I keep my WiFi open on purpose. In fact the purpose is just this sort of case. Let anyone try to prove it was me who did whatever 'crime' was alleged. Until there is a law outlawing my open connection, I'll keep it open.
... heaven forbid ! We can't have what goes on in court broadcast to the masses, they might realize how fragile the whole system is. How the courts are not there to establish truth, but to ascertain guilt (not innocence if you recall, we're all innocent until proven guilty) - two very different concepts. If people realized that their rights were trampled upon routinely by corporations, they would rebel, and the capitalist system - as it currently exists in the U.S. - would be in jeopardy. The power structure would collapse, and there would be chaos. It wouldn't be pretty for anyone, and we'd all end up living under Sharia law before you know it.
... the 'box' and the service are two separate contracts. Many people choose to purchase their own box, but most (like me) will simply take advantage of an offer from the provider which includes the box for 'free'. I know nobody who is explicitly renting their box. Of course it could be argued we all are without our knowledge, but then, that's how a smart business would operate - e.g. hide whatever costs were incurred from the box within the 'service' contract. It's so simple I'm amazed the stupid companies continuously expose themselves to such issues.
You can tell from the blurb the guy is doing nothing more than burning any old shit (you know dead dogs, faeces - it's the Gaza strip after all) he finds lying around. How is this a breakthrough ? What kind of fumes are produced ?
Agreed - Let's assume that each level of management entitles a person to 1.5 times the previous wage.
I've tried to work this out using somewhat reasonable titles for the appropriate 'sphere' of influence I can't believe many organizations have this many layers of management, but if they do...
worker =~ 50K (I'll be generous)
team leader =~ 75K
supervisor =~ 110K
department head =~ 165K
division head =~ 250K
group head =~ 375K
region head =~ 550K
global vice-head =~835K
global head =~ 1.25M
CEO =~ 1.8M
x1.5 = 2.8M
x1.5 = 4.2M
x1.5 = 6.3M
x1.5 = 9.5M
x1.5 = 14M
x1.5 = 21M
So, it takes 15 layers of management in order to get from a preposterously high 'worker' wage (by that I mean, I doubt this is anywhere near the average wage of the average non-manager worker) in these huge corporations. I also doubt the salary bands are as large as a 1.5 multiple. Even if they were 15 layers of management is obsurd. NATO military officer ranks don't contain that many grades, and the military is far from an example of a lean organization.
The U.S. Military pay grade system does indeed contain more levels (if you include Warrant Officers and Enlisted ratings, there's 24 grades), but still comes nowhere near the executive level pay. In fact it would take more than 10 (ten) further military pay grades to come anywhere near the 20+ Million per year that these guys are receiving. Can you imagine having almost 40 layers of management between a worker and the CEO !!!
Of course not, no company could survive with that kind of idiocy, but the CEO's of these companies would like us to believe that they are worth compensation at that level. It's simply theft. And the truth is, it's theft from the shareholder. You know, the people that actually OWN the company ! You'd think they'd be more concerned about it, but they're not.
The ten highest paid Pharmeitcal company CEOs together earned $200,000,000 in 2008 (yes, that's two hundred million split amongst ten people in one year). The top twenty earners make that number over 300M. That means every person in the USA who bought any form of medication gave one dollar of that to one of twenty people. That's why we don't have cheap drugs in the USA, NOT becuase of pure research and development costs, but becuase of fat-cat greed.
How much of the pharma companies executive compensation is included in what they euphamistically refer to as R&D expenditure?
The other >$30k are R&D, testing, support, etc, and of course a fat profit.
Based upon the typical behaviour of most businesses in the health services business sector, I'd say it's more likely that the per machine cost of parts&labor, (including R&D, testing and support) comes to about $1000, The remainder is a fat profit.
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The fact that a couple of guys can whip up what is essentially a free replacement, is an indictment of our health services industry but should come as no surprise to anyone who has looked at the true costs of providing such services.
... twenty years from now, when they have no fresh water supply left after polluting the shit out of it with the heavy metal wastes, we can trade fresh water for their batteries.
I say it's time to stop the bullshit. We need to concentrate on what's important. Air Quality, Water Quality, Food Quality these are the growth industries for the 21st century. I could give a fuck about a battery factory, and I don't want my tax dollars going to some CEO's private jet.
Not only that, but it's also relatively easy to audit the code for things like opening of comms devices, or files. You'd do that if you were paranoid.
