While some grade D web monkey made a fundamental mistake, you have to look towards management for this. Or it will happen again. Where was the pen testing? Peer code review? Design review? (Assuming it was designed and not hacked).
I am NOT a government insider but have visited the government web sites enough to know how it's I/T operates. It is operated by department level politics and fragmented so bad it has no effective leader or policies. Sort of like every political department for themselves being I/T gurus. Ends up being a real mess. Especially when every political manager thinks they are web guru's because they can save html. Grade D web coder was probably a consultant without rules or guidance on basic standards. That is, careless computing at its best.
Go for the management if you want this fixed for real. A centralized I/T groups with industry standard policies including industry best practices enforced across the board. Code and peer reviews before release, version control, pen testing, development, test, production life cycles and the whole 9 yards. And move away from Mr political manager has budget and becomes designer, tester, reviewer, project manager all by his/he incompetent self.
Wow, bad times for AMD. They're losing the war against intel, and now have another set back. A 20% performance penalty is simply unacceptable for any processor. The fact that it is for brand new ones makes it an even bigger slap in the face for consumers.
Not if the processor/mobo combo is 60% of the cost of a Intel heater.
What are we trying to do here, compute pi to 14 million decimal paces in 5 minutes or less?
Sooner or later AMD will come back. My experiences with Intel, is a soon as they get the lead they fall asleep. And AMD, while bruised will just wake up.
AMD can turn this into a PR boon to one-up Intel at the "Green" initiatives. All they have to do is repurpose the uncut wafers of these chips as solar panels and then retile the outside of all their buildings with the panels. This will save money on their energy bills and they can even start a new Ad Campaign:
It will not stop me from buying AMD. The only processor I have ever (of 20+) had that cooked was a P4 2.4GHz HT on a Intel PERL mobo no less! But I have abused two older AMD chips I still have running with over-clocking, dust plugs in the fans etc and in a an el-cheap mobos. One even ran with a defective fan for months. It did crash, but I caught the fan doing it one day where it would just stall. Replaced the fan, been running ever since. Those AMD just keeps on ticking, a 1200 and 2000+. Totally abused and owe me nothing.
And the AMD X2 I bought last year, runs flawlessly. BTW, I do have 2 P4 heaters still running. Yep, I have a few, even a Sparc.
But looking for another X2 for Christmas. And anyone who buys a chip with a serial number increment of less than 100,000 for production or stability are nuts. Just like a Chrysler, GM or Ford, you don't want the first 100,000, nor the last 100,000. The sweet spot is in the middle.
And although down, I do look forward to the day AMD kicks Intel ass once again. Too bad AMD execs sidelined AMD engineering with this ATI noose. ATI is going to set AMD back 4 years by the time all is counted. I do have respect for Intel PIII 650Mhz duals in a Supermicro though, they too keep ticking.
I myself go back and forth on this. There is NO doubt that we do not belong in Iraq (and would have been out of afghanstan had idiot boy not put us in Iraq). But the simple fact is that we are there. We do not want to leave them in a worse mess (and yes, it can get MUCH worse). So, lets get back to reality.
I too went back and forth for a long time until I realized the middle east, the whole 9/11 thing isn't really a conventional war at all. It is about a cultural war between radical-Islamic extremest with no tolerance for the rest of the world. You can't fight a cultural war with Apaches, tanks, firearms...for we will loose. For example, the children are the offspring of the perpetrators, while the women feed, cloth and satisfy the men who do us harm. How do you fight that? It is a political nightmare.
We need to adopt some terrorist tactics, use the same hit and run approach as they do. If they do 9/11, surgically blow up the leaders and towns they reside in and get out. No dilly dally around. Just blow them up inside of 48 hours. Much like Gaddafi/Libya. It worked good putting a missile into his front door step and he got the message.
And maybe when the Saudi's get scared, let them finance the war. Let us put our resources to getting to the stars.
The credibility of the US is at stake here? Some needs to write Mr. Ting a memo, reminding him that since that commitment is made, not one but TWO shuttles have been blown to flinders along with their brave crews.
