Are you saying my SUV and SUT caused the sun spot issues?
Mass hysteria never ceases to amaze me. Lets kick out the hysteria driven junk science from PhDs in fruit flies and do some real hard core by the book science.
And, when push comes to shove on the highway, we will survive while the Civic drive bites the dust. Too many hot rod kids out there driving like assholes. I plan to walk away from the head-on.
Surprising you mentioned that. My uncle was in just such a crash. Big V8 RAM truck versus head with a drunk in a Civic at high speed. While he did get hurt and hospitalized, the two in the Civic went straight to the bag.
A truck drivers worst fear is nailing one of those idiot drivers, usually in little red cars cutting you off for fun.
Any SUV owners reading this? Look forward to watching the second hand sale value of your vehicle plummet even while fuel costs rise to the point where you can no longer afford to drive your (now) useless vehicle.
I think this is just great! Looking for a bottom so I can get one cheep!
I am a SUT owner, but close enough so I will take this on. I will downsize when:
it can pull 5000 lbs safely
has 4x4 so I don't get stuck for 6" of snow
can haul a fridge, stove, generator...side of beef
has a range of 750+ KM
it starts cold and heater works at -20C
suspension suitable for rough roads
doesn't crawl up the hill empty
survivability if I hit a deer (haven't yet but seen them in peoples laps on small cars)
Not everyone lives in LA, Houston, Miami or Toronto. In those cities, a little Smart Car is ideal. But if in winter I see another little crap box of a car stalled 200 miles out of Winnipeg at -30C in 3" of snow should I drive by a laughing in my SUT 4x4? No, I think they would like to get into the SUT, warm, alive and safe while we winch them out of the ditch. Or in at least I will not hear any chirps about the millage my SUT gets.
The real problem is in a couple years it is going to make them more expensive for me as fewer are produced.
The fact that big fair weather city types adopted them, does not make it our problem. While I could own two vehicles, it makes more sense still to pay for the extra gas for one depreciating asset than to have two depreciating.
Generalizations suck, some people need these vehicles. And when some green idiot gave us more taxes... That tax should have been limited to big fair weather cities.
No it's not progress. It would be if OS tools provided an actual better and more advanced way of writing software. But as the article says, OS development tools have no technological advantage; The only advantage is they're free.
I loath this open source bashing. Before we go too far, at one time I bought all my tools. Borland C, C++, Pascal, Brief and some very expensive UNIX compilers. But I switched to strictly free open source. My reasons:
free, cost is a whole lot less
no license manager issues and associated interruptions
you can count on something like gcc to be on every Linux box
easier to get real information quickly
open source, can be fixed quickly
less bugs (closed source isn't as reviewed or used)
vi is everywhere, while I liked some IDE the fact remains I can count on vi
no price jacking, get you hooked and then up the price
The last item is especially important. You buy a tool worth $30K, you develop stuff in it and a year later they raised the annual support to $200K. Needless to say we ported it out of the tool to gcc once and for all. Cost us about $200K to do it too, but now are off the hook.
This top article belongs in binspam. Open source is killing closed source as closed source is often buggy, high maintenance and a PITA when the company or primary developers move on. Does Borland even sell Turbo C/C++ any more? I know of closed source tools that haven't fixed major security bugs in 4 years!! In open source, that would be a patch and in the next release. That is technically superior open source.
1) To Milwaukee, WI-Madison, WI-Eau Claire, WI-Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN
2) To Rockford, IL-Davenport, IA-Des Moines, IA-Council Bluffs, IA-Omaha, NE
3) To Champaign, IL-Saint Louis, MO-Columbia, MO-Kansas City, MO-Wichita, KS
4) To Indianapolis, IN-Cincinnati, OH-Louisville, KY
5) To South Bend, IN-Toledo, OH-Cleveland, OH-Erie, PA-Buffalo, NY
6) To Grand Rapids, MI-Lansing, MI-Detroit, MI
And if appropriately managed, likely would cost less than the war in Iraq/Afghanistan. And employed Americans doing it. Better yet, something to show for the trillions.
Where critics = oil companies and automobile manufacturers
Did you read the article? Lets recap this:
There is no train on the route Amtrak's Desert Wind between Los Angeles and Las Vegas was canceled in 1997 because of low ridership.
