Figuring out how to redesign a program to run in parallel is a terribly difficult thing to do, for the most part....
But that is where a fundamental mistake is, you can't redesign it; you need to scrap it and start over by first understanding what it is you want to accomplish from a high level. Then break it down to it constituent parts and dependencies independent of old procedural programing methods. The second big issue is you need to find designers that can think parallel, few can. Same with programmers and managers.
It isn't per say difficult to do other than it takes a disciplined approach few environments have.
I once heard a business type managing a I/T group say parallel processing does not have value in business. So very wrong he was. The marketing group put up their own $5M cluster and saved the company almost $100M with the resulting analysis that took 14 days to run each month on 64 cores. That CIO is no longer with the company.
But you are right in one point, we buy 4 cores and only one gets utilized. It is because we are buying the wrong software. Or, alternatively put 4 such applications on one 4 core system and reduce your server count. Or better yet, load up VMWare and make 8-12 virtual machines.
"Well, first the grandfatherboard and the grandmotherboard have to love each other very much. And then they have a very special cuddle, and the grandfatherboard puts his pin into the grandmotherboard's socket, and then there's a motherboard."
And when the motherboard is mated into a system she also gets a daughterboard.
well marketing now tells us the number of cores is the only important factor in performance. this has 4, most desktop pc processors are 2 right now, that makes it exactly twice as fast as current processors.
I like Linux as much as every other guy here but, if you actually believe that Linux is flawless enough to endure a military funded search for flaws and vulnerabilities and come out immaculate, you must be out of touch with reality.
As if the other OS is (even without all the source code).
In fact, because of NSKey I think I would choose an open source OS so I could vet all the the code and know there isn't a deliberate back door. Maybe even consider OpenBSD since it's track record is better than most, and uptime is decent too. After all you don't want a robotic tank to stall in the battlefield for a reboot.
if you want to record from Cable and get any of the channels to record that are not encrypted, you have to have microsoft.
You are not in the right mindset, then don't buy their stuff.
My cable co is for whatever reason wanting us to go digital, and I keep saying no. They do not know I have a HDTV ready all over in the home, but I tell them simple:
I want to stay analog as 1) my TVs are analog and 2) I hear of so many problems in recording, compatibility and DRM I figure I will let others iron it out. If I had to go digital right now, I would discontinue my service. And I know, they know that I mean it.
It is also why I keep 2 older VCRs in operation. They work great, cheap and no DRM. Has a nice feature too, I can record 2 at once.
Open source desktops do need better p0rn viewers and support for trinkets.
While it does not lend itself to the bottom line anyway, those toys attract users, and the last thing an end user wants is a secure OS that allows policy to be enforced on them.
In most organizations, the desktop is an uncontrolled, an out of control computing device. Anti-virus, anti-spyware, FW and all the needed as extras increasing costs and maintenance. Had a user once say "The AV product prevented me from loading it so I turned it off". Those types should be fired but rarely if ever are. These people drive up computing costs and add no value to the company. Yet management doesn't have the fortitude to discipline them. Discipline is a bad and not a politically correct thing to do these days. Yet so sorely needed.
For doing business, 90% of the people could use FOSS... and it would cost their company less. But I call it's adoption PONC, price of no change. But what they don't realize is the user is changing anyway, W 3.1 does not look like 95, does not look like W 2000, does not look like XP, does not look like Vista. We don't have I/T leaders, we have I/T politicians leading these organizations.
What would be cool is to have it loaded up with a laser. Then when some thugs are kicking the crap out of someone or robbing them, send it after them. Zap, zap... would be cool to see that. And when they run out of CCD range, this thing could follow them.
But unfortunately, like anything else there are good ways to use technology, and there are bad ones. I could also see it carry a nerve gas agent for crowd control on a protest of an unpopular government move.
Driven to it by idiot management and idiot politicians.
Going for idiot "employees" and "designers" is going after the effect, not the cause. You want idiots, you hire them. You want "cheap" designs, the designer will design them. Employees and designers are told what to do. If you push back in these roles too much you will not have a job. Mind you, I would include the primary contractor.
