they have no right whatsoever to limit the bandwidth that i have paid for
Read your terms of service from your ISP... I do not think "no right whatsoever" means what you think it means. If you didn't read your TOS before you signed up for the contract, well, that's your problem.
Why do you care? So Dell doesn't sell the computer you want/need at a price you want to pay. So buy a computer from someone else. HP sells laptops without Windows for $50 less than the exact same version with Windows. And they officially support several Linux distros running on them. I'm sure there's a lot of other vendors that do the same.
This is the way the marketplace is supposed to work. Stop whining about Dell being all mean and dumb and "an evil corporation". Vote with your wallet, not your mouth.
Disclaimer: I do not work for HP, or own HP stock, but I do buy their Opteron servers on occasion.
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It's certainly not trivial to bypass if you set it up right. Assuming the user isn't a member of the local Administrators group (which they would not be on a public machine) and you use the whitelist functionality of software restrictions to allow only exectuables/DLLs with a certain signature or hash to run (filename and path rules aren't strong enough). See here.
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Umm... how many sane people/organizations would let you run an arbitrary executable from your thumb drive on their computer? No matter what the OS?
We use Microsoft's software restriction policies on all our corporate Windows machines and kiosks to prevent just that sort of thing.
I don't think you'll be able to run arbitrary software from that thumb drive at Kinko's or any reasonably well-run Internet cafe either.
Maybe you can use it at your Mom's house. But it will become increasingly difficult to find other machines from which to run Putty of your USB key.
Almost all recent encryption software support at least AES-128, so the algorithms are rock-solid. "Tricks and simple algorithms" aren't the problem.
The problem is encryption key management. Where do you store that AES key? Obfusacated in a binary? In your backup scripts using permissions to prevent unauthorized access?
I do best I can and use public-key encryption for encrypting backup data (OpenPGP), with the secret keys escrowed offline. But this doesn't work for "live" data that needs encryption. The secret key (whether symmetric or an RSA/DH/ECC private key) has to be available to the encrypting/decrypting application in some form.
This is one area where a ubiquitous hardware technology like the TPM would actually help protect privacy.
You heard it here first: Up to 95% of Linux will be rewritten before the v2.8 release of the Linux kernel, according to Linus Torvald's secretary's boyfriend.
...and which is now mandatory for volume licences AFAIK...
Software Assurance is not required by Microsoft. Take a look at the MS licensing overview. Most everything is available as a perpetual, one-time license ("L") or as a license plus software assurance ("L+SA"). You can also by software-assurance only licenses to continute on the plan after your initial software assurance runs out.
That said, I'm pissed off at MS about the way they've handled Software Assuance given the delays we've seen with new versions. We've gotten exactly one client OS upgrade in the last 5 years, and one server upgrade (well, two, if you count Windows 2003 R2, which I don't), one SQL upgrade, and one Exchange upgrade. The other benefits provided to SA customers are throwaways like free support calls and home-use rights. Even though Vista is "just around the corner", we will probably not be renewing our SA agreements.
I suppose that depends on the distances & obstacles involved, the local atmosphere, and the quality/design of the mirror. It's hard to keep high-quality optics clean outdoors. And of course beam alignment is an even bigger challenge with a mirror in the mix.
What about free-space optics fome a vendor like this? A few tens of thousands should get you gigabit-speed links between two sites that are so close. If you don't have line-of-sight, you might have to rent space to put a relay station somewhere, but it will still be a lot cheaper than fiber.
So is the Ku Klux Klan, but they can go fuck themselves
So if you don't agree with certain individuals, they forfeit their freedom of speech, assembly, etc? I personally abhor the KKK, but I will defend their right to speak, organize, buy property, and even particiapte in the democratic process as a group.
Yours is an inconsistent attitude towards to civil liberties that is commonly seen on the left end of the political spectrum. Mirror-image incosnistencies exist on the right, of course.
By the way, doesn't using the KKK as an example invoke Godwin's law?
Interesting that you bind the government and corporations together under the flag of "ourselves." Neither of those entities is related to the people of the United States, which is the most important entity of them all...
