Bingo! That's the only good explanation on why this is coming up. India has tonnes of expertise and they for sure know how the blackberry architecture works. The Indian government is just trying to cut RIM out of the loop so telecom companies can get a bigger slice of the pie. And if they can't give the servers to the telecom companies, at lease they'll get RIM to open a datacenter in India and hire lots of their workers.
Blackberry has been available in India for the last 3 years without the government or DOT raising a single issue about terrorists.
Its just when Tata Teleservices offered to provide the service that this suddenly became a 'terrorism' issue. Airtel and Hutch now Vodaphone have been providing blackberry since 2004.
This is not about terrorism but corporate politics and influence peddling which is the way of business in India. RIM just has to pay some money to the right people and this will die a natural death or ask Airtel/Vodaphone to stop their lobbying against Tata Tele.
Terrorism is fast becoming a favoured excuse and people should be a tad more skeptical before jumping to conclusions about threats that may not exist. Terrorists have many ways of communicating without resorting to blackberry. You can't stop technology because it can be abused.
How do they charge the batteries? How long can a charge possibily last?
So now on top of the 100lbs of stuff a soldier have to carry, they have to bring extra equipment and batteries?
That George W. Bush is US President?
That most Americans didn't vote for him?
That he can start a war without reason?
Or 909,000:1 some asteroid can hit the earth in 11 years?
Here's a Wired article about some companies that are perfecting the diamond manufacturing process. A technique called Chemical Vapor Deposition can apparently produce diamonds big enough for a chip wafer. Also in the article of an interesting discussing about what does "real" diamond mean to people/women.
I wonder how can they cut diamonds into wafers?
People should also remember accessible sites are also nice and searchable sites!
My clients come to me wondering why Google doesn't index them - their site is a mess! All those fancy Flash animations are just plain opaque to the search engines and screen readers, of course they can't navigate!
That's right - all this non-sense about drafting IT personnel and cyberterror is just a power grab.
While it's good that public awareness of computer security is higher, I'm really scared about what else the bushies are going to come up with next.
Probably requiring the censoring of Q'ran or something even more stupid.
You want an attack on infrastructure? Do a Klez style worm with the subject line "We do not have any accounting irregularities"
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Yeah Hey, the Americans are already sending their 17 year old boys overseas to "keep peace" and "fight terror"
The send them guns and tell hem how to use them too!
Well, I really can't see MS making money GPLing Windows. I am saying MS should adopt an opensource but not GPL license.
But as a beginning, I think opensource can be a good solution for MS-itis.
1. Customers (the ones that can or cares) can know what is happening in their machines 2. More bugs will be fixed 3. Other Vendors can then take advantage of all of the API's 4. Customers can then apply their own changes/customizations.
I can't see people en-mass try to compile MS-Office, I wouldn't want to either. We may just have to use the Sourceforge compile farm:) - just to see if MS lied about giving the correct source or not.
MS programs are only part of the problem, they also need to fix the warranty part of the license (no warranty what so ever, MS is not responsible for bugs)
They claim your company should adopt IIS because they can pay you less for your job (easier job) or even fire you (no need for good cs graduates anymore. Microsoft is easy. Anyone can admin everything).
Thank God, and I was scared that they'll have a course called "Administering IIS" in CS curriculum.
I really should thank MS I guess, so CS students don't have to be stuck administering IIS. Leave it to the thousands of MCSE's out there (me included).
I really don't know why people think getting paid to do programming is such a bad idea. Can't people like doing their programming job?
Besides, MS prolly isn't a bad place to work, according to my friends there.
Even RMS have said it - "free as in freedom". And Opensource != GPL
Opensource software doesn't have to be zero priced, they can distribute the source only to license holders. - Customers have the right to know what exactly is happening on their own computers.
Unauthorized distributions can be dealt with same as pirates.
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Visions drive innovations. Without new ideas to add to this eco-system of the economy, things will grind to a stop - see communist countries from 70s - 90s. For example Jeff Bezo had no vision and insistence, Amazon.com would not be what it is today. The statis quo needs to be challenged, if you can't even believe in yourself and your own ideas, you'll be stuck believing other people's beliefs. (One frightening example is the fight about teaching Evolution in the US)
I believe in the system where bad ideas fail. The side effect of this eco-system is - you can't for sure know it's a bad idea until you've tried it.
