There's a key difference between any banking system and voting, and that's anonymity.
That's not a key difference. That's an implementation detail.
And, given all the issues we've had with problems such as mass identity theft via millions of card numbers being stolen in a single swoop, do you really consider those systems secure, reliable and verifiable?
Dude, wake up and smell the coffee. The discussion is long over, and the verdict is in. Electronic voting is old hat in many places in the world.
Belgium does it since 1991 (!). 60% of French absentee ballots are cast over the internet (first used in 2003.). European Union as a has a initiative (http://www.eucybervote.org/index.html) to enable both internet voting and voting using the mobile phones, EU-wide. First trials have already been carried out. Brazil uses 400000+ electronic voting machines (over 150 million voters), and the final election results are known minutes after the polls close. India experimented with it since 1982. (!!), and is using it exclusively since 2003 (over a billion voters!). If it's good for the biggest democracy in the world, it should be good for the US.
So, just because the US hasn't figured electronic voting out yet doesn't mean it doesn't work at all or that there is something fundamentaly wrong with it. Particular implementation may be faulty, but that doesn't mean that every implementation is faulty. But, in an electroral system where it's perfectly legitimate that a candidate that recieves a majority of the votes isn't elected, and a winner can be appointed by un-elected judges, I can see why you're worried.
PS - Remember, too, that cash still a tangible artifact, and, the most valuable cash in general use is, wait for it...Paper!
Sure it is. If you're posting from 1975. Here, in the 21st century, majority of cash comes in plastic form. Oh, you'll love it once you get here.
Slashdot is what got me involved in this issue originally, and it's thanks to the skepticism of computer professionals that we know how bad these systems are.
If they were all bad, unreliable and unverifiable, no bank, credit card or other financial company would use them. There would be no internet commerce whatsoever. Yet, there is, and plenty of it. Which clearly proves that you can use computers (over networks, also!) for a process that you need to be secure, reliable and verifiable. And, guess what, loads of countries are already using electronic voting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting/), and never was a 16 year old hacker elected president.
So, the problem is not computers, but the people that design the voting system and lame politicians that allow a deficient system to be used.
Actually, I was refering to the access point, not your client card. Clients rarely transmit more than 50-60mW, unless you're a couple of walls away from the AP. But, still, way less than your cell phone.
Cell tower? That's probably hundred meters from you on average, and recieved power drops with the square of distance. Insignificat. What about the phone? You keep it an inch away from you brain, and GSM phones can radiate up to 2W out. That's god knows how many orders of magnitude greater irradiation from the phone than from the cell tower.
On the other hand, wifi equipment is allowed max 250mW (8x less than mobiles) output. And is rarely closer than a few meters from you. If wifi was harmful, we'd be dropping like flies due to cell phone usage.
f companies think they can have an audience for a browser-only viewer, they're in for a big surprise. Normal people don't want to watch television on their computer monitors.
Funny thing, I just fielded a support call from my dad, regarding Media Player Classic. Subtitle problems, easily solved. And, right now, my mom and dad, as 'normal people' as they come, are watching Prison Break on their TVs.
Audio and video signal is routed over a A/V Sony receiver connected to a commodity WinXP PC with a low-end GFX card. Neither technology, nor the expertise is hard to come by, and setup is as easy as hooking up a VCR. If you want to watch a video on the computer, it does not mean that you have to watch it on a monitor. There are plenty of easy and cheap solutions of getting a video signal to the TV.
Likewise, how are we supposed to pick up their signals? Maybe the whole thing's a waste of time.
Well, maybe not a waste of time (I donate CPU time to SETI), but surely a slim chance.
As communication tenchnology advances, and information becomes tightly packed, it becomes increasingly difficult to distingush a transmission from ordninary noise. It might very well be that the sky is buzzing with alien TV shows, but we just don't know how to decode them.
The Earth is slowly becoming that way also. By 2012 there will be no more analog TV signal in the US, soon in the rest of the world. Analog radio is also bound to be phased out eventually (it's simply an inefficient use of radio frequency). Furthermore, in the future, it's likely that most of the wireless technologies will employ spread spectrum encoding, so there will be no high powered signals on a single frequency anymore. The Earth will continue to radiate relatively large amounts of RF, but from a distance and without the knowledge of encoding, it will the just be white noise. Alien SETI number crunchers will pass us by unalarmed.
