Kevin,
Airports are publicly funded, while the airlines are private funding. Roads are publicly funded, while cars are privately funded.
By the same means, we should be doing high-speed rail. That is, the public puts in a decent track, while private industry runs it. Now, if we were smart, we would start high-speed rail where lots of cargo is carried ESP. VIA TRUCKS. Then send high-speed trains down without a stop for say 500-1000 miles. If we do that, then it will compete against trucks, which are the real fuel eaters.
EU did not do that. They simply raised the tax on fuel SLOWLY. More importantly, they let everybody know that they were going to do this.
So, why not simply follow the same, and make intelligent use of the tax? Such as moving us to electric or simply balancing our budget?
Most of western Europe has a hefty tax on gas/diesel that leads to the move of smaller vehicles and rail systems. OTH, USA has a very small tax on it, to the point where other subsidies on Oil (ignoring the 'subsidy' of military) pretty much wipes it out. And then you have nations like Venezuela, China, Brazil, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc that actually HEAVILY subsidize their oil.
The West, mainly none EU nations, needs to put on a slowly increasing tax on fuel. In addition, use part of that tax to build up railroads as well electric cars. This approach is far better than spending money later on the military.
All of the items on ITAR have the ability to be part of advanced weapons. That is why they are there. The real problem is not that they are on ITAR, but that ITAR is a nightmare to work with. Look, I believe that our goods should flow fairly freely to UK, Canada, Australia, etc. But the problem is that in the past, a number of companies from other nations have allowed our tech to flow freely to other places. In particular, we saw that with the cold war. Several nations and national corporations that claimed to be on the side of the west, GAVE tech to USSR. Now, these companies are quietly selling our tech to China. We need to prevent high tech weapons or their components from going to such nations.
It is GOOD to have ITAR. It really is needed. The problem is the implementation. That is horrible. In general,it requires licensing on INSTANCES, not classes of items. Basically, it needs to be simplified. Once we grant an ITAR for a class of items, then there should be a simple DB that the foreign company can update with where the instances are. Probably will not happen though. Instead, we will go overboard and try to remove ITAR on many items that should not be.
The first amendment says that you have the RIGHT to say whatever you want. You can publish your websites, your books, your radio stations. BUT, there is NOTHING in the constitution that gives you the right to tell others that they must listen to your words, or even propagate it.
Rackspace is a private company and has the RIGHT to simply say NO!
Good for rackspace.
But if you lose #5, then Apple can kiss off about 5-8% of their phones due to those that want the feature and another 10% due to the 'coolness' of it. Once Apple loses that panache, they will not get it back. And they will continue downward.
Seriously, Apple wants this to occur. They do not want to have MS style security where every virus and worm writers has loads of openings to work with and steal your stuff, but, they obviously do not want the phone totally locked down. By having it be rooted, then more and more hackers will write interesting code. And it looks to the multi-media and transport company think that Apple is working to do their job, when in fact, they are not.
Apple wants to block the crackers, but desperately needs hackers developing new ideas. And a good hacker needs to get to features that the none apple companies want to deny.
This is about my 1st-grade child. I want to know what she eats. I, in fact, DO look over the report and check out what is happening with her. This is not about her right to privacy. This is about my knowing what she is up to.
Now, if the feds take this info and use it to apply individually to my daughter, THAT is big brother. But if I apply it, that is simply good parenting. And to be honest, I HOPE that the feds will take that same data, clean all the names and then make good use of it.
Bill, look over that report.What it shows is that even in the 90's, North American emissions were LOW. We were lower than EU and China. Check page 18 to get an idea of Hg emissions from coal as a percentage. Then look at page 22 to get an idea of emission since 1990. You will see that CHina continues to grew the emission, while US and EU dropped. Then look at what they HOPE will happen in another 15 years on page 24.
What should be a real eye opener is that Hg emissions will DOUBLE in Asia in 10 years. While the rest of the world will continue to put on more controls.
This Hg is far more damaging than just about anything else that Asia, and the entire world can spit out. The reason is that items like CO2 CAN be cleaned up, but mercury will remain in the ecosystem for centuries.
