Are you also referring to the smog of NYC when it was all horse and buggy? Perhaps you're talking about people that can't go outside on certain days in LA because the smog will trigger an asthma attack instantly?
I'm sorry, perhaps you can explain to me why 30 years ago the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks didn't have an acid rain problem? You're theory doesn't hold water as that is not the only region experiencing the long term effects of smog. The acid of upstate New York is from the Ohio Valley, do you really think the smog of LA has had no contributing effects on say Arizona here which is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record? Perhaps the drought in Florida has nothing to do with anything either? This is all just the U.S. I'm talking about. 30 years ago people were flocking to Arizona because the air was cleaner than LA and older people could breathe easier. That is no longer the case. 30 years ago Houston had no smog problem either and now it is one of the worst cities in America.
No one said we could stop global warming, no one even proposed that we try. The only thing people are advocating is that we slow it down by not contributing so much. Something quite easily in our power if we can stop debating the need for it and start debating the best way to accomplish it.
I don't disagree with anything you've said here and that's my point. We should do what we can while we can. Everyone doesn't need to dump their SUV right now, turning down the burner isn't going to stop us from warming up but it will slow the warming down a little bit giving us more time to adapt to a warming earth. As you said yourself that's going to take a lot more resources than people realize and I couldn't agree more. That's why we slow it down as best we can to give us more time to collect the proper resources and pull people away from the coasts at a pace that is actually sustainable without crippling economies.
Another point I have is that whoever comes up with the best method to produce clean energy will become very rich selling their technology to other countries. There does not need to be one method either.
I'm curious who did the math that said a few hundred miles worth of ice melting won't raise the ocean levels. Where is all that water going to go?
The only part about the debate that bothers me in that they are debating what is happening and not what we can do to stop damage we know we are doing. Mercury is a great example as we know why it ends up in our ground water. Why don't we do something about it? We know why fish are poisoned with it, so why don't we do something? We don't need to debate how bad the problem is, we need to debate cost effective ways of reducing our impact on our surroundings while maintaining our way of life.
That said, I'm not sure humans want to follow the balance of nature, as you probably know the earth as swung back and forth from ice age to hot house and back again. I don't think we want to endure that, the last time it happened there was a mass extinction greater than we are seeing right now. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Of course there are also increasingly violent storms we'll have to deal with as it gets warmer. Why? We have the power to reduce our impact, why don't we start doing something?
During those warming periods the earth was a very different place. I don't think the few hundred million people on the coasts would like it if their land disappeared because we melted all the ice that froze during the last ice age.
We're in a position now where we can do something about our environment, it makes absolutely no sense to continue on an unsustainable path when alternatives exist. The further problem of increasingly violent storms will make living on earth a lot more difficult. Humanity will most certainly survive and adapt but if we change our ways now which is within or scope of knowledge to do then we don't have to adapt. That is the difference between humans and animals and the reason apes are more evolved than humans now. We haven't had to evolve because we change our surroundings to suit us.
As for the causes of it getting warmer I put to you that both are indeed contributing factors although far more of the atmosphere has been changed than you indicate with your.02% figure. One need only look at the smog of LA and Houston and most other cities to see the impact is far great than you indicate. If two burners are cooking us and we don't want to get cooked then don't we do what is in our power to shut off the burner we have control over?
I really see no downside, we don't even have to stop our fossil fuel burning, we merely have to slow it the hell down and use alternatives which is a good idea anyway considering there always have been and there always will be people fighting for resources.
One more question, at one time before the earth contained water was it ever as hot as it is today? At one time was there more CO2 in the air?
Tell that to the Amiga guys and to AMD when they chose IPC over clock while the P4 was around. Both are very important. The industry spent years ramping up the clock and now they're spending a few years working on IPC. It makes perfect sense to me. Moore's law also doesn't refer to the frequency of a chip but to the number of transistors which has kept pace especially now with the 45nm processes.
Personally I think for the moment IPC is far more important than frequency given computers are doing more and more these days not just doing one thing faster.
What is draconian about the laws in SF or NYC? The waiting period? How is it at all difficult for a regular citizen to get a gun for their own purposes?
So you're saying the world is more polite now since everyone is already armed. I guess you just had your tense wrong in your post.
Guns don't make people polite in much the same way as guns don't kill people. The two are not linked in any way. I know plenty of asses with guns and I know plenty of nice people with guns and they don't go around shooting at each-other. The same goes when you're in the bars where no one is allowed to carry a weapon. You don't see people getting in fights there, then going out to their truck to grab their gun. That only happens in a city where your population density inherently causes unrest.
I would say today the world is indeed a lot more polite than it has been historically. The annoyances of a cell phone are far easier to take than a swarm of gang members coming through with machetes like what has been seen in Africa now and America two hundred years prior.
One need only look at the Salem witch trials to see how impolite America used to be. Although that ignores the sword fights and beating found in the UK since they banned guns. I'd say there is a happy medium in their somewhere.
