Who makes your motherboards? My Asus boards have new bios upgrades everytime AMD releases a new chip. Hell, I bought my motherboard two years ago and it can take this new chip if I feel the need to upgrade, since I'm never home anymore I haven't bothered.
Many international criminals are caught everyday through agency cooperation across borders. The FBI for instance did the investigation of the bombing of the Marine Corp barracks back in 1983. To say their jurisdiction ends at the U.S. border while technically accurate isn't the end of the story. In more recent times they investigated the first bombing of the WTC towers which required international cooperation again.
Then you are really saying with a straight face that warrantless wiretaps and GPS trackers on vehicles are not collecting evidence? Or perhaps you believe that this was always done and the laws surrounding Watergate somehow don't apply today. Those are just two examples, there are plenty more.
The reason I limited it to the last thirty years was again because of the parent which mentioned the last few decades and 30 years made sense as that is about the time our civil liberties were beginning to erode. You mention women couldn't vote, you mention jews treated like second class citizens, all things that were well on their way to recovery 30 years ago. Abortions now are even under attack even if it's unlikely the law will get changed and you really want to mention the whole black president thing with the birther issue so fresh? Are you serious?
I'm not sure why you want to argue that civil liberties aren't under attack in this day and age.
So I see you think Apple will survive with Jobs at the helm.
On a more serious note this shit bothers me because people seem to have forgotten why we set out on our war campaign to begin with. Osama Bin Laden orchestrated an attack that killed thousands of Americans on American soil and now has paid the price for his crime. The FBI and Interpol probably would have gotten him a long time ago if they had been able to do their jobs instead of needlessly engaging the military which had never dealt with terrorism before. Imagine if the military went in and did the investigation for the Oklahoma city bombing? Or the first WTC bombing?
Any, I for one am happy that at least one stated objective has been reached and hope we can finally begin the process of cleaning up the mess we've created with our tantrum across the middle east fueled largely by previous embarrassments.
Sorry, where have I been granted more freedom in the last 30 years? Everywhere you look more is being taken away by both the war on drugs and terrorism. Remember times when a warrant was necessary to collect evidence? Remember when you had a right to speedy trial and didn't have to rot in jail for years on end without charge?
I'm amazed that you choose to blind yourself of the politics of the last 30 years and then have the balls to declare someone else deluded. Remember when I couldn't get a DUI for driving while sober? Now adays you can fail a piss test being bone sober and still end up with a DUI because a cop says you drove funny and even though you blow 0.0.
Parent wasn't a brave soul fighting anything, there is a big difference between acknowledging reality and doing something to fix it. Parent also said nothing about being persecuted.
Actually this attitude is very much prevalent in the professional community. I myself have had independent contractors come in to verify my work. They will inventory assets, model topology, analyze business rules, and then provide a conclusion with a course of action.
Three times in five years this has happened to me, all three times I was promoted afterwards as my inconvenient conclusions were verified by a third party, sometimes by more than one depending on the size of my proposal. They then gave me the funds to invest according to the plan I laid out. It's called due diligence and very much means do the investigation yourself.
The nice thing about the global scientific community is that while your analytic expert cannot obtain new raw data, they can however use a different team's raw data and see if it tracks, this happens quite often with meta-studies comparing data from sometimes dozens of different sources. This is why science is never about trust or the lack of trust. It is always, test and verify. None of the climate scientists are saying we should shut down all electricity and slow global warming to it's normal track. They are merely saying that we need to make preparations for changes that are coming and anything we can do to slow those changes will give us more time to prepare. In short, they are saying invest in one or both but certainly not none.
How so? Given that climate scientists don't make decisions on public policy, what large corporations have been put out of business by "going green." I haven't seen any proposals put forth by the scientific community that would put anyone out of business, in general it only creates more business opportunities which I have trouble seeing as a bad thing although I'm certainly will to hear arguments.
The issue at hand is consumers can't afford for some industries to keep growing, look at record profits for oil companies during a recession. Cutting into the profits of those large oil companies, and they are just one example of many industries potentially getting affected hardly seems like a bad idea since they have never paid the full costs associated with their products. Now that we better understand those costs they are naturally fighting tooth and nail to retain their profits while we try to reclaim what we've lost.
