Paul Twomey for 8 years collected nearly a million dollars a year from ICANN and in ten years they've never made any new tlds to speak of. They do not have an elected board like they were supposed to and there is no viting membership in the legal sense, in ICANN - another guiding principle that was supposed to have been done but never was and still isn't. Let's be clear that ICANN was to create new TLDS, not to debate whether they should be created, the governments mandate was to do this as its primary function. It was also to study the trademark problem but lets not loose sight of the fact there are laws that protect trademark holders.
I met Paul Twomey at the beginning of his tenure. He's a professional politician and in my opinion his job has been to see there are no new tlds and no voting membership and a continuence of self perpetuating board.
The rest of that nicely written rant I agree with.
"Despite the $38,000 initial cost for the setup, Loyd is very optimistic after a $3,000 savings in one year, meaning that in about 12 years"
Might want to look up the lifespan of solar cells.
"Cost of Solar Panels Solar panels have an effective lifespan of about 20 to 25 years, and their value and wattage output decrease steadily over time. The solar cell that has... www.solarpanelinfo.com/solar-panels/solar-panel-cost.php "
I have them too, but to be rigorous one needs to take their lifespan into consideration.
I use opera and always have, but I downloaded the chrome beta to try this test. Doesn't work, no video, I still get the "if you see this you don't have html5".
Capacative inductance isn't exacly new. Around here some guy (no, not me, I'm crazy not stupid) that took two 50 gallon drums, wrapped them with two miles of thick copper wire and put them at the end of his property near some electric transmission wires. Then he ran wires from them to his grow op.
It took Ontario Hydro about 2 weeks to find him and bust his ass.
Point is you could probably at least charge an ipod if you live close to transmission lines.
"I don't think anyone outside of Iran knows the truth.
Hell, I doubt many people inside Iran know the truth. "
What he said. Twitter is ablaze with the revolution and attempts to sort fact from fiction. One of the accepted "facts" is that embassies are taking in the wounded.
A buddy of mine is the guy that conncted Iran to the net in the 90s. He's over there still and says this is a complete myth.
There is *so* much misinformation now it almost lends credence to the notion the CIA is doing it again.
Not only that, but, the Geneva convention banned chemical weapons in 1925. Iraq was the last to use mustard gas in 1988 against the Iranians. Look up mustard gas in wikipedia and related compounds and who has/had what and where it went. I barely slept last night after reading it.
"If I understand GP correctly, the problem he's referring to with Canada system is that you can't get private health insurance for services already provided by public one. I.e. even if you have the money, you can't go to a private clinic with a shorter or no line to wait in - they are legally forbidden from offering you such services. I agree with him that it is not a good idea."
If you have that kind of money you can go anywhere and buy what you want. The US, Germany, Switzerland.
The downside to a two tier system puts universal coverage at risk.
"I have to wonder how Flash intensive the sites loaded were. "
1) I'd have like to have seen the test pages quantified a bit more. There's a huge difference between some old static html pages, JS intensive pages like slashdot, facebook and ebay, flash videos and pdf stuff. I don't have the newset of laptops or the oldest, but the latest acrobat plugin is an unholy disaster.
2) How valid is it to compare production releases of FF, chrome and safari with a *beta* version of Opera? That really makes me question the objective validity of this test.
"The" story of the year? To whom? Tech has played a critical role in this event? Well, why hasn't the government been overthrown yet? It's certainly not due to lack of IT support. Did they have computers in the 1979 overthrow? "
Short answer: No. Nobody did.
That's not entirely accurate, but you had to have shelled out multiples of 10K checks to get a PDP 11 or similar. Waterloo had one 11/45 (sold to them by my co-worker, Ted Thorpe) that Dave Conroy wrote what is now "gcc" on because he wanted C for the RSX-11M our PDP11 ran. We automated the Canadian postal plants with them. Specifically Halifax, Victora, Toronto and Montreal, although it was first used to control a 10' square computers camera control ganty to make a commercial.
I had an "Ohio Scientific OS4U" (how in hell do I remember *this*)? for a consulting gig. It was worth about 7K and ran BASIC.
The first English/Arabic computer was made by RCTC in 83/84, they made 100 for the Saudi Royal family, in Torrance California and shipped to Saudi. But they did Arabic, not Farsi.
