Just before the warning about how piracy is putting the movie industry out of work.
Or another way to look at it is that the movie industry is price fixing and the market is balking. Resorting to extorting it's paying customers to keep prices artificially high is just alienating it's customers.
While the big companies like Sony, BMG, MGM and others are behaving like this, smaller more efficient and creative upstarts are happening all over the place, outside of the USA. It will not be long before this breaks the big monopolistic practices of the RIAA/MPAA.
I also believe they underestimate the consumer resistance to this. Very few people actually will buy a Blu-ray device in the first few years because of cost. The high cost will delay it's deployment. Reliability issues will plague it. The devices will be DRM laden and restrictive. The industry will spend millions to hype it's acceptance but in the end it will be broken.
Our Microsoft sales rep takes our CFO out to a very nice lunch/dinner/trip
It might also depend on how much stock he has in your company. Say you have to upgrade some 5000 portables at 3 grand a pop. Got $15 million plus, licensing extra for PCs?
The best part of it is Linux gets it's best growth when this happens. People take their old PCs and load Linux on it to find it is stable and runs well. The only thing that will turn them off is that the toys and games they are used to are not there. Astute business people will ask why does an order entry clerk need DVI or high definition audio and the fancy options? Maybe some will ask, how does Vista justify the cost? Many will realize Linux is going to look good in business giving more life to older systems. Others will stay on XP. Each subsequent version of Windows (server or workstation) is taking longer, and longer to dominate showing the market is getting wiser.
Does that mean you can't buy & sell stocks online?
Buying stocks is legal. Good comparison too as what is the difference between betting on GM and Vegas?
But the real point is that stocks are legal as the government gets a cut. When you file your income taxes the gains and dividends realized are taxable. But on line they can't economically get their hands in your pocket.
It is all about greedy politicians insatiable thirst for increasing the governments take.
Nuclear fusion could become a more viable energy solution
This is what mankind needs to be sustainable, a cheap and clean energy source. Lets face it, we are adicted to energy and burning all that oil and natural gas is not sustainable. Plus it is costing a fortune. So hopefully they can find more solutions like this and put this technology to widespread use. 5 cent a KWH anyone?
As for LCD, I have heard a number of complaints about the viewing angle in mixed lighting..... LCD also has issues with bad pixels -... causes a "ghosting" effect...
I have a Viewsonic N2750W LCD and no complaints. Not one dead pixel and the viewing angle is at least as good as projection compared to the DLP systems we looked at. No alignment issues. The image quality under higher light conditions also impressed me, as we saw it under full flourecent lighting and not in a "dark" part of the store to make them look good.
Although a small 27" it is perfect for my bookshelf in the family room and I could as a mere mortal easily lift it into place. Runs cooler too. My only complaint is my wife will not let me use it as a computer monitor.
It made me defer the purchase of a DLP or Plasma, waiting for flat panels in the 46" range that are not too pricy to replace the older living room heavyweight.
Tell us, has the UK government lost it's marbles? I always thought the UK had more sense than this.
The good part of this is the internet is so busy it makes tracking every car driver in the world and easier task. There would be so many ways to beat them they would go broke trying.
Computer hackers tend to use computers to commit computer hacker crimes. The link between hackers and computer systems is enhertiently intrinsic, therefore banning the use and ownership of computer systems would greatly reduce computer crime!
There is a strange twist of truth to this. Just like cars, if we take half of them off the road then we will have half as much deaths and DWI. If we banned baseball bats, hammers, screw drivers, hatchets, chain saws, nails, pens, glass bottles, airplanes, boats, matches, lighters, drugs, electricity, houses with stairs... see my point? Might as well go back to the stone age as it would be terribly hard to ban the rock we live on.
There are countries that have spent billions trying to ban guns, now only the criminals have them. You should see what happens with rape and burglery rates when the honest home/business owner can't protect themselves.
People commit crimes, not tools.
What is more likely to happen is the government will pass the law and place security professionals at odds. Limiting the testing of real networks and actually make it easier for hackers. After all, these are the same tools the hackers use.... what a better way to test with? Sort of like taking guns away from honest people. The criminals will like this mentality and lack of insight.
That's a problem, because the insurgents are using throwaway cellphones and...