Just think, how many days or is it hours of Iraq does it take to fund a solution to this? Not many.
Think, for what has been spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, we could have a US space station around Mars or Jupiter, maybe both.
Real geeks and geek squad are two different things.
A real geek can go into the local parts store, order mobo and all the parts. Put one together, load the OS and then program the thing. Setup their own firewall and probably run Linux, BSD or other non-Windows OS. They get into wireless, networking, sniffing and software to depths geek squad could never go.
Geek squad on the other hand is really a salesperson in disguise. The idea is to bilk you for services you do not need.
CBC Marketplace video explains. These are not geeks or nurds, they are modern day snake oil salesmen.
Don't insult real geeks. Real geeks would have all these problems fixed properly in less than 10 minutes or recommend that the system is so old it is cheaper to buy a new one. But real geeks don't drive stupid vehicles and they sure don't work for $30/hr or less.
In Canada, you might have a case for wrongful dismissal....
Doubtful. Why is simple. Even in Canada if you do a crime against law you can be fired with cause. In fact, the company may increase their liability if they do not fire you. As by not firing they accept the liabilities for damages done.
Surely a story about the greatest chessplayer of all time, and a key campaigner for civil liberties in Soviet Russia counts as "news for nerds" without some Deep Blue window-dressing. Do we really need to fake-tag this story as being about supercomputers to get it here?
I agree about the deep blue part. First, I suspect it was about PR-sales gimic and not a real match. I site the following as deep blue hype:
IBM refused a rematch, in fact by at least 2 other renowned players at the top of their game types at the time were turned down.
I think it was the 5th game, when one piece was moved, anyone who know the game wondered WTF. He lost that game. I am not saying he threw it, but he sure was not near the top in play that day.
Now if a computer wants to be top dog, they need to do it just like people. Play to become a master (points). Then enter the tournaments required to get to this level of player. Then play in the final rounds. One huge disadvantage Kasparov had is he could not study big blue's prior games for weaknesses. Yet deep blue had Kasparov's history of play. Something you always do in serious play.
All deep blue was to this say is an oversold PR move. Not worth mention.
I can understand why you would DO this, but why in God's name would you patent it? Amazon already has the black eye from attempting to give targeted prices to members (oops) and a patent black eye by flouting the USPTO's decision on one-click. What business model is being protected by patenting the mechanism to put orders on the back burner?
And they are now working on a whole country. View their prices on amazon.ca and amazon.com. The prices have always been bad north of the border, but with the recent dollar shift Amazon is off of most Canadian book buyers places to shop. Even local retailers are doing better which is a slam on Amazon.
In fact, Amazon is on this Canadians "do not buy from list". Has been for over 2 years.
Our computer technologies have yet to achieve the complexity of most biological brains. I'd love to see these new informations derive a new form of super-computer. Of course...We have to watch out for iRobot scenarios...
Don't hold your breath for an iRobot.
If each of the 100 billion neurons managed the 1000 or so synapses, and say a modern day PC with a quad processor could computationally handle say 100 neurons, you would need 1 billion PCs. Since 1 billion PCs would find it difficult to walk, the old adage of: "computers are as dumb as nails" still applies.
Now lets say usable processing power doubles every 5 years, and it shrinks to something small enough it can walk into our living rooms. That would be at least 150 years from now.
You could argue Moore's law is faster, but 2 issues. First is can it continue, not likely. Second is can we has humans program something this complex, not likely. Each generation of computers we get less and less value out of for the increases in CPU. You could say hello in 10-12 bytes in the '70's and early 80's, now it takes well over 1,000,000 bytes and 20 times longer to do the same thing on today's computers. Go figure.
So iRobot, Cherry 2000 and Commander Data are going to have to wait quite some time long after our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren have passed on. Say half the time to get a muppet.
I hate to say it, but I have to: ONE day of deployment in Iraq would pay for this thing.
Costs of Iraq are much higher than that. 12M a year for Arecibo would mean one day in Iraq could fund them for 14.75 years. This war costs far too much. And we all underestimate how much this is costing in other ways too.
Raid-1 (mirror) a pair of reliable disks (hitachi or seagates).
