The security problems of wireless, combined with its pathetic bandwidth, are going to doom it to being a permanent niche technology.
Once broadband over power lines becomes a little more widespread, PC companies will start to build their network interface into the power cable on both desktops and laptops. When you plug into the wall, you'll be online.
And as we all know, in the mass market, simplicity trumps everything.
Add to the technical disadvantages the scandals that will result when inevitably a few large companies suffer major financial setbacks from having their sensitive data picked up out of the wireless spectrum by war-driving corporate spies, wireless will be relegated to the dustheap of history. The hoola-hoop of network technology.
What I met out "there" was a lot of 250-300 pound women who were desperately lonely. Some of them wanted to chat daily because they had no one to care about them, while others pretty quickly started wanting a kind of romance-novel softcore cyber-sex so they could get off online.
And of course, a few single Moms, deserately looking for a man to take over the resposnibility for their poor judgement.
What I did not find was any attractive women of dating age who wanted to actually meet in the real world.
Lets face it, women like that have real relationships that they make in the physical world, they don't need to go bottom-feeding for losers with no social skills who are clueless enough to think they can meet a decent woman on-line.
There are several movies that puzzle me on this list. But none more than Contact. It was completely devoid of science, conveyed nothing factual about the cosmos, and after teasing us for two hours with a slow buildup to alien contact that had us writhing in our seats, they wussed out and showed us the ghost of Jodie Fosters dad. I wanted to set fire to the theatre. And the overall message is that science is an expensive waste of time, indistinguishable from magic, that in the end only manages to create a pale sense of mysticism that is a weak imitation of a religious experience. Feh. I would put it on the "Worst movies of all time" list, just below Ishtar and Arnold Schwarzenneger in "The Villian".
When even the paid shills who get advance copies of a system to write reviews about are ambivalent in their reactions, you know it's a system to avoid.
It is funny reading the review, and trying to pick out which paragraphs are genuine and which are cut-and-pasted from the MS press release to pacify Microsoft.
Here's a different spin. MS DOESN'T have a trademark on the term "Windows", and never has. They are fully aware of this. In spite of this, they fraudulently misrepresented their ownership of said trademark in order to deprive this person of a valuable propert, that being his product name. Ergo, Microsoft appears to have committed both fraud and extortion. If anyone else behaved this way, the Justice Department might just step in under the RICO act and arrest the company executives involved and seize their assets. However, it seems that this Justice Department is asleep at the switch, and wouldn't go after Microsoft if Windows CD's turned out to be made of the ground up bones of Microsoft business rivals killed by MS hitsquads. Ergo, one could reasonably expect MS to become increasingly aggressive in their criminal misconduct. Ergo, MS hitsquads may become a reality in our lifetime. (Wait who's that kicking in my door....#%@$@&^%#$...loss of signal
Except that a lot of cylinder heads (which hold the spark plugs, not the engine block) are aluminum, which blocks very few X-rays.
And the core of the spark plug itself is ceramic, which is a poor shield material. Iron and steel tend to reflect X-rays rather than absorb them like lead. So if your spark plug ports face back towards the driver, you're getting beams of X-rays fired at you.
But who cares after all. We have a government that relies on revenue from alcohol taxes while drunk drivers kill 20,000 people a year (2.5 times the number killed by handguns). So what's a few hundred deaths from cancer thrown into the mix??
It's not like individual human lives have any actual value....
The problem your company has run up against is very common.
The solution lies in a discipline called "Human Capital Planning"
Treat human beings as an asset like a computer - inventory them, come up with capacity needs projections, compare current inventory to future needs, then plan for-
1) Procuring (recruiting) to fill the gaps
2) Maintenance (retraining) of existing resources and
3) Archiving (knowledge management) to capture their on-the-job skills
It is a manageable problem. Even if anarchist cowboy nerds don't like the idea of being managed.
We might as well go ahead and build the nuclear plants - we're all bathed in radiation for several hours a day. No not the sun - spark plugs. The voltage that jumps across the gap in spark plugs is nearly identical to that used to generate medical X-rays, 35-40 KV. OK, so the wattage is low and the Xray dose from each spark is probably in the nano-rads. But your plugs fire thousands of times a minute, and in a few days of driving you probably get a cummulative dose of a milli-rad or so. Or about the same as a diagnostic X-ray. I bet that it is causing a lot of cancers that we are blaming on second-hand smoke and radon exposure.
