Your comment, 22 years testing, sums it all up, That is TOO long; and the choice is not 22 years testing or no-testing it is a sensible balance, which indeed governments do seem very poor at providing.
In that context also, and the US health care debate, you should know about the UK history with NICE, which was supposed to foster evidence based medicin, and did for a few yeard before becoming a contentious roadblock to new treatments.
Regulation, of Finance or Medicine is hard, because it requires common-sense and balance not the application of laws and rigid beurocratic principles.
but that is not the biggest pain in Windoze, that is Click to Focus (in Windows) not Focus follows Mouse, and to fix that common consumer choice you have to Regedit keys which seem to change with each version of MS Windows, TweekUI?
That is only because YOU do not remember these WELL DOCUMENTED shortcuts, You want secrets, use Windoze, and its god awful registry.
I am writing this on a laptop and have 20 desktops open, and 6 have Firefox with about 5 tabs open ~ 100 contexts, at once, which is how I like to work.
The secret keys are user modifiable, and documented in the Control Centre, and if I want an unusual one, eg BreakInputGrab, which I have not self configured in my keymap, which allows me to configure my keyboard so I can program and write in US/UK English, French and German, with a QWERTY keyboard.
Grüß(courtesy Slashdot, you should really get this right), Brian
I think that a lot of people in the USA have become MUCH more insular. Elsewhere, mostly in Europe, we now have the government working for us, and there is a lot of diversity.
Particularly, post 1989, people understand what is important, and intend to get control of their governments.
It isn't that government is intrinsically bad, just it usually is, and becomes corrupt quickly, IF it can be BOUGHT. In the modern world only DIRECT DEMOCRACY eg Schweiz can stand against the culture of corruption.
Exactly correct, what needs to be learned is a complex reflex that co-ordinates hand, eye and ass. I live in Switzerland and drive a lot in Southern Germany, which is hilly, snowy, and had a 260KPH (162.5 MPH) speed limit on the Autobahnen. Driving in ice and snow and both depends on integrating a whole range of inputs, and can be practiced, at 30MPH on a smooth road running in oil, soap and water, with bald tires in a rear wheel drive car. A very long time ago I spent a very frightened sweaty week on a combat driving course run in Hereford UK which was very unpleasant at the time, but very valuable later.
One thing to know is that ABS and E65 Traction Control will never save you, and if you see "Zugkraftsteueractive" you have failed.
There is just NO comparison, Linux especially and all UNIX like systems are hugely more correct and stable than Windoze(TM) will ever be. Two reasons:
Bad and sloppy code gets found, fixed qickly, and is met with hoots of derision from other developers.
Certain FEATURES touted as a + for Windoze eg OLE never made it into Unix since their design required the OS to be broken by design and the developers declined to do it.
A couple of days reading LKML will show you how much chance a really bad idea, eg filetype based on extension, has of making its way in.
I run Internet facing machines with no firewall and get to send about 5 days a year fixing problems eg defend the slow ssh attack.
After two (-1) troll moderations it is clear the M$ astroturf gang dosnt like the truth and clarity and is much happier with market speak, so,
to add to the clarity, this was entirely M$ making because they were too lazy to check the CN properly when parsing the CERT in the Windoze (TM) CAPI. OpenSSL and thus Linux and MAC do not suffer from this bug!
This attack prevalence _really_ needs support in sshd itself, we need an
SshAttackDelay int
so that SSH enforces a GLOBAL delay, int seconds (0==none) after accepting remote connections, before DH or PW/Key response, for int seconds after any failed login, root or otherwise.
You can do this with IPtables, but you may have to enable additional kernel modules eg contrack; and its a kludge anyway.
SshAttackDelay 5
would ensure max 1 try ever 5 seconds and impede valid logins for a max 5 seconds; then good luck with fast, slow or other ssh attacks!
Perl is used very extensively, in industry, military and academia, that is not to say anything against Python.
I find it is much easier to get people from a traditional programming environment, FORTRAN, C, C++ productive in Python than Perl, since the style is much more compatible. Perl as line noise is a joke and is easy to write well and debug.
But again, you must learn your tools, but all learning is at a cost. Also developers tend to overcomplicate.
The which is the best Programming language | Methodology | Pattern is getting very old!
Passengers going Uh Agg Look OUT are downright dangerous, and I have been to put out of the car passengers who would not stop doing that when told to,
clearly texting, and using a GPS, _that_is_not_in_the_line_of_sight_ are dangerous, which is why fighter aircraft have HUDs and passenger plane a co-pilot, but,
both drivers, on advanced driving courses, and pilots are tought to continuously scan the instruments and mirrors as well as looking out the front window, and once such a reflex is mastered it becomes automatic, whether you are talking on a hands free phone or headset.
