Consumption in the West has got to fall by a significant amount, whilst consumption in the Developing World should rise.
Why should this be the case? On what do you base you claim that consumption should rise in the developing world? Why should the western world have to give anything up. I can just as easily argue the current situation is our manifest destiny; and I will.
When it comes down to it me and mine matter much more to me then theirs and them; I am for keeping things as they are.
Right and what do you do when you have bad directions? You turn around and go another way. Yea it sucks that Google produced a bad route. She approached this highway on foot though, she expects us to accept she could not take a look at the situation and decide if it was safe?
My gosh whatever happened to personal responsibility; if Google had told here jump on a bridge would she have done it? Why do people feel entitled to go about not thinking in our society? Last I checked there was a large lump of gray tissue in everyone head which has the primary function of keeping them alive; maybe they should um use it!
What does LaRouche have to do with the TeaParty? The fact is if you look at the Teaparty has lots of intelligent educated members. Its rallies have actually be characterized by being peaceful and resulting in less damage to property and shared services than Obama political rallies. People like you and the press are routinely characterizing the TeaParty as a bunch of violent raciests; its just not true. You people also apparently don't understand its politics at all as LaRouche would be the last person in the world to join the TeaParty.
Really? How exactly do you test solutions for catastrophe of unknown nature a mile underwater, working with wells of unknown pressure filled with oil and gas of unknown composition? You do understand this was an exploratory well right; the point of this thing was largely to find out what is down there.
If you have a solution to this problem of being able to prove catastrophic failure modes can be solved by doing X with all the other unknowns you are clearly way smarted than the rest of us and I welcome our new over lord; otherwise you just another arm chair quarterback here.
Would you whitelist Flash? Would you whitelist Adobe Acrobat Reader? Would you whitelist your web browser? Or your media player, your MP3 player, your word processor, your instant messenger? Of course, you would pretty much have to or your user would go ballistic on you. Is it an attack vector? Oh, one of them currently certainly is!
A more granular white list will will work. What you really need is a white list + ACE/ACL system. Symantec Endpoint Protection actually can do some of this stuff if your admin people invest enough time it writing rules. Yes you whitelist Acrobat Reader but you only allow it to open file streams to files ending in.pdf and only for read. Flash might have to play a little to get that to work, but it to could probably be sandboxed effectively. Your word processor again might need read access to files in many places but only needs to write *new* files in the documents directory and only needs to be allowed to write a couple hundred megs per instance so that it can't be used to DOS you.
I could go on but you get the idea. You could build a system that is usable and at the same time hardened enough to remove most of the profit in attacking it. It would cost quite a bit and take a great deal of work to maintain. The industry has simply decided its better to tolerate a certain amount of crime and clean up afterwords.
Its kinda like you house in that way. You accept there is a certain risk you will be broken into; and you just insure your stuff. Its a better alternative than the razor wire; surrounded steel walled bunker you'd otherwise have to have to keep people out.
And when it was a music player that was a resonable argument to make. Why should you not have an easy way to copy files to a and from it. The data is not unique or personal.. I would still make the argument they should be mountable and apparently Apple agrees. What I find entertaing is that they don't have some sort of encrypted storage; where apps can write possibly private info into. A registry or something that is protected; even in the volume itself is open.
Is it really that or is it that copyright as implemented today makes chain of ownership difficult to track and manage and faithful compliance with license terms almost hopeless within most organizations?
Ok so Joe in assestmanagement wants to purchase OMG DRM Poines Manager 7 USA eddition; he wants to use it to seriales all ponies for distribution in the US. Legal looks over the license and approves the purchase, after asking Bob about his plans for the application. 5 years later Bob has left the company. Ted has been asked to serialize all ponies, not just those sold in the USA. He knows they have always use the copy of OMG DRM Poines Manager 7 for serializing ponies and it works well. Do you think he goes back and reads the license terms? I doubt it; so without doing anything malicous they are not as an organization noncompliant.
Keeping track of all these issues in most larger organizations would be multiple full time jobs and there is simply no room for it in smaller orgs at all. The whole system in economic terms is unjustified; nobody would by this stuff if compliance management was taken into TCO calculations more often; but its usually not.
Non its a conceit because they game would be no fun otherwise. The reality is you could very well spend a day or more riding to the town and not see more than one or two other people possibly traveling in the other direction; you might spend a day not seeing anyone at all. That does not sound like very fun video game to me.
We can't pressure China to do anything unless we are willing to risk total warefar with them. All they have to do is threaten a minor hiccup in treasury purchases and we just lost our testicles. Oh and don't go with they need us just as much as we need them economically crap. No they don't. They have a rising rest of Asia, Russian Federation, Europe and India to sell cheap stuff to. Oh yes it would slow them down a great deal but not like what it would do to us; not at all.
