Because its just a market place were private entities exchange private property with each other. Why should the government be involved at all?
Are you suggesting that everything that is huge, influential, or could impact our economy be nationalized? How about UPS and Fedex, CSX, they are the biggest distribution companies around if they were attacked it could disrupt our economy, should they be nationalize, should every one of their planes have a fighter escort, and ever rail car a platoon to guard it?
First of this is a private company. Sure they are probably one of the most regulated organizations in existence but they are still private. Other that SEC compliance issues that might be a result of this hack Government has no damned business being involved or even commenting.
Second comparing it to air traffic control is just stupid. The market has circuit breakers, it takes holidays, and there is a history of closures and outages. When was the last time anyone turned off air traffic control? That's right NEVER, on the other hand the nation seems to hmm along just fine Saturdays, Sundays, all the hours outside of 9:30a - 4p the rest of the week, without the NASDAQ being open.
I am not saying unexpected market closures are not majorly disruptive but nobody dies so they really are not up their with some of those other services.
I see this tribalism is wrong argument popping up quite often but really what is this based on philosophically. I don't know them and they don't know me. I can only assume they are going to look out for their best interests, I therefore must do the same. This does not hold true for my friends and neighbors who I can expect to consider my interests, at least to a degree.
I don't turn on the even news and see a whole lot of evidence the rest of the world is filled with altruists, who only want what is best for everyone. The other issue with this argument for outsourcing is, I think its users should be required to prove its not a zero sum game. "Because they deserve to benefit from technology and have good jobs too", is only a sound argument if those jobs are not being taken from people here. Where countries like India are concerned they are competitors, it might be a mostly friendly competition right now.
I don't know what I would have done in this guys shoes, I suspect I would have been even more tribal and decided to do what is best for MY family, and taken the job. I applaud him for standing on principles though which I feel are sound.
Actually that device will still be a router, it just won't be a NAT. The ISP is going to route you a/64 and your router will forward packets to hosts or other routers on that/64.
Not to mention by doing a little leg work and collecting some data a professional should be more able to look at it and decide if a potentially costly professional investigation is warranted. I am certain NCDOT gets lots of requests and has limited resources with which to investigate them and even more limited resources with which to grant them.
Naturally a qualified civil engineer needs to look at the problem, but the laypersons having done careful work as part of their submission should if the department was being run responsibly increase their likely hood of getting a review, as the department should be able see that there is potentially a real problem and the likely hood the whole thing is a waste of time is lower than if someone scrawls "we need us some o'them traffic lamps" on some comments section of some state form originally designed for some other use and submits that.
Not really, the old Navigator was just called the Mozilla suite until Firefox shipped. The Seamokey project is run by a group that still wanted to continue development of the suite, which by the way is now no bigger than today's bloaty Firefox, used the same engine so displays pages exactly as well but offers more features and is an all around SUPERIOR browser. Firefox was good when it was actually smaller but these days is pretty pointless. What the should do is keep the FF name because its well marketed drop the FF and TB projects and rebrand Seamonkey as Fire Fox.
That may be so, but its not the bottom in kernel level stuff anyone is interested in the Windows code base leaking for (well some crackers and other criminals might be) there are plenty of FOSS kernels that are every bit as good on NT to choose from. What's good about Windows is the stack of libraries. Lots of those are present in WIndows 9x and the complete source to Windows 95 even today would be of great use to someone who wanted to support win32 subsystems on top of some other platform.
I guess the issue is does the attacker need to meet the knowingly standard. Most attacks don't use spoofed address because from most places that is incredibly hard to make work. So typically the person running the attack will use a proxy or two and for DDOS like stuff a bot net. In general the machine the packets are coming from is an attacker, regardless of its owner's awareness.