Now what makes anyone think after the hoopla is over the drivers will take a maglev train?
$140 a barrel? $200 a barrel? $300 barrel?
Me, I drive because I like to drive. While today's $140 barrel hurts the budget, I will still drive. Not because I don't live any where near the train, I could take a bus or plane. But because at $100 it is still cheaper than golf for hours entertained. People like driving.
Computers one buys from a store does not. Microsoft and a few other companies have played around with "software as a service", but the smart ones snubbed it. Instead, it'll stay Linux and get cheaper and cheaper.
You are talking the demise of Microsoft, but you know that and I concur. The operating system is now a commodity, and already we see 2 tiers breaking out. EeePC and similar appliance PC on the low end, and Apple at the top end. The question is how fast will this deteriorate the current Microsoft pricing models. I suspect the next quarter financial for MSFT are going to show the trend and it will continue to deteriorate for years.
Think about that. The interest on their LIQUID CASH could pay EIGHTY THOUSAND EMPLOYEES over SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR.
That's how "not in trouble" Microsoft is. Microsoft is still a powerhouse, and they're quite unconcerned that you think they aren't. Microsoft is not in danger.
~Wx
I have thought about that. Isn't that very similar to Novell in it's demise about 1995? Lots of cash and a failing market. (maybe add a zero for inflation)
Today, Novell is a bit player. Lets just give it 10 years shall we?
Unfortunately (for the really neat stuff) most of their products are still encumbered by these giant backwards-compatibility or easy marketability things, or at the very least the illusion of them.
Welcome to the real world. Poorly thought out, unstable APIs and legacy finally caught up to Microsoft, now the 20 layers of API are biting Microsoft in the ass. But now that someone has left, it is now all Bill's fault. Always blame those that have left, the corporate way. Long live corporate America.
Why does it surprise anybody that the driving force behind these companies is to sell out no matter what the cost to the business, the employees, or even the customers?
First, do the employees own the company? In fact an employee is like a consultant, there while the service is needed.
Second, shareholders expect to make money just like employees. Given Yahoo's performance, they had it coming. Now if you believe shareholders should invest and accept to lose money, then I expect you to go to work for them and you pay them for that (lose money).
But the ones that didn't sell at $30, I don't side with them either. Know when to sell a dog.
Who hasn't already written off both of these companies? I would assume only a fool would write off two of the largest tech companies in the country (with a combined revenue of 57.33B).
He had it right. Both have been lethargic in the last few years with regards to shareholder value. I wrote them off years ago, and yes, I do own some tech companies. A 1 year chart comparing the two in growth (shareholder value). Just because they are big means nothing to a shareholder, show me the growth/dividends. The rest is well, chair throwing of no value. I will even predict Q4 for MSFT, you want shorts on the stock.
Obviously having 50 million shares and holding out for a buck is an attractive proposition. However, someone very wise told me, you NEVER get burned taking a profit.
Take for example a sell of BCE:TSX on it's buy out announcement. If you sold a few days after the announcement you would have got $40.00 or more and if you sold today as the deal falls apart you get $34.60. That greed of hoping for a better offer cost $5.40 per share. Lesson one, know when not to be too greedy. YHOO is the same kind of deal.
When in the market, it is just as important to know when to buy as well as when to sell. I would have in at least lightened up my position while the deal was hot. Look at it this way, Carl Icahn and the Yahoo board are all greedy and it cost them almost $7 share so far.
As a seasoned (or I like to think so) private investor I would have had limit sell orders out on YHOO and even if I owned 50M shares, I would have been down to 10-20m as soon as I could.
Don't put too much faith in SSL. Read Bluecoat SSL visibility. It works and decodes the SSL in the middle to inspect traffic. This is the good use of the technique. It is however more sophisticated than plain text protocols to pull off.
Oh good god, that's just the tip of the iceberg. More likely would be to MitM some large corps' Outlook Web Access or other places where domain credentials are exposed (VPNs and the like.) Wait until you've got a domain admin's password. You now own that entire corp. Now rinse and repeat for government bodies. How hard do you think it would be for the proverbial well-motivated and resourced attacker to trigger off a war in such circumstances?
