...is that as more technology becomes available, the true believers seem MORE certain of their faith.
What may be happening is that as communication tools improve those true believers have the ability to communicate more freely so the rest of us see more of their communications.
If you look at all the neo-nazi groups, pedos, and scammers on the internet you might get the impression there are more of them then there were a few years ago. The truth is they can just communicate better now.
Sadly the world is full of idiot professional manager types who can't tell a prototype from a finished version. These are the people who need to know the risks they create by their idiot behavior.
If they earn $40 billion more next year, they could make the bottom of the Fortune 500 list. I won't argue with their success and I'm happy that they're happy, but in the grander scheme of things, they have a long way to go.
Depends on what war we want them to win. MS are brilliant at extracting money from customers and even non-customers who buy computer hardware, that's not the kind of company I'd like to deal with as a customer.
You are talking nonsense. Redhat don't even sell licenses.
I've always found RHEL cheaper than windows as well as faster and more stable. Plus RHEL don't use support to push more product the way I've seen MS do. Got a problem? Any problem? Buy more domain controllers. Yeah right.
..."Soaking the most cash from the consumer", they are not...
If you want a server you can spend a pile of cash on windows and it will run ok-ish if you take a lot of care setting it up or you can get better security, performance, and flexibility without the lock-in and at a lower cost from RedHat.
Looks like RedHat isn't winning the war, they have already won it. The only thing they are not so good at it is using that leverage to collect massive amounts of cash from their customers and from people who are not their customers via dodgy bulk licensing deals.
I wonder how much more they would have made if Oracle didn't rip them off. I dont count CentOS though. The vast majority of people using CentOS either can't afford Redhat or will move up when they can.
Or don't need the redhat support, or keep redhat on one machine for support and use CentOS on the other 3000 servers.
CentOS to RHEL isn't a move up, it's binary compatible sameness except for a little artwork.
They were the breadbasket of Africa in the 70s, until the blacks took over and chased all the white farmers out.
Surely there must be a few 'blacks' there that saw the kind of mechanized farming the 'whites' were performing and learnt how to do it. We are not talking degrees in agriculture here, just practical knowledge of how to farm. Why are the smart, enthusiastic, hard workers getting anywhere? Don't try and tell me they don't exist.
If the soil is so poor why farm at all? Why not focus on some other industry to grow the economy and import all their food?
Sounds reasonable but what has the average African got to sell that he could practically make some profit from? The Oil is all owned by corrupt governments.
It is estimated that Europe wastes around 50% of the food they produce, I assume the same is true for USA. People in the West eat much more meat than is needed. Limiting the amount of meat in the Western diet and limiting the wasted food will give us more than enough food to feed the world. Not that such a solution is easy.
Then what? We ship the excess to Africa and their population increases until they are starving again?
Your plan will work short term but only short term. It won't help these people to help themselves.
Let the countries in Africa decide on how to deal with their food issues. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., we should divert this energy into trying to keep our people fed. I'm getting real tired of hearing about all of these "food deficient" children on the tv.
I more or less agree but feel the need to point out that the average US citizen eats 10 times the food of the average Chinese citizen. Most Americans overeat to a degree the rest of the world finds bizarre.
Africa is the oldest human society on earth. Why is it upon the rest of the world to figure out "How To Feed Africa"?
Because the western world is convinced it knows better than the rest of the world. It seems to be a mixture of feel good factor and arrogance.
The really wicked thing is that Gaddafi's plan for a united states of africa could have helped these people help themselves but the west ( US and France mostly ) had to screw that one up too.
Ship them a thousand copies of every farming related book and leave them to get on with it. The west has been screwing around in Africa for a very long time and not much has come of it, they need to do this for themselves so they really know how to do it.
Amazon has already filled the void. It's sad to see this company go bust but the simple truth is that Amazon has compelling cost advantages over any high street store.
Doesn't everyone with a clue use it via a VPN anyway?
Not many people with a clue would use Windows for anything serious anyway.
The target is people without a clue, people with a clue who were made to fuck up by management, or people who didn't know untrusted parties could get on their internal networks.
The fact is, We the People of the United States of America were first to fund DNS that makes the Internet what it is today. Sorry UN, you can't take it over without paying off some of the national debt your members hold.
That doesn't even make sense. DNS is only a small part of the internet and it's not owned in the sense of property in any case.
Besides DNS as implemented is wrong and easily abused by governments ( like the US and UK do ) and anyone who can fake a signature ( like that whole sex.com thing ). Something distributed like namecoin's.bit top level domain would be far better than the current get rich quick scheme.
That's not a serious answer. 'Faster than before' is meaningless in practical terms when the time to crack is going down from twenty times the life of the universe to five times.
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...is that as more technology becomes available, the true believers seem MORE certain of their faith.
What may be happening is that as communication tools improve those true believers have the ability to communicate more freely so the rest of us see more of their communications.
If you look at all the neo-nazi groups, pedos, and scammers on the internet you might get the impression there are more of them then there were a few years ago. The truth is they can just communicate better now.
secure your servers.
We know already.
Sadly the world is full of idiot professional manager types who can't tell a prototype from a finished version. These are the people who need to know the risks they create by their idiot behavior.
To a co-located, dedicated, or virtual server maybe?