The US government and US corporations ARE the result of the collective activity of groups of individuals. A corporation is an entity representing the interests of its stockholders, and the US government is an entity representing the interest of taxpayers and voters. Stockholders and taxpayers can influence the behavior of those collective entities by VOTING.
So yes, in the end, we do owe that money to ourselves. Of course, certain citzens are owed more of that debt by virtue of being stockholders, or having a piece of a mension or mutual fund. If you don't like that, loan the government some of YOUR money and get in on the gravy train.
The vast majority of federal debt instruments are held by the American government itself, states, private investors, pension funds, corporations, and the like. So we owe most of the national debt to ourselves.
Only about $2T is owed to foreign investors, and I would think that Americans hold a comparable amount of foreign government securities.
U.S. Treasuries are still the worldwide standard for what is considered a risk-free investment. All other bonds are benchmarked against Treasuries, worldwide. Financiers don't do this out of habit or because they trust the U.S. Congress; they've actually run the numbers and concluded that the risk of the U.S. government defaulting on its financial obligations is still lower than that of any other government, corporation, municipality, etc. worldwide.
You post just convinces me further of belief that we don't really understand economics...
Your post convinces me that you don't really understand economics. Wealth is created by labors and innovation. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. You can, in fact, spend or borrow money as investment in order to make more money in the future. People and businesses do it every day.
A simple example: I borrow $10M to build a bicycle factory. I also spend $10M on steel, rubber, and workers salaries. If I sell $25M in bicycles the first year, I have created $5M in wealth. (This ignores, of course, interest and the time value of movney to keep the numbers simple).
And no, I did not "steal" that $5M from the people who bought my bicycles. Some of it is actually "new" money. In fact, you'll find that several percent more wealth is created by the US economy as a whole every year. There is not just a big pille of dollars that we pass around. Wealth creation can be viewed as one of the causes of inflation.
Do you have a link to any code? Or references on the net? What you describe is a significant improvement over rsync/rdiff-backup for mobile users, and I'd like to know more.
They have a similar service called JULIE here in the states: Joint Utility Location... something or other. Anyway, they come out and mark, and surprisingly, you don't have to pay a dime (besides what you pay on your utility bills of course).
So he digs a 7-foot deep hole, using a backhoe, without even consulting the local utility companies? Right next to a commercial building no less. The jerk is lucky he didn't hit gas or sewer mains...
I'd call that leet, if that isn't anacronistic for WWII technology.
Check your watch... you're off by 20 years. The Sopwith Camel was a World War One aircraft, it entered British service in 1917 and was obsolete by 1918.
yeah, how do I tie an Access form to a Stored Procedure? Oh, I can't - I have to give all users read/write access to TABLES
Well, you could make all the fields on your form unbound, and then programmatically read their vallues and call your SPs using VBA. But you might as well be using Visual Stuio or another "real" development environment if you're going to such lengths.
Seriously, the ADP approach has some uses. You get the quick-and-dirty development environment of Access, with the reliability of the SQL Server engine. You can also point ADPs to "real" SQL servers when the time comes for better concurrency or scalability. We have a few non-critical apps that were originally written in Access 95 and have been scaled up to use ADP and SQL server with minor modifications over the years. They still work, and fairly well.
Oh, those people you dropped nuclear weapons on? They're real grateful.
I'll point out Dec. 7, 1941 and the Bataan Death March... it was a WAR, for Heaven's sake. We rebuilt their country after said war, and I'll bet you most Japanese are pretty happy with their form of government.
Those far-off places where the US fought their arms-length wars against Communism, which resulted in those countries being split in half? Yeah, they're real grateful too.
You bet your ass they are. Ask 1,000 South Koreans if they would rather be living under the rule of Mr. Kim. How many would say yes? Exactly 0.
As, for Vietnam, well... they WOULD have been thankful if American politicans had the balls to use overwhelming force and bring the war to a quick conclusion.
Filipinos... Yeah, they're the ones who were the US's only foreign colony (note: no democracy) - the US bought the country of the Spanish, and then fought a war against the Philippines to suppress the independence movement. Yet more grateful people there.
I was thinking of WWII and after, but I guess you have a point about the late 1800s and early 1900s. We'll not speak of what Eurpoean nations were doing to their colonies during during the same years.
