What is interesting to me is that this "over-funding" is what resulted in the Internet that you rely upon to complain that these guys are getting some tools to help protect themselves from those that wish them harm (and have a clearly-demonstrated ability to do so, uber or not).
Our nation's military and intelligence community is in an interesting, somewhat unique time in history where it is able to benefit from technology created outside of the defense world rather than the other way around. I'm always grateful (particularly right now) that US defense spending over the past century has fueled global technological advancement and new levels of communication and individual access to information and world-wide communities.
Doesn't Comcast advertise this "SpeedBoost" as a feature - the language in their ads is something like "get massive super speed for the first 10MB of a download, then it will revert to your provisioned line speed"...
So, it actually *is* a good thing rather than something to pad bandwidth tests, and it does generally help your general user, right?
What's to prevent the machine from printing you a receipt indicating what you voted, while recording something else?
How about then having everyone feed their receipt through an optical reader on their way out, which would keep separate tallies - that way, there's an independent system that should match up with the e-voting system's counts...?
This exact feature was in wide use at MIT in '89 if not earlier - the zephyr instant messaging system used by nearly all students at MIT when I was there ('89 to '94) had this feature, along with essentially every other feature currently use in IM clients. This is BS. I'm not sure if zephyr is still in use at MIT, but this is certainly NOT something new.
At some point today, eBay pulled the auction off of the site. Does anyone have any information as to why? The guy who posted the auction doesn't have any update on his site yet.
By which you really mean, "Is it in fact the responsibility of those living at high expense in heavily-populated areas to finance internet access for those who choose to live in less-populated areas at lower cost?" Right?
Wow, I hadn't really thought of it like that - but you're absolutely right. That's too close to a political discussion:) Is there a greater-good benefit, or a direct benefit to the "haves" in the situation (us!), for everyone to have access? That's certainly debatable.
The points are thought-provoking - specifically along the lines of how much we that have broadband connectivity take it for granted? It is so easy to assume that since I've had residential broadband access for about 10 years, it *must* be a normal thing for everyone else by now.
It's almost as if there's a virtual Third World of 'net access within our country - those oppressed by dial-up-only access. Is it in fact a governmental responsibility to bring it to everyone?
Well, I bid over $250 - sure that my bid would stand for a while (the current bid at that point was around $80). That lasted for all of 2 minutes, maybe. No telling where this will end - I hope that current and future bidders are actually willing and able to back up their bids with money. I was:(
I just placed a bid ($32.69!) - I don't have a Mac, and have no idea what I'd do with the file, but I couldn't resist. Dangit, I just noticed that I've already been outbid. At this rate, the song is going to easily push past $100, just from us geeks willing to pony up to be part of this...
The argument sort of breaks down when you talk about webservers, with Apache solidly in front with % usage, yet it's the smaller-target MS offering that is the one hit with exploits.
That's a bit off-center, given that we're largely discussing viruses here, which don't generally spread or annoy by exploiting web servers. I'd argue that apache being the most-used web server doesn't really matter in this light.
That being said, I agree that MS being both a larger *and* easier target makes it the obvious choice for mischief.
Excellent point! I absolutely agree that this is very much a Windows issue in a broad sense - my primary concern here was dealing with the large-installed-user-base situation... The real solution to 35000 Windows users? Nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.:)
I think that's a very valid way to frame the suggestion (move to a different, less-targeted-by-virii OS) - but in the case of the aforementioned 35,000-user company, that makes me wonder about the costs/risks of attempting to make that sort of change. At that scale, a move from x86 Windows standard to Apple hardware seems completely unattemptable - so let's consider a shift to Linux. I'm not familiar with managing multiple (much less a large number of) boxes with Linux - assuming re-training your users and re-selecting/implimenting software for all of your business functions isn't an issue (heh, just a small assumption, that), is it easier to do than a similar-sized Windows base? How would you tackle such a move?
Were I starting a company these days, or in a position to make such a move for a rather small organization, I think considering a Linux implimentation makes huge sense, certainly from a virus-avoidance/security angle... but what about a large installed-base situation?
"all this evidence for the need for operating system diversity in the corporate realm"...?
That seems to be a rather easy thing to say if you're not actually trying to manage a business with a large, complex interconnected system of technologies... having spent a rather painful amount of time (actually, more like an amount of rather painful time) in very large companies (35000 PC users at all levels of use), I have to say that a desire for OS diversity is far from an obvious choice. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just a potentially unpractical one in many real corporate situations.