If running a DNS and web server is more than you can handle you should just outsource it and leave the IT to the IT people.
What host did this?
If it's all on them, why do they need to give you a detailed breakdown?
Because whoever screwed up deserves to suffer for it.
If they earn $40 billion more next year, they could make the bottom of the Fortune 500 list.
I won't argue with their success and I'm happy that they're happy, but in the grander scheme of things, they have a long way to go.
Depends on what war we want them to win. MS are brilliant at extracting money from customers and even non-customers who buy computer hardware, that's not the kind of company I'd like to deal with as a customer.
You are talking nonsense. Redhat don't even sell licenses.
I've always found RHEL cheaper than windows as well as faster and more stable. Plus RHEL don't use support to push more product the way I've seen MS do. Got a problem? Any problem? Buy more domain controllers. Yeah right.
..."Soaking the most cash from the consumer", they are not...
If you want a server you can spend a pile of cash on windows and it will run ok-ish if you take a lot of care setting it up or you can get better security, performance, and flexibility without the lock-in and at a lower cost from RedHat.
Looks like RedHat isn't winning the war, they have already won it. The only thing they are not so good at it is using that leverage to collect massive amounts of cash from their customers and from people who are not their customers via dodgy bulk licensing deals.
I wonder how much more they would have made if Oracle didn't rip them off. I dont count CentOS though. The vast majority of people using CentOS either can't afford Redhat or will move up when they can.
Or don't need the redhat support, or keep redhat on one machine for support and use CentOS on the other 3000 servers.
CentOS to RHEL isn't a move up, it's binary compatible sameness except for a little artwork.
They were the breadbasket of Africa in the 70s, until the blacks took over and chased all the white farmers out.
Surely there must be a few 'blacks' there that saw the kind of mechanized farming the 'whites' were performing and learnt how to do it. We are not talking degrees in agriculture here, just practical knowledge of how to farm. Why are the smart, enthusiastic, hard workers getting anywhere? Don't try and tell me they don't exist.
If the soil is so poor why farm at all? Why not focus on some other industry to grow the economy and import all their food?
Sounds reasonable but what has the average African got to sell that he could practically make some profit from? The Oil is all owned by corrupt governments.
It is estimated that Europe wastes around 50% of the food they produce, I assume the same is true for USA. People in the West eat much more meat than is needed. Limiting the amount of meat in the Western diet and limiting the wasted food will give us more than enough food to feed the world. Not that such a solution is easy.
Then what? We ship the excess to Africa and their population increases until they are starving again?
Your plan will work short term but only short term. It won't help these people to help themselves.
Let the countries in Africa decide on how to deal with their food issues. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., we should divert this energy into trying to keep our people fed. I'm getting real tired of hearing about all of these "food deficient" children on the tv.
I more or less agree but feel the need to point out that the average US citizen eats 10 times the food of the average Chinese citizen. Most Americans overeat to a degree the rest of the world finds bizarre.
Africa is the oldest human society on earth.
Why is it upon the rest of the world to figure out "How To Feed Africa"?
Because the western world is convinced it knows better than the rest of the world. It seems to be a mixture of feel good factor and arrogance.
The really wicked thing is that Gaddafi's plan for a united states of africa could have helped these people help themselves but the west ( US and France mostly ) had to screw that one up too.
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They need books on farming. They lack practical knowledge of large scale farming methods.
What they don't need is the west screwing around and abusing them more. Just let them get on with it and figure it out for themselves.
Ship them a thousand copies of every farming related book and leave them to get on with it. The west has been screwing around in Africa for a very long time and not much has come of it, they need to do this for themselves so they really know how to do it.
Sealands isn't near enough to any other country for a fast and practical wifi link. Satellite is too slow and expensive.
Yes they should have multiple uplinks but I doubt they ever did.
They didn't even have cables or the satellite connection they claimed to have. It was long distance WIFI done on the cheap from the UK mainland.
Their setup was rubbish.
Sealands failed because hosting anything there was crazy expensive and their only known data link was WIFI from the UK mainland.
Also anytime the UK government felt like shutting them down they could. The UN won't defend a country it doesn't recognize.
Amazon has already filled the void. It's sad to see this company go bust but the simple truth is that Amazon has compelling cost advantages over any high street store.
This idea seems pretty silly. Why not just put the same servers on a boat in international waters?
Doesn't everyone with a clue use it via a VPN anyway?
Not many people with a clue would use Windows for anything serious anyway.
The target is people without a clue, people with a clue who were made to fuck up by management, or people who didn't know untrusted parties could get on their internal networks.
The fact is, We the People of the United States of America were first to fund DNS that makes the Internet what it is today. Sorry UN, you can't take it over without paying off some of the national debt your members hold.
That doesn't even make sense. DNS is only a small part of the internet and it's not owned in the sense of property in any case.
Besides DNS as implemented is wrong and easily abused by governments ( like the US and UK do ) and anyone who can fake a signature ( like that whole sex.com thing ). Something distributed like namecoin's .bit top level domain would be far better than the current get rich quick scheme.
You really are not thinking in peer2peer terms. It's not peer to peer if there is any central authority, and there is no need for one anyway.
That's not a serious answer. 'Faster than before' is meaningless in practical terms when the time to crack is going down from twenty times the life of the universe to five times.