Duel Servers with an alogorithm on the client that determines what portion and split of the bytes to send to you -- even with moderate encyption, it still looks like random data to network sniffers.
Server A sends random encrypted bytes from the material requested and Server B fills in the blanks. Sent non-sequentially or out of play order and they'll have a tough time figuring out what the hell is being downloaded.
Controversy sells. A smooth election would be boring. News organizations have to pickup and inflate every single small claim of fraud, problems and disenfranchisement they can.
Expect to be manipulated throughout the election cycle.
"They would consume methane and oxygen and produce liquid carbon dioxide, which could be sequestered underground."
I'll guess we'll put it with the spent nuclear fuel rods.
That for years, the U.N recognized Saddam was persuing WMD, that for years Saddam pretended at least to be persuing WMD, that for years Dems, Gops told us of the threat of WMD development in Iraq, that for years, Iraq thwarted weapons inspectors and refused to allow complete and unfettered access to his weapons programs. That the New York Times, Washington Post, LA times et al, ran articles about the dangers of Saddam, that for years, everybody and their mothers brother was critical of Bush I of not taking Saddam out.... and now G.W Bush does something about it and he gets accused of lying.
Intelligence is guess work, and I trust the NY Times in helping secure and protect American interests as much as I do the U.N, France, Germany, or Russia.. or any other country for that matter... meaning Zip.
Bush's mistake was being wrong and erring on the side of American interests, and as an American, I can forgive that.
You just can't ignore those problems without them becoming bigger and bigger, like Carter during the Iran revolution. Oh how much better could the region be if Carter weren't such a gutless president and actually protected American interests rather then let 400 some odd hostages sit as trophies for some despotic and backwards Islamunists.
What's going on in the mideast, their condition and governments is can all be traced back to British, French, Italian, Spanish and German adventurism and Imperialism from decades to more then a century ago and I would just as soon would have left whole political morass to them, including the Balkans and Chechnya. Then we could withdraw to our own Hemisphere and be a leading example for Democracies in the Americas.
There is a misconception that Fascism is a trait of conservatives. Philisolophicaly, a "Dictator" so often used as a criteria for Fascism doesn't have to extend and include an individual. He can be a group of like minded individuals I.E a "Political Party", or a strong overbearing "Political Movement". When I listen to certain Liberal Senators and Liberal Party Leaders -- I'm certainly struck with the thought: The are Fascist. I am libertarian with conservative streak BTW. I would be a Democrat, if the Democrat party actualy existed. It died in 1964.
If you read the Federalist papers, you would conclude that our founding fathers were more then simple wealthy land owners. Most abhored nobility and actualy outlawed it... Read the Constitution and amendments. At worst, they were philosophers. Though I would contend that they actualy transcended philosophers and were inspired by Deism. Many were Deists.
Of course they had the foibles. The 3/5's slave rule, and the Primary reason wasn't because of mob rule, but as one respondant put it, because voting took so darn long and we had alot of territory to cover. But they understood the side affects as well, as cleary pointed out in their writings.
To the person who scoffed at the idea of the 17th amendment: It wouldn't be so bad if Senators were limited to campaign contributions from individual residents who actualy live in the state. But as today goes, some Senators actualy get more campaign support from large states like California or New york, then they do their own state. how many Senators has California funded -- many.
Nothing is wacky. Our founding fathers were truly ingenius.
We are a Federal Republic which is a hybrid form of a Democracy. We lose sight of that in todays world of 15 second sound bites and bitter politics. The Executive branch represents the Union of States. This is not apparant to the casual eye.. but was the intent. It was very weakened with the passage of the 17th amendment.
The 17th amendment dictated that Senators are elected by popular vote of the state, prior to that, they were appointed by the legislature or govenor.
So, todays system of electorial college is basicaly proportionality by state. There never was and there is no such thing as "the popular vote". It's a novelty invented by the losers to chastise the winners or the winners to chastise the losers, however way it goes.
The electoral college is the last vestige of our federal republic. I would hate get rid of it because if we did, we would quickly slip into fascism.. liberal or otherwise.
How many commercial linux systems out there scale to above 64 processors (not counting the duct tape and popsicle stick clustering)? Where do they go for their support? When did they start? What RAS features does linux have? When did Linux support domains? Dynamic reconfiguration? High availability? Hot swapability? How many linux systems out there are doing a million transactions a day? 5 million a day? 10 million a day?
You may be a genius at what you do and be able to put together a customized system and earn a life time income supporting the few that you could do and maintain... but Sun has been doing it for years and that's where the Industry expertise came from and in that game, linux is playing catchup.
