True redundancy? Check. Just add a 1 or 2 extra machines and setup CARP.
Load balancing? Check.
Most secure OS ever made? Check.
And OpenBSD 4.1 is just around the corner. Its going to have the new 'hoststated' daemon which will be able to monitor services on remote hosts, and automatically remove or add back their IPs into loadbalancing pools.
Just don't forget to show the OpenBSD folks your appreciation by purchasing a few copies of the OS, a few t-shirts or donations. They deserve it.
I know plenty of people in Sweden living out in the boonies with no other internet access than dial up.
So its not that frigging great. Better than in the US probably, but still not that great.
I don't think good broadband pervasion is the only reason why some people invent more or better stuff than others.
Its infrastructure and it helps of course, but its most certainly not the only factor like some people here seem to believe.
I am pretty clueless about what internet2 really is and how it works, and I have a few questions about it. Maybe some fellow slashdotter can enlighten me.
- There is no such thing as anonymity on internet2 is there? - There is a central control that can yank sites they don't approve of, isn't there? - Are there any powerful entities that are seeking to replace internet1 with internet2 for regular people? - Why could we just not add more bandwidth (as is already being done), use the good old internet1 and hopefully eventually ipv6, and be happy with that?
I'm not so sure. I'd say they are small enough not to be noticed. But even if they are, say its raining, the rain drops would camouflage them. Or a dusty summerday. Or just release them in small quantities in a doorway or gate that everybody passes through.
Also if this size is manufactured in roughly 3 years, I would expect that they are even smaller in 6 years.
But if they actually need a bigger antennacoil on them it'll be harder of course.
Again the slashdot editor obfuscated my post.
I wrote 'the WIDTH of the RFID chip is less than the WIDTH of a human hair'. RTFA and see the images for yourself. They could easily be 'dusted' out.
I'm going to be completely politically incorrect now and say that I think different races, or slight variations of races, all have their places in games, depending on what game it is, and the environment in the game.
In GTA San Andreas, and the newer Saints Row - the character should be black. Face it; its gangstah-style, white people only look silly trying to do the whole gangster-thing.
Lord of the rings games - white, no matter if you are a human, dwarf or elven. Thats the only real race that fits in the environment. Possible exception if you play orch, then you'd be green-blackish.
GTA Vice City - white _and_ Italian. No other white and nationality could fit better in this game.
Godzilla games - asian.
Then there are games with a more general setting, where the character mostly will be white, because the largest audience is probably white and its easier for us to identify with a character of the same race as ourelves.
Sending midgets into outer space and letting the watching aliens think all humans look like that - funny.
Seeing the look on the faces of the aliens as their dropships lands on earth, when they realize we are actually 3 times as bigger than they thought, and had calculated their take-over plans on - priceless!
Seriously, astronaut train a few good pornstars, and they could help finance the mars-trip by having pay per view webcams in the spaceship.
Why should we be so frigging afraid of one of the most basic drive of all (or at least most) humans?
The worst that could happen would be that they got some sort of weird Mars-STD, but then we could study them and develop intergalactic medications for that STD and become rich on alien-dollars.
haha, you know, that sounds JUST like my own reasoning there.
For the same reasons, I don't play online either any longer.
I think it would be nice if online games were tiered somehow, so you could choose to play with people who (verifiably) has spent about as much time as yourself playing that particular game online.
I REALLY hope the Starcraft 2 will be a classic strategy game. Not some freaking MMOG that you can only enjoy if you are willing to spend all your spare time playing it online with a bunch of other people equally willing to waste their lives away.
So take note Blizzard, here is one customer that will NOT buy starcraft 2 unless it stays true to its roots and is a real strategy game!
The reason I think KDE, Gnome, XFCE and what have you should join forces, is so that they could get one single good system out the door quick enough to compete with Windows and Mac. Basically, I think instead of having 4 or 5 groups all invent the same wheels, they should team up and build different wheels each that then can work together.
If ANY linux desktop system could compete with Mac OSX (or even windows) today this joining of forces obviously wouldn't be needed. But face it, the linux desktops are to MacOSX what a trailerpark home is to a beverly hills mansion. At least from a regular users point of view. I think if all of them pooled their talents together they could change that.