Working with the single devil you know as opposed to a vast army of individually varied devils may be preferable, at least in theory.
Heh. "...it seems pretty ok cause it is hard to violate a skull's rights" That's just an open invitation to perverse thoughts and snide comments! Or maybe that's just me.
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...even the lowest quality episode is better than the best quality the rest of the dial has to offer. What's a dial?Our nation's military and intelligence community is in an interesting, somewhat unique time in history where it is able to benefit from technology created outside of the defense world rather than the other way around. I'm always grateful (particularly right now) that US defense spending over the past century has fueled global technological advancement and new levels of communication and individual access to information and world-wide communities.
Just my thinking...
Doesn't Comcast advertise this "SpeedBoost" as a feature - the language in their ads is something like "get massive super speed for the first 10MB of a download, then it will revert to your provisioned line speed"... So, it actually *is* a good thing rather than something to pad bandwidth tests, and it does generally help your general user, right?
How about then having everyone feed their receipt through an optical reader on their way out, which would keep separate tallies - that way, there's an independent system that should match up with the e-voting system's counts...?
This exact feature was in wide use at MIT in '89 if not earlier - the zephyr instant messaging system used by nearly all students at MIT when I was there ('89 to '94) had this feature, along with essentially every other feature currently use in IM clients. This is BS. I'm not sure if zephyr is still in use at MIT, but this is certainly NOT something new.
...how does it benchmark against the Commodore 64???
Anakin/Vader? looks more like Uma Thurman to me! Watch the trailer for Kill Bill vol. 1 and tell me I'm wrong...
...as a constant laptop user, I'm not sure I like the concept of having the thing able to break into pieces by design.
I wonder whether eBay was pressured, or ???
It's almost as if there's a virtual Third World of 'net access within our country - those oppressed by dial-up-only access. Is it in fact a governmental responsibility to bring it to everyone?
Well, I bid over $250 - sure that my bid would stand for a while (the current bid at that point was around $80). That lasted for all of 2 minutes, maybe. No telling where this will end - I hope that current and future bidders are actually willing and able to back up their bids with money. I was :(
I just placed a bid ($32.69!) - I don't have a Mac, and have no idea what I'd do with the file, but I couldn't resist. Dangit, I just noticed that I've already been outbid. At this rate, the song is going to easily push past $100, just from us geeks willing to pony up to be part of this...
That's a bit off-center, given that we're largely discussing viruses here, which don't generally spread or annoy by exploiting web servers. I'd argue that apache being the most-used web server doesn't really matter in this light.
That being said, I agree that MS being both a larger *and* easier target makes it the obvious choice for mischief.
Excellent point! I absolutely agree that this is very much a Windows issue in a broad sense - my primary concern here was dealing with the large-installed-user-base situation... The real solution to 35000 Windows users? Nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure. :)
I think that's a very valid way to frame the suggestion (move to a different, less-targeted-by-virii OS) - but in the case of the aforementioned 35,000-user company, that makes me wonder about the costs/risks of attempting to make that sort of change. At that scale, a move from x86 Windows standard to Apple hardware seems completely unattemptable - so let's consider a shift to Linux. I'm not familiar with managing multiple (much less a large number of) boxes with Linux - assuming re-training your users and re-selecting/implimenting software for all of your business functions isn't an issue (heh, just a small assumption, that), is it easier to do than a similar-sized Windows base? How would you tackle such a move? Were I starting a company these days, or in a position to make such a move for a rather small organization, I think considering a Linux implimentation makes huge sense, certainly from a virus-avoidance/security angle... but what about a large installed-base situation?
"all this evidence for the need for operating system diversity in the corporate realm"...?
That seems to be a rather easy thing to say if you're not actually trying to manage a business with a large, complex interconnected system of technologies... having spent a rather painful amount of time (actually, more like an amount of rather painful time) in very large companies (35000 PC users at all levels of use), I have to say that a desire for OS diversity is far from an obvious choice. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just a potentially unpractical one in many real corporate situations.
Working with the single devil you know as opposed to a vast army of individually varied devils may be preferable, at least in theory.
Heh. "...it seems pretty ok cause it is hard to violate a skull's rights" That's just an open invitation to perverse thoughts and snide comments! Or maybe that's just me.