Hm, I used Deskstars once. Not again, the failure rate for the 12 or so I had was unacceptable. (20. 40. 80GB models) Has Hitachi fixed this? 1TB disks do sound good provide they last more than 2-3 years. Otherwise I will stick with Seagate. Seagates fail too but my experience says they are better than the others (so far).
And it is especially stupid to go after the low-level employee in a matter where upper-management is dropping the ball. You're just agreeing that when a government agency or corporation blunders, there should be a legal scapegoat so that they don't 'lose face.'
We really are on the same page, except I think employees should pay the damages as well as the company. Say a maximum fine of 20% of gross annual salary of the employee to the employee and substantially higher limits for company senior management. Including all damages above and beyond fines.
This way, no goats. Shared blame for a shared carelessness.
The problem that I see with this is that government agencies (or corporations) aren't being penalized. I don't think that the employee can be blamed when the corporate policy allows the employee to have sensitive information on their laptop *and* take the laptop off-site.
Corporations and government agencies are comprised of people. And it is people who do the daftest things when it comes to security. In fact, 95% or better of security problems involve the USER carelessness for the problem.
Let's face it. I'm sure *a lot* of employees don't even know much about encryption software, let alone which ones to use and how they work. I don't see the sense in blaming an employee that "should have known better" when it's possible that the company didn't provide the tools/training to allow employee to know what to do.
Then they aught to get cracking and learn. And also put it on their list of criteria and which products to buy/use. Then we might get somewhere.
I/T can't enforce this, the CIO's are too busy on "perception" issues. And management involve technical types and follow recommendations does not work either as most main line business types choose to ignore the obvious until burned. Then it is someone else's fault. You have to go for the person...
Vista isn't on my personal radar, nor of my employers. But installing a fresh XP and having to install 80 odd updates is a PITA.
Why not install Linux on a desktop, show them that it is easier to pick up on Linux as the buttons are in the right place? Or switch to Macs. Or in at least provision for it. That is only buy equipment known to run Linux so if Microsoft sticks to sliding XP prematurely into the unsupported bucket you have options.
So what if it is a shameless plug. Some MS coders decided to ignore the rules, turn off their brains and got caught by POS programming styles... I agree though, not really news but just another reason why C#, Java and other lazy engineering/programming styles should not be used in embedded systems development, period. Add them to the list of casualties. Road kill if you get the pun.
Hopefully he will learn the important lesson of embedded systems/controllers development of "Do not do uncontrolled memory allocation at run time" and if the language does not support this rule it is unsuitable. If the programmers don't understand another that is suitable, then they too are unsuitable. (BTW this includes ANY OS, not just MS ones).
It sure would not be amazon.ca, perhaps amazon.com. The Canadian version is 40% more expensive than the US one. Unless of course amazon.ca gets a whopping price adjustment and is only running on one server from presence and suckers.
Internet addiction sure curred my TV addition. After too many years of TV, it sucks. I am much better off too. I want to change the channels, I can do it instantly. I read something I want to know more about, I can drill into it until satisfied. I can read others opinions, not just those from a government sponsored TV/radio station.
The real problem is parents are looking for government sponsored baby sitters to take care of rearing problems. The Internet will not fix dysfunctional upbringing but is an easy target to blame, like TV was 20 years ago. I say 20 years ago, as does anyone watch TV without a keyboard/computer any more?
As a European, I do feel there is a need to do something with this issue. Not to be disrespectful, but I don't think that USA are the best people for the job.
Mindless drivel. Euros are just out of joint because they didn't invent the internet but use it like heroin addict. And your governments foster this rhetoric as to them this is far too open and standardized for their liking. They would rather see government controls, like France for example on encryption. None of why governments want shared control has anything to do with benefiting the internet at all. It is about controlling you and most countries are too inept at managing what they have. Your country has a top level.iso, use it.
The internet works because it is open, standardized and a packet is a packet in China, France or in the USA. The USA has done a good job, or you would not be using it. It is doubtful the UN would do better as if Internet development was left to the UN we might get it in the year 13756.