I know this is slightly off-topic for this question, but I still think that all the people and developers who keep talking about the 'ability to choose' is so great - is the big reason why Linux on the desktop never gets anywhere. If all the bright minds of KDE, gnome, QT, the people behind xfree etc would come together, and work out one single system that they all afterwards work on together, I think Linux could stand a chance again. They should focus on what apple has done and how the MacOSX desktop works and try and copy and/or improve on that.
I as a simple user frankly don't care about having 2 or 3 or 15 mediocre different choices of desktop systems. Give me just one good choice instead and I will be happy.
delete the porn? why, my DMS is a mechanism to burn all my porn to dvd:s and automatically snailmail it away, equally distributing it among my friends and family.
all the regular porn to my sister, the scat porn to my mom and dad and the beastiality to my friends overseas etc.
If citizens should not expect privacy the minute they step outside their house, then politicians should not either. They should all be fitted with personal always-on-when-not-home cameras and microphones, with always-on feeds to public streaming sites on the internet, so that also they can be properly surveyed. Tampering with or disabling this equipment should carry harsh punishments.
After all, given the missing billions of dollars of the pentagon, the constant lying from the white house, and the ever-present corruption schemes and racketeering going on in the higher echelons, I have a strong suspicion we could catch MUCH bigger fish than the occasional serial killer this way.
There are thoughtcrimes in Europe also. Try living in Germany and voicing a non-sanctioned opinion on, or even just pose the wrong question about - the Holocaust. Yes, the one with the capital H.
That may very well land you in prison for a long long time.
Free speech and thought ought to reign supreme everywhere, but it doesn't. No matter what the opinion or message is, who it may offend or who may get generally upset by it - nothing should be banned from being printed, stated, or otherwise communicated. No fact, historical event, or assumption should be illegal to question.
The US may not have gotten as far with killing free speech, but give the repubocrats a while longer and we will soon not only catch up with Europe, but probably surpass and become even more draconian.
Bash Iran all you want for being oppressive, but stop being so f:ing ignorant of what is going on in the west, in our own backyards.
Free speech is an all-or-nothing idea. It ceases to exist the moment it is encroached on, even if ever so little.
A jolly nice fellow that GWB Senior helped prop up in the 80ies, wasn't it?
How fortunate we are that his clearly intelligent and eloquent son is here to save us all from having to speak Iraqi and wear sheets after the Iraqi invasion which was just about to take place a few years ago.
Yes Alex Jones is extremely untrustworthy. Like the time in July, 2001, when he came out with the preposterous prediction that airplanes were about to be hijacked, crashed into buildings in the US, and the CIA asset Bin Laden would be blamed.
Gas prices have tripled during the last 5 years. Exxon Mobile just made it into Guinnes book of world records, by making the largest profit in world history, and other oil companies are not far behind. Oil prices are expected to surge up to a cool $100/barrel before short.
But I wouldn't call this a big impact of course. Just like I wouldn't call the official government 9/11 investigation a complete whitewash.
Ain't no better way to garner support for your cause than getting someone to drop a nuke on your capitol (yes, Israel has got more nukes than you have fingers and toes).
Or maybe get an aggressive US occupation on your throat. That worked for Saddam. Just look at the support he has now! He is sure to win the war in Iraq any day now.
Big oil: "Lets send in the troops to put an end to the cheap Iranian oil pumping. Cheap oil is not good for business at all, and it does not play nicely with our made up 'peak oil' propaganda."
Saddam was selling oil way to cheap, so we didn't like him. Hugo Chavez is trying to sell oil cheap, so we don't like him either.
Artificial scarcity is the name of the game. Monster profits will follow.
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OpenBSD and its PF.
True redundancy? Check. Just add a 1 or 2 extra machines and setup CARP.
Load balancing? Check.
Most secure OS ever made? Check.
And OpenBSD 4.1 is just around the corner. Its going to have the new 'hoststated' daemon which will be able to monitor services on remote hosts, and automatically remove or add back their IPs into loadbalancing pools.
