That kind of maneuver will take care of the federal plaintiff but since there are lots of state AGs who are participants in the case, it's unlikely that things will go away so quietly.
Since the northwest is in an awful drought, there is less power from California's traditional suppliers of hydroelectric power. Less supply means higher rates. The lower consumption brought about by conservation has apparently been swamped by that effect.
If you weren't so myopic, you might notice that we also have a problem with expensive gasoline. It's over $2 in the midwest (and California, I believe). ANWAR drilling will help that problem along quite nicely. If they happen to strike natural gas, perhaps the planned NG pipelines across Alaska to the lower 48 would also help the electricity market (since people do generate electricity with NG).
Take a look at http://www.plugpower.com and you'll see the future of a great deal of home electricity generation. Natural gas is a big portion of that future.
You might just want to see what happened to Gray Davis when he tried to do what you advocated. They popped 40% of their surplus in just a few months of electricity buying subsidy. I wouldn't want to repeat that on a national scale. Do we really want to rape the taxpayers into subsidizing bad infrastructure planning while preserving the incentive for bad infrastructure?
Face it, nobody's going to build plants if you cap rates or have expensive and long environmental procedures, or keep threatening to find 'price gougers' to put in jail.
You may want to look up arbitrage, the reliable money making tactic of buying and selling simultaneously in different markets in order to take advantage of price differences (this has the effect of making price differences disappear over time). Buy diamonds at $100 in Zimbabwe and simultaneously sell them for $1000 in New York (the Internet is great for this kind of stuff), pocketing the $900 difference. Since you are increasing Zimbabwean demand and increasing New York supply, New York prices drop and Zimbabbwe prices rise.
This is economics 101 and a major reason why CmdrTaco has his head up screwed on wrong on this article. Industry isn't some nice-nice group of do gooders but they, more often than not, tend to do the right thing because that generates the maximum value for their owners and the better educated people get about how the world works, the more pronounced this trend becomes.
Governments, on the other hand, are just as likely to screw up as private individuals with the added penalty that they have people with guns that generally don't let you go around the screw ups.
No thanks, I'll take the private sector. It's easier to fix.
I do believe in jury nullification and I have decided that I would never lie about that. I always figured that this was a great ticket out of jury duty.
The funny thing is, I was selected for jury duty and served in a malpractice case (I was elected foreman as well). We let the poor guy off because he was actually pretty blameless (one bit of bad record keeping over a phone call was his only sin and based on other facts, it was clear he did make the phone call). There was no nullification needed at all for justice to be served.
Now those of you who are educated on jury nullification might just ask how I got on that jury. It was very simple, the judge was asking twelve of us the same question at the same time and while everybody was nodding their heads yes and saying yes to the "would you vote to convict if you disapproved of the law" question, I was saying and shaking no, the judge just didn't notice. ROFL!
Actually, her real 'crime' was mouthing off to the cop. Cops in that jurisdiction have a great deal of leeway in traffic stops to the point of being able to haul somebody off to jail for violations. She wasn't nice to the cop so away she went. A neighbor was nearby and took the kids otherwise the kids would have gone off to the social workers.
There's a real important lesson here, boys and girls. Pay attention when they are passing laws. If you don't you're going to wake up in a society with no rights, no liberties, and no justice.
On the bright side, people have started talking about a bandwidth glut that's going to kill telecom competition. This sort of thing could be a real economy booster!
Think of the Cheese worm as neighborhood activists invading the local crack house, boarding it up, and standing guard in the neighborhood to keep out other crack dealers.
It's a pure 2nd amendment application of a private militia action translated to cyberspace. Now, obviously, the government can pass rules to regulate this sort of action but the US constitution does give the Cheese worm writer some legal ground to stand on. I can just imagine the NRA getting in the act...
If you actually have a honeypot, wouldn't you be keeping an eye on it? Wouldn't you already have a quick and easy way to reset it? In this case Cheese is no different than any other intrusion, easily monitored and fixed for a true honeypot.
As for your 'I've put other devices in place to avoid exposure', what a load of crock. If you've avoided exposure, Cheese shouldn't spot it or your amelioration devices should catch cheese as well. It's a crock.
The box is yours, and cheese is by no means the best way to solve problems but for those who can't be bothered to secure their box right, Cheese is the best way to fix these typhoid marys.
