Let me clarify... "BEtter than the alternative" means "Better than the alternatives we know of". I'd rather live in a democracy rather than a dictatorship or an oligarchy... At least you have a voice, no matter how small it might be.
Oh, and as for your "more power to local areas", what are you talking about? Trade? Each region should negotiate a seperate trade agreement? How's that efficient? How about Military? Each city-state should have its own army, complete with the infrastructure to go with it? How are you making any sense? There are many things that require the be built on a national level.
Let's say for example we divided America up into Tiny city-states... Then Canada and Mexico would sit there and drool and begin attempting to annex this weak little city-states. It can happen...
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Then don't waste your time voting. Chose the lesser of evils because they represent your voice.
The argument "they are all crap" is horseshit. They all stand for different things, and you pick the one closest. Remember, you aren't supporting them; you're also asking them to support you when they are in office.
You should vote in respect for the people throughout the world who die fighting for their right to vote. It's disrepesctful of those who've died for the right to vote to spoil your ballot.
Democracy isn't perfect, but it sure as hell is better than any other alternative out there.
Not so certain I agree with you. I say it would be wiser for Microsoft to turn a blind eye to the piracy for now -> make inroads in the market there, and THEN drop the piracy hammer.
It's 100% better to have people use your OS illegally, rather than your competitor legally.
I personally find it more conveniant to email my stuff to a hotmail (or yahoo or gmail or whatever) account and download the attachments at school from hotmail. That way I don't risk damaging the disk in the rain (and in Vancouver, we get tonnes usually).
I also run an ftp server for such an occasion, but really most people don't do that... But if a paper's due, I'll fire it off, just in case something goes awry with my ftp server and I need an alternate plan...
In fact, any former British Commonwealth country that lack a President (in other words not a republic) doesn't have a basic majority rules system either. You have constituencies, and each constituency votes a representative, and the leader of the party who's got the most seats is Prime Minister. Usually that means there's a dispairity between the votes and the seats, although it's usually close. Canada, Australia, and England are all under this system.
New Zealand tries to solve this by having extra seats awarded to bring the seat count as close as possible to the popular vote...
Roflmao I did that once -> used apache as a reverse proxy. I love the simplicity of it, and the increased security. You can block a tonne of attacks using mod_security, and keep them from hitting your real web server.
Thing is, I forgot to lock down the allowable hosts.
Soon, I was seeing scripting engines requesting ads from various web servers in my logs. Took over a year for those scripts to stop.
Didn't take long for me to find it, but once you're on an open proxy list.... You're screwed.
That's not true... If Philly setups up a wireless zone, where you need to login, they can tell what the closest wireless access point you've logged into.
The interenet has no real way to identify people, but ISP's do... Remember that... If govt gets in the ISP business, we're all doomed.
Dunno about your ColdFusion comments though. I code both PHP and CF and find that my speed using CF is WAY faster than PHP, and it has much better XML and Web Services support (although PHP5 supposedly has gotten a lot better with XML support).
It depends on what I'm doing though. If it's internal, I recommend CF - the server cost covers itself quite quickly. If I'm billing I recommend PHP so I get extra hours billing:)
But yeah, I find Oracle much more complex than any other RDBS such as MSSQL, Sybase ASE, MySQL or PostgreSQL...
Not everything's as easy as FreeBSD (My unix flavour of choice)
=D
Besides, if you're lazy and don't feel like changing directories -> pkg_delete messenger
Besides, part of being a reasonable employer is to trust your employees
FWIW, statistics show that ~80% of security issues are internal (IIRC - somewhere around there anyway).
Good luck with the Sun Rays... Sounds like a swanky solution for sure, all I was saying was on hardware costs alone, I think your findings were a bit bloated... Might have been an accident.
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Let me clarify... "BEtter than the alternative" means "Better than the alternatives we know of". I'd rather live in a democracy rather than a dictatorship or an oligarchy... At least you have a voice, no matter how small it might be.
Oh, and as for your "more power to local areas", what are you talking about? Trade? Each region should negotiate a seperate trade agreement? How's that efficient? How about Military? Each city-state should have its own army, complete with the infrastructure to go with it? How are you making any sense? There are many things that require the be built on a national level.
Let's say for example we divided America up into Tiny city-states... Then Canada and Mexico would sit there and drool and begin attempting to annex this weak little city-states. It can happen...
Then don't waste your time voting. Chose the lesser of evils because they represent your voice.
The argument "they are all crap" is horseshit. They all stand for different things, and you pick the one closest. Remember, you aren't supporting them; you're also asking them to support you when they are in office.
You should vote in respect for the people throughout the world who die fighting for their right to vote. It's disrepesctful of those who've died for the right to vote to spoil your ballot.
Democracy isn't perfect, but it sure as hell is better than any other alternative out there.