I don't think its wrong to go blasting bot net nodes off the internet if they are causing you grief and you can identify them. It might be kinda like sending some rockets back to that city because that is where the attack came from but its also true that those folks are not policing their equipment and are enabling criminals. They are not being good netizens, I have actually meet people with malware and bot net software on their boxes who don't clean it up because they say it does not effect them! They only way to make this problem go away is to make everyone responsible for their own equipment and many are not going to take responsibility unless it becomes painful form them not to do so, if you have to take their facebook away to make them pay attention I say do it.
I have often thought of that just as I have often wondered what happens to those economies when their recoverable supply of oil dries up. Let me tell you the answer. I DON"T CARE! we will have no use for THEM any more. We can keep ourselves safe from them by simple keeping them out. There really will be no reason not to treat them the way we have treated Cuba for the past 50 years, total embargo.
Read the article this process uses C02 as an input. If you burn say ethanol ( a possible output of this ) you get C02+H2O there are no pollutants there. Neither is toxic and it can be argued we need more fresh water. C02 is only a problem if you don't like larger fruits and vegetables or are concerned that we might be pushing the atmospheric concentration to a point where it *could* cause climate change or something. In that case you should still like this technology because the easiest place to get large amounts of C02 is going to be from the air.
So if you produce ethanol this way put it in your tank and drive you car down the street with it you have been entirely carbon neutral. The worst thing you have done is released that dangerous solvent we call water.
I don't buy that to much content exists for it to vanish. Flash video basically died over night the only things in the old FLV format any more are OLD themselves and largely stuff nobody cares about, stuff people did care about got format shifted.
If you have any ads on your page, even if you are using using just ad words and you show that video it might be argued you are using it commercially. You just being an apologist because you bought a bunch of h.264 toys. You know we are right that h.264 could be dangerous.
I don't know what you drugs you might be on but I want some. Since when have Microsoft and Apple been Google's friends? Microsoft and Google started a little cold war around the time Google first became a verb, and it became a hot war with the release of Bing. They have been slugging it out ever sense and this is just another round. Apple and Google have not exactly been at each others throats they way Google and Microsoft has but the have very different interests, Google wants the browser to be the Application, Apple wants to essentially go back to the way things were in the early days and push a bunch of tiny network aware Apps. Only this time Apple wants to sell you those Apps, and wants you to search for them in their App store. That does not leave much room for Google, who wants you doing as much as possible on the Web.
I don't think Google has a bad relationship with the Mozilla foundation, I guess Chrome is competition but I doubt there is much anger over it. Google has done a lot to boost Mozilla.org products over the years and if anything I am sure Mozilla sees this push for WebM as a big plus. They can't ship a built in H.264 decoder but they can ship WebM so as a user I am pretty happy about this and I would guess the developers are too.
I don't care to speculate about MPEG LA, I don't know about and history Google has with them. What I am saying is that I don't see this impacting the landscape much with regard to who Google's friends and foes are or even who is ambivalent. It might raise they stakes with some but only where they were already high.
h.264 is proprietary in theory you have to license the decoder and the encoder. Its only free to stream it, if I understand correctly. Google is not retaining flash Crome does not support flash, its plugin just like it is for every other browser. I doubt Google will do anything to interfere with Microsoft creating an h.264 plug for their current Windows platforms as they have done with Firefox either. Get you facts strait.
Machiavelli said If you can't make them love you.... Google might still be going for the make them love you part, in which case it could still be viewed Machiavellian behavior.
Not correct, Firefox and its Geko engined relatives only have h.264 on Windows 7 and I will assume later versions. Those browsers are very popular on Windows XP, Mac OS, and naturally Linux and BSD. Opera is also not going to support for h.264, I suspect Microsoft might make a plugin for it on Windows as well but that means lots of set top devices and video game consoles and the like are also going to wind up having WebM out of the box, and no support for h.264.
Killing or maiming people with claymores sounds a little excessive for the crime of illegal immigration to me but I do think we should secure or boarder. I like your two 16 foot high fences idea, but I think we should take a pass on claymores. We could put a rail track between them and have fairly regular patrols done from an electric trolley by ICE agents as well. I bet all of that could happen for the costs of a few days in Afghanistan.
