Because they didn't know him, they knew only a screen persona. Those that really know him grieve, these people online lost a grouping buddy, their funeral is nothing more than a mockery of their (those that REALly knew him) grief. Turn your T.V. off quit reading YM and understand the value of REAL people. Save me the liberal nonsense, I get enough of that from MPR.
By the virtue of your argument you state great truth, but I do not argue the act but the value placed upon the act. Which is greater in virtue, to attend a funeral in person, scarifcing your time and money to pay honors to the dead or to sit in your chair at home, without inconvience and parade around an avatar honoring the dead?
Which is greater friend?
If someone dies that you call friend, is their life and friendship, the years of memories, only worth a card? Only worth flowers? It sounds more like a courtesy paid to a co-worker, an aquaintence, and not a friend. You send flowers to your friends if someone THEY know die. If you brother dies do you send flowers to his wife or do you attend the funeral yourself? That is what I argue. REAL versus VIRTUAL. I have plenty of aquanitences and then there are my friends. People I play with on DAOC, MR, EQ, etc... are aquaintences, not friends. Do not dare dilute the word friend to such a base association. They say he was a dear friend. Is that all they would do for a dear friend? I grieve for those who are related to such for if that is all they would do for a dear friend, family is but a step above.
I find it disturbing that people accept and praise the idea of "Virutal" relationships, "Virtual" friends, and a "Virtual" life. I find it sick that people consider this online funeral "a great showing of compassion" If that were the case they should have sprang a few hundred bucks (or pooled their money so those players that couldn't afford it), flew out to the REAL funeral and made a REAL heart to honor a REAL friend. When a friend of mine from UO died I popped $450 for the plane ticket and wen't to the the funeral. REAL PEOPLE DESERVE A REAL FUNERAL AND IF YOU ARE A REAL FRIEND YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING REAL. Here is the problem, if you identify that these VIRTUAL lives you live have value you open a can of worms the like that has never been seen. If these VIRTUAL activities are EQUAL to real activities in merit and value and you hold them as EQUAL then don't be suprised if someone charges you with VIRTUAL theft, infidelity, emotinal damages, or murder. I refuse to honor such a foolish act. It is no better than those who "wept" and "sobbed" when JFK Jr. died. Sorry YOU NEVER MET HIM AND MOURNING HIM WITH SUCH A PATHETIC DISPLAY ONLY DIMINISHED THE "REAL" GRIEF OF THE FAMILY. Has society slipped to far that the the lines between reality and fiction have slipped so far? If he was a "REAL" friend you should have done something "REAL" to honor him. Next thing you'll be doing is emailing bad news like,"Sorry Mrs. Doe, your husband died during the sugery.:( "
Simply put, the best way to elminate the DMCA is to use it. Fight fire with fire. Use their own tool of control against themselves. I wouldn't be suprised if that is why they are poking at Adobe.
Hope out to particleadventure.com to read up real quick on the physics behind anti-matter. With an anti-matter drive, where the matter is anihalated into pure energy (momentarly) why both at this point dealing with nuclear? Yes I know AM is somewhat rare but jeez you think the leftist,socialist, posing as demoncrate fool tree-huggers are going to allow a nuclear drive?
Anti-matter is pollution free (provided that the nightmare casacade scenario doesn't happen [Where an anti-matter matter interaction creates equal amounts of matter and anti-matter causing an eternal explosion, which as far as solid science is impossible...] it was from an old 70's comic book btw but some of those nuts in left, and the right, as both extremes have problems with reality actually quote from time to time fiction, versus reality. Reagardless I digress and apologize. Regardless of propulsion systems there is still a problem that MUST BE RESOLVED before we worry about propulsion. Regardless of if we can get there (whereever there is) we must resolve the sustainable habitiate issues (food and what not) gravity fatigue (time to go find the ever absent graviton so we can create non-spin artifical gravity), and physical atriculation (current space suits are not suited for extended phsyical activities, we need low profile exoskeleton systems, mmmm ACK! GUYVER!! Errr what was I talking about (Why was there a scottish guard in the guyver anime in TOKYO?) Again I digress it's time to end this post ACk... gurgle.... Et tu, Brute?... Gasp!... couch... hack.... weeze....
-Later that night at the academy awards-
Me- Thank you all and thank you to slashdot for giving me the opportunity to win the award for "Best Death in a/. Post" thank you all!
Here is my experience, business when they buy software solutions factor in security. When it comes to a business ask yourself this:
Who do I want to work with, a million dollar company or a $30,000 annual net company. They are attempting to pay for security and prestige. They have to justify the costs of the project to the upper-managment. Then they have to at least prove that the company that made it will be around in 5 years, a company that is worth more (as far as perception is concerned) is more likely to be around longer.
From a darker side of business it is also easier to skim when there is more money. A REALLY COMMON skim that project and department managers do is to hiring the staff for a project on-site and expense computers and monitors for the project out for the consultants on site. Then when the project is done, viola! Free computers and new monitors for the department. Hell you can expense the new equiptment as a labor cost to the consultants and the take the computers home! I've seen that one done dozens of time.
i.e.
