I believe you have it backwards, the DoD would hold off using IPv6 because they use commerical networks. Commercial networks would have to adopt it first since you can't wrap IPv6 inside of IPv4. At least, not in a way I've heard of.
Of course, they could create a vpn connection using IPv4 in which case their effect would be neglegible on the rest of the Internet.
Should add that their appear to be two sub sets of these people. Those that want to be loud and those that think because its loud its fast. I've actually tried to have a rational explanation about friction and how it produces sound and how inherently that makes a loud muffler inefficient.
Then you try to explain constriction points, ugh, its pointless, especially when approaching the subject with females who claim you are arguing with them just because they are a girl so they couldn't possibly know what they are doing. Ahh well, in a world of billions of people there are bound to be disagreements
Rrrrright, completely ignore all the science that goes into it. Sorry, but a NOS kit installation properly done does take some talenet. Now program the NOS timer and engine monitor components so your laptop reads out and adjusts the car as needed.
There is a lot more involved than I think you've taken the time to think about.
Your statements also ignore the fact that cars are designed to behave the best for the most people. Modding your car does not necessarily mean you are dropping safety or reliability. You can mod your car and end up with much better mileage, conversely you can mod it for better performance which you claim is unnecessary. For many people it is, for some who drive from Phoenix to LA or to Dallas the story changes, there are long stretches where there is no speed limit or the weird AZ traffic laws kick in and everybody goes as fast as their cars will allow to shave an hour or more off their trip.
I'd say if you're doing the work yourself then its a real good hobby. If you're doing it just because you have the money then yep, completely unnecessary but others would say a 21" monitor is completely unnecessary and still others who say phones and TV aren't necessary, from one perspective they're right but from a lot of other perspectives they're wrong.
The DoD is not a major segment of the Internet that end-users or businesses see or care about.
One might also argue that the DoD switching would slow the progress of other parts of the country because the DoD likes to test the land first, have some time to themselves before they allow other people to use the technology they've helped create. They have real pull with the legislature so if they want people to delay they launch then it will happen.
That said, IPv6 is quite mature as is and the DoD has been using it for quite some time so maybe it will all just prety well change over at once.
This is a point a lot of people forget about. Japan is a little collection of Islands and so rolling out new wireless technology is relatively cheap for them.
However, China is also getting in on the game, they have a state run monopoly though so they can set policy, might add that they also have no existing infrastructure in very large portions of their country which they will soon change but that means no upgrade, just pure new equipment.
The United States does have a flaw in their system but its debatable whether or not to call it a flaw. They have to make the largest number of people happy. End users probably couldn't care less about IPv4 or v6. Businesses small and large probably do and will fight to keep things working. Of course, many of these people don't realize their routers and switches all support IPv6 already because it has been around a long time.
Basically the only reason people upgrade in the U.S. at this point is because a natural disaster or some other event occurs that destroys the infrastructure, getting a telco to upgrade is like getting a child to spinach after the proclaimed they wanted chocolate.
Considering the U.S. government at least declare war on drugs several years back this mentality is not all that shocking. Essentially they are seeing someone or hearing someone talk about doing something illegal. This is a mere assumption so its not worth all that much but its how I see it.
I think you are right as well, when some people are thrown a curve ball they don't know how to react so they instinctively are offended.
The flip side, a person like me doesn't get offended unless there is mal intent, that is the only reason I would ever be offended by anything. Well, foul odors sometimes offend me too but in such circumstance I will quietly walk away from the stench except perhaps if the girl is hot enough.
I understand your point, but shit, that would suck if all those nano bots were connected to the Internet directly! Imagine a script kiddie overloading them and telling to tickle your inner ear or something, that would suck royally.
That said your point is certainly valid, I agree that in most circumstances saying "We will never need..." is a bad idea. Personally, I am attached to several ip addresses from my cell phone, three of my computers. The future will come with more devices connected to the Internet and so we do need IPv6 especially when we start getting into VoIP and other technologies where natting becomes a problem.
That's lack of exposure for ya. Usually people who are offended think that people that smoke are wacked out of the heads all the time so they couldn't possibly behave like anybody else.
Given enough people anyone can find pretty well anything offensive, hell, I find Barney offensive, and sometimes I'm afraid of those creepy teletubbies, doesn't mean I go around trying to get them off the air.