Now more to the point is not 'multi-tasking' although that can be tought and most women do it quite well anyway, but the simple ability to prioritise what you are doing, if you are driving, and in-motion, you cannot stop driving until you stop the car, you can say "I am driving in heavy traffic and I will call you later".
The point is that people use texting and mobiles as social entertainment devices, not as communicators, In my case my average mobile call length is under 60 seconds, and has been so for 15 years. You do not need endless drivel.
The US legal system is in terminal failure, for two reasons,
(a) the result of trials with established law and precedent are uncertain... which is a mark of a third wold country, and discourages investment.
(b) Delay, and Obfuscation have no real downside. You can have an adversarial system or Roman Law (Investigation|Enquiry) but, unless the looser pays the costs, the incentive is to hang it out forever... and then
Judges manipulate Juries all the time, and before they have their shot Jury Selection makes a mockery of "A Jury of your peers".
Nevertheless, Juries finding of FACT is definitive, and not apealable without the introduction of NEW admisable evidence un-known at the trial of first instance.
Now, judges have wide discretion, in the interest of justice, but that discretion is not un-fettered, and does not run to overturning the result of a jury trial; so he WILL be appealed and stands to be overturned.
That is not a problem, it happens everywhere, the problem is THE TIME IT TAKES. While you fiddle, the Chinese win.
The talk of de-establishing the USD as a reserve currency at G20 is just the beginning.
In Anglo-Saxon Common law the trial jury is the final arbiter of FACT, the judge instructs on the LAW and what it means given the facts of the case, if, as in this case, the judge tries to overturn a jury verdict, then it is grounds for a mis-trial or appeal.
This looks like an attempted fix. M$ will loose on appeal, if it gets that far.
I SAY AGAIN, the US legal system, Banking System and Democracy needs to be fixed so it is __NO__LONGER__ a playground for the disengenuous and corrupt. The WTO and Patent System, and the Content Copyright people notwithstanding.
Demon used to be the best British ISP, but they got too big and were bought out and are now owned by Thus PLC (nee Scottish Telecom) which is a clueless PHB, marketeer run POS.
The problem in the UK, unlike Switzerland, I operate in both, is that the UK only has copper local (last mile) loop. Here we have fiber and copper 'im haus' which means that ISPs can form Internet+TV+Phone at reasonable price. Off peak I see 100mB down + 10 gB up with DTV and phone. Reliability is excellent.
I use Cablecom (CH) and Tiscali Business (UK), and once I got Tiscali up, and configured for Linux (hard work, support sucks) has been quick, >8mB and reliable.
The funniest problem, but part of the hell of using multiple ISPs for mail, is that their SMTP mail acceptor dosnt understand the RFC for domain names and rejects those ending in '.' so First.Last@foo.bar. is rejected, but Cablecom requires the trailing '.'.
I am a Firefox user, and before that Seamonkey, and this is just the _MOST_ stupid thing they have ever done, and Redmond will laugh all the way to the bank as these idiots are legitimizing them. Thank god for Google, Chrome and the IE plugin, _reverse_ embrace and extinguish.
The Mozilla guys want to focus on (a) security and (b) core functionality ie a good JS engine, HTML5 and CSS.
"Yes, it's statistically insignificant, but society is kept at a high fear level right now and you *are not* going to win a rational argument to eliminate an irrational fear."
I feel genuinely sorry for you, a country that recognizes hopeless irrational fear, and does not know what to do about it.
(1) Get a real education, and one that includes basic statistics and logic,
(2) Set an anti-corruption investigation of the ENTIRE legislature, put the crooks and thieves in jail,
(3) Shut down the Cable News channels, and radio-talk shows by limiting them to 4 X 1 hour broadcasts per day 9am, 3pm, 9pm & 3am so they dont have to try to invent so much garbage.
Stop pandering to lobbiests, minorities and idiots who just want air time.
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Your comment, 22 years testing, sums it all up, That is TOO long; and the choice is not 22 years testing or no-testing it is a sensible balance, which indeed governments do seem very poor at providing.
In that context also, and the US health care debate, you should know about the UK history with NICE, which was supposed to foster evidence based medicin, and did for a few yeard before becoming a contentious roadblock to new treatments.
Regulation, of Finance or Medicine is hard, because it requires common-sense and balance not the application of laws and rigid beurocratic principles.
And it couldn't happen to a nicer guy!
ALT drag is soo useful
but that is not the biggest pain in Windoze, that is Click to Focus (in Windows) not Focus follows Mouse, and to fix that common consumer choice you have to Regedit keys which seem to change with each version of MS Windows, TweekUI?
That is only because YOU do not remember these WELL DOCUMENTED shortcuts, You want secrets, use Windoze, and its god awful registry.
I am writing this on a laptop and have 20 desktops open, and 6 have Firefox with about 5 tabs open ~ 100 contexts, at once, which is how I like to work.
The secret keys are user modifiable, and documented in the Control Centre, and if I want an unusual one, eg BreakInputGrab, which I have not self configured in my keymap, which allows me to configure my keyboard so I can program and write in US/UK English, French and German, with a QWERTY keyboard.
Grüß(courtesy Slashdot, you should really get this right), Brian
I think that a lot of people in the USA have become MUCH more insular. Elsewhere, mostly in Europe, we now have the government working for us, and there is a lot of diversity.
Particularly, post 1989, people understand what is important, and intend to get control of their governments.
It isn't that government is intrinsically bad, just it usually is, and becomes corrupt quickly, IF it can be BOUGHT. In the modern world only DIRECT DEMOCRACY eg Schweiz can stand against the culture of corruption.
Exactly correct, what needs to be learned is a complex reflex that co-ordinates hand, eye and ass. I live in Switzerland and drive a lot in Southern Germany, which is hilly, snowy, and had a 260KPH (162.5 MPH) speed limit on the Autobahnen. Driving in ice and snow and both depends on integrating a whole range of inputs, and can be practiced, at 30MPH on a smooth road running in oil, soap and water, with bald tires in a rear wheel drive car. A very long time ago I spent a very frightened sweaty week on a combat driving course run in Hereford UK which was very unpleasant at the time, but very valuable later.
One thing to know is that ABS and E65 Traction Control will never save you, and if you see "Zugkraftsteueractive" you have failed.
Hear Hear, it is the modern ALWAYS ON airhead that never has time to think or output anything meaningful.
I like to check my e-mail when I want to take a break from what I am concentrating on, say with Coffee.
There is just NO comparison, Linux especially and all UNIX like systems are hugely more correct and stable than Windoze(TM) will ever be. Two reasons:
Bad and sloppy code gets found, fixed qickly, and is met with hoots of derision from other developers.
Certain FEATURES touted as a + for Windoze eg OLE never made it into Unix since their design required the OS to be broken by design and the developers declined to do it.
A couple of days reading LKML will show you how much chance a really bad idea, eg filetype based on extension, has of making its way in.
I run Internet facing machines with no firewall and get to send about 5 days a year fixing problems eg defend the slow ssh attack.
After two (-1) troll moderations it is clear the M$ astroturf gang dosnt like the truth and clarity and is much happier with market speak, so,
to add to the clarity, this was entirely M$ making because they were too lazy to check the CN properly when parsing the CERT in the Windoze (TM) CAPI. OpenSSL and thus Linux and MAC do not suffer from this bug!
It is M$ again, and you are an idiot, see the report, the cert WAS valid as issued and then patched
and 9 weeks later that wonder of the modern world is sitting with isnt thumb up its bum ruminating.
This all down to M$ and no one else.
www.paypal.com\0ssl.secureconnection.cc
its not \0 it is the null byte binary 00000000
This attack prevalence _really_ needs support in sshd itself, we need an
SshAttackDelay int
so that SSH enforces a GLOBAL delay, int seconds (0==none) after accepting remote connections, before DH or PW/Key
response, for int seconds after any failed login, root or otherwise.
You can do this with IPtables, but you may have to enable additional kernel modules eg contrack; and its a kludge anyway.
SshAttackDelay 5
would ensure max 1 try ever 5 seconds and impede valid logins for a max 5 seconds; then good luck with fast, slow or other ssh attacks!
Perl is used very extensively, in industry, military and academia, that is not to say anything against Python.
I find it is much easier to get people from a traditional programming environment, FORTRAN, C, C++ productive in Python than Perl, since the style is much more compatible. Perl as line noise is a joke and is easy to write well and debug.
But again, you must learn your tools, but all learning is at a cost. Also developers tend to overcomplicate.
The which is the best Programming language | Methodology | Pattern is getting very old!
When you know as much, and can do as much as Larry Wall, talk, meanwhile STFU.
Passengers going Uh Agg Look OUT are downright dangerous, and I have been to put out of the car passengers who would not stop doing that when told to,
clearly texting, and using a GPS, _that_is_not_in_the_line_of_sight_ are dangerous, which is why fighter aircraft have HUDs and passenger plane a co-pilot, but,
both drivers, on advanced driving courses, and pilots are tought to continuously scan the instruments and mirrors as well as looking out the front window, and once such a reflex is mastered it becomes automatic, whether you are talking on a hands free phone or headset.