"I guess too many people have forgotten KENT STATE "
There are tears in my eyes as I write this; I cannot forget the look in Neda's eyes as life slipped from her 16 year old body. She wasn't protesting, she was simply standing there watching with her father when she was killed by a snipers bullet who shot her right in the heart. Sources say it was the Basij on a nearby rooftop.
But you make a good point: people have forgotten Kent state, or rather, the memory of it is not being passed to future generations. I made a point of making damn sure my kids know about it but there's lots of 19-30 yr olds who have no idea about it.
It's one thing to see that famous picture of Jeffrey Miller dead on the ground in that famous still. It's quite another to see the video of Neda dying. I'm very surprised youtube has left it up and I think it would be prudent if people kept a copy local copy of the swf file.
"I'm not convinced a bubblejet or toner laser printer onto paper will produce a product with the robustness of a good printing press, ink, and acid free paper "
You'd be wrong then. Epson's pigment based inks are archival grade, are projected not to fade for over 100 years; I have a $99 printer that uses them (never mind it's $160 for new ink).
Brian Reid did a test where he printed two indentical pages onto (forget name of fancy acid free archival grade paper) and put one through the dishwasher. After a full cycle it looked the same as the original. He tore down darkroom after seeing this.
There are more books than you can imagine. The google books poeple say even if we ramp up increadably we won't even scratch the surface and there's zero chance all books will be digitized in our lifetime, or several lifetimes - there's that many.
Having said that I still think, and always have, that Bradbury is a moron. But am glad he's supporting libraries. They are, very very important.
"I disagree only partially here. If you kick out private insurance entirely then you get some of the horror stories Canada grapples with. "
Oh please. I don't know what you've heard but it's probably on the order of the things we hear about the states, that is, if you walk any street at night you'll be mugged there.
I've in the states for a decade and the rest in Canada. There simply is no comparison. It's overpriced lunacy down there, the embarrasment of the world.
I'm sure you can find people that feel hard done by by the Canadian system. And for each of those there are a plethora of problems with the American system. It's so bad poeple makes movies about it.
Last year in the US the health sector spent $3.4 Billion lobbying, the only sector that spent more was the finance sector. That's 5X than defense lobbyists. They don't want to kill the gooose that lays the golden eggs.
"For all the hatred spewed at the direction of the USA, I've got to say there's quite an effort underway by normal citizens to help. There are people from all over the world trying to help, but I'd say a good number of them are from the USA."
fring is being used a lot in this too. the servers are in tel aviv.
"There were unconfirmed reports that Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran's interior ministry, was killed yesterday in a suspicious car accident in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked evidence that the elections were rigged to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19m votes, and should therefore be president."
(I've done stuff like this, in the 70s, in Dibol and in C).
Even if you have to parametrize rules for each employee so they're unique this really isn't a big deal. And if you parametrize it per employee and campus you may as well write it so it can be used for any american university in any state.
Make youtube videos for training. That could take a whole week to do.
Make it all intranet webforms.
One software package and any college or university can use it.
The more people you throw at this the longer it will take.
In the end it comes down to "how many hours or days did this guy work, what's his rate and what are the exceptions" and it spits out an amount to ACH to his account. I don't care how complicated the exceptions are, it's not rocket science.
It's only scary of you haven't done it before.
I'll do it for half a million in one year. I may need to hire one other person. Maybe not.
"Probably hard to find parts for whatever vintage 1975 mainframe it runs on. If you only know PC's, imagine trying to buy a brand new VESA bus SCSI card for your legacy 486 mission critical system. "
(looks in box)
I have one. Actually I have a few. You want SCSI-I or wide SCSI?
I ship internationally and take paypal. It's WJWD.
Slashdot Mirror
I address the troll issue here: http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/internet/domains/shills/
Paul Twomey for 8 years collected nearly a million dollars a year from ICANN and in ten years they've never made any new tlds to speak of. They do not have an elected board like they were supposed to and there is no viting membership in the legal sense, in ICANN - another guiding principle that was supposed to have been done but never was and still isn't. Let's be clear that ICANN was to create new TLDS, not to debate whether they should be created, the governments mandate was to do this as its primary function. It was also to study the trademark problem but lets not loose sight of the fact there are laws that protect trademark holders.
I met Paul Twomey at the beginning of his tenure. He's a professional politician and in my opinion his job has been to see there are no new tlds and no voting membership and a continuence of self perpetuating board.
The rest of that nicely written rant I agree with.
" Every study done over the last two decades shows that H. sapiens sapiens did *NOT* interbreed with Neandertals or other Hominids."