If you work for the Federal Gov't,the OMB in Memorandum M05-22 has now mandated migration to IPv6 by 6/2008.
This may actually be a little slow, since Microsoft has stated in briefings to Federal Agencies that Windows Vista (Longhorn) will ship with IPv6 as the natvie protocol.
What a boon to virus-writers. Encrypted IPv6 layer 3 sockets that drill through firewalls like a laser beam!
Dismantled our security system? The only thing that was dismantled was the $20M in funding for repairing the Mississippi river Levies that was diverted into building a Casino by the governor of Louisiana. The cries of distress at the lack of Federal aid for the resulting (as you say "preventable") flood were a smokescreen to cover for good old-fashioned political corruption.
You actually assert that befoe the Bush adminstration, there was a "security system" that protected us from hurricanes? Are you delusional or just amazingly honesty-challenged?
I lived in LA for 10 years (8 of which were during democratic presidential terms). The "safety net" for hurricanes was simply to run away, then come back and rebuild. No one came to help us out. We handled our own problems. We finally got fed up an left for good. Which is a lesson a lot of people need to learn. If you put yourself in harms way , no one owes it to you to protect you from the consequences of your foolishness. Walk in front of a bus, and it isn't the governments fault if you get hit.
The severity of this Hurricane was unprecedented, and the magnitude of the damage was huge. But that doesn't somehow magically create prescience on the part of previous adminstrations because the crises they faced were small enough to deal with easily.
Name one crisis, just one, in the US in the last 50 years that was anywhere near this magnitude, that democrats handled better....
What would Al Gore have done differently, besides claiming to have invented the electric pump?
You, my good sir, in spite of the vehemence of your attacks, are devoid of facts, and your assetions are just nonsensical.
Exsqueeze me? I can't seem to find the "protection from Hurricanes" clause in the Constitution. Or the Bill from Congress that made the Federal government responsible for plugging up the laundry list of security lapses in sMegmaSoft Windoze. Here's an idea, let's lobby for a bill that makes the use of Linux mandatory for all desktop computers that communicate over the internet. Oh, you didn't want the government to SOLVE the problem, you just want to bash the current administration. Here's a clue - the freedom to whine about your problems in a public forum is tightly coupled to a government that doesn't run your life for you - including kissing all your boo-boos and making them go away.
The only "truly" fault tolerant machines I have seen, other than custom-built military hardware are the "Stratus" (www.stratus.com) servers - everything is doubly redundant. You can walk up to a server and pull CPU cards and memory out at random, and the machine doesn't even hiccup. You can hot-plug replacements back in, and the machine doesn't miss so much as a single clock cycle.
Any other form of high availability amounts to pre-emptive rebooting. You keep a warm spare machine next to the original to pick up the workload in case of failure. It's just like rebooting, but doing it in advance on a spare machine just to be ready.
For *most* applications the warm spare approach works reasonably well. But in real-time control applications, the few seconds spent loading up context to restart from a checkpoint can kill people.
Would you trust a windows cluster to drive your car on the highway? Or fly the jet you are riding in? Or run the anti-missile phalanx gun on a missile frigate?
Real fault tolerance is like a parachute. Most of the time you have no use for it. But when you need it, nothing else will do.
When I was a kid, I read a book that described Planets as large bodies orbitng the Sun, planetoids as slightly smaller bodies like the moon, and planetesimals as objects like asteroids and such.
Warning-warning danger Will Robinson!! For those outside the federal gov't this may seem bizarre, but the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is now MANDATING the conversion to IPv6 by 2008 for all federal networks. Some networking profressionals may applaud this, but the people pushing it are deeply in the pocket of M$. Windose Vistah will ship with IPv6 on by default, and M$ is adding "value-added" protocols to extend ACLs to applications and provide encrypted channels for windows to "phone home" and report you for license violations. Linux may soon be unable to function in an M$ network due to inability to get permission to open sockets through M$ controlled authentication servers. This is a major end-around-run that is going to catch the open source community napping if they aren't careful.