What? Are the Chinese too "yellow" for democracy? Politcal freedome is only for white Europeans?
Because we all know how we never tried (or succeded in some cases) in bringing democracy to the Japanese, South Koreans, South Vietnamese, Philipinos, etc... no, we Americans certainly would never shed our own blood for the freedom of Asian people. We're all a bunch of Euro-centric racists, right?
All recent versions of Microsoft Access are able to actually use the desktop version of SQL server instead of the old JET-based engine.
Look up "access data project" in the Access help file. You can make it the default DB type, and most features of the "real" SQL Server are available (except the GUI management tools).
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Read your terms of service from your ISP... I do not think "no right whatsoever" means what you think it means. If you didn't read your TOS before you signed up for the contract, well, that's your problem.
Why do you care? So Dell doesn't sell the computer you want/need at a price you want to pay. So buy a computer from someone else. HP sells laptops without Windows for $50 less than the exact same version with Windows. And they officially support several Linux distros running on them. I'm sure there's a lot of other vendors that do the same.
This is the way the marketplace is supposed to work. Stop whining about Dell being all mean and dumb and "an evil corporation". Vote with your wallet, not your mouth.
Disclaimer: I do not work for HP, or own HP stock, but I do buy their Opteron servers on occasion.
It's certainly not trivial to bypass if you set it up right. Assuming the user isn't a member of the local Administrators group (which they would not be on a public machine) and you use the whitelist functionality of software restrictions to allow only exectuables/DLLs with a certain signature or hash to run (filename and path rules aren't strong enough). See here.
Umm... how many sane people/organizations would let you run an arbitrary executable from your thumb drive on their computer? No matter what the OS?
We use Microsoft's software restriction policies on all our corporate Windows machines and kiosks to prevent just that sort of thing.
I don't think you'll be able to run arbitrary software from that thumb drive at Kinko's or any reasonably well-run Internet cafe either.
Maybe you can use it at your Mom's house. But it will become increasingly difficult to find other machines from which to run Putty of your USB key.
Illustrating that the grandparent knows very little about gzip and data compression in general.
Almost all recent encryption software support at least AES-128, so the algorithms are rock-solid. "Tricks and simple algorithms" aren't the problem.
The problem is encryption key management. Where do you store that AES key? Obfusacated in a binary? In your backup scripts using permissions to prevent unauthorized access?
I do best I can and use public-key encryption for encrypting backup data (OpenPGP), with the secret keys escrowed offline. But this doesn't work for "live" data that needs encryption. The secret key (whether symmetric or an RSA/DH/ECC private key) has to be available to the encrypting/decrypting application in some form.
This is one area where a ubiquitous hardware technology like the TPM would actually help protect privacy.
For those under the age of 18, using "childish" as a generic derogatory is pretty fucking gay and insulting.
You heard it here first: Up to 95% of Linux will be rewritten before the v2.8 release of the Linux kernel, according to Linus Torvald's secretary's boyfriend.
Software Assurance is not required by Microsoft. Take a look at the MS licensing overview. Most everything is available as a perpetual, one-time license ("L") or as a license plus software assurance ("L+SA"). You can also by software-assurance only licenses to continute on the plan after your initial software assurance runs out.
That said, I'm pissed off at MS about the way they've handled Software Assuance given the delays we've seen with new versions. We've gotten exactly one client OS upgrade in the last 5 years, and one server upgrade (well, two, if you count Windows 2003 R2, which I don't), one SQL upgrade, and one Exchange upgrade. The other benefits provided to SA customers are throwaways like free support calls and home-use rights. Even though Vista is "just around the corner", we will probably not be renewing our SA agreements.
I suppose that depends on the distances & obstacles involved, the local atmosphere, and the quality/design of the mirror. It's hard to keep high-quality optics clean outdoors. And of course beam alignment is an even bigger challenge with a mirror in the mix.
What about free-space optics fome a vendor like this? A few tens of thousands should get you gigabit-speed links between two sites that are so close. If you don't have line-of-sight, you might have to rent space to put a relay station somewhere, but it will still be a lot cheaper than fiber.