The studies done recently however suggest otherwise.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070802-neanderthals.html
" Despite the $38,000 initial cost for the setup, Loyd is very optimistic after a $3,000 savings in one year, meaning that in about 12 years"
Might want to look up the lifespan of solar cells.
"Cost of Solar Panels ...
Solar panels have an effective lifespan of about 20 to 25 years, and their value and wattage output decrease steadily over time. The solar cell that has
www.solarpanelinfo.com/solar-panels/solar-panel-cost.php "
I have them too, but to be rigorous one needs to take their lifespan into consideration.
Ever since they fired Dan Froomkin a few days ago I haven't found a reason to read the Washington Post at all.
I use opera and always have, but I downloaded the chrome beta to try this test. Doesn't work, no video, I still get the "if you see this you don't have html5".
wtf?
Capacative inductance isn't exacly new. Around here some guy (no, not me, I'm crazy not stupid) that took two 50 gallon drums, wrapped them with two miles of thick copper wire and put them at the end of his property near some electric transmission wires. Then he ran wires from them to his grow op.
It took Ontario Hydro about 2 weeks to find him and bust his ass.
Point is you could probably at least charge an ipod if you live close to transmission lines.
" Still, no one denies that Ahmadinejad is very popular with the rural dwellers and the poorer classes. "
The jury is actually out on this one from what I've been reading lately.
" Slashdot 2.0 sucks "
http://rs79.vrx.net/.oops/slashdot/sloopsagain.jpg
"I don't think anyone outside of Iran knows the truth.
Hell, I doubt many people inside Iran know the truth. "
What he said. Twitter is ablaze with the revolution and attempts to sort fact from fiction. One of the accepted "facts" is that embassies are taking in the wounded.
A buddy of mine is the guy that conncted Iran to the net in the 90s. He's over there still and says this is a complete myth.
There is *so* much misinformation now it almost lends credence to the notion the CIA is doing it again.
See also:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-in-tehran-fantasy-and-reality-make-uneasy-bedfellows-1710762.html
Not only that, but, the Geneva convention banned chemical weapons in 1925. Iraq was the last to use mustard gas in 1988 against the Iranians. Look up mustard gas in wikipedia and related compounds and who has/had what and where it went. I barely slept last night after reading it.
"If I understand GP correctly, the problem he's referring to with Canada system is that you can't get private health insurance for services already provided by public one. I.e. even if you have the money, you can't go to a private clinic with a shorter or no line to wait in - they are legally forbidden from offering you such services. I agree with him that it is not a good idea."
If you have that kind of money you can go anywhere and buy what you want. The US, Germany, Switzerland.
The downside to a two tier system puts universal coverage at risk.
"I have to wonder how Flash intensive the sites loaded were. "
1) I'd have like to have seen the test pages quantified a bit more. There's a huge difference between some old static html pages, JS intensive pages like slashdot, facebook and ebay, flash videos and pdf stuff. I don't have the newset of laptops or the oldest, but the latest acrobat plugin is an unholy disaster.
2) How valid is it to compare production releases of FF, chrome and safari with a *beta* version of Opera? That really makes me question the objective validity of this test.
"Say what you want about the decadent west, but nobody is about to show up at my door and beat me senseless for posting this. "
Not without your address anyway :-)
"The" story of the year? To whom? Tech has played a critical role in this event? Well, why hasn't the government been overthrown yet? It's certainly not due to lack of IT support. Did they have computers in the 1979 overthrow? "
Short answer: No. Nobody did.
That's not entirely accurate, but you had to have shelled out multiples of 10K checks to get a PDP 11 or similar. Waterloo had one 11/45 (sold to them by my co-worker, Ted Thorpe) that Dave Conroy wrote what is now "gcc" on because he wanted C for the RSX-11M our PDP11 ran. We automated the Canadian postal plants with them. Specifically Halifax, Victora, Toronto and Montreal, although it was first used to control a 10' square computers camera control ganty to make a commercial.
I had an "Ohio Scientific OS4U" (how in hell do I remember *this*)? for a consulting gig. It was worth about 7K and ran BASIC.
The first English/Arabic computer was made by RCTC in 83/84, they made 100 for the Saudi Royal family, in Torrance California and shipped to Saudi. But they did Arabic, not Farsi.