There once was a time when programmers were memebers of an elite cadre of virtual magicians. Veritable high preists of the computer cult. Computers were the size of refrigerators, they cost $1000/hr to run, and they only understood alien languages like PL/1 and JCL. You had to write your own sort routines, and green-screen CRTs with line editors were the state of the art in GUIs. Programming took 4 years to become a neophyte, and 10 to be able to work independently. You didn't put code into the production environment until after 3 months of parallel execution testing on live data without a glitch, and 99.9% uptime was considered marginal. Salaries were climbing at 10-15% a year and the future was so bright you had to wear sunglasses at your desk. Then that m@th3r f&ck!ng b()tt-pirate in redmond had to come along and make everything all object-oriented and point-and-click. We replaced fault-tolerant machines with fault-forgiving users, testing code gave way to just rebooting. Now every nose-picking teenager with a highschool course in visual basic is out in industry writing web-pages, and salaries are in free-fall. We have gone from high preists of the mainframe cult to janitors of the sMegmasoft plumbing. And a certain megalomaniac billionaire is whining because no one will study computer science anymore. Tell yah what, shut down that monopoly and buy a mink ranch in wyoming, and maybe after a few years computer science will get its self-respect, and even decent salaries, back again. THere's a REASON that Linux is hard-to-use, it's called JOB SECURITY! Computer programmers work for peanuts because they are so willing to make themselves obsolete. You don't see doctors going out and wrtiting a self-diagnosis program that you can use to get prescription drugs, do you? How many sailboats could they buy then? Why do you think that with all we know about genetics we can clone a cow but we can't cure cancer? Because the money is in TREATMENT, not cures. You want to double you salary - refuse to work on point-and click systems - tell your boss they are crippled by viruses. Insist on devloping in "C" using vi and "makefiles". Write you own graphics routines. Make things HARD to do, and the pay will come back up....
No No No. You are all missing the real secret plot here. Porn is being distributed by undergraound adherents of the "Earth First" movement, whose goal is to reduce the human population of the earth to zero. As computer geeks get addicted to porn, they quickly lose whatever nascent social skills they might have carried into puberty. Soon they can not form a relationship with any woman who requires more foreplay than a quick "Hey baby, wanna f@ck?" and thus they are made permanently dependent on artificial sexual sitmulation for release. Due to this, their genes never get passed on, and soon, society as a whole has no individuals capable of supporting our vast technology infrastructure (don't believe me, call the helpdesk at any computer company these days). As the computers and networks begin to collapse, disribution and transportation go next. Followed by mass starvation, riots, and epidemics. Soon all that is left is a few hundred wretched humans living in tents and eating organically grown vegetables fertilized with their own feces. An environmentalist eutopia!
Men have faster scalar processors, and can do linear tasks better. Women have symmetric multiprocessing, and can juggle more concurrent tasks. That's why men can disassemble and reassemble a car engine from memory, but women can keep track of where four children are while balancing a checkbook and talking to the doctor on the phone. Men *might* do better on IQ tests, but I wonder whose score would drop less if they had to take three tests simultaneously?
You are all missing the point. Remember Luke 4:5-8 " 5The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. 7So if you worship me, it will all be yours."
8Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'" and John 18:36 " Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." Giving the Church secular power isn't wrong because it pollutes the secular world. Giving the Church secular power is wrong because it CORRUPTS THE CHURCH. Jesus said so. The problem in politics is that The so-called "Christian Right" isn't really Christian. They have sold their souls to the devil to pursue political power. That is why they are an embarassment to Jesus, and bring disrespect and contempt on the true Church.
I have been convinced for some time that wireless was doomed to remain a niche technology(useful in bars and coffee shops) both because it was so insecure, and because of the laws of physics. There is a very limited amount of total bandwidth available, so you would either have to invest ENORMOUS amounts in deploying a dense web of access points, or put up with spotty availability and erratic throughput.
Now there is even more reason to believe that wireless will die in its infancy.
Broadband over Power Lines(BPL) is really here!
More and more you will be able to connect to the internet just by plugging into a power outlet.
No worries about WEP or WAP, no keys to worry about or hub to configure.
The infrastructure is mostly in place already. Just a few repeaters and muxes to add for the power companies.