Just don't forget to show the OpenBSD folks your appreciation by purchasing a few copies of the OS, a few t-shirts or donations. They deserve it.
I know plenty of people in Sweden living out in the boonies with no other internet access than dial up. So its not that frigging great. Better than in the US probably, but still not that great. I don't think good broadband pervasion is the only reason why some people invent more or better stuff than others. Its infrastructure and it helps of course, but its most certainly not the only factor like some people here seem to believe.
I am pretty clueless about what internet2 really is and how it works, and I have a few questions about it. Maybe some fellow slashdotter can enlighten me.
- There is no such thing as anonymity on internet2 is there?
- There is a central control that can yank sites they don't approve of, isn't there?
- Are there any powerful entities that are seeking to replace internet1 with internet2 for regular people?
- Why could we just not add more bandwidth (as is already being done), use the good old internet1 and hopefully eventually ipv6, and be happy with that?
I'm not so sure. I'd say they are small enough not to be noticed. But even if they are, say its raining, the rain drops would camouflage them. Or a dusty summerday. Or just release them in small quantities in a doorway or gate that everybody passes through.
Also if this size is manufactured in roughly 3 years, I would expect that they are even smaller in 6 years. But if they actually need a bigger antennacoil on them it'll be harder of course.
Again the slashdot editor obfuscated my post. I wrote 'the WIDTH of the RFID chip is less than the WIDTH of a human hair'. RTFA and see the images for yourself. They could easily be 'dusted' out.
Oi, I (the submitter) did not write the fractional comparisons, the slashdot editor did!
I'm going to be completely politically incorrect now and say that I think different races, or slight variations of races, all have their places in games, depending on what game it is, and the environment in the game.
In GTA San Andreas, and the newer Saints Row - the character should be black. Face it; its gangstah-style, white people only look silly trying to do the whole gangster-thing.
Lord of the rings games - white, no matter if you are a human, dwarf or elven. Thats the only real race that fits in the environment. Possible exception if you play orch, then you'd be green-blackish.
GTA Vice City - white _and_ Italian. No other white and nationality could fit better in this game.
Godzilla games - asian.
Then there are games with a more general setting, where the character mostly will be white, because the largest audience is probably white and its easier for us to identify with a character of the same race as ourelves.
Sending midgets into outer space and letting the watching aliens think all humans look like that - funny. Seeing the look on the faces of the aliens as their dropships lands on earth, when they realize we are actually 3 times as bigger than they thought, and had calculated their take-over plans on - priceless!
Seriously, astronaut train a few good pornstars, and they could help finance the mars-trip by having pay per view webcams in the spaceship.
Why should we be so frigging afraid of one of the most basic drive of all (or at least most) humans?
The worst that could happen would be that they got some sort of weird Mars-STD, but then we could study them and develop intergalactic medications for that STD and become rich on alien-dollars.
When Canada is dead and gone there'll be no more Celine Dion!
haha, you know, that sounds JUST like my own reasoning there. For the same reasons, I don't play online either any longer. I think it would be nice if online games were tiered somehow, so you could choose to play with people who (verifiably) has spent about as much time as yourself playing that particular game online.
I REALLY hope the Starcraft 2 will be a classic strategy game. Not some freaking MMOG that you can only enjoy if you are willing to spend all your spare time playing it online with a bunch of other people equally willing to waste their lives away.
So take note Blizzard, here is one customer that will NOT buy starcraft 2 unless it stays true to its roots and is a real strategy game!
The reason I think KDE, Gnome, XFCE and what have you should join forces, is so that they could get one single good system out the door quick enough to compete with Windows and Mac. Basically, I think instead of having 4 or 5 groups all invent the same wheels, they should team up and build different wheels each that then can work together.
If ANY linux desktop system could compete with Mac OSX (or even windows) today this joining of forces obviously wouldn't be needed. But face it, the linux desktops are to MacOSX what a trailerpark home is to a beverly hills mansion. At least from a regular users point of view. I think if all of them pooled their talents together they could change that.
