No ARM Will not replace x86 on the desktop. They point is to keep x86 away from other platforms. The desktop is what it is, a swiss army knife where a powerful CPU with a big feature set is called for, because the system will do a little of everything. Its also true that different feature sets are needed by different users but packing it into a single one size fits all chip is the way to go because the incremental cost of adding features so won't use are less that making a wider array of products. Electrical efficiency is desirable but not at the cost of features or raw performance. Nothing but perhaps POWER will ever compete with x86 there.
x86 is ill suited to mobile devices for all the same reasons its great on desktops and laptops that can afford large heavy batteries, and are generally used where AC is available.
What AMD/Marvell/VIA/NVIDIA *need* to do is keep the old WinTel mind set and lock in out of these new devices. Which they can because they are more limited in scope, and most of the software for these things is already cross platform. Its a matter of keeping it that way so the market remains open and competitive.
Did your write your post without touch typing? I'd be really surprised if you did. Maybe you fingers just sort of know where to go and you don't always return to home row or whatever but I would be pretty surprised if you were even looking at the keyboard when your write that, I bet you looked at the display.
Formal touch-typing is not really about "the correct way to type" its a starting point and a set of exercises to encourage the development of kinetic memory so the typist's hands just know what to do.
Actually a few weeks ago Netflix announce they were sticking their toe in the waters of being a content producer and producing a couple programs that will be first to air on Netflix. So not only will it be new, it will be exclusive.
It might not be ideal performance wise but some business will be willing to put with alot to get a little slice of the IPv4 pie. So you will see special virtual ISPs pop up that have a/16 or so and they will subnet it down to/29s put a bulky router with lots of memory behind it and have their customers tunnel to it, who could even be behind NAT from their physical ISP.
So don't worry even if the big boys stick to their guns and refuse to route anything smaller than a/24 IPv4 won't go away, nor with the market for addresses. My guess is the big boys will agree to route just about anything rather than give up the business.
Outputting crappy graphics in higher res will make no difference whatsoever
That is not quite true. When you send a 480p signal (say from the Wii component out) to your 1080p television it scales up each final frame. That is to say its stretching the entire image.
If you increase the resolution on the back side (depending on how the libraries work, I have not seen Nintendo's SDK) you can get better results. Objects will still have the same amount of definition, but planes will be larger. So if you have say a brick wall in your game, (a simple polygon) with a brick texture applied the brick texture will get tiled on the planes more times, so you get smaller bricks, rather than the same number of muddy looking anti-aliased and stretched bricks, you get when the TV does the scaling..
And last I checked Republicans are not automatically conservatives ( which you can further divide into fiscal and social ) and Democrats are not automatically liberal. I would agree in recent years the correlation of party affiliation and degree of liberalism has become stronger, but in the 1960's it was not reliable at all. Goldwater was an entirely new bread within the Republican party at that time, which if anything was by mainstream Republican party standards of today very liberal.
Yea the problem with Avatar is the same problem most "made to be certain block busters" have. The story is juvenile and simplistic clearly written to twelve years old, so that everyone can understand. To keep the attention of the rest of us they load it up with special effects and gimmicks. I am not saying I don't enjoy some of these movies. What I am saying is that whatever enjoyment I get from them is the same kind of enjoyment one obtains from a roller coaster. Its a thrill ride. Some might remember these fondly but if so its probably has more to do with the people the saw them with and the experience surrounding them more so than the actual film.
Movies that have real lasting cultural impact often are not as well "liked" people see them and talk about them recognize their artistic virtues but don't "like" them, think "Annie Hall", "Flight of the Phoenix" (the first one), "Citizen Cane", "Stray Dog" and so forth, and sure sometimes you get a "Casablanca", or a "Gone with the Wind" that's both.
I don't care if Sony is abusing others because they are not hurting me personally, and I am a short sighted selfish douche who can't see the harm in permitting the destruction of personal property and consumer rights just so I can more fun today.
Its those against that are the problem with society today. I have nothing against people acting in their own self interest. I would never ask or expect someone to act against their own self interest. What I find sad about most people is short sightedness. Its not at all in their self interest to let Sony get away with abuses like this just because it does not effect them and it means a cheaper video game today. Tomorrow when they become the victim of such practices they will have discouraged those who might have stood with them, and they will have created precedent against themselves.