The people at fault for the last crash are the investors that think they have to be "IN" on the tech stocks and think there are no risks. Also the same investors that pressure the companies to grow beyond control -"what are you doing with our money?"
If some of those investors happen to be pension plan managers - they should have invested like people's lives depends on it - because they are!
I'd like to know what brain dead people you work for - do they have any ideas of their own? Can you have leadership without a vision?
Good movie to see by the way is "Startup dot Com" - give you the more human relationship side of.com startup.
If you'd excuse me, I'm going to check out this book.
The CIA will probably engineer an "accident" in their programs.
Prestige is a more important reason than you think.
The Chinese realized how important having a nuclear weapon is, so in the 70's they have the "Rather Atoms than Pants" campaign.
Now they want a base on the moon, so the world would know they can do it. Then the world would go to them for launching satellites.
Just the thought of the Chinese having the technology to put a nuke in the middle of any captial makes negotiations for them... easier.
Remember the spy plane incident 2 years ago? what would the US response be if the Chinese didn't have nukes? Instead, they sent the plane back in pieces after it's been thoroughly analyzed by Chinese scientists.
The world should start to remember where more and more of their electronics - laptops, chips come from, then wonder if the China is really that far behind.
I really have no idea why this Senator wrote such a long letter to MS while it was clear that MS have no idea what Free software really means.
I used to work for a financial institution, where they regularly apply change - either to make an improvement, add a functionality or to fix a bug.
It is plain unacceptable if they are not allowed change their (transaction) software. Imagine if your bank have a security hole but it will not be fixed until the vendor decides to fix it when they're not busy?
Bug fixes in a financial institution should be measured in days at most, not weeks.
Why should other software in -say your bank or government be subjected to the same risk?
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It was going for $5000 about ten years ago. I think that he would have been a happier person if he did even at that cost 10 years ago.
Can I get my J2EE webapp to run on it? Does it automatically overcome my bad code? Does it have enough memmory to tolerate the IBM xsl memmory leak?
How did you gain that 1"? That sounds like more of a break through than the diet...
How do they charge the batteries? How long can a charge possibily last? So now on top of the 100lbs of stuff a soldier have to carry, they have to bring extra equipment and batteries?
Is it me or does he look like George from Steinfeld? What makes him so special that we want to listen to what he says?
That George W. Bush is US President? That most Americans didn't vote for him? That he can start a war without reason? Or 909,000:1 some asteroid can hit the earth in 11 years?
Here's a Wired article about some companies that are perfecting the diamond manufacturing process. A technique called Chemical Vapor Deposition can apparently produce diamonds big enough for a chip wafer. Also in the article of an interesting discussing about what does "real" diamond mean to people/women. I wonder how can they cut diamonds into wafers?
Our boxem got Slashdotten!
"Sir, I'm showing multiple boogeys on radar!"
"Fire the AA guns and SAM's!"
Now imagine a bunch of poor special ops guys being shot down by sharpnel, with no protection arm at all.
I guess if you do it with enough people, one or two will get to land.
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Get real, people buy cars because it makes them feel good.
I think that buying a hybrid to save on money and gas is silly. People have been buying more expensive cars just because they look better!!
Personally, I think having the "Hybrid-Powered" badge on my Civic is just as big a statement as having a "M3" badge on a BMW.
Which do you think costs more?
You may argue that M3 is a bigger car, fine, what about a Volkswagon Jetta? They cost the same, if not more than the Hybrid Civic
People should also remember accessible sites are also nice and searchable sites!
My clients come to me wondering why Google doesn't index them - their site is a mess! All those fancy Flash animations are just plain opaque to the search engines and screen readers, of course they can't navigate!
That's right - all this non-sense about drafting IT personnel and cyberterror is just a power grab. While it's good that public awareness of computer security is higher, I'm really scared about what else the bushies are going to come up with next. Probably requiring the censoring of Q'ran or something even more stupid. You want an attack on infrastructure? Do a Klez style worm with the subject line "We do not have any accounting irregularities"
Yeah Hey, the Americans are already sending their 17 year old boys overseas to "keep peace" and "fight terror" The send them guns and tell hem how to use them too!
Well, I really can't see MS making money GPLing Windows. I am saying MS should adopt an opensource but not GPL license.
:) - just to see if MS lied about giving the correct source or not.
But as a beginning, I think opensource can be a good solution for MS-itis.