I did not mean to suggest that dumping was the only problem; and I said parts of Africa I am fully aware there is lots of territory where the resources are not present and neither are the infrastructure or political security. Yes the problem is a bit more detailed than can be easily covered in a Slashdot thread. I only wanted to put the ideas out there so that people might do a some of their own research.
The prevailing notion that seems to be held by the liberal members of the current body politic is simple minded and frankly racists. There is much much more to Africa than a bunch of poor dirt farmers constantly ravaged by tribal death squads that we simple must help out with food and money because they could never possibly help themselves. Yet this is certainly what many Americans are lead to believe and seem to think.
She admits in the video that there is not enough boom in the world to do "proper fucking booming" for the entire affected area of the Gulf coast. She goes on to say that having that is part of being ready; that BP said they were ready; and they are not. She might be correct about all of that.
Ah but here were are now there is not enough boom to do "proper fucking booming" so what exactly should they do? Nothing? Use the boom they do have to cover as much area as possible and hopefully do a little bit of good? Should they do "proper fucking booming" over a small area, and leave the rest to chance? which area? She comes off like she is saying "look they screwed up again" when its more like the screwed up a long time ago and now don't have the means to fix it, not that it is any better but why can't we portray thing accurately?
Not to mention their are parts of Africa that would be favorable to agriculture and could sustain the local and the surrounding populations but there is almost no commercial farming because we dump cheap food stuffs produced here with the aide of heavy economic subsidies. It makes it impossible for the local people to compete. Agriculture is an important component of almost any economy. Our preventing it by dumping food is actually keeping many parts of Africa poor.
No I think letting the Federal DOE become the ministry of information would have far worse consequences than this decision in Texas.
I have read lots of history and while I think the church-and-state arguments the Texas board makes are a little week, I can tell you that if you pickup the typical High School Civics book today there IS a progressive bias. I don't think its out of line to insists that books at least cover major political events like the Contract with America, the Goldwater movement in the 60s and not leaving kids with the impression Nixon started Vietnam, is out of line at all.
I would agree with you and break it down like this:
Emulator - Software that implements or replicates the behavior and function of digital hardware
Simulator - Software that implements at a presentation level the behaviors and possibly the functions of some type of hardware; but does not model the hardware completely.
Translator - Software that changes one set of instructions into another set intended to duplicate the behavior of the original but prior to execution time.
Interpreter - Software that changes one set of instructions into another set intended to duplicate the behavior of the original at execution time.
Compatibility layer - Software which duplicates the interface of some other software and may or may not provide equivalent behavior.
Or maybe there is some real psychological harm done by spending every day assembling something that is clearly a mass market items, which you yourself will very possibly never command enough wealth to possess. If that is bad enough add to that the certain knowledge that the reasons for that is not that you don't work hard enough or that you are not productive enough but because of monetary and political games a few at the very top in both your own nation and the nation most of these items are destine for profit by.
Don't let anyone lie to you with words like fair trade or free trade, what these agreements are has nothing to do with either one of the words free or fair. If they did currencies would float against each other, and tariffs would never exceed the local sales tax at the import destination.
Yes but this is GP we are talking about there really is no "Application Server" the clients all connect to the database! The users running the client therefore must have access to connect to the database and do DML queries on many objects. Any users that actually need to run the application and not some limited web front end you have built or something are SQL users. The only real workaround is to only allow database connections from selct hosts and have one of those hosts be a terminal server. The best part is the GP application has lots bugs when running under terminal services!
That is nice to think but nobody can replace PGP at this point. As you point out in your post there are other technical and in many cases better solutions to everything PGP does; really does not matter though. PGP is entrenched, in government and guess what government spending is AT LEAST 1/6th of the GDP now. Want to work with the DOD you have to use PGP. If you are already doing PGP with your biggest client you are going to prefer to use the same solution as much as possible. PGP is safe from all the but the most wanton bungling at this point.
Why is that stupid; You certainly can't call tops and bottoms, and most people who think they can are proven wrong but you look at the stituation and determine roughly when the trend is likely to shift. There is no point in plowing money into a 401k (matching aside) while the market is trending broadly down. Its just flushing money down the drain right into Goldman's basement. What you want to do is make those contributions in the months when the market is down but expected to move upward soon. By low sell high, not by low sell lower.
That is simply not true. If you create a product and people are willing to give you a dollar for it; they feel the value of the product is equal or in excess of the that dollar. You are selling that product because for you the product is not worth a dollar; you are putting less than that into its production and your time which you feel is worth the margin. There is a net gain because you produced the product! You created the wealth.
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You will have to have native drivers; NDIS wrapper won't do you any good with the MIPS proccessor in this thing.
Consumption in the West has got to fall by a significant amount, whilst consumption in the Developing World should rise.
