Typical statements: Dell has crappy built quality/not robust Dells are unreliable Dells perform badly compared to similar machines Dells wear out fast etc
I see these arguments on/. all the time, but don't understand or have experience of this. At work (around 2,000 fat terminals) we use Dell desktops, damn cheap per box, perform swiftly - a WinXP environment - no complaints from users r.e. performance. Sometimes a HDD knackers, but that's about all reliability-wise, absolutely no PSU related problems - from introduction each machine was expected to last 3 years, and do that plus (screens are mainly Sharp). We have some Dell laptops, no probs either. A few servers, really mixed but some Dells in there too and no performance/reliability grips from tech/quant/developers. I've had a Dell laptop for 3 years - recently replaced my old one with a new model - never had a problem.
So, there are so many gripes on/. about how Dells are crappy - but they prove to be reliable, cheap, effective machines. Sure they're not water cooled boxes with redundant CPUs, but that isn't an important consideration... at the end of the day there is a cost/ubercoolness tradeoff. So what's the problem?
Legal definition of broadband on UK is min 150kbps down. Yes, that sucks, especially when moving to somewhere that 'has broadband connection included' on such a connection... shared across 6 flats...
But Vodafone reception spanks Orange - in terms of availability in dense areas and range in sparse areas. The greatness in Orange reception is all in the adverts... beats 1toNoOne (not TMobile) and MM02 though.
Yes, it is in the interests of M$ to influence Washington and local governments. They want to make a profit, and in the spirit of unfettered capitalism they will do all they can to do this.
...he company approaches lobbying the way it approaches everything- aggressively-and consequently it dominates the technology policy agenda...
Of course it does. So do the oil companies, the gun manufacturers. To be effective lobbying must be aggressive. Note this doesn't mean in the open air - the most effective lobbying is that done behind closed doors. Done by the most experienced - oil companies are the best example of this - they even got themselves a president! Whether open source is better than M$ is of debate - but the sharholder value maximiser that our economy, and capitalist greed orientated world (though in Soviet Cuba this is the reverse) prevents this debate. Not only is M$ greedy as all corporates are, but it is led by one of the most driven, single minded, power seeking and successful (in this area - where so many try and fail) person in history - perhaps only Ghengis Kahn compares, yet I don't think BillG rapes and murders in the thousands, at least directly. Gay Niggers don't have this problem, nor does Natalie Portman's steaming hot grits... in Japan
With this kind of corporate greed so embedded I don't see how Linux, an OS that _is_ ready for the desktop no matter how much the Apple fanboys (jumping a little late on the *nix bandwagon) say it isn't. A good friend of mine has installed a GNOME network in a local special school, and now all the retarded kids are hacking the Kernal Ruby with sticks attached to their foreheads. Note he did this for free using Gentoo/Debian, and chose not be be a testing clone for Redhat.
I for one hide my petrification and welcome our M$ lobbiest overlords.
I mainly agree. Perhaps the JD is secure enough from some pickpocket seeing confidential files, when they try and fail they throw it away and it disappears to the bottom of the dump for a millenium. If someone really really wants to steal your data they can do it other ways - break in to your house, plant bugs, etc... sophisticated means to a determined end.
Perhaps there is some risk of someone on eBay buying JDs for non-targetted decryption fun, as they seem to do with HDDs... but I don't care - if something really is confidential don't carry it around (who knows.. you could be attacked, tortured until you reveal it if they really want it); there are shed loads more targets for low ticket crimes like consumer fraud/identity theft - targets that are less savvy than most/.ers.
I once encoded some data in a few MP3s... this was back in 2000. The MP3s were long speech files... about 30mb/file @ 160kbps and were popular, but took so long to transfer, so to propegate the 'new' files as quickly as possible I reduced the bit rate from 160kbps to 32kbps and added in the 'extra' 'noise' as I did this - as it's speech it didn't really matter.
If I do a search now they're easy to find, much easier than the original 160kbps were.
This was just a test, no special data used - but an amazing way to archive and distribute data.
Are you on crack? Ever been to East Acton, Finsbury Park (at night, or the Manor House side), got lost in the warren of estates in Streatham or any part of Walthamstow away from the village?
These are gritty 'real' London neighbourhoods... you will struggle to find worse.
Not to mention that this guy is in London, where you can't get a 'carry concealed weapon permit' or whatever. Of course, you could get a Licence to carry a shotgun provided you carry it in full view and not ready to fire.
Yeah, right. In the UK posession of any gun is prohibited unless you are a sports shooter (and the caliber is very seriously limited) or you are a farmer (in which case you need a massive piece of land called a farm, impossible to find in London unless you lay a claim to Hyde Park or Clapham Common).