One does not think their communications going down so fast was a cooincidence? I am sure the spooks and military knew just where to go to get the phone systems down PDQ.
After the tests, representatives of Fedora, Linspire and Novell told me that Sony Vaios are known to have compatibility problems with Linux.
I loaded SUSE 10 on my Sony VAIO laptop and my desktop and it worked right off, even with a 54g wireless card. Mind you, I chose the specific D-Link card I used because Linux drivers were reputed to exist for it. But seems fully functional to me. Added VMWare so I could also run OpenBSD and Solaris x86, which worked.
For example, if I sign up for a credit card, the application would not be processed until I give my valid pass phrase and it was verified.
This isn't going to help, what if the institution records it? Sooner or later they will. Oh yea, pass a law... that is useless too as we can't enforce the laws we already have.
The real issue is the lending institutions business practices of NOT practicing due diligence in maters of credit. That's right, they are just too damn lazy to verify who you are. They have been known to hire ex-cons to process credit card applications!!! Personnally, I don't care if they are careless, I do however care about the grief it causes people.
The real solution is to make it easy for those that get grief from poor and lax credit to recover damages and get their records corrected quickly. I would propose:
Unlimited liability for damages to people who have been harmed by invalid or incorrect credit information.
Credit information must be corrected in 7 days of notice or the credit agencies involved shall assume 100% liability for all damages and up to 30 times the damages in punative damages.
Damages can include almost any expense, milleage, legal, rental, hotel, airfare, time taken, etc.
No charges are allowed for users to check their credit, and no charges for correcting their credit. This includes providing 1-800 numbers as not to incur long distance. And up to 8 times per year.
If big credit is deemed negligent or unresponsive punitive damages can be unlimited.
And enforce the above vigoriously. Make the lenders so scared and costly to get it wrong they will clean up their act. Maybe we have to go the bank where we meet a real person that will check our ID and knows we have deposits. But a small price to pay. And apply at the bank, not through Joe's Con Credit card processing service.
One last item, a forced labor camp where if convicted of fraud, you have to work to pay off all damages to get free. In essence, those that knowingly choose a life of fraud become indentured slaves to society.
Microsoft's share price was down 10% in after hours trading last night.
What's up with that?
Their earnings are below street estimates. Market saturation and competators are begining to take hold. And China, I really doubt they would ever consider paying what we pay for M$ software.
And there is the NSKey thing, and with CA certs inside MS could SSL in the middle to get "secrets" and this is why the Chinese government should have some big concerns. I hope people are not naive enough to think the NSA allows the export of SSL they cannot eves drop on.
No mater what the case, MS will not be able to roll over the Chinese with FUD as they did with US I/T to dominate the market. Different place, different time and most Chinese I/T don't own MS shares.
'the bank' called you and said your account had been compromised...
Be careful about that one. They might call you and say they are from the bank.
When I get such a call, I look the number up that is on my statements and call them back.
Unfortuantely our legal systems are just too limp to charge these fraudsters with conspiracy to fraud, theft, whatever applicable laws in place they break. This fraudster should be trival to catch.
... there may be too few open source developers in those regions.
I would not worry about China. With nearly 200 millon students, say 1% goes to I/T and technology. Then say pesemistically say that 1% of that become open source developers. This would be 20,000 additional open source developers.
As these other countries emerge into volume commerce and are more economically developed they will produce open source developers in numbers far larger than we see today. And they do not need to fight for the source code. A world view of OSS is inevitable.
If you don't have direct experience with all of the bullet points listed by HR...
I don't know where this is not true for a fortune 2000 company. HR generally has their heads stuck up their butt about every where you go. When someone like the CEO, CIO, Director says hire they loose their nerve. The trick to be heard is to end run HR and more often than not their job is incompetance to to be cheap to a point of hiring the wrong people.
Call me crazy, but that doesn't really sound like Intel has monopoly power.
Then what explains the following:
Dell not using AMD X2 processors in their servers? Want economy with speed it is faster and just as reliable.
Not unlike Dell, many smaller PC assembly shops are Intel only. Having run AMD, I don't see why.