Some email I receive is unencrypted at some point, but almost all of it is encrypted the entire time since it is intraoffice email it never actually goes out onto the internet in an unencrypted form.
I think a better solution to changing the law would be convincing the Administration that the price would be too great on ISPs since they excuse has worked for the oil and power companies which had all their regulations scrubbed for the same reason. So either the Administration publicly makes themself look like a hypocrit or they change their stance. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they'd go the public route since that's exactly what they did with Iraq.
Well, I control the email server so they can't just pull anything. Besides that, the law does not allow them to capture everyone email send from a mail server. It has to be user specific so they can't monitor the upstream. As for mail being sent to me, well, I have many addresses only one of which is linked to my name so good luck to them trying to monitor every last email that comes into my office.
Even if they can break the ssl certificate which can quite easily ramp up to 4096bit encryption (Although I don't go that far for obvious server resource reasons) they still won't know who's sending what because they are monitoring the external side of the server, they do not have control of my server nor will they in the near future.
That said, most of my email is intraoffice email and thus, never leaves the outside world. In the case of me checking my email from home through the ssl encrypted gateway the email is encrypted from end to end but I think you are dramatically overstating the FBIs ability to crack crypto.
Ashcroft doesn't believe in such things as the bill of rights or the constituion
I would also like to know how they intent to read all the encrypted traffic, they mention forcing isps, not software companies so they can listen to packets but I'm not sure how much could that would do considering like me for instance, I check all my email from an ssl secure site.
Either way this is quite disturbing, I don't like the wire tapping laws of the Patriot Act so naturally I don't like them being expanded, especially while Ashcroft is at the helm.
You were speaking of the system not a part of the system. The system as a whole did not fail, one particular portion was misconfigured.
In the computer world that definition doesn't exactly hold true because that would mean the Internet is constantly in a state of failure because a few packets were lost. When the system is designed to handle such incidents then it is not seen as a failure.
In this case no mail was lost, no assets in general, people just couldn't chat for a while or check their email. Email was still flowing though so they lost nothing. So the end result is that the system as a whole did perform its normal function.
I considered this field of study for a while but ultimately I went another direction. I once had a teacher that basically said AI will never exist as we define it today. He said that the only way it could ever exist would be to change our definition of what artificial intelligence meant. If a computer becomes as good at learning as a human would that intelligence then be artificial? Where is the line? It gets especially blurry when you start thinking about the power of DNA computing. At some point the ability to learn become indistinguishable and it just becomes intelligence, invariably they would become smarter without human controls preventing otherwise.
Well this is all well and good, but I seem to recall the EU fining Microsoft 100 million and well, that doesn't even dent their piggy bank.
Perhaps they will get the balls to create a harsher penalty, of course, they don't have the ability to split Microsoft although Microsoft does have shops in some countries in the EU so maybe it does have some abilities but that would strike me as hurting everybody.
Hopefully they will come up with a solution but I doubt things will change very soon if ever.
Microsoft is still a corporate like any other, they can always reserve the right not to do business with anyone. It wouldn't be a good move but it is certainly within their rights, both in the EU and the U.S.
As for the granting discounts or other commitments, what is your source? This is common practice all over the world in all kinds of markets so I'd be curious to know exactly at the EU differs.
Yes, if I recall that issue was resolved a while ago as Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, SuSe all have the ability out of the box. Maybe its just not enforced which would make HP a nice target for the MPAA. Nice big juicy piece of meat, who knows if that would be an issue or not?
My first thought was Samba but the parent is probably more correct.
To answer the question Mandrake does come with the smbclient and server, I'd assume the shipped version just has the client.
There is smb market though, you use it in a mixed environment so you could intepret it both ways. If its a small to medium sized business then they will need smb support. So in a way, you're both right;)
Microsoft does that the option to terminate their contract with HP because it is a contract so unless the DOJ is in the business of avoiding contracts I'm fairly certain both parties are still following the lettering. The difference here is the fact the HP/Compaq is a very large OEM, possibly the biggest since the merger. HP/Compaq computers are sold EVERYWHERE. Gateway and Dell's you can't just buy at Best Buy, Fry's, Staples, hell, even Costco.