But a boss can't just declare motivation and efficiency
They sure can do that if they are good. You motivate people with rewards, not just direct monetary ones either. If management is good they know what the objectives are and they know what the current time table looks like. If you want to motivate people set some goals. You set some clearly obtainable goals you know stuff that if everyone kicks in an extra hour or so are reachable, those might get rewarded with free pizza for the dev team on Fridays for a month or something. You set some tougher goals that are also likely reachable but only if people get a little creative and realize some new efficiencies and put the time saved to more work rather than Slashdot. That perhaps earns everyone a half day late start on Monday for a while or something. After that you set some real stretch goals that would require people to really work much harder, that might earn them a $500 dollar bonus or something for the month.
The other thing is you have to keep it interesting, you can't use the same rewards over and over again you have to capture peoples imagination a little bit. You want them thinking gee what could I do with that $500 or half day on Monday etc.
Standards are no good when there are barriers that prevent some folks from implementing them. Standards should be open if they are not then I am fine with competition in standards even when that means things don't just work.
I hear lots of complaining from teachers and non teachers alike about how they get compensated. There are a whole bunch of people that say they are under paid and whole lot of people who don't like the tenure system. What both groups need to understand is the tenure system is part of that compensation as is the relatively early by today's standards full retirement with a decent pension. Teachers in most places enjoy considerably better job security and retirement security than people in industry, trade off for that is no they don't see salary as high as someone with similar education might else where.
Perhaps Google is thinking they can do something to save math and science education in this country so they will have a future work force to hire folks from that are able to do something useful.
Sounds pretty responsible to me, they are admitting they don't know how to meet the objective Congress has set for them with the resources they are being allowed and also admitting they are not Gods and some other aerospace engineers might have some ideas they never thought of.
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Because its just a market place were private entities exchange private property with each other. Why should the government be involved at all?
Are you suggesting that everything that is huge, influential, or could impact our economy be nationalized? How about UPS and Fedex, CSX, they are the biggest distribution companies around if they were attacked it could disrupt our economy, should they be nationalize, should every one of their planes have a fighter escort, and ever rail car a platoon to guard it?
Seriously where do you draw the line?
First of this is a private company. Sure they are probably one of the most regulated organizations in existence but they are still private. Other that SEC compliance issues that might be a result of this hack Government has no damned business being involved or even commenting.
Second comparing it to air traffic control is just stupid. The market has circuit breakers, it takes holidays, and there is a history of closures and outages. When was the last time anyone turned off air traffic control? That's right NEVER, on the other hand the nation seems to hmm along just fine Saturdays, Sundays, all the hours outside of 9:30a - 4p the rest of the week, without the NASDAQ being open.
I am not saying unexpected market closures are not majorly disruptive but nobody dies so they really are not up their with some of those other services.
I see this tribalism is wrong argument popping up quite often but really what is this based on philosophically. I don't know them and they don't know me. I can only assume they are going to look out for their best interests, I therefore must do the same. This does not hold true for my friends and neighbors who I can expect to consider my interests, at least to a degree.
I don't turn on the even news and see a whole lot of evidence the rest of the world is filled with altruists, who only want what is best for everyone. The other issue with this argument for outsourcing is, I think its users should be required to prove its not a zero sum game. "Because they deserve to benefit from technology and have good jobs too", is only a sound argument if those jobs are not being taken from people here. Where countries like India are concerned they are competitors, it might be a mostly friendly competition right now.
I don't know what I would have done in this guys shoes, I suspect I would have been even more tribal and decided to do what is best for MY family, and taken the job. I applaud him for standing on principles though which I feel are sound.
Actually that device will still be a router, it just won't be a NAT. The ISP is going to route you a /64 and your router will forward packets to hosts or other routers on that /64.