The UN should be more concerned about:
Dictators who buy yachts, guns, planes while their people starve.
Countries with out of control population growths living in self induced poverty
Getting a solution to Iraq/Afghanistan
International law and terrorists, making smaller countries comply
Making the UN more constructive and productive so we don't think they are an expensive ineffective joke
I can't help but think it would be better off in the US as non-profit than the UN. The UN is political, not a technical organization. So any changes they made would be driven from a political source with ulterior motives.
Think, if they messed up commerce because of poor decisions they could argue 18 months about it before making a decision.
And besides, there is nothing stopping any country from doing their own thing provided they are willing to pay for it them selves and not hide behind the UN. Last I checked every country does have their own 2 letter ISO code country assignments. I am not aware of any who are denied access to.com, net etc.
It must have been a slow day at the UN. As if the UN had their way, one must remember it is stacked with mostly poor countries with most of the votes. Why should these countries with the least to lose have more control? Most can't even manage their own.iso.
This is absolutely horrible, and I demand it be stopped! These researchers are advocating the mass enslavement of innocent microbes. These microbes will be forced to work nonstop on Hydrogen production from the moment they are born to the moment they are finally literally worked to death. Multiple generations of microbes will toil endlessly in these bacterial concentration camps, with no relief in sight!
We must stop the senseless abuse of microbial rights! We must fight for the smallest and most vulnerable among us! Stop this horror now!
Ah, let them unionize or take their case to the UN.
They won't say which BSD, but who wants to bet OpenBSD or at least parts of OpenBSD have found their way into it?
One would think you would choose a stable, high uptime secure OS in a tank as it's fundamentally a good idea. Makes me wonder why it already isn't intrinsically firewalled. I wonder if some idiot put Windows inside the tank? I can hear it now:
Gunner: Can't fire yet, waiting for the A/V to finish scanning...
Boom, silence after. It crashed thinking the shell was in mid flight when it restarted explorer.
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Sounds like some web monkey needs a beating....
While some grade D web monkey made a fundamental mistake, you have to look towards management for this. Or it will happen again. Where was the pen testing? Peer code review? Design review? (Assuming it was designed and not hacked).
I am NOT a government insider but have visited the government web sites enough to know how it's I/T operates. It is operated by department level politics and fragmented so bad it has no effective leader or policies. Sort of like every political department for themselves being I/T gurus. Ends up being a real mess. Especially when every political manager thinks they are web guru's because they can save html. Grade D web coder was probably a consultant without rules or guidance on basic standards. That is, careless computing at its best.
Go for the management if you want this fixed for real. A centralized I/T groups with industry standard policies including industry best practices enforced across the board. Code and peer reviews before release, version control, pen testing, development, test, production life cycles and the whole 9 yards. And move away from Mr political manager has budget and becomes designer, tester, reviewer, project manager all by his/he incompetent self.
Wow, bad times for AMD. They're losing the war against intel, and now have another set back. A 20% performance penalty is simply unacceptable for any processor. The fact that it is for brand new ones makes it an even bigger slap in the face for consumers.
Not if the processor/mobo combo is 60% of the cost of a Intel heater.
What are we trying to do here, compute pi to 14 million decimal paces in 5 minutes or less?
Sooner or later AMD will come back. My experiences with Intel, is a soon as they get the lead they fall asleep. And AMD, while bruised will just wake up.
AMD can turn this into a PR boon to one-up Intel at the "Green" initiatives. All they have to do is repurpose the uncut wafers of these chips as solar panels and then retile the outside of all their buildings with the panels. This will save money on their energy bills and they can even start a new Ad Campaign:
It will not stop me from buying AMD. The only processor I have ever (of 20+) had that cooked was a P4 2.4GHz HT on a Intel PERL mobo no less! But I have abused two older AMD chips I still have running with over-clocking, dust plugs in the fans etc and in a an el-cheap mobos. One even ran with a defective fan for months. It did crash, but I caught the fan doing it one day where it would just stall. Replaced the fan, been running ever since. Those AMD just keeps on ticking, a 1200 and 2000+. Totally abused and owe me nothing.
