Your analogy is kind of flawed, because that's roughly equivalent to ripping out the entire guts of a PC - motherboard, CPU, RAM, disks, expansion cards, everything - and building a new one inside the old case.
Well, I can also do it in pieces if I like. Or I could put a 5.0 mustance motor in a miata.
Say goodbye to modular cards and customizable desktops. You will take what the industry wants to shove down your throat and you will like it.
Let's see... I can take a 100Hp subaru from 1994 and rip out the drivetrain, put in parts from a STi, crank it up to 600 Hp and drive on down the road. What can't I change on this thing?
So what happens is, developers keep taking advantage of the latest and greatest video/sound/whatever in the PC world, where your equipment quickly becomes obsolete and the PC you got last Christmas has trouble running the games released this week, while developers for console systems and the like have a strictly-defined set of unchanging hardware (until the next replacement comes out), and so of COURSE everything for console Y or an iMac that you grab off the shelf is guaranteed to run....it's all for (arguably) obsolete hardware...
You know, it isn't 1985 any more - you can buy the latest 100W monster video card and stuff it in your Mac just fine. Also, a power mac can have an absurd amount of ram. How long until 8GB is considered small?
Okay, I may be exaggerating, but I see a lot of job postings in my area with insane requirements requiring the ideal applicant to basically be able to wear all the hats. The pay may be nice for these positions, but the person they hire is probably lying about their skill set and will likely be working 80 hours a week doing all of this crap.
Usually, when I see postings like that, the company expects the successful applicant to be grateful for the $30k salary they are offered.
To take a trite example, you might feel you have the right to lie to your wife about your affair. Only a cad and scoundrel would claim that your wife is not hurt by your lying, even if the damage is not immediately apparent. The damage might only be between you and her, and no one else's business, but it is damage and it is there.
You have a right to privacy, but you don't have a right to a domain name.
I also don't have a right to a cheeseburger. I do have the right to go buy one from anybody that will do business with me. Getting back to the domain issue, I can also put in fake address info, fake email and a fake name, and that's fine. The registrar won't care, so long as they're paid, and apparently, neither does the government, so long as i'm not ripping people off.
I still object to this law, since it's just another boat anchor that they can use against me, shoudl they choose to harrass me, whatever the reason.
My reasoning is that I don't think there's a "right to lie".
Sure there is. Rather, there are no legal penalties for lying unless and until it harms someone (court testimony, fraud). Outside of that, I can say anything I like. The only penalties will be social.
I don't see why any government should have to get get involved, if the LiftPort Group can get this off the ground without any government help, all the more power to them!
But they can lay you off until you can perform your duties. In the US you can be fired any time no reason at all. Discrimination and being fired for pointing out a safety problem would be the only exceptions but then if they don't give a reason you are screwed anyhow.
This is California - the rules are different. Exactly how, I'm not sure.
As for "cutting down trees without replacing them", you're just plain wrong there man. In the US, there are more trees now than there were a hundred, or even 200 years ago.
Well, there are two problems with that: first, we are cutting down forests and replacing them with tree farms. That would be fine if we then maintained it as a farm (I don't know whether we are). The other problem is that, over in south america, they're chewing through the rain forest at a crazy pace, doing slash and burn to raise cattle. I suppose the solution there is to set up a group to buy the land and steward it.
I remember when I was in highschool, the population of the USA was 250 million, and in the papers a few weeks ago it referenced the population at 300 million. If that is correct, we grew by 50 million people in the past 15 years. What will happen in the next 50 years?
More immigration? Most of our population growth is due to people coming here from other countries. If it wasn't for that, we might face the same problems as europe, where most countries are deflating.
How exactly would NAT protect them? A amjor control vector for these bot-nets is IRC, which can be used through NAT. The infection vector is e-mail, which is also useable through NAT.
By shielding a computer long enough to fully update itself. In addition, all those autonomous worms and scanners will be effectively blocked. Shutting down the email vector is the difficult part - people say they won't run random shit that they find, but that's just to get you out of the room. I think the best way to deal with it is to charge them for cleanup time. Your mileage may vary, of course.