Think about it.
Yep, you got the idea. Yes, it works similarily for other ports/protocols as well as network routing devices too. Think, you could even proxy back the traffic to the intended site login transactions as they occur. This way the session even behave properly, abet perhaps a little slower for the hops the traffic makes.
Yes, I think about it, yes, if a sophisticated hacking group decided to go for a target, most are not remotely prepared for what will happen.
ISP can make so that pop3 only works from inside of there own network and force you to have a differnt web mail password not use the same login in system for web mail and pop3 mail.
While I can't per say get to pop3 proper from work, I can get tot he web mail server. Huge hacker advantage about web mail. It doesn't move the message so the real user will not notice missing mail. A little perl script, harvest in bulk.
No, I gave a high level view. I will not post the code to do it and spell it out for na-sayers. It can be done. Wireless to is a nice entry point. Send a proxy redirect... fun and games.
Most visas go to giant corporations like MicroSoft.
I was under the impression most visa went to outsourcing companies like InfoSys.
Not necessarily. I was on a H1-B when in the states and after trying to get INS to let this person in, I gave up and returned home. Before the dollar drop of course. I would still be in the great USA if I got that GC. Problem was they want you on the hook like a fish. But this is another story.
I worked for a company of about $2B market cap, and 2 private companies under $50M each. None of the companies had people with competence to fill the jobs locally. Not all H1-Bs go to "big" companies.
The system does suck. In essence, work cheap, can't travel (9/11), can't switch jobs....pay was better than back home though. I am from the north shore.
The real problem is cultural, but not a popular thing to say. North Americans spend plenty on schools. But the kids go there as if it is a glorified baby siting service. Parents do not lead and pressure kids into mathematics and English. Parents in Canada and American cultures need to put more emphasis on teaching their kids a thirst of learning. Put on the history or science channel, and forget the rich kid crap which is hidden advertisement of discontentment.
For example, our nephew is 16, wants a car, can't hold a job for more than 2 weeks, been in trouble already for vandalism, kicked out of school... asking each relative in turn for a car, even has a new one picked out for us to buy. The gall. The lack of discipline, understanding of life -- his parents failed him pure and simple. When at 22 I am going to put him into a datacenter? He can't read let alone write code. Get real, be lucky if he can sweep the parking lot.
Me, I would like to grab the punk, knock some sense into him, teach, forcibly if needed some common social skills and a work ethic to succeed. But I would go to jail for that. So I quietly say no and move on. Write it off as mass apathy by both society and the parents.
The real problem is parenting, the microwave parents rarely raise children properly. Only how to nuke food. Most can't even cook if they were starving to death. A Kraft dinner is too much to do right. If they can read the directions.
You should have a license to raise children requiring parents do a few hundred hours of learning. Then more children will go to school to learn and the shortages will fix themselves in 20 years or so. Until then, you will need H1-Bs.
If you have lost DNS, game is over, you lose. A recipe if your system hits a compromised root server.
You open up email to read todays email. You PC looks up pop3.yourisp.com.
DNS returns the IP of evil PC to your PC which will connect to it.
Next, evil PC will emulate your login, IP address and record the password. Could even be a/. password.
Evil pc now has the info needed to read/retrieve your email.
Better yet, people often use similar IDs and passwords into other systems. Evil hackers can often use the email to figure out which banks, credit, stock brokers and on line e-tailers you use. Maybe change the home address of your Amazon account and order stuff, if the e-tailor isn't right on top of it.
Root servers need to be secure, end of story.
I should note the above method would also work with SSL, be creative, it only has to be a legitimate cert with a root chain.
The ASUS eeePC is currently selling like hotcakes, and the price range is currently in the neighborhood of 400-500$. Your argument has been around for quite a while ("I can get a full featured laptop for the same money"). The problem is this laptop isn't a regular laptop, but a new category of devices. Something you can carry easily, light, and robust. Dell isn't foolish, after the success of the eeePC, the HP mini-note and new devices coming from MSI, they want to make sure of their presence in that growing market.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but Amazon and my local PC shops have the same problem. Seemingly always out of stock on the Linux ones but have lots of XP.