And the AMD X2 I bought last year, runs flawlessly. BTW, I do have 2 P4 heaters still running. Yep, I have a few, even a Sparc.
But looking for another X2 for Christmas. And anyone who buys a chip with a serial number increment of less than 100,000 for production or stability are nuts. Just like a Chrysler, GM or Ford, you don't want the first 100,000, nor the last 100,000. The sweet spot is in the middle.
And although down, I do look forward to the day AMD kicks Intel ass once again. Too bad AMD execs sidelined AMD engineering with this ATI noose. ATI is going to set AMD back 4 years by the time all is counted. I do have respect for Intel PIII 650Mhz duals in a Supermicro though, they too keep ticking.
I myself go back and forth on this. There is NO doubt that we do not belong in Iraq (and would have been out of afghanstan had idiot boy not put us in Iraq). But the simple fact is that we are there. We do not want to leave them in a worse mess (and yes, it can get MUCH worse). So, lets get back to reality.
I too went back and forth for a long time until I realized the middle east, the whole 9/11 thing isn't really a conventional war at all. It is about a cultural war between radical-Islamic extremest with no tolerance for the rest of the world. You can't fight a cultural war with Apaches, tanks, firearms...for we will loose. For example, the children are the offspring of the perpetrators, while the women feed, cloth and satisfy the men who do us harm. How do you fight that? It is a political nightmare.
We need to adopt some terrorist tactics, use the same hit and run approach as they do. If they do 9/11, surgically blow up the leaders and towns they reside in and get out. No dilly dally around. Just blow them up inside of 48 hours. Much like Gaddafi/Libya. It worked good putting a missile into his front door step and he got the message.
And maybe when the Saudi's get scared, let them finance the war. Let us put our resources to getting to the stars.
The credibility of the US is at stake here? Some needs to write Mr. Ting a memo, reminding him that since that commitment is made, not one but TWO shuttles have been blown to flinders along with their brave crews.
Just think, how many days or is it hours of Iraq does it take to fund a solution to this? Not many.
Think, for what has been spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, we could have a US space station around Mars or Jupiter, maybe both.
Real geeks and geek squad are two different things.
A real geek can go into the local parts store, order mobo and all the parts. Put one together, load the OS and then program the thing. Setup their own firewall and probably run Linux, BSD or other non-Windows OS. They get into wireless, networking, sniffing and software to depths geek squad could never go.
Geek squad on the other hand is really a salesperson in disguise. The idea is to bilk you for services you do not need.
CBC Marketplace video explains. These are not geeks or nurds, they are modern day snake oil salesmen.
Don't insult real geeks. Real geeks would have all these problems fixed properly in less than 10 minutes or recommend that the system is so old it is cheaper to buy a new one. But real geeks don't drive stupid vehicles and they sure don't work for $30/hr or less.
In Canada, you might have a case for wrongful dismissal. ...
Doubtful. Why is simple. Even in Canada if you do a crime against law you can be fired with cause. In fact, the company may increase their liability if they do not fire you. As by not firing they accept the liabilities for damages done.
Me, I am still boycotting them until it also says "DRM Free, no Sony Rootkits".
And with a price drop, I would again buy more.
Surely a story about the greatest chessplayer of all time, and a key campaigner for civil liberties in Soviet Russia counts as "news for nerds" without some Deep Blue window-dressing. Do we really need to fake-tag this story as being about supercomputers to get it here?
I agree about the deep blue part. First, I suspect it was about PR-sales gimic and not a real match. I site the following as deep blue hype:
IBM refused a rematch, in fact by at least 2 other renowned players at the top of their game types at the time were turned down.
I think it was the 5th game, when one piece was moved, anyone who know the game wondered WTF. He lost that game. I am not saying he threw it, but he sure was not near the top in play that day.
Now if a computer wants to be top dog, they need to do it just like people. Play to become a master (points). Then enter the tournaments required to get to this level of player. Then play in the final rounds. One huge disadvantage Kasparov had is he could not study big blue's prior games for weaknesses. Yet deep blue had Kasparov's history of play. Something you always do in serious play.