Finally, their emissions CONTINUE TO INCREASE at an increasing rate. Neither the amount, nor the rate, are decreasing. If their gov. would require that they run all pollution control, then overnight, they would drop their mercury emission to 1/3 of what they have today. Of course, their electrical costs will jump 50-100%, but that is another issue.
Yellow sea is losing its fish quickly. It is only a matter of time before China has depleted that area. Even now, they send fishing boats over to America, grab their catch, sell it in LA, then on the way out, grab a whole another load (double what they are allowed to). Basically, we need to stop that, or our western seaboard will look similar to Yellow Sea.
They really are not. I just had a friend who got back in June from spending a month there. She was part of NOAA's group to study the pollution that is being emitted around the world. Oddly enough 7-10% of the air pollution in LA, CA, is from China. What they found is that all of the coal plants had scrubbers on them, but the ALL OF THE 150 PLANTS THAT THEY MEASURED WERE TURNED OFF. ALL. In addition, she said that it appeared that a number of them had never been turned on.
Now, China is required by treaty with Japan, to scrub the coal, but apparently, the real wording was in Chinese and basically said that all plants had to have scrubbers. It NEVER said that they were required to be on.
And China is still on pace to keep opening 1-2 new coal plant EACH WEEK. The ONLY thing that is going to slow this down is if the west will get smart. We need to tax ALL GOODS BASED ON WHERE THEY, and their primary component, COME FROM AND AMOUNT OF CO2, and ideally mercury, that is EMITTED FROM THAT REGION. Now, the SMART THING is to base it on the amount of emissions PER SQ KM. Sadly, EU wants it based on per capita, which is absolutely the worst metric going. It is impossible to track ppl and they float around. It will also lead to lying, as well as simple encourage ridiculous stats. BUT, by doing a per km^2, then it provides set limits for a nation and then they can manage it regardless. It also makes it easy for ALL OTHER NATIONS TO VERIFY IT.
When you work in a secured environment for three letter agencies, please explain to them why you want Windows exposed to the net. I am quite certain that you have more knowledge than the nice folks at NSA, CIA, and NRO. Sadly, those at DHS and DOD will continue to have issues because they do not consider the issues of Windows vs. just about any other OS.
BTW, I have not said that Linux is secured. I have said that versions of it as well as other OSs are much more secured than anything coming out of the Windows arena. So, please do not put words in my mouth.
First, where do I advocate anything? I pointed out FACTS, not the fiction that MS is hit because it is a monoculture or the most heavily used.
Second, when I worked at TL agencies, I was prohibited from using MS except as a none-networked connected system. Why? Because the agencies do not want their code on the net. THere is NO SUCH THING as secured windows.
Third, if we are going to have a monoculture, then it is far far better to have a secured system, rather than something as unsecured as Windows. That would mean something like XTS-400, as well as a number of the DO-178B systems (who were typically designed with semiformally designed methods; though note that there are several DO-178B systems that do not match EAL 6, such as 2 linuxes).
Fourth, Solaris != HP-UX != OS-X != Linux != FREEBSD. And there is nothing in the Windows world equivalent to Trusted Solaris, SELinux, Trusted AIX, etc.
As to apps being needed, Office is NOT needed. It is desired only because of the monopoly that MS illegally built. If the feds, and/or EU pushed for open file formats requirements, then Office's monopoly would die.
Considering that there are more https servers with CC info on them running Linux/Unix, I would say that your logic is incorrect. The simple fact is, that ppl/crackers go after the EASY systems.
For example, why go to a house, with a burgler alarm, no windows, doors that you have to pick, that has $100 million if you can go to anther house that has basically no alarm, has open backdoors, and has only $1 million, though they MIGHT have a key to get into the OTHER Place, though you also get to the 100 million EASY? And even better yet, is finding the same easy system that has no money BUT also might contain the key to the above 100 million system.
I will take the one that is easy to get into to. So do the blackhats.
Many of the USB devices ARRIVE infected. So, if Intel were to re-open the plant in Colorado Springs, have it do USB flash drives, and then sell them to the DOD and most groups in the gov. as well as in EU, with all bits accounted for. It would be a bit more expensive, BUT it is an opportunity to re-create manufacturing in the USA/West while securing the computers.