This is the first time in many years users have had an OS choice in the consumer space, it will be interesting to see the sales numbers once they can keep the Eee PC (Linux) in stock.
Or just use encryption. To me, that's what is so baffling about the government privacy crackdowns. If anyone who was even remotely well informed wanted to communicate in private, they'd use strong encryption. I guess once someone uses encryption, they get an Indian military intelligence unit parked outside their door.
Yes, but blackberries make it easy to communicate securely. You don't have the hassle of a PKI infrastructure with S/MIME certificates, or using PGP.
Incidentally, blackberries support PGP and S/MIME on top of their existing security.
And no _NSAKEY. Guess that means RIM isn't in favorable books with the
governments. Wonder what their fall out will be?
Bet there will be some quiet legislation to change this. The government(s) fear the people.
Being that the email record of the development of these features is pretty widely distributed, they'd have a tough time defending that patent if anyone makes them try. Here's the original proposal by Marc Andressen:
In proposing the IMG tag, he explicitly says that it can be embedded in an anchor, and he describes its action. I have my doubts that these guys have prior art on web pages dating back to before 1993.
Yep, everyone in the business knows this as prior art.
But that does not mean they can't sue. And then convincing a computer illiterate judge to expeditiously toss it out of court with costs is another mater. This is about patent extortion. Using the inept judicial system that really still hasn't finished with SCO after 6 years. With the legal costs so high, it is cheaper for many just to pay them $5M and call it a day. Some companies might.
But not being a US based company the odds are against them. RIM for example, not getting favorable treatment decided the damages to business growth was worth hundreds of millions in extortion. So they paid up. RIM not being a US company had the odds stacked against them.
The legal system needs to toss this kind of claim out quickly. And no one is holding their breath. Lawyers make too much money from cases like these.
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Are you saying my SUV and SUT caused the sun spot issues?
Mass hysteria never ceases to amaze me. Lets kick out the hysteria driven junk science from PhDs in fruit flies and do some real hard core by the book science.
Surprising you mentioned that. My uncle was in just such a crash. Big V8 RAM truck versus head with a drunk in a Civic at high speed. While he did get hurt and hospitalized, the two in the Civic went straight to the bag.
A truck drivers worst fear is nailing one of those idiot drivers, usually in little red cars cutting you off for fun.
I think this is just great! Looking for a bottom so I can get one cheep!
I am a SUT owner, but close enough so I will take this on. I will downsize when:
Not everyone lives in LA, Houston, Miami or Toronto. In those cities, a little Smart Car is ideal. But if in winter I see another little crap box of a car stalled 200 miles out of Winnipeg at -30C in 3" of snow should I drive by a laughing in my SUT 4x4? No, I think they would like to get into the SUT, warm, alive and safe while we winch them out of the ditch. Or in at least I will not hear any chirps about the millage my SUT gets.
The real problem is in a couple years it is going to make them more expensive for me as fewer are produced.
The fact that big fair weather city types adopted them, does not make it our problem. While I could own two vehicles, it makes more sense still to pay for the extra gas for one depreciating asset than to have two depreciating.
Generalizations suck, some people need these vehicles. And when some green idiot gave us more taxes... That tax should have been limited to big fair weather cities.
I loath this open source bashing. Before we go too far, at one time I bought all my tools. Borland C, C++, Pascal, Brief and some very expensive UNIX compilers. But I switched to strictly free open source. My reasons:
The last item is especially important. You buy a tool worth $30K, you develop stuff in it and a year later they raised the annual support to $200K. Needless to say we ported it out of the tool to gcc once and for all. Cost us about $200K to do it too, but now are off the hook.
This top article belongs in binspam. Open source is killing closed source as closed source is often buggy, high maintenance and a PITA when the company or primary developers move on. Does Borland even sell Turbo C/C++ any more? I know of closed source tools that haven't fixed major security bugs in 4 years!! In open source, that would be a patch and in the next release. That is technically superior open source.
Why not just make it legal for us to hack Chinese IP addresses? This could be fun!
Then once we have their systems they will negotiate.
And if appropriately managed, likely would cost less than the war in Iraq/Afghanistan. And employed Americans doing it. Better yet, something to show for the trillions.