Judging by our example (not a great data-set, I'll admit), a civilization offers a couple hundred to a thousand years opportunity to be detected by SETI-like projects. A mere blink in the history of the universe, I'm afraid.
Often those commenting don't think about the repercussions that come from a collapsed economy... That will lead to a shoddier quality of life, more crime and eventually more violence.
Definitely. But, I'd say a web site brought down by an cyber-attack is in any case preferable to a building demolished by a car bomb. I've never heard of anyone who died under a collapsing web site. Which would probably be an interesting story.
Why is it that no matter what you do, A myspace page doesn't look good. I'm not trying to be snobby or anything, I don't have a page, but All MySpace sights that I have seen hurt my eyes.
Yes. I was just wondering about the same thing. Everytime I go to MySpace (by mistake usually), I feel like I'm transported to 1996 or so. All that's missing are blink tags for the experience to be complete. Ok, I understand why 14yr old kids think yellow text on a full-color background is a good idea. But bands, DJs, politicians... Is having a page psysically hurt your eyes really a requirement for having a MySpace page?
Somehow I get the feeling that you didn't even look up to what was I refering. Right?
If something could have full and perfect knowledge of the universe and all contents, it could use causality to make a perfect prediction of your exact future. That is determinism.
I really suggest you read up. Having a full and perfect knowledge of the system does not necessarily imply that you can find a model that will tell you what the system will do next, that is, make a model of the system that is less complex without losing some important apects that will make your model inaccurate.
So, in order to simulate and predict the actions of the universe, you will have to make a perfect copy of the universe. Which would not run any faster than the original universe, and thus cannot provide you with any information about its actions faster than the original.
I won't claim to be smart enough to solve the whole 'free will' debate, but personally I hope free will exists - it (in theory) allows us to help people improve themselves. Otherwise, as soon as someone is shown to have criminal tendencies you might as well just put a bullet in their head and dump them in a hole somewhere.
Free will exists in the sense that noone can predict your future actions (including you). Your actions are bound by causality, hence, no free will, but to make an insight into what your decisions will be you would have to create a model of exact complexity as your brain and all your past sensory input. And that model would take at least as much time as it takes you to reach a decision, so no insight into the future is possible.
Off topic, when did 32MB/s write speeds become slow? My new laptop gets about 30MB/s sustained (linear) write speeds, and I thought that was pretty impressive.
IF you want impressive, benchmark random read/writes. You'd be lucky if you hit 10MB/s. And flash still gets 25MB/s. And that's where the difference comes. Taking into account that bootup and application starup/shutdown is almost all random reads/writes, it begins to sound very interesting. The speed and responsiveness of computers has been bottleneched on disk for quite some time.
I'm actually toying with the idea of putting a CF2IDE adapter and a fast flash card as a boot drive and install everything on it. Data and swap would go on a normal hard drive. I suspect startup times would improve dramatically. It's either that or 10k rpm drives, and those are still expensive as hell.
Can you list a few examples, preferably with datasheets?
Here are two datapoints. A $10 PCI NIC, and a $100 mobo I bought lately (with an integrated NIC) feature checksum offloading. They are both GBit, so I guess you get that for free on any GBit NIC nowadays.
Other than that, I really don't see how a NIC can decrease latencies. The latency of that first hop off your computer is below 1ms anyways.
Seeing that the average SOHO user is not a computer geek, why would they be the target audience?
The short asnwer is, because the comparable Cisco would cost you 10x as much. And, being a SOHO you probably can't even consider buying a Cisco.
Is there an advantage for the SOHO person to use IPCop vs. a small hardware firewall for their SOHO?
$25 HW firewall will work, but if you want _any_ other feature not present when you opened the box, you're stuck. With IPCop, you install a plugin or edit a file, and you have a new feature. The level of control is miles ahead of $25 boxes.
And, for some of the things IPCop does that small boxes don't, well... Proxying/caching, spam filtering, bandwidth shaping (based on ports, and with plugins based on protocol, IP, QoS or others), NTP server, remote logging, remote monitoring, intrusion detection (updated daily if needed), e-mail reporting/alerting... And whatever else they come up in new versions or new plugins.
Sure, if your technical expertise ends with being able to tell apart UTP from power cable, it's not for you. But, if you're at least capable of following online tutorials, you'll love it. Online resources, both from the developers and from the community are excellent (websites, wikis, mailing lists...). And, if you screw up, you can easily restore a backup in minutes.