The fact that IBM is giving that stuff away to linux is IBM's business (and for now SCO, but we think SCO is full of shit)
Redhat is becoming like Sun, like it or not, they have to. How many IT manager techno-jocks you think have the balls to go to their fortune 1000 executives with the idea of cobbling together some servers from Dell, some high priced consultatns from XYZ, some integrators from ABC, and supporters from QRS, and then pay yearly IP insurance/legal retainers just in case?
Linux is great, and I'm all for it -- but it's business model is tending towards SUN while SUN's is tending towards Linux -- and the'll both meet in the middle somewhere and be able to share the market.
Redhat, to survive will have to be able to provide one stop shopping for support and integration, and they do, for tiny to small range platforms. IBM is looking to capture it for the large end -- and will, and when they do, you'll end up with a variation of linux that really can only be satisfactorily serviced and installed by IBM on these high end platforms and its model will be just like Sun's and the little linux consultatancies will have just as much chance at that business as they do with Suns -- meaning Zero.
So what's wrong with competition between Linux and Solaris? Solaris is just as free as Linux is and a whole lot better (flame gear on), at least on sparc equipment, and soon to catch up and surpass on intel platforms too.
The truth of the matter is, Enterprise installations of Linux are no more free then any other Intel OS competitor, and I think there is a little fear and FUD because Sun is eyeing that market -- albeit later then what some wanted, and there are people with sufficient monatary interests in Linux who like to spread that FUD about Sun.
I read Groklaw for legal machinations between high tech companies -- not for PJ's opinion on he state of the industry. I've written off PJ's opinion as just somebody who has some sort of financial interest in Linux. PJ has shown nothing but hostility towards Sun. Even in PJ's area of expertise (legal) PJ doesn't report objectively on Sun... I.E Sun's 2 billion dollar settlement with Microsoft. It's contantly portrayed as something evil, rather then what it was. Expedient, neccessary and a win for Sun.
Sun is driving towards Open source code Solaris, but they still want to (and deserve to be) the gatekeeper and ultimate authority on Solaris.
I repeat again, PJ's and Groklaws opinions on the state of the industry regarding *any* company are just that... opinions, and not even expert ones at that. They are however the premier source of the legal wranglings that are going on in the industry.
The real enemy is/are software patents and software IP. Fight that, not a company like Sun that helped nourish the industry, and even blazed the trail and created the market (need) for Linux.
I survived 4 layoffs at Sun, I've seen many fine Engineers and innovators leave. Management has never been more open to us and forthright with us on what we have to do to survive and none of it involves cheating or fuddling the Industry. It's all quality, innovation and execution.
News doesn't sell as well as controversy. Here, in the U.S, a stable Democracy, we don't get news, we get controversy and opinion which is marketed to us, and now even targetted marketing.
Nobody here in the U.S gets killed because they exposed some powerfully rich pecadillos. Instead they get character assinated and overwhelmed with high priced lawyers. This of course is more controversy and the news media plays both sides and fuels the story so that we can get our dose of Shadenfrauden.
When I think of the U.S news media and politics, I distinctly remember two incidences that sum it up.
Number one, when Clinton was first running for office, he came in 4th in some primary, and I was writing him off as an also ran. The very next primary, some 2 weeks later, Clinton came in 3rd and was annointed the "Comeback Kid" with all the news media worshipping him.
Number two, when Clinton got caught with his cigar in the cookie jar -- I mean caught dead to rights complete with smoking cigar -- the news media was all agog and in awe of his "genius" in the syntax of his denials. Even admitting that on the surface they appeared to be lies, but where actualy very subtle and genius denials that technicaly were correct. Culminating in "Depends upon what the meaning of is is".
These point to one of the big shortcommings in U.S news today. They are Lazy. Any well funded and controversial organization can simply make up the news and make up the story and the networks buy it up wholesale and then dress it up and retail it to us.
Small directional radio links, thats why cross talk is not a major concern. The distance from one aligned pin to the other would effectivly be 1/100 the distance of adjacent pins. Thats effectively, not physically.
No, won't radiate much more then before. We're using way less power to "transmit" then we were "driving".
Sun is also working on pin to pin connections between large packages and open air optical connections between packages.
But who cares, everybody says sun isn't going to make it, is bleeding away money and is on it's death bed. Groklaw thinks Sun is evilincarnate two (M$ being 1). And we're just stooges for M$.
