Here here, how Mcafee has survived this long I will never know. Norton Corporate Edition is by far and away the best but of course it costs money and does indeed block a lot of spyware as well.
Personally I'd say stop blaming AV companies for this problem and start teaching people that they don't need Admin rights for everyday activities. I have an install user for my parents and a backup admin account for myself. Parents always use their accounts that are locked down and after six months all it had for spyware were trafficing cookies. Now that I've gotten them used to using install for installing I will intro them to Firebox and my life will be sweet, instead of fixing the comp whenever I go over there I will just sit down and drink a beer.
Except that your boss at least in the U.S. cannot fire you based on how you voted. It would be well within your right to refuse to tell him/her. Elections are secret to remove pressures which you describe but a receipt would not remove this secrecy, you can keep it in a safe deposit box or keep it with your porn collection if you don't want people to find it. Another option is, after you exit the voting booth you go to another workstation and check your vote using the receipt, then you shred the receipt and walk out. More complicated than it needs to be. I'd suggest you check out.
A description of a better voting system can be found here. TruVote
Its an intelligent design in theory, but are there any instances where it was implemented as such?
That seems to be one of the big problems with all the electronic voting. People have an idea of what makes sense but when they go to implement it things get screwed up.
It doesn't have to be expensive, insecure, or complicated. The only problem is everyone in charge of implementing it seem to be on crack using practices long cast out by all IT professionals.
I think electronic voting is a great idea because it eliminates human error and can ensure that elections are indeed fair. Of course, this could just be a pipe dream since so far it doesn't look like they are doing anything to make the machines more secure and easier to use. As for the expense, I'm not all that sure how much it costs to run a paper election, but I would think counters and all that paper would rack up way more than the $300 it would cost for a voting machine.
I wouldn't think a receipt would be difficult. A receipt that displays your voter id number, the vote you cast in clear text then maybe even the hash value just to be sure. Then after the election is over you can login to a website, make sure your vote was proper, if not, you contest.
The real problem with electronic voting is the fact that what you see and what you think you voted for could simply not be the case. Maybe input was screwed up so when you click on one radio button another's value was submitted. I spose there really is no simple way except maybe instead of the paper receipt idea you just display it on the screen for the voter to confirm.
Maybe you want to check your facts again since the technology is not what failed on 9/11. Ironically enough it was the human intelligence that failed to act on the evidence. As for the Iraq WMD, the same situation. The CIA basically said Iraq didn't have it but Bush chose to run with the ball despite the fact that the CIA specifically stated that the evidence against Iraq was faulty at best.
You are right, recruiting reliable spies is a difficult task but not one the CIA has as big a problem with as you think. There are visible sides that take the heat and then you go deeper to the people that know what they are doing. The people that found Saddam, the people that have cracked countless forms of encryption.
As for technology replacing human. Who said the CIA only used tech? Technology will never replace spies, it will only make their jobs easier.
The keyword is there is expansion, not mass migration dessimating the current town of which they reside. It hardly seems the spirit of what Watson had in mind for the company. The argument wasn't against globalization, it was about fucking over current employees to save a few bucks which you end up giving back to the board members instead of reinvesting it back into the company.
Well my information may well be outdated by now, but last I checked China was doing nothing about the human rights violations and at the same time the free trade deals went through unchallenged. I could definitely be wrong but I'm fairly certain their's no danger of the Bush administration imposing any embargoes on China.
I don't deem Indians any less worthy of having a job than my father who works at IBM. The problem is that IBM was founded on basis to promote employee pridee. It was a company that you could rely on. It wasn't just about money, IBM has never had a problem making money. Look back five years ago before IBM really started shifting its workforce around. India was just an example, but the problem extends to moving it to Canada as well. IBM is huge, entire cities are built around its employees so when IBM moves the entire city has to move. So yes, to answer your question IBM would be evil. As for jumping state, IBM has done that several times and in the end it only costs them more money.
