There's no freedom from... being offended or being stupid.
You do have the freedom to fail, I just wish that there were no safty net that I have to pay to keep under your butt!
Iraqi's will have as much security, lack of chaos, and economic woe as they see fit to cure or leave around. That's an option that they didn't have with Saddam. They can succeed or fail by thier own merits.
We need a place to launch the ignorant masses to... just like North America or Australia a place to send off the folks that just don't quite fit in either socially or econmically.
When wars are no longer an effective means of poulation control, you have to send them somewhere.
A degree in math focusing on discret mathmatics would better serve someone in networking than CS.
Networking is a mindset of thinking how best to get from point a to z on a consistant basis no matter how many times the intermediate points in between them change.
The network I and my 20 other collegues keep running is smallish with only about 3,500 locations. Our degrees range from liberal arts to hard science but not one of them is in CS. What we do have is an averge of 12+ years each in production networking.
Golems vs Frankenstein or R.U.R.
According to the stories golems were motivated by supernatural means. Frankenstein and Rossum's creations were motivated by repeatable physical processes (ie "scientific" means).
It goes back to the old Sci-Fi addage "Science at a significant level above our current one and Magic are not discernable"
You choose to opt in to the Ez-Pass system. If you're foolish enough to make a decision without knowing what the implications are, don't cry foul. It's the USA where you have the right to fall on your face at any moment based upon your poor choices.
There isn't a Big Brother, the government could care less if you fail or succeed. It cares about if you're a hazard to the other citizens or not.
Use or misuse of technology is subjective. We, the ones who make the lights blink and deliver your packets from point A to point B, build and maintain systems that work as advertised and are no different from firearm manufacturers.
Here is the gun and bullets, how you employ them is up to you. They have no intrinsic morality, just functionality. Do the world a favor if you can't understand how to use them leave them alone.
I'm not going to read that. Can you just summarize the point? Mass mindless consumers controlled by technocrats? Is that your point? What's the difference from now? Right now, the masses are controlled by elites (not technocrats but still).... The reason for this is precisely because information is limited to the elites
Point of this book was that society can reach a tipping point where the number of folks required to keep it functioning is small but without them working society itsself would collapse.
Read ``The Marching Morons'' by C. M. Kornbluth. In case you can't catch on, its a cautionary tale about the results of "leveling the playing field" . What you end up with is a a mass of almost mindless consumers and the reviled group y'all would call "techies" today who keep everything working.
Carpe Sapiens!
Bad web pages are just as rampent as bad people. There are no licences required to put up a web page, no great feat of physical or mental exertion required, no lack of readily available aids/templates/programs that enable the most simple of mind the ability to waste our time.
Kind of like having children. Occasionally a few gems are produced, but mostly a whole lot of shovel motors are the result. "Would you like fries with that ? "
Loquacity makes for a shallow arguement.
Carpe Sapiens!
Having worked in the GSM world on the provider side for 7 years I can tell you that European billing and US Billing are totally different due to the laws of the respective countries. When we launched Powertel in 1996, there was no Americanized Billing package for GSM , so we had to convert a European one to use.
1. Taxes locality taxes on communication are figured on the basis of the originating cell tower and if that locality has a services tax then its applied (this could be multiple levels..city, county, state). So its not an "extra" tax per say.
2. The US up until 1996 have a two provider monopoly system, An A and A B provider and a single format, AMPS. So its going to take a few years to get everything to the mature state as its in Europe.
3. Phone subsidies. Carriers in the US typically pay a good portion of the cost of the phone. Its bad, but marketing in the AMPS world said it was the only way to get customers and its been a standard business practice for 15 years. Thats where the SIM lock comes into play. They want to recoup that subsidy.
4. Contract law in the US. English common law is like a snowball; precidence codifies an addtion. US Law is directive, unless the statute is changed or modified by legislative, administrative, or overturn by judicial.. it stands. Those who change statues are lawyers with thier own vested interests. Number portability.
You live with your relics (the monarchy and common law) and we'll live with ours (lawyers)
Bluetooth is as useful in the US as betamax. A format thats great if you live in a shoebox with an active faraday cage around it!
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1. If you're worried about ionizing radiation that much you'd better start making tinfoil hats for your food and put them while they're being grown as the sun is busily turning your veggies into free radical bombs.
2. If you can modulate random solar radiation into a challenge/response engine I think Jules Verne was looking for you last century.
