At the risk of being a shill, I use WildBlue. It is cheap, the dish is small, the speeds rock, and it works. About the only thing it sucks for is off-hours fragging. My speed us 1.5 up 256 down, with 500ms latency (last time I looked). Most could live with that, I know I can.
BTW, I looked at a getting a T-1 before I found this place. Verizon doesn't run them to homes per policy.
Well, this was a concern of mine when I moved to Northern Wisconsin. The town I moved to didn't even have ISDN! Well, satellite Internet changed all that. Higher latency, sure. It does all the things I need it to do for work. My sat. provider is even cheaper than the local wireless internet provider. The infrastructure is there, just not at the telephone company anymore.
Aside from all the hard science things we've learned that may not be immediatly exploitable, we now know there is water. At an insane cost per pound to throw stuff out the gravity well, any resources you don't have to take with you reduce the mission scopr a lot. Think about it - extra fuel to boost the water, extra fuel to boost the extra fuel, ad nausium.
I've read (too lazy to find a link) they've even figured out how to make fuel for the return flight from elements the atmosphere. That's some amazing stuff. Six months there, six months back, and a year on the planet is the minimum time a human mission would need to make the trip worthwhile. If we don't find resources there, then the mission would be one way or no way.
Geologic knowledge about what resources there present and how easy it will be to extract them is essential to the sucess of a human mission. Right now that knowledge can only be retained from robot explorers. It's limited, but they answer one question: What do we need for humand to be sucessful there?
Well, I live in North Central Wisconsin an consider myself somewhat talented. Heck, my closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I think you'll find there has been a lot of migration back to the interior of the US from the Coasts of tech folks. I can charge a third of what I did in New England for the same standard of living. Better communications infrastructure makes living in high crime/cost/noise/polution areas no longer necissary. I can do my job just as well from anywhere, so why not someplace I'd rather be?
I think the "focus" of the problem is the real issue with DRM. Technology just made the old distribution channels obsolete, like it has always done. DRM is the attempt to shore up a business model that has gone the way of the buggy whip. They are trying to artifically create a gatekeeper need in the digital age.
At the risk of sounding simplistic (this is slashdot after all. ..) you are seeing another "death of the middleman". This is aparant in the movie industry, TV, newspapers, etc. Basically all industries that act as gatekeepers on information. The information bottle neck has shifted, just as it did with the printing press. (more people literate, knowledge more widely available than just select persons, etc.)
What is the solution? Those formerly highly porfitable companies will go the way of lard factories. The artists will make their scratch from live performances, where the majority of their $$ comes from now anyway. Music files will trade as advertising goodies to create demand for live shows.
All DRM constitutes the death throes of a dying business.
Hint: an administrative subpoena does not require judicial oversight and quite frequently comes with a gag order preventing you from even contacting your lawyer.
This is why all tracking systems are bad. The technology may be "1eet", but there are far more evil uses this could be put to.
Oh? If the information is available, it can be used. If you can link to a "roamer" to a location, so can they. All it takes is enough time and effort. While you may have addressed historical information, what do you plan to do when the FBI demands you turn it on or log it with an administrative subpoena?
I think it is more about information when you want it. Being chained to a timeslot hurts distribution of content. This is the same reason DVDs of television shows are so popular. I want to watch it when I want.
Not that I'm interested in watching a news broadcast on the Internet, but it does hint that the current media conglomerants are finally starting to, however dimly, "get it"
US grid is not really privatized - it only looks that way on the surface. In all actuality it's a bunch of highly regulated monopolies. It resembles a state run company more than something that the free market would create, like many industries in the US today. The US business climate is realy an oligarchy masquerading as the free market.
If this is really the case, he should be smart enough to step aside. Too many managers rise beyond their competence. You are spot on about employees not knowing what they want. What they really want. A good "C" level will.
Using staff talents to maximum effect is what sucessful C levels do - I'm totally in agreement with you there. However, the "C's" need a course by which to steer their respective departments by. Committees and consensus can only get you so far because they only provide a solution to a problem, not a path to follow. The "Vision" quality in a leader is the most rare thing, but spectacular to work under.
I think what he was getting at is that the CIO's main job is to provide "vision" to the company. Any "C" level worth their salt should already know what the department should look like. Pulling together a "task force" to address the issue is in my experience:
1) a smokescreen to make you believe they care and make you feel "empowered" so you do more work or not quit
2) The CIO is an idiot and looking for "vision" from subordinates
3) a "shiney thing" to distract you from something unpleasant on the horizon.
"C" levels set the tone for the organization, and there is very little that the guys/gals in the trenches can do to fix poor management. Keep your parachute handy at all times, and realize there is no such thing as a 20yr job anymore.