When you ask Gracenote to remove your data, don't forget to cc freedb.org and Roxio's legal department. It's likely to make an interesting submission at trial.
Make sure you have the dev tools installed and just start hacking away.
Control-click on any app and you see inside the guts of the 'package'. You can change look and feel, add language support, and change more things post-compile than you could in most linux binaries.
I have never heard of anybody unchecking the BSD subsystem in a Mac OS X install. I mean, yeah, you can do it but why? You can lobotomize a linux install to provide even less functionality than a BSDless Mac OS X install but nobody does that either.
Just some more anti-mac FUD. For most anybody who installs Mac OS X, they are all going to just stick the CD in, hit the OK and agree buttons and get a pretty reasonable UNIX system.
iMacs are going for between $500-$600 on ebay and there are plenty of them out there. Any iMac is going to run OS X just fine. Just load up on ram though, 128 Mb is just not enough to do all the graphics tricks that OS X does without severe paging problems.
As for whether OS X is Unix, if such a label were to enable more sales then I'm sure that Apple would fork over the cash to get the official naming rights. Otherwise, I don't think that Apple is likely to ever do it.
I had the same trouble with Northpoint. I've had better results with both Covad and Rhythms.
But here's what I don't get. In the next few years, IPv6 is going to be standardized and we're probably going to see 802.11b style wireless performance at 100Mb. What's to stop some enterprising people from creating secure wireless networks? IPv6 QoS features are going to let you throttle traffic down to WAN speeds and allow everybody enough bandwidth to do their surfing and you won't have to have right of ways negotiated or licenses to transmit approved. So you have to put up hardpoints every 10 houses, so what? It's much cheaper than tearing up roads and as long as you start your cloud near a long distance carrier POP, you don't even need to touch the local bell.
Several times over the last few months, I've been bitten by bad router configs that lead to loops inside my provider's network (Telocity). I'm looking for a new provider. I'm glad you have a better provider
Redundancy measurement would be a great dotcom business idea... wait, we're past that, aren't we?
Actually, I do give away some of my money. What I don't like is being forced to do so and I don't particularly want the violence of the state to be harnessed to force others to give their money away.
Nobody really argues against people giving their own money away. The question is whether we ought to be forced to do so at the point of a gun. What a shabby method of charity, forcing it by government action.
Since privacy has been eroded under both Tory and Labour governments, it's a bit pointless to choose between them on privacy grounds. Or are you one of the few, the clueless, the Liberal Democrats?
Ummm... I create custom software for companies, you know, workflow apps, maybe a web application. No privacy infringement necessary for me to make my mortgage payment. In fact, one of the reasons I no longer work for the last company I was employed at was that one of the VPs was a bit too eager to have me break into other employees mailboxes. The stupid idiots hadn't even cleared the low hurdle that US law provides so I wouldn't do it except for one case where they suspected theft from a branch that was losing money hand over fist.
As for France, why do you think that I would like my government idiocy in even bigger doses?
It's simple, they don't get the chance to do this.
Hello, I own a small technology firm creating custom software solutions. I am hereby announcing that I will not open a UK office (though I am currently in two countries) and have decided, based exclusively on your horribly degrading privacy policies, to not do business with the UK currently or in future.
The people actually *in* the UK can't boycott the UK.
You basically answered your own question. If you have a low to medium volume server (let's say a military unit alumni association) that really needs to be secure (maybe you got tired of being 0wn3d), then Mac's the place to be.
The % of PPC code v. emulated may have been right at one time but I don't think this is true anymore.
$899 gets you an entry level iMac with an easy to use OS that lets you have the power of Unix if you want it. I think that XP is really playing into Apple's strength. Apple is playing themselves as a content creation machine and a digital home hub while MS is busy kneecapping its own content creation abilities with this 56k bandwidth MP3 creation limit to Windows Media Player.
It smacks of the Kerberos fiasco except now they're messing with the mass market, not just large company IT administrators.
No, I don't think that a few hundred in hardware costs is going to be viewed as expensive compared to the heartburn avoidance.
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That kind of maneuver will take care of the federal plaintiff but since there are lots of state AGs who are participants in the case, it's unlikely that things will go away so quietly.
DB
Since the northwest is in an awful drought, there is less power from California's traditional suppliers of hydroelectric power. Less supply means higher rates. The lower consumption brought about by conservation has apparently been swamped by that effect.