Where critics = oil companies and automobile manufacturers
Did you read the article? Lets recap this:
There is no train on the route Amtrak's Desert Wind between Los Angeles and Las Vegas was canceled in 1997 because of low ridership.
Now what makes anyone think after the hoopla is over the drivers will take a maglev train?
$140 a barrel? $200 a barrel? $300 barrel?
Me, I drive because I like to drive. While today's $140 barrel hurts the budget, I will still drive. Not because I don't live any where near the train, I could take a bus or plane. But because at $100 it is still cheaper than golf for hours entertained. People like driving.
You are talking the demise of Microsoft, but you know that and I concur. The operating system is now a commodity, and already we see 2 tiers breaking out. EeePC and similar appliance PC on the low end, and Apple at the top end. The question is how fast will this deteriorate the current Microsoft pricing models. I suspect the next quarter financial for MSFT are going to show the trend and it will continue to deteriorate for years.
Sure beats being under the hill.
That's how "not in trouble" Microsoft is. Microsoft is still a powerhouse, and they're quite unconcerned that you think they aren't. Microsoft is not in danger.
~Wx
I have thought about that. Isn't that very similar to Novell in it's demise about 1995? Lots of cash and a failing market. (maybe add a zero for inflation)
Today, Novell is a bit player. Lets just give it 10 years shall we?
BTW, anyone taking 2 year shorts on MSFT?
Welcome to the real world. Poorly thought out, unstable APIs and legacy finally caught up to Microsoft, now the 20 layers of API are biting Microsoft in the ass. But now that someone has left, it is now all Bill's fault. Always blame those that have left, the corporate way. Long live corporate America.
First, do the employees own the company? In fact an employee is like a consultant, there while the service is needed.
Second, shareholders expect to make money just like employees. Given Yahoo's performance, they had it coming. Now if you believe shareholders should invest and accept to lose money, then I expect you to go to work for them and you pay them for that (lose money).
But the ones that didn't sell at $30, I don't side with them either. Know when to sell a dog.
He had it right. Both have been lethargic in the last few years with regards to shareholder value. I wrote them off years ago, and yes, I do own some tech companies. A 1 year chart comparing the two in growth (shareholder value). Just because they are big means nothing to a shareholder, show me the growth/dividends. The rest is well, chair throwing of no value. I will even predict Q4 for MSFT, you want shorts on the stock.
Obviously having 50 million shares and holding out for a buck is an attractive proposition. However, someone very wise told me, you NEVER get burned taking a profit.
Take for example a sell of BCE:TSX on it's buy out announcement. If you sold a few days after the announcement you would have got $40.00 or more and if you sold today as the deal falls apart you get $34.60. That greed of hoping for a better offer cost $5.40 per share. Lesson one, know when not to be too greedy. YHOO is the same kind of deal.
When in the market, it is just as important to know when to buy as well as when to sell. I would have in at least lightened up my position while the deal was hot. Look at it this way, Carl Icahn and the Yahoo board are all greedy and it cost them almost $7 share so far.
As a seasoned (or I like to think so) private investor I would have had limit sell orders out on YHOO and even if I owned 50M shares, I would have been down to 10-20m as soon as I could.
Let me fix this for you.
Make sure you keep it a secret, and don't mention that country. Microsoft supporters are not interested in that sort of information.
Firefox @ 18%
Firefox @ 40%
So which one is right?
Lets see (16+18+40)/3
24% sounds close.
Don't put too much faith in SSL. Read Bluecoat SSL visibility. It works and decodes the SSL in the middle to inspect traffic. This is the good use of the technique. It is however more sophisticated than plain text protocols to pull off.
Good to know. And what if the user emailed it? Mind you, most will not. But point taken. Amazon then is ahead of the curve.
Think about it.
Yep, you got the idea. Yes, it works similarily for other ports/protocols as well as network routing devices too. Think, you could even proxy back the traffic to the intended site login transactions as they occur. This way the session even behave properly, abet perhaps a little slower for the hops the traffic makes.
Yes, I think about it, yes, if a sophisticated hacking group decided to go for a target, most are not remotely prepared for what will happen.