And they will very likely build this out on their own to save money by getting rid of meter readers.
And as BPL catches on, it is inevitable that PC manufacturers will start to save cost, and create the KILLER advantage of convenience - by combining the network cord with the power cord on all PCs.
Think of it, it is almost irresistible - one plug and you're good to go!
The only place wireless will be wanted is places that have no electrical power... which is gonna make it real difficult to run a computer there for long...
So say farewell to wireless and welcome the next big thing.... Broadband over power lines
Holding up BPL for the sake of HAM radio is like keeping cars off the highways so they won't interfere with bicycle traffic. HAM radio belongs in the ash-heap of history along with the telegraph and the steam locomotive. Society does not owe it to a bunch of self-absorbed hobbyists to hold up its progress to protect their hobby. The whole reason for having a democracy is to keep small groups of influential plutocrats from gumming things up for everyone else. Go BPL!!!!
In the book if Revelations, at the end of the Bible, it foretells the coming of a totalitarian world leader, known as the antichrist (the beast). This leader will force everyone to renounce belief in any god but himself, and to seal the deal, you will be required to have the "mark" or "number" of the beast implanted in your forehead or hand. As an enforcement measure, without this "mark" you will not be able to buy or sell anything. Revelations also says that anyone who takes the mark will burn in hell. SO welcome to armageddon folks, get a veridhip and go to hell.
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WTF mate! I found out my ex-wife was cheating on me by picking up the extension phone in the other room and listening to her talk to her boyfriend. With POTS, anyone with a $10 Walmart phone set and a set of alligator clips can open the phone box on the side of your house and listen to (or for a few dollars more record) your conversations. And anyone who understands Signalling System 7 can conference themselves into your calls through the phone company switch. Calling VOIP insecure is by comparison like a nudist complaining that a woman's skirt is too short.
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The security problems of wireless, combined with its pathetic bandwidth, are going to doom it to being a permanent niche technology.
Once broadband over power lines becomes a little more widespread, PC companies will start to build their network interface into the power cable on both desktops and laptops. When you plug into the wall, you'll be online.
And as we all know, in the mass market, simplicity trumps everything.
Add to the technical disadvantages the scandals that will result when inevitably a few large companies suffer major financial setbacks from having their sensitive data picked up out of the wireless spectrum by war-driving corporate spies, wireless will be relegated to the dustheap of history. The hoola-hoop of network technology.
What I met out "there" was a lot of 250-300 pound women who were desperately lonely. Some of them wanted to chat daily because they had no one to care about them, while others pretty quickly started wanting a kind of romance-novel softcore cyber-sex so they could get off online. And of course, a few single Moms, deserately looking for a man to take over the resposnibility for their poor judgement. What I did not find was any attractive women of dating age who wanted to actually meet in the real world. Lets face it, women like that have real relationships that they make in the physical world, they don't need to go bottom-feeding for losers with no social skills who are clueless enough to think they can meet a decent woman on-line.
There are several movies that puzzle me on this list. But none more than Contact. It was completely devoid of science, conveyed nothing factual about the cosmos, and after teasing us for two hours with a slow buildup to alien contact that had us writhing in our seats, they wussed out and showed us the ghost of Jodie Fosters dad. I wanted to set fire to the theatre. And the overall message is that science is an expensive waste of time, indistinguishable from magic, that in the end only manages to create a pale sense of mysticism that is a weak imitation of a religious experience. Feh. I would put it on the "Worst movies of all time" list, just below Ishtar and Arnold Schwarzenneger in "The Villian".
When even the paid shills who get advance copies of a system to write reviews about are ambivalent in their reactions, you know it's a system to avoid.
It is funny reading the review, and trying to pick out which paragraphs are genuine and which are cut-and-pasted from the MS press release to pacify Microsoft.
Here's a different spin.
MS DOESN'T have a trademark on the term "Windows", and never has. They are fully aware of this.
In spite of this, they fraudulently misrepresented their ownership of said trademark in order to deprive this person of a valuable propert, that being his product name.
Ergo, Microsoft appears to have committed both fraud and extortion.
If anyone else behaved this way, the Justice Department might just step in under the RICO act and arrest the company executives involved and seize their assets.