So if you don't agree with certain individuals, they forfeit their freedom of speech, assembly, etc? I personally abhor the KKK, but I will defend their right to speak, organize, buy property, and even particiapte in the democratic process as a group.
Yours is an inconsistent attitude towards to civil liberties that is commonly seen on the left end of the political spectrum. Mirror-image incosnistencies exist on the right, of course.
By the way, doesn't using the KKK as an example invoke Godwin's law?
The vast majority of federal debt instruments are held by the American government itself, states, private investors, pension funds, corporations, and the like. So we owe most of the national debt to ourselves.
Only about $2T is owed to foreign investors, and I would think that Americans hold a comparable amount of foreign government securities.
U.S. Treasuries are still the worldwide standard for what is considered a risk-free investment. All other bonds are benchmarked against Treasuries, worldwide. Financiers don't do this out of habit or because they trust the U.S. Congress; they've actually run the numbers and concluded that the risk of the U.S. government defaulting on its financial obligations is still lower than that of any other government, corporation, municipality, etc. worldwide.
Your post convinces me that you don't really understand economics. Wealth is created by labors and innovation. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. You can, in fact, spend or borrow money as investment in order to make more money in the future. People and businesses do it every day.
A simple example: I borrow $10M to build a bicycle factory. I also spend $10M on steel, rubber, and workers salaries. If I sell $25M in bicycles the first year, I have created $5M in wealth. (This ignores, of course, interest and the time value of movney to keep the numbers simple).
And no, I did not "steal" that $5M from the people who bought my bicycles. Some of it is actually "new" money. In fact, you'll find that several percent more wealth is created by the US economy as a whole every year. There is not just a big pille of dollars that we pass around. Wealth creation can be viewed as one of the causes of inflation.
Do you have a link to any code? Or references on the net? What you describe is a significant improvement over rsync/rdiff-backup for mobile users, and I'd like to know more.
You built this yourself? How do you handle differential compression through a web browser? How do you compare file signatures? Handle permissions?
They have a similar service called JULIE here in the states: Joint Utility Location... something or other. Anyway, they come out and mark, and surprisingly, you don't have to pay a dime (besides what you pay on your utility bills of course).
So he digs a 7-foot deep hole, using a backhoe, without even consulting the local utility companies? Right next to a commercial building no less. The jerk is lucky he didn't hit gas or sewer mains...
Check your watch... you're off by 20 years. The Sopwith Camel was a World War One aircraft, it entered British service in 1917 and was obsolete by 1918.
Sounds exactly the same as my Alma Mater. Were you North Quad or South Quad, Mod Quad, or God Quad?
Well, you could make all the fields on your form unbound, and then programmatically read their vallues and call your SPs using VBA. But you might as well be using Visual Stuio or another "real" development environment if you're going to such lengths.
Seriously, the ADP approach has some uses. You get the quick-and-dirty development environment of Access, with the reliability of the SQL Server engine. You can also point ADPs to "real" SQL servers when the time comes for better concurrency or scalability. We have a few non-critical apps that were originally written in Access 95 and have been scaled up to use ADP and SQL server with minor modifications over the years. They still work, and fairly well.
I'll point out Dec. 7, 1941 and the Bataan Death March... it was a WAR, for Heaven's sake. We rebuilt their country after said war, and I'll bet you most Japanese are pretty happy with their form of government.
You bet your ass they are. Ask 1,000 South Koreans if they would rather be living under the rule of Mr. Kim. How many would say yes? Exactly 0.
As, for Vietnam, well... they WOULD have been thankful if American politicans had the balls to use overwhelming force and bring the war to a quick conclusion.
I was thinking of WWII and after, but I guess you have a point about the late 1800s and early 1900s. We'll not speak of what Eurpoean nations were doing to their colonies during during the same years.
Because we all know how we never tried (or succeded in some cases) in bringing democracy to the Japanese, South Koreans, South Vietnamese, Philipinos, etc... no, we Americans certainly would never shed our own blood for the freedom of Asian people. We're all a bunch of Euro-centric racists, right?
All recent versions of Microsoft Access are able to actually use the desktop version of SQL server instead of the old JET-based engine.
Look up "access data project" in the Access help file. You can make it the default DB type, and most features of the "real" SQL Server are available (except the GUI management tools).