Fixing this means fixing management. The best way to do this is to shut down the facility for 6 - 12 months while everything is independently analyzed and fixed at their expense. The board then will fire management to answer to the shareholders. And maybe the shareholders will vote for a more proactive board.
And they can be shut down, I am sure there are clauses of "safety" in the license to operate a reactor that can be used. And site the fact that management doesn't even know what happened, so it could happen again, and again... until some real serious damage results. Just like an aircraft, ground it until fixed.
is it because they are deliberately trying to confuse the issue to avoid blame ?
That is the truth. 25 years ago when deploying ArcNet and later thin net we isolated our production systems, while we didn't have in-securable OS issues back then we realized PC/user behavior was not worth the risk to automated machinery. Today, it is more critical than ever.
But the gross incompetence here goes to management. They should all be fired with cause and with prejudice and shut the system down until it is designed correctly. In todays day and age there is no excuse for this other than gross negligence.
I can just hear some senator that owns the stock in a mutual fund, "We need a law..." -- BS. We need to shut these idiots down now and pull their regulatory licenses to operate the facility.
You have lots of money. While Dell had a good thing going the price of PCs are now low enough taking out a $1000+ service plan is now redundant if your I/T department and management can plan at all. Say your servicing 100 users...
Go out and buy 106 PC bundles at the local mega store, for this volume they will provide some extra service. Say you want 20 per week in the next 5 weeks and then the extra 6. Skip the fancy service plans, any that die are likely to die in the first 30-60 days. Don't be a squid either, get rid of the CRTs and get a TFTP in the bundle and save your employees eyeballs.
Any that cause you problems, take them back.
If one dies in 14 months, use one of the spares and strip the dead one for parts. If they don't you have some extra for growth.
Dell is now best for the single purchase for end users only. I fail to see how spending an extra $1000+ per unit benefits a business using enough PCs to have any staff (local geek or employee) at all.
I use EMC for SAN.
EMC is a good rig for many applications, but they too are expensive. This is one of the first places I cut costs if a EMC upgrade is pending. 500GB SATA disks are cheap, and we spend millions micromanaging disk today. It is stupid in the corporate world to have to beg your admins for 30GB of disk. Plus SAN means the storage access is SLOWER. One think EMC does not like is when someone benchmarks a locally attached SATA to the EMC, never seen the EMC will where the test wasn't cooked.
For example, a client had DB performance problems, and had the logs/journals going to EMC SAN. While U360 locally attached disks went idle, since it was the bottleneck, I have them move logs and journaling to local mirrored disk and performance came up to acceptable levels. All because of some mindless "it must be on the EMC" BS from a salesperson.
I know one company, a little larger, About 250, they put Linux with VMWare on each PC. Upgrade is as simple as coping in an XP image, as are backups. They do this so they can use the CPU and storage at night for backups as each system has at least 2 big disks, one which the local user does not even see. Thinkg, 250*300=75TB of storage, cheap.
So, the question remains open: How do you get government out of healthcare, yet ensure that the poor sick/wounded are not left to die ?
Will not happen. Once government gets into it, then it becomes a political lever on the people to increase taxation into perpetuity. People become complacent, dependent and scared to loose it so they pay up. Which is really the problem, who is going ot pay and how many tax increases will be used to pay for it.
If the US does go government health care, do it wisely. Make the government flat tax a percentage on all income, no deductions, so everyone feels the pay pain. Deduct it separate from other taxes, say a flat 16% to start. The government then turns these into credits that must be spent on free enterprise insurance and given out equally to only those that are legal citizens or residents. If you don't file your taxes, or are an illegal, too bad so sad. If not spent, they can get the lower quality government care. Keep deductibles, it prevents abuse. Year over year, the program cannot run a deficit. Neither can the government use excess for general revenue. Prevents political "dipping" in the cash cow.
Also set limits, liability limits if you will. With enough cash anyones life can be extended. Is $1M too much, or $50M? Sorry, 300 years ago it was far more simple but in todays society this has to be addressed.
