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To the outside observer, rather than the supposedly easy-going, patient, humble, thrifty LiMux user, half a decade is too long. Microsoft can't battle anything that might take a decade, not that I'm interested in seeing them 'win'.
The protagonists are local Linux and FOSS people that sold the project. They go up against organized commercial integrators, and while some of these integrators are known to be unsuccessful (IBM), black holes for money (SAP), there still is no leadership, no face to Linux deployed in government-- save for those locals (and a handful of Linux distro makers and EU universities). I wouldn't call this success.
This gives Microsoft, whose experience in software is high but government low, and the cloud even lower, an upper hand simply because they're organized, have a packaged offering (please don't look inside the package) and can play golf.
Linux distro makers, their tech people, even their sales people, don't play golf and all of the metaphor that applies to golf. I don't play golf. But within the purchasing hierarchy, you have to identify with the CEOs, mayors, burghers, and high muckey-mucks. Linux can't sell itself, as FOSS can't sell itself, because it can't decide on a message or the continuity needed to assure that those pooh-bahs that they won't lose their jobs over the decision. Doing things RIGHT has to be obvious, because these people are clueless. That's where the FOSS community fails again and again: no sweet smell of success, no matter how artificially generated.
So use big honking capacitors that store juice underground, much in the same way we store fuel. I hope a better job is done of that so that the lithium likely to be used in the caps doesn't damage water tables.
How many farads is that? A bunch. Do you deliver them with a truck? No. Probably something more like a substation grid. But it might be nice to see an 18-wheeler that's just a huge tank of electrons, ready to go to work.
The Munich transition is taking ages. It's been thwarted as you noted by lock-in, but the other problems have been user and managerial resistance. It was a HUGE failure for Microsoft in Germany to have Munich go OSS; people were fired, and there was acrimony you could smell across the Atlantic. It was a very visible project that is very late.
The other failures are a problem that shows that the FOSS community needs protagonists to organize the bits into coherency, something that Microsoft does on the surface, but not necessarily underneath.
The manual is online. Go check if you think I'm lying. Microsoft doesn't sell SKUs with little manuals in them (not that they were worth a crap when they *did*).
Who supports it? The project, or the vendor, or the community associated with the product. OSS or Microsoft, the value is the same save that Microsoft has a formal process that's not worth much in my experience.
I'm not saying that FOSS is the perfect solution for everything. Munich, by the way, is in S Germany, not Switzerland. The reason for its disaster was dogged thwarting (IMHO) after Microsoft very publicly lost the bid there.
Although you're probably an AC Microsoft shill, there's precedent that says that open source systems fail-- see Project Limux that was thwarted in Munich. That said, Minnesota takes a huge chance on untested infrastructure, and indeed binds themselves to Microsoft's hosted products-- when many others might do the job. Let's see how the TCO for taxpayers actually amount to in five years.
The reality is you're correct. And they shouldn't be. They do not, however, increase the net worth of government. The borrowing costs money; we're in for $100K per capita now, and are becoming economic slaves to the Chinese.
This power pyramid you speak of is more and more like what the founding fathers fought: principalities and fiefdoms. Yet taxes are needed for genuine obligations. Tax subsidies for so many industries are simply robbery. And those that get to write their own legislation are unelected, simply buying it.... the same as a bribe to a Brazilian customs officer.
....no external input? How much was that? Does a cogent argument get put in, or one that's bought and paid for?
The flames you'll get refers to your sense that we're somehow 'Balkanized' when in fact, we're simply bought and paid for these days with little regard to the consequences. Most of the turmoil in the US today can be traced this way:
1) reduced, paid for banking and stock/commodity purchases were a result of blind-eye regulations towards Wall Street 2) the economy needed a boost, so we turned a hunt for Bin Laden into three costly wars and still don't have Bin Laden 3) the telcos bribed everyone, and now net neutrality is just about a thing of the past 4) we allowed corporations to keep earnings outside the USA, and also export labor away from union shops to the third world, and did a free trade agreement to 'help' Mexico and Canada.
There are lots more. Bought and paid for. Have a nice day.