As a consumer its impossible for me to understand how anyone else thinks its a good idea to create a trade environment where manufacturers are free to materially alter products after sale without my consent. There is just no way that is going to work to my favor over the long term. If people won't exercise enough sense to oppose it now wherever they spot it while its relatively benign, its going to be much harder later.
The issue is not if they are interested in you today so much as if they will be interested in you tomorrow.
The simplest way for government to keep every citizen quiet and well behaved is to have something on everyone. The first step was just keep shoveling on your legal code while never removing anything. Chances are pretty darn good in present day America just about every adult has violated the criminal code in some way and they are not even aware. I think its still illegal in Ohio for women to wear patent leather shoes in public, for instance. Unless you spend all your time reading legislative acts you can't be certain, Its not as if not matter home much common sense your mother, wife, or sister has they could guess at the criminality of their wearing patent leather shoes. This is of course an extreme example to illustrate the point (an its probably unconstitutional because it appears to violate equal protection).
So now you add surveillance everywhere and sprinkle in a bit of unnecessary data retention, couple that with modern data mining technology and the next thing you know a warrant to search your closest is being served because the governor didn't like the question you asked at last nights town hall meeting.
Kinda like we never went to war in Vietnam because Russia had nukes. If anything the smartest play for us would be to tell the Chinese if they attack Taiwan we will respond by invading Cuba (again).
Don't know about your phone, but as far as boxee goes...
You're still allowing direct egress from clients on your network, which is wrong, and our your http(s) proxy is for some reason not striping information that could identify a specific client behind your gateway like user agent strings, which is wrong.
Government spending would be good(stimulative) for the economy if the government actually had say a positive cash balance. When governments at the state and local level are debt ridden it might still be ok if they were borrowing the money from people and other entities with positive net worths.
When government is selling bonds to same financial entities its making loans to at a lower interest rate then bonds it financing them with and the rest of the money is coming from a quasi-independent institution with the power to create liquidity by fiat its called a SHAM. Commodity prices are soaring, and the markets are up but you notice how job growth is not following, we are headed for another crisis on this time it will be worse, financially and who knows how much more costly socially.
This last time we completely abdicated the rule of law. The government and small elite group of financiers pick winners and losers at their whims, now.
Do a little research into how the Chrysler deal got done for instance. Its likely the Obama administration pressured applet court judges not hear appeals in the bankruptcy case, and possibly the Supreme Court to vacate. Its a FACT they pressured the bond holders to drop the suit, its a FACT Obama lied to the public when he went on TV and said the "speculators" were refusing to take less then 100% of the lean when they had given his Car Tzar and offer to take sixty cents on the dollar six weeks prior. Its a FACT a shell company was setup to buy the assets of Chrysler Corp so that the original company go through bankruptcy as a liquidation rather than a reorganization so as to limit what senior debt holders could recover. This is an obvious FRAUD and under normal circumstances bankruptcy courts don't allow that. Chrysler management admitted on the stand that material the deal was in fact a reorganization. Its likely but probably can't be proven that the Administration used its influence over the bond holders who had themselves taken tarp payments, to break rank with the other bond holders and facilitate the conspiracy to deprive them of their investment. Its a FACT the Fiat did not buy any portion of Chrysler in they were given their entire 20pct stake for free, in exchange for given the appearance of purchasing it, so the media would have a good story. All in all it was a give away to the administrations UAW cronies.
This is not the kind of "rule of law and respect for personal property" that makes people want to invest and grow the economy. I am not about to offer someone a mortgage when if they happen to be less than successfully they can not pay me, and keep the assets because I forgot to bribe^H^H^H^H^H contribute to the campaign fund of some politico.
This is one of the biggest reasons you don't see real economic growth in much of the third world, they lack the security of the rule of law. That's way I think its kinda funny to here Obama argue that Congress can't afford to politicize raising the debt ceiling now. He has already undermine the Full Faith and Credit, himself.
Maybe but its not Government's job to make you feel empowered. The Government should not be in the business of self esteem you precious little snowflake. Someones tax dollars however few went to buy what are basically tchotchkes for the unemployed and not even good ones like a paper weight or something most recipients could make use of. Its simply irresponsible. If that tax (read other peoples hard earned money) money was going to be allocated to the unemployed it should been something useful like a card with some interview tips on it in their mailbox, or at the very worst an extra few dollars on their unemployment checks.