Why should this be the case? On what do you base you claim that consumption should rise in the developing world? Why should the western world have to give anything up. I can just as easily argue the current situation is our manifest destiny; and I will.
When it comes down to it me and mine matter much more to me then theirs and them; I am for keeping things as they are.
I was listening to an NPR article just last week about how bees closer to cities don't seem to be in as rapid decline as bees in more rural areas.
I would think there would be much more cell phones and other EM radiators around cities in the country.
Right and what do you do when you have bad directions? You turn around and go another way. Yea it sucks that Google produced a bad route. She approached this highway on foot though, she expects us to accept she could not take a look at the situation and decide if it was safe?
My gosh whatever happened to personal responsibility; if Google had told here jump on a bridge would she have done it? Why do people feel entitled to go about not thinking in our society? Last I checked there was a large lump of gray tissue in everyone head which has the primary function of keeping them alive; maybe they should um use it!
No the banana is real I assure you; the girl is the lie.
Right if he had hosted the service himself using FOSS software he would be fine.
What does LaRouche have to do with the TeaParty? The fact is if you look at the Teaparty has lots of intelligent educated members. Its rallies have actually be characterized by being peaceful and resulting in less damage to property and shared services than Obama political rallies. People like you and the press are routinely characterizing the TeaParty as a bunch of violent raciests; its just not true. You people also apparently don't understand its politics at all as LaRouche would be the last person in the world to join the TeaParty.
Really? How exactly do you test solutions for catastrophe of unknown nature a mile underwater, working with wells of unknown pressure filled with oil and gas of unknown composition? You do understand this was an exploratory well right; the point of this thing was largely to find out what is down there.
If you have a solution to this problem of being able to prove catastrophic failure modes can be solved by doing X with all the other unknowns you are clearly way smarted than the rest of us and I welcome our new over lord; otherwise you just another arm chair quarterback here.
Would you whitelist Flash? Would you whitelist Adobe Acrobat Reader? Would you whitelist your web browser? Or your media player, your MP3 player, your word processor, your instant messenger? Of course, you would pretty much have to or your user would go ballistic on you. Is it an attack vector? Oh, one of them currently certainly is!
A more granular white list will will work. What you really need is a white list + ACE/ACL system. Symantec Endpoint Protection actually can do some of this stuff if your admin people invest enough time it writing rules. Yes you whitelist Acrobat Reader but you only allow it to open file streams to files ending in .pdf and only for read. Flash might have to play a little to get that to work, but it to could probably be sandboxed effectively. Your word processor again might need read access to files in many places but only needs to write *new* files in the documents directory and only needs to be allowed to write a couple hundred megs per instance so that it can't be used to DOS you.
I could go on but you get the idea. You could build a system that is usable and at the same time hardened enough to remove most of the profit in attacking it. It would cost quite a bit and take a great deal of work to maintain. The industry has simply decided its better to tolerate a certain amount of crime and clean up afterwords.
Its kinda like you house in that way. You accept there is a certain risk you will be broken into; and you just insure your stuff. Its a better alternative than the razor wire; surrounded steel walled bunker you'd otherwise have to have to keep people out.
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And when it was a music player that was a resonable argument to make. Why should you not have an easy way to copy files to a and from it. The data is not unique or personal.. I would still make the argument they should be mountable and apparently Apple agrees. What I find entertaing is that they don't have some sort of encrypted storage; where apps can write possibly private info into. A registry or something that is protected; even in the volume itself is open.
Is it really that or is it that copyright as implemented today makes chain of ownership difficult to track and manage and faithful compliance with license terms almost hopeless within most organizations?
Ok so Joe in assestmanagement wants to purchase OMG DRM Poines Manager 7 USA eddition; he wants to use it to seriales all ponies for distribution in the US. Legal looks over the license and approves the purchase, after asking Bob about his plans for the application. 5 years later Bob has left the company. Ted has been asked to serialize all ponies, not just those sold in the USA. He knows they have always use the copy of OMG DRM Poines Manager 7 for serializing ponies and it works well. Do you think he goes back and reads the license terms? I doubt it; so without doing anything malicous they are not as an organization noncompliant.
Keeping track of all these issues in most larger organizations would be multiple full time jobs and there is simply no room for it in smaller orgs at all. The whole system in economic terms is unjustified; nobody would by this stuff if compliance management was taken into TCO calculations more often; but its usually not.
Why is this under the Apple topic? There is a Google topic!
Non its a conceit because they game would be no fun otherwise. The reality is you could very well spend a day or more riding to the town and not see more than one or two other people possibly traveling in the other direction; you might spend a day not seeing anyone at all. That does not sound like very fun video game to me.