One last item to get past the lobbyists. Health care insurance companies of any kind must offer their rates equally to all that apply. No hiding behind group rates to avoid individual applicants. Simplify the legalese, if a Gr 12 can't understand it, it is too complex. They must take all that apply, but have the right to deny for 1 year. This is to prevent convenience hoping and deny for avoiding insuring. Legislate single billing/deductibles for a single incident issues. Finally, vigorously enforce existing fairness laws and levy heavy fines for non-compliance.
This way you don't get sucked too far down the tax rabbit hole.
As long as you use any taxpayer funded service, good luck getting my hand out of your pocket. The thing is (and I'm sure you hate to admit this) to participate in any society, you need people's hands in your pocket. Suck it up.
And that is what sucks, is too many are getting away with hands in the pocket, using the government as their theft device. Decaying morals and ethics have deteriorated our society to a point where "socialism - hands in your pockets" is turning the tax system into a form of slavery. The government often uses the money to buy votes and reward inept behavior. Even the feudal lords of medieval times were not as greedy as some governments are today.
Sometimes we pay to help those who need it. That's the way a community functions. As a Canadian, while I maybe don't have the health care that I need the instant I need it, it's still pretty damn good -- especially when there's an emergency....
Does that include the line ups and waiting? I know I am going to get flamed for this by other Canadians that have never lived anywhere else, but having lived in both systems, US and Canada I can say they both have different issues. In Canada the government taxes the hell out of us, ends up spending about the same, perhaps less than the US and people wait. Sometimes, although not frequently to a point of no return.
But why pick on a 1000 lb gorilla when you can go for chimp first.
My guess s Xerox is going for Apple to set the precedent, then go after the gorilla. Even at say $3 a copy sold, this is a huge amount of cash.
In the end, these companies will all realize patents are a curse, not a benefit as the only winners are lawyers and judges. A parasitic cost to the product that will break even the biggest of companies.
Apparently, they will to be able to block material "that promotes violence against women"
They may state that but the real reason is much more hideous. There are a growing number of uncontrolled decent sites on the internet, separation groups, private blogs criticizingly government actions. With TV, the control of CBC (a government corporation on the dole). Others that are private can't compete as easily and get the squeeze from CRTC if they get too frisky. There are mandated Canadian content guidelines and often the government sponsors the Canadian content they must provide.
The government of Canada would love to control the Internet. Quite likey could too. Shaw and Rogers don't really compete, they each have their own exclusive territories. With Telus and BCE the only real other alternatives the diversity of access is rather limited for Canadians.
Clearly this is a quiet move towards more censorship. Unlike the US, Canada has only one active branch of government so if it passes it is as good as law.
Dont believe me that Shaw isn't VoIP... The next time your Shaw internet stops working, try using your Shaw digital phone... IT STILL WORKS.
Not really, it is VoIP at least in the loose sense. Voice over IP...
Remember that little black/gray box is more than a simple little converter, it has MANY - MANY channels, built in QoS, heck, it runs a OS with a web server! In theory, they could use it to get to your inside network or redirect your traffic through their own monitoring devices... and all trivial to do.
So while your internet channel may be down, the VoIP channel could very well be up. There are many virtual like networks in the digital cable system, not one for both internet and VoIP....
I know in the US there are laws prohibiting companies from gimping their products like this. The specific laws escape me at the moment. Does Canada have anything similar?
Not that I am aware of, Ottawa is more interested in taxes. The only reason the Canadian government would do something is if the CRTC controlled it, maybe they are experimenting with Rogers/Shaw to see what consumers will tolerate?
I have noticed Shaw is blocking some video streaming as of late. And occasionally seems to throttle me after downloading ISOs of Solaris and Linux. I suspect this will become normal -- even though I pay extra for the business connection.
One easy way to beat it is to go 443 or port 80. Have the VPN or ssh use one of the common ports. As I suspect they are using QoS on the big switches because it is easy and hard to detect. But so far, Shaw isn't blocking my legitimate VPN to work - I don't think. Which is good, as that would get me in a twist real quick.
disable wireless security and implement real security, such as a RADIUS login. then set up a firewall rule to allow unauthenticated devices to access nintendo's servers
I think you were trying to be funny, not insightful.