It's funny how I pay more for a car battery if I don't have my old battery to replace it with. No one complains about it because of how toxic they are if they aren't disposed of properly or in many cases recycled preventing the need to make more car batteries. It's a sensible approach to making sure that damage is prevented or cleaned up. The additional funds for the battery go straight to environmental efforts while the cost of the battery and usual profit margins are retained.
Now people want to do this on a much grander scale and are encountering resistance why exactly? As I said, it doesn't put anyone out of business.
Out of curiosity, have you used Amazon EC2 services? You manage your hosts exactly like you would in a dedicated hosting environment, you even remote desktop into Windows hosts or SSH into Linux hosts. Unless you can use your existing server as a template and clone away you're going to need to do a lot of fine tuning and that's assuming your webapp can handle that as load balancing and others are all addons which can easily end up costing quite a bit.
I tried out EC2 for my last large web event knowing I needed some extra database horsepower and not only was clock speed low but my only choice was to scale out instead of up.
There are very specific cases I've found where an external cloud is useful. Now internally I like the technology a lot as I've practically eliminated server hardware failure causing any downtime. Rapid prototyping is a snap too. When it comes to external resources and expected traffic spikes I'll spawn a few instances a week ahead on EC2 and sure it's better than buying servers for that one event. When constant traffic levels require cloud resources then it's time to scale up in-house resources as EC2 quickly becomes expensive. Want to test new Extranet functionality? Okay, EC2. Generally anything long term I feel at this point has no business being in a cloud service providers hands.
I've done almost exactly that actually. I created a drive mapping and told him to just use drive d for his documents. It was actually fairly easy, since it's DOS there is no logging into a machine within a machine, you just hit the big play button and then you're in your legacy app provided you autostarted with a good old fashioned autoexec.bat file. There's then nothing him him to really grasp then.
Of course if they are resistant to change then they probably aren't worth going through too much hassle for. For me, I did it as an intellectual exercise as I was used to network scripting because of my Netware admin days with IBM EduQuest machines. It comes back pretty quick, especially since these days you can just Google it.
I would hope that no one is a devotee of any product that is in an admin position. I ran into delegation issues with Active Directory left and right, I had far more granular control over with NDS and at least the first release of eDirectory. Around that time I left my job as a Netware Admin and was mostly in the Windows world.
Of course environments were much simpler in those days so my perception could well be off.
As someone that loved NDS and is less familiar with the later eDirectory, what didn't you like about it when compared with Active Directory of the same era? Only since Server 2008 has Active Directory met up with NDS functionality, did Novell screw the pooch on edirectory?
8 years in one go sounds great except for all of the integration that will need to happen which will leave ATT plenty of room to screw it all up.
Everyone is more or less bitching about the lack of options, there are no good ones here in the U.S. and this merging will mean that we are facing even fewer options even though your assessment of T-Mobile is probably quite accurate. ATT is still a telecom company however, and they think like one too. Think about the expansion of POTS throughout the country and how long that infrastructure lasted before it needed DSL. ISPs are accustomed to the constant pace of technological progression, cable companies and telcos are clueless. Sadly they have the money so they are dominant players these days.
Of course I'm here in AZ but I travel to California, Nevada, Vermont, and Florida all the time on business and it sucks there too. Vegas is actually alright as long as you're not in a casino. This is not all ATTs fault, here at my office there are three new towers that ATT has put up that would help us out but all of them are offline pending local and federal approval.
While you're correct, overprovisioning is a science both in storage and in bandwidth worlds. We in the storage world do it on purpose but know that once we start getting close to our limits that we need to expand. When we see trends of increased storage utilization we start planning on additional storage and then hopefully when we're at or near capacity we bring more online. AT&T failed to act and upgrade the feeds from their towers. This is not as surprise as I've recently been up close and personal with building an ATT tower which for some pathetic reason chooses to bond T1s when a SONET back-end is in the same damned room. They would rather gang 16 T1s together than open up 100megs of ethernet.