Apple uses a 32 bit Intel when they move away from G5 with multiple core capability and 64 bit, yet don't use AMD 64 bit or dual core X2/64 bit. Sory Apple users, you now power soaking Intel commodity PCs. The shift is back to the consumer for faster, better, cheaper and more reliable hardware and operating systems.
The Intel monopoly is not much unlike Microsoft, this is why the term WinTel. But fortunately the WinTel monopoly is decaying and it will be fun to watch as they get their lawyers to suck out cash while the Chinese produce a x86-64bit for $20. The business will self destruct.
As a young person considering various choices for the future career...
There are far too many people in this I/T business for the wrong reasons. In part, because there is a shortage and a marginally compentant employee is better than none is a currently accepted norm. That being said, your career is a life long endeavor. Those that succeed to the top in any profession have one thing in common, a passion for what they do.
So if you pick a profession and don't have a passion for it and then become a mushroom in a chair do not blame the business... blame yourself.
So before you pick a career, ask yourself will you do it with passion?
How does an operating system generate millions of dollars? Do they mean save?
Save would be in the billions. Say you have 200 million children and you wanted to give them computers. 200,000,000 times $1,000 for office, windows, email (servers and client), powerpoint, database, compilers and tools, etc. is not going to cut it.
One thing most of us don't understand is that they will not pay M$ prices, they can't. Linux probably runs $1 or less a copy. Saving, 199.9 billion. Comes with source and having a million programmers improve it is real and economical. It might take a generation but once established there will be no room for expensive western products.
Microsoft has a dilema, if they want a piece of the worlds biggest single market they have to license their entire suite for less than $20 to stand a chance. Explaining this to the western pricing models will send the market into kaos. And it still does not address the open sources issue.
It may not be just Microsoft that has issues, imagine what would happen if China produced a x86 chip that was 90% as fast as AMD or Intel but cost $10 or less.
Like most things, it is only a mater of time and North America will import database appliances and ERP systems from China for a fraction of current costs. It might take 10 years to be viewed as a issue but it is already happening. Linux in in almost every $49 wireless home AP out there.
In the end, every business that makes it will be services orientated. The OS is a commodity.
...as eat the flesh of another living being when we have the ability to sustain ourselves with plants and vegetables.
Do you mean those pesticide sprayed berries in February? (North America) Or Monsanto Fries, or is it Dow green beans? Half my teeth are for meat, half are for vegies. Thats how I eat. And yes, I know meat has the same issues as vegies. But until we decide to grow food naturally I will have to live with the fact that the "all beef" steroid antibiotic burger will have to do.
Far too much is made of these improvements, if they are in fact improvements.
My grandfather lived to be 92, and died 2 days after playing and dancing to fiddle at a wedding. After having 2 wives and 15 children it is not hard to see why he had a large farm. Being monetarily poor, everything was used and everything made from the farm and without chemicals or bio agents. He was a mixed farmer raising cattle, pigs, chickens and wheat.
Well, to the point. None of the food, including eggs fried in suet every day, or the grease from the cattle or pig lard in bread, pastries or what amounts to steak-fried chicken ever hurt him. By modern days standards he should have died at 22 of a massive heart attack due to cholesterol alone.
But one truth appears to be the chemicals, the bio "enhancements" and engineering of foods is what is killing many of us. Growth hormones get passed on through the food chain and tell our bodies to "put it on". Radiation sterilizes but also kills proteins we need and thus we eat more. Nitrate preservatives... The pesticide residues in steady feed but minute ("government accepted levels") linger and pass regularly down the food chain to humans. Who knows, your cow might have been grazed down wind of a chemical processing plant or drank water downstream from another city or chemical use agro farm with god knows what in it.
It isn't just in livestock like chickens, pork and cattle. Seafood caught after rivers carry out taconite, lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury and a host of other impurities. The shrimp from Thailand to the Cod of the shores of Newfoundland all have similar issues.
When it comes to tinkering about the food chain, we might want to concern ourselves about a species like the Leopard Frog that is sensitive to mans pollution and bio agents. There used to be lots of them, but haven't seen one for 20 years and I have looked. Never saw tumors in fish until the last 5 years either.
Finding clean food is increasing becoming a problem. The problem is there are few places to grow clean food.