The Aussi' DHS equivelence most likely has not thought about all the possibilities. Yet, AQ has thought through loads of them. I think that getting kids to think about IS useful. BUT, you also have to combine it with critical thought and some morals. The problem today is that teachers and parents no longer wish to instill morals.
that is a lot cheaper than getting easily caught. Keep in mind that since the patriot act, EVERYTHING is tracked by the feds WRT to banks, investments, etc. If a manager suddenly had 150K increase, well, the feds would have been all over him.
Also so would the IRS. And 30% of 150K is 50K.
I would also assume that he did not get 150K. I would guess that he has spent a fair amount already.
This guy is going to get jail. BUT, it seems that the companies should be disqualified from ever doing work on Apple systems. And if it can be proven that others offered kickbacks (offer up reduced time to the manager if he outs them), they should ALSO be denied future apple work.
If this is not done, then it will simply lead to others to do the same. In addition, this would absolutely not be justice.
NASA announces that they have big news on Kepler WRT planets, and now EU decides to quickly make an announcement. Ah, the ability to have the big announcements are always so important.
Uniting the peninsula is fine. HOWEVER, the communist regime of jong is starving and outright murdering its ppl. OTH, SK goverment has a great deal more freedom then does NK. So, yeah, having the SK gov. IS better. And they treat their ppl MUCH better than does NK's gov.
So, exactly how do YOU propose to get the NK gov. to step aside and allow the merger to occur?
THe first time that SUN went OSS, I fully supported them. When they burned everybody, I KNEW that it was easy for Sun or any buyers to screw over OSS world. And I have spoken out against Sun's opening of the code, even though LOADS of Sun fanbois were pushing them. And in this case, Sun did not disappoint.
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Kevin, Airports are publicly funded, while the airlines are private funding. Roads are publicly funded, while cars are privately funded.
By the same means, we should be doing high-speed rail. That is, the public puts in a decent track, while private industry runs it. Now, if we were smart, we would start high-speed rail where lots of cargo is carried ESP. VIA TRUCKS. Then send high-speed trains down without a stop for say 500-1000 miles. If we do that, then it will compete against trucks, which are the real fuel eaters.
EU did not do that. They simply raised the tax on fuel SLOWLY. More importantly, they let everybody know that they were going to do this. So, why not simply follow the same, and make intelligent use of the tax? Such as moving us to electric or simply balancing our budget?
Most of western Europe has a hefty tax on gas/diesel that leads to the move of smaller vehicles and rail systems. OTH, USA has a very small tax on it, to the point where other subsidies on Oil (ignoring the 'subsidy' of military) pretty much wipes it out. And then you have nations like Venezuela, China, Brazil, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc that actually HEAVILY subsidize their oil.
The West, mainly none EU nations, needs to put on a slowly increasing tax on fuel. In addition, use part of that tax to build up railroads as well electric cars. This approach is far better than spending money later on the military.
All of the items on ITAR have the ability to be part of advanced weapons. That is why they are there. The real problem is not that they are on ITAR, but that ITAR is a nightmare to work with. Look, I believe that our goods should flow fairly freely to UK, Canada, Australia, etc. But the problem is that in the past, a number of companies from other nations have allowed our tech to flow freely to other places. In particular, we saw that with the cold war. Several nations and national corporations that claimed to be on the side of the west, GAVE tech to USSR. Now, these companies are quietly selling our tech to China. We need to prevent high tech weapons or their components from going to such nations.
It is GOOD to have ITAR. It really is needed. The problem is the implementation. That is horrible. In general,it requires licensing on INSTANCES, not classes of items. Basically, it needs to be simplified. Once we grant an ITAR for a class of items, then there should be a simple DB that the foreign company can update with where the instances are. Probably will not happen though. Instead, we will go overboard and try to remove ITAR on many items that should not be.
The first amendment says that you have the RIGHT to say whatever you want. You can publish your websites, your books, your radio stations. BUT, there is NOTHING in the constitution that gives you the right to tell others that they must listen to your words, or even propagate it.
Rackspace is a private company and has the RIGHT to simply say NO!
Good for rackspace.
But if you lose #5, then Apple can kiss off about 5-8% of their phones due to those that want the feature and another 10% due to the 'coolness' of it. Once Apple loses that panache, they will not get it back. And they will continue downward.