While I can't per say get to pop3 proper from work, I can get tot he web mail server. Huge hacker advantage about web mail. It doesn't move the message so the real user will not notice missing mail. A little perl script, harvest in bulk.
No, I gave a high level view. I will not post the code to do it and spell it out for na-sayers. It can be done. Wireless to is a nice entry point. Send a proxy redirect... fun and games.
Not necessarily. I was on a H1-B when in the states and after trying to get INS to let this person in, I gave up and returned home. Before the dollar drop of course. I would still be in the great USA if I got that GC. Problem was they want you on the hook like a fish. But this is another story.
I worked for a company of about $2B market cap, and 2 private companies under $50M each. None of the companies had people with competence to fill the jobs locally. Not all H1-Bs go to "big" companies.
The system does suck. In essence, work cheap, can't travel (9/11), can't switch jobs....pay was better than back home though. I am from the north shore.
The real problem is cultural, but not a popular thing to say. North Americans spend plenty on schools. But the kids go there as if it is a glorified baby siting service. Parents do not lead and pressure kids into mathematics and English. Parents in Canada and American cultures need to put more emphasis on teaching their kids a thirst of learning. Put on the history or science channel, and forget the rich kid crap which is hidden advertisement of discontentment.
For example, our nephew is 16, wants a car, can't hold a job for more than 2 weeks, been in trouble already for vandalism, kicked out of school... asking each relative in turn for a car, even has a new one picked out for us to buy. The gall. The lack of discipline, understanding of life -- his parents failed him pure and simple. When at 22 I am going to put him into a datacenter? He can't read let alone write code. Get real, be lucky if he can sweep the parking lot.
Me, I would like to grab the punk, knock some sense into him, teach, forcibly if needed some common social skills and a work ethic to succeed. But I would go to jail for that. So I quietly say no and move on. Write it off as mass apathy by both society and the parents.
The real problem is parenting, the microwave parents rarely raise children properly. Only how to nuke food. Most can't even cook if they were starving to death. A Kraft dinner is too much to do right. If they can read the directions.
You should have a license to raise children requiring parents do a few hundred hours of learning. Then more children will go to school to learn and the shortages will fix themselves in 20 years or so. Until then, you will need H1-Bs.
If you have lost DNS, game is over, you lose. A recipe if your system hits a compromised root server.
Better yet, people often use similar IDs and passwords into other systems. Evil hackers can often use the email to figure out which banks, credit, stock brokers and on line e-tailers you use. Maybe change the home address of your Amazon account and order stuff, if the e-tailor isn't right on top of it.
Root servers need to be secure, end of story.
I should note the above method would also work with SSL, be creative, it only has to be a legitimate cert with a root chain.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but Amazon and my local PC shops have the same problem. Seemingly always out of stock on the Linux ones but have lots of XP.
This is the first time in many years users have had an OS choice in the consumer space, it will be interesting to see the sales numbers once they can keep the Eee PC (Linux) in stock.
Yes, but blackberries make it easy to communicate securely. You don't have the hassle of a PKI infrastructure with S/MIME certificates, or using PGP.
Incidentally, blackberries support PGP and S/MIME on top of their existing security.
And no _NSAKEY. Guess that means RIM isn't in favorable books with the governments. Wonder what their fall out will be?
Bet there will be some quiet legislation to change this. The government(s) fear the people.
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html
In proposing the IMG tag, he explicitly says that it can be embedded in an anchor, and he describes its action. I have my doubts that these guys have prior art on web pages dating back to before 1993.
Yep, everyone in the business knows this as prior art.
But that does not mean they can't sue. And then convincing a computer illiterate judge to expeditiously toss it out of court with costs is another mater. This is about patent extortion. Using the inept judicial system that really still hasn't finished with SCO after 6 years. With the legal costs so high, it is cheaper for many just to pay them $5M and call it a day. Some companies might.
But not being a US based company the odds are against them. RIM for example, not getting favorable treatment decided the damages to business growth was worth hundreds of millions in extortion. So they paid up. RIM not being a US company had the odds stacked against them.
The legal system needs to toss this kind of claim out quickly. And no one is holding their breath. Lawyers make too much money from cases like these.