I live in Southern California, smack in the middle of Orange County, in an affluent neighborhood. We have two (2!) options for internet - Cox cable and AT&T DSL. I hate both, but there are no other options where we live. It's ridiculous.
looks interesting. we were thinking about using VPN connections to perform messaging on our own server, so they would have to break the VPN, or actually get into the server to get the communications. but retroshare does look interesting, although i worry about those keys too. i suspect breaking simple encryption is beyond easy for the NSA, as in it's already automated.
several non-tech folks have stopped communicating with me except for face-to-face, simply because they don't want the government to read our conversations. my text and emails have gotten very matter-of-fact ever since the snowden revelations leaked.
as a result, i've been researching the available encryption resources out there so we can actually have private conversations without worry. there aren't many that are really simple to use and actually effective. i'm talking with a friend about setting up a home server we can VPN into for chat sessions until there's a workable solution for non-tech types.
i've wanted to do this for a while, but no one else around me cared. now they care.
Altogether, accounting for both the TARP and the Fannie and Freddie bailout, $605 billion has gone out the door—invested, loaned, or paid out—while $345 billion has been returned.
The Treasury has been earning a return on most of the money invested or loaned. So far, it has earned $87.8B. When those revenues are taken into account, $172.0B is the net still outstanding as of Oct. 26, 2012.
perhaps you weren't following what actually happened with TARP very closely. this is only where things are now. suffice to say it won't get better, and will probably end up costing much more than $140 billion.
All our money is imaginary. It's all numbers moving around in computers.
The difference here is that the money spent on rolling out fiber infrastructure wouldn't end up in the hands of the the 1%. Some of it would, but not enough.
Totally agree with this. I use these for my own writing, which is meant to be archival (in journals, and I want to be able to read them in 30-40 years). The tip is very fine, there is no bleed, the ink is waterproof and fade-resistant, and the pens last a long time. My current one is from 2010.
They're not very expensive, and can be found at most art stores. I've gone through so many pens, and these are the best.
the author is playing games.
Denver gets.3 rem PER YEAR
hotspot measured at.1 rem (no time length given, but probably per hour)
as you say, that adds up over a year pretty significantly. suffice to say it's well over 100x the background radiation in Denver.
or in my case, they know every bill i pay through them, and that i take out lots of cash. they know how much gas i use, because that goes on my credit card. otherwise, they know very little about me.
i have a savings card for the local safeway - i actually have three i use in rotation, with fake names, numbers, and addresses.
at the moment, gmail is the biggest security hole in my life. i'm working on fixing that.
This is a license for the single-server version of their virtualization software. They had been selling this license for $495.
Essentially, ESXi is your OS, and you then run virtuals on top of it. ESXi provides software redundancy for your servers. If you want hardware redundancy for your ESXi installation, you need to purchase their enterprise-level products, which include a management server, VMotion (which lets you move virtuals from machine-to-machine), as well as other fun and incredibly useful tools.
Yesterday, to install ESXi on all ten machines would have cost you $4,950, and to run all 10 machines as a virtual cluster with all the bells and whistles would have cost you around $50k. Now the first option is free, but the second option is still around $50k.
This is exactly correct. I think that some/.ers wearing rose-colored glasses wish the government didn't have to go to court to enforce it's laws. But hey, that's America! I'm just glad California's finally making a stand for the little guy.
On one level, I agree with you about circular lawsuits. On the other hand (unfortunately) this is how our legal system works. There weren't a lot of people yelling at IBM, Novell, or Red Hat for bringing counter-suits against SCO. How effective were/are those counter-suits? That I don't know. Nonetheless, I have a hard time faulting California for attempting to enforce the law.
There is certainly the question of whether these laws are unenforceable. It's possible. Again, unfortunately, one of the only ways in the U.S. to determine if a law is unenforceable is to take it to court, and let a judge decide just that. That said, if the judge says this law *is* enforceable, all of a sudden there isn't really a recourse for the Big Six. And let's be honest, there's all sorts of evidence proving causation of (not global warming but) environmental damage from vehicle emissions. And there's a law on the books attempting to ameliorate that situation which the Big Six are trying to make an end-run around. I moved away from CA six months ago, but I am really glad they're taking a stand on this issue. *Someone* has to.