4 Consultant at $300,000 (Real Cost) Project Budgeted 4 consultants at $304,000 You buy $4,000 worth on computers stuff for the consultants to use (legal) and they use it(of course legal) at the end you paid $304,000 on paper for the consultants (which you were budgeted for) then manager gets $4000 in free stuff? (Shady) or the department got those new monitors they wanted (not so shady).
Also many times when a dept. comes in under budget the dept. can keep the cash, answer this: if you come in under buget at 5% which many business wouldn't consider doing an "assest reclamation" on the project. Now which would you prefer to get free, 5% of 8000 or 5% of 15,000?
Who want's to bet the high and mighty security flaws are part of a new data security program that the federal government implemented. The brilliant minds have always suggested the honeypot system. Perhaps that would explain the 1000+ consultants hired nation wide by the gov't since 9-11 that have been setting up honeypots and audit DMZ as of late in federal networks. Not every hack is a successful breach of security. In fact 50% of them are breaching honeypots and audit DMZ. How would I know? I just installed 3 (2 audit DMZs and a honeypot) The local feds gave me a 300 page guideline that I had to follow for my client and McDAMN they have there act together on the guideline. I'd bet dimes to donuts that those dorks did nothing but hit an Audit DMZ. The military has always had an "Open Air" policy on all critical data systems. It is impossible to hack those machines (it is open-air after all) The worse case scenario that could happen hitting military machines would be purchase orders and troop emails. Big deal, CNN is doing a great job of leaking the same shit as it is....:)
-- I am proud to be a savage in a Brave New World --
As much as I dislike the current trend of intellectual property laws I must say that I am amazed at this idea. I think it is great. It gives companies a wonderful tool to protect content and to protect the consumer. Concerning the topics such as fair use, archive copies, etc I will address my opinions separatly as such:
Fair Use: You could create a reversed engineered copy of the installation or an ISO image, the game data is there, just encrypted. The smart card is used as a "key" to access the software. This does not violate the archive as you can copy the CD files (and while they may be encrpyted there could be software unlocks provided) but the use of a hardware lock (which is what this in reality is) is up to the vendor. A great many high end products use hardware locks and this A: Reduced the cost of some of those implementations and B: Using existing hardware and software. For the hacker types that hate CD access (I do I NO-CD crack just about every app I own, case in point MOO2), therefore you could simply code a software tool that acts like the smartcard and implement it as a hook to the CDROM subsystem (Emulate the existence of the card).
As far as fair use rights, I think any vendor with any morals, and yes I know those types are fading fast, (I am actually planning on using this if it falls into budget on a few projects I am working on) would simply check for the card periodically rather than each run time (Perhaps each time you patch the program or some similar activity).
Imagine if I was a large corporation that needed to install say 4000 copies, there is NO WAY IN HELL I am going to pay for 4000 physical copies and devote manpower (or is the personpower now??) to having installers be present. What if the application takes an hour to install and I only have a 4 hour window to get all 4000 done? I ahve to have some way to multicast the app to the clients. I'm sure many appications, like M$ with activation will have corporate distributions (like the Microsoft Select program) that will have an alternative to the card (prob. a simple license server).
Imagine the security benefits of this technology in encrypted communications for Ebusinesses. Quicken and programs like that could use the embedded smart card to store unique cyphers for communications for online sales, or in my current position as a beginning game developer embedded encyption to prevent cheating (Can I hear a Hell Yeah from the Counter-Strike crowd?)
Ultimatly remember people, the technology itself is a wonderful and innovative idea. One of the best I have seen in the last 4 years. The arguments will come down to HOW it is used. I love this idea for it's possibilities in gaming (Anti-Cheat technology) and in secure business transactions. ALL the negatives I see being posted and that I can see for myself depend solely on implementation of this technology.
Remember any new technology now can be used to screw people over, take PGP for example you could have encoded all your application installation files in PGP and forced users to connect to an authentication server to decode and install. Is PGP an evil tool of the "E-Man?"
My 2 cents again, be gentle, my asshole still hurts from the last flaming:)
TO sum up every emotion and thought in my head I give you this personal quote:
I have a 15 inch black and white TV, I buy a 61 inch Digital Color TV, did all the bad shows before suddenly get better?
I have a slow web browser and I get a really fast web browser, do all the crappy web sites somehow become better?
WHO CARES how fast it is! If I am really big on visiting the site the whole 3-5 extra seconds doesn't mean shit! 99.999999999999% of pages aren't worth loading. Does a faster browser equate to a better browsing experience? Yes if there is good content. Whoopie! Now my pop-ads, embedded mpeg commericals, floating flash ad will load faster than BEFORE!! BITE ME....