How do you set up mounting directories that is easy to use like Windows -- everything automounted, but security settings are still respected for each user, even when local roots are involved?"
For directories the use of auto mount functions is best.
But as the title of this suggests - root is root is root...
It is generally overstated 100% of the time that many users need local root for anything. They should be using "sudo" if they need to cancel print jobs, or add users. Indiscriminate delegation of root is insecure and a bad practice. Please examine the "local" need for root, I think you will find it is not needed. The sudo config file can also be rsync'ed.
In fact, in my environment UNIX Admins don't have the root password except for 2. The other admins use sudo to a shell. Users use sudo for printer management. The "identity management" uses sudo. Even when users want to mount directories they use sudo. Want to shutdown the machine or make backups, use sudo.
Only trusted and a few admins get interactive command line access as root.
I do concede, Windows is easier as in fact almost everything with the system runs as the admin including the users. Down right insecure. And can't be made secure and still run. UNIX/Linux is not this way but takes some rational thought.
Over NFS, consider keeping the nosuid/non-root access. Consider using groups to control access. So if a normal user ID has membership in group1, and the directory is read-write to group1 they have access. You might say, users who create files in this directory don't set the groups right... then you need to support the setgid bit on directories and umask settings.
scrimant delegation of root is isecure and a bad practice.
Missing the Christmas 2006 season alone is estimated to cost hardware manufacturers over 4 billion US dollars.
That is when I want to buy a nice AMD X2 running Linux (owner supplied). If it comes with XP I will wipe it clean, good time to get a bargan. Wish I could buy it $80 cheaper without M$ tax.
Generally speaking, the Windows NT Kernel is a superb piece of code. The problems come in when Microsoft abuses the kernel rather than working with it. The fact that everything runs with Administrator permissions (because all the users run as administrators) is not the original intent of the kernel.
But this is typical of Microsoft is it not? Can any developer at Microsoft read a specification on TCP/IP (routing), Kerberos (bit bashing), SMTP (you name it), AD/LDAP...
I really get a kick out of the AD timestamps login date, milliseconds since 100-nanosecond intervals that passed between January 1, 1601 or some dumb as thing. Goofy Redmond click kiddies must think they are going back in time. I wonder what kind of PC can track time like this.
And sAMAccountName should be uid. What kind of crack were they smoking not using the standard names?
Security... how many holes today?
The problem with Redmond is there are no standards. No thought, just BS, hype and market manipulation.
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Just before the warning about how piracy is putting the movie industry out of work.
Or another way to look at it is that the movie industry is price fixing and the market is balking. Resorting to extorting it's paying customers to keep prices artificially high is just alienating it's customers.
While the big companies like Sony, BMG, MGM and others are behaving like this, smaller more efficient and creative upstarts are happening all over the place, outside of the USA. It will not be long before this breaks the big monopolistic practices of the RIAA/MPAA.
I also believe they underestimate the consumer resistance to this. Very few people actually will buy a Blu-ray device in the first few years because of cost. The high cost will delay it's deployment. Reliability issues will plague it. The devices will be DRM laden and restrictive. The industry will spend millions to hype it's acceptance but in the end it will be broken.
Our Microsoft sales rep takes our CFO out to a very nice lunch/dinner/trip
It might also depend on how much stock he has in your company. Say you have to upgrade some 5000 portables at 3 grand a pop. Got $15 million plus, licensing extra for PCs?
The best part of it is Linux gets it's best growth when this happens. People take their old PCs and load Linux on it to find it is stable and runs well. The only thing that will turn them off is that the toys and games they are used to are not there. Astute business people will ask why does an order entry clerk need DVI or high definition audio and the fancy options? Maybe some will ask, how does Vista justify the cost? Many will realize Linux is going to look good in business giving more life to older systems. Others will stay on XP. Each subsequent version of Windows (server or workstation) is taking longer, and longer to dominate showing the market is getting wiser.
Does that mean you can't buy & sell stocks online?
Buying stocks is legal. Good comparison too as what is the difference between betting on GM and Vegas?
But the real point is that stocks are legal as the government gets a cut. When you file your income taxes the gains and dividends realized are taxable. But on line they can't economically get their hands in your pocket.