I'm not saying whether I agree or disagree with the philosophy of capital punishment but what world was more polite when everyone was armed? Are you talking about colonial America where native Americans were executed en masse? Perhaps the 1800s when we had the civil war where whole towns were decimated? Maybe the 1900's when the workers had to physically fight for their right to live in dangerous factory conditions and indentured servitude? Or when we started controlling how armed and powerful the individual is and America became a world super power?
I've heard this argument against gun control numerous times and it's simply not true, look at Africa to see what happens when a large portion of the population has a lot of guns.
Personally, I'm from Vermont, I believe that if someone wants to own a gun then they should be able to as long as they are properly trained and of course mentally fit. That means that they don't shoot to kill just because someone broke into their house and is stealing grandmas jewelry. Vermont has very low gun violence and very liberal laws when it comes to gun control. Just about every house has a least one rifle but they understand that the actions have consequences and that shooting anyone is a big deal. The worse they are on someone committing a crime the worse situation they could potentially be in if they were mistaken for someone else. It's the whole do to others as you would have done to you thing.
Out of curiosity what country has a lower population density and has better penetration than the U.S.? What country has less urbanization and more penetration?
Personally I don't care what position the U.S. is in in relation to the rest of the world, I have fast, reliable access when and where I need it, except when I'm in Florida. WAAS technologies have eased that burden so it matters less to me. As frustrated as I get with the lack of progress despite billions of subsidies towards the telecomms I still see the large bandwidth sites being mostly hosted out of the U.S. That's starting to change and I welcome it! I like the fact that the world as a whole is moving forward on this and I'm not too concerned yet that the U.S. is falling further and further behind. That's always been the history, let the problem get real bad, when it's bad enough the right people will take notice and real change will happen and we'll be on top again for a little while until the cycle comes back around again.
Last I checked, if I make a copy of a cd and give it to my friend then no law has been broken as that is fair-use. So no one is responsible. The same goes for the email scenario. The only time the scenario flies out the windows is with P2P because I don't know if you are a friend or some random person. Intent obviously plays into this as well. Blindly copying is different than making a copy for a friend.
You're right about justifying the copying to the general public but this kid wasn't copying the music. He stored it on a server which happened to be accessible by others. The other people copying it are then violating the copyright if they are further copying the material. The case in question isn't about down stream copying though since the student in question had a license to the content he converted into another medium. He broke no laws.
Last I checked document destruction was perfectly legal as long as it was a stated policy ahead of time and that it was followed consistently. At least this is what the lawyers told me the other day while I was discussing our document retention policy. Makes me wonder how the hell the judge thinks she can order this policy changed. The whole purpose for not logging IP addresses is to avoid this mess to begin with. Combine that with huge storage requirements, hell my web logs are in the terabytes already over the course of a year. I can't imagine having to retain them longer. I do this for webtrends analysis although it does open me up to this whole mess as well. Fortunately my website doesn't host any content that isn't owned by us.
I think they should definitely do what IBM did and just print a memory dump from noon and a dump from 8pm, and a dump from midnight. That should be sufficient to make the point clear that this is absurd.
Don't get me wrong, Clinton wasn't that much better but he didn't surround himself with yes men, when the time came he also told people to be honest when people were asking questions. That weighs a lot in my opinion of him especially considering how Bush is trying to push everything aside just to move forward into further disaster.
Since all the Daily Shows were removed from youtube I can't link to that specifically but there is this Evidence for the lazy
The argument is rather irrelevant considering none of this is new, they've had plenty of time to put out a correct version of the facts if that were even possible, there is a reason a very very large number of people are under this impression, we didn't pull it out of the thin air. If that was wrong it shouldn't have taken until 2005 for them to say so.
As for the rhetoric there is definitely no shortage of it but saying Iraq is another front on the war on terror despite Iraq not being involved in any terror threats whatsoever can really only lead someone to think one thing in regards to this. Either they were lying and it was a seperate war or they are linked without any evidence. Which is it?
I do carry around a card reader with me. USB is far more common than desktop computers with WIFI. Most of the time I get away with a USB memory stick but sometimes I'm working on a project on my phone, for those situations SD is portable and very simple to use. It also works from phone to phone if I need to share with someone else while we're away.
Setting up proper security for a P2P setup seems like more work than plugging in a card reader. Could just be my whacked out opinion though./p?
How many desktop computers have either wifi or bluetooth? Now how many have USB that I can plug my card reader into?
Perhaps you missed the whole part about the iPhone being based on OS X which is why the discussion about OS X happened. You also don't seem to have an understanding of enterprise management and that I manage phones and computers with SMS. There are linux based alternatives but there is no centralized management with patch deployment in the OS X platform which is just one of many enterprise features. Remote lockout is not a security mechanism worth deploying, remotely erasing the content is since the data is stored on the central server there is no risk of loss of data. Additionally I can deploy software to phones such as camera control software, Picsel, or just updating root certificates.
A system could be kludged together that would work but it would be nowhere near as elegant as a blackberry setup or even better, the Exchange/SMS/ActiveSync method.