The great thing about linux in an enterprise is the ability to use file systems in a much more dynamic way versus NT. Doing a large scale deployment under Linux you could mount the whole damn system via NFS with a single CDROM in the drive to start the system boot. By pooling all the drive space and perhaps integrating many processes to run in a distributed fashion you could increase performance on a large scale.
BUT (Love that word, it encompasses all that is real, there is always a 'but' looking around) with centralization comes less points of failure and failures become exponentially more damaging as the points of failure diminsh.
The ideal usage that I have found for Linux in a corporate desktop environment is as such: Linux is effective as a hybrid Thin Client with applications running (and or cached) on the local client much like the old dumb terminals. With applications parsed between a application server and the local client, plus utilizing the clients as execution nodes for distributed tasks Linux as a desktop OS has a great amount of potential.
One of my old clients has a setup with a master data server with a drive structure of/Home/Boot/MachineDrive and/Home/Boot/Personal. The/MachineDrive was the dynamic install of the OS, user's terminals would mount that in the boot process as root and such (I am not a Linux guru so I don't know if other mount points were also loaded from there). The/Personal became the normal/Home/USERID. The wicked thing was when you booted the system you picked what version you wanted to load for your machine (If you were on a Dell GX you could load CAD, OFFICE, ACCOUNTING) and walla! it mounted and booted from the network drive. They setup a local swap file and did some cache tricks and then as an additional layer when you logged in it mounted additional mount points so you has access to the applications you were supposed to have. It was the coolest thing I had seen. I hope these aussie-types do a good implementation. This could become a huge black eye for Linux if they have problems. The community better give them a hand. Business' here in the states WILL be watching with a critical eye.
Guess what? You mentioned the Anti-Christ. RELIGION IS ILLEGAL FEEL THE WRATH OF THE LEFT!!!
(ALERT!! This is not a Troll Statement. Read In Complete Before Moderating)
Your obviously religious doctrine is not sensitive to the needs of pagans, atheists, and agnostics.
Your post is offensive to Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Confucian Philosophers, Taoists, Buddhists, Wiccans, Scientologists, Gnostics, Masons, Satanists, New Dawn Members, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Secularists, Monetaryanism (A Term for Money Worshippers)
Your post is an affront to the following economic\political systems: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, the Fordian Society, The Orwellian Society, Unitary Federalism, Fascism, Secular Hedonism and other misc. 'ISMs.
Your post is racially offensive to the following non-existent racial groups: Blacks, African Americans, Hispanics, Mexicans, Latinos, Spanish-Americans, Asians, Orientals, Chinese, Chinese-American, Japanese, Japanese Americans, Nisei, Korean Americans, Koreans, Hawaiian-American, Vietnamese, American-Vietnamese, Indians, India-Americans, Native American, American Indians, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Normans, whites, Eastern Europeans, Mediterranean Americans, English Americans, Scottish Americans, Irish Americans, Africans, Arab Americans, Egyptians, Kiwi, Kiwi-Americans (New Zealand), Austrian-Americans, Tasmanian-Americans, Moroccan-Americas, Brazilian-Americans, Martians, Legal Immigrants, Illegal Immigrants, and any other sensitive cultures I may have forgotten about.
Your post is sexually discriminating against: males, females, hermaphrodites, she-males, he-shes, gay males, gay females, celibate males, celibate females, and various non-specific or unidentifiable sexes that may or may not exist in nature including but not limited to Virtual Life-forms, such as Sims and Mobs. Also your post neglects to have sensitivity towards non-life based organisms such as Viruses.
Your post is intellectually discriminating against: stupid people, dumb people, ignorant people, ill-informed people, lazy people, brain dead people, and non-thinking objects such as rocks, pebbles, boulders, and mountains.
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Your post is economically discriminating against people who cannot afford computers or do not have time to read your post. In addition you post discriminated against Luddites, Amish, and those that practice the socially acceptable policy that can be deemed as Anti-Technology.
Your post is also discriminatory to those that read right to left versus left to right and those that read vertically.
In summary: KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
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As the costs of bandwidth decrease yes you could. I think in general the hashing algorithm could be written such that a client could throttle (or the ISP could) the Cache Hits for a client, transferring data that is requested more often to clients that have less bandwidth usage. Think of the protocol as large scale load balancing of the Internet. in the long run it could actually save you a ton of cash if someone could implement that effectivly.
Whoa that is supposed to be B reqs from D, not B reqs from B! Sorry, I am eating as I write.... Damn/.... gr.... still needs a speel checker (Spelling error was intentional btw.)
