France has argued for years that if we want them to stop testing in the South Pacific then we have to sell them the technology to simulate weapons testing the same way we in the USA do that now.
Even if encrypted all passwords can be cracked from any location in 30 seconds or less.
Seriously though the notion that you would have to hand over the keys to unencrypt subpoened mail is on target, just like you would have to provide the combination to your gun locker if that was subpoened (of course you could refuse, they would hold you in contempt, arrest you jail you and bust the lock anyway.) In the case of a 'secret' like a key or something like that they would do all of the same except they wouldn't be available to bust the lock. They'd just outwait you. There is no fifth ammendment right against evidence, only testimony and if anyone thinks they could successfully defend email as testimony - - good luck.
There seems to be two distinct issues here. 1) privacy and the expectation thereof. 2)the ability to defeat attempts to legally (that is procedurally compliant)gain access to said mail.
You may feel that you have a right to privacy but you should not have an expectation of that right. This forum pretty much sums that up. Do you have a legitimate course of action to turn away a subpoena? Not bloody Likely!
Who gives a fig about disk storage anyway? What I can't understand is that we still have DLL's: load load load load load for every request. Does anyone remember reentrant code a-la CICS? Load run run run run run. Maybe someday MS will "discover" reentrant code. Dare we hope that some MS genius will unearth the mysteries of running reentrant code as a nonstop task in the communications subsystem.
First of all it's a chameleon not a gecko. And it's putrid for so many other reasons. They should have called it "hey we're smoking powdered drain cleaner again"
We have two Adars this year. Whatever else you think about adding a month every once so often it's served us pretty well for a few thousand years. I mean if you can never get a precise linear calendar then why not add your corrections in the most obvious and practical way instead of having to jump through hoops?
Not the manufacturing. Anybody with a billion dollars and 3rd world country w/o environmental laws can bake chips. It's about an open design and open documentation and no royalties or licencing for the specs.
This is the result of IBM's purchase of Whistle. It is a bundled device-connection-service level and is geared @ small businesses as evident the pricing. There are many netpliance devices out there like this one which you can purchase by themselves: Cobalt, Rebel, etc.
Odd huh? At the low end, mainframes are not that much more expensive than large Intel SMP servers. At the high end of course you're getting a boatload of hardware but more importantly what you're getting is a discipline, process and operational model refined over the last 40 years. The point of mainframes is not that they cost fortune, it's that they are built and operated to run and run and run and run.
When I was fulltime in MVS ESA world we planned for WEEKS for an IPL (reboot) because they happened maybe twice a year for planned upgrades and never from unplanned events. In fact it was a ground breaking event when we got a VTAM upgrade that didn't make us regen VTAM following LU/PU changes. And 3745FEP's and NCP? Forget it, I've never seen one crash. Ever. In 20+ years. ESCON Channel I/O is 136Mbps or 17MBs out of the box and there are many approaches to multiply that in the aggregate. Throughput? We put CICS in its own region running as an uninterrupted communications task on a low end 9021-200 and got 500tps almost 8 years ago.
The problem though with putting freenix on a mainframe though is the fs. Native freenix fs structure probably can't be implemented well over the native IO or over the native mainframe file structures, PDS's etc.
Wavelan is about $1,100 for 3 PCs vs $20-90 per Ethernet adapter plus $90 for a hub plus $0.50/ft for cable x 200 ft or so plus $25 per RJ-45 termination plus 40-100 hours of your own labor. So even if your labor is free the price difference is about 500 bucks. The difference decreases as you add more PCs.
Between a computer and other devices like a SonyPlaystation 2, Which if I read the specs in the trade pubs correctly has roughly the same floating point performance of an SGI Iris Indigo. But I can't imagine the govt attempting to restrict a Japanese company's ability to export.
You can buy a pc anywhere right? You can get the code anywhere right? You can install it anywhere right? You can service it anywhere from anywhere right? What's the problem?
It won't be backwards compatible It will offered only as an expensive service It will offered only in the largest markets It will not work well under most circumstances It will be very expensive Your servers won't support it It will only support Active X It will have a closed authentication scheme It will have a closed encryption scheme It will never come to fruition It will require special versions of host apps It will be buggy slow and poorly crafted Everyone will write about how great it is No one will buy it When the sun is a burnt out husk the FCC will head in the direction of setting the ground rules for service providers to offer wireless TCP at Ethernet speed rendering all of this special gunk useless.
We're going to insert a Linx desktop and office suite into an environment that is Lotus SmartSuite and MS Office today.Most of those aren't going away So Linux and everything else have to coexist and share documents though collaborative authoring is not a high priority. The one thing that will make or break this to us is the degree of interoperability of the documents. Linux desktops HAVE to be able to read/edit/print docs that come from SS or MSO and conversely. This is a thorny enought problem now with both SS and MSO though it will become less so with the eventual demise of SmartSuite (does anyone doubt this?) But AFA Liux is concerned, the easiest way to quash the deployment is to provide a desktop to some higher up volunteers to demonstrate and use where the documents aren't completely compatible.
Hell I'd like an interface my 'technical' manager could use without coming into my office every few hours for help. Just an install program that didn't require you to make any decisions whatsoever would be nice because people won't make those decisions, they'll hector people like me to make them for them.
that the real heresy to the Church was not what particular people believed but who they told. Gallileo was not persecuted until he began writing in vernacular Italian and so made his views known to the great unwashed, unversed in Latin. Until he did that he was left alone and considered an obscure crank.
What's the problem? Why do you resist this?
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How about speech to text? Dictate something into your PDA, have it convert to text and edit/share/distribute it? It's P D A, remember? PERSONAL? ---ack, what's the use, you're all closet Luddites.
Do it on the cheap, cut corners, rush people and accept no dissention. Oh, and throw in several different development groups that don't communicate well together and aren't required to work in tandem. The strongest possible example of why we DON'T want to send people into space unless/until it's necessary to take the next step forward. If any of you are old enough to remember Challenger what's the lesson to take away from that? Test the entire system to insure that it can function under operational conditions that are not optimal but can be invoked by the PEOPLE who manage it.
...luckily though that's what we've come to expect so it will fly off the e-shelves like free crack. That is of course if it ever actually exists. Basically a TV remote control that costs $150.
....Since news, politics, sports, entertainment, science, consumerism and culture are all becoming indistinguishable. Put your candidates on eBay - complain about the other eBay losers in alt.flame.yousuck. Write some eBay candidate arbitration code and post it on your corporate webpage. Then follow the thread on cnn.com including the commments from everyone else talking about the other comment posters. Get a YTBI pro athlete to promote it on a tv channel owned by your isp. The next day you can hear two empty suits on C-span screeching about the great evil/glory..of candidate auctions even if the code is written by H1-B foreigners. Then somebody posts some shit about it on/. and 75% of the comments have something to do with Natalie fucking Portman or hot grits or why we love/hate/don't understand Jon Katz.
"My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone connected to it to hell." - - Igor Stravinsky
These are not the same thing. Nothing is copyrighted for its own edification. It's done to leverage some economic benefit be it brand recognition or royalties. If a company is willing to sue for the right to take something for 'nothing; then it's also willing to pay something for something. I can't get past the idea that for every squatter who was clever enough to exploit a legal loophole in the process there is a corresponding laggard who now sees it as its due to extract money from that first party. If its legal to buy domain names then until some court decides whether or not all near- variations on a trademark name are actually copyrightable and some clever folks figure out a way to perform due dilligence on the name itself or sell a title to a domain name then that's just the way it is. I'm sick to death of hearing how the poor multibillion dollar company was hurt not by its own ignorance, laziness, stupidity or arrogance but by some individual who saw the potential value in doing something first. The problem is not that domain names are owned by someone other than the firm that wants you to believe that it 'natually' belongs to them. No the problem is that litigation has become a strategic asset of many companies, as much as manufacturing, sales or patents. If these firms could move out of their own way once in a while suddenly one of them would realize that while an individual may be a threat to their precious name a large well organized, highly lawyered company could actually make money going into the business of domain name brokering. And guess what if a large for profit company did it all ther other large for profit companies would think it's a good idea, if only to 'bring order to the market'.
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France has argued for years that if we want them to stop testing in the South Pacific then we have to sell them the technology to simulate weapons testing the same way we in the USA do that now.
Even if encrypted all passwords can be cracked from any location in 30 seconds or less.