Open standards are great and all but a very very large portion of the world is based on Exchange when it comes to their mailboxes. That is the reality of business today all over the world. That means Windows Mobile on the cheap on Blackberry Enterprise on the expensive end. The iPhone doesn't live up to either the Blackberry or Windows Mobile in regards to enterprise management and monitoring which is just me repeating myself.
I'm sorry you can't see what a sysadmin has to do with deploying phones. As for people picking their phones, most business phones are purchased and supported by the company, which means the company is going to choose phones that it can manage. Why would a company allow it's email and other resources to be moved to untrusted devices off campus? The iPhone would qualify as untrusted as it can't live up to deployment of two enterprise mobile OS's in regards to security and access controls. I can prevent users from removing software for instance.
Last thing I'll add is that you have poor reading comprehension skills. I never said OS X had binary compatibility and I never said I didn't like OS X. I said specifically that it was lacking enterprise features. When those features are added and when combined with binary compatibility OS X would have what it needs to take over. I'm just repeating myself again though. You seem eager to write me off as a troll. In any case, I'd suggest you make less assumptions and read what is written.
The wallet is pretty much the size of a memory stick. I also use a memory stick on my keychain. Basically I'm never without the ability to transfer files haha
I more or less meant this was a great mechanism to share files from a phone to a PC, functionality you won't get with the iPhone unless I'm mistaken which is certainly possible.
Ironically the Daily show had the best summary of this playing all the video clips of both Cheney and Bush making the claim that Iraq was linked to 9/11. They had about a 10 minute video clip of all the times they have spouted it. I don't believe you honestly think the president and vice president never made such a claim as it was everywhere and became party line speak.
You're asking for evidence here is just asking people to produce articles describing that the sky is blue. Why on earth would everyone be under the impression that Iraq was linked to Al-qaida? What terror events was Iraq involved in before we invaded that would justify the war on terror?
They have always been intrinsically linked whether you wish to deny it or not. Personally I think there are plenty of other reasons to impeach and jail both Cheney and Bush that it's not even worth debating this particular point which is why I have not provided any evidence as well.
That is too bad, when you're in a position of power I would tend to think you would surround yourself with competent people. Even competent people make mistakes, as long as their work made sense there wouldn't be any problems.
The only problem is that clearly, if Bush did not willfully lie about Iraq then he took loyalty of competence in which case he should be nailed to the wall for being an idiot. The worst mistakes in my life have been prevented because I had people disagree with me before I did it. The worst mistakes in my life were also with stupid friends around who assume it's a great idea to jump off the roof of a house and somersault down a hill. When the people around you are stupid and willing to jump with you nothing but bad will happen. Anything good was just lucky.
That was one thing Clinton did right in bringing both democrats and republicans into his cabinet. Mistakes were indeed made but none of them were highly public and obviously criminal with one exception of course.
As I recall, the invasion took place two years after Clinton's administration. A lot changes in that time so if an attack was based on information that old then that would be criminally negligent. The evidence presented was never classified as credible and should not have been referenced without further substantiation. Inspectors should have gone in, if they were denied then that reason alone should have been the justification on top of genocide of course. It amazes me that there were so many real reasons to invade and none of them were used.
Why is Clinton in this conversation at all? Authorizing torture, warrant less wiretapping alone are enough to impeach Bush. Everyone knew the intelligence about Iraq was wrong but a lot of people had their own reasons to invade. As you said, Clinton wanted to invade but didn't have the political power he needed because congress was openly hostile towards him.
As much as I despise a lot of things Clinton allowed like the DMCA I am happy republicans were in control while he was president. It limited the damage he could do. Is it any wonder Bush was able to cause so much harm while republicans were the majority? That was the real problem since the party line was being towed from two branches.
Regardless of the intelligence which actually did clearly state that Iraq did not have WMDs Bush acted willfully making statements he had no evidence to back up. Uranium from Africa for instance was marked as not credible and was used as a key piece of evidence. Wouldn't someone try to substantiate that first before committing billions of dollars and thousands of lives to the task? Failing to do so is criminally negligent.
Of course then there were the war crimes which continue to this day, torture and unlawful prisons detaining people indefinitely are all things both not in the spirit of this country but also illegal. Then of course the actions with humiliating prisoners resulting in only low level members of the military seeing any discipline when it was up to the high level officials to ensure all proper procedures were being followed. That means they are just as guilty and should be punished accordingly.
My company is required to retain email communication going back 7 years. That means all email coming in is copied to another account which is then archived. So I have a record of every email going in and out of the company backed up to tape of course so that the account doesn't get too large.
This is common among a lot of companies that are high profile and have to deal with lawsuits. The government should be held to an even higher standard as it is important that the temporary powers that are granted are not abused. The only way to know that they are not abused is to retain all communications for audit should it be necessary. It is not even remotely technically difficult to do. I can setup almost any exchange environment to do this in less than 5 minutes assuming multiple mailbox servers and access to powershell.
I've never considered the pardoning of Nixon a good thing. He we are not even 40 years later with a President condoning far worse crimes such as torture and warrant less wiretapping. Hell, there have even been things considered war crimes committed in the name of the United States which goes against everything the country stands for. At what point do we say stop, you have behaved like a criminal, it is time for us to treat you like one and throw them the hell in jail.