Could be, but I really don't think so. Believe me, I wish it was that simple! I interact with lots of management (up to the board level) and in many cases the only job that many of these folks see is to keep theirs at any cost. I'm a little more PC than to address these individuals as "Hey, fuctard" no matter how well deserved! Favoratism, nepotism, and many other "isms" win out over the right thing every time.
I've been the whipping boy in many scenerios, and the one thing it has taught me is to document everything. If a Leader is jockeying for political favor by offering up a sacrificial lamb, you'd better believe that I'll hang 'em out to dry.
For some reason, everytime I email a C*O it turns out to be a "Resume Generating Event" - Nobody likes being upstaged, especially clueless "Leadership". If it is a good idea, those above you will torpedo you because they are threatened. If it's a bad idea, you just broadcasted it to the top dog.
Let the retards drive the company into a mess, or do the right thing? It's all about the ethics though. I've always used the "Nuclear Bomb" theory myself when dealing with these situations. Sure, you can only do it once. However, take as many of the bastards with you as you can.
Moral of the story: don't lie to the cops about security testing.
Real Moral of the story: Don't tell police ANYTHING without your lawyer in the room. Ever. It has nothing to do with being helpful or honest. It is about covering your ass against all potential outcomes.
Won't happen. Lawyers make laws that lawyers and industries that donate to their campains benefit from. There just isn't any money in standing up for the little guy. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for the US to go back to its roots. I just can't see it without some major shift in popular thinking.
I can't see how distributing binary only will help themm, as opposed to a non-business use only license change. It'll be very interesting to see where this goes from here.
That is exactly the reason to get the current system out from under the thumb of Gov't. The Internet isn't a political tool, nor should it ever be. I'm not advocating going back to typing in IP addresses. What I'm saying is that the system should exist outside of government. The alternative is REAL DNS wars. US policy or UN sanctions have the same result.
Why is a Government viewed as having more competence or trustworthiness? Government management is a joke with hundreds, thousands of examples of retardedness. A quick google for "government stupidity" will give you more than enough reading material on the subject.
What it really boils down to is should the Internet be managed by politics or by technology? Governements by their vary nature (Democratically elected or no) can only solve political problems. Politicization of the Internet is something we should be strongly opposed to. Technical innovation moves much, much faster than bureaucracy.
The Internet is the modern forum for the people, and I for one shudder at the thought of any government control over such a media.
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At the risk of being a shill, I use WildBlue. It is cheap, the dish is small, the speeds rock, and it works. About the only thing it sucks for is off-hours fragging. My speed us 1.5 up 256 down, with 500ms latency (last time I looked). Most could live with that, I know I can.
BTW, I looked at a getting a T-1 before I found this place. Verizon doesn't run them to homes per policy.
Well, this was a concern of mine when I moved to Northern Wisconsin. The town I moved to didn't even have ISDN! Well, satellite Internet changed all that. Higher latency, sure. It does all the things I need it to do for work. My sat. provider is even cheaper than the local wireless internet provider. The infrastructure is there, just not at the telephone company anymore.
Aside from all the hard science things we've learned that may not be immediatly exploitable, we now know there is water. At an insane cost per pound to throw stuff out the gravity well, any resources you don't have to take with you reduce the mission scopr a lot. Think about it - extra fuel to boost the water, extra fuel to boost the extra fuel, ad nausium.
I've read (too lazy to find a link) they've even figured out how to make fuel for the return flight from elements the atmosphere. That's some amazing stuff. Six months there, six months back, and a year on the planet is the minimum time a human mission would need to make the trip worthwhile. If we don't find resources there, then the mission would be one way or no way.
Geologic knowledge about what resources there present and how easy it will be to extract them is essential to the sucess of a human mission. Right now that knowledge can only be retained from robot explorers. It's limited, but they answer one question: What do we need for humand to be sucessful there?
Well, I live in North Central Wisconsin an consider myself somewhat talented. Heck, my closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I think you'll find there has been a lot of migration back to the interior of the US from the Coasts of tech folks. I can charge a third of what I did in New England for the same standard of living. Better communications infrastructure makes living in high crime/cost/noise/polution areas no longer necissary. I can do my job just as well from anywhere, so why not someplace I'd rather be?
I think the "focus" of the problem is the real issue with DRM. Technology just made the old distribution channels obsolete, like it has always done. DRM is the attempt to shore up a business model that has gone the way of the buggy whip. They are trying to artifically create a gatekeeper need in the digital age.
At the risk of sounding simplistic (this is slashdot after all. . .) you are seeing another "death of the middleman". This is aparant in the movie industry, TV, newspapers, etc. Basically all industries that act as gatekeepers on information. The information bottle neck has shifted, just as it did with the printing press. (more people literate, knowledge more widely available than just select persons, etc.)
What is the solution? Those formerly highly porfitable companies will go the way of lard factories. The artists will make their scratch from live performances, where the majority of their $$ comes from now anyway. Music files will trade as advertising goodies to create demand for live shows.
All DRM constitutes the death throes of a dying business.