As far as breaking goes, when you have it the way you like it, it's stable as a rock. I have _never_ had mine crash or malfunction. They stay up as long as they are plugged in.
Not to mention Lira, Drachma and a whole zoo of now defunct currencies.
Not such a good examples, I'd say. 1Euro gets you exactly 340.750 Greek Drachma. Or 1936.27 Italian Lira. And the rate will not change that soon. Or ever.
People now are more separated than they are connected.
Yes, I suppose I would be one of those computer addicts O'Reilly talks about. I tend not to socialise with 99.99% percent of people in my immediate surroundings, and I'm on a computer most of my waking time. No human contact, no reality. Terrible, isn't it?
Well, while I'm on the computer, I socialise with a group of people in a room on p2p/chat service. A guy in Israel, a couple in Denmark, a guy in Scotland, a sweet old lady in Portugal and a couple of others. Then, I socialise with a guy one street over, and another one street across. And about 200 others, all over town, over a municipal wi-fi network. Also, I keep in touch with another group of about a dozen of people, almost all of them 400km away. On a forum we set up, and occasionally over a coffee, when I make the trip. Then there's a bunch of people I keep in touch on ICQ. Then there's a bunch I run with on an online ww2 shooter. And a whole different bunch on news groups. And so on.
Sure, most of those people I see 'in reality' rarely, some of them I'll probably never see. But, so what? They are real, living, breathing people. They just happen to be somewhere else. The fact that we interact over computer doesn't change the quality of the human contact. Technology doesn't break social connections, it merely changes them. And changes for the better, I'd say.
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When fuel prices go up, prices on goods go up. The stuff you buy costs more, but labor (ie, your paycheck) stays the same. This is a nuisance to the rich, but is effectively a pay cut to the poor.
Well, most europeans pay $5-6 per gallon of gas, with the prices gone up ~30% in the last 3-4 years. And, still, there are no millions of starving people on the streets, nor has the economy tanked. How come?
It's a program that 'allows the user to delete copyrighted music and video files from the "shared folders"'. How helpful. Also, it locks p2p programs with a password. Nice.
Supposedly, it doesn't phone home, but you just have to wonder...
I think since croatia was a later invention that effectively Tesla was clearly serb.
If Croatia is a 'later invention', being for the first time recognised as an independent kingdom in year 925 (not 1925, mind you!), then I guess the US is to come into existance over the next few centuries? Sure, the Greeks were there a couple thousand or so years earlier, but still...:-)
As a greek i can assure you that "nationality" is the latin translation of the greek oriented word "ethnicity" (ethnos = nation).
So, everyone in the US is an American and that's it? There are no irish americans, no polish americans, no jewish americans? Croat (being of croatian ethnicity) and Croatian (being of croatian citizenship) are obviously different things. Tesla was a croatian Serb, a very clearly defined term.
Damn why these croats struggle so hard to look different than serbs....
For the same reason Macedonians struggle hard to look different than Greeks: unfortunate historical reasons.:-)
But, this is not the best venue for this kind of discussions, so let's leave it at that.
Guys admit, you speak the SAME language, you live in the SAME land, and you will have to work very hard to become something else than you trully are.
Well, we speak the same language and live in the same land in as much as Danes, Swedes and Norwegians do. Do you consider them a single nation?
And, now, we return you to our regular flavor of zealotry...
...are all bullshit. Tcpip.sys is an integral (and crucial, at that) part of the OS, made by Microsoft, and no other company should be allowed to touch it. I mean, what if MS releases a patch and rewrites it? You'll be unable to play your legitimately paid music, at least until the DRM guys have their way with it. I won't even go into other, all too obvious security related issues.
No, no, no... This is just a monumentally stupid idea, and its creators are in ugrent need of public redicule, if not a lawsuit by Microsoft.
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There's a key difference between any banking system and voting, and that's anonymity.
That's not a key difference. That's an implementation detail.
And, given all the issues we've had with problems such as mass identity theft via millions of card numbers being stolen in a single swoop, do you really consider those systems secure, reliable and verifiable?
Dude, wake up and smell the coffee. The discussion is long over, and the verdict is in. Electronic voting is old hat in many places in the world.