If NAT became widespread, then the zombies will adapt. It is only a false sense of security.
I would imagine that NAT boxes are somewhat simpler than a normal PC (and more limited in their damage potential), so it looks like a very real element of security.
It wouldn't be so hard, except we aren't allowed to kill anybody except the guy with the rifle (of course he has no cares about who he kills). We could easily get the job done with cheaper technology and firebombing the entire city into a pile of ashes. Ironic, we spend billions on defense to kill less people.
Well, he probably does care - it's his homeland, so he wants it to still be there after we've left.
So you aren't accepting the concept as applied to you. You are saying "sure" because you think (possibly correctly) that it wouldn't hit you because you can distinguish yourself from other employees.
No, I'msaying that the supply of desparate idiots is very limited. You get them for cheap, but you don't get many. It's like the fabled mexican factory worker that US companies were after with NAFTA - they exist, and theyre cheaper than US workers, but once you try to exploit them, you find that there aren't enough to staff all your factories.
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Your analogy is kind of flawed, because that's roughly equivalent to ripping out the entire guts of a PC - motherboard, CPU, RAM, disks, expansion cards, everything - and building a new one inside the old case.
Well, I can also do it in pieces if I like. Or I could put a 5.0 mustance motor in a miata.
Say goodbye to modular cards and customizable desktops. You will take what the industry wants to shove down your throat and you will like it.
Let's see... I can take a 100Hp subaru from 1994 and rip out the drivetrain, put in parts from a STi, crank it up to 600 Hp and drive on down the road. What can't I change on this thing?
Can you rebuild your own transmission?
We'll find out once I buy those forged pistons, won't we?
So what happens is, developers keep taking advantage of the latest and greatest video/sound/whatever in the PC world, where your equipment quickly becomes obsolete and the PC you got last Christmas has trouble running the games released this week, while developers for console systems and the like have a strictly-defined set of unchanging hardware (until the next replacement comes out), and so of COURSE everything for console Y or an iMac that you grab off the shelf is guaranteed to run....it's all for (arguably) obsolete hardware...
You know, it isn't 1985 any more - you can buy the latest 100W monster video card and stuff it in your Mac just fine. Also, a power mac can have an absurd amount of ram. How long until 8GB is considered small?
Finkployd, what is a plethora?
Okay, I may be exaggerating, but I see a lot of job postings in my area with insane requirements requiring the ideal applicant to basically be able to wear all the hats. The pay may be nice for these positions, but the person they hire is probably lying about their skill set and will likely be working 80 hours a week doing all of this crap.
Usually, when I see postings like that, the company expects the successful applicant to be grateful for the $30k salary they are offered.
I was employed in a bank's IT department. I got a 3.7% raise in May 2004 after I received my yearly eval. This came out to about $1040/yr gross.
$30k/yr salary? Ouch.
To take a trite example, you might feel you have the right to lie to your wife about your affair. Only a cad and scoundrel would claim that your wife is not hurt by your lying, even if the damage is not immediately apparent. The damage might only be between you and her, and no one else's business, but it is damage and it is there.
Is that a legal consequence or a social one?
isn't hindi the appropriate term
Hindi is a language, isn't it? Perhaps Indian works best, with ethnic divisions used for more specificity.
You have a right to privacy, but you don't have a right to a domain name.
I also don't have a right to a cheeseburger. I do have the right to go buy one from anybody that will do business with me. Getting back to the domain issue, I can also put in fake address info, fake email and a fake name, and that's fine. The registrar won't care, so long as they're paid, and apparently, neither does the government, so long as i'm not ripping people off.
I still object to this law, since it's just another boat anchor that they can use against me, shoudl they choose to harrass me, whatever the reason.
My reasoning is that I don't think there's a "right to lie".