I know this is slightly off-topic for this question, but I still think that all the people and developers who keep talking about the 'ability to choose' is so great - is the big reason why Linux on the desktop never gets anywhere.
If all the bright minds of KDE, gnome, QT, the people behind xfree etc would come together, and work out one single system that they all afterwards work on together, I think Linux could stand a chance again. They should focus on what apple has done and how the MacOSX desktop works and try and copy and/or improve on that.
I as a simple user frankly don't care about having 2 or 3 or 15 mediocre different choices of desktop systems.
Give me just one good choice instead and I will be happy.
delete the porn? why, my DMS is a mechanism to burn all my porn to dvd:s and automatically snailmail it away, equally distributing it among my friends and family. all the regular porn to my sister, the scat porn to my mom and dad and the beastiality to my friends overseas etc.
Actually, it is 'pedantism'. No C in there.
If citizens should not expect privacy the minute they step outside their house, then politicians should not either. They should all be fitted with personal always-on-when-not-home cameras and microphones, with always-on feeds to public streaming sites on the internet, so that also they can be properly surveyed. Tampering with or disabling this equipment should carry harsh punishments.
After all, given the missing billions of dollars of the pentagon, the constant lying from the white house, and the ever-present corruption schemes and racketeering going on in the higher echelons, I have a strong suspicion we could catch MUCH bigger fish than the occasional serial killer this way.
Note the emphasis on the word 'may'.
I'm sure your mileage may vary, and you might even die I suppose. But that still doesn't rule out that your life just may get extended.
Studies whose conclusions are 'doing X may result in Y' are so meaningless.
There are thoughtcrimes in Europe also. Try living in Germany and voicing a non-sanctioned opinion on, or even just pose the wrong question about - the Holocaust. Yes, the one with the capital H.
That may very well land you in prison for a long long time.
Free speech and thought ought to reign supreme everywhere, but it doesn't. No matter what the opinion or message is, who it may offend or who may get generally upset by it - nothing should be banned from being printed, stated, or otherwise communicated. No fact, historical event, or assumption should be illegal to question.
The US may not have gotten as far with killing free speech, but give the repubocrats a while longer and we will soon not only catch up with Europe, but probably surpass and become even more draconian.
Bash Iran all you want for being oppressive, but stop being so f:ing ignorant of what is going on in the west, in our own backyards.
Free speech is an all-or-nothing idea. It ceases to exist the moment it is encroached on, even if ever so little.
A jolly nice fellow that GWB Senior helped prop up in the 80ies, wasn't it?
How fortunate we are that his clearly intelligent and eloquent son is here to save us all from having to speak Iraqi and wear sheets after the Iraqi invasion which was just about to take place a few years ago.
Yes Alex Jones is extremely untrustworthy. Like the time in July, 2001, when he came out with the preposterous prediction that airplanes were about to be hijacked, crashed into buildings in the US, and the CIA asset Bin Laden would be blamed.
Gas prices have tripled during the last 5 years. Exxon Mobile just made it into Guinnes book of world records, by making the largest profit in world history, and other oil companies are not far behind. Oil prices are expected to surge up to a cool $100/barrel before short.
But I wouldn't call this a big impact of course. Just like I wouldn't call the official government 9/11 investigation a complete whitewash.
'Peak Oil' is already upon us according to Big Oil.
Watch this interview with Greg Palast.
And from where do you hear of this massive and complete evil of Iran?
Ain't no better way to garner support for your cause than getting someone to drop a nuke on your capitol (yes, Israel has got more nukes than you have fingers and toes).
Or maybe get an aggressive US occupation on your throat. That worked for Saddam. Just look at the support he has now! He is sure to win the war in Iraq any day now.
Big oil: "Lets send in the troops to put an end to the cheap Iranian oil pumping. Cheap oil is not good for business at all, and it does not play nicely with our made up 'peak oil' propaganda."
Saddam was selling oil way to cheap, so we didn't like him. Hugo Chavez is trying to sell oil cheap, so we don't like him either.
Artificial scarcity is the name of the game. Monster profits will follow.