The short answer is no they can't, not at the carrier level. You can NAT6to4 but your really can't go the other way around. 6to4 works because you can allocate the entire ipv4 address space with a constant prefix and route all those addresses to the NAT. The NAT can then copy the payload into an ipv4 packet using the last 32 bits of the original destination address as the entire ipv4 address.
You can't go the other way around because the ipv6 space is bigger, and a machine that only speaks ipv4 would not be able to address all ipv6 hosts. Now if you need just to connect to a specific ipv6 host then you can could build a 4to6 gateway, but you have to manage some sort of static mapping by hand.
I know you don't fancy a 5gb volume but keep in mind that lots of little files are often more vulnerable to attack than a single big one, unless you use different keys. Which would be pain for your to remember. So it probably is best to stick everything in a single blob.
Why would they use the size of the file to determine if its changed, there are these things called hashes or checksums which would be a reliable way to verify the blob has been modified. If they wanted to be really lazy they could just look at the mtime on the container file too. If they are using file size to detect when data has changed, then I would not consider letting any of my data near them for reasons having nothing to do with privacy.
Sorry but this is just wrong. Nobody should should be treated differently by the law. Equal protection is important even if you happen to be a government employee (I am not).
What should happen is the appropriate remedy be made. Cases where the office has violated the rights of the accused in order to discover the crime in the first place, or obtain evidence needed to prosecute it should be thrown out of court. The accused should then be permitted sue the government for any damages if they so desire a case they should be able to easily win.
If a prosecutor keeps losing cases because some officer or local PD is abusing citizen's rights the officer should be corrected if possible, after all maybe he is just ignorant. I'd sure want want my boss to say "you're doing it wrong, fix it" before firing me. If the office continues to do it wrong he should be let go. Only if its a more serious violation like wrongful imprisonment that we have specific statues against prescribing jail time should land an officer in jail and those would apply to you and I as well so its fair.
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It really comes down to word play. Saying sugar is toxic is on one hand kinda of silly, our bodies run on simple sugar after all.
Its also true that the conversion process of turning more complex sugars like fructose or sucrose, into simple sugar require other chemical inputs which our bodies generally need for other processes. Therefore consumption of fructose without the rest of the fruit to go with it does potentially disrupt our physiological processes, which pretty much any poison does.
Its not a coincidence that the chemicals needed to process fructose are typically found along side it in nature, we evolved to use the chemical energy stored there and our biology learned to use the other resources at hand to do it.
We are not built to consume processed sugars though there are no pools of juice to be found out in the forest, nor are there Twinkies hanging from the tress.
I don't know what you think, but that car battery is VERY dangerous. You are right at 12-14vdc its unlikely you are going to get allot of current across your body but you COULD under the right conditions, like say if you were cut or your skin has lots of a very conductive fluid like um gasoline for instance. Theses are things that certainly can happen working on a car.
No its not as dangerous as the AC lines in your house but its not safe.
That is because a good portion of the people streaming out there over UDP are doing wrong. MPEGTS is designed for a lossy broadcast style operation. Its designed to run on ATM cells, which is why each "packet" is 188 bytes. Those packets can contain error correction information. That requires more total bandwidth but is much better for multicast sending because you don't need to retransmit, and you don't need to get back and ACKs. It also contains flags that let the recipient know if the data in the packet is a place where a given program stream can start decoding from, IE for a video a full frame.
The problem is most of the time the error correction information is not sent, so more data can be used for content, and half the time other container formats like MPEGPS get used which are simply not designed for transmission. So yes if you have packet loss it fails badly.
China would have no legal basis for doing that. What they own primarily are bonds in the form of treasuries, those specify payment in dollars, and say nothing about the buying power of a dollar. So we in fact can pay them back with a currency inflated to the point of uselessness but at the expense of destroying our own economy of course.
The real questions are will be the ones choosing to race to the bottom with currency valuation or will our hands be forced. Right now it can't be argued that the FED as a strong dollar policy, its plainly a weak dollar policy.
Defense in depth in all but really Firewalls suck, and break the Internet. Its not FTP that is broken its systems that need firewalling that are. That said there is no operating system in common use, Linux included, that should not be behind a firewall, at the very least a local software based one.
The control channel being on a separate socket from the data channel allows FTP to do things like XFTP where a client can broker a transfer between servers without needing to participate in it.