As to democracy and the Middle East, I have to confess to agnosticism about whether true democracy would actually result in a good government. We don't currently live in a democracy in the U.S., and I can't think of anywhere off the top of my head anywhere else in the world that does either. I know I'm being technical with my language, but I think there's a need for it. In America, when we say "bring democracy" we're really talking about colonization. "Democracies" that we like tend to be governments (of any stripe) that are wide open for American business interests, whereas countries we need to "bring democracy to" tend to be just the opposite. So I'm opposed to both the literal and American meaning of that term.
I am not, however, opposed to letting people decide for themselves what to do with their lives/communities/government. If we were to call that democracy, I would be all for bringing that to the Middle East, though I'm patently opposed to the idea of using force to do so (at least I'm opposed to using American/foreign forces to do so).
California has passed laws *besides* the emissions laws that are aimed specifically at manufacturers, and those laws have not been enforced because the Big Six have tied them up in court.
I think the main point is to try to get all costs for a product into the price that is paid - including the hidden costs like waste disposal, environmental damage. They're hidden costs that don't always strike home on a micro (read individual consumer) level but do hit home at a macro level.
Clearly, we have differing ideas about what is dumb. I happen to think that suing for the damages these companies have caused by attempting to evade state law is exactly why we have courts. I also think the *idea* of "bringing democracy to the middle east" is dumb to begin with, so any something's you would do in attempting to accomplish that would obviously be something dumb.
" It comes less than a month after California lawmakers adopted the nation's first global warming law mandating a cut in greenhouse gas emissions.
California has also targeted the auto industry with first-in-the-nation rules adopted in 2004 requiring carmakers to force cuts in tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks.
Automakers, however, have so far blocked those rules with their own legal action -- prompting one analyst to say California's lawsuit represents a way for California to pressure car manufacturers to accept the rules.
"That's the objective," said David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization that provides public research and forecasts about the industry. "They want to get the automakers basically to bow down and pay homage to the (emissions) law."
All this is well and good, of course, if it weren't for the following: "In a series of recent cases, California's regulations have been challenged in court, not just by the auto industry, but by the federal government." So yes, CA needs to sue (technically, countersue, but who's counting?). The federal government has consistently hampered CA's attempts to clean up the air. Something needs to be done.
But of course, you're the phal^H^H^H^H environmentalist, so you probably knew all this already.
In Switzerland (at least), manufacturers are required to pay for the disposal of the packaging for their products. You're right, this cost is then built right into the cost of the product. But you also notice how all of a sudden there is MUCH less product packaging everywhere. The manufacturer realized that if they have to include the actual cost of their product, they'd have to pare it down to move product.
That law isn't perfect, but it's better than what was there before. Better than what goes on in America.
Of course, the actual problem is that CA got fed up waiting for the feds to pass any sort of emission standards with teeth, and when it wasn't happening created their own. So the car companies have been running back and forth to the federal government for protection. The government even sued CA for the car companies.
Sue the Big Six for not exceeding those standards.
Uh, no. This lawsuit is because the Big Six have not complied with those standards, and have already done everything they can do to not have to comply with CA's emission standards. Seems like a perfectly rational lawsuit to me.
Some environmentalist you are. I've been complaining for years about the tricks the auto companies are pulling to avoid meeting the aggressive emissions and fuel mileage standards the state has been setting. Now, the state finally decides to get tough about it, and all you have are dick jokes. Nice.
Manageengine Servicedesk Plus. Reasonable licensing (and the free version might work for your company). Support is good, and asset discovery is automatic on your network (and easily linkable to users, who are also automatically discovered). So far, it's been an excellent program.
Not that I'd know, having never been to South Africa, but if you trust the Telkom website, you're both either half right or half wrong, depending:
TelkomInternet powered by ADSL ~ Access options
TelkomInternet powered by ADSL provides both a shaped and unshaped service. Simply put, this means that we have built a service that will best meet your individual needs. For the general user the shaped service will fit most needs adequately.