Like I have recommended for years, VPN/IPSec over wireless is the only way. WEP, WPA are all weak by comparison. Turn on WEP, let the next door neighbor hack it just to find it firewalled only allowing IPSec. Wreaks their day.
Stupid list, they forgot C64. How many programmers haven't learnt programming using C64 BASIC?
There isn't many "real" programmers out there. Remember Turbo C and Turbo Pascal? Pascal in 29K of RAM, and likely not a programmer coming on line today can say "Hello" in 29K. Forget about a compiler, linker, editor, libraries, debugger and full type checking in that 29K.
My peeve on the list is Lotus 123... it was a copy... VisiCalc and Supercalc were better and more original, 123 was a "borrowed" concept from VisiCalc.
How feasible is it for we in the rest of the world to create "another Internet" and leave the current one with the US government? I can see major powers like China and Russia in support of this measure. But is it even possible?
Quite feasible actually. China already runs it's own DNS root servers. The trick becomes to make this as seamless as possible to the end users. But there are ulterior motives for this, to control the people.
For example say China wanted ibm.com to resolve to their own servers, they could hijack the domain off their servers and send it to their own servers. This make DNS in the middle attacks -- even with SSL -- trivial. China for example with at some point ban using DNS servers out of China and block external DNS at the international border routers.
That being said though, the internet domain system would deteriorate if every country got into the business and decided to do their own thing to control their users. After all, this is what it is really about.
I would further add, that they chose Microsoft because Microsoft promises lower TCO through lowered administrative (geek) needs.
In defense of Microsoft (I usually bash them) I will say the OS does have many features that are rarely deployed that can dramatically improve security. But here in is the problem, you can take someone from McDonald's on Monday and be a senior administrator by Friday and not even know these features exist. Because you work for $25K less per year, management loves this. Which is really the issue, management is too cheap to do it right and gets what they paid for. If security really matered to management they would have administrators who knew these features and have them fully enabled and monitored.
I suppose that most Microsoft shops wouldn't even know if they were breached, because most breaches don't actually desctroy data, they just steal it.
You're very correct. I doubt most Microsoft shops even know they have been hacked unless the hacker does something that causes issues, like a warz site eating up the bandwidth. They might warz it on the way out after they got what they wanted. A hacker keeping a low profile selectively taking proprietary secrets, credit cards and other identity information is certain to go unnoticed. After all, who even looks at Windows log files? It isn't even centralized without an OS refit either compounding the management issues. Windows is a PC operating system, PC stands for personal computer, or public computer but certainly not easy to manage securely in large scale.
Ok, I was born-and-raised in the good old USA. However, from reading many net sites, I seem to have gotten the impression that "liberal" in the USA is _very_ different than other parts of the world. Is this true? Would a liberal government in Canada be similar to one in the USA? How about a liberal government in Sweden? Or a liberal government in...?
A liberal in the US would be considered a right wing conservative in Canada. Republicans would be called Libertarians. The US has nothing as far left as Green or NDP. In fact, the US is a big shift right compared to most of the world.
It is also why the average US citizen lives better. Your people are not as caught up into depending on big government and the associated costs to freedom that come with it. Big government means big taxes, which reduces economic freedom. Oh, the US government is big but not on a per capita basis.
Passing a law like this for Canada will be easier. We do not have a freedom of speech law. Government CTRC/CBC controls what we see, what we hear -- that Outer Limits into is no joke in Canada.
I just recommended a Dell system for my family 2000 miles away. I'm praying to God I won't have to do any tech support over the phone. Hopefully they understand I've never even seen a computer with Vista installed. I hope the 1GB of memory is enough.
Probably not as there is a good chance the memory is shared with the video, leaving 756M for the memory. To solve, you will need a video card that has Vista support to get the memory back, and say add another gig of memory.
Shared memory is often touted as a feature, but is really a sever compromise in design performance. Teh CPU ends up stalled while video updates and issues like that.
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Figuring out how to redesign a program to run in parallel is a terribly difficult thing to do, for the most part. ...
