The BBC's article points out that a monitored system is better than no system, and that the Islamic Republic would certainly not have allowed mobile phones & internet to exist without such a system.
Listen:
Most large mobile phone networks (and internet networks) in western countries have a feature known as lawful intercept designed to allow law enforcement officials to monitor subscriber conversations. No vendor in their right mind would design gear without this feature as many nations' laws mandate its presence in public telecom networks.
In western nations, it's use requires a search warrant by law. Obviously, the hardware has no clue whether the operator has a warrant or not.
The only difference is that Khamenei doesn't give two shits about the warrant. But then, George Bush ordered the use of this exact same feature on AT&T and PacBell's networks without warrants as well, so what's the difference?
"If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion."
sounds like speaking in support of the protesters to me...
The most powerful plane in Iran's air force is the F-14, which was in service in the Iranian air force before the USAF or the Navy. At the time, Iran likely had more US military hardware than Israel.
Well, it ain't all Nixon's fault. In general, we screwed with their government waaay too much in the 50s 60s and 70s, without really understanding the long-term effects of what we were doing. In a lot of ways, the more we meddled, the more influence we lost, and the more the average Iranian came to hate the US.
For a very brief period between the Shah and the Islamic Revolution, there was a full parliamentary democracy in place (feb-apr 79). It had strong US support so no one trusted it, and Khomeini was voted in as the lesser of two evils as a result.
We are much better off letting Iran be what Iranians want it to be and dealing with whatever the results of that are, rather than trying to actively influence events there.
You'd save money on fuel, but contrary to popular belief, fuel (even though there's quite a bit of it) is just ~1% of the total cost of flying a rocket. So you've basically ended up taking a chunk out of that tiny 1%, while in turn significantly increasing engine and production costs, which are a far larger chunk of the total cost.
You got some stats on that? All the different fuels in the Shuttle ain't cheap...
Set up this preconfigured proxy VM and let Austin Heap know about it. Read his best practices guide to make it as effective as possible. The Iranian government has very nice Nokia Siemens inspection filters on all the terrestrial traffic leaving the country and is jamming many sat freqs. Randomized ports to random proxy hosts and SSH tunnels are about the only way to get through; they've of course blocked all the usual proxy ports.
Not embarrassing, just not as fast. However, a Ferrari is vastly more powerful for the money, but a Corvette is still the much better deal -- do I really need to explain this on here?
Yep, and the "better deal' includes the door chime from a Chevy Cobalt when you leave your key in the ignition with the door open.
computer users, but when the network is down all bets are off.
Not if the bios-based OS can read all the porn-und-warez^Wcontent on his hard drive.
"BIOS-based" is a fairly narrow term; I've got an MSI Wind PC with an internal CF slot with a 32gb card in it. MLC flash memory is cheap enough now to be able to integrate a couple gigs of memory into the basic platform without affecting the cost too much. That gives you full-blown firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, wine, skype, chat clients, any pretty much any other app you could want.
Keep the apps on a read-only image on the flash that can't be messed up, store the content on the hard drive so that it can be accessed by the "default" open-source boot OS as well "guest" operating systems installed on the disk when someone wants full-blown windows or linux or whatever.
I think "knowing anything at all about what you're doing" stopped being a requirement for executive positions around the time of Worldcom's collapse... at least if you go by public statements by major corporate executives since then.
As CTO of the country, would you rather have:
- a geek, or
- somebody really good listening to at managing geeks?
Chopra is squarely in the second category.
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The PC has perhaps the worst architure and implementation of any major platform, and it's about time they did something to fix that.
That's what EFI is, but only Apple has implemented it at scale because they're not scared to death of not being able to install a retail copy of windows on their hardware due to Redmond not playing nice (and they fixed that with Boot Camp quickly enough anyway).