"I guess too many people have forgotten KENT STATE "
There are tears in my eyes as I write this; I cannot forget the look in Neda's eyes as life slipped from her 16 year old body. She wasn't protesting, she was simply standing there watching with her father when she was killed by a snipers bullet who shot her right in the heart. Sources say it was the Basij on a nearby rooftop.
But you make a good point: people have forgotten Kent state, or rather, the memory of it is not being passed to future generations. I made a point of making damn sure my kids know about it but there's lots of 19-30 yr olds who have no idea about it.
It's one thing to see that famous picture of Jeffrey Miller dead on the ground in that famous still. It's quite another to see the video of Neda dying. I'm very surprised youtube has left it up and I think it would be prudent if people kept a copy local copy of the swf file.
"I'm not convinced a bubblejet or toner laser printer onto paper will produce a product with the robustness of a good printing press, ink, and acid free paper "
You'd be wrong then. Epson's pigment based inks are archival grade, are projected not to fade for over 100 years; I have a $99 printer that uses them (never mind it's $160 for new ink).
Brian Reid did a test where he printed two indentical pages onto (forget name of fancy acid free archival grade paper) and put one through the dishwasher. After a full cycle it looked the same as the original. He tore down darkroom after seeing this.
There are more books than you can imagine. The google books poeple say even if we ramp up increadably we won't even scratch the surface and there's zero chance all books will be digitized in our lifetime, or several lifetimes - there's that many.
Having said that I still think, and always have, that Bradbury is a moron. But am glad he's supporting libraries. They are, very very important.
"I disagree only partially here. If you kick out private insurance entirely then you get some of the horror stories Canada grapples with. "
Oh please. I don't know what you've heard but it's probably on the order of the things we hear about the states, that is, if you walk any street at night you'll be mugged there.
I've in the states for a decade and the rest in Canada. There simply is no comparison. It's overpriced lunacy down there, the embarrasment of the world.
I'm sure you can find people that feel hard done by by the Canadian system. And for each of those there are a plethora of problems with the American system. It's so bad poeple makes movies about it.
Last year in the US the health sector spent $3.4 Billion lobbying, the only sector that spent more was the finance sector. That's 5X than defense lobbyists. They don't want to kill the gooose that lays the golden eggs.
Cite: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=c
"For all the hatred spewed at the direction of the USA, I've got to say there's quite an effort underway by normal citizens to help. There are people from all over the world trying to help, but I'd say a good number of them are from the USA."
fring is being used a lot in this too. the servers are in tel aviv.
"go figure"
"Rights are not something that exist in nature."
That's why right thinking countries ratify the UN basic human rights to correct this oversight and this is one things that separates us from animals.
I can home school my kids here in Canada because the UN says it's a basic human right.
"There were unconfirmed reports that Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran's interior ministry, was killed yesterday in a suspicious car accident in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked evidence that the elections were rigged to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19m votes, and should therefore be president."
Leaked it to where? Poor bastard.
"It was clearly CIA agents trying to come up with a pretense for an invasion of Iran by equipping Iranian-looking people with WMDs (rocks HURT!) "
They're just RMA. (Rocks of Minor Annoyance)
(I've done stuff like this, in the 70s, in Dibol and in C).
Even if you have to parametrize rules for each employee so they're unique this really isn't
a big deal. And if you parametrize it per employee and campus you may as well write it so
it can be used for any american university in any state.
Make youtube videos for training. That could take a whole week to do.
Make it all intranet webforms.
One software package and any college or university can use it.
The more people you throw at this the longer it will take.
In the end it comes down to "how many hours or days did this guy work, what's his rate and what are the exceptions" and it spits out an amount to ACH to his account. I don't care how complicated the exceptions are, it's not rocket science.
It's only scary of you haven't done it before.
I'll do it for half a million in one year. I may need to hire one other person. Maybe not.
"Also, it was made in the 70's! How complex can a program on a handful of punch cards be?! "
Back off monkey boy. By 1975 we had DECtape.
And RK05's.
"That's the damn funniest .sig I've read in quite a while. Kinda like asking Henry Spencer if he knows anything about Usenet, or regular expressions"
He lives in some sort of zoo in Tronno. Why would he know anything about that shit?
"Probably hard to find parts for whatever vintage 1975 mainframe it runs on. If you only know PC's, imagine trying to buy a brand new VESA bus SCSI card for your legacy 486 mission critical system.
"
(looks in box)
I have one. Actually I have a few. You want SCSI-I or wide SCSI?
I ship internationally and take paypal. It's WJWD.