In spite of your love affair with snowden and hated of child fjord, the espionage in most of these cases really is not the real problem. All countries really do do it. And even though it is popular to bash the US they really do put a lot more restraints on themselves than most other countries. Most of this is just convenient political posturing.It is kind of amazing the number of "leaks" from other countries doing the exact same stuff. E.g. the NSA did not spy on EU citizens, their own counties did, and then blamed the NSA.
Snowden may be many things, but a whistle blower he is not. If that is what he is, then he could have stopped at the call metadata and prism. I do not understand how talking about us spinning on foreign governments is any thing but being a traitor.
It is hard to take his rants about the US being the worst spying country in the world as he gets handled by the FSB.
If you actually take the time to look at some of the material that has been published and ignore the hype people like greenwald put in to push their point of view rather than report on what is actually there you would actually see a lot more protections and checks than is being reported generally.
Also it is amazing how often after some sensational article comes out, when it gets more scrutiny it turns out to not really be all that damming. Probably the most telling thing is that even with people going out of their way to look for evil intent they have so far only shown the possibility of abuse, not the actual large scam systematic abuses everyone worries about.
Yes, there appears to be some large scale collection programs, but in today's world it does not seem like there is any way to do intelligence gathering any other way. This is not the 40s where every phone call occurred on its own individually hand switched circuit anymore. And phone calls now are really just a minor part of what is going around.
Now that you have gotten done feeling superior, how do you explain the fact the EU citizens that where spied on by the US had their info given to the NSA by their own intelligence agencies?
Do you want those who improperly classified info to be punished, as well?
As that is neither a violation of oaths, nor military code, nor US law, I think the appropriate response is to determine who is at fault and hold them accountable through the normal democratic process.
Actually over classification is a federal crime. The same law that set out the classification levels etc also made it illegal to knowing over classify material simply to keep it out of the public eye.
Now that aside I still feel from what I know what Manning did was wrong and he should be punished to the full extent of the law.
What do you propose then? Historically defense has been where any number of the innovations we currently take for advantage came from. It is often times extremely hard to value what they produce, especially from highly secretive portions of it, but they are there. The NSA has been working with colleges for years to beef up their security education. Now they probably only get a fraction of the graduates that go through these programs. How do you think the companies that get the remainder feel about getting developers that better understand how to create secure systems and software? How does that benefit the economy? While some of the cyber issues may be over hyped, I do not think to many people will disagree that we can do a hell of a lot better. How often do we hear about companies getting broken into or attacked? I also do not think there is really any group with as enough influence and resources to get us on better footing the the Federal Government. In order for that to happen they have to make a major investment, hence what is going on in this article.
Here is the funny thing. CA is saying they did not pay off SCO. They were just buying unix liscense they were forced to by as the result of losing a lawsuit about unix liscenes. SCO threw they indemdification for one linux manchine for every unix liscense in there so they could claim CA was a linux liscense. CA keeps saying they want nothing to do with the linux liscense.
I fully agree that MS has a terible record on security, but I do have one qustion for you. How much freedom did this guy actually have at MS to make decisions. How often did the bussiness end of MS override his decisions becouse there were more proftible ways to do things, they saw no need to spend extra time making something more secure, or they thought that doing something was just such a good idea.
I could even see his working at MS being an adavantage somewhat. My understanding of MS right now is that it is very political. He is probably used to working with a very narrow scope of freedom of action, since security has never been a major concern there. If this is so they he has had a lot of practice to get ready for working directly for Bush. The bottom line is I do not like having some one from MS in that job, but I am goign to wait to deride him till I have seen what he does with the position.
I know the linux kit for the ps2 has been out for a while, so I was wondering if anyone knows of any divx players for linux that have been ported to the ps2 yet? It seems like it would be a lot nicer to just boot it linux then watch your movie from mplayer instead of having to mod you ps2 and keep changing cds just to watch a divx movie.
