You make sound like he is the only President to be forced. Clinton had the Echelon program and Roosevelt did something very similar during WWII as two notable examples.
Personally, I HATE the idea of warrantless eavesdropping so please don't think that I am all for them. I just don't want this to turn into the typical 'W' is evil.
I realize that your comment is just egging people on, but I will bite.
Lets see, you think 'W' is going to go over to England and spearhead this project even though he made an effort here in the US (and the only real effort to improve the educational system in quite some time) like the 'No Child Left Behind' Act to improve the educational system. Yeah, you are surely on-topic.
The problem with your example is that it is about a zero-chance happening while the rule is setup to handle the rogue employee who for some reason has a ax to grind (ie disgruntled).
Being that I am an engineer myself, I would agree that we are not typically idiots. The problem is that many times, engineers live in a black and white world. What I mean by this is that they don't have fuzzy areas when it comes to right and wrong. With that, I have worked with quite a few in my time that really could not tell the difference when they should tell someone because morally they should versus when their sense engineering right is being violated.
All companies that I have worked for in the past have the same type of rule in-place. You can't just go off and talk to any journalists about the gripes they have with their employer. Whether you want to believe it or not, you are a representative of that company (or state run agency for that matter) so what you say and in what tone is important.
Very few people don't acknowledge that there isn't a Global Climate Change. What they do have issues with is that humans are the sole cause of the issue. There have been periods in the recent past that have gone through the same type of climate changes, and during that period, humans weren't driving cars or buying Barbie dolls produced in China.
Say for the sake of argument that the human stops producing all green house gases today, but the climate continues to change because we know it does and will (see the above). Now what? What do we do? We sure as heck can't change the basic natural process of the globe.
Soviet Russia was a world-class superpower who's economy outlasted Nazi Germany. That is not really saying much since Nazi Germany only lasted no more than 20 years.
It should also be noted that most european countries implement various degrees of socialism, and are doing just fine. Are doing just fine? Nothing like settling for the lowest common denominator. Instead, why don't they just push for a system that promotes success. That recipe is always good and works, and YES it is not perfect. Any form of communism and he is a communist just does not work. In the end, the country will have a few strong areas, but by and large, it will not be a success story.
I won't even attempt to dissect that though process. Just because you can read a book does not mean you can understand the meaning...or that the people who wrote the book are worthy of the reading.
Now regarding your statement regarding 'true communism versus State Communism'. Could it be that it just won't work because it violates the human nature, or that it could only work for a small sampling of people who only believed in communism? It is system that just does not scale to a country level without crumbling under abuses caused by human nature.
I think your fundamental mistake is that you believe that there exists a political system that is perfect and will fix all the woes of the world. Well, I am here to tell you that one does not exist as long as humans are involved. The best you can hope for is a system that allows the fewest to fall through the cracks and promotes the best in human nature. Guess what, that is not communism. Communism plays to the lowest common denominator when you bring in humans. In theory, it could work, but it will never work once applied to humans.
For all of you who have not read the blog, I would suggest that you just skim down to the comments. There is one excellent comment by Theo from OpenBSD & OpenSSH where he is quite articulate about some of Sun's not-so-friendly experiences with Open Source projects.
The problem is that you have an incorrect perspective. Saddam is the cause of the problem. All he had to do was comply with the rules that the UN set. He was the one who was caused his country to be dismantled because he would not comply with the world's demand to act with civility.
Bush was the only world leader that would step up to the plate and enforce the demands. Sorry if you don't see it that way, but it is the truth.
It is, after all, the US who went to the UN and used the UN as justification for its actions. We did not need to justify our actions. It was Saddam who was breaking the rules. It was Saddam who kicked out the inspectors. It was Saddam who was playing 'Secret Squirrel' with materials. Don't believe me? We have photos to show large trucks in front of buildings hours/days before inspections where to happen. Don't believe our pictures, the English, the French, the Germans and the Russians all have them as well.
The blame here falls on Saddam not following the rules. The rules that the UN placed but was unwilling to enforce. When you make rules but don't enforce them, you end up with situations like Iran.