Now more to the point is not 'multi-tasking' although that can be tought and most women do it quite well anyway, but the simple ability to prioritise what you are doing, if you are driving, and in-motion, you cannot stop driving until you stop the car, you can say "I am driving in heavy traffic and I will call you later".
The point is that people use texting and mobiles as social entertainment devices, not as communicators, In my case my average mobile call length is under 60 seconds, and has been so for 15 years. You do not need endless drivel.
The US legal system is in terminal failure, for two reasons,
...
... and then
(a) the result of trials with established law and precedent are uncertain
which is a mark of a third wold country, and discourages investment.
(b) Delay, and Obfuscation have no real downside. You can have an adversarial system or Roman Law (Investigation|Enquiry) but, unless the looser pays the costs, the incentive is to hang it out forever
(c) Justice delayed is Justice denied.
Judges manipulate Juries all the time, and before they have their shot Jury Selection makes a mockery of "A Jury of your peers".
Nevertheless, Juries finding of FACT is definitive, and not apealable without the introduction of NEW admisable evidence un-known at the trial of first instance.
Now, judges have wide discretion, in the interest of justice, but that discretion is not un-fettered, and does not run to overturning the result of a jury trial; so he WILL be appealed and stands to be overturned.
That is not a problem, it happens everywhere, the problem is THE TIME IT TAKES. While you fiddle, the Chinese win.
The talk of de-establishing the USD as a reserve currency at G20 is just the beginning.
Open your eyes, stop playing silly games.
In Anglo-Saxon Common law the trial jury is the final arbiter of FACT, the judge instructs on the LAW and what it means given the facts of the case, if, as in this case, the judge tries to overturn a jury verdict, then it is grounds for a mis-trial or appeal.
This looks like an attempted fix. M$ will loose on appeal, if it gets that far.
I SAY AGAIN, the US legal system, Banking System and Democracy needs to be fixed so it is __NO__LONGER__ a playground for the disengenuous and corrupt. The WTO and Patent System, and the Content Copyright people notwithstanding.
The whole tone of your post demonstrates that you have drunk the cool aid of the content industry,
/megabyte indeed.
of which traditional mobile operators are part,
the point is that I have a mobile to make calls, and send/receive SMS and not to me monetized, GBP 6
Kindle would do better to make their device actually work, see the comments of Princeton students, HINT it sucks!
Can be used to do this as well as sync caches and allowing cross DRAM controller access.
But latency is as important as raw speed for many partially parallelizable applications
for more read the Berkeley Parallel Computing papers.
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-183.html
Demon used to be the best British ISP, but they got too big and were bought out and are now owned by Thus PLC (nee Scottish Telecom) which is a clueless PHB, marketeer run POS.
The problem in the UK, unlike Switzerland, I operate in both, is that the UK only has copper local (last mile) loop. Here we have fiber and copper 'im haus' which means that ISPs can form Internet+TV+Phone at reasonable price. Off peak I see 100mB down + 10 gB up with DTV and phone. Reliability is excellent.
I use Cablecom (CH) and Tiscali Business (UK), and once I got Tiscali up, and configured for Linux (hard work, support sucks) has been quick, >8mB and reliable.
The funniest problem, but part of the hell of using multiple ISPs for mail, is that their SMTP mail acceptor dosnt understand the RFC for domain names and rejects those ending in '.' so First.Last@foo.bar. is rejected, but Cablecom requires the trailing '.'.
Seconded.
I am a Firefox user, and before that Seamonkey, and this is just the _MOST_ stupid thing they have ever done, and Redmond will laugh all the way to the bank as these idiots are legitimizing them. Thank god for Google, Chrome and the IE plugin, _reverse_ embrace and extinguish.
The Mozilla guys want to focus on (a) security and (b) core functionality ie a good JS engine, HTML5 and CSS.
Faking the vendor ID is just stupid and illegal, Palm should do their own thing.
"Yes, it's statistically insignificant, but society is kept at a high fear level right now and you *are not* going to win a rational argument to eliminate an irrational fear."
I feel genuinely sorry for you, a country that recognizes hopeless irrational fear, and does not know what to do about it.
(1) Get a real education, and one that includes basic statistics and logic,
(2) Set an anti-corruption investigation of the ENTIRE legislature, put the crooks and thieves in jail,
(3) Shut down the Cable News channels, and radio-talk shows by limiting them to 4 X 1 hour broadcasts per day 9am, 3pm, 9pm & 3am so they dont have to try to invent so much garbage.
Stop pandering to lobbiests, minorities and idiots who just want air time.
No, it dosnt need grounding, I hope your kid listens at school more than the paranoid parents did.