Belgium does it since 1991 (!). 60% of French absentee ballots are cast over the internet (first used in 2003.). European Union as a has a initiative (http://www.eucybervote.org/index.html) to enable both internet voting and voting using the mobile phones, EU-wide. First trials have already been carried out. Brazil uses 400000+ electronic voting machines (over 150 million voters), and the final election results are known minutes after the polls close. India experimented with it since 1982. (!!), and is using it exclusively since 2003 (over a billion voters!). If it's good for the biggest democracy in the world, it should be good for the US.
So, just because the US hasn't figured electronic voting out yet doesn't mean it doesn't work at all or that there is something fundamentaly wrong with it. Particular implementation may be faulty, but that doesn't mean that every implementation is faulty. But, in an electroral system where it's perfectly legitimate that a candidate that recieves a majority of the votes isn't elected, and a winner can be appointed by un-elected judges, I can see why you're worried.
PS - Remember, too, that cash still a tangible artifact, and, the most valuable cash in general use is, wait for it...Paper!
Sure it is. If you're posting from 1975. Here, in the 21st century, majority of cash comes in plastic form. Oh, you'll love it once you get here.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/exp1 shepmarfeb.pdf
So, NASA uses Comic Sans to publish astronaut logs?
How cute.
Slashdot is what got me involved in this issue originally, and it's thanks to the skepticism of computer professionals that we know how bad these systems are.
, and never was a 16 year old hacker elected president.
If they were all bad, unreliable and unverifiable, no bank, credit card or other financial company would use them. There would be no internet commerce whatsoever. Yet, there is, and plenty of it. Which clearly proves that you can use computers (over networks, also!) for a process that you need to be secure, reliable and verifiable. And, guess what, loads of countries are already using electronic voting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting/)
So, the problem is not computers, but the people that design the voting system and lame politicians that allow a deficient system to be used.
One could say they are preparing for conquest.
From Wikipedia: American defense expenditures in 2005 were estimated to be greater than the next 14 largest national military budgets combined.
So, you were saying, someone is preparing for conquest?
Actually, I was refering to the access point, not your client card. Clients rarely transmit more than 50-60mW, unless you're a couple of walls away from the AP. But, still, way less than your cell phone.
Typical wifi - 100mW. 2g Cell tower - 20-100W.
Cell tower? That's probably hundred meters from you on average, and recieved power drops with the square of distance. Insignificat. What about the phone? You keep it an inch away from you brain, and GSM phones can radiate up to 2W out. That's god knows how many orders of magnitude greater irradiation from the phone than from the cell tower.
On the other hand, wifi equipment is allowed max 250mW (8x less than mobiles) output. And is rarely closer than a few meters from you. If wifi was harmful, we'd be dropping like flies due to cell phone usage.
f companies think they can have an audience for a browser-only viewer, they're in for a big surprise. Normal people don't want to watch television on their computer monitors.
Funny thing, I just fielded a support call from my dad, regarding Media Player Classic. Subtitle problems, easily solved. And, right now, my mom and dad, as 'normal people' as they come, are watching Prison Break on their TVs.
Audio and video signal is routed over a A/V Sony receiver connected to a commodity WinXP PC with a low-end GFX card. Neither technology, nor the expertise is hard to come by, and setup is as easy as hooking up a VCR. If you want to watch a video on the computer, it does not mean that you have to watch it on a monitor. There are plenty of easy and cheap solutions of getting a video signal to the TV.
Likewise, how are we supposed to pick up their signals?
Maybe the whole thing's a waste of time.
Well, maybe not a waste of time (I donate CPU time to SETI), but surely a slim chance.
As communication tenchnology advances, and information becomes tightly packed, it becomes increasingly difficult to distingush a transmission from ordninary noise. It might very well be that the sky is buzzing with alien TV shows, but we just don't know how to decode them.
The Earth is slowly becoming that way also. By 2012 there will be no more analog TV signal in the US, soon in the rest of the world. Analog radio is also bound to be phased out eventually (it's simply an inefficient use of radio frequency). Furthermore, in the future, it's likely that most of the wireless technologies will employ spread spectrum encoding, so there will be no high powered signals on a single frequency anymore. The Earth will continue to radiate relatively large amounts of RF, but from a distance and without the knowledge of encoding, it will the just be white noise. Alien SETI number crunchers will pass us by unalarmed.
Judging by our example (not a great data-set, I'll admit), a civilization offers a couple hundred to a thousand years opportunity to be detected by SETI-like projects. A mere blink in the history of the universe, I'm afraid.