They have so tied IE in to their operating system though, that if they did open source it they would need to open up a lot of the operating system as well so that people could actually work on it. I am not saying that they could not remove it from the OS, but when you have spent as much time tieing something to your opererting system as MS has it makes it hard to remove it. Also that would then defeat a lot of the arguments that they make about IE and their operating system being tied together
"Assuming that he
does in fact, go to jail and serves time, when does the deeds of one's past no
longer impact who you may be in the future?"
The short answer to that is never. You are who you make yourself, whether it is good or bad. Look at the major decisions you have made and try to figure out why you made them. It is probably experiences you have had in the past, but for some reason I dont think that is what you meant. What I think you meant was when will people forget about his burning down his work place. That will be with him for a while, if you rob me even if you end up getting punished I am not going to trust you. The punishment is not any proff that you are going to change. It just shows that you have done your time, and are now ready to start trying to reporve yourself to me.
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It depends on how your isp is set up. I work at a university help desk, and we have had several people calling us trying to get their xboxs online. It does not work at my school becouse you have to regester any device on the network to be able to get off campus by going to a web page with that device and giving it some info. With xbox live, or the beta at least, you can only go to the MS site to regester for xbox live. So if you can browse the internet normally with your xbox you can use any isp it would seem, but if you have to use it to regester itself, you are SOL. The only other problem I could see is ISPs blocking the ports it uses. But otherwise all it needs is an internet connection it can use.
"unless your confusing standard RedHat Linux with Advanced Server." is the exact point that the zealots would be making. There should not be a differnce between the distros that RH makes. It should all do everything. I can understand having the installer let you do a little more customazation, say if you just want a web server it only installs apache perl etc, but I should not have to but that should just be choices everyone gets to make when they install. I have also used RH Mandrake Debian and Gentoo. I think RH and Mandrake are great for the linux newbie or the linux geek that does not want to get as into the inner workings of linux, but I think overall they are more restrictive to your use of linux, by tieing so much to their gui. And yes I know you can still do everything by the command line but how often people actualy do that as oposed to using the fast and dirty gui, and being limited to what it lets you do. Finaly I dont think anyone will disagree with the fact that RPM has the worst dependincies detection ever. That is the reason I left Mandrake. It is to easy to get into circular dependencies, and they are to tied to realeses. It would quickly get to the point where you just had to wait for the next realese becouse you could not upgrade with RPMs to a newer version becouse fo to many circular dependincies. You do not have this prob with debian at all. Once you get it up and running apt-get takes care of all of that for you.
As much as I think what MS is doins is wrong, I dont think that "get the cort to neatly spell out every little detail of what M$ is required to do" will do you any good. One of the major problems with this country is too much leagelise, IMHO. People want everything enumerated out, to extream lengths. I understand why to a certain extent you would want things listed out(you need this to do this, you need that to do that...), but there is a certain point where this becomes counterproductive. Your listing everything out the way you want is just going to add to this problem. Also, once you start listing things out when are you goign to stop? And does that mean anything that is not listed does not matter? Finaly, that is not a game that I think you can win against MS. They have the money and the lawyers. If you want to get nit picky they will probably come out on top.
I hate to say this, I am a big AMD fan, but it is partialy AMD's fault that SysMark favors Intel. They have refused to work with the BABCo people in the past knowing the Intel people have. Is it any suprise that they end up favofing the company that works with them over the one that ignores them? AMD is now supposeidly working with them to make the next version do a more fair job testing their proccesors. So hopefully this will be a non issue in future realeses. It would prob be most fair if AMD and Intel would both let the benchmarking programs be written with out either of their interfiernce, but if one is going to get invloved, then they both realy need to.
Hey, I know it is a moot point now, but there was a real possiblity of the south winning the civil war at the time. General Lee actualy had several chances to end it in the souths favor, most notible right after the battle of bull run he could have contiuned straight into washington and force the north to conced at gun point (the army had already been routed so there was no one to stop him). The south had the generals, the north had the supplies. They could not win a long drawn out war, but had they capatlized on a couple of key opertunities they where presented, they could have ended it very quickly in their favor. Buty hey, it turned our right in the end. And yes, I know I am over analizing but how many posts would there realy be on/. if people only posted well thought out intelegent on the topic things?
