I think he means "obeying the laws of the country in which it is based." I might add that Youtube and many other U.S.-based corporations are wrestling with how to comply with the laws in their home country, because those laws really are confused, twisteThis underscores the problem of any Internet-based business or service trying to accommodate the laws of every single Internet-connected nation on this stupid planet, which is pretty much all of them at this point.
I'll actually give China some credit here. As much as I disagree with censorship as a standard practice of government, at least China decided to just screw over their own citizens rather than try to make everyone else censor "undesirable" content for them. Yes yes, I know that Google and Cisco and Yahoo and the rest are complicit in those activities, but I haven't heard any Chinese officials complaining about Youtube. Probably because it's simply blocked. But at least we don't have to deal with their whining about it.
The governments of Japan and Thailand should get over themselves and just deal with it. Seriously. Those assholes wanted onto the global network because of the economic advantages it brought them, and now they are finding out that gee, maybe there are some consequences to being part of that network.
I grabbed them all for my girlfriend, who loves it. And Patricia Routledge, who plays Hyacinth, is a rather accomplished theater actress in her own right. By American standards she would be overkill for a sitcom, but she really is funny.
Like all Microsoft products, it will blow chunks until 3.0 so keep waiting.
I agree, although I would be more inclined to say that, like the vast majority of Microsoft products, it will always blow chunks. Worse, because Microsoft is kow-towing to the media companies, it will probably always be more restricted than competitive products.
It has nothing significant to offer over iPods, let alone 90% of the more recent non-Apple players.
Dead on. As a "recent non-Apple player" owner, I have a SanDisk Sansa. Is it as polished as a Nano, say? No, not even close... but it was $69, has a gig of flash, equalizer, supports MTP and MSC protocols, supports drag and drop from Windows (doesn't need a proprietary application, which was important to me), has an FM radio and a nice GUI, works as a flash drive and a voice recorder, and so far has played everything I've thrown at it. The thing runs for over twenty hours on a single AAA and I haven't managed to scratch it yet.
So somebody tell me again why I need a Zune? Or an iPod? I suppose if I were interested in portable video I'd feel differently, but as it happens I'm not. I just want to tuck the thing in a pocket and listen to my music.
Well, how much does it cost to run the root servers? It would be nice if Verisign were required to justify their increases in terms of dollars spent, rather than just a cavalier "we need the money to make your domains more secure." What the hell does that mean, anyway?
They are, after all, managing a public resource of global proportions. So some accountability would be in order. And no I didn't read the fucking article.
I know, and I'm a Republican anyway. Well, used to be... it's getting harder and harder to identify with what passes for Republicanism anymore, at least in Washington. But my point is just that there's a lot of other crap occupying the tiny minds in Congress, and that there probably isn't enough mental wattage left to deal with anything else.
I have a couple of domains, and when I first registered them NetSol was the only option. So I pay my $34.95 a year for each of them, and I haven't had any problems of any kind in the ten years or so I've had them. No real reason to switch, and saving thirty or forty bucks a year wasn't worth the effort. I've had friends who saved some money with JumpDomain and RegisterFly, although in both cases they wish they hadn't.
With complaints about the pair running back to 2002, what can we the public do to get our elected representatives to take the great domain name ripoff seriously?
Honestly, probably not much. We live in the decade of the Bush Administration, Halliburton, Iraq, the Patriot Act... a load of crap that is so massive that DNS probably isn't even on the radar for our "elected misrepresentatives" even assuming they understand it or grasp the significance of it. Congress has become rather disconnected from the public it nominally serves, and Verisign and ICANN aren't even remotely in touch with anything resembling reality. That whole "SiteFinder" episode showed very clearly how far out in left field Verisign's upper management is standing.
Yes, but how much bandwidth is this thing going to consume spidering the Web downloading videos looking for infringement? Are sites like Youtube going to permit it? How about all the stuff it's going to download that doesn't infringe anyone's IP? By simply scanning the Internet this way, they are using other people's resources in their quest to nail copyright infringers. The Googlebot does much the same thing, of course, but most of us don't mind Google hitting our servers periodically because we all derive considerable benefit from being indexed. There's no advantage to anyone but the big rightsholders to this dubious technology, and I'll take odds that any Web spider these guys implement won't respect the robots exclusion protocol either.
Not that the media outfits mind taking what isn't theirs: they're hypocrites in a big way.
What is different is that I wouldn't let them stay here for twenty years dicking around without deciding whether they wanted to be an American.
That is your mistake. The reason you spend twenty years dicking around with them is because, when that time is up... you're sure that they're people we want to have on our side. You're sure that they are not only on our side, but that they are us in spirit. Like it or not, that's what it takes: the process is called "assimilation" (yes, rather Borg-like in a way) and it requires time. During that period, there are many who decide that America is not for them, and return home. Others prove unacceptable to us, and are sent home. Think of it as a trial period.
And when those newly-minted Citizens have children, those children are raised by American citizens, with respect for our laws and our traditions. Not by people who are only here for the money, who may have no respect for our nation or its people. That's the reason that citizenship was never made easy... it had to be earned. You had to prove yourself to our government and to the rest of us. Don't trivialize what it mean to be a citizen of the United States: people want to come here for many reasons. Some of them have good reasons, and will be of benefit to society as a whole. Others may have good reasons, but are not people we want to have around. It is, after all, our country and we should get to decide who we want as neighbors. All other sovereign states on this ball of rock reserve the same right: I don't understand the hypocritical attitude that says that America has to accept anyone (I'm not saying that's your attitude, just that it's a prevalent one, and a very dangerous one.)
It is important to note that that system worked extremely well for a very long time, a couple of centuries, in fact. Most of our recent problems have come about because certain highly-placed people (Congress, are you listening?) dicked around with a functioning immigration system, and allowed people into this country that never would have made it to first base under the old system. They also dicked around with some other equally-important aspects of our society, things that the Founders felt were important. Say, independence from the economies of other nations. Copyrights. Patents. The list isn't endless but it is extensive, however those are arguments for another day.
Your DBA skills...I'm a network admin...I'm not very impressed...
Your network admin skills... I'm a senior software engineer. I'm not very impressed.
Regardless, network admin or not, odds are you wouldn't have gotten any further with Comcast's outsourced nontechnical support than he did. I've had to deal with them on a few occasions myself: it can be a hair-pulling experience.
Arguably though, SBC's DSL support people are even less capable. Took me two weeks to convince them that my subnet mask was wrong. I finally got to someone who had a clue (worked my way through to Provisioning) and explained what was wrong. He took one look and said, "You're right. You work for us, don't you." Anyway, it only took him about five seconds to change "255.255.255.255" to "255.255.255.0". Two weeks I had to wait for that. Argh.
The problem with your approach is that it leaves out a whole lot of other aspects to a human being that make them desirable immigrants, or otherwise. Their skillset with regards to their job is important, to be sure, but from society's perspective not so important as their understanding and accepting what this country is about. Not so important as whether they are actually good people, that can be trusted in the rather sensitive positions where they frequently end up. We have been far too focused on the economic factors (because that's all most large businesses care about) and have been completely ignoring the far more important cultural ones.
The thing is, we want people that want to be American, not just people who want to improve their lot because their country of origin sucks, and who could not care less about America and its people. It isn't our job to provide work for everyone that needs it, nor does legalized usury (for that's what an H1-B amounts to) really sit well with our history and traditions. Some people think that it does, and the results of that thinking are self-evident.
Consequently, I don't care how bright or educated a potential immigrant: we have plenty of bright, educated people here, and we'd have more if it weren't for the H1-B program and other intellectual deterrents our government has put in place. What I want to see, as an American, is someone that understands our traditions and our beliefs, and doesn't look at America as an entity to be exploited. If that's how they see us, we don't need them. They aren't worth it. Immigration isn't about giving away our candy store, it isn't about providing jobs for people that can't find work in their homelands... it's about making America a better place. That's how all other nations look at immigration, in fact most are very careful to whom they grant residency or citizenship. We used to be. For some interesting reading take a close look at Mexico's own immigration law. Then try emigrating to Mexico. I guarantee that the results will be enlightening, and point out a lot of what is wrong with our own policies.
I understand this well, because my fiancee is African (I'm not... your typical middle-aged Caucasian engineer.) She's been here for over twenty-five years as a legal immigrant, finally got her citizenship about four years ago. She's a shining example of what happens when United States immigration policy works, when you get right down to it. However, what's happening with illegal immigration and the H1-B's just torques her into a pretzel, because she went through all the hoops and earned her right to work, earned her citizenship, and they just weasel on in. Matter of fact, I respect her more than many of my fellow Americans who, in their post-industrial complacency, seem to have forgotten what this nation is all about. She sees America, its law and traditions, as something of a wonderland, rare in the history of the world. Furthermore, she sees this country as something worth preserving. So do I.
A lot of us don't see it that way anymore, or so it seems to me, but anyone wanting to move here should be required to see it that way. Otherwise we're just shooting ourselves in our collective foot.
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I think he did ... "Giant laugh", get it?
I think he means "obeying the laws of the country in which it is based." I might add that Youtube and many other U.S.-based corporations are wrestling with how to comply with the laws in their home country, because those laws really are confused, twisteThis underscores the problem of any Internet-based business or service trying to accommodate the laws of every single Internet-connected nation on this stupid planet, which is pretty much all of them at this point.
I'll actually give China some credit here. As much as I disagree with censorship as a standard practice of government, at least China decided to just screw over their own citizens rather than try to make everyone else censor "undesirable" content for them. Yes yes, I know that Google and Cisco and Yahoo and the rest are complicit in those activities, but I haven't heard any Chinese officials complaining about Youtube. Probably because it's simply blocked. But at least we don't have to deal with their whining about it.
The governments of Japan and Thailand should get over themselves and just deal with it. Seriously. Those assholes wanted onto the global network because of the economic advantages it brought them, and now they are finding out that gee, maybe there are some consequences to being part of that network.
Tough shit.
There's actually a lot more than six episodes, three seasons I think.
I must need more coffee. I was about to be irritated by your comment ... then I had to laugh.
+2 Funny.
I grabbed them all for my girlfriend, who loves it. And Patricia Routledge, who plays Hyacinth, is a rather accomplished theater actress in her own right. By American standards she would be overkill for a sitcom, but she really is funny.
Like all Microsoft products, it will blow chunks until 3.0 so keep waiting.
... but it was $69, has a gig of flash, equalizer, supports MTP and MSC protocols, supports drag and drop from Windows (doesn't need a proprietary application, which was important to me), has an FM radio and a nice GUI, works as a flash drive and a voice recorder, and so far has played everything I've thrown at it. The thing runs for over twenty hours on a single AAA and I haven't managed to scratch it yet.
I agree, although I would be more inclined to say that, like the vast majority of Microsoft products, it will always blow chunks. Worse, because Microsoft is kow-towing to the media companies, it will probably always be more restricted than competitive products.
It has nothing significant to offer over iPods, let alone 90% of the more recent non-Apple players.
Dead on. As a "recent non-Apple player" owner, I have a SanDisk Sansa. Is it as polished as a Nano, say? No, not even close
So somebody tell me again why I need a Zune? Or an iPod? I suppose if I were interested in portable video I'd feel differently, but as it happens I'm not. I just want to tuck the thing in a pocket and listen to my music.
Well, how much does it cost to run the root servers? It would be nice if Verisign were required to justify their increases in terms of dollars spent, rather than just a cavalier "we need the money to make your domains more secure." What the hell does that mean, anyway?
They are, after all, managing a public resource of global proportions. So some accountability would be in order. And no I didn't read the fucking article.
I know, and I'm a Republican anyway. Well, used to be ... it's getting harder and harder to identify with what passes for Republicanism anymore, at least in Washington. But my point is just that there's a lot of other crap occupying the tiny minds in Congress, and that there probably isn't enough mental wattage left to deal with anything else.
I dunno about you but the $10-$15 I saved by using enom just went out the window.
Pretty much says it all.
I have a couple of domains, and when I first registered them NetSol was the only option. So I pay my $34.95 a year for each of them, and I haven't had any problems of any kind in the ten years or so I've had them. No real reason to switch, and saving thirty or forty bucks a year wasn't worth the effort. I've had friends who saved some money with JumpDomain and RegisterFly, although in both cases they wish they hadn't.
Personally we should go back to $100 with a money pot that reinvest $90 of that to infrastructure or something of the sort.
Problem is that the money rarely goes where you think it's going. Too many people find ways to dip their hands into any revenue stream.
With complaints about the pair running back to 2002, what can we the public do to get our elected representatives to take the great domain name ripoff seriously?
... a load of crap that is so massive that DNS probably isn't even on the radar for our "elected misrepresentatives" even assuming they understand it or grasp the significance of it. Congress has become rather disconnected from the public it nominally serves, and Verisign and ICANN aren't even remotely in touch with anything resembling reality. That whole "SiteFinder" episode showed very clearly how far out in left field Verisign's upper management is standing.
Honestly, probably not much. We live in the decade of the Bush Administration, Halliburton, Iraq, the Patriot Act
ACID ... programmed by a team of crack developers.
Yes, but how much bandwidth is this thing going to consume spidering the Web downloading videos looking for infringement? Are sites like Youtube going to permit it? How about all the stuff it's going to download that doesn't infringe anyone's IP? By simply scanning the Internet this way, they are using other people's resources in their quest to nail copyright infringers. The Googlebot does much the same thing, of course, but most of us don't mind Google hitting our servers periodically because we all derive considerable benefit from being indexed. There's no advantage to anyone but the big rightsholders to this dubious technology, and I'll take odds that any Web spider these guys implement won't respect the robots exclusion protocol either.
Not that the media outfits mind taking what isn't theirs: they're hypocrites in a big way.
Which is why the bots will never let alt.binaries die out completely.
Once launched, the virus scans the device's hard disk and infects all executable .elf format files.
As an Orc myself, I'd have to say that all Elves are considered executable.
What is different is that I wouldn't let them stay here for twenty years dicking around without deciding whether they wanted to be an American.
... you're sure that they're people we want to have on our side. You're sure that they are not only on our side, but that they are us in spirit. Like it or not, that's what it takes: the process is called "assimilation" (yes, rather Borg-like in a way) and it requires time. During that period, there are many who decide that America is not for them, and return home. Others prove unacceptable to us, and are sent home. Think of it as a trial period.
... it had to be earned. You had to prove yourself to our government and to the rest of us. Don't trivialize what it mean to be a citizen of the United States: people want to come here for many reasons. Some of them have good reasons, and will be of benefit to society as a whole. Others may have good reasons, but are not people we want to have around. It is, after all, our country and we should get to decide who we want as neighbors. All other sovereign states on this ball of rock reserve the same right: I don't understand the hypocritical attitude that says that America has to accept anyone (I'm not saying that's your attitude, just that it's a prevalent one, and a very dangerous one.)
That is your mistake. The reason you spend twenty years dicking around with them is because, when that time is up
And when those newly-minted Citizens have children, those children are raised by American citizens, with respect for our laws and our traditions. Not by people who are only here for the money, who may have no respect for our nation or its people. That's the reason that citizenship was never made easy
It is important to note that that system worked extremely well for a very long time, a couple of centuries, in fact. Most of our recent problems have come about because certain highly-placed people (Congress, are you listening?) dicked around with a functioning immigration system, and allowed people into this country that never would have made it to first base under the old system. They also dicked around with some other equally-important aspects of our society, things that the Founders felt were important. Say, independence from the economies of other nations. Copyrights. Patents. The list isn't endless but it is extensive, however those are arguments for another day.