But that is where a fundamental mistake is, you can't redesign it; you need to scrap it and start over by first understanding what it is you want to accomplish from a high level. Then break it down to it constituent parts and dependencies independent of old procedural programing methods. The second big issue is you need to find designers that can think parallel, few can. Same with programmers and managers.
It isn't per say difficult to do other than it takes a disciplined approach few environments have.
I once heard a business type managing a I/T group say parallel processing does not have value in business. So very wrong he was. The marketing group put up their own $5M cluster and saved the company almost $100M with the resulting analysis that took 14 days to run each month on 64 cores. That CIO is no longer with the company.
But you are right in one point, we buy 4 cores and only one gets utilized. It is because we are buying the wrong software. Or, alternatively put 4 such applications on one 4 core system and reduce your server count. Or better yet, load up VMWare and make 8-12 virtual machines.
"Well, first the grandfatherboard and the grandmotherboard have to love each other very much. And then they have a very special cuddle, and the grandfatherboard puts his pin into the grandmotherboard's socket, and then there's a motherboard."
And when the motherboard is mated into a system she also gets a daughterboard.
well marketing now tells us the number of cores is the only important factor in performance. this has 4, most desktop pc processors are 2 right now, that makes it exactly twice as fast as current processors.
But they might be right. I but I need 8 cores.
I like Linux as much as every other guy here but, if you actually believe that Linux is flawless enough to endure a military funded search for flaws and vulnerabilities and come out immaculate, you must be out of touch with reality.
As if the other OS is (even without all the source code).
In fact, because of NSKey I think I would choose an open source OS so I could vet all the the code and know there isn't a deliberate back door. Maybe even consider OpenBSD since it's track record is better than most, and uptime is decent too. After all you don't want a robotic tank to stall in the battlefield for a reboot.
But I do agree, no OS is perfect.
if you want to record from Cable and get any of the channels to record that are not encrypted, you have to have microsoft.
You are not in the right mindset, then don't buy their stuff.
My cable co is for whatever reason wanting us to go digital, and I keep saying no. They do not know I have a HDTV ready all over in the home, but I tell them simple:
I want to stay analog as 1) my TVs are analog and 2) I hear of so many problems in recording, compatibility and DRM I figure I will let others iron it out. If I had to go digital right now, I would discontinue my service. And I know, they know that I mean it.
It is also why I keep 2 older VCRs in operation. They work great, cheap and no DRM. Has a nice feature too, I can record 2 at once.
Open source desktops do need better p0rn viewers and support for trinkets.
While it does not lend itself to the bottom line anyway, those toys attract users, and the last thing an end user wants is a secure OS that allows policy to be enforced on them.
In most organizations, the desktop is an uncontrolled, an out of control computing device. Anti-virus, anti-spyware, FW and all the needed as extras increasing costs and maintenance. Had a user once say "The AV product prevented me from loading it so I turned it off". Those types should be fired but rarely if ever are. These people drive up computing costs and add no value to the company. Yet management doesn't have the fortitude to discipline them. Discipline is a bad and not a politically correct thing to do these days. Yet so sorely needed.
For doing business, 90% of the people could use FOSS... and it would cost their company less. But I call it's adoption PONC, price of no change. But what they don't realize is the user is changing anyway, W 3.1 does not look like 95, does not look like W 2000, does not look like XP, does not look like Vista. We don't have I/T leaders, we have I/T politicians leading these organizations.
What would be cool is to have it loaded up with a laser. Then when some thugs are kicking the crap out of someone or robbing them, send it after them. Zap, zap... would be cool to see that. And when they run out of CCD range, this thing could follow them.
But unfortunately, like anything else there are good ways to use technology, and there are bad ones. I could also see it carry a nerve gas agent for crowd control on a protest of an unpopular government move.
Driven to it by idiot management and idiot politicians.
Going for idiot "employees" and "designers" is going after the effect, not the cause. You want idiots, you hire them. You want "cheap" designs, the designer will design them. Employees and designers are told what to do. If you push back in these roles too much you will not have a job. Mind you, I would include the primary contractor.
Fixing this means fixing management. The best way to do this is to shut down the facility for 6 - 12 months while everything is independently analyzed and fixed at their expense. The board then will fire management to answer to the shareholders. And maybe the shareholders will vote for a more proactive board.