This was a very bad case to use for such a land mark decision. Police already had reasonable suspicion to question the gentlemen's name and whereabouts.
Of all the countless people harrassed by police for their ID and what they are doing -- merely because the lazy and ignorant cops thought they looked like they were up to something, some stupid lawyers had to push it in a case where the man was actualy up to something, and the cops had good reason to suspect it.
Scotus did say they would re-visit the decision should a better case come up where the defended was actually up to nothing and no reasonable suspicion was present, that results in a conviction for some other past offense.
But by then, the damage will have been done. National ID cards and the like.
Note the subject. Be carefull what you want. Most people confuse the two. Law enforcement is about arresting and punishing the guilty. Crime prevention is about harrassing people. Once we decide that Crime Prevention is our goal, we open up a whole new book of rights for the police to invade our privacy and we wont' be able to do anything about it. After all, only the guilty have a reason to hide something right?
Pay pals name was way soiled before Ebay bought them.
Online gambling *is* illegal in the U.S, and paypal still sucks.
Paypal and Ebay are a wrapped service. Meaning they now get to take a cut from both ends of the trade, the payment method and the trade method. These fees, though seemingly cheap are really expensive in terms of % of sales for what I was selling -- mmorpg items.
I won't go into detail about the whole story, but somebody charged back a $90 item after delivery and you figure Ebay and Paypal together could investigate it, but no. Ebay didn't care and Paypal charged me extra for the charge back, including the transfer fee. Items weren't covered because they were mmorpg items.
But if something is good and beneficial, then there will be a market for it. If there is a market for it, then there was alot money to be made. If this were the case for Rambus, no conspiracy or collusion would have stopped it.
So in truth, it was marginal, overhyped and Rambus was too greedy.
Look for Sun Microsystems and Microsoft cross license technology to give Windows the Scaleability, reliability it needs to compete in large installation sights. Meaning Solaris Server OS and Windows/Solaris hybrid clients and or Windows/Solaris server hybrids and Windows/Solaris hybrid clients.
I wish this were an indication that Microsoft was going to become more like Sun, but unfortunataly all I see is Sun becoming more like Microsoft (and I'm a strong Sun Advocate -- at least for the next few weeks... if you know what I mean).
They will weather the rising linux tide until it reaches saturation. They will compete on both price and total cost of ownership, and work to bring that down. Sun will provide an army of support that would be needed.
As for SCO... they are toast. I dont' believe Sun had anything to do with SCO, other then paying their obligated license fees, I think Microsoft did nudge them into it and that that needs to be looked at by the FTC and SEC.
They open sourced staroffice as a big FU to Microsoft -- playing hardball. Microsoft fears a strong competitor to windows office suite. Brilliant move IMHO, just tosses another flaming bowling ball pin for Microsoft to keep juggling.
I really don't understand what the big deal with open source Java. But I think when your major competitors are calling for you to open source your applications -- well, that can't be a good decision.
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Server A sends random encrypted bytes from the material requested and Server B fills in the blanks. Sent non-sequentially or out of play order and they'll have a tough time figuring out what the hell is being downloaded.
Something neat, with some cool features but alas, relativly useless -- not to mention a bit dated.
Performance per core
1 core 100%
2 core 170%
3 core 240%
4 core 320%
I've seen proposed roadmaps for 8 cores but they quickly become bus bound.
Specialty dual cores 1 processor the other either another instruction set processor, PCI bus, SCSI, DSP, encryption will be a nice niche.
Expect to be manipulated throughout the election cycle.
"They would consume methane and oxygen and produce liquid carbon dioxide, which could be sequestered underground." I'll guess we'll put it with the spent nuclear fuel rods.
Perhaps a ceramic lens can go places a glass lens cannot?
Intelligence is guess work, and I trust the NY Times in helping secure and protect American interests as much as I do the U.N, France, Germany, or Russia .. or any other country for that matter ... meaning Zip.
Bush's mistake was being wrong and erring on the side of American interests, and as an American, I can forgive that.
You just can't ignore those problems without them becoming bigger and bigger, like Carter during the Iran revolution. Oh how much better could the region be if Carter weren't such a gutless president and actually protected American interests rather then let 400 some odd hostages sit as trophies for some despotic and backwards Islamunists. What's going on in the mideast, their condition and governments is can all be traced back to British, French, Italian, Spanish and German adventurism and Imperialism from decades to more then a century ago and I would just as soon would have left whole political morass to them, including the Balkans and Chechnya. Then we could withdraw to our own Hemisphere and be a leading example for Democracies in the Americas.