Old school thinking is limiting their network, it will take a lot of reinvestment to give them the ability to keep up, connection speeds have scaled faster than backhaul capacity and ATT failed to update backhaul while upgrading to 3G and are seeing even more problems trying to go 4G, so much so they have to buy T-Mobile to give them a platform to stand on.
You're funny given that you're rationalizing not giving people the ability to tether the lower end iPad to their iPhone when it's a simple software decision that wouldn't have cost Apple anything to offer to the public. Apple did it simply to force people to buy the higher end iPad plain and simple. I didn't even say what they did was wrong although I believe it was. I was lamenting the fact that their PR had you making crazy justifications for spending more on an iPad. I'm quite impressed with this aspect of Apple actually. Back in the old days Microsoft was famous for PR like this, these days Apple is doing it the best. Always neat to see titans trade positions.
You mean because Apple wanted to force people to buy the 3G iPad instead. Apple did everything they could to make the higher end iPads look better. I give them credit for PR as apparently many people fell for it.
Rrrrright, just like they didn't feel a need for a camera, oh wait, now there's the iPad 2 now with camera! Apple is famous for withholding tech to give incentives to buy the new version. 95% of iPad owners probably have little in common, consider a lot of dialup users even today see no advantage to broadband Internet because they don't know any better. The only difference is that many people on Slashdot know that there are other options which don't have artificial limitations.
While that would be nice, ISPs would have trouble charging for IPv6 addresses and they can charge more for IPv4, that is why they are slow to adopt it at the end-user level.
The other issue is that a lot of carriers are using older gear which still doesn't support IPv6. That's changing fast these days but is still a very real issue. Then of course you've got the problem where the vast vast majority of home routers and modems don't support IPv6 either. Hell, only recently did enterprise firewall providers like Sonicwall started offering support.
Right now, unless you're struggling with NAT in your organization there is no real desire for most people to change as most networks are already functional.
How long ago was that? Health insurance premiums here have more than tripled, the company I work for used to cover it all but about four years ago started splitting the cost 50/50 with us. Now I pay about $160 for my portion alone and I have no medical issues and am in my 20s.
I'm not sure about the logic of not being able to shop nationally, that should definitely get lifted. These days only huge corporations can afford to cover the entire cost of healthcare premiums but of course they don't because they need to maximize profit.
You are splitting hairs, the end result is the same. Also note, that if you give up your part time job, less work gets done meaning that you contribute less to the national economy both from a production and consumption standpoint, at least in the context that we're discussing.
My only issue with taxing Internet shopping is that it is technologically infeasible for the vast majority of companies out there. Does my storefront now have to know tax rates for every state in the union? What about every county and city as that would inevitably include? It's a lot like changing daylight savings recently to try and save energy when it ends up costing far more in lost productivity and software development.
No offence, but that is a silly stance to take. We have both a revenue and spending problem. Since cutting off healthcare to the elderly is pretty much political suicide that leaves you with only a few choices left when dealing with the issue. Also note that corporate taxes are the lowest they've been in 30 years.
That's funny, I grew up in a small town too and still, my neighbors didn't know why location at any given time short of, I'm home, or that I'm not at home.
There is a world of difference between small town gossip with five people pulling over the side of the road when they see someone they know in a traffic accident and a government body actively tracking the movements of the entire population.
There is nothing anywhere in the constitution that gives the government the ability to track people without warrants. This is another perversion of the principles on which the United States was founded. Somewhere along the line people became so afraid that the country with the strongest military in the world has to start defending themselves from shadowy figures that don't exist.
Imagine if the FBI and Interpol worked together like they do everyday and we actually caught the man responsible for 9/11? We already had the tools and instead decided to use a hammer instead of a wrench, sure it sorta works but it screws up everything along the way and breaks everything around it.
I was wondering where parent was getting their pricing from because I wanted in on that back of the truck action. 10gig is still very hard for me to justify when LACP on my gear can bond up to 8 gigabit connections and is usually less than half and sometimes a quarter of the price of 10gig gear. It has taken a long time to even start coming down in price.
Slashdot Mirror
Who makes your motherboards? My Asus boards have new bios upgrades everytime AMD releases a new chip. Hell, I bought my motherboard two years ago and it can take this new chip if I feel the need to upgrade, since I'm never home anymore I haven't bothered.