3. RTFA. Checkout RFIDs work in closer proximity to the scanner (1 foot).
4. And its not protection against the grey market economy ? Barter, stolen goods, drugs, etc ?
5. More Tin Hats (or Faraday cages...pretty easy to shield against war drivers)
6. Why do you believe that lowjac'ing people is a new concept ? Biometrics don't require electronic implants..the only way you can escape is to die right now.
So you enable your team to communicate to each other and/or a central strategist (bigger CPU), are there prohibitions against your opponent talking to or coopting your players ? A simple game of soccer (or football as the Euros would call it) could rapidly change over a season or two into a full blown Robowar league with the added attraction of opponents trying to mind control infect thier opponents. Could get too multifacted for a simple conflict.
Being current resident of the darkest network known to man, your arguments while interesting, don't quite ring true. I know about them and IPSEC isn't a big player...what is a big player is IP. The military is quite consious of how much of the tax payers money is spent on systems so they're not upgraded unless it presents a significant advance in tech, or savings in personel and time. We're not on the incremental upgrade path like business, but quantum leap path when a new supportable direction becomes available. I've been in long enough to make the jump from tubes to solid state...and believe it or not tube technology still presents advantages that chips still haven't reached yet.
The US Army needs IP and IPv4 just can't handle the new mobile things that need to be deployed...IPv4 is great for a fixed emplacement, but lousy for mobile... Expect to see great things (TM) when IP6 begins in the civilian sector.
UN*X is not necessary for survival, just look at all of the (and I hesitate to use administrator and NT in the same sentance) NT administrators that are paid to point and click through thier comic book world and thus are kept out of the unemployment lines.
Hire the handicapped, buy Micro$loth
Ahh grasshopper I think you need to drink from the well of how the real telcom industry works as far as pricing. What someone pays for when they get a dedicated circuit falls into a couple of different categories:
Circuit charge- This charge is just for the priveledge of having a dedicated line from the closest central office (aka pots switch & mux) to your location.
Bandwidth charge- Even though you get a T1, T3, OC-3 , OC-48 from the switch to you location it still needs to be able to go somewhere else...so you pay from the CO to your upstream provider's internet connection.
A company that's as in dire straights like SCO most likely has everything lumped into one pipe of some type, so if you're using all the bandwitdh up just servicing inbound web requests you negate the ability of them to:
Send email
Recieve email
Surf the web
FTP files
Carpe Sapiens (and -5 karma for taking the 5 seconds to type this in)
Being a member of the Hilton Rewards program AND a geek that gets PAID to be a geek looks like a novel situation for alot of soapboxer./'s .
These features are just what I look for when I typically fly into a city for a network install. I'm not a 18 year chasing skirts/drinking/drugging so my needs are pretty simple: Food, a broadband connection so I can VPN back into work to refer to the latest design docs, check email, configure the far end of router interfaces, and coordinate meeting times with the rest of my crew thats arriving from 4 other timezones on three different airlines in a 12 hour window. Time is money for my company and class has nothing to do with it.
We the members of the Technocracy thumb our noses in your general direction. We produce, we consume, you benefit.
If I we're modding you I'd give you a troll -5 and flamebait -30.
Hmm not to sound like I have my own holy grail, but the SIM card in Europe is already used as a contactless form of payment. If you look at alot of vending machines for small items you'll see a phone number you can call:)
India and the US are not comperable entities. It took a third party (the British) introducing a common language (English) to make the current state possible.
India is a Mobocracy that's been experimenting as a socialist state for the past 30 years.
+1 for high moral ground , -12 for snagging flamebait hook line and sinker.
I guess if your thoughts become prevelent where you live then you can expect a vacation crowd of US Army, Air Force and Marines. Other than being particlarly agregious flame-troll bait you need to be clear on your facts before being culled out of the herd as potential ground beef:
Should Abandon XXX. Why ? nothing says be nice and play right better than slagging a city...just ask the Japanese.
Should XXX, and XXX. Learn the rules before you try and play the game. Its a meritocracy in American society, contribute play by the rules and suceed; otherwise back into the slime pool.
Should respect Geneva Convention. We do for uniformed combatants. Unconventional organizations like criminals and terrorists are handled based upon where they are apprehended and detained.
The problem is the rest of the world doesn't take the US seriously until we have to remind them who wears the pants.
Euler was wrong?? I don't think that argument holds water. While 80 pages is long for a proof it looks like more of a philosophical diatribe than anything else.
Having watched it I beg to differ...this was a digital to digital copy, not Analog to digital...
One would think that the theaters copies are not so secure.
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BGP outside, OSPF inside, and firewall in between. Authenticated OSPF isn't a fix, MD5 has ben broken too.
It happens. If you look closely at the page below the wiki you'll see a link to the GNNA...a frequent troller on most threads here.