However, it seems that this Justice Department is asleep at the switch, and wouldn't go after Microsoft if Windows CD's turned out to be made of the ground up bones of Microsoft business rivals killed by MS hitsquads.
Ergo, one could reasonably expect MS to become increasingly aggressive in their criminal misconduct.
Ergo, MS hitsquads may become a reality in our lifetime.
(Wait who's that kicking in my door....#%@$@&^%#$...loss of signal
The grand scheme here is that Microsoft developers were busy copying the kernel of Linux to create the "all new, more stable" kernel of Longhorn.
But there was no company to buy to safegaurd their piracy.
So the SCO vs IBM case is an attempt to back-door establish that SCO owns the copyright to Linux.
Then MS can buy SCO, own the copyrights to the Longhorn kernel, and Darl goes home a wealthy scoundrel.
Except that a lot of cylinder heads (which hold the spark plugs, not the engine block) are aluminum, which blocks very few X-rays.
And the core of the spark plug itself is ceramic, which is a poor shield material. Iron and steel tend to reflect X-rays rather than absorb them like lead. So if your spark plug ports face back towards the driver, you're getting beams of X-rays fired at you.
But who cares after all. We have a government that relies on revenue from alcohol taxes while drunk drivers kill 20,000 people a year (2.5 times the number killed by handguns). So what's a few hundred deaths from cancer thrown into the mix??
It's not like individual human lives have any actual value....
The problem your company has run up against is very common. The solution lies in a discipline called "Human Capital Planning" Treat human beings as an asset like a computer - inventory them, come up with capacity needs projections, compare current inventory to future needs, then plan for- 1) Procuring (recruiting) to fill the gaps 2) Maintenance (retraining) of existing resources and 3) Archiving (knowledge management) to capture their on-the-job skills It is a manageable problem. Even if anarchist cowboy nerds don't like the idea of being managed.
We might as well go ahead and build the nuclear plants - we're all bathed in radiation for several hours a day. No not the sun - spark plugs. The voltage that jumps across the gap in spark plugs is nearly identical to that used to generate medical X-rays, 35-40 KV. OK, so the wattage is low and the Xray dose from each spark is probably in the nano-rads. But your plugs fire thousands of times a minute, and in a few days of driving you probably get a cummulative dose of a milli-rad or so. Or about the same as a diagnostic X-ray. I bet that it is causing a lot of cancers that we are blaming on second-hand smoke and radon exposure.
If you work for the Federal Gov't,the OMB in Memorandum M05-22 has now mandated migration to IPv6 by 6/2008.
This may actually be a little slow, since Microsoft has stated in briefings to Federal Agencies that Windows Vista (Longhorn) will ship with IPv6 as the natvie protocol.
What a boon to virus-writers. Encrypted IPv6 layer 3 sockets that drill through firewalls like a laser beam!
Damn the network security, full speed ahead!
Dismantled our security system?
The only thing that was dismantled was the $20M in funding for repairing the Mississippi river Levies that was diverted into building a Casino by the governor of Louisiana. The cries of distress at the lack of Federal aid for the resulting (as you say "preventable") flood were a smokescreen to cover for good old-fashioned political corruption.
You actually assert that befoe the Bush adminstration, there was a "security system" that protected us from hurricanes? Are you delusional or just amazingly honesty-challenged?
I lived in LA for 10 years (8 of which were during democratic presidential terms). The "safety net" for hurricanes was simply to run away, then come back and rebuild. No one came to help us out. We handled our own problems. We finally got fed up an left for good. Which is a lesson a lot of people need to learn. If you put yourself in harms way , no one owes it to you to protect you from the consequences of your foolishness. Walk in front of a bus, and it isn't the governments fault if you get hit.
The severity of this Hurricane was unprecedented, and the magnitude of the damage was huge. But that doesn't somehow magically create prescience on the part of previous adminstrations because the crises they faced were small enough to deal with easily.
Name one crisis, just one, in the US in the last 50 years that was anywhere near this magnitude, that democrats handled better....
What would Al Gore have done differently, besides claiming to have invented the electric pump?
You, my good sir, in spite of the vehemence of your attacks, are devoid of facts, and your assetions are just nonsensical.