Seriously though the notion that you would have to hand over the keys to unencrypt subpoened mail is on target, just like you would have to provide the combination to your gun locker if that was subpoened (of course you could refuse, they would hold you in contempt, arrest you jail you and bust the lock anyway.) In the case of a 'secret' like a key or something like that they would do all of the same except they wouldn't be available to bust the lock. They'd just outwait you. There is no fifth ammendment right against evidence, only testimony and if anyone thinks they could successfully defend email as testimony - - good luck.
There seems to be two distinct issues here. 1) privacy and the expectation thereof. 2)the ability to defeat attempts to legally (that is procedurally compliant)gain access to said mail.
You may feel that you have a right to privacy but you should not have an expectation of that right. This forum pretty much sums that up. Do you have a legitimate course of action to turn away a subpoena? Not bloody Likely!
Who gives a fig about disk storage anyway? What I can't understand is that we still have DLL's: load load load load load for every request. Does anyone remember reentrant code a-la CICS? Load run run run run run. Maybe someday MS will "discover" reentrant code. Dare we hope that some MS genius will unearth the mysteries of running reentrant code as a nonstop task in the communications subsystem.
OR better yet outlaw literacy altogether.
First of all it's a chameleon not a gecko. And it's putrid for so many other reasons. They should have called it "hey we're smoking powdered drain cleaner again"
We have two Adars this year. Whatever else you think about adding a month every once so often it's served us pretty well for a few thousand years. I mean if you can never get a precise linear calendar then why not add your corrections in the most obvious and practical way instead of having to jump through hoops?
Not the manufacturing. Anybody with a billion dollars and 3rd world country w/o environmental laws can bake chips. It's about an open design and open documentation and no royalties or licencing for the specs.
This is the result of IBM's purchase of Whistle. It is a bundled device-connection-service level and is geared @ small businesses as evident the pricing. There are many netpliance devices out there like this one which you can purchase by themselves: Cobalt, Rebel, etc.
Odd huh? At the low end, mainframes are not that much more expensive than large Intel SMP servers. At the high end of course you're getting a boatload of hardware but more importantly what you're getting is a discipline, process and operational model refined over the last 40 years. The point of mainframes is not that they cost fortune, it's that they are built and operated to run and run and run and run.
When I was fulltime in MVS ESA world we planned for WEEKS for an IPL (reboot) because they happened maybe twice a year for planned upgrades and never from unplanned events. In fact it was a ground breaking event when we got a VTAM upgrade that didn't make us regen VTAM following LU/PU changes. And 3745FEP's and NCP? Forget it, I've never seen one crash. Ever. In 20+ years. ESCON Channel I/O is 136Mbps or 17MBs out of the box and there are many approaches to multiply that in the aggregate. Throughput? We put CICS in its own region running as an uninterrupted communications task on a low end 9021-200 and got 500tps almost 8 years ago.
The problem though with putting freenix on a mainframe though is the fs. Native freenix fs structure probably can't be implemented well over the native IO or over the native mainframe file structures, PDS's etc.
Wavelan is about $1,100 for 3 PCs vs $20-90 per Ethernet adapter plus $90 for a hub plus $0.50/ft for cable x 200 ft or so plus $25 per RJ-45 termination plus 40-100 hours of your own labor. So even if your labor is free the price difference is about 500 bucks. The difference decreases as you add more PCs.
Between a computer and other devices like a SonyPlaystation 2, Which if I read the specs in the trade pubs correctly has roughly the same floating point performance of an SGI Iris Indigo. But I can't imagine the govt attempting to restrict a Japanese company's ability to export.
You can buy a pc anywhere right? You can get the code anywhere right? You can install it anywhere right? You can service it anywhere from anywhere right? What's the problem?
It won't be backwards compatible
It will offered only as an expensive service
It will offered only in the largest markets
It will not work well under most circumstances
It will be very expensive
Your servers won't support it
It will only support Active X
It will have a closed authentication scheme
It will have a closed encryption scheme
It will never come to fruition
It will require special versions of host apps
It will be buggy slow and poorly crafted
Everyone will write about how great it is
No one will buy it
When the sun is a burnt out husk the FCC will head in the direction of setting the ground rules for service providers to offer wireless TCP at Ethernet speed rendering all of this special gunk useless.