How about just make a nice high-speed electric train that people will want to use that costs far far less than $US27B and buy the electricity at market rate, which will certainly be cheaper than coating the whole length of track with solar panels? It's still much "greener" in the public eye than the current Amtrak fleet of diesel locomotives, even without the photovoltaics.
If you're really dead-set on the whole closed-loop thing, create a sister company in parallel to generate power by whatever means is most cost-effective, which will conventiently be completed about the same time as said train project.
Then, when the excess draw of your train drives up the cost of electricity in the area, your power plant comes online and gets a profitability boost until the market corrects for the new supply of electricity.
Because without that power plant, the train proposed in TFA will cause brownouts when the solar panels can't handle the load, which will be fairly often. Frankly, given the efficiency & cost of current photovoltaics and the heat/solar coverage of Arizona, you're probably better off just using thermal solar collection to generate steam & run the damn train off that instead. If you just need to convert solar energy to mechanical energy there are a lot more efficient & cheaper ways to do it than by generating electricity with photovoltaics and running an electric motor with the juice.
Hell, maybe just install a set of pedals at every seat and offer a discount to people that take the "pedal train" instead of going to the gym.
Sounds to me like you've seen a bridge loop. Learn the spanning-tree config of your switches & the topology of your network.
Make sure you're running spanning-tree on all inter-switch links, migrate all switches to rapid spanning-tree if you can, manually configure a primary & secondary root bridge in the center of the network, remove any switch from the network that doesn't run spanning-tree, shut down all unused ports so nobody plugs anything in without you knowing about it, set up port security so that ports with anything other than other switches on them can only send the number of MAC addresses necessary.
Only by excessive weight reduction and throwing away big chunks of the launch vehicle does space travel work at all. Space travel on chemical fuels will never work much better than it does now. It's an inherent limitation of chemical fuels. After fifty years of trying, it's still only possible to just barely get stuff into orbit, using huge rockets to lift dinky payloads. The vehicles are so weight-reduced that they're too fragile to reuse without a major overhaul after each flight. We'll never get to something with the robustness of a commercial airliner, or even a jet fighter.
And SpaceShipOne and WhiteKnight are what exactly?
With the same level of assurance that the solution will operate, first time - every time?
With the same level of confidence that Some Vendor will bend over backwards to fix it if it doesn't work?
Over on Dell's website, I just configured a 2u Powervault NF500 with dual quad xeons, 2TB worth of 15k rpm SAS drives and their excellent LSI-based PERC controllers, 10GigE, and every other expensive option I could find (including 24x7x4 support) and it came out to about $8500 (including the M$ tax).
So, despite your claims, Sun is once again overpriced to the tune of about 30%.
The Atom in the Aspire One is hyperthreaded, not dual-core. Intel is specifically prohibiting netbook vendors from using the dual-core atom so that they "won't eat into sales of higher-end machines".
Or we could just admit that we just don't need a teraflop to run office apps & surf the web...
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The BBC article is very good:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8112550.stm
The BBC's article points out that a monitored system is better than no system, and that the Islamic Republic would certainly not have allowed mobile phones & internet to exist without such a system.
Listen:
Most large mobile phone networks (and internet networks) in western countries have a feature known as lawful intercept designed to allow law enforcement officials to monitor subscriber conversations. No vendor in their right mind would design gear without this feature as many nations' laws mandate its presence in public telecom networks.
In western nations, it's use requires a search warrant by law. Obviously, the hardware has no clue whether the operator has a warrant or not.
The only difference is that Khamenei doesn't give two shits about the warrant. But then, George Bush ordered the use of this exact same feature on AT&T and PacBell's networks without warrants as well, so what's the difference?
...it's crucial to keep track of what is real and what is FUD... President Obama (who has yet to speak in support of the protesters)...
way to spread some FUD there, chief
"If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion."
sounds like speaking in support of the protesters to me...
Two words: Richard Nixon.
