On the other hand, in India manual labour is cheap. A plumber is available for ~20 USD/day (at most). Most other manual labour professions pay about the same.
Any job requiring higher education pays considerably more. At least 3 times that, along with better working conditions.
The current problem in the US is that there are not enough manual labourers, and too many people who need their service(s). All that you really need is a hassle free immigration/work treaty with Mexico, and those plumbers and mechanics will face real competition and drive prices down.
You mean, like shoving billions of dollars into building new infrastructure like railways, mass transit, city housing (not the villages Americans call suburbs)....
You don't need a miracle car, you need a new lifestyle.
Did you ever put a nail into the openings at the back of your PC? You need to put a nail in and then lick the nail to allow the static buildup capacitor to discharge and make the PC work better.
Have you never read that rubbing glass and silk actually causes a static electricity buildup?
The OP already included redundancy. Spam filtering redundancy is mostly a bunch of identical servers in different locations with MX records to handle load distribution and load balancing.
The hard bit about spam filtering is your ruleset(s) and spam pattern matching checks (which are difficult to write correctly and need expensive humans to be involved).
The problem is that DNSBLs killed the spammers sending mail from their own infrastructure. Now it's all the Windows PCs affected with trojans, bots and viruses which are sending out spam.
The military can't just attack everyone with a compromised PC, because there are too many of those. NAT gateways make things even worse.
The Challenge Response Authentication Protocol is crap. Most humans don't answer the question either, and just go away. Some of us block the sender as a spammer.
I believe that packet switching is a UK invention, not the US. The rest of the world might find it better to isolate the US from their networks (especially as the US declines as an economic power).
Now, like it or not, the US will lose control of the naming system. The question is whether you do it nicely and retain some influence or lose it by pissing everyone else off and retain no influence at all.
The Western media doesn't announce it. You don't get news from non English sources.
Also, those governments are supplying misinformation, or just secure in the knowledge that China will defend them due to their strategic value (oil or location)
So you are switching from an open, peer-to-peer network to one controlled by a single entity (or small set of entities) which will not have your best interests at heart?
How do you communicate with non-twitter, non-Facebook users anyway?
As someone who lives in a city even more crowded than NYC, the subway thing is the same as in an elevator. You are being forced into someone else's personal space and the polite thing to do is to violate it as little as possible.
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Except that developers are really a cost centre. Sales are what actually gets taxed, and all you need is an off-shore company. Like Haliburton.
Write for any one UI toolkit. We users don't really care.
If the code is out there, someone will write a wrapper for the other two if they want.
Other than deciding the root server IPs, not much. IANA controls '.'.
On the other hand, in India manual labour is cheap. A plumber is available for ~20 USD/day (at most). Most other manual labour professions pay about the same.
Any job requiring higher education pays considerably more. At least 3 times that, along with better working conditions.
The current problem in the US is that there are not enough manual labourers, and too many people who need their service(s). All that you really need is a hassle free immigration/work treaty with Mexico, and those plumbers and mechanics will face real competition and drive prices down.
The Kamasutra is not a religious text.
Gmail exists so I never download email.
I don't watch DVDs, I watch IPTV and Netflix.
My phone is VoIP.
I use the cheaper quicken web interface.
Next set of options?
You mean, like shoving billions of dollars into building new infrastructure like railways, mass transit, city housing (not the villages Americans call suburbs)....
You don't need a miracle car, you need a new lifestyle.
Did you ever put a nail into the openings at the back of your PC? You need to put a nail in and then lick the nail to allow the static buildup capacitor to discharge and make the PC work better.
Have you never read that rubbing glass and silk actually causes a static electricity buildup?
Just use a Boeing 747. You drive so fast that your wheels don't touch the ground.
(That's like throwing RAM at an IO limited problem).
The OP already included redundancy. Spam filtering redundancy is mostly a bunch of identical servers in different locations with MX records to handle load distribution and load balancing.
The hard bit about spam filtering is your ruleset(s) and spam pattern matching checks (which are difficult to write correctly and need expensive humans to be involved).
The problem is that DNSBLs killed the spammers sending mail from their own infrastructure. Now it's all the Windows PCs affected with trojans, bots and viruses which are sending out spam.
The military can't just attack everyone with a compromised PC, because there are too many of those. NAT gateways make things even worse.
Waiting for similar hardware to become available for other languages.
I think Tim Bray is on the right track with his widefinder idea.
See Widefinder 1 and Widefinder 2 for details.
The Challenge Response Authentication Protocol is crap. Most humans don't answer the question either, and just go away. Some of us block the sender as a spammer.
Think Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Groovy and Clojure. Not Python.
I believe that packet switching is a UK invention, not the US. The rest of the world might find it better to isolate the US from their networks (especially as the US declines as an economic power).
Now, like it or not, the US will lose control of the naming system. The question is whether you do it nicely and retain some influence or lose it by pissing everyone else off and retain no influence at all.
There was also that secret Russian weapon: winter.
map { page.pagerank = 0, (www.google.com/search?q=uk) } ;
This is Google after all, they would use map();
Also, if this is a page in a database, UPDATE indexed_pages SET pagerank = 0 WHERE domain = 'uk';
There is not justification for violating end-to-end connectivity. It's a network of peers.
So your competition is a bunch of people pooling their own capital to provide themselves with a service they desire?
I think that's fair competition. Just sucks that you can't sell to someone whose goal is to get good service without any profits.
The Western media doesn't announce it. You don't get news from non English sources.
Also, those governments are supplying misinformation, or just secure in the knowledge that China will defend them due to their strategic value (oil or location)
So you are switching from an open, peer-to-peer network to one controlled by a single entity (or small set of entities) which will not have your best interests at heart?
How do you communicate with non-twitter, non-Facebook users anyway?
But they are using botted computers. I guess we could cut off the hands of the owners of botted computers ...
Or we could just compel them to use a minimal install of OpenBSD.
As someone who lives in a city even more crowded than NYC, the subway thing is the same as in an elevator. You are being forced into someone else's personal space and the polite thing to do is to violate it as little as possible.
It's a word. It doesn't cost an arm and a leg, now it only costs an ARM ;).
Plus, the US allows Pakistan to spend aid money on weapons against India