Wow! Did your story ever bring back memories. I can even remember being able to go to K-Marts to get those tube! Sheesh I am getting old. Guess I will now go out and buy a cane for tonights square dance.
My best guess here as to why Sun doesn't do it themselves is that there engineers have been 'tainted' with the encumbered code: they have seen the code. This is why companies like IBM and such put up walls between the AIX and Linux teams.
First off, there was a choice between Iraq or Iran. Gee, we picked the lesser of two evils. At least we are attempting to something where most of the world just sits on its hands and extols there virtues of which mainly cause erosion of their own culture (France and Germany come to mind).
Now regarding the the "...and the Bush father wasn't happy with that so you had the first gulf war." comment. Gee, I guess we were the ones to ask Iraq to invade Kuwait..oh wait.
Then I would suggest that you don't release your code under Public domain. It is that simple. Just create a license that states what you wish your code to be used for and also attempt to state where your code cannot be used. It is that simple.
I think you might be misunderstanding the parent post. What he means is that most servers on the Internet just can't deliver you data faster that the 1.5M connection. Just because your pipe into your house is big doesn't mean everyone on the Internet can deliver that to you.
The big pipes coming in are typically only really good for multiple downloads from different servers.
Boy, I sure love you liberals. I am now going to start using labels here since you started with "...hick Christian wackos..". Nothing better when the rule of law does not benefit you. You make is sound like it is the big cities that make this country. Those country bumkins you slam on sure as heck don't need you, but you sure need them. Not sure where you think your food comes from, but it sure not from the city. They don't need your Internet, but you sure need that meat that comes from their farms. They don't need your advertising agencies, but you sure need the vegetables and fruits they raise.
See where I am going with this? Probably not because you have been trained to believe that the world is comes to you in the form of a grocery store and malls.
You can hate me or call me an idiot, but the truth is just that, the truth. If you can't or won't accept it then I just feel sorry for you and this country.
I have a feeling that you don't really understand computer systems as a whole. When you develop high-end solutions there are more items to consider than just context switch times. Getting information between processes is slow compared to say shared memory (aka heap) with threads as just one trade-off.
Threads are great when your process has multiple IO points to the world which are slow. This does allow your application to accept multiple inputs concurrently. The downside is that threads don't allow for scaling with multiple processors or cores. Think about this for a minute, say your application has two threads running. Can each of those threads run on separate CPU's in parallel effectively? Note the word 'effectively'. If the threads have any type of dependency on each other like data sharing, the answer more than likely is no because the system will spend more time thrashing data back and forth. Think about where the process space data resides. In memory, in what cache level, how does the caches keep in sync for each thread that do reside in the same process space.
The arguments here can only be answered on a case-by-case situation and only by a person who understands what the desired output is and what needs to be done to generate the correct response.
Arguing about generalities is a waste of time in my opinion.
You Sir, pretty much described my viewpoint better than I ever could have!
Just to add something. What I find humorous regarding the relation ship between religion and science is how well they actually go together in my opinion. It is the understanding of science that defines the depth of my understanding of God because I am able to better appreciate his greatness. How elegant the universe is is to me, a testament of how elegant God is.
The one little nugget that people always forget when they project the time line to where we will run out of IP's is the fact that some do get returned to the pool per say. Business's and people don't get the IP's for life, they do need to renew.
First off, I don't like the idea of tracking people. It is wrong, period, on any level.
With that being said, the purpose of the RFID tags is not to track the individual, but to have the ability to find that individual if needed. Theoretically it is meant to be reactionary system and not a proactive type system.
Is there room for abuse? You better believe it. Should it be used on all visitors to the US? No. Should all young to middle age men from the Middle East be tracked? Theoretically no but one could argue that all young to middle men are not terrorists but an extremely high number of terrorists do fit that profile. I am not condoning the view but just making a point. Please do not drag this comment into all Americans hate young to middle age Middle Eastern men because that is not the intent. I just used the above to show in intent of the system and how easily gray area some into play
Would I visit a country that wants to insert a chip into me on entry? Heck no. Would I blame people for not coming to the US if we put this type of system in-place? Heck no.