Capitalism does not have to be as cold as you make it out to be, there are plenty of ways to make a shit load of money without instilling fear in your employees. (Note Indians will soon be in the same boat when other cheaper nations come around).
I totally agree there. There are many factors that drive linux adoption. So far the WTO largely doesn't care about the software practices in China as we've seen them bend over again and again.
Free software is a nicely solution because as you said, a lot of these developing tech centers simply can't afford the licensing. In my opinion that is what limits Netware adoption pretty much everywhere since they offer new products and services on a regular basis that can easily become very critical to any organisation. Linux can fill the gap where licensing is a problem. The Chinese government itself doesn't have this problem however.
I dislike the policy, but its still a hell of a lot better than what IBM does. They like to increase the salaries of their management, fire their employees and hire Indians to do the work cheaper. Totally against the original principles of which the company was founded.
Also I do think its great that the board members chose to save jobs rather than fire a shit load of people and give themselves bonuses for raising stock a quarter of a point.
I apologize for the crappiness of the press room. It was once a far more intelligently designed place to gather information. But as you can see there is plenty of news on Novell's site relating to China and their rapid adoption of Novell services.
As for Novell sweetening the deal, I never said that. As for Linux on the desktop, take a look at Both E-Directory and Zenworks. Both have very direct impacts on the desktop both Linux based and Windows based.
As for China dealing with U.S. companies; Do you honestly think China is of the mind that U.S. companies act like the U.S. government? Seriously, they don't give a ten shakes about Bush's foreign policy, China actually has very little to fear from Bush as he knows all his corporate interests want decent relations with China. If they did care about that policy why would they have and still implement Cisco products? Why would they be importing our technology both legally and semi-legally?
Let's ask a different question. What has been done first on the linux platform? All of the network services implemented came after another platform introduced them and made them popular. When their is a Linux based service that is unique that actually requires someone to install and configure a Linux server then you will see a change. In the meantime you're right for the most part. The mistakes are remade because of the above policy of acting second not first.
Whether that's good or bad I leave to you. I think it works but it will keep any Linux from becoming the 800lbs gorilla like Microsoft.
You're expecting a bit much from a linux introduction. I'll assume you are just dreaming though. The fact is most of the pirated software isn't tampered with, it works and many are quite happy with it since they know how to use it. The problem is still in making the OS intuitive.
Say what you will about Windows but it is intuitive. My professor who now lives in China teaches children that have never even seen a computer. He sits them down in front of MS Word and they go off writing quite well. They even manage to find other features like clipart and can create presentations. Obviously it takes some time but it only takes some finger pointing for the kid to get to where he wants, I'd say thats pretty simple.
That said Linux most definitely has a place as it represents a path to international legitimacy. A company running Linux will find it much easier to get contracts from other countries than a company known for running pirated software.
I'd say all the tech exposure is just plain great. Pretty much no matter what OS they end up running U.S. and European countries will have a chance to sell products to a much larger market.
Sorry but you're plain and simply wrong. Run on over to Novell's website and look at their press releases. Novell has been involved in creating the whole chinese infrastucture. Cisco and Novell have been making massive amounts of profits in China in the last few years which is what essentially has been keeping Novell alive, same goes for Cisco for that matter. Remember not long ago Cisco execs reduced their salaries to $1 to same 10,000 jobs at Cisco, they are back to full salary now and Cisco is hiring new people. China is not as nieve as you take it for. They understand that duplication of efforts to achieve the same result is wasteful.
That doesn't mean they won't build their own desktop where there is wiggle room for error. When it comes to servers China will stick with the products that have a reputation such as Netware and Linux and shy away from tarnished companies such as Microsoft and Sco.
Check your statistics again. Half of America lives in cities, the other half lives in rural areas. In many ways its a lot easier for the rural areas to upgrade because the infrastructure hasn't yet been built, so they get built with the latest and greatest. This is the reason I can get 12megabit DSL at my house in VT and I can't even get DSL here in Phoenix. All that infrustructure has already been built and they will only upgrade when existing equipment breaks and they run out of replacements.