You have been warned.
That's coming soon, an Ethernet cradle
Sure I'd like to smash my neighbors' bratty asshole kids in the head with a monitor but then it would be broken.
We're going to insert a Linx desktop and office suite into an environment that is Lotus SmartSuite and MS Office today.Most of those aren't going away So Linux and everything else have to coexist and share documents though collaborative authoring is not a high priority. The one thing that will make or break this to us is the degree of interoperability of the documents. Linux desktops HAVE to be able to read/edit/print docs that come from SS or MSO and conversely. This is a thorny enought problem now with both SS and MSO though it will become less so with the eventual demise of SmartSuite (does anyone doubt this?) But AFA Liux is concerned, the easiest way to quash the deployment is to provide a desktop to some higher up volunteers to demonstrate and use where the documents aren't completely compatible.
Hell I'd like an interface my 'technical' manager could use without coming into my office every few hours for help. Just an install program that didn't require you to make any decisions whatsoever would be nice because people won't make those decisions, they'll hector people like me to make them for them.
that the real heresy to the Church was not what particular people believed but who they told. Gallileo was not persecuted until he began writing in vernacular Italian and so made his views known to the great unwashed, unversed in Latin. Until he did that he was left alone and considered an obscure crank.
How about speech to text? Dictate something into your PDA, have it convert to text and edit/share/distribute it? It's P D A, remember? PERSONAL? ---ack, what's the use, you're all closet Luddites.
Do it on the cheap, cut corners, rush people and accept no dissention. Oh, and throw in several different development groups that don't communicate well together and aren't required to work in tandem. The strongest possible example of why we DON'T want to send people into space unless/until it's necessary to take the next step forward. If any of you are old enough to remember Challenger what's the lesson to take away from that? Test the entire system to insure that it can function under operational conditions that are not optimal but can be invoked by the PEOPLE who manage it.
Well sure I used to work 70, 80 90 hours a week. But now I have better things to do. The truth is we all wear smocks. Knowledge worker or not.
...luckily though that's what we've come to expect so it will fly off the e-shelves like free crack. That is of course if it ever actually exists. Basically a TV remote control that costs $150.
....Since news, politics, sports, entertainment, science, consumerism and culture are all becoming indistinguishable. Put your candidates on eBay - complain about the other eBay losers in alt.flame.yousuck. Write some eBay candidate arbitration code and post it on your corporate webpage. Then follow the thread on cnn.com including the commments from everyone else talking about the other comment posters. Get a YTBI pro athlete to promote it on a tv channel owned by your isp. The next day you can hear two empty suits on C-span screeching about the great evil/glory..of candidate auctions even if the code is written by H1-B foreigners. Then somebody posts some shit about it on /. and 75% of the comments have something to do with Natalie fucking Portman or hot grits or why we love/hate/don't understand Jon Katz.
"My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone connected to it to hell." - - Igor Stravinsky
These are not the same thing. Nothing is copyrighted for its own edification. It's done to leverage some economic benefit be it brand recognition or royalties. If a company is willing to sue for the right to take something for 'nothing; then it's also willing to pay something for something. I can't get past the idea that for every squatter who was clever enough to exploit a legal loophole in the process there is a corresponding laggard who now sees it as its due to extract money from that first party. If its legal to buy domain names then until some court decides whether or not all near- variations on a trademark name are actually copyrightable and some clever folks figure out a way to perform due dilligence on the name itself or sell a title to a domain name then that's just the way it is. I'm sick to death of hearing how the poor multibillion dollar company was hurt not by its own ignorance, laziness, stupidity or arrogance but by some individual who saw the potential value in doing something first. The problem is not that domain names are owned by someone other than the firm that wants you to believe that it 'natually' belongs to them. No the problem is that litigation has become a strategic asset of many companies, as much as manufacturing, sales or patents. If these firms could move out of their own way once in a while suddenly one of them would realize that while an individual may be a threat to their precious name a large well organized, highly lawyered company could actually make money going into the business of domain name brokering. And guess what if a large for profit company did it all ther other large for profit companies would think it's a good idea, if only to 'bring order to the market'.
WTF is a SuSE? As in Dr.? Some Utterly Stupid Epigram?