Again, I am not for the system because it is far to open to abuses but please judge the system as it was intended to be used: as a locater and not a tracker. Subtle differences, yes, but differences non the less.
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You make sound like he is the only President to be forced. Clinton had the Echelon program and Roosevelt did something very similar during WWII as two notable examples.
Personally, I HATE the idea of warrantless eavesdropping so please don't think that I am all for them. I just don't want this to turn into the typical 'W' is evil.
I realize that your comment is just egging people on, but I will bite.
Lets see, you think 'W' is going to go over to England and spearhead this project even though he made an effort here in the US (and the only real effort to improve the educational system in quite some time) like the 'No Child Left Behind' Act to improve the educational system. Yeah, you are surely on-topic.
The problem with your example is that it is about a zero-chance happening while the rule is setup to handle the rogue employee who for some reason has a ax to grind (ie disgruntled).
Being that I am an engineer myself, I would agree that we are not typically idiots. The problem is that many times, engineers live in a black and white world. What I mean by this is that they don't have fuzzy areas when it comes to right and wrong. With that, I have worked with quite a few in my time that really could not tell the difference when they should tell someone because morally they should versus when their sense engineering right is being violated.
All companies that I have worked for in the past have the same type of rule in-place. You can't just go off and talk to any journalists about the gripes they have with their employer. Whether you want to believe it or not, you are a representative of that company (or state run agency for that matter) so what you say and in what tone is important.
Very few people don't acknowledge that there isn't a Global Climate Change. What they do have issues with is that humans are the sole cause of the issue. There have been periods in the recent past that have gone through the same type of climate changes, and during that period, humans weren't driving cars or buying Barbie dolls produced in China.
Say for the sake of argument that the human stops producing all green house gases today, but the climate continues to change because we know it does and will (see the above). Now what? What do we do? We sure as heck can't change the basic natural process of the globe.
Communism is about Freedom?
*Sigh*
I won't even attempt to dissect that though process. Just because you can read a book does not mean you can understand the meaning...or that the people who wrote the book are worthy of the reading.
Now regarding your statement regarding 'true communism versus State Communism'. Could it be that it just won't work because it violates the human nature, or that it could only work for a small sampling of people who only believed in communism? It is system that just does not scale to a country level without crumbling under abuses caused by human nature.
I think your fundamental mistake is that you believe that there exists a political system that is perfect and will fix all the woes of the world. Well, I am here to tell you that one does not exist as long as humans are involved. The best you can hope for is a system that allows the fewest to fall through the cracks and promotes the best in human nature. Guess what, that is not communism. Communism plays to the lowest common denominator when you bring in humans. In theory, it could work, but it will never work once applied to humans.
For all of you who have not read the blog, I would suggest that you just skim down to the comments. There is one excellent comment by Theo from OpenBSD & OpenSSH where he is quite articulate about some of Sun's not-so-friendly experiences with Open Source projects.
The problem is that you have an incorrect perspective. Saddam is the cause of the problem. All he had to do was comply with the rules that the UN set. He was the one who was caused his country to be dismantled because he would not comply with the world's demand to act with civility.
Bush was the only world leader that would step up to the plate and enforce the demands. Sorry if you don't see it that way, but it is the truth.
And we will remember you world when once again we come to aid and bring the world back from the brink.
MoveOn.org, George Soros, Al Frankin just to name a few.
The blame here falls on Saddam not following the rules. The rules that the UN placed but was unwilling to enforce. When you make rules but don't enforce them, you end up with situations like Iran.
Wow! Did your story ever bring back memories. I can even remember being able to go to K-Marts to get those tube!
Sheesh I am getting old. Guess I will now go out and buy a cane for tonights square dance.
My best guess here as to why Sun doesn't do it themselves is that there engineers have been 'tainted' with the encumbered code: they have seen the code. This is why companies like IBM and such put up walls between the AIX and Linux teams.
First off, there was a choice between Iraq or Iran. Gee, we picked the lesser of two evils. At least we are attempting to something where most of the world just sits on its hands and extols there virtues of which mainly cause erosion of their own culture (France and Germany come to mind).