I think that would do far more to actually healing the country versus getting us to start thinking about other problems to tackle. International opinion has never been a concern of the United States and I don't think it should play a part in our decisions now.
I think we need to do something about the wrongs being committed against American citizens as well as the wrongs Americans are committing against others. If we're fighting a war on terror and Americans are now less safe because we can be stripped of our citizenship and shipped to Guantanamo bay where we can be held for more than 5 years without even a hearing then this country has some serious problems that should never have been allowed in the first place. No where in the constitution does is say that the government can torture people, and no where does it say that the government can spy on our own people. If we're going to become a police state then the legislature needs to bring it forward and pass laws to allow this all to happen legally.
In short, Nixon gave America some serious nerve damage, we just stopped more damage from happening and didn't go through any therapy to get back what we lost because we chose to just forget about it. We can't afford to forget about Bush and all the rights that we have lost without a constitutional amendment. That's not supposed to be possible.
I have an SD wallet where I keep the majority of my cards. One has my password database and a few other pieces of reference material like encryption keys and whatnot. Another has music, another has just documents and mail attachments. I keep that one in the majority of the time. I don't have an issue with the card popping out but I do know a few people do have a problem with that. I guess there should be some kind of lock added to prevent that.
I ran into the same problem with a photographer giving me photos. He's on a Mac and I'm on Windows. I booted into Knoppix, formatted the drive fat32 for him and then we were both happy.
I don't have to be within bluetooth range. I can be anywhere with cell coverage and everything stays synchronized. It's the same case with a blackberry or any Windows Mobile device. The iPhone simply lacks this feature. This may change but I doubt it considering RIM had to make their own server platform to allow it work with varying mail environments.
Wifi is a great feature to have but it is no replacement for an SD card. An SD card can be removed from the phone and plugged into a computer when you get to where you are going where the files can be transferred. Relying on Internet access is never a good idea although it is more and more reliable these days on phones.
You're right, I won't know about deployment details of the iPhone until it is out. Considering it is coming out this month and there is still no word on deployment details that leads me to believe the phone is not meant to be deployed in business. Every other maker would have reference materials available so guys like me could actually put these things to use.
I'm sorry you think that OS X Server is remotely as capable as a SUSE ES deployment or a Windows environment. You're simply wrong. Xen on SUSE is incredibly powerful and allows you to remotely customize the user experience not per computer, but per user. SMS on Windows is the same way. Both offer remote application deployment, compliance monitoring, patch management, custom application management, and are platform agnostic. SMS can manage Linux,Unix, and Windows, no OS X in there for probably obvious reasons. SUSE with Xen will operate under the same platform restrictions because Apple has never had an interest in the advanced management and monitoring capabilities that truly enterprise class environments offer.
I'm sorry you think someone saying Apple is lacking is trolling. I feel real bad for your employer as he or she is probably missing on out on some truly great technology. Apple's SAN technology is similarly lacking opting to manage individually instead of consolidating with other vendors.
You only need to look at the success of Net Appliance to realize that creating more islands is a bad idea and that consolidating storage and management is a great idea.
Also, I did not say that OS X had binary compatibility with Windows. In fact, I said specifically the opposite adding that if Apple did add it then it would be a force to be reckoned with.
This are lots of free and open-source tools out there that can fill in the gaps but they are no in one or even ten packages so they will not be widely deployed. That has always been the resistence to Linux in the business world because people are afraid of having to go and look for tools which invariably will have problems until they find the one tool that does what they need.
I'm not saying it's impossible to use it for business. Just that it's not very well suited for it. For a year I used my Samsung A900 phone for business, it worked, but my Treo works a hell of a lot better because it was actually designed with business in mind.
In addition to my Treo for work I have a Samsung A900 phone which is as thin as the Razr but the phone itself is wider than my previous phones. I should have been more specific when I said it was bigger. Previous phones, Nokia is the biggest offender, were getting too small to text on so makers started producing wider phones which could be thinner.
The fact that it is wider means it is easier to text with. It's plain and simple. Look at the shear numbers of text messages being sent around Europe, Asia, and America. America is lagging a bit because texting wasn't as reliable as it was in Europe. That has begun to change so texting is growing in popularity.
As for being polite in a meeting, note taking is common practice, I don't know about you, but I take notes on my phone, so it is indistinguishable from note taking to the people around me and is definitely never considered impolite. If you're texting alot during a meeting then that would be different, but a simple, I'll be around to your desk as soon as the meeting is over is far better than getting up out of the meeting stopping what everyone is doing to make a phone call about something that could have waited. To me, that is simply rude especially if you're a big contributor to the meeting. Even if it couldn't wait, a simple, restart your computer or call repair service is far simpler than getting up to have a conversation with someone.
Perhaps most simply of all if you're a manual note taker. You can excuse yourself for a second and type a message, hit send, and continue. People do this all the time around here at least. It's usually a response to an email instead of a text message but the result is the same.
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Are you also referring to the smog of NYC when it was all horse and buggy? Perhaps you're talking about people that can't go outside on certain days in LA because the smog will trigger an asthma attack instantly?
I'm sorry, perhaps you can explain to me why 30 years ago the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks didn't have an acid rain problem? You're theory doesn't hold water as that is not the only region experiencing the long term effects of smog. The acid of upstate New York is from the Ohio Valley, do you really think the smog of LA has had no contributing effects on say Arizona here which is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record? Perhaps the drought in Florida has nothing to do with anything either? This is all just the U.S. I'm talking about. 30 years ago people were flocking to Arizona because the air was cleaner than LA and older people could breathe easier. That is no longer the case. 30 years ago Houston had no smog problem either and now it is one of the worst cities in America.
No one said we could stop global warming, no one even proposed that we try. The only thing people are advocating is that we slow it down by not contributing so much. Something quite easily in our power if we can stop debating the need for it and start debating the best way to accomplish it.
I don't disagree with anything you've said here and that's my point. We should do what we can while we can. Everyone doesn't need to dump their SUV right now, turning down the burner isn't going to stop us from warming up but it will slow the warming down a little bit giving us more time to adapt to a warming earth. As you said yourself that's going to take a lot more resources than people realize and I couldn't agree more. That's why we slow it down as best we can to give us more time to collect the proper resources and pull people away from the coasts at a pace that is actually sustainable without crippling economies.
Another point I have is that whoever comes up with the best method to produce clean energy will become very rich selling their technology to other countries. There does not need to be one method either.
I'm curious who did the math that said a few hundred miles worth of ice melting won't raise the ocean levels. Where is all that water going to go?
The only part about the debate that bothers me in that they are debating what is happening and not what we can do to stop damage we know we are doing. Mercury is a great example as we know why it ends up in our ground water. Why don't we do something about it? We know why fish are poisoned with it, so why don't we do something? We don't need to debate how bad the problem is, we need to debate cost effective ways of reducing our impact on our surroundings while maintaining our way of life.
That said, I'm not sure humans want to follow the balance of nature, as you probably know the earth as swung back and forth from ice age to hot house and back again. I don't think we want to endure that, the last time it happened there was a mass extinction greater than we are seeing right now. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Of course there are also increasingly violent storms we'll have to deal with as it gets warmer. Why? We have the power to reduce our impact, why don't we start doing something?
During those warming periods the earth was a very different place. I don't think the few hundred million people on the coasts would like it if their land disappeared because we melted all the ice that froze during the last ice age.
We're in a position now where we can do something about our environment, it makes absolutely no sense to continue on an unsustainable path when alternatives exist. The further problem of increasingly violent storms will make living on earth a lot more difficult. Humanity will most certainly survive and adapt but if we change our ways now which is within or scope of knowledge to do then we don't have to adapt. That is the difference between humans and animals and the reason apes are more evolved than humans now. We haven't had to evolve because we change our surroundings to suit us.
As for the causes of it getting warmer I put to you that both are indeed contributing factors although far more of the atmosphere has been changed than you indicate with your .02% figure. One need only look at the smog of LA and Houston and most other cities to see the impact is far great than you indicate. If two burners are cooking us and we don't want to get cooked then don't we do what is in our power to shut off the burner we have control over?
I really see no downside, we don't even have to stop our fossil fuel burning, we merely have to slow it the hell down and use alternatives which is a good idea anyway considering there always have been and there always will be people fighting for resources.
One more question, at one time before the earth contained water was it ever as hot as it is today? At one time was there more CO2 in the air?
Tell that to the Amiga guys and to AMD when they chose IPC over clock while the P4 was around. Both are very important. The industry spent years ramping up the clock and now they're spending a few years working on IPC. It makes perfect sense to me. Moore's law also doesn't refer to the frequency of a chip but to the number of transistors which has kept pace especially now with the 45nm processes.
Personally I think for the moment IPC is far more important than frequency given computers are doing more and more these days not just doing one thing faster.
What is draconian about the laws in SF or NYC? The waiting period? How is it at all difficult for a regular citizen to get a gun for their own purposes?
I guess I'm asking, what's your point?
So you're saying the world is more polite now since everyone is already armed. I guess you just had your tense wrong in your post.
Guns don't make people polite in much the same way as guns don't kill people. The two are not linked in any way. I know plenty of asses with guns and I know plenty of nice people with guns and they don't go around shooting at each-other. The same goes when you're in the bars where no one is allowed to carry a weapon. You don't see people getting in fights there, then going out to their truck to grab their gun. That only happens in a city where your population density inherently causes unrest.
I would say today the world is indeed a lot more polite than it has been historically. The annoyances of a cell phone are far easier to take than a swarm of gang members coming through with machetes like what has been seen in Africa now and America two hundred years prior.
One need only look at the Salem witch trials to see how impolite America used to be. Although that ignores the sword fights and beating found in the UK since they banned guns. I'd say there is a happy medium in their somewhere.