If you weren't so myopic, you might notice that we also have a problem with expensive gasoline. It's over $2 in the midwest (and California, I believe). ANWAR drilling will help that problem along quite nicely. If they happen to strike natural gas, perhaps the planned NG pipelines across Alaska to the lower 48 would also help the electricity market (since people do generate electricity with NG).
Take a look at http://www.plugpower.com and you'll see the future of a great deal of home electricity generation. Natural gas is a big portion of that future.
DB
You might just want to see what happened to Gray Davis when he tried to do what you advocated. They popped 40% of their surplus in just a few months of electricity buying subsidy. I wouldn't want to repeat that on a national scale. Do we really want to rape the taxpayers into subsidizing bad infrastructure planning while preserving the incentive for bad infrastructure?
Face it, nobody's going to build plants if you cap rates or have expensive and long environmental procedures, or keep threatening to find 'price gougers' to put in jail.
DB
You may want to look up arbitrage, the reliable money making tactic of buying and selling simultaneously in different markets in order to take advantage of price differences (this has the effect of making price differences disappear over time). Buy diamonds at $100 in Zimbabwe and simultaneously sell them for $1000 in New York (the Internet is great for this kind of stuff), pocketing the $900 difference. Since you are increasing Zimbabwean demand and increasing New York supply, New York prices drop and Zimbabbwe prices rise.
This is economics 101 and a major reason why CmdrTaco has his head up screwed on wrong on this article. Industry isn't some nice-nice group of do gooders but they, more often than not, tend to do the right thing because that generates the maximum value for their owners and the better educated people get about how the world works, the more pronounced this trend becomes.
Governments, on the other hand, are just as likely to screw up as private individuals with the added penalty that they have people with guns that generally don't let you go around the screw ups.
No thanks, I'll take the private sector. It's easier to fix.
DB
I do believe in jury nullification and I have decided that I would never lie about that. I always figured that this was a great ticket out of jury duty.
The funny thing is, I was selected for jury duty and served in a malpractice case (I was elected foreman as well). We let the poor guy off because he was actually pretty blameless (one bit of bad record keeping over a phone call was his only sin and based on other facts, it was clear he did make the phone call). There was no nullification needed at all for justice to be served.
Now those of you who are educated on jury nullification might just ask how I got on that jury. It was very simple, the judge was asking twelve of us the same question at the same time and while everybody was nodding their heads yes and saying yes to the "would you vote to convict if you disapproved of the law" question, I was saying and shaking no, the judge just didn't notice. ROFL!
DB
Actually, her real 'crime' was mouthing off to the cop. Cops in that jurisdiction have a great deal of leeway in traffic stops to the point of being able to haul somebody off to jail for violations. She wasn't nice to the cop so away she went. A neighbor was nearby and took the kids otherwise the kids would have gone off to the social workers.
There's a real important lesson here, boys and girls. Pay attention when they are passing laws. If you don't you're going to wake up in a society with no rights, no liberties, and no justice.
Scary
DB
On the bright side, people have started talking about a bandwidth glut that's going to kill telecom competition. This sort of thing could be a real economy booster!
B-)
DB
Think of the Cheese worm as neighborhood activists invading the local crack house, boarding it up, and standing guard in the neighborhood to keep out other crack dealers.
It's a pure 2nd amendment application of a private militia action translated to cyberspace. Now, obviously, the government can pass rules to regulate this sort of action but the US constitution does give the Cheese worm writer some legal ground to stand on. I can just imagine the NRA getting in the act...
DB
This will only work until somebody figures out how to modify the proposed /etc/noantibodies to exempt their own virus from being patched.
DB
If you actually have a honeypot, wouldn't you be keeping an eye on it? Wouldn't you already have a quick and easy way to reset it? In this case Cheese is no different than any other intrusion, easily monitored and fixed for a true honeypot.
As for your 'I've put other devices in place to avoid exposure', what a load of crock. If you've avoided exposure, Cheese shouldn't spot it or your amelioration devices should catch cheese as well. It's a crock.
The box is yours, and cheese is by no means the best way to solve problems but for those who can't be bothered to secure their box right, Cheese is the best way to fix these typhoid marys.
DB
You mean that they've started giving away their support incidents? I don't think so...