If you read the Federalist papers, you would conclude that our founding fathers were more then simple wealthy land owners. Most abhored nobility and actualy outlawed it. .. Read the Constitution and amendments. At worst, they were philosophers. Though I would contend that they actualy transcended philosophers and were inspired by Deism. Many were Deists.
Of course they had the foibles. The 3/5's slave rule, and the Primary reason wasn't because of mob rule, but as one respondant put it, because voting took so darn long and we had alot of territory to cover. But they understood the side affects as well, as cleary pointed out in their writings.
To the person who scoffed at the idea of the 17th amendment: It wouldn't be so bad if Senators were limited to campaign contributions from individual residents who actualy live in the state. But as today goes, some Senators actualy get more campaign support from large states like California or New york, then they do their own state. how many Senators has California funded -- many.
We are a Federal Republic which is a hybrid form of a Democracy. We lose sight of that in todays world of 15 second sound bites and bitter politics. The Executive branch represents the Union of States. This is not apparant to the casual eye .. but was the intent. It was very weakened with the passage of the 17th amendment.
The 17th amendment dictated that Senators are elected by popular vote of the state, prior to that, they were appointed by the legislature or govenor.
So, todays system of electorial college is basicaly proportionality by state. There never was and there is no such thing as "the popular vote". It's a novelty invented by the losers to chastise the winners or the winners to chastise the losers, however way it goes.
The electoral college is the last vestige of our federal republic. I would hate get rid of it because if we did, we would quickly slip into fascism .. liberal or otherwise.
Yes, and I'm still waiting for the death of the back room server.
You may be a genius at what you do and be able to put together a customized system and earn a life time income supporting the few that you could do and maintain ... but Sun has been doing it for years and that's where the Industry expertise came from and in that game, linux is playing catchup.
The fact that IBM is giving that stuff away to linux is IBM's business (and for now SCO, but we think SCO is full of shit)
Redhat is becoming like Sun, like it or not, they have to. How many IT manager techno-jocks you think have the balls to go to their fortune 1000 executives with the idea of cobbling together some servers from Dell, some high priced consultatns from XYZ, some integrators from ABC, and supporters from QRS, and then pay yearly IP insurance/legal retainers just in case?
Linux is great, and I'm all for it -- but it's business model is tending towards SUN while SUN's is tending towards Linux -- and the'll both meet in the middle somewhere and be able to share the market.
Redhat, to survive will have to be able to provide one stop shopping for support and integration, and they do, for tiny to small range platforms. IBM is looking to capture it for the large end -- and will, and when they do, you'll end up with a variation of linux that really can only be satisfactorily serviced and installed by IBM on these high end platforms and its model will be just like Sun's and the little linux consultatancies will have just as much chance at that business as they do with Suns -- meaning Zero.
The truth of the matter is, Enterprise installations of Linux are no more free then any other Intel OS competitor, and I think there is a little fear and FUD because Sun is eyeing that market -- albeit later then what some wanted, and there are people with sufficient monatary interests in Linux who like to spread that FUD about Sun.
I read Groklaw for legal machinations between high tech companies -- not for PJ's opinion on he state of the industry. I've written off PJ's opinion as just somebody who has some sort of financial interest in Linux. PJ has shown nothing but hostility towards Sun. Even in PJ's area of expertise (legal) PJ doesn't report objectively on Sun ... I.E Sun's 2 billion dollar settlement with Microsoft. It's contantly portrayed as something evil, rather then what it was. Expedient, neccessary and a win for Sun.
Sun is driving towards Open source code Solaris, but they still want to (and deserve to be) the gatekeeper and ultimate authority on Solaris.
I repeat again, PJ's and Groklaws opinions on the state of the industry regarding *any* company are just that ... opinions, and not even expert ones at that. They are however the premier source of the legal wranglings that are going on in the industry.
The real enemy is/are software patents and software IP. Fight that, not a company like Sun that helped nourish the industry, and even blazed the trail and created the market (need) for Linux.
I survived 4 layoffs at Sun, I've seen many fine Engineers and innovators leave. Management has never been more open to us and forthright with us on what we have to do to survive and none of it involves cheating or fuddling the Industry. It's all quality, innovation and execution.
Nobody here in the U.S gets killed because they exposed some powerfully rich pecadillos. Instead they get character assinated and overwhelmed with high priced lawyers. This of course is more controversy and the news media plays both sides and fuels the story so that we can get our dose of Shadenfrauden.