It is all about greedy politicians insatiable thirst for increasing the governments take.
PNG - No royalties (ever), no click thru, open source, available to all, proven, lossless and no pattent or copyright that will cause issues.
Nuclear fusion could become a more viable energy solution
This is what mankind needs to be sustainable, a cheap and clean energy source. Lets face it, we are adicted to energy and burning all that oil and natural gas is not sustainable. Plus it is costing a fortune. So hopefully they can find more solutions like this and put this technology to widespread use. 5 cent a KWH anyone?
As for LCD, I have heard a number of complaints about the viewing angle in mixed lighting. .... LCD also has issues with bad pixels - ... causes a "ghosting" effect ...
I have a Viewsonic N2750W LCD and no complaints. Not one dead pixel and the viewing angle is at least as good as projection compared to the DLP systems we looked at. No alignment issues. The image quality under higher light conditions also impressed me, as we saw it under full flourecent lighting and not in a "dark" part of the store to make them look good.
Although a small 27" it is perfect for my bookshelf in the family room and I could as a mere mortal easily lift it into place. Runs cooler too. My only complaint is my wife will not let me use it as a computer monitor.
It made me defer the purchase of a DLP or Plasma, waiting for flat panels in the 46" range that are not too pricy to replace the older living room heavyweight.
Yes, you never know whether an exploit is going to work on an OSS platform.
That is what makes OSS software unreliable. With MS, the exploit works almost all the time.
Couldn't resist.
Tell us, has the UK government lost it's marbles? I always thought the UK had more sense than this.
The good part of this is the internet is so busy it makes tracking every car driver in the world and easier task. There would be so many ways to beat them they would go broke trying.
Computer hackers tend to use computers to commit computer hacker crimes. The link between hackers and computer systems is enhertiently intrinsic, therefore banning the use and ownership of computer systems would greatly reduce computer crime!
There is a strange twist of truth to this. Just like cars, if we take half of them off the road then we will have half as much deaths and DWI. If we banned baseball bats, hammers, screw drivers, hatchets, chain saws, nails, pens, glass bottles, airplanes, boats, matches, lighters, drugs, electricity, houses with stairs... see my point? Might as well go back to the stone age as it would be terribly hard to ban the rock we live on.
There are countries that have spent billions trying to ban guns, now only the criminals have them. You should see what happens with rape and burglery rates when the honest home/business owner can't protect themselves.
People commit crimes, not tools.
What is more likely to happen is the government will pass the law and place security professionals at odds. Limiting the testing of real networks and actually make it easier for hackers. After all, these are the same tools the hackers use.... what a better way to test with? Sort of like taking guns away from honest people. The criminals will like this mentality and lack of insight.
That's a problem, because the insurgents are using throwaway cellphones and ...
One does not think their communications going down so fast was a cooincidence? I am sure the spooks and military knew just where to go to get the phone systems down PDQ.
After the tests, representatives of Fedora, Linspire and Novell told me that Sony Vaios are known to have compatibility problems with Linux.
I loaded SUSE 10 on my Sony VAIO laptop and my desktop and it worked right off, even with a 54g wireless card. Mind you, I chose the specific D-Link card I used because Linux drivers were reputed to exist for it. But seems fully functional to me. Added VMWare so I could also run OpenBSD and Solaris x86, which worked.
For example, if I sign up for a credit card, the application would not be processed until I give my valid pass phrase and it was verified.
This isn't going to help, what if the institution records it? Sooner or later they will. Oh yea, pass a law... that is useless too as we can't enforce the laws we already have.
The real issue is the lending institutions business practices of NOT practicing due diligence in maters of credit. That's right, they are just too damn lazy to verify who you are. They have been known to hire ex-cons to process credit card applications!!! Personnally, I don't care if they are careless, I do however care about the grief it causes people.
The real solution is to make it easy for those that get grief from poor and lax credit to recover damages and get their records corrected quickly. I would propose:
And enforce the above vigoriously. Make the lenders so scared and costly to get it wrong they will clean up their act. Maybe we have to go the bank where we meet a real person that will check our ID and knows we have deposits. But a small price to pay. And apply at the bank, not through Joe's Con Credit card processing service.