I have several.cx domains, and certainly won't be renewing them. I had an email about the goatse issue, of which one paragraph said:
"In the case of goatse.cx the site was suspended ( primarily) because the author chose to "hard code" (as opposed to a link posted to an un moderated forum) a link to a bestiality site which provided a FAQ on how to have sex with dolphins. CIIA takes the view that hard coding of links is functionally the same as providing a navigation button to that content. This is "prohibited Internet content" as defined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA http://www.aba.gov.au) and we have no qualms about suspending the name to restrict access."
Now, if a ludicrous set of instructions on how to have sex with dolphins can be banned (i can understand banning an offensive picture without a sufficient warning - which goatse contained, but citing the dolphin sex link???) then no irony, sarcasm or parody can possibly exist on a.cx domain; I would rather get out now than wait around until my domains get dropped suddenly when a parodic comment gets interpreted literally.
Since many net citizens have complained about the suspension of goates.cx I
offer the following perspective.... The.CX ccTLD represents Christmas Island
and is the on-line representation of that community on the Internet. Individuals
or organizations from outside that community are invited to register in portions
of that name space but should be aware are (to quote from out publicly posted
polices) that...
"the policies for the.CX country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) are set by the
Board of Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) and are
designed to reflect the legal systems, values, and ethnic diversity of the
community of the Territory of Christmas Island. They are an attempt to balance
the historical principals of fairness and access to the DNS with the concerns of
registrants and Internet users regarding privacy, lawful activity and protection
of intellectual property and other third party rights."
"CIIA cannot, and does not, monitor, screen or otherwise review a Domain
application to verify the Registrant's legal rights to use a particular word or
term in its Domain prior to registration. CIIA does not get involved with
disputes over rights to particular domains. CIIA may however suspend or revoke a
domain if the use of a.CX Domain is unlawful or infringes on the rights of a
third party. By way of example CIIA policy does not attempt to screen or
restrict the registration or use of a.CX domain, however registrants should be
aware that if the use of a.CX domain name clearly infringes on the rights of a
third party as defined in the CIIA AUP, or is any way unlawful then that domain
name may be subject to suspension or revocation. "
Technically speaking CIIA is both a community owned non profit ISP and the
Trustee for the CX ccTLD on behalf of the Christmas Island community. Although
Christmas Island is an external Territory of AU, CIIA is an Australian company
functions largely under the legislative framework of the Commonwealth of
Australia.
Although many ccTLD registries might attempt to argue that they are not in any
way a part of the network that delivers/publishes Internet content, this view
(in CIIAs opinion) is best summed up as a "commercial convenience" and
abdication of responsibility to act as a Trustee for the community represented
by the name space. As the Internet has matured there can be no doubt that it is
increasingly being used as a tool for illegal activity. The argument that
individual Internet users (wherever they may be) should be required to contact
ISP's in Belarus, the US, Rwanda etc... to report unlawful activity or content
places an unfair burden of on individuals who may not have the time resources
or skills to bring an action or outcome. The widespread use of broadband and
technologies such as dynamic DNS make most much of this sort of prohibited
traffic a moving target - and action based solely on convincing the "hosting
provider" to remove content generally ineffective.
There can be no doubt that a ccTLD registry is a key choke point for enforcing
policy and that it has enormous theoretical power to ensure polices and use
comply with the desires and values of the community represented by that name
space. This "power "is also viewed by CIIA as a responsibility, although it
would be inappropriate and irresponsible for a trustee of a name space to make
arbitrary / capricious decisions or to follow a "personal ideological agenda"
this is not the case in the CX TLD. In reviewing complains CIIA assesses them
against the criteria established not by ourselves but to legislation and policy
set by government and the relevant community.
In the case of CIIA when reviewing a complaint we look to the ABA (Australian
Broadcasting Authority - http://www.aba.gov.au ) for guidance on what is
prohibited Internet content under the laws applicable to Christmas Island.
Although a complex legislative fra
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/. all the time, but don't understand or have experience of this. At work (around 2,000 fat terminals) we use Dell desktops, damn cheap per box, perform swiftly - a WinXP environment - no complaints from users r.e. performance. Sometimes a HDD knackers, but that's about all reliability-wise, absolutely no PSU related problems - from introduction each machine was expected to last 3 years, and do that plus (screens are mainly Sharp). We have some Dell laptops, no probs either. A few servers, really mixed but some Dells in there too and no performance/reliability grips from tech/quant/developers. I've had a Dell laptop for 3 years - recently replaced my old one with a new model - never had a problem.