Sure there is. Rather, there are no legal penalties for lying unless and until it harms someone (court testimony, fraud). Outside of that, I can say anything I like. The only penalties will be social.
Keep adding lengths until you reach the LEO altitude of your inflatable space station, then send it up along the tether.
Cool - 100 miles down, 22,200 to go. Meanwhile, you've got a string of balloons traveling at mach 2 or 3 around the equator.
I don't see why any government should have to get get involved, if the LiftPort Group can get this off the ground without any government help, all the more power to them!
Well, they have all these guns, you see...
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria
Tip: TB + mild antibiotic environment = TB that eats antibiotics.
Most antibiotics today are BASED on peniciline. Truth is, these resistant TB strains are resistant against PENICILINE-based antibiotics.
Oh lucky me. I was allergic to Penicillin anyway.
Actually, it's even worse than that. Off the top of my head these are the people that are in the prison system that aren't prisons.
Yay - go to prison, get TB.
But they can lay you off until you can perform your duties. In the US you can be fired any time no reason at all. Discrimination and being fired for pointing out a safety problem would be the only exceptions but then if they don't give a reason you are screwed anyhow.
This is California - the rules are different. Exactly how, I'm not sure.
I guess the US are really just bigger than Europe... :)
Nah, we just have more space.
It's quite easy to get a 3-bed UK semi (say 100sq.m.) down below 1.2Kw design heatloss for a 19degC interior / -1degC exterior temp difference.
Is that 1.2kW average load or kWH per day? By US standards that's rather small, but I have found that my tastes top out around 250sq.m + large garage
As for "cutting down trees without replacing them", you're just plain wrong there man. In the US, there are more trees now than there were a hundred, or even 200 years ago.
Well, there are two problems with that: first, we are cutting down forests and replacing them with tree farms. That would be fine if we then maintained it as a farm (I don't know whether we are). The other problem is that, over in south america, they're chewing through the rain forest at a crazy pace, doing slash and burn to raise cattle. I suppose the solution there is to set up a group to buy the land and steward it.
I remember when I was in highschool, the population of the USA was 250 million, and in the papers a few weeks ago it referenced the population at 300 million. If that is correct, we grew by 50 million people in the past 15 years. What will happen in the next 50 years?
More immigration? Most of our population growth is due to people coming here from other countries. If it wasn't for that, we might face the same problems as europe, where most countries are deflating.
How exactly would NAT protect them? A amjor control vector for these bot-nets is IRC, which can be used through NAT. The infection vector is e-mail, which is also useable through NAT.
By shielding a computer long enough to fully update itself. In addition, all those autonomous worms and scanners will be effectively blocked. Shutting down the email vector is the difficult part - people say they won't run random shit that they find, but that's just to get you out of the room. I think the best way to deal with it is to charge them for cleanup time. Your mileage may vary, of course.
If NAT became widespread, then the zombies will adapt. It is only a false sense of security.
I would imagine that NAT boxes are somewhat simpler than a normal PC (and more limited in their damage potential), so it looks like a very real element of security.
It wouldn't be so hard, except we aren't allowed to kill anybody except the guy with the rifle (of course he has no cares about who he kills). We could easily get the job done with cheaper technology and firebombing the entire city into a pile of ashes. Ironic, we spend billions on defense to kill less people.
Well, he probably does care - it's his homeland, so he wants it to still be there after we've left.
We would be more than happy to send you the Thermonuclear Bomb for the low price of $1.99, with shipping and handeling of $2,000,000.
No, no - shipping is free for the esteemed My Bin Laden (long time customer and all). However, we will require that he take personal delivery.
So you aren't accepting the concept as applied to you. You are saying "sure" because you think (possibly correctly) that it wouldn't hit you because you can distinguish yourself from other employees.
No, I'msaying that the supply of desparate idiots is very limited. You get them for cheap, but you don't get many. It's like the fabled mexican factory worker that US companies were after with NAFTA - they exist, and theyre cheaper than US workers, but once you try to exploit them, you find that there aren't enough to staff all your factories.