All deep blue was to this say is an oversold PR move. Not worth mention.
You take care of BOTH!
This weeks $30 customer might be the deciding influence in next weeks $50,000 purchase, as is so often the case with customer bases.
I can understand why you would DO this, but why in God's name would you patent it? Amazon already has the black eye from attempting to give targeted prices to members (oops) and a patent black eye by flouting the USPTO's decision on one-click. What business model is being protected by patenting the mechanism to put orders on the back burner?
And they are now working on a whole country. View their prices on amazon.ca and amazon.com. The prices have always been bad north of the border, but with the recent dollar shift Amazon is off of most Canadian book buyers places to shop. Even local retailers are doing better which is a slam on Amazon.
In fact, Amazon is on this Canadians "do not buy from list". Has been for over 2 years.
Our computer technologies have yet to achieve the complexity of most biological brains. I'd love to see these new informations derive a new form of super-computer. Of course...We have to watch out for iRobot scenarios...
Don't hold your breath for an iRobot.
If each of the 100 billion neurons managed the 1000 or so synapses, and say a modern day PC with a quad processor could computationally handle say 100 neurons, you would need 1 billion PCs. Since 1 billion PCs would find it difficult to walk, the old adage of: "computers are as dumb as nails" still applies.
Now lets say usable processing power doubles every 5 years, and it shrinks to something small enough it can walk into our living rooms. That would be at least 150 years from now.
You could argue Moore's law is faster, but 2 issues. First is can it continue, not likely. Second is can we has humans program something this complex, not likely. Each generation of computers we get less and less value out of for the increases in CPU. You could say hello in 10-12 bytes in the '70's and early 80's, now it takes well over 1,000,000 bytes and 20 times longer to do the same thing on today's computers. Go figure.
So iRobot, Cherry 2000 and Commander Data are going to have to wait quite some time long after our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren have passed on. Say half the time to get a muppet.
I hate to say it, but I have to: ONE day of deployment in Iraq would pay for this thing.
Costs of Iraq are much higher than that. 12M a year for Arecibo would mean one day in Iraq could fund them for 14.75 years. This war costs far too much. And we all underestimate how much this is costing in other ways too.
Raid-1 (mirror) a pair of reliable disks (hitachi or seagates).
Hm, I used Deskstars once. Not again, the failure rate for the 12 or so I had was unacceptable. (20. 40. 80GB models) Has Hitachi fixed this? 1TB disks do sound good provide they last more than 2-3 years. Otherwise I will stick with Seagate. Seagates fail too but my experience says they are better than the others (so far).
And it is especially stupid to go after the low-level employee in a matter where upper-management is dropping the ball. You're just agreeing that when a government agency or corporation blunders, there should be a legal scapegoat so that they don't 'lose face.'
We really are on the same page, except I think employees should pay the damages as well as the company. Say a maximum fine of 20% of gross annual salary of the employee to the employee and substantially higher limits for company senior management. Including all damages above and beyond fines.
This way, no goats. Shared blame for a shared carelessness.
The problem that I see with this is that government agencies (or corporations) aren't being penalized. I don't think that the employee can be blamed when the corporate policy allows the employee to have sensitive information on their laptop *and* take the laptop off-site.
Corporations and government agencies are comprised of people. And it is people who do the daftest things when it comes to security. In fact, 95% or better of security problems involve the USER carelessness for the problem.
Let's face it. I'm sure *a lot* of employees don't even know much about encryption software, let alone which ones to use and how they work. I don't see the sense in blaming an employee that "should have known better" when it's possible that the company didn't provide the tools/training to allow employee to know what to do.
Then they aught to get cracking and learn. And also put it on their list of criteria and which products to buy/use. Then we might get somewhere.
I/T can't enforce this, the CIO's are too busy on "perception" issues. And management involve technical types and follow recommendations does not work either as most main line business types choose to ignore the obvious until burned. Then it is someone else's fault. You have to go for the person...
Vista isn't on my personal radar, nor of my employers. But installing a fresh XP and having to install 80 odd updates is a PITA.