Concerning the slow death of the internet I am suprised that no major effort has been made to create a new layer and method of communication over the Internet that, through the use of a well written EULA and some pre-emptive patenting create a new tunneled Internet piggy-backing on the old Internet. THrough the use of a distributed network similar to Gnutella one could have, say unlimited space to create a site. Then clients on the network replicate through a protocol (EULA'ed and Patented with Encryption) the site to neighbors based on demand and requirments. I shouldb't be that hard for some of those closet geniuses out there. Then in the EULA prohibit commerical use of the protocol that way we can get back to what the Internet is for, free information exchange. I can even think of an efficent way to replicate the site. Every client on the network (say A---B---C----D) can access the page at it's home address. Then I maintains a cached copy in a PGP'esque format. (Lets say B makes a call to D) B Now contains an encrypted cache of B (Scripts and all, the new format lets assume compiles in scripts). A requests D but B has a copy so A only goes out and gets a key from D to decrypt B's contents. Then A and B could hash their data and split it. (I am using a linear diagram but in a star map you could see the advantage of the hashing). I mean come on it's fool-proof way to eliminate commericals on the net. Create the protocol and throw encryption into it (Gaining the DMCA as a layer of defense) and then patent it BEFORE the public launch) and write a solid EULA to prevent commerical use (unless they pay a 99.9999% royalty rate on the gross revenues!). Do it! you know you want to!
As a follow up just as an FYI like in logic we can NEVER test a number under these circumstances for success we can only test for failure. Because the iterations are infinite we can NEVER assure that an interation like this is a success unless we competed the interations (we can't because they are infinite) but we can test for failure (as the first failure stops the process) But come on is this process useful? Primes seem so much more useful than playing tag with palidroms...
P.S - Yes I am cranky again today, sob... It was my birthday yesterday and I only got 1 happy birthday:( I need a hug...
I can see that there are plenty of cryptic number patterns that math people seek. But this one seems a bit, well, irrelivant. I can see the need to seek out primes and such but this "new" pattern looks like it was invented for the sake of inventing. I have a super-hard to calculate number sequence I called Slashdom. It is any integer when multiplied by 642867150 results in a number prefectly divisible by the first digit of the result. There I am a genius, now let's devote time and effort into seeking these Slashdoms so we can use them in encryption.
Come on, I tried to find one of the non-palindrom number and my first try succeeded, 3421965. Purely from a math stand point you increase you odds of a non-palidrom number by having this sequence odd-prime-even somewhere in your number.
I find this a novelty, but god help us of some twit gets a noble prize for something related to this.
It's good to see that we now live in a nation that fears competition, exhaults mediocrity, and rewards the foolish, corrupt, and wicked. Oh what a brave new world! Soma! Soma For All!
Welcome to hell.. The United Socialist States of America. I had hoped my kids whould have had the opportunity to grow up on the USA, looks like we lost the war for freedom.
Try going to a CFO and tell him because of what you think is correct he needs to go to "school." You'd be in a bread line real quick.
Concerning the office issue you brought up I have an excellet example for you. Go create a spreadsheet in excel using every function there is at least once. Then port it to OpenOffice. I have done this. Only 25% of the functions worked. All the basics worked but I think it is absurd to even consider OpenOffice if only 25% of my spreadsheets port over.
Concerning the arument about MCSE vs. Linux admins and cost: MOST EXECUTIVES DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF THE COST IS JUSTIFIED. They look at only bottom lines. I saw a guy at GMAC who would sit and play Everquest all day. They paid him 80k a year. One day the "brass" was walking around and notice him for doing "nothing." The executives fired him (not his manager). Here is the kicker, when he left the remaining staff's (6 people) workload each day rose 4 fold. The reason he was playing EQ was the fact he was a 160 IQ genius and handled a massive amount of work in a very short period of time. He finished his work load by noon and spent the rest of the day playing games. I cannot even begin to count the times that cost has been taken as the ONLY FACTOR in a decision. The industry doesn't care how good someone is IF THEY CANNOT BUDGET FOR THEM THEY CANNOT HIRE THEM. The thinking that you present is the whole of my argument. Linux people just can't seem to cope with the idea that, no matter how superior or more efficent something is, IF I CAN'T AFFORD IT IT DON'T MEAN SHIT! For shrist sake can someone who loves Linux get at least this one concept through their head? OpenSource can succeed but not unless those who would advocate it come to grips with reality.
It isn't about what is best most of the time, it's what is overall cheapest. I render fractals on my computer in my spare time. A Cray supercomputer is much better than my AMD, but I cannot afford it! Trying to advocate the virtues of a Cray for playing Quake for instance is silly. Why? Because you can't afford it (If you can call me I have some great real estate in Florida for ya!).
I don't want to get pissy over this topic but time and time again i see 12 year old Linuxx geeks that saw the movie hackers and ripped off old BBS L33t speak (God remember the old ACiD and iCE ansi days? I still have "The Slug" movie somewhere...) trying take about how great Linux is without a god damn clue! There is a saying that I get a kick out of from the T.V. Movie about Roswell:
"Legitimate Information from a Bad source is just as good as bad information from a reliable source."