I'm not saying whether I agree or disagree with the philosophy of capital punishment but what world was more polite when everyone was armed? Are you talking about colonial America where native Americans were executed en masse? Perhaps the 1800s when we had the civil war where whole towns were decimated? Maybe the 1900's when the workers had to physically fight for their right to live in dangerous factory conditions and indentured servitude? Or when we started controlling how armed and powerful the individual is and America became a world super power?
I've heard this argument against gun control numerous times and it's simply not true, look at Africa to see what happens when a large portion of the population has a lot of guns.
Personally, I'm from Vermont, I believe that if someone wants to own a gun then they should be able to as long as they are properly trained and of course mentally fit. That means that they don't shoot to kill just because someone broke into their house and is stealing grandmas jewelry. Vermont has very low gun violence and very liberal laws when it comes to gun control. Just about every house has a least one rifle but they understand that the actions have consequences and that shooting anyone is a big deal. The worse they are on someone committing a crime the worse situation they could potentially be in if they were mistaken for someone else. It's the whole do to others as you would have done to you thing.
Out of curiosity what country has a lower population density and has better penetration than the U.S.? What country has less urbanization and more penetration?
Personally I don't care what position the U.S. is in in relation to the rest of the world, I have fast, reliable access when and where I need it, except when I'm in Florida. WAAS technologies have eased that burden so it matters less to me. As frustrated as I get with the lack of progress despite billions of subsidies towards the telecomms I still see the large bandwidth sites being mostly hosted out of the U.S. That's starting to change and I welcome it! I like the fact that the world as a whole is moving forward on this and I'm not too concerned yet that the U.S. is falling further and further behind. That's always been the history, let the problem get real bad, when it's bad enough the right people will take notice and real change will happen and we'll be on top again for a little while until the cycle comes back around again.
Last I checked, if I make a copy of a cd and give it to my friend then no law has been broken as that is fair-use. So no one is responsible. The same goes for the email scenario. The only time the scenario flies out the windows is with P2P because I don't know if you are a friend or some random person. Intent obviously plays into this as well. Blindly copying is different than making a copy for a friend.
You're right about justifying the copying to the general public but this kid wasn't copying the music. He stored it on a server which happened to be accessible by others. The other people copying it are then violating the copyright if they are further copying the material. The case in question isn't about down stream copying though since the student in question had a license to the content he converted into another medium. He broke no laws.
Last I checked document destruction was perfectly legal as long as it was a stated policy ahead of time and that it was followed consistently. At least this is what the lawyers told me the other day while I was discussing our document retention policy. Makes me wonder how the hell the judge thinks she can order this policy changed. The whole purpose for not logging IP addresses is to avoid this mess to begin with. Combine that with huge storage requirements, hell my web logs are in the terabytes already over the course of a year. I can't imagine having to retain them longer. I do this for webtrends analysis although it does open me up to this whole mess as well. Fortunately my website doesn't host any content that isn't owned by us.
I think they should definitely do what IBM did and just print a memory dump from noon and a dump from 8pm, and a dump from midnight. That should be sufficient to make the point clear that this is absurd.
Don't get me wrong, Clinton wasn't that much better but he didn't surround himself with yes men, when the time came he also told people to be honest when people were asking questions. That weighs a lot in my opinion of him especially considering how Bush is trying to push everything aside just to move forward into further disaster.
Since all the Daily Shows were removed from youtube I can't link to that specifically but there is this Evidence for the lazy
The argument is rather irrelevant considering none of this is new, they've had plenty of time to put out a correct version of the facts if that were even possible, there is a reason a very very large number of people are under this impression, we didn't pull it out of the thin air. If that was wrong it shouldn't have taken until 2005 for them to say so.
As for the rhetoric there is definitely no shortage of it but saying Iraq is another front on the war on terror despite Iraq not being involved in any terror threats whatsoever can really only lead someone to think one thing in regards to this. Either they were lying and it was a seperate war or they are linked without any evidence. Which is it?
I do carry around a card reader with me. USB is far more common than desktop computers with WIFI. Most of the time I get away with a USB memory stick but sometimes I'm working on a project on my phone, for those situations SD is portable and very simple to use. It also works from phone to phone if I need to share with someone else while we're away.
Setting up proper security for a P2P setup seems like more work than plugging in a card reader. Could just be my whacked out opinion though. /p?
How many desktop computers have either wifi or bluetooth? Now how many have USB that I can plug my card reader into?
Perhaps you missed the whole part about the iPhone being based on OS X which is why the discussion about OS X happened. You also don't seem to have an understanding of enterprise management and that I manage phones and computers with SMS. There are linux based alternatives but there is no centralized management with patch deployment in the OS X platform which is just one of many enterprise features. Remote lockout is not a security mechanism worth deploying, remotely erasing the content is since the data is stored on the central server there is no risk of loss of data. Additionally I can deploy software to phones such as camera control software, Picsel, or just updating root certificates.
A system could be kludged together that would work but it would be nowhere near as elegant as a blackberry setup or even better, the Exchange/SMS/ActiveSync method.
Open standards are great and all but a very very large portion of the world is based on Exchange when it comes to their mailboxes. That is the reality of business today all over the world. That means Windows Mobile on the cheap on Blackberry Enterprise on the expensive end. The iPhone doesn't live up to either the Blackberry or Windows Mobile in regards to enterprise management and monitoring which is just me repeating myself.
I'm sorry you can't see what a sysadmin has to do with deploying phones. As for people picking their phones, most business phones are purchased and supported by the company, which means the company is going to choose phones that it can manage. Why would a company allow it's email and other resources to be moved to untrusted devices off campus? The iPhone would qualify as untrusted as it can't live up to deployment of two enterprise mobile OS's in regards to security and access controls. I can prevent users from removing software for instance.
Last thing I'll add is that you have poor reading comprehension skills. I never said OS X had binary compatibility and I never said I didn't like OS X. I said specifically that it was lacking enterprise features. When those features are added and when combined with binary compatibility OS X would have what it needs to take over. I'm just repeating myself again though. You seem eager to write me off as a troll. In any case, I'd suggest you make less assumptions and read what is written.
The wallet is pretty much the size of a memory stick. I also use a memory stick on my keychain. Basically I'm never without the ability to transfer files haha
I more or less meant this was a great mechanism to share files from a phone to a PC, functionality you won't get with the iPhone unless I'm mistaken which is certainly possible.
Ironically the Daily show had the best summary of this playing all the video clips of both Cheney and Bush making the claim that Iraq was linked to 9/11. They had about a 10 minute video clip of all the times they have spouted it. I don't believe you honestly think the president and vice president never made such a claim as it was everywhere and became party line speak.
You're asking for evidence here is just asking people to produce articles describing that the sky is blue. Why on earth would everyone be under the impression that Iraq was linked to Al-qaida? What terror events was Iraq involved in before we invaded that would justify the war on terror?
They have always been intrinsically linked whether you wish to deny it or not. Personally I think there are plenty of other reasons to impeach and jail both Cheney and Bush that it's not even worth debating this particular point which is why I have not provided any evidence as well.
That is too bad, when you're in a position of power I would tend to think you would surround yourself with competent people. Even competent people make mistakes, as long as their work made sense there wouldn't be any problems.
The only problem is that clearly, if Bush did not willfully lie about Iraq then he took loyalty of competence in which case he should be nailed to the wall for being an idiot. The worst mistakes in my life have been prevented because I had people disagree with me before I did it. The worst mistakes in my life were also with stupid friends around who assume it's a great idea to jump off the roof of a house and somersault down a hill. When the people around you are stupid and willing to jump with you nothing but bad will happen. Anything good was just lucky.
That was one thing Clinton did right in bringing both democrats and republicans into his cabinet. Mistakes were indeed made but none of them were highly public and obviously criminal with one exception of course.
As I recall, the invasion took place two years after Clinton's administration. A lot changes in that time so if an attack was based on information that old then that would be criminally negligent. The evidence presented was never classified as credible and should not have been referenced without further substantiation. Inspectors should have gone in, if they were denied then that reason alone should have been the justification on top of genocide of course. It amazes me that there were so many real reasons to invade and none of them were used.
Why is Clinton in this conversation at all? Authorizing torture, warrant less wiretapping alone are enough to impeach Bush. Everyone knew the intelligence about Iraq was wrong but a lot of people had their own reasons to invade. As you said, Clinton wanted to invade but didn't have the political power he needed because congress was openly hostile towards him.
As much as I despise a lot of things Clinton allowed like the DMCA I am happy republicans were in control while he was president. It limited the damage he could do. Is it any wonder Bush was able to cause so much harm while republicans were the majority? That was the real problem since the party line was being towed from two branches.
Regardless of the intelligence which actually did clearly state that Iraq did not have WMDs Bush acted willfully making statements he had no evidence to back up. Uranium from Africa for instance was marked as not credible and was used as a key piece of evidence. Wouldn't someone try to substantiate that first before committing billions of dollars and thousands of lives to the task? Failing to do so is criminally negligent.
Of course then there were the war crimes which continue to this day, torture and unlawful prisons detaining people indefinitely are all things both not in the spirit of this country but also illegal. Then of course the actions with humiliating prisoners resulting in only low level members of the military seeing any discipline when it was up to the high level officials to ensure all proper procedures were being followed. That means they are just as guilty and should be punished accordingly.
My company is required to retain email communication going back 7 years. That means all email coming in is copied to another account which is then archived. So I have a record of every email going in and out of the company backed up to tape of course so that the account doesn't get too large.
This is common among a lot of companies that are high profile and have to deal with lawsuits. The government should be held to an even higher standard as it is important that the temporary powers that are granted are not abused. The only way to know that they are not abused is to retain all communications for audit should it be necessary. It is not even remotely technically difficult to do. I can setup almost any exchange environment to do this in less than 5 minutes assuming multiple mailbox servers and access to powershell.
I've never considered the pardoning of Nixon a good thing. He we are not even 40 years later with a President condoning far worse crimes such as torture and warrant less wiretapping. Hell, there have even been things considered war crimes committed in the name of the United States which goes against everything the country stands for. At what point do we say stop, you have behaved like a criminal, it is time for us to treat you like one and throw them the hell in jail.