And they can be shut down, I am sure there are clauses of "safety" in the license to operate a reactor that can be used. And site the fact that management doesn't even know what happened, so it could happen again, and again... until some real serious damage results. Just like an aircraft, ground it until fixed.
Do invesigators also want to know how a "data storm" could have caused a nuclear plant to shut down?
Not really, it is BS grandstanding for politics like they are doing something when they are not.
For if it were not, the plant would have been shut down by now. They are talking this happened in August, and I would bet the problem still exists.
is it because they are deliberately trying to confuse the issue to avoid blame ?
That is the truth. 25 years ago when deploying ArcNet and later thin net we isolated our production systems, while we didn't have in-securable OS issues back then we realized PC/user behavior was not worth the risk to automated machinery. Today, it is more critical than ever.
But the gross incompetence here goes to management. They should all be fired with cause and with prejudice and shut the system down until it is designed correctly. In todays day and age there is no excuse for this other than gross negligence.
I can just hear some senator that owns the stock in a mutual fund, "We need a law..." -- BS. We need to shut these idiots down now and pull their regulatory licenses to operate the facility.
Dell for desktops.
You have lots of money. While Dell had a good thing going the price of PCs are now low enough taking out a $1000+ service plan is now redundant if your I/T department and management can plan at all. Say your servicing 100 users...
Go out and buy 106 PC bundles at the local mega store, for this volume they will provide some extra service. Say you want 20 per week in the next 5 weeks and then the extra 6. Skip the fancy service plans, any that die are likely to die in the first 30-60 days. Don't be a squid either, get rid of the CRTs and get a TFTP in the bundle and save your employees eyeballs.
Any that cause you problems, take them back.
If one dies in 14 months, use one of the spares and strip the dead one for parts. If they don't you have some extra for growth.
Dell is now best for the single purchase for end users only. I fail to see how spending an extra $1000+ per unit benefits a business using enough PCs to have any staff (local geek or employee) at all.
I use EMC for SAN.
EMC is a good rig for many applications, but they too are expensive. This is one of the first places I cut costs if a EMC upgrade is pending. 500GB SATA disks are cheap, and we spend millions micromanaging disk today. It is stupid in the corporate world to have to beg your admins for 30GB of disk. Plus SAN means the storage access is SLOWER. One think EMC does not like is when someone benchmarks a locally attached SATA to the EMC, never seen the EMC will where the test wasn't cooked.
For example, a client had DB performance problems, and had the logs/journals going to EMC SAN. While U360 locally attached disks went idle, since it was the bottleneck, I have them move logs and journaling to local mirrored disk and performance came up to acceptable levels. All because of some mindless "it must be on the EMC" BS from a salesperson.
I know one company, a little larger, About 250, they put Linux with VMWare on each PC. Upgrade is as simple as coping in an XP image, as are backups. They do this so they can use the CPU and storage at night for backups as each system has at least 2 big disks, one which the local user does not even see. Thinkg, 250*300=75TB of storage, cheap.
So, the question remains open: How do you get government out of healthcare, yet ensure that the poor sick/wounded are not left to die ?
Will not happen. Once government gets into it, then it becomes a political lever on the people to increase taxation into perpetuity. People become complacent, dependent and scared to loose it so they pay up. Which is really the problem, who is going ot pay and how many tax increases will be used to pay for it.
If the US does go government health care, do it wisely. Make the government flat tax a percentage on all income, no deductions, so everyone feels the pay pain. Deduct it separate from other taxes, say a flat 16% to start. The government then turns these into credits that must be spent on free enterprise insurance and given out equally to only those that are legal citizens or residents. If you don't file your taxes, or are an illegal, too bad so sad. If not spent, they can get the lower quality government care. Keep deductibles, it prevents abuse. Year over year, the program cannot run a deficit. Neither can the government use excess for general revenue. Prevents political "dipping" in the cash cow.
Also set limits, liability limits if you will. With enough cash anyones life can be extended. Is $1M too much, or $50M? Sorry, 300 years ago it was far more simple but in todays society this has to be addressed.