Until those who disregard the reality of business and the computer economy they will be nothing more than GDKNAs (God Damn Know Nothing Activists) that will never break the glass ceiling. There will never be Linux on desktops as long as you demand (remember children can be taught) that they retrain (costs time and money, a LOT of time and money). You CAN'T go to a staff of 3 million people (gov emp) and tell them they need to re-train because you have found a better way. If you had to train 3 million people for only 1 hour each how much does it cost? Let us assume the avarage person makes $20 an hour.
That is $60 million dollars right there. Then you need a trainer to teach them, say 30 people per session that would be how many hours? Oh and then there is the roll out.... add in initial support costs... increase helpdesk pay by 15 to 40 percent.... You see there is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than comparing costs of software. Linux on the desktop is NEVER going to happen until Linux groupies realize the real costs of business.
I feel better now. Sorry to rant but it had to be done. Later all
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Because they didn't know him, they knew only a screen persona. Those that really know him grieve, these people online lost a grouping buddy, their funeral is nothing more than a mockery of their (those that REALly knew him) grief. Turn your T.V. off quit reading YM and understand the value of REAL people. Save me the liberal nonsense, I get enough of that from MPR.
Without sacrific there is no love. Where is the sacrific in sitting on one's ass to honor the dead?
By the virtue of your argument you state great truth, but I do not argue the act but the value placed upon the act. Which is greater in virtue, to attend a funeral in person, scarifcing your time and money to pay honors to the dead or to sit in your chair at home, without inconvience and parade around an avatar honoring the dead?
Which is greater friend?
If someone dies that you call friend, is their life and friendship, the years of memories, only worth a card? Only worth flowers? It sounds more like a courtesy paid to a co-worker, an aquaintence, and not a friend. You send flowers to your friends if someone THEY know die. If you brother dies do you send flowers to his wife or do you attend the funeral yourself? That is what I argue. REAL versus VIRTUAL. I have plenty of aquanitences and then there are my friends. People I play with on DAOC, MR, EQ, etc... are aquaintences, not friends. Do not dare dilute the word friend to such a base association. They say he was a dear friend. Is that all they would do for a dear friend? I grieve for those who are related to such for if that is all they would do for a dear friend, family is but a step above.
I find it disturbing that people accept and praise the idea of "Virutal" relationships, "Virtual" friends, and a "Virtual" life. I find it sick that people consider this online funeral "a great showing of compassion" If that were the case they should have sprang a few hundred bucks (or pooled their money so those players that couldn't afford it), flew out to the REAL funeral and made a REAL heart to honor a REAL friend. When a friend of mine from UO died I popped $450 for the plane ticket and wen't to the the funeral. REAL PEOPLE DESERVE A REAL FUNERAL AND IF YOU ARE A REAL FRIEND YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING REAL. Here is the problem, if you identify that these VIRTUAL lives you live have value you open a can of worms the like that has never been seen. If these VIRTUAL activities are EQUAL to real activities in merit and value and you hold them as EQUAL then don't be suprised if someone charges you with VIRTUAL theft, infidelity, emotinal damages, or murder. I refuse to honor such a foolish act. It is no better than those who "wept" and "sobbed" when JFK Jr. died. Sorry YOU NEVER MET HIM AND MOURNING HIM WITH SUCH A PATHETIC DISPLAY ONLY DIMINISHED THE "REAL" GRIEF OF THE FAMILY. Has society slipped to far that the the lines between reality and fiction have slipped so far? If he was a "REAL" friend you should have done something "REAL" to honor him. Next thing you'll be doing is emailing bad news like ,"Sorry Mrs. Doe, your husband died during the sugery. :( "
Simply put, the best way to elminate the DMCA is to use it. Fight fire with fire. Use their own tool of control against themselves. I wouldn't be suprised if that is why they are poking at Adobe.
Hope out to particleadventure.com to read up real quick on the physics behind anti-matter. With an anti-matter drive, where the matter is anihalated into pure energy (momentarly) why both at this point dealing with nuclear? Yes I know AM is somewhat rare but jeez you think the leftist,socialist, posing as demoncrate fool tree-huggers are going to allow a nuclear drive?
... Gasp! ... couch... hack.... weeze....
/. Post" thank you all!
Anti-matter is pollution free (provided that the nightmare casacade scenario doesn't happen [Where an anti-matter matter interaction creates equal amounts of matter and anti-matter causing an eternal explosion, which as far as solid science is impossible...] it was from an old 70's comic book btw but some of those nuts in left, and the right, as both extremes have problems with reality actually quote from time to time fiction, versus reality. Reagardless I digress and apologize. Regardless of propulsion systems there is still a problem that MUST BE RESOLVED before we worry about propulsion. Regardless of if we can get there (whereever there is) we must resolve the sustainable habitiate issues (food and what not) gravity fatigue (time to go find the ever absent graviton so we can create non-spin artifical gravity), and physical atriculation (current space suits are not suited for extended phsyical activities, we need low profile exoskeleton systems, mmmm ACK! GUYVER!! Errr what was I talking about (Why was there a scottish guard in the guyver anime in TOKYO?) Again I digress it's time to end this post ACk... gurgle.... Et tu, Brute?