/. about how Dells are crappy - but they prove to be reliable, cheap, effective machines. Sure they're not water cooled boxes with redundant CPUs, but that isn't an important consideration... at the end of the day there is a cost/ubercoolness tradeoff. So what's the problem?
Dell has crappy built quality/not robust
Dells are unreliable
Dells perform badly compared to similar machines
Dells wear out fast
etc
I see these arguments on
So, there are so many gripes on
Of course 6 flats!= 1 flat with 6 flatmates.
Legal definition of broadband on UK is min 150kbps down. Yes, that sucks, especially when moving to somewhere that 'has broadband connection included' on such a connection... shared across 6 flats...
But Vodafone reception spanks Orange - in terms of availability in dense areas and range in sparse areas. The greatness in Orange reception is all in the adverts... beats 1toNoOne (not TMobile) and MM02 though.
Yes, it is in the interests of M$ to influence Washington and local governments. They want to make a profit, and in the spirit of unfettered capitalism they will do all they can to do this.
...he company approaches lobbying the way it approaches everything- aggressively-and consequently it dominates the technology policy agenda...
Of course it does. So do the oil companies, the gun manufacturers. To be effective lobbying must be aggressive. Note this doesn't mean in the open air - the most effective lobbying is that done behind closed doors. Done by the most experienced - oil companies are the best example of this - they even got themselves a president! Whether open source is better than M$ is of debate - but the sharholder value maximiser that our economy, and capitalist greed orientated world (though in Soviet Cuba this is the reverse) prevents this debate. Not only is M$ greedy as all corporates are, but it is led by one of the most driven, single minded, power seeking and successful (in this area - where so many try and fail) person in history - perhaps only Ghengis Kahn compares, yet I don't think BillG rapes and murders in the thousands, at least directly. Gay Niggers don't have this problem, nor does Natalie Portman's steaming hot grits... in Japan
With this kind of corporate greed so embedded I don't see how Linux, an OS that _is_ ready for the desktop no matter how much the Apple fanboys (jumping a little late on the *nix bandwagon) say it isn't. A good friend of mine has installed a GNOME network in a local special school, and now all the retarded kids are hacking the Kernal Ruby with sticks attached to their foreheads. Note he did this for free using Gentoo/Debian, and chose not be be a testing clone for Redhat.
I for one hide my petrification and welcome our M$ lobbiest overlords.
Germans elect Nazis
Can we lock you in it and stop your incessant sniping?
What about Matlab - that seems to be taking over for most serious math problems/teams I encounter - and it can output in C++ et all too.
Nice.
I mainly agree. Perhaps the JD is secure enough from some pickpocket seeing confidential files, when they try and fail they throw it away and it disappears to the bottom of the dump for a millenium. If someone really really wants to steal your data they can do it other ways - break in to your house, plant bugs, etc... sophisticated means to a determined end.
/.ers.
Perhaps there is some risk of someone on eBay buying JDs for non-targetted decryption fun, as they seem to do with HDDs... but I don't care - if something really is confidential don't carry it around (who knows.. you could be attacked, tortured until you reveal it if they really want it); there are shed loads more targets for low ticket crimes like consumer fraud/identity theft - targets that are less savvy than most
What's IE got to do with it? This is a Linux vs. Solaris flamewar, not a browser flamewar!
Some people will try to troll IE wherever they can for a karma bonus!
I once encoded some data in a few MP3s... this was back in 2000. The MP3s were long speech files... about 30mb/file @ 160kbps and were popular, but took so long to transfer, so to propegate the 'new' files as quickly as possible I reduced the bit rate from 160kbps to 32kbps and added in the 'extra' 'noise' as I did this - as it's speech it didn't really matter.
If I do a search now they're easy to find, much easier than the original 160kbps were.
This was just a test, no special data used - but an amazing way to archive and distribute data.
Sir, I find your math funkier.
Oh, look! It's on the internet it must be right.
Er... wait... its on Fox News and a blog.
Are you on crack? Ever been to East Acton, Finsbury Park (at night, or the Manor House side), got lost in the warren of estates in Streatham or any part of Walthamstow away from the village?
These are gritty 'real' London neighbourhoods... you will struggle to find worse.
This past fall I purchased a full-length black trenchcoat... keeps unwanted people away
Trenchcoat mafia?
An armed populace is a secure populace
A populace contains criminals, therfore an populace is a populace containing criminals with arms.