Exsqueeze me? I can't seem to find the "protection from Hurricanes" clause in the Constitution. Or the Bill from Congress that made the Federal government responsible for plugging up the laundry list of security lapses in sMegmaSoft Windoze.
Here's an idea, let's lobby for a bill that makes the use of Linux mandatory for all desktop computers that communicate over the internet.
Oh, you didn't want the government to SOLVE the problem, you just want to bash the current administration.
Here's a clue - the freedom to whine about your problems in a public forum is tightly coupled to a government that doesn't run your life for you - including kissing all your boo-boos and making them go away.
The only "truly" fault tolerant machines I have seen, other than custom-built military hardware are the "Stratus" (www.stratus.com) servers - everything is doubly redundant. You can walk up to a server and pull CPU cards and memory out at random, and the machine doesn't even hiccup. You can hot-plug replacements back in, and the machine doesn't miss so much as a single clock cycle.
Any other form of high availability amounts to pre-emptive rebooting. You keep a warm spare machine next to the original to pick up the workload in case of failure. It's just like rebooting, but doing it in advance on a spare machine just to be ready.
For *most* applications the warm spare approach works reasonably well. But in real-time control applications, the few seconds spent loading up context to restart from a checkpoint can kill people.
Would you trust a windows cluster to drive your car on the highway? Or fly the jet you are riding in? Or run the anti-missile phalanx gun on a missile frigate?
Real fault tolerance is like a parachute. Most of the time you have no use for it. But when you need it, nothing else will do.
When I was a kid, I read a book that described Planets as large bodies orbitng the Sun, planetoids as slightly smaller bodies like the moon, and planetesimals as objects like asteroids and such.
Sounds like a cool hierarchy to me...
Warning-warning danger Will Robinson!!
For those outside the federal gov't this may seem bizarre, but the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is now MANDATING the conversion to IPv6 by 2008 for all federal networks.
Some networking profressionals may applaud this, but the people pushing it are deeply in the pocket of M$.
Windose Vistah will ship with IPv6 on by default, and M$ is adding "value-added" protocols to extend ACLs to applications and provide encrypted channels for windows to "phone home" and report you for license violations. Linux may soon be unable to function in an M$ network due to inability to get permission to open sockets through M$ controlled authentication servers. This is a major end-around-run that is going to catch the open source community napping if they aren't careful.
There once was a time when programmers were memebers of an elite cadre of virtual magicians. Veritable high preists of the computer cult. Computers were the size of refrigerators, they cost $1000/hr to run, and they only understood alien languages like PL/1 and JCL. You had to write your own sort routines, and green-screen CRTs with line editors were the state of the art in GUIs. Programming took 4 years to become a neophyte, and 10 to be able to work independently. You didn't put code into the production environment until after 3 months of parallel execution testing on live data without a glitch, and 99.9% uptime was considered marginal. Salaries were climbing at 10-15% a year and the future was so bright you had to wear sunglasses at your desk. Then that m@th3r f&ck!ng b()tt-pirate in redmond had to come along and make everything all object-oriented and point-and-click. We replaced fault-tolerant machines with fault-forgiving users, testing code gave way to just rebooting. Now every nose-picking teenager with a highschool course in visual basic is out in industry writing web-pages, and salaries are in free-fall. We have gone from high preists of the mainframe cult to janitors of the sMegmasoft plumbing. And a certain megalomaniac billionaire is whining because no one will study computer science anymore. Tell yah what, shut down that monopoly and buy a mink ranch in wyoming, and maybe after a few years computer science will get its self-respect, and even decent salaries, back again.
THere's a REASON that Linux is hard-to-use, it's called JOB SECURITY! Computer programmers work for peanuts because they are so willing to make themselves obsolete. You don't see doctors going out and wrtiting a self-diagnosis program that you can use to get prescription drugs, do you? How many sailboats could they buy then? Why do you think that with all we know about genetics we can clone a cow but we can't cure cancer? Because the money is in TREATMENT, not cures. You want to double you salary - refuse to work on point-and click systems - tell your boss they are crippled by viruses. Insist on devloping in "C" using vi and "makefiles". Write you own graphics routines. Make things HARD to do, and the pay will come back up....