I did not say linux has less config files than bsd, just that bsd only has marginaly less. For every thing in rc.conf you have more files to control it, it is not the end all be all that you make it out to be. You still have to go and do just as much configuretion in bsd as linux. In linux you get the init script when you install something that needs it, no more work. In bsd you go to the rc.conf and mod it. And I use multiple init levels on my laptop all the time, that way I dont have to wait for it to try to grab an ip adress when I am not hooked up to a network, and it does not start any thing that needs the network to work either, such as ftp and ssh servers.
I run both open bsd and linux (currently gentoo but I have also run debian and mandrake). I think that the config files are about equvialent in complexity. In bsd you have rc.conf yes, but that is just equivalent to the init scripts in linux, you have it start your dhcp server, but you still have the dhcp server's config file. I am a big fan of the rc.conf file, becouse of its simplicity, but it does not have the expandablity and flexibility that you get with the multiple run levels and init scripts that you have in linux.
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ICANN Updates
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It may not be the mbest solution, but it seems like the most fair way to do a vote would be the owner of every domain name gets one vote. Before an election every domain owner gets some type of id number emailed to them, and they use that to vote. Granted people with more domain names would get more votes, but there does not realy seem like there is a "good" way to do this, and this seems to be the most fair way to me. Also since the people with more domain names are hopefully contributing more to the web by increasing the amount of content on the web with more web sites, they should get a little more control becouse they are hopefully contributing more. The same argument also works for the people who do own domain names. Every single election system has some type of prereq to vote, in the us it is citizenship and age, on the net it is owning a part of the net, a domain name.
This was posted a few days ago, IANAL but then as now it seems like the main thing replay may have going for them is that they have to keep a unique id with the data from each user, and that id stays with the data so this is not true anonymous data collection.
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In spite of your love affair with snowden and hated of child fjord, the espionage in most of these cases really is not the real problem. All countries really do do it. And even though it is popular to bash the US they really do put a lot more restraints on themselves than most other countries. Most of this is just convenient political posturing.It is kind of amazing the number of "leaks" from other countries doing the exact same stuff. E.g. the NSA did not spy on EU citizens, their own counties did, and then blamed the NSA.
Blaming the NSA for doing what it's political masters tell it to do is like blaming a gun for shooting something.
Snowden may be many things, but a whistle blower he is not. If that is what he is, then he could have stopped at the call metadata and prism. I do not understand how talking about us spinning on foreign governments is any thing but being a traitor. It is hard to take his rants about the US being the worst spying country in the world as he gets handled by the FSB.
If you actually take the time to look at some of the material that has been published and ignore the hype people like greenwald put in to push their point of view rather than report on what is actually there you would actually see a lot more protections and checks than is being reported generally. Also it is amazing how often after some sensational article comes out, when it gets more scrutiny it turns out to not really be all that damming. Probably the most telling thing is that even with people going out of their way to look for evil intent they have so far only shown the possibility of abuse, not the actual large scam systematic abuses everyone worries about. Yes, there appears to be some large scale collection programs, but in today's world it does not seem like there is any way to do intelligence gathering any other way. This is not the 40s where every phone call occurred on its own individually hand switched circuit anymore. And phone calls now are really just a minor part of what is going around.
Now that you have gotten done feeling superior, how do you explain the fact the EU citizens that where spied on by the US had their info given to the NSA by their own intelligence agencies?
Do you want those who improperly classified info to be punished, as well?
As that is neither a violation of oaths, nor military code, nor US law, I think the appropriate response is to determine who is at fault and hold them accountable through the normal democratic process.
Actually over classification is a federal crime. The same law that set out the classification levels etc also made it illegal to knowing over classify material simply to keep it out of the public eye. Now that aside I still feel from what I know what Manning did was wrong and he should be punished to the full extent of the law.
What do you propose then? Historically defense has been where any number of the innovations we currently take for advantage came from. It is often times extremely hard to value what they produce, especially from highly secretive portions of it, but they are there. The NSA has been working with colleges for years to beef up their security education. Now they probably only get a fraction of the graduates that go through these programs. How do you think the companies that get the remainder feel about getting developers that better understand how to create secure systems and software? How does that benefit the economy? While some of the cyber issues may be over hyped, I do not think to many people will disagree that we can do a hell of a lot better. How often do we hear about companies getting broken into or attacked? I also do not think there is really any group with as enough influence and resources to get us on better footing the the Federal Government. In order for that to happen they have to make a major investment, hence what is going on in this article.
Here is the funny thing. CA is saying they did not pay off SCO. They were just buying unix liscense they were forced to by as the result of losing a lawsuit about unix liscenes. SCO threw they indemdification for one linux manchine for every unix liscense in there so they could claim CA was a linux liscense. CA keeps saying they want nothing to do with the linux liscense.
I fully agree that MS has a terible record on security, but I do have one qustion for you. How much freedom did this guy actually have at MS to make decisions. How often did the bussiness end of MS override his decisions becouse there were more proftible ways to do things, they saw no need to spend extra time making something more secure, or they thought that doing something was just such a good idea.
I could even see his working at MS being an adavantage somewhat. My understanding of MS right now is that it is very political. He is probably used to working with a very narrow scope of freedom of action, since security has never been a major concern there. If this is so they he has had a lot of practice to get ready for working directly for Bush. The bottom line is I do not like having some one from MS in that job, but I am goign to wait to deride him till I have seen what he does with the position.
I know the linux kit for the ps2 has been out for a while, so I was wondering if anyone knows of any divx players for linux that have been ported to the ps2 yet? It seems like it would be a lot nicer to just boot it linux then watch your movie from mplayer instead of having to mod you ps2 and keep changing cds just to watch a divx movie.
They have so tied IE in to their operating system though, that if they did open source it they would need to open up a lot of the operating system as well so that people could actually work on it. I am not saying that they could not remove it from the OS, but when you have spent as much time tieing something to your opererting system as MS has it makes it hard to remove it. Also that would then defeat a lot of the arguments that they make about IE and their operating system being tied together
"Assuming that he does in fact, go to jail and serves time, when does the deeds of one's past no longer impact who you may be in the future?"
The short answer to that is never. You are who you make yourself, whether it is good or bad. Look at the major decisions you have made and try to figure out why you made them. It is probably experiences you have had in the past, but for some reason I dont think that is what you meant. What I think you meant was when will people forget about his burning down his work place. That will be with him for a while, if you rob me even if you end up getting punished I am not going to trust you. The punishment is not any proff that you are going to change. It just shows that you have done your time, and are now ready to start trying to reporve yourself to me.
It depends on how your isp is set up. I work at a university help desk, and we have had several people calling us trying to get their xboxs online. It does not work at my school becouse you have to regester any device on the network to be able to get off campus by going to a web page with that device and giving it some info. With xbox live, or the beta at least, you can only go to the MS site to regester for xbox live. So if you can browse the internet normally with your xbox you can use any isp it would seem, but if you have to use it to regester itself, you are SOL. The only other problem I could see is ISPs blocking the ports it uses. But otherwise all it needs is an internet connection it can use.
"unless your confusing standard RedHat Linux with Advanced Server." is the exact point that the zealots would be making. There should not be a differnce between the distros that RH makes. It should all do everything. I can understand having the installer let you do a little more customazation, say if you just want a web server it only installs apache perl etc, but I should not have to but that should just be choices everyone gets to make when they install. I have also used RH Mandrake Debian and Gentoo. I think RH and Mandrake are great for the linux newbie or the linux geek that does not want to get as into the inner workings of linux, but I think overall they are more restrictive to your use of linux, by tieing so much to their gui. And yes I know you can still do everything by the command line but how often people actualy do that as oposed to using the fast and dirty gui, and being limited to what it lets you do. Finaly I dont think anyone will disagree with the fact that RPM has the worst dependincies detection ever. That is the reason I left Mandrake. It is to easy to get into circular dependencies, and they are to tied to realeses. It would quickly get to the point where you just had to wait for the next realese becouse you could not upgrade with RPMs to a newer version becouse fo to many circular dependincies. You do not have this prob with debian at all. Once you get it up and running apt-get takes care of all of that for you.
