provide revenue for the site admins by clickinbg through to their "sponsors" and the sponsors who provide good service/product recieved more revenue. And I as an end user recieved the benefits provided by both the forums and it's retail partners...
The basic flaw in your argument is that it is based on the premise that banner ads are spread scattershot throughout the web and that they have little relevence to the enduser OR are primarily directing people to less than savory establishments. This simply is not true and even less true if you combine some reasonable adblocking rules to your browser to allow banner ads only on sites which you frequent or where the ads are often useful to you (which requires some level of paying attention in the first place)...
A while back there was a case where a publisher outsourced their production to a company that also happened to print covers for pornographic movies. The Publisher put in an order for some childrens' books to be printed and the manufacturer reused some material from the porno covers to print the children's book on top of. If used as intended the pornography was never visible, HOWEVER if one modified the book by tearing off layers of paper from it's hardcover pornographic material would be present.
The publisher was soon IIRC and they in turn sued the printing company. This all sounds good and reasonable to me...
No replace the apropriate bits from that story with the bits from the GTA/hot coffee story and you can easily see where the problem is at least partly the fault of the publisher for not sufficiently ensuring that their product was shipped with everything it was supposed to have and nothing that it wasn't supposed to have.
This hack assumes that the intruder already has write access to the nvram of the system. Also, the headline is just a cut/paste of a small portion of a poor article with few technical details. There is no PoC code, nor any specific chip mentioned. The headline refers to Pentium chips specifically and the articles says "any x86 based architecture, needless to say these are not interchangable terms... Shame on you Slashdot editors for posting this garbage...
Since when are "wins" and "buys" interchangable verbs?
Google to create its own Internet? Unlikely. The whole reason that Google is an important company is that it crawls through the publicly-accessible parts of the Internet in order to index its contents. If Google is to retain its premier position in the search engine market, then it will very much so remain firmly connected to the existing Internet. This is why I agree with the parent post: It is quite reasonable to believe that Google might require this bandwidth for its own purposes. There is nothing at all wrong with this. The Internet, after all, is merely a network of networks. All this means is that behind Google's accessible IP addresses lurks a mammoth network of its own.
Google plans to offer free universal wifi. Al Gore plans to help create the next internet, and bring internet TV to the masses with current TV. Apple plans to offer Itunes over the new internet, through Googles new internet based linux operating system. Now all we have to do is bring Sony into the fold and get some of the gaming companies involved. I look forward to the day where I can play games online through wifi from anywhere. Here are some URLs to back up my statements. Al Gore, Google, Current TV, free wifi for all Information on who Google is hiring Google Hiring Google will hire all the best Phd students from the elite universities first. Once Google becomes so large that they run out of Phd students from elite universities, then they will begin hiring us! So I'm now in love with Google. Google if you are reading this PLEASE PLEASE give me a job, even if I'm just doing something completely stupid, I'm sure with all the millions of jobs you are creating that you'll find something for me. I hope Google continues to innovate because these innovations are creating jobs by the millions. Building a new internet would create millions of jobs for all of us. Building a new OS would create thousands of jobs. I hope Google gets involved with the gaming industry and lets me have access to a video game search engine. I hope they let us gamble and bet on games. I hope Google creates a new video game stock market where we can bet on the success or failure of games. GIMME MONEY DAMNIT!
I almost can't wait for Google's facade of goodness to slip. They're just like any other large company who are more concerned about their stock price and making money - than about taking care of their end-users. For example, they still don't have an email service that isn't plastered with advertising (even for a small fee) - which ought to be a clue that they're an advertising company first, functionality is secondary. If Google went dark tomorrow the extent would be to click Firefox over to using Teoma or Yahoo as the default search engine. I'd barely notice. As reluctant I am to admit it, Yahoo is still the single most important suite of web services to me, and I'd be lost without it (if I was stranded on a desert island and could only pick one website to bring with me, Yahoo would be it). (And now that I think about it, I wonder how many of these "Google is doing X" posts are purely to try and keep their stock price artificially inflated.)
Pepsi is already marketing a coffee flavored cola in much of Asia. I personally bought it in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam (both Hanoi and HCMC) just a few weeks ago... Interesting flavor, although I'm not sure I'd buy it on any sort of regular basis. In Vietnam it was marked "Pepsi Cafe Da" and in Thailand it was "Pepsi Latte" I'm not gonna bother trying to figure out how to make Khmer letter to describe the cambodia brand though...
Click here for a photo of the packaging on flikr
psuedo edit: Here's a link to story with the details on the lawsuit and how to file a claim
The above should say FEC not FCC.. whoopsy!
While I'm as big a proponent of free speech as the next guy, I have to say this will likely have little to no impact on actual internet speech. There won't be a "chilling effect" as some would have you believe. In the end there just isn't the budget or the manpower to enforce the same FCC political advertising guidelines online as are enforced in major boradcast media. and the big topper is that the first time Big Brother tries to enforce this we will quickly see it in front of 9 of the US's top justices whom will in all likelyhood vote to remove FCC regulation from the whole realm of internet publishing.... Anyone who tells you otherwise is just a chickenlittle...
Maybe they can get rid of "the bottle neck of bottle necks" but can they reduce the reduncancy of repeated overuse again and again also?
Whoops, didn't mean to misrepresent my source, I was actually looking at the kde wiki. Type kopete video into google and you will get a page of links which refer to MSV voice/video support with kopete under kde..
ZING! Give that man a frigging cookie!