Not so certain I agree with you. I say it would be wiser for Microsoft to turn a blind eye to the piracy for now -> make inroads in the market there, and THEN drop the piracy hammer. It's 100% better to have people use your OS illegally, rather than your competitor legally.
Not to mention:
1) The time you waste writing to the damn sluggish floppies; and
2) The time you waste swapping disks
Some of us have better things to do than wait.
No, eatmadust was definately the first to say that... Bill Gates said that "No computer will need more than 640K of RAM"
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Mods didn't give you enough credit for that post; it was funny :)
I personally find it more conveniant to email my stuff to a hotmail (or yahoo or gmail or whatever) account and download the attachments at school from hotmail. That way I don't risk damaging the disk in the rain (and in Vancouver, we get tonnes usually).
I also run an ftp server for such an occasion, but really most people don't do that... But if a paper's due, I'll fire it off, just in case something goes awry with my ftp server and I need an alternate plan...
AFAIK, Asus allows bios updates from the OS now...
And yes, most BIOS's in the last couple years now allow you to boot from a USB drive.
That's relatively new - seems to be only available for 5.2.1 or 4.10 -> I hadn't installed the latest versions ; 5.1 and 4.9 didn't have this...
Not in Canada they don't...
In fact, any former British Commonwealth country that lack a President (in other words not a republic) doesn't have a basic majority rules system either. You have constituencies, and each constituency votes a representative, and the leader of the party who's got the most seats is Prime Minister. Usually that means there's a dispairity between the votes and the seats, although it's usually close. Canada, Australia, and England are all under this system.
New Zealand tries to solve this by having extra seats awarded to bring the seat count as close as possible to the popular vote...
lol must be somewhat new - that's awesome...
:) Thanks!
I have to admit that my comment was posted in hopes of finding the answer
Still, I'd love a tiny ISO for FTP installs...
The thing I'd miss is downloading a 1.44MB image for FreeBSD to do an FTP install of it. FTP install is my favourite install method for FreeBSD.
Currently AFAIK the only choice is that, or a full CD with all the ports.
Wish there was a CD image for an FTP install you can download so you don't need three or four hours to download the ISO...
=D
Roflmao I did that once -> used apache as a reverse proxy. I love the simplicity of it, and the increased security. You can block a tonne of attacks using mod_security, and keep them from hitting your real web server.
Thing is, I forgot to lock down the allowable hosts.
Soon, I was seeing scripting engines requesting ads from various web servers in my logs. Took over a year for those scripts to stop.
Didn't take long for me to find it, but once you're on an open proxy list.... You're screwed.
OKay, free access to WiFi is an Uber-Awesome idea.... No more having to hijack my neighbours' connections :)
I think it would be more like they would be able to track where you were every time you logged in.
Also, the virus would come from 209.143.172.2 or whatever and they'd already know who had that IP address on a lease, based on the userid.
Govt ISP's... That's scary stuff...
That's not true... If Philly setups up a wireless zone, where you need to login, they can tell what the closest wireless access point you've logged into.
The interenet has no real way to identify people, but ISP's do... Remember that... If govt gets in the ISP business, we're all doomed.
Heheh... Didn't mean to be mean :)
Just bought Nortel stock is all... Got all excited when I saw a post I knew something about =D
Mod this article as Slashdot spamming. First the ebay article yesterday trying to sell something four times its value and now this??? C'mon guys...
LOL oldest friggin' email out there dude.
If you bought Nortel a year ago it was $4.16, and you could have almost tripled your money if you sold at the right time.
Still it's trading at $4.97 today... hardly a bad loss IMHO...
Your post is over 2 years old, from 1 year after the dotcom bubble burst when Nortel was trading at $100 or so. Time to find new material.
Dunno about your ColdFusion comments though. I code both PHP and CF and find that my speed using CF is WAY faster than PHP, and it has much better XML and Web Services support (although PHP5 supposedly has gotten a lot better with XML support).
:)
It depends on what I'm doing though. If it's internal, I recommend CF - the server cost covers itself quite quickly. If I'm billing I recommend PHP so I get extra hours billing
But yeah, I find Oracle much more complex than any other RDBS such as MSSQL, Sybase ASE, MySQL or PostgreSQL...
Not true. Advertising can be informative too you know. Public Serivce announcements come from advertising.
Information about the election (as skewed as it may be) comes from advertising. There's tonnes of value it provides.
Hmmm... I use Firefox. Amount of extra space I have by picking a kickass browser: tonnes.
Not only that, but the firewall catches programs that call home. Very nice feature IMHO.
Not everything's as easy as FreeBSD (My unix flavour of choice) =D Besides, if you're lazy and don't feel like changing directories -> pkg_delete messenger
FWIW, statistics show that ~80% of security issues are internal (IIRC - somewhere around there anyway).
Good luck with the Sun Rays... Sounds like a swanky solution for sure, all I was saying was on hardware costs alone, I think your findings were a bit bloated... Might have been an accident.