One last item, a forced labor camp where if convicted of fraud, you have to work to pay off all damages to get free. In essence, those that knowingly choose a life of fraud become indentured slaves to society.
Microsoft's share price was down 10% in after hours trading last night.
What's up with that?
Their earnings are below street estimates. Market saturation and competators are begining to take hold. And China, I really doubt they would ever consider paying what we pay for M$ software.
And there is the NSKey thing, and with CA certs inside MS could SSL in the middle to get "secrets" and this is why the Chinese government should have some big concerns. I hope people are not naive enough to think the NSA allows the export of SSL they cannot eves drop on.
No mater what the case, MS will not be able to roll over the Chinese with FUD as they did with US I/T to dominate the market. Different place, different time and most Chinese I/T don't own MS shares.
'the bank' called you and said your account had been compromised...
Be careful about that one. They might call you and say they are from the bank.
When I get such a call, I look the number up that is on my statements and call them back.
Unfortuantely our legal systems are just too limp to charge these fraudsters with conspiracy to fraud, theft, whatever applicable laws in place they break. This fraudster should be trival to catch.
I would not worry about China. With nearly 200 millon students, say 1% goes to I/T and technology. Then say pesemistically say that 1% of that become open source developers. This would be 20,000 additional open source developers.
As these other countries emerge into volume commerce and are more economically developed they will produce open source developers in numbers far larger than we see today. And they do not need to fight for the source code. A world view of OSS is inevitable.
WinTel will have a time of it too, remember in this article they consider this a "start". In China's Linux market, enter the V-Dragon
If you don't have direct experience with all of the bullet points listed by HR...
I don't know where this is not true for a fortune 2000 company. HR generally has their heads stuck up their butt about every where you go. When someone like the CEO, CIO, Director says hire they loose their nerve. The trick to be heard is to end run HR and more often than not their job is incompetance to to be cheap to a point of hiring the wrong people.
Call me crazy, but that doesn't really sound like Intel has monopoly power.
Then what explains the following:
The Intel monopoly is not much unlike Microsoft, this is why the term WinTel. But fortunately the WinTel monopoly is decaying and it will be fun to watch as they get their lawyers to suck out cash while the Chinese produce a x86-64bit for $20. The business will self destruct.
As a young person considering various choices for the future career...
There are far too many people in this I/T business for the wrong reasons. In part, because there is a shortage and a marginally compentant employee is better than none is a currently accepted norm. That being said, your career is a life long endeavor. Those that succeed to the top in any profession have one thing in common, a passion for what they do.
So if you pick a profession and don't have a passion for it and then become a mushroom in a chair do not blame the business... blame yourself.
So before you pick a career, ask yourself will you do it with passion?
How does an operating system generate millions of dollars? Do they mean save?
Save would be in the billions. Say you have 200 million children and you wanted to give them computers. 200,000,000 times $1,000 for office, windows, email (servers and client), powerpoint, database, compilers and tools, etc. is not going to cut it.
One thing most of us don't understand is that they will not pay M$ prices, they can't. Linux probably runs $1 or less a copy. Saving, 199.9 billion. Comes with source and having a million programmers improve it is real and economical. It might take a generation but once established there will be no room for expensive western products.
Microsoft has a dilema, if they want a piece of the worlds biggest single market they have to license their entire suite for less than $20 to stand a chance. Explaining this to the western pricing models will send the market into kaos. And it still does not address the open sources issue.
It may not be just Microsoft that has issues, imagine what would happen if China produced a x86 chip that was 90% as fast as AMD or Intel but cost $10 or less.
Like most things, it is only a mater of time and North America will import database appliances and ERP systems from China for a fraction of current costs. It might take 10 years to be viewed as a issue but it is already happening. Linux in in almost every $49 wireless home AP out there.
In the end, every business that makes it will be services orientated. The OS is a commodity.
This is great news that new PCs will be "Vista" rated. It means the old ones will go on sale so I can get a loaded AMD X2 cheap to run Linux.
Do you mean those pesticide sprayed berries in February? (North America) Or Monsanto Fries, or is it Dow green beans? Half my teeth are for meat, half are for vegies. Thats how I eat. And yes, I know meat has the same issues as vegies. But until we decide to grow food naturally I will have to live with the fact that the "all beef" steroid antibiotic burger will have to do.