BTW I just did a very basic count of all the lines of source code in the 'kernel' in.c and.h files (so that skips makefiles, and scripts, and assembly source code files, and other stuff too, but it's close enough) , the number is 8,976,789 . That gives you a good idea of the number of lines of real code (I'd say about 5 million lines)
I am a professional software developer, and I review thousands of lines of code every day (I'd estimate it's about 50K), so it wouldn't take long for me alone to work through 5 million lines of code (certainly less than a year), now imagine all the hundreds or thousands of people around the world looking through the Linux source, and you'll have to admit it's pretty well scoured.
Linux source has grown beyond comprehension and analysis for sleeping trojans
I'm not sure I agree with this. It is possible to be intimately familiar with a significant portion of the 'kernel' code (which includes the most common device drivers), there really isn't as much code as you intimate. By my reckoning there are about 25,000 source files. That may sound like a lot of code to read, but in reality, many of those files don't contain all that much real code. Much (I'd say more than half, actually) of what you see in source code files is comments, constant definitions, and structure definitions. There's plenty of functional code - of course - but not as much as you might imagine. Because the code actually doesn't change all that much, it's pretty trivial to detect if someone tries to slip some 'bad' stuff in there. Most code changes are submitted in the form of patches (IOW the change set from the previous version), and the 'senior' maintainers will always review not only the patch itself, but the impact the patch has on existing code before commiting it to the 'master' repositories. Then you have tens/hundreds of thousands of people who study it for various reasons. All in all, it's probably the most widley and thoroughly reviewed code in the world.
So it doesn't matter that...nobody can inspect that volume in a reasonable time with a reasonable accuracy, although I suspect you are incorrect anyway.
what guarantee is there that Linux - God's gift to nerds - doesn't contain sleeping trojans written by Russians or Chinese ?
I'll bite.
The guarantee comes from the fact that hundreds of people review the kernel sources every day, and the fact that only trusted code is committed to the official (Linus/Andrew Morton, et al) repository(s)
You're free to run anyone's distribution as you wish, so of course you might mistakenly download one with 'sleeping trojans', but I doubt the Navy would.
You would do well to be more concerned about using software from a company who refuses to allow you to review their source code. I'll leave it to you to figure out who that might be.
Anyone who actually works every second of the day and can only be productive with the computer booted can just suspend instead.
Anyone who actually works every second of the day and can only be productive with the computer must not be a manager.
I've never understood why GM and Ford find it acceptable to sell such substandard vehicles to Americans when in Europe the quality and economy of the same manufacturers is significantly higher.
As an expat American living in Europe, I used to bristle at the snide remarks about the stupidity of Americans, now, I must admit, I feel little sympathy for the vast majority of my fellow countrymen. They really are a collective bunch of ignoramouses when compared to the equivalent group of Europeans.
Europeans enjoy more freedom (as in personal libery) than Americans do now (thanks largely to idiotic and blindly obediant acceptance of the Patriot Act). Their economy is more stable, health care is superior, international nous is glaringly superior, even their food is better (how the fuck did that happen?).
I'm not saying Europe is not without its problems, and I'm well aware that the US essentially proped up Western Europe for a half a century while they reorganised their pathetic infrastructure (and everything else). But, now it's time for America to wake the hell up ! We have squandered our inheritence on idiocy like Moronic Celebrities (her mother is so stupid she couldn't even spell her daughters name correctly), Fugly McMansions, and Crappy SUVs , and now it's time to get back to work.
For hardware programming, use C.
For speedy software, use C.
For math, try C.
For portable network applications, use C.
For web applications, use C.
For text parsing, use C.
For games, use C.
For manipulating files and piping program execution, use C.
For AI, try C.
For database queries, learn C.
For solving the 8-queens problem, use C.
For enhancing your OO mindset, C.
"Senior U.N. officials said they hope that Volcker's fourth and most complete report will bring an end to a painful 18-month probe of the $64 billion program, which investigators concluded was so poorly managed that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein raked in $1.7 billion in kickbacks from participating companies and $11 billion in oil-smuggling profits. "
The Oil for Food program was possibly the single most corrupt administrative activity that the U.N. ever enagged in. Aside from NOT accomplishing AT ALL what it was designed to do, it poured money into the hands of the one man who it was intended to circumvent. It also showed just how corrupt senior U.N. administrators were, including the Scty. Gnl.
It is a classic example of why the U.N. should be shut down.
Even if you don't agree with these sentiments, you can hardly call my post flamebait. Wanker !
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I have trouble believing there's any significant malware that is generally known to the AV industry
You must be joking, they know about all the viruses, they write them.
...morons with open wifi connections,...
I keep my WiFi open on purpose. In fact the purpose is just this sort of case. Let anyone try to prove it was me who did whatever 'crime' was alleged. Until there is a law outlawing my open connection, I'll keep it open.