When I think of the U.S news media and politics, I distinctly remember two incidences that sum it up.
Number one, when Clinton was first running for office, he came in 4th in some primary, and I was writing him off as an also ran. The very next primary, some 2 weeks later, Clinton came in 3rd and was annointed the "Comeback Kid" with all the news media worshipping him.
Number two, when Clinton got caught with his cigar in the cookie jar -- I mean caught dead to rights complete with smoking cigar -- the news media was all agog and in awe of his "genius" in the syntax of his denials. Even admitting that on the surface they appeared to be lies, but where actualy very subtle and genius denials that technicaly were correct. Culminating in "Depends upon what the meaning of is is".
These point to one of the big shortcommings in U.S news today. They are Lazy. Any well funded and controversial organization can simply make up the news and make up the story and the networks buy it up wholesale and then dress it up and retail it to us.
No, won't radiate much more then before. We're using way less power to "transmit" then we were "driving".
Sun is also working on pin to pin connections between large packages and open air optical connections between packages.
But who cares, everybody says sun isn't going to make it, is bleeding away money and is on it's death bed. Groklaw thinks Sun is evilincarnate two (M$ being 1). And we're just stooges for M$.
Hardly. PJ and Groklaw's SUN bashing has riviled even /..
It's just as cheap to use Solaris and Sunblade, as it is to use Linux and PC.
This was a very bad case to use for such a land mark decision. Police already had reasonable suspicion to question the gentlemen's name and whereabouts.
Of all the countless people harrassed by police for their ID and what they are doing -- merely because the lazy and ignorant cops thought they looked like they were up to something, some stupid lawyers had to push it in a case where the man was actualy up to something, and the cops had good reason to suspect it.
Scotus did say they would re-visit the decision should a better case come up where the defended was actually up to nothing and no reasonable suspicion was present, that results in a conviction for some other past offense.
But by then, the damage will have been done. National ID cards and the like.
Note the subject. Be carefull what you want. Most people confuse the two. Law enforcement is about arresting and punishing the guilty. Crime prevention is about harrassing people. Once we decide that Crime Prevention is our goal, we open up a whole new book of rights for the police to invade our privacy and we wont' be able to do anything about it. After all, only the guilty have a reason to hide something right?
Yes, now all they need to do is spend the 6 billion in cash they have and stop grossing 1+ bill in revenue per quarter.
Their hardware is more expensive, and slower.
Do 400,000+ transactions per hour 24/7 on your home built pc and get back to me.
Their OS is less feature rich, but has more bugs, and doesn't perform as well in most cases as Linux.
I guess if you want your corporate IT department to rival that of a medium sized College, you could squeeze extra performance out of Linux.
And as to Java... I'm not sure exactly how they intend to make money there... IBM does the Java services market SOOOO much better than Sun does.
They are going to use the FOSS model. Give it a way and include a link to paypal for donations.
Solaris is available for basicaly free. $75 last I checked. This is for up to 8 processors. That and above they license separately.
Online gambling *is* illegal in the U.S, and paypal still sucks.
Paypal and Ebay are a wrapped service. Meaning they now get to take a cut from both ends of the trade, the payment method and the trade method. These fees, though seemingly cheap are really expensive in terms of % of sales for what I was selling -- mmorpg items.
I won't go into detail about the whole story, but somebody charged back a $90 item after delivery and you figure Ebay and Paypal together could investigate it, but no. Ebay didn't care and Paypal charged me extra for the charge back, including the transfer fee. Items weren't covered because they were mmorpg items.
So in truth, it was marginal, overhyped and Rambus was too greedy.
The key is off the shelf games. Whoever gets the most off the shelf games to run smoothly and effortlesly in their environment wins. Oh, and p0rn too.
I wish this were an indication that Microsoft was going to become more like Sun, but unfortunataly all I see is Sun becoming more like Microsoft (and I'm a strong Sun Advocate -- at least for the next few weeks ... if you know what I mean).
They will weather the rising linux tide until it reaches saturation. They will compete on both price and total cost of ownership, and work to bring that down. Sun will provide an army of support that would be needed.
As for SCO ... they are toast. I dont' believe Sun had anything to do with SCO, other then paying their obligated license fees, I think Microsoft did nudge them into it and that that needs to be looked at by the FTC and SEC.
I really don't understand what the big deal with open source Java. But I think when your major competitors are calling for you to open source your applications -- well, that can't be a good decision.
Oh, wait. You want something Sun spent 100's of million dollars developing, and protecting for free. Like 100% really free.