I think the current head of HP was smart enough to not accept the terms that they can only run one OS primarily because a big portion of HP sales involves HP-UX still... Pretty sure they had enough muscle to remove that clause. It's a position where they both need eachother.
That said, would HP sales fall through the floor without selling Windows? You might just be surprised since most people don't buy a computer because it has Windows but because it is "Internet Ready" or plays DVDs, or any number of things that even a default install of Mandrake is capable of doing.
Yes, a single sign-on means you only have one place to look when there is a problem. So when you database fails which stores all the emails and msn accounts you know exactly where to look to minimize downtime rather than having to look at how each one talks to eachother.
I've delt with system with single sign-on and systems without and I've found you have FAR less problems with. You have the advantage of easier management but one config error did not bring all the servers down. Mail still flowed, users just couldn't check it for a while so the system as a whole did not fail which is why I say it wasn't a failure, just a misconfiguration.
Sort of like breaking the key you use to start your car, does that mean the car is now broken? Nope, of course not, bypassing the starter is easy. Of course, you also have the option of using a spare key but that is no applicable in this case.
You can still start a car without the starter just like you could still use Hotmail and MSN (Granted at a much lower capacity, like running a V6 with just 4 cylinders.
So I'd say the system didn't fail, only the server did.
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Of course, they could create a vpn connection using IPv4 in which case their effect would be neglegible on the rest of the Internet.
Then you try to explain constriction points, ugh, its pointless, especially when approaching the subject with females who claim you are arguing with them just because they are a girl so they couldn't possibly know what they are doing. Ahh well, in a world of billions of people there are bound to be disagreements
Same thing happens with motor cycles, some people just aren't happy unless you can hear them from miles away.
Don't forget muffler to match, oh yeah, it has to be real loud, cause real loud means its going fast!
There is a lot more involved than I think you've taken the time to think about.
Your statements also ignore the fact that cars are designed to behave the best for the most people. Modding your car does not necessarily mean you are dropping safety or reliability. You can mod your car and end up with much better mileage, conversely you can mod it for better performance which you claim is unnecessary. For many people it is, for some who drive from Phoenix to LA or to Dallas the story changes, there are long stretches where there is no speed limit or the weird AZ traffic laws kick in and everybody goes as fast as their cars will allow to shave an hour or more off their trip.I'd say if you're doing the work yourself then its a real good hobby. If you're doing it just because you have the money then yep, completely unnecessary but others would say a 21" monitor is completely unnecessary and still others who say phones and TV aren't necessary, from one perspective they're right but from a lot of other perspectives they're wrong.
One might also argue that the DoD switching would slow the progress of other parts of the country because the DoD likes to test the land first, have some time to themselves before they allow other people to use the technology they've helped create. They have real pull with the legislature so if they want people to delay they launch then it will happen.
That said, IPv6 is quite mature as is and the DoD has been using it for quite some time so maybe it will all just prety well change over at once.However, China is also getting in on the game, they have a state run monopoly though so they can set policy, might add that they also have no existing infrastructure in very large portions of their country which they will soon change but that means no upgrade, just pure new equipment.
The United States does have a flaw in their system but its debatable whether or not to call it a flaw. They have to make the largest number of people happy. End users probably couldn't care less about IPv4 or v6. Businesses small and large probably do and will fight to keep things working. Of course, many of these people don't realize their routers and switches all support IPv6 already because it has been around a long time.Basically the only reason people upgrade in the U.S. at this point is because a natural disaster or some other event occurs that destroys the infrastructure, getting a telco to upgrade is like getting a child to spinach after the proclaimed they wanted chocolate.
I think you are right as well, when some people are thrown a curve ball they don't know how to react so they instinctively are offended.
The flip side, a person like me doesn't get offended unless there is mal intent, that is the only reason I would ever be offended by anything. Well, foul odors sometimes offend me too but in such circumstance I will quietly walk away from the stench except perhaps if the girl is hot enough.That said your point is certainly valid, I agree that in most circumstances saying "We will never need..." is a bad idea. Personally, I am attached to several ip addresses from my cell phone, three of my computers. The future will come with more devices connected to the Internet and so we do need IPv6 especially when we start getting into VoIP and other technologies where natting becomes a problem.