Many international criminals are caught everyday through agency cooperation across borders. The FBI for instance did the investigation of the bombing of the Marine Corp barracks back in 1983. To say their jurisdiction ends at the U.S. border while technically accurate isn't the end of the story. In more recent times they investigated the first bombing of the WTC towers which required international cooperation again.
You obviously haven't look very hard in regards to indefinite detention. There are more examples as well.
Then you are really saying with a straight face that warrantless wiretaps and GPS trackers on vehicles are not collecting evidence? Or perhaps you believe that this was always done and the laws surrounding Watergate somehow don't apply today. Those are just two examples, there are plenty more.
The reason I limited it to the last thirty years was again because of the parent which mentioned the last few decades and 30 years made sense as that is about the time our civil liberties were beginning to erode. You mention women couldn't vote, you mention jews treated like second class citizens, all things that were well on their way to recovery 30 years ago. Abortions now are even under attack even if it's unlikely the law will get changed and you really want to mention the whole black president thing with the birther issue so fresh? Are you serious?
I'm not sure why you want to argue that civil liberties aren't under attack in this day and age.
So I see you think Apple will survive with Jobs at the helm.
On a more serious note this shit bothers me because people seem to have forgotten why we set out on our war campaign to begin with. Osama Bin Laden orchestrated an attack that killed thousands of Americans on American soil and now has paid the price for his crime. The FBI and Interpol probably would have gotten him a long time ago if they had been able to do their jobs instead of needlessly engaging the military which had never dealt with terrorism before. Imagine if the military went in and did the investigation for the Oklahoma city bombing? Or the first WTC bombing?
Any, I for one am happy that at least one stated objective has been reached and hope we can finally begin the process of cleaning up the mess we've created with our tantrum across the middle east fueled largely by previous embarrassments.
You neglect the most obvious question, if we knew how to get to Osama Bin Laden, why hadn't we done it already?
Sorry, where have I been granted more freedom in the last 30 years? Everywhere you look more is being taken away by both the war on drugs and terrorism. Remember times when a warrant was necessary to collect evidence? Remember when you had a right to speedy trial and didn't have to rot in jail for years on end without charge?
I'm amazed that you choose to blind yourself of the politics of the last 30 years and then have the balls to declare someone else deluded. Remember when I couldn't get a DUI for driving while sober? Now adays you can fail a piss test being bone sober and still end up with a DUI because a cop says you drove funny and even though you blow 0.0.
Parent wasn't a brave soul fighting anything, there is a big difference between acknowledging reality and doing something to fix it. Parent also said nothing about being persecuted.
Actually this attitude is very much prevalent in the professional community. I myself have had independent contractors come in to verify my work. They will inventory assets, model topology, analyze business rules, and then provide a conclusion with a course of action.
Three times in five years this has happened to me, all three times I was promoted afterwards as my inconvenient conclusions were verified by a third party, sometimes by more than one depending on the size of my proposal. They then gave me the funds to invest according to the plan I laid out. It's called due diligence and very much means do the investigation yourself.
The nice thing about the global scientific community is that while your analytic expert cannot obtain new raw data, they can however use a different team's raw data and see if it tracks, this happens quite often with meta-studies comparing data from sometimes dozens of different sources. This is why science is never about trust or the lack of trust. It is always, test and verify. None of the climate scientists are saying we should shut down all electricity and slow global warming to it's normal track. They are merely saying that we need to make preparations for changes that are coming and anything we can do to slow those changes will give us more time to prepare. In short, they are saying invest in one or both but certainly not none.
How so? Given that climate scientists don't make decisions on public policy, what large corporations have been put out of business by "going green." I haven't seen any proposals put forth by the scientific community that would put anyone out of business, in general it only creates more business opportunities which I have trouble seeing as a bad thing although I'm certainly will to hear arguments.
The issue at hand is consumers can't afford for some industries to keep growing, look at record profits for oil companies during a recession. Cutting into the profits of those large oil companies, and they are just one example of many industries potentially getting affected hardly seems like a bad idea since they have never paid the full costs associated with their products. Now that we better understand those costs they are naturally fighting tooth and nail to retain their profits while we try to reclaim what we've lost.