-Later that night at the academy awards-
Me- Thank you all and thank you to slashdot for giving me the opportunity to win the award for "Best Death in a
Here is my experience, business when they buy software solutions factor in security. When it comes to a business ask yourself this:
Who do I want to work with, a million dollar company or a $30,000 annual net company. They are attempting to pay for security and prestige. They have to justify the costs of the project to the upper-managment. Then they have to at least prove that the company that made it will be around in 5 years, a company that is worth more (as far as perception is concerned) is more likely to be around longer.
From a darker side of business it is also easier to skim when there is more money. A REALLY COMMON skim that project and department managers do is to hiring the staff for a project on-site and expense computers and monitors for the project out for the consultants on site. Then when the project is done, viola! Free computers and new monitors for the department. Hell you can expense the new equiptment as a labor cost to the consultants and the take the computers home! I've seen that one done dozens of time.
i.e.
4 Consultant at $300,000 (Real Cost)
Project Budgeted 4 consultants at $304,000
You buy $4,000 worth on computers stuff for the consultants to use (legal) and they use it(of course legal) at the end you paid $304,000 on paper for the consultants (which you were budgeted for) then manager gets $4000 in free stuff? (Shady) or the department got those new monitors they wanted (not so shady).
Also many times when a dept. comes in under budget the dept. can keep the cash, answer this: if you come in under buget at 5% which many business wouldn't consider doing an "assest reclamation" on the project. Now which would you prefer to get free, 5% of 8000 or 5% of 15,000?
Fin
Who want's to bet the high and mighty security flaws are part of a new data security program that the federal government implemented. The brilliant minds have always suggested the honeypot system. Perhaps that would explain the 1000+ consultants hired nation wide by the gov't since 9-11 that have been setting up honeypots and audit DMZ as of late in federal networks. Not every hack is a successful breach of security. In fact 50% of them are breaching honeypots and audit DMZ. How would I know? I just installed 3 (2 audit DMZs and a honeypot) The local feds gave me a 300 page guideline that I had to follow for my client and McDAMN they have there act together on the guideline. I'd bet dimes to donuts that those dorks did nothing but hit an Audit DMZ. The military has always had an "Open Air" policy on all critical data systems. It is impossible to hack those machines (it is open-air after all) The worse case scenario that could happen hitting military machines would be purchase orders and troop emails. Big deal, CNN is doing a great job of leaking the same shit as it is.... :)
-- I am proud to be a savage in a Brave New World --
As much as I dislike the current trend of intellectual property laws I must say that I am amazed at this idea. I think it is great. It gives companies a wonderful tool to protect content and to protect the consumer. Concerning the topics such as fair use, archive copies, etc I will address my opinions separatly as such:
:)
Fair Use: You could create a reversed engineered copy of the installation or an ISO image, the game data is there, just encrypted. The smart card is used as a "key" to access the software. This does not violate the archive as you can copy the CD files (and while they may be encrpyted there could be software unlocks provided) but the use of a hardware lock (which is what this in reality is) is up to the vendor. A great many high end products use hardware locks and this A: Reduced the cost of some of those implementations and B: Using existing hardware and software. For the hacker types that hate CD access (I do I NO-CD crack just about every app I own, case in point MOO2), therefore you could simply code a software tool that acts like the smartcard and implement it as a hook to the CDROM subsystem (Emulate the existence of the card).
As far as fair use rights, I think any vendor with any morals, and yes I know those types are fading fast, (I am actually planning on using this if it falls into budget on a few projects I am working on) would simply check for the card periodically rather than each run time (Perhaps each time you patch the program or some similar activity).
Imagine if I was a large corporation that needed to install say 4000 copies, there is NO WAY IN HELL I am going to pay for 4000 physical copies and devote manpower (or is the personpower now??) to having installers be present. What if the application takes an hour to install and I only have a 4 hour window to get all 4000 done? I ahve to have some way to multicast the app to the clients. I'm sure many appications, like M$ with activation will have corporate distributions (like the Microsoft Select program) that will have an alternative to the card (prob. a simple license server).
Imagine the security benefits of this technology in encrypted communications for Ebusinesses. Quicken and programs like that could use the embedded smart card to store unique cyphers for communications for online sales, or in my current position as a beginning game developer embedded encyption to prevent cheating (Can I hear a Hell Yeah from the Counter-Strike crowd?)
Ultimatly remember people, the technology itself is a wonderful and innovative idea. One of the best I have seen in the last 4 years. The arguments will come down to HOW it is used. I love this idea for it's possibilities in gaming (Anti-Cheat technology) and in secure business transactions. ALL the negatives I see being posted and that I can see for myself depend solely on implementation of this technology.
Remember any new technology now can be used to screw people over, take PGP for example you could have encoded all your application installation files in PGP and forced users to connect to an authentication server to decode and install. Is PGP an evil tool of the "E-Man?"