... heaven forbid ! We can't have what goes on in court broadcast to the masses, they might realize how fragile the whole system is. How the courts are not there to establish truth, but to ascertain guilt (not innocence if you recall, we're all innocent until proven guilty) - two very different concepts. If people realized that their rights were trampled upon routinely by corporations, they would rebel, and the capitalist system - as it currently exists in the U.S. - would be in jeopardy. The power structure would collapse, and there would be chaos. It wouldn't be pretty for anyone, and we'd all end up living under Sharia law before you know it.
You have been warned.
... the 'box' and the service are two separate contracts. Many people choose to purchase their own box, but most (like me) will simply take advantage of an offer from the provider which includes the box for 'free'. I know nobody who is explicitly renting their box. Of course it could be argued we all are without our knowledge, but then, that's how a smart business would operate - e.g. hide whatever costs were incurred from the box within the 'service' contract. It's so simple I'm amazed the stupid companies continuously expose themselves to such issues.
... BULLSHIT !
You can tell from the blurb the guy is doing nothing more than burning any old shit (you know dead dogs, faeces - it's the Gaza strip after all) he finds lying around. How is this a breakthrough ? What kind of fumes are produced ?
savoir faire is everywhere
Your personal feelings and/or situation don't make reality right or wrong
Oh, contrair, his/her personal feelings and/or situation is reality as he/she is experiencing it.
Agreed - Let's assume that each level of management entitles a person to 1.5 times the previous wage.
...
I've tried to work this out using somewhat reasonable titles for the appropriate 'sphere' of influence
I can't believe many organizations have this many layers of management, but if they do
worker =~ 50K (I'll be generous)
team leader =~ 75K
supervisor =~ 110K
department head =~ 165K
division head =~ 250K
group head =~ 375K
region head =~ 550K
global vice-head =~835K
global head =~ 1.25M
CEO =~ 1.8M
x1.5 = 2.8M
x1.5 = 4.2M
x1.5 = 6.3M
x1.5 = 9.5M
x1.5 = 14M
x1.5 = 21M
So, it takes 15 layers of management in order to get from a preposterously high 'worker' wage (by that I mean, I doubt this is anywhere near the average wage of the average non-manager worker) in these huge corporations. I also doubt the salary bands are as large as a 1.5 multiple. Even if they were 15 layers of management is obsurd. NATO military officer ranks don't contain that many grades, and the military is far from an example of a lean organization.
The U.S. Military pay grade system does indeed contain more levels (if you include Warrant Officers and Enlisted ratings, there's 24 grades), but still comes nowhere near the executive level pay. In fact it would take more than 10 (ten) further military pay grades to come anywhere near the 20+ Million per year that these guys are receiving. Can you imagine having almost 40 layers of management between a worker and the CEO !!!
Of course not, no company could survive with that kind of idiocy, but the CEO's of these companies would like us to believe that they are worth compensation at that level. It's simply theft. And the truth is, it's theft from the shareholder. You know, the people that actually OWN the company ! You'd think they'd be more concerned about it, but they're not.
The ten highest paid Pharmeitcal company CEOs together earned $200,000,000 in 2008 (yes, that's two hundred million split amongst ten people in one year). The top twenty earners make that number over 300M. That means every person in the USA who bought any form of medication gave one dollar of that to one of twenty people. That's why we don't have cheap drugs in the USA, NOT becuase of pure research and development costs, but becuase of fat-cat greed.
How much of the pharma companies executive compensation is included in what they euphamistically refer to as R&D expenditure?
The other >$30k are R&D, testing, support, etc, and of course a fat profit.
Based upon the typical behaviour of most businesses in the health services business sector, I'd say it's more likely that the per machine cost of parts&labor, (including R&D, testing and support) comes to about $1000, The remainder is a fat profit.
. The fact that a couple of guys can whip up what is essentially a free replacement, is an indictment of our health services industry but should come as no surprise to anyone who has looked at the true costs of providing such services.
... to pump this water would of course be 100% free
... twenty years from now, when they have no fresh water supply left after polluting the shit out of it with the heavy metal wastes, we can trade fresh water for their batteries.
I say it's time to stop the bullshit. We need to concentrate on what's important. Air Quality, Water Quality, Food Quality these are the growth industries for the 21st century. I could give a fuck about a battery factory, and I don't want my tax dollars going to some CEO's private jet.
Not only that, but it's also relatively easy to audit the code for things like opening of comms devices, or files. You'd do that if you were paranoid.
.c and .h files (so that skips makefiles, and scripts, and assembly source code files, and other stuff too, but it's close enough) , the number is 8,976,789 . That gives you a good idea of the number of lines of real code (I'd say about 5 million lines)
BTW I just did a very basic count of all the lines of source code in the 'kernel' in
I am a professional software developer, and I review thousands of lines of code every day (I'd estimate it's about 50K), so it wouldn't take long for me alone to work through 5 million lines of code (certainly less than a year), now imagine all the hundreds or thousands of people around the world looking through the Linux source, and you'll have to admit it's pretty well scoured.