SO they get a DID, a Mac address, an IP. They follow you around. Maybe they decide to go into various Java cache and sniff around if they can. Java cache locations aren't tough to figure out. There's more than one way to skin a cat, or a bad Java app.
Your big whoop amounts to someone data mining more stuff about you. You give up too easily protecting your information particulars. If you don't sweat them, they'll steal more.... and maybe already have.
Then the added value of a Google store is simply as a money taker, and any subsequent Android app vendor unless they vet the code.
In my mind, the negative part of Apple's model is threefold: 1) Apple's hideous commission, 2) censorship without providing an adult marketplace, and 3) components of the vetting process that very highly restrict an application's behavior in a way that doesn't suit Apple, not the user's intention or desire.
Just throwing open a store and saying here are some great Android apps has lead to the vanquishing of privacy (e.g. local) and now insane user charges. How many more cuts before the patient dies from them?
Philosophically, the market is only fractionally made up of geeks and developers. Consumers are where the big bucks are. You then make a leap to conclude that "Android is for 'power users'" and Apple for everyone else.
Instead, TFA implies that google is saying caveat emptor, where Apple is at least trying to prevent surrepticious application behavior. Some people believe that this action embues a sense of trust. I'm not sure that I do, but others seem to feel so.
Becoming a 'negative'? I would expect Google to tell developers to show source, parse that source for obvious bad behavior, and act to prevent problems, be they memory leaks, Java cache loops, or mad-dialing behavior or attempts to use information they're not supposed to. There's a big difference between civility and total anarchy.
VoIP isn't a guaranteed service, but QoS protocols should be respected where the bandwidth is available. If you want to be known as a 'quality' ISP, you deliver enough bandwidth to support a low data-rate protocol, like VoIP and other QoS delivery systems. Beyond that, an ISP is prioritizing for money-- and the theory of net neutrality is to give no priority for monetary privilege. You play into their hands thinking in any other direction. ISPs are ex-telcos and PTTs that haven't figured out the Internet yet, other than they want to control it for maximized profit to your disadvantage. They have a monopolistic behavioural profile, and instinctively want to control what should be a public utility like water and electricity.
But Microsoft's illegal practices and the evolution of the market is what allowed them to achieve lock-in. Architecturally, their oil-well-in-the-basement Windows core OS was defective by design, a problem that was partially fixed by demoting user from root in XP SP2. The software QA at Microsoft was abysmal.
And Apple isn't any saint. Their pseudo-open source way of looking at the software world benefits users through a thoroughly controled "experience". Apple's done much QA to ensure comparatively high reliability and application interactivity consistency. But Apple eschews "corporate" or large enterprise infrastructure. They want the user to control the influence and experience. Their resources for large organizations is horrific on a good day. It's all about the end-user.
Does Apple have similar controlling policies? Hell yes. They're secretive and instill paranoia in their employees. Yet their activities so far have skirted most legal skirmishes for anti-trust and anti-competitive behavior. Still you can't use MacOS legally on other hardware, you risk lots by jailbreaking their devices, and they still are completely clueless about the insanity of binding their products to vendors whose performance is abysmal (AT&T as an example).
Microsoft may be the top dog in terms of deployed OSes, but Apple's market cap now exceeds theirs. It's not a very good pool of vendors to pick from. As open source quality matures, Apple and Microsoft will have to change the ways that they do business. Apple's stock price, like Microsoft's, is their holy grail. Remember that it's supported only so far as they continue to satisfy the demands of the buying public. We vote with money.
The lockdown goes to vendors that can use iOS (1), US telcos that you can use (1), developer programs you can use (1, with variants), approval process for applications (1, draconian), years you can wait for a CDMA phone (divide by 0 error), and of course, the all important under 18 years old experience, meaning bleached and sanitized content (arbitrary, sometimes capricious).
Yet Android has its lockdowns, vendors with dubious business plans, hardware that breaks both in and out of warranty. Couple this to Google, who is a white knight in sheep's clothing, having ostensible control over Android future.
Ok, I like wild and wooly rather than the device of (1).
