What would happen to the world if Microsoft said "Ok, enough's enough. 'Frig' you all!" and shuts down! They all have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of their lives (and then some). I think that a lot of people rely on MS software...
Eventually you get fed-up with the fly that buzzes around your head and you kill it.
Have you looked at the White House on Google Maps? Zoom right in and look at the very even, rectangular shapes that are the White House and the two buildings on each side across the street. Google has drawn overtop these buildings - the question is why did they draw on top of the White House but not any other well known foriegn buildings?
When the rules say that you must spend your budget by the end of the fiscal year, of which I would say 20-40% is left until the end, it is not surprising that there is something overlooked.
It is always a nice sight to walk around a government office in the first few weeks of April to see hardware upgrades sitting in boxes that won't be used until June or July. The 19 inch CRT monitor bought last year is being replaced with a nice new flat screen LCD...
My Question: Is this really necessary? Don't we Canadians pay enough tax to be spent in a last ditch effort at the end of the year?
Hey, I was just wondering if Sun is going to get upset (read as: call the lawyers we wanna sue!) because of the use of the name Cobalt.
There used to be a Linux appliance company called Cobalt that was bought out by Sun a while back now.
I couldn't find a link on Sun's site to the Cobalt products but I did find one to their support site
Hmmm....
As you say: If they do it right
I have been dealing with PKI for 7 years now and still have not seen an implementation that would work on a large scale. It works in corporations where there aren't that many people.
I suppose we should look at how different Revenue Departments do it. I know that there are countries that allow its citizens to submit their tax returns across the internet. However, many of these system don't use a real PKI.
One of the questions that I have been strugling with is the usability of current PKI systems. Technology exists to do wonderful things (not just in PKI) but the general public is not able to, or does not want to, understand and/or use it.
Oh yeah, regarding Banks. They don't use it and they just put the burden on the customer by saying you are using this system at your own risk...
My only comment to this is that fact that for it to really work each person who uses it will need a (public) key. In order for that to work you need to validate the users' identity. Does this mean that I will goto my local post office and sign-up, get I&A (Identification and Authentication) done and then get my key?
Are the keys real public keys ie: PKIX and PKCS standards?
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Does anybody care about the disposal issues of CF light-bulbs? There is Mercury in each and everyone of those things.
What would happen to the world if Microsoft said "Ok, enough's enough. 'Frig' you all!" and shuts down! They all have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of their lives (and then some). I think that a lot of people rely on MS software...
Eventually you get fed-up with the fly that buzzes around your head and you kill it.
Have you looked at the White House on Google Maps? Zoom right in and look at the very even, rectangular shapes that are the White House and the two buildings on each side across the street. Google has drawn overtop these buildings - the question is why did they draw on top of the White House but not any other well known foriegn buildings?
When the rules say that you must spend your budget by the end of the fiscal year, of which I would say 20-40% is left until the end, it is not surprising that there is something overlooked.
It is always a nice sight to walk around a government office in the first few weeks of April to see hardware upgrades sitting in boxes that won't be used until June or July. The 19 inch CRT monitor bought last year is being replaced with a nice new flat screen LCD...
My Question: Is this really necessary? Don't we Canadians pay enough tax to be spent in a last ditch effort at the end of the year?
Hey, I was just wondering if Sun is going to get upset (read as: call the lawyers we wanna sue!) because of the use of the name Cobalt.
There used to be a Linux appliance company called Cobalt that was bought out by Sun a while back now.
I couldn't find a link on Sun's site to the Cobalt products but I did find one to their support site
Hmmm....
As you say: If they do it right
I have been dealing with PKI for 7 years now and still have not seen an implementation that would work on a large scale. It works in corporations where there aren't that many people.
I suppose we should look at how different Revenue Departments do it. I know that there are countries that allow its citizens to submit their tax returns across the internet. However, many of these system don't use a real PKI.
One of the questions that I have been strugling with is the usability of current PKI systems. Technology exists to do wonderful things (not just in PKI) but the general public is not able to, or does not want to, understand and/or use it.
Oh yeah, regarding Banks. They don't use it and they just put the burden on the customer by saying you are using this system at your own risk...
My only comment to this is that fact that for it to really work each person who uses it will need a (public) key. In order for that to work you need to validate the users' identity.
Does this mean that I will goto my local post office and sign-up, get I&A (Identification and Authentication) done and then get my key?
Are the keys real public keys ie: PKIX and PKCS standards?