Linux source has grown beyond comprehension and analysis for sleeping trojans
...nobody can inspect that volume in a reasonable time with a reasonable accuracy, although I suspect you are incorrect anyway.
I'm not sure I agree with this. It is possible to be intimately familiar with a significant portion of the 'kernel' code (which includes the most common device drivers), there really isn't as much code as you intimate. By my reckoning there are about 25,000 source files. That may sound like a lot of code to read, but in reality, many of those files don't contain all that much real code. Much (I'd say more than half, actually) of what you see in source code files is comments, constant definitions, and structure definitions. There's plenty of functional code - of course - but not as much as you might imagine. Because the code actually doesn't change all that much, it's pretty trivial to detect if someone tries to slip some 'bad' stuff in there. Most code changes are submitted in the form of patches (IOW the change set from the previous version), and the 'senior' maintainers will always review not only the patch itself, but the impact the patch has on existing code before commiting it to the 'master' repositories. Then you have tens/hundreds of thousands of people who study it for various reasons. All in all, it's probably the most widley and thoroughly reviewed code in the world.
So it doesn't matter that
what guarantee is there that Linux - God's gift to nerds - doesn't contain sleeping trojans written by Russians or Chinese ?
I'll bite.
The guarantee comes from the fact that hundreds of people review the kernel sources every day, and the fact that only trusted code is committed to the official (Linus/Andrew Morton, et al) repository(s)
You're free to run anyone's distribution as you wish, so of course you might mistakenly download one with 'sleeping trojans', but I doubt the Navy would.
You would do well to be more concerned about using software from a company who refuses to allow you to review their source code. I'll leave it to you to figure out who that might be.
Don't play bad games, just play the good games.
The U.S. is a Repulic, it doesn't claim to be a pure Democracy. Don't forget it pleb !
USB 6.0: Ramming Speed ?
Anyone who actually works every second of the day and can only be productive with the computer booted can just suspend instead. Anyone who actually works every second of the day and can only be productive with the computer must not be a manager.
Good points, well made!
I've never understood why GM and Ford find it acceptable to sell such substandard vehicles to Americans when in Europe the quality and economy of the same manufacturers is significantly higher.
As an expat American living in Europe, I used to bristle at the snide remarks about the stupidity of Americans, now, I must admit, I feel little sympathy for the vast majority of my fellow countrymen. They really are a collective bunch of ignoramouses when compared to the equivalent group of Europeans.
Europeans enjoy more freedom (as in personal libery) than Americans do now (thanks largely to idiotic and blindly obediant acceptance of the Patriot Act). Their economy is more stable, health care is superior, international nous is glaringly superior, even their food is better (how the fuck did that happen?).
I'm not saying Europe is not without its problems, and I'm well aware that the US essentially proped up Western Europe for a half a century while they reorganised their pathetic infrastructure (and everything else). But, now it's time for America to wake the hell up ! We have squandered our inheritence on idiocy like Moronic Celebrities (her mother is so stupid she couldn't even spell her daughters name correctly), Fugly McMansions, and Crappy SUVs , and now it's time to get back to work.
But if you feel strongly about this, the only e-mail I could find on the web-site was
Ombudsman@austinisd.org
If you feel compelled to respond, please be polite. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
[INSERT LANGUAGE HERE] is old and creaky. You have to work around its defects to properly abstract programming constructs.
There, fixed that for you.
For hardware programming, use C.
For speedy software, use C.
For math, try C.
For portable network applications, use C.
For web applications, use C.
For text parsing, use C.
For games, use C.
For manipulating files and piping program execution, use C.
For AI, try C.
For database queries, learn C.
For solving the 8-queens problem, use C.
For enhancing your OO mindset, C.
Fixed that for you.
"Senior U.N. officials said they hope that Volcker's fourth and most complete report will bring an end to a painful 18-month probe of the $64 billion program, which investigators concluded was so poorly managed that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein raked in $1.7 billion in kickbacks from participating companies and $11 billion in oil-smuggling profits. "
The Oil for Food program was possibly the single most corrupt administrative activity that the U.N. ever enagged in. Aside from NOT accomplishing AT ALL what it was designed to do, it poured money into the hands of the one man who it was intended to circumvent. It also showed just how corrupt senior U.N. administrators were, including the Scty. Gnl.
It is a classic example of why the U.N. should be shut down.
Even if you don't agree with these sentiments, you can hardly call my post flamebait. Wanker !
who's the tosser who flagged this as flaimbait ?