It's funny how I pay more for a car battery if I don't have my old battery to replace it with. No one complains about it because of how toxic they are if they aren't disposed of properly or in many cases recycled preventing the need to make more car batteries. It's a sensible approach to making sure that damage is prevented or cleaned up. The additional funds for the battery go straight to environmental efforts while the cost of the battery and usual profit margins are retained.
Now people want to do this on a much grander scale and are encountering resistance why exactly? As I said, it doesn't put anyone out of business.
Last I checked it was 2011, but the rest of the post still stands
Out of curiosity, have you used Amazon EC2 services? You manage your hosts exactly like you would in a dedicated hosting environment, you even remote desktop into Windows hosts or SSH into Linux hosts. Unless you can use your existing server as a template and clone away you're going to need to do a lot of fine tuning and that's assuming your webapp can handle that as load balancing and others are all addons which can easily end up costing quite a bit.
I tried out EC2 for my last large web event knowing I needed some extra database horsepower and not only was clock speed low but my only choice was to scale out instead of up.
There are very specific cases I've found where an external cloud is useful. Now internally I like the technology a lot as I've practically eliminated server hardware failure causing any downtime. Rapid prototyping is a snap too. When it comes to external resources and expected traffic spikes I'll spawn a few instances a week ahead on EC2 and sure it's better than buying servers for that one event. When constant traffic levels require cloud resources then it's time to scale up in-house resources as EC2 quickly becomes expensive. Want to test new Extranet functionality? Okay, EC2. Generally anything long term I feel at this point has no business being in a cloud service providers hands.
I've done almost exactly that actually. I created a drive mapping and told him to just use drive d for his documents. It was actually fairly easy, since it's DOS there is no logging into a machine within a machine, you just hit the big play button and then you're in your legacy app provided you autostarted with a good old fashioned autoexec.bat file. There's then nothing him him to really grasp then.
Of course if they are resistant to change then they probably aren't worth going through too much hassle for. For me, I did it as an intellectual exercise as I was used to network scripting because of my Netware admin days with IBM EduQuest machines. It comes back pretty quick, especially since these days you can just Google it.
I would hope that no one is a devotee of any product that is in an admin position. I ran into delegation issues with Active Directory left and right, I had far more granular control over with NDS and at least the first release of eDirectory. Around that time I left my job as a Netware Admin and was mostly in the Windows world.
Of course environments were much simpler in those days so my perception could well be off.
As someone that loved NDS and is less familiar with the later eDirectory, what didn't you like about it when compared with Active Directory of the same era? Only since Server 2008 has Active Directory met up with NDS functionality, did Novell screw the pooch on edirectory?
Do it all the time, easy as hell with Virtual Box.
8 years in one go sounds great except for all of the integration that will need to happen which will leave ATT plenty of room to screw it all up.
Everyone is more or less bitching about the lack of options, there are no good ones here in the U.S. and this merging will mean that we are facing even fewer options even though your assessment of T-Mobile is probably quite accurate. ATT is still a telecom company however, and they think like one too. Think about the expansion of POTS throughout the country and how long that infrastructure lasted before it needed DSL. ISPs are accustomed to the constant pace of technological progression, cable companies and telcos are clueless. Sadly they have the money so they are dominant players these days.
Of course I'm here in AZ but I travel to California, Nevada, Vermont, and Florida all the time on business and it sucks there too. Vegas is actually alright as long as you're not in a casino. This is not all ATTs fault, here at my office there are three new towers that ATT has put up that would help us out but all of them are offline pending local and federal approval.
While you're correct, overprovisioning is a science both in storage and in bandwidth worlds. We in the storage world do it on purpose but know that once we start getting close to our limits that we need to expand. When we see trends of increased storage utilization we start planning on additional storage and then hopefully when we're at or near capacity we bring more online. AT&T failed to act and upgrade the feeds from their towers. This is not as surprise as I've recently been up close and personal with building an ATT tower which for some pathetic reason chooses to bond T1s when a SONET back-end is in the same damned room. They would rather gang 16 T1s together than open up 100megs of ethernet.