You mean you clicked on something without checking the message header? I get all kinds of bogus phishing and adware site spam-- but I've yet to see them successfully forge a header from a real site.
There are lots of little Internets around, actually private networks that emulate Internet infrastructure; the telcos offer them as extensions of their old private messes. Methinks the NSA just needs more money to complete their own wiring. And of course, that'll cure everything until we get our little backdoor router into the thing.
The Internet II was supposed to be an experiment to look at a nice OC192 highway to link universities in the old DARPA model... and it's wired (actually fibered) now.
I can just see the US National Debt sign in starting to spin ever faster.
He dances with the idea, while caveating everything he says. This is no journalist, and when you look at the results, the examples are pretty dubious. I feel sorry for the guy, except that he's giving bad advice in trade for a hit count.
No. Honeypots are like Facebook-- a total waste of time and are used as sampling tools at best. The theory goes that a honeypot acts like an IDS. If you're doing the right job in DNS and network addressing segmentation, honeyposts ought not to be visible for much of a network. Worse, honeypots offer up signatures of tasty hosts, and bots might be looking for signatures of various application profiles- like SAP, or Oracle Financials traffic and would totally NOT probe anything else.
If time is limited, and you're not using automated tools to get thru your syslogs, then you're NOT DOING YOUR JOB as a sysadmin and you're jeopardizing your organization's systems integrity. The CPUs at every desktop are almost totally wasted with dumb stuff like puppy dog screensavers instead of working and patched AV and anti-malware apps, not to mention the OS and salient application files needed to do productive work.
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Yes they are, and now we should connect them back again. After all, this is TrashDot. In just a few viagra sentences, I'll have the search engines cialis bringing up this whole post ED to slime this response, and no one percodan will find out oxycontin until they get right here when they're searching on pornstar her name and xtube this post.
To the outside observer, rather than the supposedly easy-going, patient, humble, thrifty LiMux user, half a decade is too long. Microsoft can't battle anything that might take a decade, not that I'm interested in seeing them 'win'.
The protagonists are local Linux and FOSS people that sold the project. They go up against organized commercial integrators, and while some of these integrators are known to be unsuccessful (IBM), black holes for money (SAP), there still is no leadership, no face to Linux deployed in government-- save for those locals (and a handful of Linux distro makers and EU universities). I wouldn't call this success.
This gives Microsoft, whose experience in software is high but government low, and the cloud even lower, an upper hand simply because they're organized, have a packaged offering (please don't look inside the package) and can play golf.
Linux distro makers, their tech people, even their sales people, don't play golf and all of the metaphor that applies to golf. I don't play golf. But within the purchasing hierarchy, you have to identify with the CEOs, mayors, burghers, and high muckey-mucks. Linux can't sell itself, as FOSS can't sell itself, because it can't decide on a message or the continuity needed to assure that those pooh-bahs that they won't lose their jobs over the decision. Doing things RIGHT has to be obvious, because these people are clueless. That's where the FOSS community fails again and again: no sweet smell of success, no matter how artificially generated.
So use big honking capacitors that store juice underground, much in the same way we store fuel. I hope a better job is done of that so that the lithium likely to be used in the caps doesn't damage water tables.
How many farads is that? A bunch. Do you deliver them with a truck? No. Probably something more like a substation grid. But it might be nice to see an 18-wheeler that's just a huge tank of electrons, ready to go to work.
The Munich transition is taking ages. It's been thwarted as you noted by lock-in, but the other problems have been user and managerial resistance. It was a HUGE failure for Microsoft in Germany to have Munich go OSS; people were fired, and there was acrimony you could smell across the Atlantic. It was a very visible project that is very late.
The other failures are a problem that shows that the FOSS community needs protagonists to organize the bits into coherency, something that Microsoft does on the surface, but not necessarily underneath.
The manual is online. Go check if you think I'm lying. Microsoft doesn't sell SKUs with little manuals in them (not that they were worth a crap when they *did*).
Who supports it? The project, or the vendor, or the community associated with the product. OSS or Microsoft, the value is the same save that Microsoft has a formal process that's not worth much in my experience.