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No ARM Will not replace x86 on the desktop. They point is to keep x86 away from other platforms. The desktop is what it is, a swiss army knife where a powerful CPU with a big feature set is called for, because the system will do a little of everything. Its also true that different feature sets are needed by different users but packing it into a single one size fits all chip is the way to go because the incremental cost of adding features so won't use are less that making a wider array of products. Electrical efficiency is desirable but not at the cost of features or raw performance. Nothing but perhaps POWER will ever compete with x86 there.
x86 is ill suited to mobile devices for all the same reasons its great on desktops and laptops that can afford large heavy batteries, and are generally used where AC is available.
What AMD/Marvell/VIA/NVIDIA *need* to do is keep the old WinTel mind set and lock in out of these new devices. Which they can because they are more limited in scope, and most of the software for these things is already cross platform. Its a matter of keeping it that way so the market remains open and competitive.
Did your write your post without touch typing? I'd be really surprised if you did. Maybe you fingers just sort of know where to go and you don't always return to home row or whatever but I would be pretty surprised if you were even looking at the keyboard when your write that, I bet you looked at the display.
Formal touch-typing is not really about "the correct way to type" its a starting point and a set of exercises to encourage the development of kinetic memory so the typist's hands just know what to do.
No he will use it to save his game duh!
wait this thread is about Resident Evil right?
Actually a few weeks ago Netflix announce they were sticking their toe in the waters of being a content producer and producing a couple programs that will be first to air on Netflix. So not only will it be new, it will be exclusive.
It might not be ideal performance wise but some business will be willing to put with alot to get a little slice of the IPv4 pie. So you will see special virtual ISPs pop up that have a /16 or so and they will subnet it down to /29s put a bulky router with lots of memory behind it and have their customers tunnel to it, who could even be behind NAT from their physical ISP.
So don't worry even if the big boys stick to their guns and refuse to route anything smaller than a /24 IPv4 won't go away, nor with the market for addresses. My guess is the big boys will agree to route just about anything rather than give up the business.
Outputting crappy graphics in higher res will make no difference whatsoever
That is not quite true. When you send a 480p signal (say from the Wii component out) to your 1080p television it scales up each final frame. That is to say its stretching the entire image.
If you increase the resolution on the back side (depending on how the libraries work, I have not seen Nintendo's SDK) you can get better results. Objects will still have the same amount of definition, but planes will be larger. So if you have say a brick wall in your game, (a simple polygon) with a brick texture applied the brick texture will get tiled on the planes more times, so you get smaller bricks, rather than the same number of muddy looking anti-aliased and stretched bricks, you get when the TV does the scaling..
And last I checked Republicans are not automatically conservatives ( which you can further divide into fiscal and social ) and Democrats are not automatically liberal. I would agree in recent years the correlation of party affiliation and degree of liberalism has become stronger, but in the 1960's it was not reliable at all. Goldwater was an entirely new bread within the Republican party at that time, which if anything was by mainstream Republican party standards of today very liberal.
Yea the problem with Avatar is the same problem most "made to be certain block busters" have. The story is juvenile and simplistic clearly written to twelve years old, so that everyone can understand. To keep the attention of the rest of us they load it up with special effects and gimmicks. I am not saying I don't enjoy some of these movies. What I am saying is that whatever enjoyment I get from them is the same kind of enjoyment one obtains from a roller coaster. Its a thrill ride. Some might remember these fondly but if so its probably has more to do with the people the saw them with and the experience surrounding them more so than the actual film.
Movies that have real lasting cultural impact often are not as well "liked" people see them and talk about them recognize their artistic virtues but don't "like" them, think "Annie Hall", "Flight of the Phoenix" (the first one), "Citizen Cane", "Stray Dog" and so forth, and sure sometimes you get a "Casablanca", or a "Gone with the Wind" that's both.
So you translate your post...
I don't care if Sony is abusing others because they are not hurting me personally, and I am a short sighted selfish douche who can't see the harm in permitting the destruction of personal property and consumer rights just so I can more fun today.
Its those against that are the problem with society today. I have nothing against people acting in their own self interest. I would never ask or expect someone to act against their own self interest. What I find sad about most people is short sightedness. Its not at all in their self interest to let Sony get away with abuses like this just because it does not effect them and it means a cheaper video game today. Tomorrow when they become the victim of such practices they will have discouraged those who might have stood with them, and they will have created precedent against themselves.