Old school thinking is limiting their network, it will take a lot of reinvestment to give them the ability to keep up, connection speeds have scaled faster than backhaul capacity and ATT failed to update backhaul while upgrading to 3G and are seeing even more problems trying to go 4G, so much so they have to buy T-Mobile to give them a platform to stand on.
You're funny given that you're rationalizing not giving people the ability to tether the lower end iPad to their iPhone when it's a simple software decision that wouldn't have cost Apple anything to offer to the public. Apple did it simply to force people to buy the higher end iPad plain and simple. I didn't even say what they did was wrong although I believe it was. I was lamenting the fact that their PR had you making crazy justifications for spending more on an iPad. I'm quite impressed with this aspect of Apple actually. Back in the old days Microsoft was famous for PR like this, these days Apple is doing it the best. Always neat to see titans trade positions.
You mean because Apple wanted to force people to buy the 3G iPad instead. Apple did everything they could to make the higher end iPads look better. I give them credit for PR as apparently many people fell for it.
Rrrrright, just like they didn't feel a need for a camera, oh wait, now there's the iPad 2 now with camera! Apple is famous for withholding tech to give incentives to buy the new version. 95% of iPad owners probably have little in common, consider a lot of dialup users even today see no advantage to broadband Internet because they don't know any better. The only difference is that many people on Slashdot know that there are other options which don't have artificial limitations.
While that would be nice, ISPs would have trouble charging for IPv6 addresses and they can charge more for IPv4, that is why they are slow to adopt it at the end-user level.
The other issue is that a lot of carriers are using older gear which still doesn't support IPv6. That's changing fast these days but is still a very real issue. Then of course you've got the problem where the vast vast majority of home routers and modems don't support IPv6 either. Hell, only recently did enterprise firewall providers like Sonicwall started offering support.
Right now, unless you're struggling with NAT in your organization there is no real desire for most people to change as most networks are already functional.
How long ago was that? Health insurance premiums here have more than tripled, the company I work for used to cover it all but about four years ago started splitting the cost 50/50 with us. Now I pay about $160 for my portion alone and I have no medical issues and am in my 20s.
I'm not sure about the logic of not being able to shop nationally, that should definitely get lifted. These days only huge corporations can afford to cover the entire cost of healthcare premiums but of course they don't because they need to maximize profit.
You are splitting hairs, the end result is the same. Also note, that if you give up your part time job, less work gets done meaning that you contribute less to the national economy both from a production and consumption standpoint, at least in the context that we're discussing.
My only issue with taxing Internet shopping is that it is technologically infeasible for the vast majority of companies out there. Does my storefront now have to know tax rates for every state in the union? What about every county and city as that would inevitably include? It's a lot like changing daylight savings recently to try and save energy when it ends up costing far more in lost productivity and software development.
No offence, but that is a silly stance to take. We have both a revenue and spending problem. Since cutting off healthcare to the elderly is pretty much political suicide that leaves you with only a few choices left when dealing with the issue. Also note that corporate taxes are the lowest they've been in 30 years.
That's funny, I grew up in a small town too and still, my neighbors didn't know why location at any given time short of, I'm home, or that I'm not at home.
There is a world of difference between small town gossip with five people pulling over the side of the road when they see someone they know in a traffic accident and a government body actively tracking the movements of the entire population.
There is nothing anywhere in the constitution that gives the government the ability to track people without warrants. This is another perversion of the principles on which the United States was founded. Somewhere along the line people became so afraid that the country with the strongest military in the world has to start defending themselves from shadowy figures that don't exist.
Imagine if the FBI and Interpol worked together like they do everyday and we actually caught the man responsible for 9/11? We already had the tools and instead decided to use a hammer instead of a wrench, sure it sorta works but it screws up everything along the way and breaks everything around it.
I was wondering where parent was getting their pricing from because I wanted in on that back of the truck action. 10gig is still very hard for me to justify when LACP on my gear can bond up to 8 gigabit connections and is usually less than half and sometimes a quarter of the price of 10gig gear. It has taken a long time to even start coming down in price.