The most powerful plane in Iran's air force is the F-14, which was in service in the Iranian air force before the USAF or the Navy. At the time, Iran likely had more US military hardware than Israel.
Well, it ain't all Nixon's fault. In general, we screwed with their government waaay too much in the 50s 60s and 70s, without really understanding the long-term effects of what we were doing. In a lot of ways, the more we meddled, the more influence we lost, and the more the average Iranian came to hate the US.
For a very brief period between the Shah and the Islamic Revolution, there was a full parliamentary democracy in place (feb-apr 79). It had strong US support so no one trusted it, and Khomeini was voted in as the lesser of two evils as a result.
We are much better off letting Iran be what Iranians want it to be and dealing with whatever the results of that are, rather than trying to actively influence events there.
(wiki on the Revolution if you want the whole story)
You'd save money on fuel, but contrary to popular belief, fuel (even though there's quite a bit of it) is just ~1% of the total cost of flying a rocket. So you've basically ended up taking a chunk out of that tiny 1%, while in turn significantly increasing engine and production costs, which are a far larger chunk of the total cost.
You got some stats on that? All the different fuels in the Shuttle ain't cheap...
Set up this preconfigured proxy VM and let Austin Heap know about it. Read his best practices guide to make it as effective as possible. The Iranian government has very nice Nokia Siemens inspection filters on all the terrestrial traffic leaving the country and is jamming many sat freqs. Randomized ports to random proxy hosts and SSH tunnels are about the only way to get through; they've of course blocked all the usual proxy ports.
Another mirror for you here: http://punk.funk.nu/proxybox/
The data it has access to only goes back to 1990: http://wolframalpha.com/input/?i=electricity+production+of+the+USA
This was the first suggested link on the "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input" page...
Not embarrassing, just not as fast. However, a Ferrari is vastly more powerful for the money, but a Corvette is still the much better deal -- do I really need to explain this on here?
Yep, and the "better deal' includes the door chime from a Chevy Cobalt when you leave your key in the ignition with the door open.
The Corvette ZR1 has more horsepower and is less expensive than any current Ferrari.
I love Ferrari... but the Corvette needs no apologies at all!
Especially when used as a donor car for something fast!
http://flyinmiata.com/V8/
Get this "real life" you speak of to run on a TCP/IP transport layer and I'm sold!
No way, man. Real Life is UDP only. Without checksums.
computer users, but when the network is down all bets are off.
Not if the bios-based OS can read all the porn-und-warez^Wcontent on his hard drive.
"BIOS-based" is a fairly narrow term; I've got an MSI Wind PC with an internal CF slot with a 32gb card in it. MLC flash memory is cheap enough now to be able to integrate a couple gigs of memory into the basic platform without affecting the cost too much. That gives you full-blown firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, wine, skype, chat clients, any pretty much any other app you could want.
Keep the apps on a read-only image on the flash that can't be messed up, store the content on the hard drive so that it can be accessed by the "default" open-source boot OS as well "guest" operating systems installed on the disk when someone wants full-blown windows or linux or whatever.
I think "knowing anything at all about what you're doing" stopped being a requirement for executive positions around the time of Worldcom's collapse... at least if you go by public statements by major corporate executives since then.
As CTO of the country, would you rather have:
- a geek, or
- somebody really good listening to at managing geeks?
Chopra is squarely in the second category.
The PC has perhaps the worst architure and implementation of any major platform, and it's about time they did something to fix that.
That's what EFI is, but only Apple has implemented it at scale because they're not scared to death of not being able to install a retail copy of windows on their hardware due to Redmond not playing nice (and they fixed that with Boot Camp quickly enough anyway).
What, you mean like this guy? You probably wouldn't even have the browser you're using right now if it weren't for that particular, uh. hacker.
And ironically, JWZ has a pretty good simple guide on backups: http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
How about just make a nice high-speed electric train that people will want to use that costs far far less than $US27B and buy the electricity at market rate, which will certainly be cheaper than coating the whole length of track with solar panels? It's still much "greener" in the public eye than the current Amtrak fleet of diesel locomotives, even without the photovoltaics.