As much as I think what MS is doins is wrong, I dont think that "get the cort to neatly spell out every little detail of what M$ is required to do" will do you any good. One of the major problems with this country is too much leagelise, IMHO. People want everything enumerated out, to extream lengths. I understand why to a certain extent you would want things listed out(you need this to do this, you need that to do that...), but there is a certain point where this becomes counterproductive. Your listing everything out the way you want is just going to add to this problem. Also, once you start listing things out when are you goign to stop? And does that mean anything that is not listed does not matter? Finaly, that is not a game that I think you can win against MS. They have the money and the lawyers. If you want to get nit picky they will probably come out on top.
I hate to say this, I am a big AMD fan, but it is partialy AMD's fault that SysMark favors Intel. They have refused to work with the BABCo people in the past knowing the Intel people have. Is it any suprise that they end up favofing the company that works with them over the one that ignores them? AMD is now supposeidly working with them to make the next version do a more fair job testing their proccesors. So hopefully this will be a non issue in future realeses. It would prob be most fair if AMD and Intel would both let the benchmarking programs be written with out either of their interfiernce, but if one is going to get invloved, then they both realy need to.
Hey, I know it is a moot point now, but there was a real possiblity of the south winning the civil war at the time. General Lee actualy had several chances to end it in the souths favor, most notible right after the battle of bull run he could have contiuned straight into washington and force the north to conced at gun point (the army had already been routed so there was no one to stop him). The south had the generals, the north had the supplies. They could not win a long drawn out war, but had they capatlized on a couple of key opertunities they where presented, they could have ended it very quickly in their favor. Buty hey, it turned our right in the end. And yes, I know I am over analizing but how many posts would there realy be on /. if people only posted well thought out intelegent on the topic things?
I did not say linux has less config files than bsd, just that bsd only has marginaly less. For every thing in rc.conf you have more files to control it, it is not the end all be all that you make it out to be. You still have to go and do just as much configuretion in bsd as linux. In linux you get the init script when you install something that needs it, no more work. In bsd you go to the rc.conf and mod it. And I use multiple init levels on my laptop all the time, that way I dont have to wait for it to try to grab an ip adress when I am not hooked up to a network, and it does not start any thing that needs the network to work either, such as ftp and ssh servers.
I run both open bsd and linux (currently gentoo but I have also run debian and mandrake). I think that the config files are about equvialent in complexity. In bsd you have rc.conf yes, but that is just equivalent to the init scripts in linux, you have it start your dhcp server, but you still have the dhcp server's config file. I am a big fan of the rc.conf file, becouse of its simplicity, but it does not have the expandablity and flexibility that you get with the multiple run levels and init scripts that you have in linux.
It may not be the mbest solution, but it seems like the most fair way to do a vote would be the owner of every domain name gets one vote. Before an election every domain owner gets some type of id number emailed to them, and they use that to vote. Granted people with more domain names would get more votes, but there does not realy seem like there is a "good" way to do this, and this seems to be the most fair way to me. Also since the people with more domain names are hopefully contributing more to the web by increasing the amount of content on the web with more web sites, they should get a little more control becouse they are hopefully contributing more. The same argument also works for the people who do own domain names. Every single election system has some type of prereq to vote, in the us it is citizenship and age, on the net it is owning a part of the net, a domain name.
This was posted a few days ago, IANAL but then as now it seems like the main thing replay may have going for them is that they have to keep a unique id with the data from each user, and that id stays with the data so this is not true anonymous data collection.