No No No. You are all missing the real secret plot here. Porn is being distributed by undergraound adherents of the "Earth First" movement, whose goal is to reduce the human population of the earth to zero. As computer geeks get addicted to porn, they quickly lose whatever nascent social skills they might have carried into puberty. Soon they can not form a relationship with any woman who requires more foreplay than a quick "Hey baby, wanna f@ck?" and thus they are made permanently dependent on artificial sexual sitmulation for release. Due to this, their genes never get passed on, and soon, society as a whole has no individuals capable of supporting our vast technology infrastructure (don't believe me, call the helpdesk at any computer company these days). As the computers and networks begin to collapse, disribution and transportation go next. Followed by mass starvation, riots, and epidemics. Soon all that is left is a few hundred wretched humans living in tents and eating organically grown vegetables fertilized with their own feces. An environmentalist eutopia!
Men have faster scalar processors, and can do linear tasks better. Women have symmetric multiprocessing, and can juggle more concurrent tasks. That's why men can disassemble and reassemble a car engine from memory, but women can keep track of where four children are while balancing a checkbook and talking to the doctor on the phone. Men *might* do better on IQ tests, but I wonder whose score would drop less if they had to take three tests simultaneously?
You are all missing the point.
Remember Luke 4:5-8
" 5The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. 7So if you worship me, it will all be yours."
8Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'"
and
John 18:36
" Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."
Giving the Church secular power isn't wrong because it pollutes the secular world. Giving the Church secular power is wrong because it CORRUPTS THE CHURCH. Jesus said so.
The problem in politics is that The so-called "Christian Right" isn't really Christian. They have sold their souls to the devil to pursue political power. That is why they are an embarassment to Jesus, and bring disrespect and contempt on the true Church.
I have been convinced for some time that wireless was doomed to remain a niche technology(useful in bars and coffee shops) both because it was so insecure, and because of the laws of physics. There is a very limited amount of total bandwidth available, so you would either have to invest ENORMOUS amounts in deploying a dense web of access points, or put up with spotty availability and erratic throughput. Now there is even more reason to believe that wireless will die in its infancy. Broadband over Power Lines(BPL) is really here! More and more you will be able to connect to the internet just by plugging into a power outlet. No worries about WEP or WAP, no keys to worry about or hub to configure. The infrastructure is mostly in place already. Just a few repeaters and muxes to add for the power companies. And they will very likely build this out on their own to save money by getting rid of meter readers. And as BPL catches on, it is inevitable that PC manufacturers will start to save cost, and create the KILLER advantage of convenience - by combining the network cord with the power cord on all PCs. Think of it, it is almost irresistible - one plug and you're good to go! The only place wireless will be wanted is places that have no electrical power... which is gonna make it real difficult to run a computer there for long... So say farewell to wireless and welcome the next big thing.... Broadband over power lines
Holding up BPL for the sake of HAM radio is like keeping cars off the highways so they won't interfere with bicycle traffic. HAM radio belongs in the ash-heap of history along with the telegraph and the steam locomotive. Society does not owe it to a bunch of self-absorbed hobbyists to hold up its progress to protect their hobby. The whole reason for having a democracy is to keep small groups of influential plutocrats from gumming things up for everyone else. Go BPL!!!!
Try Rev 13:12 to 13:15, by inference
In the book if Revelations, at the end of the Bible, it foretells the coming of a totalitarian world leader, known as the antichrist (the beast). This leader will force everyone to renounce belief in any god but himself, and to seal the deal, you will be required to have the "mark" or "number" of the beast implanted in your forehead or hand. As an enforcement measure, without this "mark" you will not be able to buy or sell anything. Revelations also says that anyone who takes the mark will burn in hell. SO welcome to armageddon folks, get a veridhip and go to hell.
WTF mate! I found out my ex-wife was cheating on me by picking up the extension phone in the other room and listening to her talk to her boyfriend. With POTS, anyone with a $10 Walmart phone set and a set of alligator clips can open the phone box on the side of your house and listen to (or for a few dollars more record) your conversations. And anyone who understands Signalling System 7 can conference themselves into your calls through the phone company switch.
Calling VOIP insecure is by comparison like a nudist complaining that a woman's skirt is too short.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid!