How are you going to keep it secure without getting patches for newly discovered security flaws?
You mean like Win98? Yes, I have one around, and tossed up a VM for some testing. Most malware fails on it. It seems the programs it is trying to hack just aren't there. Hmmm...
Significantly larger memory footprint... Of course all my legacy systems have 4 gig. No, wait...
And a few more phone home apps. I know... A drop in the ocean.
Unfortunately, you are entirely wrong. ISP have two sets of costs. One is for providing a connection. The other is for the amount of data you transfer off-network.
You just gave the reason that they should LOVE bit torrent. You can get most of your data and never go off net. Of course, thinking ahead and common sense were never a strong point with them...
I know! We can take your provider and connect a series of switches, each of us getting a drop where we can add a router and add our machines behind that router.
We can make a network...and interconnected network of computers.
I'm going to call it...Ted!
Don't laugh... This is starting to happen. A WiFi mesh darknet is not hard if you have proximity. And it makes piracy cheap, easy, and safe.
No mattter, I'm moving out in a few months. It's rare that someone moves because of their ISP...
We do WiFi in hotels. People check out over Internet all the time. And apartment complexes have the same issues for both Internet and cable. Some businesses are waking up to this... Some are not. Darwin will fix it fast.
I also had an expensive Lexar CF card for a digital SLR that failed. In that case pictures that I know I took simply weren't on the card... but could be "recovered" with the Lexar utility (along with EVERYTHING else on the card, so it was a PITA.) Since that was nearly $200 when it was new, I figured getting my lifetime warranty honored would be easy, since the cards were down to about $20. No dice. Just got the run-around and finally gave up. Lexar lost a customer.
They lost more than one... They are now in the same group as Maxtor, politicians, and strippers...
I misunderstood... I thought you were saying that if you did not upgrade, Microsoft would loose your private data upon the world. "Pay us or a Russian hacker gets your bank details!"
SSD is already cheaper per gig than some SAS drives. Also, 3-3000 times? What the hell sort of estimate is that?
I remember an article a while ago talking about how Windows disk drivers are not optimized for SSD. Now there is a white paper showing how SSD is not practical by Microsoft. So to answer your question, it is a PR estimate.
Far to late for what? to go in and fuck up another country?
Far to late to keep them from moving the nuclear material, or completed nukes to another hidden location. Or give them to people who don't like us much.
I don't think the USA will have any problem using conventional weapons to take out any tinpot dictators nuclear facilities - well before they have a nuke.
Whenever I'm in a hotel room I immediately establish a VPN connection to both home and work and redirect all my Internet traffic through those connections.
Of course, I may not be a typical user.
Sorry to disappoint you...:) One of our most common support issues is people trying to VPN home before opening a web browser and logging into the wireless. The second most common is people with the wireless card turned off, on not even present in the laptop. Virus or software problems third.
"Like any arms race where it's content producers vs. the internet, the internet will win in the end."
*puts content back in the vault*
You were saying?
(Walks around to the back where the vault has a huge opening labeled "The Pirate Bay")
Oh... Nothing really...
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Being serious for a moment, a large part of the problem with Linux - at least in the "getting more people to adopt it" sense (chicken and egg) - is the fact that Linux developers/proponents tend to be unable to understand that while something is "not their fault", it is still their problem.
For example: I have a DVR box that I put together a few years back. It uses an ATi All-In-Wonder capture board. A "clean rebuild" of the box, including all the recording software and OS (it uses WinXP), takes ~3 hours.
I am consistently told by Linux-using friends that I should "absolutely be using Linux instead", that all Linux software is inherently superior, etc. Yet when trying to install any of the various Linux/MythTV flavors, I've consistently found all sorts of problems. The ATi Remote Wonder doesn't work well for most of them. The recording software either doesn't work at all, or is "spotty at best." Video playback quality is lower.
When I've asked about this on Linux help boards, the response is always the same (and I'm sure I'll get a bunch of raving loons attacking me here for saying so as well): "well it's your fault for having an ATi board you should go spend $$$$$$ on a hauppauge and a nvidia board and buy this and buy that because that's what my box uses and anyways the ati drivers suck because ati sucks."
Now, I recognize that ATi hasn't been as "forthcoming" with driver source / documentation as some other companies. This is where the Linux folks can say it's "not my fault." The reality, though, is that it is a barrier to entry, and therefore it is their problem.
The other problem is that the Linux world lacks consistency. The same command structure, driver package, installation routine often has to be "tweaked" to work - if it works at all - on any given random distribution or even between versions of the same distribution.
Now of course, merely by saying something like this in the open, it's a good chance I'll be branded a Linux heretic. Maybe even a slew of nasty downmods will come my way. After all, criticisms like these are part of the whole "not in front of the goyim" mentality of Linux users whenever there are non-Linux users about.
I had similar problems with a Pinnacle PCTV card and Win XP. Pinnacle said I had to buy $$ a new driver. This is a hardware vendor problem, and no OS can fix it. Expecting one to is your problem. The solution, as people keep telling you, is to buy better supported hardware. Funny enough, the Pinnacle card is better supported in Linux.
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How about https://keyserver.pgp.com/ or http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_keyserv.html or http://pgp.mit.edu/ or roll your own at http://pks.sourceforge.net/ if you are so inclined.
If you want to be snobby about it, that's your prerogative; I just want a decent messaging protocol to be implemented!
Yet you give Twitter as an example? How about pgp smtp with a central certificate store. It can work right now.
I am trying to use email less and less, while switching to Facebook/Twitter/SMS to get in touch with people.
But what people? Actually I like your plan. That should keep "those people" out of my e-mail. Let the damn wealth fairy go to twitbook!
How are you going to keep it secure without getting patches for newly discovered security flaws?
You mean like Win98? Yes, I have one around, and tossed up a VM for some testing. Most malware fails on it. It seems the programs it is trying to hack just aren't there. Hmmm...
I am on Linux. I just keep Win2k in a vm to run MS apps... Not firefox I guess... :)
It is never necessary to have Windows on a server. Of course, it seems to be on a few...
Significantly larger memory footprint... Of course all my legacy systems have 4 gig. No, wait... And a few more phone home apps. I know... A drop in the ocean.
Lucky Mexican dead folks. They will have cell phones and everything. Here, all they can do is vote.
Unfortunately, you are entirely wrong. ISP have two sets of costs. One is for providing a connection. The other is for the amount of data you transfer off-network.
You just gave the reason that they should LOVE bit torrent. You can get most of your data and never go off net. Of course, thinking ahead and common sense were never a strong point with them...
I know! We can take your provider and connect a series of switches, each of us getting a drop where we can add a router and add our machines behind that router.
We can make a network...and interconnected network of computers.
I'm going to call it...Ted!
Don't laugh... This is starting to happen. A WiFi mesh darknet is not hard if you have proximity. And it makes piracy cheap, easy, and safe.
Most remote workers need VPN, and many need VoIP. So "Good enough" for that is generally fairly good.
No mattter, I'm moving out in a few months. It's rare that someone moves because of their ISP...
We do WiFi in hotels. People check out over Internet all the time. And apartment complexes have the same issues for both Internet and cable. Some businesses are waking up to this... Some are not. Darwin will fix it fast.
I also had an expensive Lexar CF card for a digital SLR that failed. In that case pictures that I know I took simply weren't on the card... but could be "recovered" with the Lexar utility (along with EVERYTHING else on the card, so it was a PITA.) Since that was nearly $200 when it was new, I figured getting my lifetime warranty honored would be easy, since the cards were down to about $20. No dice. Just got the run-around and finally gave up. Lexar lost a customer.
They lost more than one... They are now in the same group as Maxtor, politicians, and strippers...
I misunderstood... I thought you were saying that if you did not upgrade, Microsoft would loose your private data upon the world. "Pay us or a Russian hacker gets your bank details!"
SSD is already cheaper per gig than some SAS drives. Also, 3-3000 times? What the hell sort of estimate is that?
I remember an article a while ago talking about how Windows disk drivers are not optimized for SSD. Now there is a white paper showing how SSD is not practical by Microsoft. So to answer your question, it is a PR estimate.
This is an ACM article behind a paywall.
How about a slashdot policy of not linking to articles behind paywalls?
Would love to know if someone notices the logs. 10 bazillion hits on the summery page. 5 paid reads. No new accounts... :)
Far to late for what? to go in and fuck up another country?
Far to late to keep them from moving the nuclear material, or completed nukes to another hidden location. Or give them to people who don't like us much.
only outlaws will have nukes!
You can pry my nukes from my hot, glowing hands? :)
Unless you face an enemy that actually believes mutually assured destruction is not a bad thing...
I don't think the USA will have any problem using conventional weapons to take out any tinpot dictators nuclear facilities - well before they have a nuke.
After all, the USA outspends the rest of the wolrd combined on their military.
I seriously doubt we have the will to do this under this administration. At least not until it is far to late to help.
I can't. Fahrenheit 451 came true first.
http://www.alternativereel.com/includes/top-ten/display_review.php?id=00002
http://marchinred.com/BB1984.html
...to explicitly layout stronger civil and criminal penalties for abuse of office in the US.
Use of the office to start an unjustified war, death and 50 million dollars or 50% of your wealth whichever is greater.
Use of the office to murder, death and 50% of assets.
Use of the office to take bribes, death and repayment of any contracts lost by competing companies.
I think after the Death part, they won't be in a position to quibble over percentages of the estate...
Whenever I'm in a hotel room I immediately establish a VPN connection to both home and work and redirect all my Internet traffic through those connections.
Of course, I may not be a typical user.
Sorry to disappoint you... :) One of our most common support issues is people trying to VPN home before opening a web browser and logging into the wireless. The second most common is people with the wireless card turned off, on not even present in the laptop. Virus or software problems third.
"Like any arms race where it's content producers vs. the internet, the internet will win in the end."
*puts content back in the vault*
You were saying?
(Walks around to the back where the vault has a huge opening labeled "The Pirate Bay")
Oh... Nothing really...
Being serious for a moment, a large part of the problem with Linux - at least in the "getting more people to adopt it" sense (chicken and egg) - is the fact that Linux developers/proponents tend to be unable to understand that while something is "not their fault", it is still their problem.
For example: I have a DVR box that I put together a few years back. It uses an ATi All-In-Wonder capture board. A "clean rebuild" of the box, including all the recording software and OS (it uses WinXP), takes ~3 hours.
I am consistently told by Linux-using friends that I should "absolutely be using Linux instead", that all Linux software is inherently superior, etc. Yet when trying to install any of the various Linux/MythTV flavors, I've consistently found all sorts of problems. The ATi Remote Wonder doesn't work well for most of them. The recording software either doesn't work at all, or is "spotty at best." Video playback quality is lower.
When I've asked about this on Linux help boards, the response is always the same (and I'm sure I'll get a bunch of raving loons attacking me here for saying so as well): "well it's your fault for having an ATi board you should go spend $$$$$$ on a hauppauge and a nvidia board and buy this and buy that because that's what my box uses and anyways the ati drivers suck because ati sucks."
Now, I recognize that ATi hasn't been as "forthcoming" with driver source / documentation as some other companies. This is where the Linux folks can say it's "not my fault." The reality, though, is that it is a barrier to entry, and therefore it is their problem.
The other problem is that the Linux world lacks consistency. The same command structure, driver package, installation routine often has to be "tweaked" to work - if it works at all - on any given random distribution or even between versions of the same distribution.
Now of course, merely by saying something like this in the open, it's a good chance I'll be branded a Linux heretic. Maybe even a slew of nasty downmods will come my way. After all, criticisms like these are part of the whole "not in front of the goyim" mentality of Linux users whenever there are non-Linux users about.
I had similar problems with a Pinnacle PCTV card and Win XP. Pinnacle said I had to buy $$ a new driver. This is a hardware vendor problem, and no OS can fix it. Expecting one to is your problem. The solution, as people keep telling you, is to buy better supported hardware. Funny enough, the Pinnacle card is better supported in Linux.