If you're really dead-set on the whole closed-loop thing, create a sister company in parallel to generate power by whatever means is most cost-effective, which will conventiently be completed about the same time as said train project.
Then, when the excess draw of your train drives up the cost of electricity in the area, your power plant comes online and gets a profitability boost until the market corrects for the new supply of electricity.
Because without that power plant, the train proposed in TFA will cause brownouts when the solar panels can't handle the load, which will be fairly often. Frankly, given the efficiency & cost of current photovoltaics and the heat/solar coverage of Arizona, you're probably better off just using thermal solar collection to generate steam & run the damn train off that instead. If you just need to convert solar energy to mechanical energy there are a lot more efficient & cheaper ways to do it than by generating electricity with photovoltaics and running an electric motor with the juice.
Hell, maybe just install a set of pedals at every seat and offer a discount to people that take the "pedal train" instead of going to the gym.
uTorrent works well on OS X as well.
I'm I the only nerd who actually use it for mostly downloading ubuntu and feroda and for WoW patches? Who has time for movies anyway?
I'm I the only nerd who actually use it for mostly downloading ubuntu and feroda and for WoW patches? Who has time for movies anyway?
I get all my KDE snaps with it...
what's so bad about underwear?
I guess it depends on whose it is...
Sounds to me like you've seen a bridge loop. Learn the spanning-tree config of your switches & the topology of your network.
Make sure you're running spanning-tree on all inter-switch links, migrate all switches to rapid spanning-tree if you can, manually configure a primary & secondary root bridge in the center of the network, remove any switch from the network that doesn't run spanning-tree, shut down all unused ports so nobody plugs anything in without you knowing about it, set up port security so that ports with anything other than other switches on them can only send the number of MAC addresses necessary.
That should about to it :-)
scorched earth, worms, etc were all great, but this open-source 3d version is a riot, especially with some of the mods
Only by excessive weight reduction and throwing away big chunks of the launch vehicle does space travel work at all.
Space travel on chemical fuels will never work much better than it does now. It's an inherent limitation of chemical fuels. After fifty years of trying, it's still only possible to just barely get stuff into orbit, using huge rockets to lift dinky payloads.
The vehicles are so weight-reduced that they're too fragile to reuse without a major overhaul after each flight. We'll never get to something with the robustness of a commercial airliner, or even a jet fighter.
And SpaceShipOne and WhiteKnight are what exactly?
With the same level of assurance that the solution will operate, first time - every time?
With the same level of confidence that Some Vendor will bend over backwards to fix it if it doesn't work?
Over on Dell's website, I just configured a 2u Powervault NF500 with dual quad xeons, 2TB worth of 15k rpm SAS drives and their excellent LSI-based PERC controllers, 10GigE, and every other expensive option I could find (including 24x7x4 support) and it came out to about $8500 (including the M$ tax).
So, despite your claims, Sun is once again overpriced to the tune of about 30%.
I like this regex evaluator for testing things out: http://www.cuneytyilmaz.com/prog/jrx/
Really useful.
Someone here once made a regex to filter out nonauthorized BGP communities from peer announcements. It was three lines long.
Really slick asking people to post regexes on slashdot and then having all the posts get rejected due to "junk" characters"...
The Atom in the Aspire One is hyperthreaded, not dual-core. Intel is specifically prohibiting netbook vendors from using the dual-core atom so that they "won't eat into sales of higher-end machines".
Or we could just admit that we just don't need a teraflop to run office apps & surf the web...
Wasteland was pretty cool. My cousin had it on his Tandy 1000; never ran it on mine 'cause I was too busy playing Operation Overkill ][ on BBSs.
Now that was a great post-nuclear game. In a lot of ways, it gave me even more appreciation for the first two fallout games.