I'm not saying that FOSS is the perfect solution for everything. Munich, by the way, is in S Germany, not Switzerland. The reason for its disaster was dogged thwarting (IMHO) after Microsoft very publicly lost the bid there.
Although you're probably an AC Microsoft shill, there's precedent that says that open source systems fail-- see Project Limux that was thwarted in Munich. That said, Minnesota takes a huge chance on untested infrastructure, and indeed binds themselves to Microsoft's hosted products-- when many others might do the job. Let's see how the TCO for taxpayers actually amount to in five years.
The reality is you're correct. And they shouldn't be. They do not, however, increase the net worth of government. The borrowing costs money; we're in for $100K per capita now, and are becoming economic slaves to the Chinese.
This power pyramid you speak of is more and more like what the founding fathers fought: principalities and fiefdoms. Yet taxes are needed for genuine obligations. Tax subsidies for so many industries are simply robbery. And those that get to write their own legislation are unelected, simply buying it.... the same as a bribe to a Brazilian customs officer.
....no external input? How much was that? Does a cogent argument get put in, or one that's bought and paid for?
The flames you'll get refers to your sense that we're somehow 'Balkanized' when in fact, we're simply bought and paid for these days with little regard to the consequences. Most of the turmoil in the US today can be traced this way:
1) reduced, paid for banking and stock/commodity purchases were a result of blind-eye regulations towards Wall Street
2) the economy needed a boost, so we turned a hunt for Bin Laden into three costly wars and still don't have Bin Laden
3) the telcos bribed everyone, and now net neutrality is just about a thing of the past
4) we allowed corporations to keep earnings outside the USA, and also export labor away from union shops to the third world, and did a free trade agreement to 'help' Mexico and Canada.
There are lots more. Bought and paid for. Have a nice day.
Yeah, what's up with that?
Oops.
When an individual does it, it's called bribery.
When a lobbyist does it, it's great legislation.
Flame or reality? Pick one.
Not necessarily.
The idea is to have applications STFU unless it's called for.
No random hey, here's the latest scoop on 0x38df803's location, the local temperature, and the last nine people she called.
Hey, look! She's on FB again, and just ordered something from Amazon. Upload to the mothership analytics engine NOW!
Wait, she's going to use us! Get ready to make the fart sound!
SO they get a DID, a Mac address, an IP. They follow you around. Maybe they decide to go into various Java cache and sniff around if they can. Java cache locations aren't tough to figure out. There's more than one way to skin a cat, or a bad Java app.
Your big whoop amounts to someone data mining more stuff about you. You give up too easily protecting your information particulars. If you don't sweat them, they'll steal more.... and maybe already have.
Then the added value of a Google store is simply as a money taker, and any subsequent Android app vendor unless they vet the code.
In my mind, the negative part of Apple's model is threefold: 1) Apple's hideous commission, 2) censorship without providing an adult marketplace, and 3) components of the vetting process that very highly restrict an application's behavior in a way that doesn't suit Apple, not the user's intention or desire.
Just throwing open a store and saying here are some great Android apps has lead to the vanquishing of privacy (e.g. local) and now insane user charges. How many more cuts before the patient dies from them?
Philosophically, the market is only fractionally made up of geeks and developers. Consumers are where the big bucks are. You then make a leap to conclude that "Android is for 'power users'" and Apple for everyone else.
Instead, TFA implies that google is saying caveat emptor, where Apple is at least trying to prevent surrepticious application behavior. Some people believe that this action embues a sense of trust. I'm not sure that I do, but others seem to feel so.
Becoming a 'negative'? I would expect Google to tell developers to show source, parse that source for obvious bad behavior, and act to prevent problems, be they memory leaks, Java cache loops, or mad-dialing behavior or attempts to use information they're not supposed to. There's a big difference between civility and total anarchy.