Often those commenting don't think about the repercussions that come from a collapsed economy... That will lead to a shoddier quality of life, more crime and eventually more violence.
Definitely. But, I'd say a web site brought down by an cyber-attack is in any case preferable to a building demolished by a car bomb. I've never heard of anyone who died under a collapsing web site. Which would probably be an interesting story.
Why is it that no matter what you do, A myspace page doesn't look good. I'm not trying to be snobby or anything, I don't have a page, but All MySpace sights that I have seen hurt my eyes.
Yes. I was just wondering about the same thing. Everytime I go to MySpace (by mistake usually), I feel like I'm transported to 1996 or so. All that's missing are blink tags for the experience to be complete. Ok, I understand why 14yr old kids think yellow text on a full-color background is a good idea. But bands, DJs, politicians... Is having a page psysically hurt your eyes really a requirement for having a MySpace page?
Well, the arm just came down at T-8:00 so I am assuming they are going for the launch.
And then it went up again at T-1:02. This-or-that abort sequence. It's not clear what happens next.
Something is seriously wrong with this situation.
Yup. The Taleban/Al Qaida don't have a space program.
Anyway, I hear he is immortal.
No, he's just very very careful: XKCD
I saw no less than 300 daily attempts to root the gateway via SSH coming from North Korean and Chinese IP addresses.
Just out of curiosity, which is the IP range for North Korea?
What you are referring to is an illusion.
Somehow I get the feeling that you didn't even look up to what was I refering. Right?
If something could have full and perfect knowledge of the universe and all contents, it could use causality to make a perfect prediction of your exact future. That is determinism.
I really suggest you read up. Having a full and perfect knowledge of the system does not necessarily imply that you can find a model that will tell you what the system will do next, that is, make a model of the system that is less complex without losing some important apects that will make your model inaccurate.
So, in order to simulate and predict the actions of the universe, you will have to make a perfect copy of the universe. Which would not run any faster than the original universe, and thus cannot provide you with any information about its actions faster than the original.
I won't claim to be smart enough to solve the whole 'free will' debate, but personally I hope free will exists - it (in theory) allows us to help people improve themselves. Otherwise, as soon as someone is shown to have criminal tendencies you might as well just put a bullet in their head and dump them in a hole somewhere.
Free will exists in the sense that noone can predict your future actions (including you). Your actions are bound by causality, hence, no free will, but to make an insight into what your decisions will be you would have to create a model of exact complexity as your brain and all your past sensory input. And that model would take at least as much time as it takes you to reach a decision, so no insight into the future is possible.
It's the principle of computational irreducibility.
Off topic, when did 32MB/s write speeds become slow? My new laptop gets about 30MB/s sustained (linear) write speeds, and I thought that was pretty impressive.
IF you want impressive, benchmark random read/writes. You'd be lucky if you hit 10MB/s. And flash still gets 25MB/s. And that's where the difference comes. Taking into account that bootup and application starup/shutdown is almost all random reads/writes, it begins to sound very interesting. The speed and responsiveness of computers has been bottleneched on disk for quite some time.
I'm actually toying with the idea of putting a CF2IDE adapter and a fast flash card as a boot drive and install everything on it. Data and swap would go on a normal hard drive. I suspect startup times would improve dramatically. It's either that or 10k rpm drives, and those are still expensive as hell.
Can you list a few examples, preferably with datasheets?
Here are two datapoints. A $10 PCI NIC, and a $100 mobo I bought lately (with an integrated NIC) feature checksum offloading. They are both GBit, so I guess you get that for free on any GBit NIC nowadays.
Other than that, I really don't see how a NIC can decrease latencies. The latency of that first hop off your computer is below 1ms anyways.
Seeing that the average SOHO user is not a computer geek, why would they be the target audience?
The short asnwer is, because the comparable Cisco would cost you 10x as much. And, being a SOHO you probably can't even consider buying a Cisco.
Is there an advantage for the SOHO person to use IPCop vs. a small hardware firewall for their SOHO?
$25 HW firewall will work, but if you want _any_ other feature not present when you opened the box, you're stuck. With IPCop, you install a plugin or edit a file, and you have a new feature. The level of control is miles ahead of $25 boxes.
And, for some of the things IPCop does that small boxes don't, well... Proxying/caching, spam filtering, bandwidth shaping (based on ports, and with plugins based on protocol, IP, QoS or others), NTP server, remote logging, remote monitoring, intrusion detection (updated daily if needed), e-mail reporting/alerting... And whatever else they come up in new versions or new plugins.