That said you're right about the world stage. We essentially created it but certain high up government interests are more interested in profit now rather that larger profits later. Sad state as America is slowly becoming crippled.
Might also mention that New York and Boston are actually in a great position to upgrade as most of their equipment is failing, so they might as well attach a pull string and pull the copper and lay all the fiber in replacing it. Not much manual labor involved, just the cost of the fiber. No digging required as its all in service tunnels anyways. The Phoenix area however for some reason decided underground pipelines were a good idea, but still chose to only implement them in two or three streets.
My bandwidth is pretty well the same, 3MB/384kb and I'm willing to take the hit because the fast down is done with that amount of upstream bandwidth. The faster you upload inherently the slower you will be able to download. So I take the 384 knowing full well thats the reason I am able to get my 750kb/sec downloads. If I want more upstream then I will pay more. The ISPs do have a severe lock on bandwidth, something that should be a commodity by now.
You know, that's the thing I love the most about Gentoo. I installed 1.2 a while back custom compiling everything. Took my laptop a good 12 hours to compile but it was worth it. A rock solid OS in the end. But then again, that's because I can read instructions. The install process takes you through every segment of a linux based OS so you end up learning a lot about how its all put together. A great experience for anyone willing put in the time I'd say.
That's why you "donate" to DynDNS to get them to do it for you. It really is an excellent service. I've been with them for years now, I first ordered at 3am and within a half hour I got an email saying my account was setup from a geek that was just up all night doing something or other. Was great. If there were a service worth donating to it is that.
I'm impressed that considering I have been a member for years they continue to offer more and more services, many of them are free! So maybe you're wrong on the last part, I hope so at least.
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Personally I'd say stop blaming AV companies for this problem and start teaching people that they don't need Admin rights for everyday activities. I have an install user for my parents and a backup admin account for myself. Parents always use their accounts that are locked down and after six months all it had for spyware were trafficing cookies. Now that I've gotten them used to using install for installing I will intro them to Firebox and my life will be sweet, instead of fixing the comp whenever I go over there I will just sit down and drink a beer.
I think I'm more bothered by the fact that he has a Masters degree in teaching. How do you go from teaching to hmmm.....
A description of a better voting system can be found here. TruVote
I don't think reasonable is the right word, maybe more logical? Its the only way I could think of as to why it would be implemented so poorly
That seems to be one of the big problems with all the electronic voting. People have an idea of what makes sense but when they go to implement it things get screwed up.
What if people aren't counting the votes? hmmmm... Then we have a machine president! Sounds pretty cool to me, rather have a machine than a puppet.
I think electronic voting is a great idea because it eliminates human error and can ensure that elections are indeed fair. Of course, this could just be a pipe dream since so far it doesn't look like they are doing anything to make the machines more secure and easier to use. As for the expense, I'm not all that sure how much it costs to run a paper election, but I would think counters and all that paper would rack up way more than the $300 it would cost for a voting machine.
The real problem with electronic voting is the fact that what you see and what you think you voted for could simply not be the case. Maybe input was screwed up so when you click on one radio button another's value was submitted. I spose there really is no simple way except maybe instead of the paper receipt idea you just display it on the screen for the voter to confirm.
You are right, recruiting reliable spies is a difficult task but not one the CIA has as big a problem with as you think. There are visible sides that take the heat and then you go deeper to the people that know what they are doing. The people that found Saddam, the people that have cracked countless forms of encryption.
As for technology replacing human. Who said the CIA only used tech? Technology will never replace spies, it will only make their jobs easier.The keyword is there is expansion, not mass migration dessimating the current town of which they reside. It hardly seems the spirit of what Watson had in mind for the company. The argument wasn't against globalization, it was about fucking over current employees to save a few bucks which you end up giving back to the board members instead of reinvesting it back into the company.
Well my information may well be outdated by now, but last I checked China was doing nothing about the human rights violations and at the same time the free trade deals went through unchallenged. I could definitely be wrong but I'm fairly certain their's no danger of the Bush administration imposing any embargoes on China.