There's no freedom from... being offended or being stupid. You do have the freedom to fail, I just wish that there were no safty net that I have to pay to keep under your butt! Iraqi's will have as much security, lack of chaos, and economic woe as they see fit to cure or leave around. That's an option that they didn't have with Saddam. They can succeed or fail by thier own merits.
Oh and the youth are not a drain on the old ? Why not eat the young and close the circle ? Renewable food stuff, only 9 months per roast !
We need a place to launch the ignorant masses to... just like North America or Australia a place to send off the folks that just don't quite fit in either socially or econmically. When wars are no longer an effective means of poulation control, you have to send them somewhere.
A degree in math focusing on discret mathmatics would better serve someone in networking than CS. Networking is a mindset of thinking how best to get from point a to z on a consistant basis no matter how many times the intermediate points in between them change. The network I and my 20 other collegues keep running is smallish with only about 3,500 locations. Our degrees range from liberal arts to hard science but not one of them is in CS. What we do have is an averge of 12+ years each in production networking.
Golems vs Frankenstein or R.U.R. According to the stories golems were motivated by supernatural means. Frankenstein and Rossum's creations were motivated by repeatable physical processes (ie "scientific" means). It goes back to the old Sci-Fi addage "Science at a significant level above our current one and Magic are not discernable"
You choose to opt in to the Ez-Pass system. If you're foolish enough to make a decision without knowing what the implications are, don't cry foul. It's the USA where you have the right to fall on your face at any moment based upon your poor choices. There isn't a Big Brother, the government could care less if you fail or succeed. It cares about if you're a hazard to the other citizens or not. Use or misuse of technology is subjective. We, the ones who make the lights blink and deliver your packets from point A to point B, build and maintain systems that work as advertised and are no different from firearm manufacturers. Here is the gun and bullets, how you employ them is up to you. They have no intrinsic morality, just functionality. Do the world a favor if you can't understand how to use them leave them alone.
I'm not going to read that. Can you just summarize the point? Mass mindless consumers controlled by technocrats? Is that your point? What's the difference from now? Right now, the masses are controlled by elites (not technocrats but still).... The reason for this is precisely because information is limited to the elites Point of this book was that society can reach a tipping point where the number of folks required to keep it functioning is small but without them working society itsself would collapse.
Read ``The Marching Morons'' by C. M. Kornbluth. In case you can't catch on, its a cautionary tale about the results of "leveling the playing field" . What you end up with is a a mass of almost mindless consumers and the reviled group y'all would call "techies" today who keep everything working. Carpe Sapiens!
Bad web pages are just as rampent as bad people. There are no licences required to put up a web page, no great feat of physical or mental exertion required, no lack of readily available aids/templates/programs that enable the most simple of mind the ability to waste our time. Kind of like having children. Occasionally a few gems are produced, but mostly a whole lot of shovel motors are the result. "Would you like fries with that ? " Loquacity makes for a shallow arguement. Carpe Sapiens!
Define all of your enviros at the start of your script and you won't have that problem. {BTW Not everyone uses csh... it just reeks of being a Sunny)
Having worked in the GSM world on the provider side for 7 years I can tell you that European billing and US Billing are totally different due to the laws of the respective countries. When we launched Powertel in 1996, there was no Americanized Billing package for GSM , so we had to convert a European one to use.
1. Taxes locality taxes on communication are figured on the basis of the originating cell tower and if that locality has a services tax then its applied (this could be multiple levels..city, county, state). So its not an "extra" tax per say.
2. The US up until 1996 have a two provider monopoly system, An A and A B provider and a single format, AMPS. So its going to take a few years to get everything to the mature state as its in Europe.
3. Phone subsidies. Carriers in the US typically pay a good portion of the cost of the phone. Its bad, but marketing in the AMPS world said it was the only way to get customers and its been a standard business practice for 15 years. Thats where the SIM lock comes into play. They want to recoup that subsidy.
4. Contract law in the US. English common law is like a snowball; precidence codifies an addtion. US Law is directive, unless the statute is changed or modified by legislative, administrative, or overturn by judicial.. it stands. Those who change statues are lawyers with thier own vested interests. Number portability.
You live with your relics (the monarchy and common law) and we'll live with ours (lawyers)
Bluetooth is as useful in the US as betamax. A format thats great if you live in a shoebox with an active faraday cage around it!
