My guess it that this is intended as a wedge issue: once the concept of the EU directly raising taxes is accepted, next will come all kinds of taxes -- just as the US federal governement was initially seen as taking a small tax revenue, with the states taking the larger share, later the situation will reverse.
If he were not dead, I would suggest you talk to PT Barnum about this (well, plus the fact that the article suggests that PT Barnum did not actually say the quote).
With hardware (and bandwidth) getting cheaper, I find it hard to believe that Google has actually run out of space.
No, but I think it has run out of people to install and manage all that space. Apparently hires into "Reliability Systems Engineering" (or whatever Google calls their system admin group) are one of the hottest areas for Google right now.
Why not a hybrid where the engine is not connected to the tranmission?
The present generation of hybrids suffer the problems of both gas and electric vehicles. Gasolene engines can be very efficient if run at a single load and speed, so you build a car in which that is all the engine does: recharge the batteries while running at its most efficient load/speed combo.
Maybe there is some good reason why this does not work, but it would seem to have a bunch of advantages, including elimination of the transmission, more efficency, etc..
Now to make it secure...Kerberos! That's about as secure as you can get. But how to do kerberos+smtp? What about POP3 or IMAP? Can we kerberize those, too? Maybe we can let MIT take care of it...
Oh, wait, they have! MIT makes it and uses it on their own servers and clients! Did we win? Yay!
There is more:
But the moment your message leaves your email host....its a free-for-all for any one to sniff and hack.
Apparently, the author never heard of SMTPTLS, which, incidentally, GMAIL has implemented.
Now, not may mail servers support TLS, but to say that there is no encryption is wrong. I can send and receive emails to gmail and it is encrypted end-to-end from my home network to gmail.
I would argue that the problem with GMAIL is that only the sign-on is encrypted. I don't think anything that is displayed on the screen is encrypted.
Ahh, yes - highly intelligent. You do know, that the reason electicity is cheaper at 3 AM is that hardly anyone is buying it, right? Guess what happens if LOTS of people start buying electricity at 3 AM? It'll get more expensive.
People in the UK have been getting a large discount for buying electricity at night for at least 3 decades -- it does not seem to have stopped the system from working.
There are a number of major ways to use off-peak electricity without high tech gizmos:
1. Storage heaters: heat an object with high thermal capacity at night and allow the heat out only during the day. These are very common in the UK in places where mains gas is not available.
2. Delay timers on applicances. Run your dishwasher/clothes washer at night.
3. Water heater: with a large enough (and well insulated) storage tank, you don't need to heat water during the day.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why the stat's for SSL servers so much different for regular HTTP?
Because it is ether impossible (or perhaps merely very difficult) to virtually host an SSL site -- the problem, is: when the client connects and requests a certificate, what certificate should be returned? The certificate needs to match the domain name of the request, but since the HTTP request has not yet been made (this happens after the certificate validation), the server does not know this name yet.
I have been struggling with QuickVPN and a RV042 recently. Basically, it works in some cases and not others.
I eventually solved the problems, but the solution involved bypassing the client side QuickVPN software. There are plenty of postings on the web about the problem and Linksys support are basically unresponsive. However, I am pretty sure I know the root cause of the problem.
On the plus side, I can't see any evidence that the tunnels that I have created using my home-brew solution are counted against the limit of 50 tunnels.
For a hint on the homebrew solution, look at the "wget*" and ipsec.conf files that QuickVPN creates in its install directory, then take a look at what the ipsec.exe utility does. Some of the postings on the web also provide the clues.
Actually, IMHO, there are worse examples. Did you know that some environmentalists are pressing for the demolition of the Hetchy-Hetchy dam? This is a dam that provides hydro-electric power and water to the SF Bay Area.
I think he just describe MS' standard modus operandi: promise the world to stop companies switching. Then, when the product actually comes out without all those nifty features, promise the world in the next release.
For example: WinFS when was that originally promised?
The amazing thing is that all those PHB's haven't actually realised that MS is successfully taking them for fools and has been doing it for years. Look at the corporate licensing where MS "included" all new releases shipped during the period, but failed to ship any new releases during that time.
I did read all of your post. Your final line ("We now return you to your regular broadcast.") made me think you were being sarcastic when you wrote: "Of COURSE they're lying to us!".
What makes it worse is that Microsoft knows full well that this data is false, and still uses this in its FUD attacks against Linux/Open Source.
Well... maybe. It's quite possible that the two sub-organizations aren't communicating very well. If that's the case, then they need to do something about it.
Perhaps they are not communicating too well. Don't you think the PR department ought to call the security team to validate the numbers before going on the attack?