One last item to get past the lobbyists. Health care insurance companies of any kind must offer their rates equally to all that apply. No hiding behind group rates to avoid individual applicants. Simplify the legalese, if a Gr 12 can't understand it, it is too complex. They must take all that apply, but have the right to deny for 1 year. This is to prevent convenience hoping and deny for avoiding insuring. Legislate single billing/deductibles for a single incident issues. Finally, vigorously enforce existing fairness laws and levy heavy fines for non-compliance.
This way you don't get sucked too far down the tax rabbit hole.
As long as you use any taxpayer funded service, good luck getting my hand out of your pocket. The thing is (and I'm sure you hate to admit this) to participate in any society, you need people's hands in your pocket. Suck it up.
And that is what sucks, is too many are getting away with hands in the pocket, using the government as their theft device. Decaying morals and ethics have deteriorated our society to a point where "socialism - hands in your pockets" is turning the tax system into a form of slavery. The government often uses the money to buy votes and reward inept behavior. Even the feudal lords of medieval times were not as greedy as some governments are today.
Sometimes we pay to help those who need it. That's the way a community functions. As a Canadian, while I maybe don't have the health care that I need the instant I need it, it's still pretty damn good -- especially when there's an emergency. ...
Does that include the line ups and waiting? I know I am going to get flamed for this by other Canadians that have never lived anywhere else, but having lived in both systems, US and Canada I can say they both have different issues. In Canada the government taxes the hell out of us, ends up spending about the same, perhaps less than the US and people wait. Sometimes, although not frequently to a point of no return.
Read this before flaming. Calgary Herald
Apple's got money.
So does Microsoft!
But why pick on a 1000 lb gorilla when you can go for chimp first.
My guess s Xerox is going for Apple to set the precedent, then go after the gorilla. Even at say $3 a copy sold, this is a huge amount of cash.
In the end, these companies will all realize patents are a curse, not a benefit as the only winners are lawyers and judges. A parasitic cost to the product that will break even the biggest of companies.
Apparently, they will to be able to block material "that promotes violence against women"
They may state that but the real reason is much more hideous. There are a growing number of uncontrolled decent sites on the internet, separation groups, private blogs criticizingly government actions. With TV, the control of CBC (a government corporation on the dole). Others that are private can't compete as easily and get the squeeze from CRTC if they get too frisky. There are mandated Canadian content guidelines and often the government sponsors the Canadian content they must provide.
The government of Canada would love to control the Internet. Quite likey could too. Shaw and Rogers don't really compete, they each have their own exclusive territories. With Telus and BCE the only real other alternatives the diversity of access is rather limited for Canadians.
Clearly this is a quiet move towards more censorship. Unlike the US, Canada has only one active branch of government so if it passes it is as good as law.
everyone else in the fucking world who wants to run vista under a VM.
Only because you have to run some windows only app. You know, someone sends you a MS Project document.... Not all of us are Microsoft Fan Boys.
Dont believe me that Shaw isn't VoIP... The next time your Shaw internet stops working, try using your Shaw digital phone... IT STILL WORKS.
Not really, it is VoIP at least in the loose sense. Voice over IP...
Remember that little black/gray box is more than a simple little converter, it has MANY - MANY channels, built in QoS, heck, it runs a OS with a web server! In theory, they could use it to get to your inside network or redirect your traffic through their own monitoring devices... and all trivial to do.
So while your internet channel may be down, the VoIP channel could very well be up. There are many virtual like networks in the digital cable system, not one for both internet and VoIP....
I know in the US there are laws prohibiting companies from gimping their products like this. The specific laws escape me at the moment. Does Canada have anything similar?
Not that I am aware of, Ottawa is more interested in taxes. The only reason the Canadian government would do something is if the CRTC controlled it, maybe they are experimenting with Rogers/Shaw to see what consumers will tolerate?
I have noticed Shaw is blocking some video streaming as of late. And occasionally seems to throttle me after downloading ISOs of Solaris and Linux. I suspect this will become normal -- even though I pay extra for the business connection.