Now regarding the the "...and the Bush father wasn't happy with that so you had the first gulf war." comment. Gee, I guess we were the ones to ask Iraq to invade Kuwait..oh wait.
Then I would suggest that you don't release your code under Public domain. It is that simple. Just create a license that states what you wish your code to be used for and also attempt to state where your code cannot be used. It is that simple.
I think you might be misunderstanding the parent post. What he means is that most servers on the Internet just can't deliver you data faster that the 1.5M connection. Just because your pipe into your house is big doesn't mean everyone on the Internet can deliver that to you.
The big pipes coming in are typically only really good for multiple downloads from different servers.
Boy, I sure love you liberals. I am now going to start using labels here since you started with "...hick Christian wackos..". Nothing better when the rule of law does not benefit you. You make is sound like it is the big cities that make this country. Those country bumkins you slam on sure as heck don't need you, but you sure need them. Not sure where you think your food comes from, but it sure not from the city. They don't need your Internet, but you sure need that meat that comes from their farms. They don't need your advertising agencies, but you sure need the vegetables and fruits they raise.
See where I am going with this? Probably not because you have been trained to believe that the world is comes to you in the form of a grocery store and malls.
You can hate me or call me an idiot, but the truth is just that, the truth. If you can't or won't accept it then I just feel sorry for you and this country.
Here is a little reading regarding the 2000 election. I don't have time to investigate the 2004 election, but I have heard it is quite similar.
Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1
I have a feeling that you don't really understand computer systems as a whole. When you develop high-end solutions there are more items to consider than just context switch times. Getting information between processes is slow compared to say shared memory (aka heap) with threads as just one trade-off.
Threads are great when your process has multiple IO points to the world which are slow. This does allow your application to accept multiple inputs concurrently. The downside is that threads don't allow for scaling with multiple processors or cores. Think about this for a minute, say your application has two threads running. Can each of those threads run on separate CPU's in parallel effectively? Note the word 'effectively'. If the threads have any type of dependency on each other like data sharing, the answer more than likely is no because the system will spend more time thrashing data back and forth. Think about where the process space data resides. In memory, in what cache level, how does the caches keep in sync for each thread that do reside in the same process space.
The arguments here can only be answered on a case-by-case situation and only by a person who understands what the desired output is and what needs to be done to generate the correct response.
Arguing about generalities is a waste of time in my opinion.
Oh how can you say that. Hurd is just around the corner........oh wait.
You Sir, pretty much described my viewpoint better than I ever could have!
Just to add something. What I find humorous regarding the relation ship between religion and science is how well they actually go together in my opinion. It is the understanding of science that defines the depth of my understanding of God because I am able to better appreciate his greatness. How elegant the universe is is to me, a testament of how elegant God is.
You teach (what I am not sure because you did not state) yet you use words like 'howcome'......
The one little nugget that people always forget when they project the time line to where we will run out of IP's is the fact that some do get returned to the pool per say. Business's and people don't get the IP's for life, they do need to renew.
You rant about him being a jackass but you don't disqualify his statement...or you try with a point that has nothing to do with his statement.
First off, I don't like the idea of tracking people. It is wrong, period, on any level.
With that being said, the purpose of the RFID tags is not to track the individual, but to have the ability to find that individual if needed. Theoretically it is meant to be reactionary system and not a proactive type system.
Is there room for abuse? You better believe it. Should it be used on all visitors to the US? No. Should all young to middle age men from the Middle East be tracked? Theoretically no but one could argue that all young to middle men are not terrorists but an extremely high number of terrorists do fit that profile. I am not condoning the view but just making a point. Please do not drag this comment into all Americans hate young to middle age Middle Eastern men because that is not the intent. I just used the above to show in intent of the system and how easily gray area some into play
Would I visit a country that wants to insert a chip into me on entry? Heck no. Would I blame people for not coming to the US if we put this type of system in-place? Heck no.
Again, I am not for the system because it is far to open to abuses but please judge the system as it was intended to be used: as a locater and not a tracker. Subtle differences, yes, but differences non the less.