Not to mention by doing a little leg work and collecting some data a professional should be more able to look at it and decide if a potentially costly professional investigation is warranted. I am certain NCDOT gets lots of requests and has limited resources with which to investigate them and even more limited resources with which to grant them.
Naturally a qualified civil engineer needs to look at the problem, but the laypersons having done careful work as part of their submission should if the department was being run responsibly increase their likely hood of getting a review, as the department should be able see that there is potentially a real problem and the likely hood the whole thing is a waste of time is lower than if someone scrawls "we need us some o'them traffic lamps" on some comments section of some state form originally designed for some other use and submits that.
Not really, the old Navigator was just called the Mozilla suite until Firefox shipped. The Seamokey project is run by a group that still wanted to continue development of the suite, which by the way is now no bigger than today's bloaty Firefox, used the same engine so displays pages exactly as well but offers more features and is an all around SUPERIOR browser. Firefox was good when it was actually smaller but these days is pretty pointless. What the should do is keep the FF name because its well marketed drop the FF and TB projects and rebrand Seamonkey as Fire Fox.
That may be so, but its not the bottom in kernel level stuff anyone is interested in the Windows code base leaking for (well some crackers and other criminals might be) there are plenty of FOSS kernels that are every bit as good on NT to choose from. What's good about Windows is the stack of libraries. Lots of those are present in WIndows 9x and the complete source to Windows 95 even today would be of great use to someone who wanted to support win32 subsystems on top of some other platform.
I guess the issue is does the attacker need to meet the knowingly standard. Most attacks don't use spoofed address because from most places that is incredibly hard to make work. So typically the person running the attack will use a proxy or two and for DDOS like stuff a bot net. In general the machine the packets are coming from is an attacker, regardless of its owner's awareness.
I don't think its wrong to go blasting bot net nodes off the internet if they are causing you grief and you can identify them. It might be kinda like sending some rockets back to that city because that is where the attack came from but its also true that those folks are not policing their equipment and are enabling criminals. They are not being good netizens, I have actually meet people with malware and bot net software on their boxes who don't clean it up because they say it does not effect them! They only way to make this problem go away is to make everyone responsible for their own equipment and many are not going to take responsibility unless it becomes painful form them not to do so, if you have to take their facebook away to make them pay attention I say do it.
I have often thought of that just as I have often wondered what happens to those economies when their recoverable supply of oil dries up. Let me tell you the answer. I DON"T CARE! we will have no use for THEM any more. We can keep ourselves safe from them by simple keeping them out. There really will be no reason not to treat them the way we have treated Cuba for the past 50 years, total embargo.
Read the article this process uses C02 as an input. If you burn say ethanol ( a possible output of this ) you get C02+H2O there are no pollutants there. Neither is toxic and it can be argued we need more fresh water. C02 is only a problem if you don't like larger fruits and vegetables or are concerned that we might be pushing the atmospheric concentration to a point where it *could* cause climate change or something. In that case you should still like this technology because the easiest place to get large amounts of C02 is going to be from the air.
So if you produce ethanol this way put it in your tank and drive you car down the street with it you have been entirely carbon neutral. The worst thing you have done is released that dangerous solvent we call water.
I don't buy that to much content exists for it to vanish. Flash video basically died over night the only things in the old FLV format any more are OLD themselves and largely stuff nobody cares about, stuff people did care about got format shifted.
If you have any ads on your page, even if you are using using just ad words and you show that video it might be argued you are using it commercially. You just being an apologist because you bought a bunch of h.264 toys. You know we are right that h.264 could be dangerous.
I don't know what you drugs you might be on but I want some. Since when have Microsoft and Apple been Google's friends? Microsoft and Google started a little cold war around the time Google first became a verb, and it became a hot war with the release of Bing. They have been slugging it out ever sense and this is just another round. Apple and Google have not exactly been at each others throats they way Google and Microsoft has but the have very different interests, Google wants the browser to be the Application, Apple wants to essentially go back to the way things were in the early days and push a bunch of tiny network aware Apps. Only this time Apple wants to sell you those Apps, and wants you to search for them in their App store. That does not leave much room for Google, who wants you doing as much as possible on the Web.