As a consumer its impossible for me to understand how anyone else thinks its a good idea to create a trade environment where manufacturers are free to materially alter products after sale without my consent. There is just no way that is going to work to my favor over the long term. If people won't exercise enough sense to oppose it now wherever they spot it while its relatively benign, its going to be much harder later.
The issue is not if they are interested in you today so much as if they will be interested in you tomorrow.
The simplest way for government to keep every citizen quiet and well behaved is to have something on everyone. The first step was just keep shoveling on your legal code while never removing anything. Chances are pretty darn good in present day America just about every adult has violated the criminal code in some way and they are not even aware. I think its still illegal in Ohio for women to wear patent leather shoes in public, for instance. Unless you spend all your time reading legislative acts you can't be certain, Its not as if not matter home much common sense your mother, wife, or sister has they could guess at the criminality of their wearing patent leather shoes. This is of course an extreme example to illustrate the point (an its probably unconstitutional because it appears to violate equal protection).
So now you add surveillance everywhere and sprinkle in a bit of unnecessary data retention, couple that with modern data mining technology and the next thing you know a warrant to search your closest is being served because the governor didn't like the question you asked at last nights town hall meeting.
Kinda like we never went to war in Vietnam because Russia had nukes. If anything the smartest play for us would be to tell the Chinese if they attack Taiwan we will respond by invading Cuba (again).
Don't know about your phone, but as far as boxee goes...
You're still allowing direct egress from clients on your network, which is wrong, and our your http(s) proxy is for some reason not striping information that could identify a specific client behind your gateway like user agent strings, which is wrong.
Government spending would be good(stimulative) for the economy if the government actually had say a positive cash balance. When governments at the state and local level are debt ridden it might still be ok if they were borrowing the money from people and other entities with positive net worths.
When government is selling bonds to same financial entities its making loans to at a lower interest rate then bonds it financing them with and the rest of the money is coming from a quasi-independent institution with the power to create liquidity by fiat its called a SHAM. Commodity prices are soaring, and the markets are up but you notice how job growth is not following, we are headed for another crisis on this time it will be worse, financially and who knows how much more costly socially.
This last time we completely abdicated the rule of law. The government and small elite group of financiers pick winners and losers at their whims, now.
Do a little research into how the Chrysler deal got done for instance. Its likely the Obama administration pressured applet court judges not hear appeals in the bankruptcy case, and possibly the Supreme Court to vacate. Its a FACT they pressured the bond holders to drop the suit, its a FACT Obama lied to the public when he went on TV and said the "speculators" were refusing to take less then 100% of the lean when they had given his Car Tzar and offer to take sixty cents on the dollar six weeks prior. Its a FACT a shell company was setup to buy the assets of Chrysler Corp so that the original company go through bankruptcy as a liquidation rather than a reorganization so as to limit what senior debt holders could recover. This is an obvious FRAUD and under normal circumstances bankruptcy courts don't allow that. Chrysler management admitted on the stand that material the deal was in fact a reorganization. Its likely but probably can't be proven that the Administration used its influence over the bond holders who had themselves taken tarp payments, to break rank with the other bond holders and facilitate the conspiracy to deprive them of their investment. Its a FACT the Fiat did not buy any portion of Chrysler in they were given their entire 20pct stake for free, in exchange for given the appearance of purchasing it, so the media would have a good story. All in all it was a give away to the administrations UAW cronies.
This is not the kind of "rule of law and respect for personal property" that makes people want to invest and grow the economy. I am not about to offer someone a mortgage when if they happen to be less than successfully they can not pay me, and keep the assets because I forgot to bribe^H^H^H^H^H contribute to the campaign fund of some politico.
This is one of the biggest reasons you don't see real economic growth in much of the third world, they lack the security of the rule of law. That's way I think its kinda funny to here Obama argue that Congress can't afford to politicize raising the debt ceiling now. He has already undermine the Full Faith and Credit, himself.
Maybe but its not Government's job to make you feel empowered. The Government should not be in the business of self esteem you precious little snowflake.
Someones tax dollars however few went to buy what are basically tchotchkes for the unemployed and not even good ones like a paper weight or something most recipients could make use of. Its simply irresponsible. If that tax (read other peoples hard earned money) money was going to be allocated to the unemployed it should been something useful like a card with some interview tips on it in their mailbox, or at the very worst an extra few dollars on their unemployment checks.