My 2 cents again, be gentle, my asshole still hurts from the last flaming
TO sum up every emotion and thought in my head I give you this personal quote:
I have a 15 inch black and white TV, I buy a 61 inch Digital Color TV, did all the bad shows before suddenly get better?
I have a slow web browser and I get a really fast web browser, do all the crappy web sites somehow become better?
WHO CARES how fast it is! If I am really big on visiting the site the whole 3-5 extra seconds doesn't mean shit! 99.999999999999% of pages aren't worth loading. Does a faster browser equate to a better browsing experience? Yes if there is good content. Whoopie! Now my pop-ads, embedded mpeg commericals, floating flash ad will load faster than BEFORE!! BITE ME....
The great thing about linux in an enterprise is the ability to use file systems in a much more dynamic way versus NT. Doing a large scale deployment under Linux you could mount the whole damn system via NFS with a single CDROM in the drive to start the system boot. By pooling all the drive space and perhaps integrating many processes to run in a distributed fashion you could increase performance on a large scale.
/Home/Boot/MachineDrive and /Home/Boot/Personal. The /MachineDrive was the dynamic install of the OS, user's terminals would mount that in the boot process as root and such (I am not a Linux guru so I don't know if other mount points were also loaded from there). The /Personal became the normal /Home/USERID. The wicked thing was when you booted the system you picked what version you wanted to load for your machine (If you were on a Dell GX you could load CAD, OFFICE, ACCOUNTING) and walla! it mounted and booted from the network drive. They setup a local swap file and did some cache tricks and then as an additional layer when you logged in it mounted additional mount points so you has access to the applications you were supposed to have. It was the coolest thing I had seen. I hope these aussie-types do a good implementation. This could become a huge black eye for Linux if they have problems. The community better give them a hand. Business' here in the states WILL be watching with a critical eye.
BUT (Love that word, it encompasses all that is real, there is always a 'but' looking around) with centralization comes less points of failure and failures become exponentially more damaging as the points of failure diminsh.
The ideal usage that I have found for Linux in a corporate desktop environment is as such: Linux is effective as a hybrid Thin Client with applications running (and or cached) on the local client much like the old dumb terminals. With applications parsed between a application server and the local client, plus utilizing the clients as execution nodes for distributed tasks Linux as a desktop OS has a great amount of potential.
One of my old clients has a setup with a master data server with a drive structure of
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Your obviously religious doctrine is not sensitive to the needs of pagans, atheists, and agnostics.
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Your post is economically discriminating against people who cannot afford computers or do not have time to read your post. In addition you post discriminated against Luddites, Amish, and those that practice the socially acceptable policy that can be deemed as Anti-Technology.
Your post is also discriminatory to those that read right to left versus left to right and those that read vertically.
In summary: KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
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Unfortunatly Wi-Fi networks will fall into the FCC's jurisdiction and become just as censored as Radio and Television.
FreeNet lacks a serious push. It's missing something, I don't know what, but it's missing something...
As the costs of bandwidth decrease yes you could. I think in general the hashing algorithm could be written such that a client could throttle (or the ISP could) the Cache Hits for a client, transferring data that is requested more often to clients that have less bandwidth usage. Think of the protocol as large scale load balancing of the Internet. in the long run it could actually save you a ton of cash if someone could implement that effectivly.
Whoa that is supposed to be B reqs from D, not B reqs from B! Sorry, I am eating as I write.... Damn /. ... gr.... still needs a speel checker (Spelling error was intentional btw.)
Concerning the slow death of the internet I am suprised that no major effort has been made to create a new layer and method of communication over the Internet that, through the use of a well written EULA and some pre-emptive patenting create a new tunneled Internet piggy-backing on the old Internet. THrough the use of a distributed network similar to Gnutella one could have, say unlimited space to create a site. Then clients on the network replicate through a protocol (EULA'ed and Patented with Encryption) the site to neighbors based on demand and requirments. I shouldb't be that hard for some of those closet geniuses out there. Then in the EULA prohibit commerical use of the protocol that way we can get back to what the Internet is for, free information exchange. I can even think of an efficent way to replicate the site. Every client on the network (say A---B---C----D) can access the page at it's home address. Then I maintains a cached copy in a PGP'esque format. (Lets say B makes a call to D) B Now contains an encrypted cache of B (Scripts and all, the new format lets assume compiles in scripts). A requests D but B has a copy so A only goes out and gets a key from D to decrypt B's contents. Then A and B could hash their data and split it. (I am using a linear diagram but in a star map you could see the advantage of the hashing). I mean come on it's fool-proof way to eliminate commericals on the net. Create the protocol and throw encryption into it (Gaining the DMCA as a layer of defense) and then patent it BEFORE the public launch) and write a solid EULA to prevent commerical use (unless they pay a 99.9999% royalty rate on the gross revenues!). Do it! you know you want to!
Did I get it?