I think that would do far more to actually healing the country versus getting us to start thinking about other problems to tackle. International opinion has never been a concern of the United States and I don't think it should play a part in our decisions now.
I think we need to do something about the wrongs being committed against American citizens as well as the wrongs Americans are committing against others. If we're fighting a war on terror and Americans are now less safe because we can be stripped of our citizenship and shipped to Guantanamo bay where we can be held for more than 5 years without even a hearing then this country has some serious problems that should never have been allowed in the first place. No where in the constitution does is say that the government can torture people, and no where does it say that the government can spy on our own people. If we're going to become a police state then the legislature needs to bring it forward and pass laws to allow this all to happen legally.
In short, Nixon gave America some serious nerve damage, we just stopped more damage from happening and didn't go through any therapy to get back what we lost because we chose to just forget about it. We can't afford to forget about Bush and all the rights that we have lost without a constitutional amendment. That's not supposed to be possible.
I have an SD wallet where I keep the majority of my cards. One has my password database and a few other pieces of reference material like encryption keys and whatnot. Another has music, another has just documents and mail attachments. I keep that one in the majority of the time. I don't have an issue with the card popping out but I do know a few people do have a problem with that. I guess there should be some kind of lock added to prevent that.
I ran into the same problem with a photographer giving me photos. He's on a Mac and I'm on Windows. I booted into Knoppix, formatted the drive fat32 for him and then we were both happy.
I don't have to be within bluetooth range. I can be anywhere with cell coverage and everything stays synchronized. It's the same case with a blackberry or any Windows Mobile device. The iPhone simply lacks this feature. This may change but I doubt it considering RIM had to make their own server platform to allow it work with varying mail environments.
Wifi is a great feature to have but it is no replacement for an SD card. An SD card can be removed from the phone and plugged into a computer when you get to where you are going where the files can be transferred. Relying on Internet access is never a good idea although it is more and more reliable these days on phones.
You're right, I won't know about deployment details of the iPhone until it is out. Considering it is coming out this month and there is still no word on deployment details that leads me to believe the phone is not meant to be deployed in business. Every other maker would have reference materials available so guys like me could actually put these things to use.
I'm sorry you think that OS X Server is remotely as capable as a SUSE ES deployment or a Windows environment. You're simply wrong. Xen on SUSE is incredibly powerful and allows you to remotely customize the user experience not per computer, but per user. SMS on Windows is the same way. Both offer remote application deployment, compliance monitoring, patch management, custom application management, and are platform agnostic. SMS can manage Linux,Unix, and Windows, no OS X in there for probably obvious reasons. SUSE with Xen will operate under the same platform restrictions because Apple has never had an interest in the advanced management and monitoring capabilities that truly enterprise class environments offer.
I'm sorry you think someone saying Apple is lacking is trolling. I feel real bad for your employer as he or she is probably missing on out on some truly great technology. Apple's SAN technology is similarly lacking opting to manage individually instead of consolidating with other vendors.
You only need to look at the success of Net Appliance to realize that creating more islands is a bad idea and that consolidating storage and management is a great idea.
Also, I did not say that OS X had binary compatibility with Windows. In fact, I said specifically the opposite adding that if Apple did add it then it would be a force to be reckoned with.
This are lots of free and open-source tools out there that can fill in the gaps but they are no in one or even ten packages so they will not be widely deployed. That has always been the resistence to Linux in the business world because people are afraid of having to go and look for tools which invariably will have problems until they find the one tool that does what they need.
I'm not saying it's impossible to use it for business. Just that it's not very well suited for it. For a year I used my Samsung A900 phone for business, it worked, but my Treo works a hell of a lot better because it was actually designed with business in mind.
In addition to my Treo for work I have a Samsung A900 phone which is as thin as the Razr but the phone itself is wider than my previous phones. I should have been more specific when I said it was bigger. Previous phones, Nokia is the biggest offender, were getting too small to text on so makers started producing wider phones which could be thinner.
The fact that it is wider means it is easier to text with. It's plain and simple. Look at the shear numbers of text messages being sent around Europe, Asia, and America. America is lagging a bit because texting wasn't as reliable as it was in Europe. That has begun to change so texting is growing in popularity.
As for being polite in a meeting, note taking is common practice, I don't know about you, but I take notes on my phone, so it is indistinguishable from note taking to the people around me and is definitely never considered impolite. If you're texting alot during a meeting then that would be different, but a simple, I'll be around to your desk as soon as the meeting is over is far better than getting up out of the meeting stopping what everyone is doing to make a phone call about something that could have waited. To me, that is simply rude especially if you're a big contributor to the meeting. Even if it couldn't wait, a simple, restart your computer or call repair service is far simpler than getting up to have a conversation with someone.
Perhaps most simply of all if you're a manual note taker. You can excuse yourself for a second and type a message, hit send, and continue. People do this all the time around here at least. It's usually a response to an email instead of a text message but the result is the same.