VoIP isn't a guaranteed service, but QoS protocols should be respected where the bandwidth is available. If you want to be known as a 'quality' ISP, you deliver enough bandwidth to support a low data-rate protocol, like VoIP and other QoS delivery systems. Beyond that, an ISP is prioritizing for money-- and the theory of net neutrality is to give no priority for monetary privilege. You play into their hands thinking in any other direction. ISPs are ex-telcos and PTTs that haven't figured out the Internet yet, other than they want to control it for maximized profit to your disadvantage. They have a monopolistic behavioural profile, and instinctively want to control what should be a public utility like water and electricity.
No guts, no glory, AC. So clue us in, all-knowing-one.
First, I'm not an Apple Fanboi.
But Microsoft's illegal practices and the evolution of the market is what allowed them to achieve lock-in. Architecturally, their oil-well-in-the-basement Windows core OS was defective by design, a problem that was partially fixed by demoting user from root in XP SP2. The software QA at Microsoft was abysmal.
And Apple isn't any saint. Their pseudo-open source way of looking at the software world benefits users through a thoroughly controled "experience". Apple's done much QA to ensure comparatively high reliability and application interactivity consistency. But Apple eschews "corporate" or large enterprise infrastructure. They want the user to control the influence and experience. Their resources for large organizations is horrific on a good day. It's all about the end-user.
Does Apple have similar controlling policies? Hell yes. They're secretive and instill paranoia in their employees. Yet their activities so far have skirted most legal skirmishes for anti-trust and anti-competitive behavior. Still you can't use MacOS legally on other hardware, you risk lots by jailbreaking their devices, and they still are completely clueless about the insanity of binding their products to vendors whose performance is abysmal (AT&T as an example).
Microsoft may be the top dog in terms of deployed OSes, but Apple's market cap now exceeds theirs. It's not a very good pool of vendors to pick from. As open source quality matures, Apple and Microsoft will have to change the ways that they do business. Apple's stock price, like Microsoft's, is their holy grail. Remember that it's supported only so far as they continue to satisfy the demands of the buying public. We vote with money.
The lockdown goes to vendors that can use iOS (1), US telcos that you can use (1), developer programs you can use (1, with variants), approval process for applications (1, draconian), years you can wait for a CDMA phone (divide by 0 error), and of course, the all important under 18 years old experience, meaning bleached and sanitized content (arbitrary, sometimes capricious).
Yet Android has its lockdowns, vendors with dubious business plans, hardware that breaks both in and out of warranty. Couple this to Google, who is a white knight in sheep's clothing, having ostensible control over Android future.
Ok, I like wild and wooly rather than the device of (1).
You mean you clicked on something without checking the message header? I get all kinds of bogus phishing and adware site spam-- but I've yet to see them successfully forge a header from a real site.
Now that I think of it, my electric razor with new programming, was trying to attack me this morning, or so it seemed...
There are lots of little Internets around, actually private networks that emulate Internet infrastructure; the telcos offer them as extensions of their old private messes. Methinks the NSA just needs more money to complete their own wiring. And of course, that'll cure everything until we get our little backdoor router into the thing.
The Internet II was supposed to be an experiment to look at a nice OC192 highway to link universities in the old DARPA model... and it's wired (actually fibered) now.
I can just see the US National Debt sign in starting to spin ever faster.
He dances with the idea, while caveating everything he says. This is no journalist, and when you look at the results, the examples are pretty dubious. I feel sorry for the guy, except that he's giving bad advice in trade for a hit count.
No. Honeypots are like Facebook-- a total waste of time and are used as sampling tools at best. The theory goes that a honeypot acts like an IDS. If you're doing the right job in DNS and network addressing segmentation, honeyposts ought not to be visible for much of a network. Worse, honeypots offer up signatures of tasty hosts, and bots might be looking for signatures of various application profiles- like SAP, or Oracle Financials traffic and would totally NOT probe anything else.
If time is limited, and you're not using automated tools to get thru your syslogs, then you're NOT DOING YOUR JOB as a sysadmin and you're jeopardizing your organization's systems integrity. The CPUs at every desktop are almost totally wasted with dumb stuff like puppy dog screensavers instead of working and patched AV and anti-malware apps, not to mention the OS and salient application files needed to do productive work.
On all levels, I can't agree with your arguments.
Better than: melts in your hand.