1. If you're worried about ionizing radiation that much you'd better start making tinfoil hats for your food and put them while they're being grown as the sun is busily turning your veggies into free radical bombs. 2. If you can modulate random solar radiation into a challenge/response engine I think Jules Verne was looking for you last century. 3. RTFA. Checkout RFIDs work in closer proximity to the scanner (1 foot). 4. And its not protection against the grey market economy ? Barter, stolen goods, drugs, etc ? 5. More Tin Hats (or Faraday cages...pretty easy to shield against war drivers) 6. Why do you believe that lowjac'ing people is a new concept ? Biometrics don't require electronic implants..the only way you can escape is to die right now.
So you enable your team to communicate to each other and/or a central strategist (bigger CPU), are there prohibitions against your opponent talking to or coopting your players ? A simple game of soccer (or football as the Euros would call it) could rapidly change over a season or two into a full blown Robowar league with the added attraction of opponents trying to mind control infect thier opponents. Could get too multifacted for a simple conflict.
Being current resident of the darkest network known to man, your arguments while interesting, don't quite ring true. I know about them and IPSEC isn't a big player...what is a big player is IP. The military is quite consious of how much of the tax payers money is spent on systems so they're not upgraded unless it presents a significant advance in tech, or savings in personel and time. We're not on the incremental upgrade path like business, but quantum leap path when a new supportable direction becomes available. I've been in long enough to make the jump from tubes to solid state...and believe it or not tube technology still presents advantages that chips still haven't reached yet. The US Army needs IP and IPv4 just can't handle the new mobile things that need to be deployed...IPv4 is great for a fixed emplacement, but lousy for mobile... Expect to see great things (TM) when IP6 begins in the civilian sector.
UN*X is not necessary for survival, just look at all of the (and I hesitate to use administrator and NT in the same sentance) NT administrators that are paid to point and click through thier comic book world and thus are kept out of the unemployment lines. Hire the handicapped, buy Micro$loth
Ahh grasshopper I think you need to drink from the well of how the real telcom industry works as far as pricing. What someone pays for when they get a dedicated circuit falls into a couple of different categories: Circuit charge- This charge is just for the priveledge of having a dedicated line from the closest central office (aka pots switch & mux) to your location. Bandwidth charge- Even though you get a T1, T3, OC-3 , OC-48 from the switch to you location it still needs to be able to go somewhere else...so you pay from the CO to your upstream provider's internet connection. A company that's as in dire straights like SCO most likely has everything lumped into one pipe of some type, so if you're using all the bandwitdh up just servicing inbound web requests you negate the ability of them to: Send email Recieve email Surf the web FTP files Carpe Sapiens (and -5 karma for taking the 5 seconds to type this in)
Being a member of the Hilton Rewards program AND a geek that gets PAID to be a geek looks like a novel situation for alot of soapboxer ./'s .
These features are just what I look for when I typically fly into a city for a network install. I'm not a 18 year chasing skirts/drinking/drugging so my needs are pretty simple: Food, a broadband connection so I can VPN back into work to refer to the latest design docs, check email, configure the far end of router interfaces, and coordinate meeting times with the rest of my crew thats arriving from 4 other timezones on three different airlines in a 12 hour window. Time is money for my company and class has nothing to do with it.
We the members of the Technocracy thumb our noses in your general direction. We produce, we consume, you benefit.
If I we're modding you I'd give you a troll -5 and flamebait -30.
Hmm not to sound like I have my own holy grail, but the SIM card in Europe is already used as a contactless form of payment. If you look at alot of vending machines for small items you'll see a phone number you can call :)
India and the US are not comperable entities. It took a third party (the British) introducing a common language (English) to make the current state possible. India is a Mobocracy that's been experimenting as a socialist state for the past 30 years. +1 for high moral ground , -12 for snagging flamebait hook line and sinker.
I guess if your thoughts become prevelent where you live then you can expect a vacation crowd of US Army, Air Force and Marines. Other than being particlarly agregious flame-troll bait you need to be clear on your facts before being culled out of the herd as potential ground beef: Should Abandon XXX. Why ? nothing says be nice and play right better than slagging a city...just ask the Japanese. Should XXX, and XXX. Learn the rules before you try and play the game. Its a meritocracy in American society, contribute play by the rules and suceed; otherwise back into the slime pool. Should respect Geneva Convention. We do for uniformed combatants. Unconventional organizations like criminals and terrorists are handled based upon where they are apprehended and detained. The problem is the rest of the world doesn't take the US seriously until we have to remind them who wears the pants.
Euler was wrong?? I don't think that argument holds water. While 80 pages is long for a proof it looks like more of a philosophical diatribe than anything else.
Having watched it I beg to differ...this was a digital to digital copy, not Analog to digital... One would think that the theaters copies are not so secure.