My point here is that the lack of communication is probably willful.
Or, on the other hand the PR departmetn did contact the security department and somewhere along the line, someone decided to lie.
I don't care if someone decided to not find the truth or knew about the truth before launching FUD: it amounts to the same. Microsoft knew that the figures were bogus and Microsoft used bogus numbers to attack Linux. Lack of communication is irrelevant.
If it were merely an unintentional failure, where is the apology? Where is the correction?
What is there to stop a virus making edits to the dll binary? Changing the strings that presently correspond to the IP addresses of MS domains to some random, invalid address?
And using the Run-As functionality that has been in place since at least Windows 2000 alleviates that problem entirely. Any more smart arse remarks?
I've lost count of the number of times that I have tried to run installers under WIndows 2000 using "Run As" and it did not work -- because tasks spawned by the installer don't get the administrator context.
The golden calf for opensource would be an application that supports client-server group calendaring and scheduling, with PDA synchronizing, and multi-platform support. The only thing even remotely moving in this direction is CalDAV, which AFAICT, is moving at a glacial pace.
I'll never understand the intelligent design versus evolution debate. The two seem to me to have nothing to do with one another. Evolution is a valid scientific theory based on physical evidence and intelligent design is more of a philosophy that really can't be proven one way or another. Further, they aren't mutually exclusive.
Well, it seems that you don't know what the ID promoters are putting forward. Supporters of ID see it as in conflict with some of the central tenets of evolution. They don't see it as a philosophy -- because that would undercut the central point of ID that it is [claimed] not to be religious.
The believers of ID claim that certain features of life as we know it could not have been created through evolution and therefore, there must be a "designer". ID promotors point to specific (but different according to different ID theories) features, or organs and say, "this is too complex to develop through natural means -- there must be a supernatural force at work". Of course, what they really mean is "we don't understand the precise mechanism under which this happened, therefore, it did not happen at all", but that presupposes that humans are all-knowing and therefore that we are in fact gods, since ID theory requires that for something to have happened, we must be able to understand it, which would mean that we understand all there is to know about the universe.... oops, was that ID theory disappearing in a circle of its own logic?
See we were trying regular SuSe and Redhat. Part of the whole Linux thing is it's free right? Oracle will have nothing to do with that at all. Supported Linuxes were RHEL, SuSe EL, and UnitedLinux. So we hit a roadbloack. I asked for permission to try Windows XP since that was a supported OS, the system had come with a license and why not. Oracle ended up installing on that fine on the first try and working properly. Then the project was canceled, but that's another story.
So, what you are saying is that you were trying to install a closed source application for weeks without asking exactly what the supported platforms were? I'm sorry, but that is just asking for failure. It's like wondering why it won't install on Windows 3.1 because "it's Windows, right?"
And yet I wish had a nickel for every time I've sent someone a 100+ page document via email, only to have them *FAX* me back changes.
Actually, I think this is an area where Outlook Express (and probably other email clients) suck. Here is what happens:
Person receives email with attachment
Person opens attachment, makes changes and saves attachment
Person forwards email back to original sender.
Did the original sender get the modified document? No. Yet, most people don't understand why this does not work (actually, it works with Eudora if you configure it to put attachments in a separate directory).
That's why you get the faxed modifications. Also many people don't know about the option to record and display changes.
I mean you dont have anything to prove he/she was a bad worker?
I see most people get in trouble for things everyone gets in trouble for or they are intentionally given things that are impossible to accomplish on purpose so they have a paper trail on why to fire someone. That way if they sue they can use the papertrail to show he/she was inept due to their job performance.
For many employers (especially smaller employers), it is much simpler to say "you're fired!" and refuse to give any reason. It's hard to prove any kind of discrimination in such a case, unless there is a pattern.
Employers have the right to fire people on spot for any reason at all.
Actually, this is not correct. Employers can fire for no reason, but there are many reasons for firing that can get the employer into deep legal problems -- think employment discrimination laws.
That's why most employers refuse to ever give a reason for firing anyone, unless it is obviously part of a mass layoff.
public corporations simply do not do anything but exactly that. public corporations are owned and by investors that have one single goal.
You are mistaken. Public corporations can have many goals, and profit is usually one of them -- but there is no law requiring this. It all depends on the articles of the company. There is no legal reason why I could not form a company whose goal was philanthropic works and sell stock on one of the exchanges (there may be practical reasons why this would not work). To take a more relevant example, how many companies went through IPOs during the dot-com boom, saying that profits would only appear in the mysterious future?
Secondly, you refer to "profit", but what is mean by this? Profit this quarter? Profit in 5 years time? 10 years? Those controlling Google can easily argue that they have a goal to maximise profits, but that their means to achieve this requires reducing short term profits in favour of greater long term profits.