Sure, if your technical expertise ends with being able to tell apart UTP from power cable, it's not for you. But, if you're at least capable of following online tutorials, you'll love it. Online resources, both from the developers and from the community are excellent (websites, wikis, mailing lists...). And, if you screw up, you can easily restore a backup in minutes.
As far as breaking goes, when you have it the way you like it, it's stable as a rock. I have _never_ had mine crash or malfunction. They stay up as long as they are plugged in.
Not to mention Lira, Drachma and a whole zoo of now defunct currencies.
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Not such a good examples, I'd say. 1Euro gets you exactly 340.750 Greek Drachma. Or 1936.27 Italian Lira. And the rate will not change that soon. Or ever.
Look it up: http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section/conversion.htm
People now are more separated than they are connected.
Yes, I suppose I would be one of those computer addicts O'Reilly talks about. I tend not to socialise with 99.99% percent of people in my immediate surroundings, and I'm on a computer most of my waking time. No human contact, no reality. Terrible, isn't it?
Well, while I'm on the computer, I socialise with a group of people in a room on p2p/chat service. A guy in Israel, a couple in Denmark, a guy in Scotland, a sweet old lady in Portugal and a couple of others. Then, I socialise with a guy one street over, and another one street across. And about 200 others, all over town, over a municipal wi-fi network. Also, I keep in touch with another group of about a dozen of people, almost all of them 400km away. On a forum we set up, and occasionally over a coffee, when I make the trip. Then there's a bunch of people I keep in touch on ICQ. Then there's a bunch I run with on an online ww2 shooter. And a whole different bunch on news groups. And so on.
Sure, most of those people I see 'in reality' rarely, some of them I'll probably never see. But, so what? They are real, living, breathing people. They just happen to be somewhere else. The fact that we interact over computer doesn't change the quality of the human contact. Technology doesn't break social connections, it merely changes them. And changes for the better, I'd say.
When fuel prices go up, prices on goods go up. The stuff you buy costs more, but labor (ie, your paycheck) stays the same. This is a nuisance to the rich, but is effectively a pay cut to the poor.
Well, most europeans pay $5-6 per gallon of gas, with the prices gone up ~30% in the last 3-4 years. And, still, there are no millions of starving people on the streets, nor has the economy tanked. How come?
Check this one out:
a l-file-check.html.
http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/antipiracy/digit
It's a program that 'allows the user to delete copyrighted music and video files from the "shared folders"'. How helpful. Also, it locks p2p programs with a password. Nice.
Supposedly, it doesn't phone home, but you just have to wonder...
I think since croatia was a later invention
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that effectively Tesla was clearly serb.
If Croatia is a 'later invention', being for the first time recognised as an independent kingdom in year 925 (not 1925, mind you!), then I guess the US is to come into existance over the next few centuries? Sure, the Greeks were there a couple thousand or so years earlier, but still...
As a greek i can assure you that "nationality" is the latin translation of the greek oriented word "ethnicity"
(ethnos = nation).
So, everyone in the US is an American and that's it? There are no irish americans, no polish americans, no jewish americans? Croat (being of croatian ethnicity) and Croatian (being of croatian citizenship) are obviously different things. Tesla was a croatian Serb, a very clearly defined term.
Damn why these croats struggle so hard to look different than serbs....
For the same reason Macedonians struggle hard to look different than Greeks:
unfortunate historical reasons.
But, this is not the best venue for this kind of discussions, so let's leave it at that.
Guys admit, you speak the SAME language, you live in the SAME land,
and you will have to work very hard to become something else than you trully are.
Well, we speak the same language and live in the same land in as much as Danes, Swedes and Norwegians do. Do you consider them a single nation?
And, now, we return you to our regular flavor of zealotry...
Possible reasons to replace tcpip.sys...
...are all bullshit. Tcpip.sys is an integral (and crucial, at that) part of the OS, made by Microsoft, and no other company should be allowed to touch it. I mean, what if MS releases a patch and rewrites it? You'll be unable to play your legitimately paid music, at least until the DRM guys have their way with it. I won't even go into other, all too obvious security related issues.
No, no, no... This is just a monumentally stupid idea, and its creators are in ugrent need of public redicule, if not a lawsuit by Microsoft.