Why not install Linux on a desktop, show them that it is easier to pick up on Linux as the buttons are in the right place? Or switch to Macs. Or in at least provision for it. That is only buy equipment known to run Linux so if Microsoft sticks to sliding XP prematurely into the unsupported bucket you have options.
So what if it is a shameless plug. Some MS coders decided to ignore the rules, turn off their brains and got caught by POS programming styles... I agree though, not really news but just another reason why C#, Java and other lazy engineering/programming styles should not be used in embedded systems development, period. Add them to the list of casualties. Road kill if you get the pun.
Hopefully he will learn the important lesson of embedded systems/controllers development of "Do not do uncontrolled memory allocation at run time" and if the language does not support this rule it is unsuitable. If the programmers don't understand another that is suitable, then they too are unsuitable. (BTW this includes ANY OS, not just MS ones).
It sure would not be amazon.ca, perhaps amazon.com. The Canadian version is 40% more expensive than the US one. Unless of course amazon.ca gets a whopping price adjustment and is only running on one server from presence and suckers.
Internet addiction sure curred my TV addition. After too many years of TV, it sucks. I am much better off too. I want to change the channels, I can do it instantly. I read something I want to know more about, I can drill into it until satisfied. I can read others opinions, not just those from a government sponsored TV/radio station.
The real problem is parents are looking for government sponsored baby sitters to take care of rearing problems. The Internet will not fix dysfunctional upbringing but is an easy target to blame, like TV was 20 years ago. I say 20 years ago, as does anyone watch TV without a keyboard/computer any more?
As a European, I do feel there is a need to do something with this issue. Not to be disrespectful, but I don't think that USA are the best people for the job.
Mindless drivel. Euros are just out of joint because they didn't invent the internet but use it like heroin addict. And your governments foster this rhetoric as to them this is far too open and standardized for their liking. They would rather see government controls, like France for example on encryption. None of why governments want shared control has anything to do with benefiting the internet at all. It is about controlling you and most countries are too inept at managing what they have. Your country has a top level .iso, use it.
The internet works because it is open, standardized and a packet is a packet in China, France or in the USA. The USA has done a good job, or you would not be using it. It is doubtful the UN would do better as if Internet development was left to the UN we might get it in the year 13756.
The UN should be more concerned about:
I can't help but think it would be better off in the US as non-profit than the UN. The UN is political, not a technical organization. So any changes they made would be driven from a political source with ulterior motives. Think, if they messed up commerce because of poor decisions they could argue 18 months about it before making a decision.
And besides, there is nothing stopping any country from doing their own thing provided they are willing to pay for it them selves and not hide behind the UN. Last I checked every country does have their own 2 letter ISO code country assignments. I am not aware of any who are denied access to .com, net etc.
It must have been a slow day at the UN. As if the UN had their way, one must remember it is stacked with mostly poor countries with most of the votes. Why should these countries with the least to lose have more control? Most can't even manage their own .iso.
This is absolutely horrible, and I demand it be stopped! These researchers are advocating the mass enslavement of innocent microbes. These microbes will be forced to work nonstop on Hydrogen production from the moment they are born to the moment they are finally literally worked to death. Multiple generations of microbes will toil endlessly in these bacterial concentration camps, with no relief in sight!
We must stop the senseless abuse of microbial rights! We must fight for the smallest and most vulnerable among us! Stop this horror now!
Ah, let them unionize or take their case to the UN.
So I'm happy to finally see this kind of technology under real development.
Why not the old fashioned way, spike strips and bullets in the tires. Or if they shot back, a bullet in their heads?
200lbs of extra weight is just going to slow down the police cruiser and make it less maneuverable. Bad investment.
They won't say which BSD, but who wants to bet OpenBSD or at least parts of OpenBSD have found their way into it?
One would think you would choose a stable, high uptime secure OS in a tank as it's fundamentally a good idea. Makes me wonder why it already isn't intrinsically firewalled. I wonder if some idiot put Windows inside the tank? I can hear it now:
Gunner: Can't fire yet, waiting for the A/V to finish scanning...
Boom, silence after. It crashed thinking the shell was in mid flight when it restarted explorer.