They did. It's called "tenure".
"Hello Mr. Bukiet"
"It's pronounced bouquet!"
Your DBA skills...I'm a network admin...I'm not very impressed...
... I'm a senior software engineer. I'm not very impressed.
Your network admin skills
Regardless, network admin or not, odds are you wouldn't have gotten any further with Comcast's outsourced nontechnical support than he did. I've had to deal with them on a few occasions myself: it can be a hair-pulling experience.
Arguably though, SBC's DSL support people are even less capable. Took me two weeks to convince them that my subnet mask was wrong. I finally got to someone who had a clue (worked my way through to Provisioning) and explained what was wrong. He took one look and said, "You're right. You work for us, don't you." Anyway, it only took him about five seconds to change "255.255.255.255" to "255.255.255.0". Two weeks I had to wait for that. Argh.
Unless, of course, Congress gets into the act.
I believe the Richter scale is obsolete. Aren't they using the seismic moment or "moment magnitude" scale now?
Still, it seems to me that even if AAC becomes an industry standard people will be playing MP3 files for a long time to come.
I think a robotic .50 cal on the roof will stave off most of the problems with theft or vandalism.
I just wouldn't park anything too important near that portable datacenter.
The problem with your approach is that it leaves out a whole lot of other aspects to a human being that make them desirable immigrants, or otherwise. Their skillset with regards to their job is important, to be sure, but from society's perspective not so important as their understanding and accepting what this country is about. Not so important as whether they are actually good people, that can be trusted in the rather sensitive positions where they frequently end up. We have been far too focused on the economic factors (because that's all most large businesses care about) and have been completely ignoring the far more important cultural ones.
... it's about making America a better place. That's how all other nations look at immigration, in fact most are very careful to whom they grant residency or citizenship. We used to be. For some interesting reading take a close look at Mexico's own immigration law. Then try emigrating to Mexico. I guarantee that the results will be enlightening, and point out a lot of what is wrong with our own policies.
... your typical middle-aged Caucasian engineer.) She's been here for over twenty-five years as a legal immigrant, finally got her citizenship about four years ago. She's a shining example of what happens when United States immigration policy works, when you get right down to it. However, what's happening with illegal immigration and the H1-B's just torques her into a pretzel, because she went through all the hoops and earned her right to work, earned her citizenship, and they just weasel on in. Matter of fact, I respect her more than many of my fellow Americans who, in their post-industrial complacency, seem to have forgotten what this nation is all about. She sees America, its law and traditions, as something of a wonderland, rare in the history of the world. Furthermore, she sees this country as something worth preserving. So do I.
The thing is, we want people that want to be American, not just people who want to improve their lot because their country of origin sucks, and who could not care less about America and its people. It isn't our job to provide work for everyone that needs it, nor does legalized usury (for that's what an H1-B amounts to) really sit well with our history and traditions. Some people think that it does, and the results of that thinking are self-evident.
Consequently, I don't care how bright or educated a potential immigrant: we have plenty of bright, educated people here, and we'd have more if it weren't for the H1-B program and other intellectual deterrents our government has put in place. What I want to see, as an American, is someone that understands our traditions and our beliefs, and doesn't look at America as an entity to be exploited. If that's how they see us, we don't need them. They aren't worth it. Immigration isn't about giving away our candy store, it isn't about providing jobs for people that can't find work in their homelands
I understand this well, because my fiancee is African (I'm not
A lot of us don't see it that way anymore, or so it seems to me, but anyone wanting to move here should be required to see it that way. Otherwise we're just shooting ourselves in our collective foot.
We all know how easy it is to access a Diebold machine!
A crowbar will do nicely.