Given enough people anyone can find pretty well anything offensive, hell, I find Barney offensive, and sometimes I'm afraid of those creepy teletubbies, doesn't mean I go around trying to get them off the air.
I think a better solution to changing the law would be convincing the Administration that the price would be too great on ISPs since they excuse has worked for the oil and power companies which had all their regulations scrubbed for the same reason. So either the Administration publicly makes themself look like a hypocrit or they change their stance. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they'd go the public route since that's exactly what they did with Iraq.
Even if they can break the ssl certificate which can quite easily ramp up to 4096bit encryption (Although I don't go that far for obvious server resource reasons) they still won't know who's sending what because they are monitoring the external side of the server, they do not have control of my server nor will they in the near future.
That said, most of my email is intraoffice email and thus, never leaves the outside world. In the case of me checking my email from home through the ssl encrypted gateway the email is encrypted from end to end but I think you are dramatically overstating the FBIs ability to crack crypto.I would also like to know how they intent to read all the encrypted traffic, they mention forcing isps, not software companies so they can listen to packets but I'm not sure how much could that would do considering like me for instance, I check all my email from an ssl secure site.
Either way this is quite disturbing, I don't like the wire tapping laws of the Patriot Act so naturally I don't like them being expanded, especially while Ashcroft is at the helm.In the computer world that definition doesn't exactly hold true because that would mean the Internet is constantly in a state of failure because a few packets were lost. When the system is designed to handle such incidents then it is not seen as a failure.
In this case no mail was lost, no assets in general, people just couldn't chat for a while or check their email. Email was still flowing though so they lost nothing. So the end result is that the system as a whole did perform its normal function.I considered this field of study for a while but ultimately I went another direction. I once had a teacher that basically said AI will never exist as we define it today. He said that the only way it could ever exist would be to change our definition of what artificial intelligence meant. If a computer becomes as good at learning as a human would that intelligence then be artificial? Where is the line? It gets especially blurry when you start thinking about the power of DNA computing. At some point the ability to learn become indistinguishable and it just becomes intelligence, invariably they would become smarter without human controls preventing otherwise.
Well as long as they don't turn the seti client into Skynet we'll be alright
Perhaps they will get the balls to create a harsher penalty, of course, they don't have the ability to split Microsoft although Microsoft does have shops in some countries in the EU so maybe it does have some abilities but that would strike me as hurting everybody.
Hopefully they will come up with a solution but I doubt things will change very soon if ever.That's definitely about to change there are still plenty of have WebTV and use it. Of course, I'm not all that sure about new sales these days
As for the granting discounts or other commitments, what is your source? This is common practice all over the world in all kinds of markets so I'd be curious to know exactly at the EU differs.
Yes, if I recall that issue was resolved a while ago as Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, SuSe all have the ability out of the box. Maybe its just not enforced which would make HP a nice target for the MPAA. Nice big juicy piece of meat, who knows if that would be an issue or not?
Most people buy computers so they can check their email and browse the web, both things easily done with Mandrake or more Linux distros.
Not saying it would be a good business move for them by any means. Definitely best to take the hybrid approachTo answer the question Mandrake does come with the smbclient and server, I'd assume the shipped version just has the client.
There is smb market though, you use it in a mixed environment so you could intepret it both ways. If its a small to medium sized business then they will need smb support. So in a way, you're both rightI think the current head of HP was smart enough to not accept the terms that they can only run one OS primarily because a big portion of HP sales involves HP-UX still... Pretty sure they had enough muscle to remove that clause. It's a position where they both need eachother.
That said, would HP sales fall through the floor without selling Windows? You might just be surprised since most people don't buy a computer because it has Windows but because it is "Internet Ready" or plays DVDs, or any number of things that even a default install of Mandrake is capable of doing.I've delt with system with single sign-on and systems without and I've found you have FAR less problems with. You have the advantage of easier management but one config error did not bring all the servers down. Mail still flowed, users just couldn't check it for a while so the system as a whole did not fail which is why I say it wasn't a failure, just a misconfiguration.
Sort of like breaking the key you use to start your car, does that mean the car is now broken? Nope, of course not, bypassing the starter is easy. Of course, you also have the option of using a spare key but that is no applicable in this case.So I'd say the system didn't fail, only the server did.