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"No-one ever went broke through underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
No, but I think it has run out of people to install and manage all that space. Apparently hires into "Reliability Systems Engineering" (or whatever Google calls their system admin group) are one of the hottest areas for Google right now.
Why not a hybrid where the engine is not connected to the tranmission?
The present generation of hybrids suffer the problems of both gas and electric vehicles. Gasolene engines can be very efficient if run at a single load and speed, so you build a car in which that is all the engine does: recharge the batteries while running at its most efficient load/speed combo.
Maybe there is some good reason why this does not work, but it would seem to have a bunch of advantages, including elimination of the transmission, more efficency, etc..
Oh, wait, they have! MIT makes it and uses it on their own servers and clients! Did we win? Yay!
There is more:
Apparently, the author never heard of SMTPTLS, which, incidentally, GMAIL has implemented.Now, not may mail servers support TLS, but to say that there is no encryption is wrong. I can send and receive emails to gmail and it is encrypted end-to-end from my home network to gmail.
I would argue that the problem with GMAIL is that only the sign-on is encrypted. I don't think anything that is displayed on the screen is encrypted.
Bugmenot is your friend
There are a number of major ways to use off-peak electricity without high tech gizmos:
1. Storage heaters: heat an object with high thermal capacity at night and allow the heat out only during the day. These are very common in the UK in places where mains gas is not available.
2. Delay timers on applicances. Run your dishwasher/clothes washer at night.
3. Water heater: with a large enough (and well insulated) storage tank, you don't need to heat water during the day.
I have been struggling with QuickVPN and a RV042 recently. Basically, it works in some cases and not others.
I eventually solved the problems, but the solution involved bypassing the client side QuickVPN software. There are plenty of postings on the web about the problem and Linksys support are basically unresponsive. However, I am pretty sure I know the root cause of the problem.
On the plus side, I can't see any evidence that the tunnels that I have created using my home-brew solution are counted against the limit of 50 tunnels.
For a hint on the homebrew solution, look at the "wget*" and ipsec.conf files that QuickVPN creates in its install directory, then take a look at what the ipsec.exe utility does. Some of the postings on the web also provide the clues.
Actually, IMHO, there are worse examples. Did you know that some environmentalists are pressing for the demolition of the Hetchy-Hetchy dam? This is a dam that provides hydro-electric power and water to the SF Bay Area.
For example: WinFS when was that originally promised?
The amazing thing is that all those PHB's haven't actually realised that MS is successfully taking them for fools and has been doing it for years. Look at the corporate licensing where MS "included" all new releases shipped during the period, but failed to ship any new releases during that time.
I say there are 3 great lies in this world:
1. I will respect you in the morning
2. The check is in the mail
3. It's fixed in the next release
My point here is that the lack of communication is probably willful.
Or, on the other hand the PR departmetn did contact the security department and somewhere along the line, someone decided to lie.
I don't care if someone decided to not find the truth or knew about the truth before launching FUD: it amounts to the same. Microsoft knew that the figures were bogus and Microsoft used bogus numbers to attack Linux. Lack of communication is irrelevant.
If it were merely an unintentional failure, where is the apology? Where is the correction?
What is there to stop a virus making edits to the dll binary? Changing the strings that presently correspond to the IP addresses of MS domains to some random, invalid address?
The believers of ID claim that certain features of life as we know it could not have been created through evolution and therefore, there must be a "designer". ID promotors point to specific (but different according to different ID theories) features, or organs and say, "this is too complex to develop through natural means -- there must be a supernatural force at work". Of course, what they really mean is "we don't understand the precise mechanism under which this happened, therefore, it did not happen at all", but that presupposes that humans are all-knowing and therefore that we are in fact gods, since ID theory requires that for something to have happened, we must be able to understand it, which would mean that we understand all there is to know about the universe.... oops, was that ID theory disappearing in a circle of its own logic?
Person receives email with attachment
Person opens attachment, makes changes and saves attachment
Person forwards email back to original sender.
Did the original sender get the modified document? No. Yet, most people don't understand why this does not work (actually, it works with Eudora if you configure it to put attachments in a separate directory).
That's why you get the faxed modifications. Also many people don't know about the option to record and display changes.
That's why most employers refuse to ever give a reason for firing anyone, unless it is obviously part of a mass layoff.
Secondly, you refer to "profit", but what is mean by this? Profit this quarter? Profit in 5 years time? 10 years? Those controlling Google can easily argue that they have a goal to maximise profits, but that their means to achieve this requires reducing short term profits in favour of greater long term profits.