Hint: an administrative subpoena does not require judicial oversight and quite frequently comes with a gag order preventing you from even contacting your lawyer.
This is why all tracking systems are bad. The technology may be "1eet", but there are far more evil uses this could be put to.
Oh? If the information is available, it can be used. If you can link to a "roamer" to a location, so can they. All it takes is enough time and effort. While you may have addressed historical information, what do you plan to do when the FBI demands you turn it on or log it with an administrative subpoena?
Just because the information is hidden, what about unscrupulous system admins? Law enforcement? Etc. It could even be discoverable for lawsuits.
History has shown that if the capability exists, it will be used.
Coke? Try Mountain Dew and hot pocket chunks.
I think it is more about information when you want it. Being chained to a timeslot hurts distribution of content. This is the same reason DVDs of television shows are so popular. I want to watch it when I want.
Not that I'm interested in watching a news broadcast on the Internet, but it does hint that the current media conglomerants are finally starting to, however dimly, "get it"
Pedal faster!!
US grid is not really privatized - it only looks that way on the surface. In all actuality it's a bunch of highly regulated monopolies. It resembles a state run company more than something that the free market would create, like many industries in the US today. The US business climate is realy an oligarchy masquerading as the free market.
If this is really the case, he should be smart enough to step aside. Too many managers rise beyond their competence. You are spot on about employees not knowing what they want. What they really want. A good "C" level will.
(Shrugs)
Using staff talents to maximum effect is what sucessful C levels do - I'm totally in agreement with you there. However, the "C's" need a course by which to steer their respective departments by. Committees and consensus can only get you so far because they only provide a solution to a problem, not a path to follow. The "Vision" quality in a leader is the most rare thing, but spectacular to work under.
I think what he was getting at is that the CIO's main job is to provide "vision" to the company. Any "C" level worth their salt should already know what the department should look like. Pulling together a "task force" to address the issue is in my experience:
1) a smokescreen to make you believe they care and make you feel "empowered" so you do more work or not quit
2) The CIO is an idiot and looking for "vision" from subordinates
3) a "shiney thing" to distract you from something unpleasant on the horizon.
"C" levels set the tone for the organization, and there is very little that the guys/gals in the trenches can do to fix poor management. Keep your parachute handy at all times, and realize there is no such thing as a 20yr job anymore.
FWIW, I'm running Acrobat7 on Linux.
Could be, but I really don't think so. Believe me, I wish it was that simple! I interact with lots of management (up to the board level) and in many cases the only job that many of these folks see is to keep theirs at any cost. I'm a little more PC than to address these individuals as "Hey, fuctard" no matter how well deserved! Favoratism, nepotism, and many other "isms" win out over the right thing every time.
I've been the whipping boy in many scenerios, and the one thing it has taught me is to document everything. If a Leader is jockeying for political favor by offering up a sacrificial lamb, you'd better believe that I'll hang 'em out to dry.
For some reason, everytime I email a C*O it turns out to be a "Resume Generating Event" - Nobody likes being upstaged, especially clueless "Leadership". If it is a good idea, those above you will torpedo you because they are threatened. If it's a bad idea, you just broadcasted it to the top dog.
Let the retards drive the company into a mess, or do the right thing? It's all about the ethics though. I've always used the "Nuclear Bomb" theory myself when dealing with these situations. Sure, you can only do it once. However, take as many of the bastards with you as you can.
Moral of the story: don't lie to the cops about security testing.
Real Moral of the story: Don't tell police ANYTHING without your lawyer in the room. Ever. It has nothing to do with being helpful or honest. It is about covering your ass against all potential outcomes.
Won't happen. Lawyers make laws that lawyers and industries that donate to their campains benefit from. There just isn't any money in standing up for the little guy. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for the US to go back to its roots. I just can't see it without some major shift in popular thinking.
I can't see how distributing binary only will help themm, as opposed to a non-business use only license change. It'll be very interesting to see where this goes from here.
They are. Nessus 2.X will remain under the GPL.
That is exactly the reason to get the current system out from under the thumb of Gov't. The Internet isn't a political tool, nor should it ever be. I'm not advocating going back to typing in IP addresses. What I'm saying is that the system should exist outside of government. The alternative is REAL DNS wars. US policy or UN sanctions have the same result.
Why is a Government viewed as having more competence or trustworthiness? Government management is a joke with hundreds, thousands of examples of retardedness. A quick google for "government stupidity" will give you more than enough reading material on the subject.
The answer to what use they will put this to: Whatever they can get away with.
What it really boils down to is should the Internet be managed by politics or by technology? Governements by their vary nature (Democratically elected or no) can only solve political problems. Politicization of the Internet is something we should be strongly opposed to. Technical innovation moves much, much faster than bureaucracy.
The Internet is the modern forum for the people, and I for one shudder at the thought of any government control over such a media.