I don't think Google has a bad relationship with the Mozilla foundation, I guess Chrome is competition but I doubt there is much anger over it. Google has done a lot to boost Mozilla.org products over the years and if anything I am sure Mozilla sees this push for WebM as a big plus. They can't ship a built in H.264 decoder but they can ship WebM so as a user I am pretty happy about this and I would guess the developers are too.
I don't care to speculate about MPEG LA, I don't know about and history Google has with them. What I am saying is that I don't see this impacting the landscape much with regard to who Google's friends and foes are or even who is ambivalent. It might raise they stakes with some but only where they were already high.
h.264 is proprietary in theory you have to license the decoder and the encoder. Its only free to stream it, if I understand correctly. Google is not retaining flash Crome does not support flash, its plugin just like it is for every other browser. I doubt Google will do anything to interfere with Microsoft creating an h.264 plug for their current Windows platforms as they have done with Firefox either. Get you facts strait.
Machiavelli said If you can't make them love you.... Google might still be going for the make them love you part, in which case it could still be viewed Machiavellian behavior.
Not correct, Firefox and its Geko engined relatives only have h.264 on Windows 7 and I will assume later versions. Those browsers are very popular on Windows XP, Mac OS, and naturally Linux and BSD. Opera is also not going to support for h.264, I suspect Microsoft might make a plugin for it on Windows as well but that means lots of set top devices and video game consoles and the like are also going to wind up having WebM out of the box, and no support for h.264.
Killing or maiming people with claymores sounds a little excessive for the crime of illegal immigration to me but I do think we should secure or boarder. I like your two 16 foot high fences idea, but I think we should take a pass on claymores. We could put a rail track between them and have fairly regular patrols done from an electric trolley by ICE agents as well. I bet all of that could happen for the costs of a few days in Afghanistan.
But a boss can't just declare motivation and efficiency
They sure can do that if they are good. You motivate people with rewards, not just direct monetary ones either. If management is good they know what the objectives are and they know what the current time table looks like. If you want to motivate people set some goals. You set some clearly obtainable goals you know stuff that if everyone kicks in an extra hour or so are reachable, those might get rewarded with free pizza for the dev team on Fridays for a month or something. You set some tougher goals that are also likely reachable but only if people get a little creative and realize some new efficiencies and put the time saved to more work rather than Slashdot. That perhaps earns everyone a half day late start on Monday for a while or something. After that you set some real stretch goals that would require people to really work much harder, that might earn them a $500 dollar bonus or something for the month.
The other thing is you have to keep it interesting, you can't use the same rewards over and over again you have to capture peoples imagination a little bit. You want them thinking gee what could I do with that $500 or half day on Monday etc.
The return of the infra-red access point, even if its not infra red this time around same bad concept.
Standards are no good when there are barriers that prevent some folks from implementing them. Standards should be open if they are not then I am fine with competition in standards even when that means things don't just work.
I hear lots of complaining from teachers and non teachers alike about how they get compensated. There are a whole bunch of people that say they are under paid and whole lot of people who don't like the tenure system. What both groups need to understand is the tenure system is part of that compensation as is the relatively early by today's standards full retirement with a decent pension. Teachers in most places enjoy considerably better job security and retirement security than people in industry, trade off for that is no they don't see salary as high as someone with similar education might else where.
Perhaps Google is thinking they can do something to save math and science education in this country so they will have a future work force to hire folks from that are able to do something useful.
Sounds pretty responsible to me, they are admitting they don't know how to meet the objective Congress has set for them with the resources they are being allowed and also admitting they are not Gods and some other aerospace engineers might have some ideas they never thought of.
I am looking out the window now at my fence post and I just can't accept you assertion its of lower intelligence, than out Congress.