Why Use Thing
The Japanese Poet Does Ask
Use PGP
As a follow up just as an FYI like in logic we can NEVER test a number under these circumstances for success we can only test for failure. Because the iterations are infinite we can NEVER assure that an interation like this is a success unless we competed the interations (we can't because they are infinite) but we can test for failure (as the first failure stops the process) But come on is this process useful? Primes seem so much more useful than playing tag with palidroms...
:( I need a hug...
P.S - Yes I am cranky again today, sob... It was my birthday yesterday and I only got 1 happy birthday
I can see that there are plenty of cryptic number patterns that math people seek. But this one seems a bit, well, irrelivant. I can see the need to seek out primes and such but this "new" pattern looks like it was invented for the sake of inventing. I have a super-hard to calculate number sequence I called Slashdom. It is any integer when multiplied by 642867150 results in a number prefectly divisible by the first digit of the result. There I am a genius, now let's devote time and effort into seeking these Slashdoms so we can use them in encryption.
Come on, I tried to find one of the non-palindrom number and my first try succeeded, 3421965. Purely from a math stand point you increase you odds of a non-palidrom number by having this sequence odd-prime-even somewhere in your number.
I find this a novelty, but god help us of some twit gets a noble prize for something related to this.
I was shooting more towards the behavior of the population more than the behavior of the corporations (i.e. welfare, entitlement, etc..)
It's good to see that we now live in a nation that fears competition, exhaults mediocrity, and rewards the foolish, corrupt, and wicked. Oh what a brave new world! Soma! Soma For All!
Welcome to hell.. The United Socialist States of America. I had hoped my kids whould have had the opportunity to grow up on the USA, looks like we lost the war for freedom.
I can't ping it, hit it, finger it (gross!) tracert to it, nada zip and zilch.
America the free, so long as you don't do anything that could possibly offend someone else.
Try going to a CFO and tell him because of what you think is correct he needs to go to "school." You'd be in a bread line real quick.
A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than comparing costs of software. Linux on the desktop is NEVER going to happen until Linux groupies realize the real costs of business.
Concerning the office issue you brought up I have an excellet example for you. Go create a spreadsheet in excel using every function there is at least once. Then port it to OpenOffice. I have done this. Only 25% of the functions worked. All the basics worked but I think it is absurd to even consider OpenOffice if only 25% of my spreadsheets port over.
Concerning the arument about MCSE vs. Linux admins and cost: MOST EXECUTIVES DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF THE COST IS JUSTIFIED. They look at only bottom lines. I saw a guy at GMAC who would sit and play Everquest all day. They paid him 80k a year. One day the "brass" was walking around and notice him for doing "nothing." The executives fired him (not his manager). Here is the kicker, when he left the remaining staff's (6 people) workload each day rose 4 fold. The reason he was playing EQ was the fact he was a 160 IQ genius and handled a massive amount of work in a very short period of time. He finished his work load by noon and spent the rest of the day playing games. I cannot even begin to count the times that cost has been taken as the ONLY FACTOR in a decision. The industry doesn't care how good someone is IF THEY CANNOT BUDGET FOR THEM THEY CANNOT HIRE THEM. The thinking that you present is the whole of my argument. Linux people just can't seem to cope with the idea that, no matter how superior or more efficent something is, IF I CAN'T AFFORD IT IT DON'T MEAN SHIT! For shrist sake can someone who loves Linux get at least this one concept through their head? OpenSource can succeed but not unless those who would advocate it come to grips with reality.
It isn't about what is best most of the time, it's what is overall cheapest. I render fractals on my computer in my spare time. A Cray supercomputer is much better than my AMD, but I cannot afford it! Trying to advocate the virtues of a Cray for playing Quake for instance is silly. Why? Because you can't afford it (If you can call me I have some great real estate in Florida for ya!).
I don't want to get pissy over this topic but time and time again i see 12 year old Linuxx geeks that saw the movie hackers and ripped off old BBS L33t speak (God remember the old ACiD and iCE ansi days? I still have "The Slug" movie somewhere...) trying take about how great Linux is without a god damn clue! There is a saying that I get a kick out of from the T.V. Movie about Roswell:
"Legitimate Information from a Bad source is just as good as bad information from a reliable source."
Until those who disregard the reality of business and the computer economy they will be nothing more than GDKNAs (God Damn Know Nothing Activists) that will never break the glass ceiling. There will never be Linux on desktops as long as you demand (remember children can be taught) that they retrain (costs time and money, a LOT of time and money). You CAN'T go to a staff of 3 million people (gov emp) and tell them they need to re-train because you have found a better way. If you had to train 3 million people for only 1 hour each how much does it cost? Let us assume the avarage person makes $20 an hour.
That is $60 million dollars right there. Then you need a trainer to teach them, say 30 people per session that would be how many hours? Oh and then there is the roll out.... add in initial support costs... increase helpdesk pay by 15 to 40 percent.... You see there is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I feel better now. Sorry to rant but it had to be done. Later all