One easy way to beat it is to go 443 or port 80. Have the VPN or ssh use one of the common ports. As I suspect they are using QoS on the big switches because it is easy and hard to detect. But so far, Shaw isn't blocking my legitimate VPN to work - I don't think. Which is good, as that would get me in a twist real quick.
disable wireless security and implement real security, such as a RADIUS login. then set up a firewall rule to allow unauthenticated devices to access nintendo's servers
I think you were trying to be funny, not insightful.
Like I have recommended for years, VPN/IPSec over wireless is the only way. WEP, WPA are all weak by comparison. Turn on WEP, let the next door neighbor hack it just to find it firewalled only allowing IPSec. Wreaks their day.
Stupid list, they forgot C64. How many programmers haven't learnt programming using C64 BASIC?
There isn't many "real" programmers out there. Remember Turbo C and Turbo Pascal? Pascal in 29K of RAM, and likely not a programmer coming on line today can say "Hello" in 29K. Forget about a compiler, linker, editor, libraries, debugger and full type checking in that 29K.
My peeve on the list is Lotus 123... it was a copy... VisiCalc and Supercalc were better and more original, 123 was a "borrowed" concept from VisiCalc.
How feasible is it for we in the rest of the world to create "another Internet" and leave the current one with the US government? I can see major powers like China and Russia in support of this measure. But is it even possible?
Quite feasible actually. China already runs it's own DNS root servers. The trick becomes to make this as seamless as possible to the end users. But there are ulterior motives for this, to control the people.
For example say China wanted ibm.com to resolve to their own servers, they could hijack the domain off their servers and send it to their own servers. This make DNS in the middle attacks -- even with SSL -- trivial. China for example with at some point ban using DNS servers out of China and block external DNS at the international border routers.
That being said though, the internet domain system would deteriorate if every country got into the business and decided to do their own thing to control their users. After all, this is what it is really about.
In defense of Microsoft (I usually bash them) I will say the OS does have many features that are rarely deployed that can dramatically improve security. But here in is the problem, you can take someone from McDonald's on Monday and be a senior administrator by Friday and not even know these features exist. Because you work for $25K less per year, management loves this. Which is really the issue, management is too cheap to do it right and gets what they paid for. If security really matered to management they would have administrators who knew these features and have them fully enabled and monitored.
You're very correct. I doubt most Microsoft shops even know they have been hacked unless the hacker does something that causes issues, like a warz site eating up the bandwidth. They might warz it on the way out after they got what they wanted. A hacker keeping a low profile selectively taking proprietary secrets, credit cards and other identity information is certain to go unnoticed. After all, who even looks at Windows log files? It isn't even centralized without an OS refit either compounding the management issues. Windows is a PC operating system, PC stands for personal computer, or public computer but certainly not easy to manage securely in large scale.
Ok, I was born-and-raised in the good old USA. However, from reading many net sites, I seem to have gotten the impression that "liberal" in the USA is _very_ different than other parts of the world. Is this true? Would a liberal government in Canada be similar to one in the USA? How about a liberal government in Sweden? Or a liberal government in ...?
A liberal in the US would be considered a right wing conservative in Canada. Republicans would be called Libertarians. The US has nothing as far left as Green or NDP. In fact, the US is a big shift right compared to most of the world.
It is also why the average US citizen lives better. Your people are not as caught up into depending on big government and the associated costs to freedom that come with it. Big government means big taxes, which reduces economic freedom. Oh, the US government is big but not on a per capita basis.
Passing a law like this for Canada will be easier. We do not have a freedom of speech law. Government CTRC/CBC controls what we see, what we hear -- that Outer Limits into is no joke in Canada.
I just recommended a Dell system for my family 2000 miles away. I'm praying to God I won't have to do any tech support over the phone. Hopefully they understand I've never even seen a computer with Vista installed. I hope the 1GB of memory is enough.
Probably not as there is a good chance the memory is shared with the video, leaving 756M for the memory. To solve, you will need a video card that has Vista support to get the memory back, and say add another gig of memory.
Shared memory is often touted as a feature, but is really a sever compromise in design performance. Teh CPU ends up stalled while video updates and issues like that.