The short answer is no they can't, not at the carrier level. You can NAT6to4 but your really can't go the other way around. 6to4 works because you can allocate the entire ipv4 address space with a constant prefix and route all those addresses to the NAT. The NAT can then copy the payload into an ipv4 packet using the last 32 bits of the original destination address as the entire ipv4 address.
You can't go the other way around because the ipv6 space is bigger, and a machine that only speaks ipv4 would not be able to address all ipv6 hosts. Now if you need just to connect to a specific ipv6 host then you can could build a 4to6 gateway, but you have to manage some sort of static mapping by hand.
I know you don't fancy a 5gb volume but keep in mind that lots of little files are often more vulnerable to attack than a single big one, unless you use different keys. Which would be pain for your to remember. So it probably is best to stick everything in a single blob.
Why would they use the size of the file to determine if its changed, there are these things called hashes or checksums which would be a reliable way to verify the blob has been modified. If they wanted to be really lazy they could just look at the mtime on the container file too. If they are using file size to detect when data has changed, then I would not consider letting any of my data near them for reasons having nothing to do with privacy.
Sorry but this is just wrong. Nobody should should be treated differently by the law. Equal protection is important even if you happen to be a government employee (I am not).
What should happen is the appropriate remedy be made. Cases where the office has violated the rights of the accused in order to discover the crime in the first place, or obtain evidence needed to prosecute it should be thrown out of court. The accused should then be permitted sue the government for any damages if they so desire a case they should be able to easily win.
If a prosecutor keeps losing cases because some officer or local PD is abusing citizen's rights the officer should be corrected if possible, after all maybe he is just ignorant. I'd sure want want my boss to say "you're doing it wrong, fix it" before firing me. If the office continues to do it wrong he should be let go. Only if its a more serious violation like wrongful imprisonment that we have specific statues against prescribing jail time should land an officer in jail and those would apply to you and I as well so its fair.
It really comes down to word play. Saying sugar is toxic is on one hand kinda of silly, our bodies run on simple sugar after all.
Its also true that the conversion process of turning more complex sugars like fructose or sucrose, into simple sugar require other chemical inputs which our bodies generally need for other processes. Therefore consumption of fructose without the rest of the fruit to go with it does potentially disrupt our physiological processes, which pretty much any poison does.
Its not a coincidence that the chemicals needed to process fructose are typically found along side it in nature, we evolved to use the chemical energy stored there and our biology learned to use the other resources at hand to do it.
We are not built to consume processed sugars though there are no pools of juice to be found out in the forest, nor are there Twinkies hanging from the tress.
I don't know what you think, but that car battery is VERY dangerous. You are right at 12-14vdc its unlikely you are going to get allot of current across your body but you COULD under the right conditions, like say if you were cut or your skin has lots of a very conductive fluid like um gasoline for instance. Theses are things that certainly can happen working on a car.
No its not as dangerous as the AC lines in your house but its not safe.
That is because a good portion of the people streaming out there over UDP are doing wrong. MPEGTS is designed for a lossy broadcast style operation. Its designed to run on ATM cells, which is why each "packet" is 188 bytes. Those packets can contain error correction information. That requires more total bandwidth but is much better for multicast sending because you don't need to retransmit, and you don't need to get back and ACKs. It also contains flags that let the recipient know if the data in the packet is a place where a given program stream can start decoding from, IE for a video a full frame.
The problem is most of the time the error correction information is not sent, so more data can be used for content, and half the time other container formats like MPEGPS get used which are simply not designed for transmission. So yes if you have packet loss it fails badly.
Alchemy -- figures given the state of our educational system.
China would have no legal basis for doing that. What they own primarily are bonds in the form of treasuries, those specify payment in dollars, and say nothing about the buying power of a dollar. So we in fact can pay them back with a currency inflated to the point of uselessness but at the expense of destroying our own economy of course.
The real questions are will be the ones choosing to race to the bottom with currency valuation or will our hands be forced. Right now it can't be argued that the FED as a strong dollar policy, its plainly a weak dollar policy.
Defense in depth in all but really Firewalls suck, and break the Internet. Its not FTP that is broken its systems that need firewalling that are. That said there is no operating system in common use, Linux included, that should not be behind a firewall, at the very least a local software based one.
The control channel being on a separate socket from the data channel allows FTP to do things like XFTP where a client can broker a transfer between servers without needing to participate in it.