Not to mention that this guy is in London, where you can't get a 'carry concealed weapon permit' or whatever. Of course, you could get a Licence to carry a shotgun provided you carry it in full view and not ready to fire.
Yeah, right. In the UK posession of any gun is prohibited unless you are a sports shooter (and the caliber is very seriously limited) or you are a farmer (in which case you need a massive piece of land called a farm, impossible to find in London unless you lay a claim to Hyde Park or Clapham Common).
Thank you for your constructive insight.
I have several .cx domains, and certainly won't be renewing them. I had an email about the goatse issue, of which one paragraph said:
.cx domain; I would rather get out now than wait around until my domains get dropped suddenly when a parodic comment gets interpreted literally.
"In the case of goatse.cx the site was suspended ( primarily) because the author chose to "hard code" (as opposed to a link posted to an un moderated forum) a link to a bestiality site which provided a FAQ on how to have sex with dolphins. CIIA takes the view that hard coding of links is functionally the same as providing a navigation button to that content. This is "prohibited Internet content" as defined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA http://www.aba.gov.au) and we have no qualms about suspending the name to restrict access."
Now, if a ludicrous set of instructions on how to have sex with dolphins can be banned (i can understand banning an offensive picture without a sufficient warning - which goatse contained, but citing the dolphin sex link???) then no irony, sarcasm or parody can possibly exist on a
Dear GOATSE4EVA,
.CX ccTLD represents Christmas Island
and is the on-line representation of that community on the Internet. Individuals
or organizations from outside that community are invited to register in portions
of that name space but should be aware are (to quote from out publicly posted
polices) that...
.CX country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) are set by the
Board of Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) and are
designed to reflect the legal systems, values, and ethnic diversity of the
community of the Territory of Christmas Island. They are an attempt to balance
the historical principals of fairness and access to the DNS with the concerns of
registrants and Internet users regarding privacy, lawful activity and protection
of intellectual property and other third party rights."
.CX Domain is unlawful or infringes on the rights of a
third party. By way of example CIIA policy does not attempt to screen or
restrict the registration or use of a .CX domain, however registrants should be
aware that if the use of a .CX domain name clearly infringes on the rights of a
third party as defined in the CIIA AUP, or is any way unlawful then that domain
name may be subject to suspension or revocation. "
Since many net citizens have complained about the suspension of goates.cx I offer the following perspective.... The
"the policies for the
"CIIA cannot, and does not, monitor, screen or otherwise review a Domain application to verify the Registrant's legal rights to use a particular word or term in its Domain prior to registration. CIIA does not get involved with disputes over rights to particular domains. CIIA may however suspend or revoke a domain if the use of a
Technically speaking CIIA is both a community owned non profit ISP and the Trustee for the CX ccTLD on behalf of the Christmas Island community. Although Christmas Island is an external Territory of AU, CIIA is an Australian company functions largely under the legislative framework of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Although many ccTLD registries might attempt to argue that they are not in any way a part of the network that delivers/publishes Internet content, this view (in CIIAs opinion) is best summed up as a "commercial convenience" and abdication of responsibility to act as a Trustee for the community represented by the name space. As the Internet has matured there can be no doubt that it is increasingly being used as a tool for illegal activity. The argument that individual Internet users (wherever they may be) should be required to contact ISP's in Belarus, the US, Rwanda etc... to report unlawful activity or content places an unfair burden of on individuals who may not have the time resources or skills to bring an action or outcome. The widespread use of broadband and technologies such as dynamic DNS make most much of this sort of prohibited traffic a moving target - and action based solely on convincing the "hosting provider" to remove content generally ineffective.
There can be no doubt that a ccTLD registry is a key choke point for enforcing policy and that it has enormous theoretical power to ensure polices and use comply with the desires and values of the community represented by that name space. This "power "is also viewed by CIIA as a responsibility, although it would be inappropriate and irresponsible for a trustee of a name space to make arbitrary / capricious decisions or to follow a "personal ideological agenda" this is not the case in the CX TLD. In reviewing complains CIIA assesses them against the criteria established not by ourselves but to legislation and policy set by government and the relevant community.
In the case of CIIA when reviewing a complaint we look to the ABA (Australian Broadcasting Authority - http://www.aba.gov.au ) for guidance on what is prohibited Internet content under the laws applicable to Christmas Island. Although a complex legislative fra
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2. Go down to the park and take a walk in the bright daylight and fresh air. See the ducks and birds and beauty in nature.
3. Go home and have a long relaxing sleep.
4. When you wake remember that you are an intelligent guy and on any day you can achieve anything out truely want to (or at least get a great foothold to spring from the next day).
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