Far too much is made of these improvements, if they are in fact improvements.
My grandfather lived to be 92, and died 2 days after playing and dancing to fiddle at a wedding. After having 2 wives and 15 children it is not hard to see why he had a large farm. Being monetarily poor, everything was used and everything made from the farm and without chemicals or bio agents. He was a mixed farmer raising cattle, pigs, chickens and wheat.
Well, to the point. None of the food, including eggs fried in suet every day, or the grease from the cattle or pig lard in bread, pastries or what amounts to steak-fried chicken ever hurt him. By modern days standards he should have died at 22 of a massive heart attack due to cholesterol alone.
But one truth appears to be the chemicals, the bio "enhancements" and engineering of foods is what is killing many of us. Growth hormones get passed on through the food chain and tell our bodies to "put it on". Radiation sterilizes but also kills proteins we need and thus we eat more. Nitrate preservatives... The pesticide residues in steady feed but minute ("government accepted levels") linger and pass regularly down the food chain to humans. Who knows, your cow might have been grazed down wind of a chemical processing plant or drank water downstream from another city or chemical use agro farm with god knows what in it.
It isn't just in livestock like chickens, pork and cattle. Seafood caught after rivers carry out taconite, lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury and a host of other impurities. The shrimp from Thailand to the Cod of the shores of Newfoundland all have similar issues.
When it comes to tinkering about the food chain, we might want to concern ourselves about a species like the Leopard Frog that is sensitive to mans pollution and bio agents. There used to be lots of them, but haven't seen one for 20 years and I have looked. Never saw tumors in fish until the last 5 years either.
Finding clean food is increasing becoming a problem. The problem is there are few places to grow clean food.
How do you set up mounting directories that is easy to use like Windows -- everything automounted, but security settings are still respected for each user, even when local roots are involved?"
For directories the use of auto mount functions is best.
But as the title of this suggests - root is root is root ...
It is generally overstated 100% of the time that many users need local root for anything. They should be using "sudo" if they need to cancel print jobs, or add users. Indiscriminate delegation of root is insecure and a bad practice. Please examine the "local" need for root, I think you will find it is not needed. The sudo config file can also be rsync'ed.
In fact, in my environment UNIX Admins don't have the root password except for 2. The other admins use sudo to a shell. Users use sudo for printer management. The "identity management" uses sudo. Even when users want to mount directories they use sudo. Want to shutdown the machine or make backups, use sudo.
Only trusted and a few admins get interactive command line access as root.
I do concede, Windows is easier as in fact almost everything with the system runs as the admin including the users. Down right insecure. And can't be made secure and still run. UNIX/Linux is not this way but takes some rational thought.
Over NFS, consider keeping the nosuid/non-root access. Consider using groups to control access. So if a normal user ID has membership in group1, and the directory is read-write to group1 they have access. You might say, users who create files in this directory don't set the groups right... then you need to support the setgid bit on directories and umask settings. scrimant delegation of root is isecure and a bad practice.
Missing the Christmas 2006 season alone is estimated to cost hardware manufacturers over 4 billion US dollars.
That is when I want to buy a nice AMD X2 running Linux (owner supplied). If it comes with XP I will wipe it clean, good time to get a bargan. Wish I could buy it $80 cheaper without M$ tax.
Generally speaking, the Windows NT Kernel is a superb piece of code. The problems come in when Microsoft abuses the kernel rather than working with it. The fact that everything runs with Administrator permissions (because all the users run as administrators) is not the original intent of the kernel.
But this is typical of Microsoft is it not? Can any developer at Microsoft read a specification on TCP/IP (routing), Kerberos (bit bashing), SMTP (you name it), AD/LDAP ...
I really get a kick out of the AD timestamps login date, milliseconds since 100-nanosecond intervals that passed between January 1, 1601 or some dumb as thing. Goofy Redmond click kiddies must think they are going back in time. I wonder what kind of PC can track time like this.
And sAMAccountName should be uid. What kind of crack were they smoking not using the standard names?
Security... how many holes today?
The problem with Redmond is there are no standards. No thought, just BS, hype and market manipulation.