Seriously, Apple wants this to occur. They do not want to have MS style security where every virus and worm writers has loads of openings to work with and steal your stuff, but, they obviously do not want the phone totally locked down. By having it be rooted, then more and more hackers will write interesting code. And it looks to the multi-media and transport company think that Apple is working to do their job, when in fact, they are not.
Apple wants to block the crackers, but desperately needs hackers developing new ideas. And a good hacker needs to get to features that the none apple companies want to deny.
This is about my 1st-grade child. I want to know what she eats. I, in fact, DO look over the report and check out what is happening with her. This is not about her right to privacy. This is about my knowing what she is up to.
Now, if the feds take this info and use it to apply individually to my daughter, THAT is big brother. But if I apply it, that is simply good parenting. And to be honest, I HOPE that the feds will take that same data, clean all the names and then make good use of it.
Bill, look over that report.What it shows is that even in the 90's, North American emissions were LOW. We were lower than EU and China. Check page 18 to get an idea of Hg emissions from coal as a percentage. Then look at page 22 to get an idea of emission since 1990. You will see that CHina continues to grew the emission, while US and EU dropped. Then look at what they HOPE will happen in another 15 years on page 24. What should be a real eye opener is that Hg emissions will DOUBLE in Asia in 10 years. While the rest of the world will continue to put on more controls.
This Hg is far more damaging than just about anything else that Asia, and the entire world can spit out. The reason is that items like CO2 CAN be cleaned up, but mercury will remain in the ecosystem for centuries.
Actually, it is thought that nearly ALL of their coal is loaded with more mercury than is America's. The problem is that it is not known fully. China has tried to keep it quiet
In fact, back in the 90's, China became the number 1 polluter back around mid 90's, and And continue to grow. Several studies have claimed that china has accounted for over 1/2 of all mercury emissions of all times by 2006 (or was it 2005). This is caused by their coal being such low grade, but also because they refuse to use their pollution control (it costs money to run it).
Now, I did in fact hear about all the other issues, HOWEVER, the mercury issue is a bigger issue. The reason is that the clean-up on that will be difficult. The rest will sort itself out globally, once emissions comes to a stop, or are brought under control. BUT, the mercury that China has, and continues to emit, will continue in our environment for decades, if not CENTURIES, to cause issues. The clean up on that will be so costly, that it will never occur. And china will never take responsibility for their actions.
Finally, their emissions CONTINUE TO INCREASE at an increasing rate. Neither the amount, nor the rate, are decreasing. If their gov. would require that they run all pollution control, then overnight, they would drop their mercury emission to 1/3 of what they have today. Of course, their electrical costs will jump 50-100%, but that is another issue.
Yellow sea is losing its fish quickly. It is only a matter of time before China has depleted that area. Even now, they send fishing boats over to America, grab their catch, sell it in LA, then on the way out, grab a whole another load (double what they are allowed to). Basically, we need to stop that, or our western seaboard will look similar to Yellow Sea.
They really are not. I just had a friend who got back in June from spending a month there. She was part of NOAA's group to study the pollution that is being emitted around the world. Oddly enough 7-10% of the air pollution in LA, CA, is from China. What they found is that all of the coal plants had scrubbers on them, but the ALL OF THE 150 PLANTS THAT THEY MEASURED WERE TURNED OFF. ALL. In addition, she said that it appeared that a number of them had never been turned on. Now, China is required by treaty with Japan, to scrub the coal, but apparently, the real wording was in Chinese and basically said that all plants had to have scrubbers. It NEVER said that they were required to be on. And China is still on pace to keep opening 1-2 new coal plant EACH WEEK. The ONLY thing that is going to slow this down is if the west will get smart. We need to tax ALL GOODS BASED ON WHERE THEY, and their primary component, COME FROM AND AMOUNT OF CO2, and ideally mercury, that is EMITTED FROM THAT REGION. Now, the SMART THING is to base it on the amount of emissions PER SQ KM. Sadly, EU wants it based on per capita, which is absolutely the worst metric going. It is impossible to track ppl and they float around. It will also lead to lying, as well as simple encourage ridiculous stats. BUT, by doing a per km^2, then it provides set limits for a nation and then they can manage it regardless. It also makes it easy for ALL OTHER NATIONS TO VERIFY IT.
When you work in a secured environment for three letter agencies, please explain to them why you want Windows exposed to the net. I am quite certain that you have more knowledge than the nice folks at NSA, CIA, and NRO. Sadly, those at DHS and DOD will continue to have issues because they do not consider the issues of Windows vs. just about any other OS.
BTW, I have not said that Linux is secured. I have said that versions of it as well as other OSs are much more secured than anything coming out of the Windows arena. So, please do not put words in my mouth.
First, where do I advocate anything? I pointed out FACTS, not the fiction that MS is hit because it is a monoculture or the most heavily used.
Second, when I worked at TL agencies, I was prohibited from using MS except as a none-networked connected system. Why? Because the agencies do not want their code on the net. THere is NO SUCH THING as secured windows.
Third, if we are going to have a monoculture, then it is far far better to have a secured system, rather than something as unsecured as Windows. That would mean something like XTS-400, as well as a number of the DO-178B systems (who were typically designed with semiformally designed methods; though note that there are several DO-178B systems that do not match EAL 6, such as 2 linuxes).
Fourth, Solaris != HP-UX != OS-X != Linux != FREEBSD. And there is nothing in the Windows world equivalent to Trusted Solaris, SELinux, Trusted AIX, etc.
As to apps being needed, Office is NOT needed. It is desired only because of the monopoly that MS illegally built. If the feds, and/or EU pushed for open file formats requirements, then Office's monopoly would die.
Considering that there are more https servers with CC info on them running Linux/Unix, I would say that your logic is incorrect. The simple fact is, that ppl/crackers go after the EASY systems.
For example, why go to a house, with a burgler alarm, no windows, doors that you have to pick, that has $100 million if you can go to anther house that has basically no alarm, has open backdoors, and has only $1 million, though they MIGHT have a key to get into the OTHER Place, though you also get to the 100 million EASY? And even better yet, is finding the same easy system that has no money BUT also might contain the key to the above 100 million system.
I will take the one that is easy to get into to. So do the blackhats.
Many of the USB devices ARRIVE infected. So, if Intel were to re-open the plant in Colorado Springs, have it do USB flash drives, and then sell them to the DOD and most groups in the gov. as well as in EU, with all bits accounted for. It would be a bit more expensive, BUT it is an opportunity to re-create manufacturing in the USA/West while securing the computers.
The Aussi' DHS equivelence most likely has not thought about all the possibilities. Yet, AQ has thought through loads of them. I think that getting kids to think about IS useful. BUT, you also have to combine it with critical thought and some morals. The problem today is that teachers and parents no longer wish to instill morals.
Seriously, something like this could cut patterns CHEAPLY on cloth. Think of it as a stamping machine.
I would guess that is exactly what he did. I suspect that he has a LOT more buried elsewhere.
that is a lot cheaper than getting easily caught. Keep in mind that since the patriot act, EVERYTHING is tracked by the feds WRT to banks, investments, etc. If a manager suddenly had 150K increase, well, the feds would have been all over him.
Also so would the IRS. And 30% of 150K is 50K. I would also assume that he did not get 150K. I would guess that he has spent a fair amount already.
This guy is going to get jail. BUT, it seems that the companies should be disqualified from ever doing work on Apple systems. And if it can be proven that others offered kickbacks (offer up reduced time to the manager if he outs them), they should ALSO be denied future apple work.
If this is not done, then it will simply lead to others to do the same. In addition, this would absolutely not be justice.
NASA announces that they have big news on Kepler WRT planets, and now EU decides to quickly make an announcement. Ah, the ability to have the big announcements are always so important.
Uniting the peninsula is fine. HOWEVER, the communist regime of jong is starving and outright murdering its ppl. OTH, SK goverment has a great deal more freedom then does NK. So, yeah, having the SK gov. IS better. And they treat their ppl MUCH better than does NK's gov.
So, exactly how do YOU propose to get the NK gov. to step aside and allow the merger to occur?
THe first time that SUN went OSS, I fully supported them. When they burned everybody, I KNEW that it was easy for Sun or any buyers to screw over OSS world. And I have spoken out against Sun's opening of the code, even though LOADS of Sun fanbois were pushing them. And in this case, Sun did not disappoint.