We can't pressure China to do anything unless we are willing to risk total warefar with them. All they have to do is threaten a minor hiccup in treasury purchases and we just lost our testicles. Oh and don't go with they need us just as much as we need them economically crap. No they don't. They have a rising rest of Asia, Russian Federation, Europe and India to sell cheap stuff to. Oh yes it would slow them down a great deal but not like what it would do to us; not at all.
I did not mean to suggest that dumping was the only problem; and I said parts of Africa I am fully aware there is lots of territory where the resources are not present and neither are the infrastructure or political security. Yes the problem is a bit more detailed than can be easily covered in a Slashdot thread. I only wanted to put the ideas out there so that people might do a some of their own research.
The prevailing notion that seems to be held by the liberal members of the current body politic is simple minded and frankly racists. There is much much more to Africa than a bunch of poor dirt farmers constantly ravaged by tribal death squads that we simple must help out with food and money because they could never possibly help themselves. Yet this is certainly what many Americans are lead to believe and seem to think.
She admits in the video that there is not enough boom in the world to do "proper fucking booming" for the entire affected area of the Gulf coast. She goes on to say that having that is part of being ready; that BP said they were ready; and they are not. She might be correct about all of that.
Ah but here were are now there is not enough boom to do "proper fucking booming" so what exactly should they do? Nothing? Use the boom they do have to cover as much area as possible and hopefully do a little bit of good? Should they do "proper fucking booming" over a small area, and leave the rest to chance? which area?
She comes off like she is saying "look they screwed up again" when its more like the screwed up a long time ago and now don't have the means to fix it, not that it is any better but why can't we portray thing accurately?
Not to mention their are parts of Africa that would be favorable to agriculture and could sustain the local and the surrounding populations but there is almost no commercial farming because we dump cheap food stuffs produced here with the aide of heavy economic subsidies. It makes it impossible for the local people to compete. Agriculture is an important component of almost any economy. Our preventing it by dumping food is actually keeping many parts of Africa poor.
No I think letting the Federal DOE become the ministry of information would have far worse consequences than this decision in Texas.
I have read lots of history and while I think the church-and-state arguments the Texas board makes are a little week, I can tell you that if you pickup the typical High School Civics book today there IS a progressive bias. I don't think its out of line to insists that books at least cover major political events like the Contract with America, the Goldwater movement in the 60s and not leaving kids with the impression Nixon started Vietnam, is out of line at all.
I would agree with you and break it down like this:
Emulator - Software that implements or replicates the behavior and function of digital hardware
Simulator - Software that implements at a presentation level the behaviors and possibly the functions of some type of hardware; but does not model the hardware completely.
Translator - Software that changes one set of instructions into another set intended to duplicate the behavior of the original but prior to execution time.
Interpreter - Software that changes one set of instructions into another set intended to duplicate the behavior of the original at execution time.
Compatibility layer - Software which duplicates the interface of some other software and may or may not provide equivalent behavior.
Or maybe there is some real psychological harm done by spending every day assembling something that is clearly a mass market items, which you yourself will very possibly never command enough wealth to possess. If that is bad enough add to that the certain knowledge that the reasons for that is not that you don't work hard enough or that you are not productive enough but because of monetary and political games a few at the very top in both your own nation and the nation most of these items are destine for profit by.
Don't let anyone lie to you with words like fair trade or free trade, what these agreements are has nothing to do with either one of the words free or fair. If they did currencies would float against each other, and tariffs would never exceed the local sales tax at the import destination.
Yes but this is GP we are talking about there really is no "Application Server" the clients all connect to the database! The users running the client therefore must have access to connect to the database and do DML queries on many objects. Any users that actually need to run the application and not some limited web front end you have built or something are SQL users. The only real workaround is to only allow database connections from selct hosts and have one of those hosts be a terminal server. The best part is the GP application has lots bugs when running under terminal services!
That is nice to think but nobody can replace PGP at this point. As you point out in your post there are other technical and in many cases better solutions to everything PGP does; really does not matter though. PGP is entrenched, in government and guess what government spending is AT LEAST 1/6th of the GDP now. Want to work with the DOD you have to use PGP. If you are already doing PGP with your biggest client you are going to prefer to use the same solution as much as possible. PGP is safe from all the but the most wanton bungling at this point.
Why is that stupid; You certainly can't call tops and bottoms, and most people who think they can are proven wrong but you look at the stituation and determine roughly when the trend is likely to shift. There is no point in plowing money into a 401k (matching aside) while the market is trending broadly down. Its just flushing money down the drain right into Goldman's basement. What you want to do is make those contributions in the months when the market is down but expected to move upward soon. By low sell high, not by low sell lower.
That is simply not true. If you create a product and people are willing to give you a dollar for it; they feel the value of the product is equal or in excess of the that dollar. You are selling that product because for you the product is not worth a dollar; you are putting less than that into its production and your time which you feel is worth the margin. There is a net gain because you produced the product! You created the wealth.