DB
When you ask Gracenote to remove your data, don't forget to cc freedb.org and Roxio's legal department. It's likely to make an interesting submission at trial.
Make sure you have the dev tools installed and just start hacking away.
Control-click on any app and you see inside the guts of the 'package'. You can change look and feel, add language support, and change more things post-compile than you could in most linux binaries.
DB
I have never heard of anybody unchecking the BSD subsystem in a Mac OS X install. I mean, yeah, you can do it but why? You can lobotomize a linux install to provide even less functionality than a BSDless Mac OS X install but nobody does that either.
Just some more anti-mac FUD. For most anybody who installs Mac OS X, they are all going to just stick the CD in, hit the OK and agree buttons and get a pretty reasonable UNIX system.
db
iMacs are going for between $500-$600 on ebay and there are plenty of them out there. Any iMac is going to run OS X just fine. Just load up on ram though, 128 Mb is just not enough to do all the graphics tricks that OS X does without severe paging problems.
As for whether OS X is Unix, if such a label were to enable more sales then I'm sure that Apple would fork over the cash to get the official naming rights. Otherwise, I don't think that Apple is likely to ever do it.
db
People for Eating Tasty Animals (PETA)
yup, they do actually exist.
I had the same trouble with Northpoint. I've had better results with both Covad and Rhythms.
But here's what I don't get. In the next few years, IPv6 is going to be standardized and we're probably going to see 802.11b style wireless performance at 100Mb. What's to stop some enterprising people from creating secure wireless networks? IPv6 QoS features are going to let you throttle traffic down to WAN speeds and allow everybody enough bandwidth to do their surfing and you won't have to have right of ways negotiated or licenses to transmit approved. So you have to put up hardpoints every 10 houses, so what? It's much cheaper than tearing up roads and as long as you start your cloud near a long distance carrier POP, you don't even need to touch the local bell.
DB
Several times over the last few months, I've been bitten by bad router configs that lead to loops inside my provider's network (Telocity). I'm looking for a new provider. I'm glad you have a better provider
Redundancy measurement would be a great dotcom business idea... wait, we're past that, aren't we?
DB
Actually, I do give away some of my money. What I don't like is being forced to do so and I don't particularly want the violence of the state to be harnessed to force others to give their money away.
Nobody really argues against people giving their own money away. The question is whether we ought to be forced to do so at the point of a gun. What a shabby method of charity, forcing it by government action.
As for Kyoto, it's a sham and a shame.
A team of meteorologists in the UK made the discovery. An article about it is here
Since privacy has been eroded under both Tory and Labour governments, it's a bit pointless to choose between them on privacy grounds. Or are you one of the few, the clueless, the Liberal Democrats?
DB
Ummm... I create custom software for companies, you know, workflow apps, maybe a web application. No privacy infringement necessary for me to make my mortgage payment. In fact, one of the reasons I no longer work for the last company I was employed at was that one of the VPs was a bit too eager to have me break into other employees mailboxes. The stupid idiots hadn't even cleared the low hurdle that US law provides so I wouldn't do it except for one case where they suspected theft from a branch that was losing money hand over fist.
As for France, why do you think that I would like my government idiocy in even bigger doses?
DB
It's simple, they don't get the chance to do this.
Hello, I own a small technology firm creating custom software solutions. I am hereby announcing that I will not open a UK office (though I am currently in two countries) and have decided, based exclusively on your horribly degrading privacy policies, to not do business with the UK currently or in future.
The people actually *in* the UK can't boycott the UK.
DB
PS, I mean it about not doing business there.
You basically answered your own question. If you have a low to medium volume server (let's say a military unit alumni association) that really needs to be secure (maybe you got tired of being 0wn3d), then Mac's the place to be.
The % of PPC code v. emulated may have been right at one time but I don't think this is true anymore.
$899 gets you an entry level iMac with an easy to use OS that lets you have the power of Unix if you want it. I think that XP is really playing into Apple's strength. Apple is playing themselves as a content creation machine and a digital home hub while MS is busy kneecapping its own content creation abilities with this 56k bandwidth MP3 creation limit to Windows Media Player.
It smacks of the Kerberos fiasco except now they're messing with the mass market, not just large company IT administrators.
No, I don't think that a few hundred in hardware costs is going to be viewed as expensive compared to the heartburn avoidance.
DB