1. Customers (the ones that can or cares) can know what is happening in their machines
2. More bugs will be fixed
3. Other Vendors can then take advantage of all of the API's
4. Customers can then apply their own changes/customizations.
I can't see people en-mass try to compile MS-Office, I wouldn't want to either. We may just have to use the Sourceforge compile farm
MS programs are only part of the problem, they also need to fix the warranty part of the license (no warranty what so ever, MS is not responsible for bugs)
Thank God, and I was scared that they'll have a course called "Administering IIS" in CS curriculum. I really should thank MS I guess, so CS students don't have to be stuck administering IIS. Leave it to the thousands of MCSE's out there (me included).
I really don't know why people think getting paid to do programming is such a bad idea. Can't people like doing their programming job?
Besides, MS prolly isn't a bad place to work, according to my friends there.
Even RMS have said it - "free as in freedom".
And Opensource != GPL
Opensource software doesn't have to be zero priced, they can distribute the source only to license holders. - Customers have the right to know what exactly is happening on their own computers.
Unauthorized distributions can be dealt with same as pirates.
Visions drive innovations.
.com startup.
Without new ideas to add to this eco-system of the economy, things will grind to a stop - see communist countries from 70s - 90s.
For example Jeff Bezo had no vision and insistence, Amazon.com would not be what it is today. The statis quo needs to be challenged, if you can't even believe in yourself and your own ideas, you'll be stuck believing other people's beliefs. (One frightening example is the fight about teaching Evolution in the US)
I believe in the system where bad ideas fail. The side effect of this eco-system is - you can't for sure know it's a bad idea until you've tried it.
The people at fault for the last crash are the investors that think they have to be "IN" on the tech stocks and think there are no risks.
Also the same investors that pressure the companies to grow beyond control -"what are you doing with our money?"
If some of those investors happen to be pension plan managers - they should have invested like people's lives depends on it - because they are!
I'd like to know what brain dead people you work for - do they have any ideas of their own? Can you have leadership without a vision?
Good movie to see by the way is "Startup dot Com" - give you the more human relationship side of
If you'd excuse me, I'm going to check out this book.
The CIA will probably engineer an "accident" in their programs.
Prestige is a more important reason than you think.
The Chinese realized how important having a nuclear weapon is, so in the 70's they have the "Rather Atoms than Pants" campaign.
Now they want a base on the moon, so the world would know they can do it. Then the world would go to them for launching satellites.
Just the thought of the Chinese having the technology to put a nuke in the middle of any captial makes negotiations for them... easier.
Remember the spy plane incident 2 years ago? what would the US response be if the Chinese didn't have nukes? Instead, they sent the plane back in pieces after it's been thoroughly analyzed by Chinese scientists.
The world should start to remember where more and more of their electronics - laptops, chips come from, then wonder if the China is really that far behind.
I really have no idea why this Senator wrote such a long letter to MS while it was clear that MS have no idea what Free software really means.
I used to work for a financial institution, where they regularly apply change - either to make an improvement, add a functionality or to fix a bug.
It is plain unacceptable if they are not allowed change their (transaction) software. Imagine if your bank have a security hole but it will not be fixed until the vendor decides to fix it when they're not busy?
Bug fixes in a financial institution should be measured in days at most, not weeks.
Why should other software in -say your bank or government be subjected to the same risk?
Yeah, I wonder how many installs of mail servers out there uses orbz.org and is misconfigured out there.
There are 2 problems here -
1. When the e-mails get bounced, the sometime stay as "deferred" so it'll try and try again.
2. The session takes longer because it's trying to get to orbz.org and waiting for timeout.
I haven't seen too many people complaining about this, so I'm still wondering if it's my problem.
This could be a problem, my servers have never been on the ORBZ list, and today I saw some rejects (both of my servers) based on ORBZ:
:)
This is the Postfix program at host nm2.networkmotion.net.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
For further assistance, please send mail to
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.
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The Postfix program
: host smtp.cogeco.ca[216.221.81.25] said: 554 Service
unavailable; [xxx.xxx.Xxx.xx] blocked using inputs.orbz.org
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This is problem isolated or is that just me?
This could be a big problem, I don't know how many servers will need to be reconfigured if this is caused by orbz being down..
I hope the fine folks at COGECO figure this one out, cause I'm trying to email my client