Capitalism does not have to be as cold as you make it out to be, there are plenty of ways to make a shit load of money without instilling fear in your employees. (Note Indians will soon be in the same boat when other cheaper nations come around).
These Principles Watson was very specific about how the company should behave.
Free software is a nicely solution because as you said, a lot of these developing tech centers simply can't afford the licensing. In my opinion that is what limits Netware adoption pretty much everywhere since they offer new products and services on a regular basis that can easily become very critical to any organisation. Linux can fill the gap where licensing is a problem. The Chinese government itself doesn't have this problem however.
Considering that I wonder what you mean by saying there is nothing intuitive about it? Perhaps nothing intuitive to you?
Also I do think its great that the board members chose to save jobs rather than fire a shit load of people and give themselves bonuses for raising stock a quarter of a point.
I apologize for the crappiness of the press room. It was once a far more intelligently designed place to gather information. But as you can see there is plenty of news on Novell's site relating to China and their rapid adoption of Novell services.
As for Novell sweetening the deal, I never said that. As for Linux on the desktop, take a look at Both E-Directory and Zenworks. Both have very direct impacts on the desktop both Linux based and Windows based.As for China dealing with U.S. companies; Do you honestly think China is of the mind that U.S. companies act like the U.S. government? Seriously, they don't give a ten shakes about Bush's foreign policy, China actually has very little to fear from Bush as he knows all his corporate interests want decent relations with China. If they did care about that policy why would they have and still implement Cisco products? Why would they be importing our technology both legally and semi-legally?
Whether that's good or bad I leave to you. I think it works but it will keep any Linux from becoming the 800lbs gorilla like Microsoft.
Say what you will about Windows but it is intuitive. My professor who now lives in China teaches children that have never even seen a computer. He sits them down in front of MS Word and they go off writing quite well. They even manage to find other features like clipart and can create presentations. Obviously it takes some time but it only takes some finger pointing for the kid to get to where he wants, I'd say thats pretty simple.
That said Linux most definitely has a place as it represents a path to international legitimacy. A company running Linux will find it much easier to get contracts from other countries than a company known for running pirated software.I'd say all the tech exposure is just plain great. Pretty much no matter what OS they end up running U.S. and European countries will have a chance to sell products to a much larger market.
A former professor of mine recently moved to China to assist in the roll-out. Good stuff!
That doesn't mean they won't build their own desktop where there is wiggle room for error. When it comes to servers China will stick with the products that have a reputation such as Netware and Linux and shy away from tarnished companies such as Microsoft and Sco.
That said you're right about the world stage. We essentially created it but certain high up government interests are more interested in profit now rather that larger profits later. Sad state as America is slowly becoming crippled.
Might also mention that New York and Boston are actually in a great position to upgrade as most of their equipment is failing, so they might as well attach a pull string and pull the copper and lay all the fiber in replacing it. Not much manual labor involved, just the cost of the fiber. No digging required as its all in service tunnels anyways. The Phoenix area however for some reason decided underground pipelines were a good idea, but still chose to only implement them in two or three streets.My bandwidth is pretty well the same, 3MB/384kb and I'm willing to take the hit because the fast down is done with that amount of upstream bandwidth. The faster you upload inherently the slower you will be able to download. So I take the 384 knowing full well thats the reason I am able to get my 750kb/sec downloads. If I want more upstream then I will pay more. The ISPs do have a severe lock on bandwidth, something that should be a commodity by now.
You know, that's the thing I love the most about Gentoo. I installed 1.2 a while back custom compiling everything. Took my laptop a good 12 hours to compile but it was worth it. A rock solid OS in the end. But then again, that's because I can read instructions. The install process takes you through every segment of a linux based OS so you end up learning a lot about how its all put together. A great experience for anyone willing put in the time I'd say.
I'm impressed that considering I have been a member for years they continue to offer more and more services, many of them are free! So maybe you're wrong on the last part, I hope so at least.