* Shaped ~ In layman's terms, the shaped service prioritises keystroke activities - things you do while sitting in-front of your PC. So when you're surfing your favourite site, doing your banking online or checking you e-mail, this option will work best for you.
* For those of you that need to know more, read on. The shaped service distinguishes between the various protocols used over the Internet. The main priority is HTTP. At present, all international HTTP traffic is transparently cached for ADSL users. All international un-cached data is shaped. The following un-cached protocols are prioritised on the network: HTTP (in certain cases HTTP is not cached due to website incompatibilities), HTTPS, FTP, Mail (POP3, SMTP and IMAP), SSH and TELNET. Any protocol not mentioned above will receive a lower priority on the network. Unshaped ~ In layman's terms, whichever activity you are doing or leaving your PC to do, while not there, all available bandwidth will be used for this application or protocol.
* Unshaped ~This service will offer you unshaped international bandwidth and a higher data transfer rate. The unshaped service will not shape the un-cached protocols. All protocols will therefore share the available bandwidth equally. Similarly, local bandwidth will remain as is with no shaping implemented. Keeping this in mind, this service is typically designed for a niche market including, for example, your typical Forex Trader, specific gaming applications, secure work from home options and VPN's. All these applications can use unfamiliar protocols, which are not necessarily bandwidth intensive but require an unshaped service to work optimally.
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I live in Southern California, smack in the middle of Orange County, in an affluent neighborhood. We have two (2!) options for internet - Cox cable and AT&T DSL. I hate both, but there are no other options where we live. It's ridiculous.
looks interesting. we were thinking about using VPN connections to perform messaging on our own server, so they would have to break the VPN, or actually get into the server to get the communications. but retroshare does look interesting, although i worry about those keys too. i suspect breaking simple encryption is beyond easy for the NSA, as in it's already automated.
several non-tech folks have stopped communicating with me except for face-to-face, simply because they don't want the government to read our conversations. my text and emails have gotten very matter-of-fact ever since the snowden revelations leaked.
as a result, i've been researching the available encryption resources out there so we can actually have private conversations without worry. there aren't many that are really simple to use and actually effective. i'm talking with a friend about setting up a home server we can VPN into for chat sessions until there's a workable solution for non-tech types.
i've wanted to do this for a while, but no one else around me cared. now they care.
appreciate you doing this. if enough people were like you, we could have some fun overwhelming the DMCA system.
funny how you cut that bit off. that was my personal extrapolation.
regardless, here's the real information:
Altogether, accounting for both the TARP and the Fannie and Freddie bailout, $605 billion has gone out the door—invested, loaned, or paid out—while $345 billion has been returned. The Treasury has been earning a return on most of the money invested or loaned. So far, it has earned $87.8B. When those revenues are taken into account, $172.0B is the net still outstanding as of Oct. 26, 2012.
perhaps you weren't following what actually happened with TARP very closely. this is only where things are now. suffice to say it won't get better, and will probably end up costing much more than $140 billion.
All our money is imaginary. It's all numbers moving around in computers. The difference here is that the money spent on rolling out fiber infrastructure wouldn't end up in the hands of the the 1%. Some of it would, but not enough.
So we can bailout Wall St. and the banks to the tune of hundreds of billions, but we can't afford to invest in infrastructure. Good to know.
Totally agree with this. I use these for my own writing, which is meant to be archival (in journals, and I want to be able to read them in 30-40 years). The tip is very fine, there is no bleed, the ink is waterproof and fade-resistant, and the pens last a long time. My current one is from 2010. They're not very expensive, and can be found at most art stores. I've gone through so many pens, and these are the best.
the author is playing games. Denver gets .3 rem PER YEAR
hotspot measured at .1 rem (no time length given, but probably per hour)
as you say, that adds up over a year pretty significantly. suffice to say it's well over 100x the background radiation in Denver.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id455117843?mt=8
or in my case, they know every bill i pay through them, and that i take out lots of cash. they know how much gas i use, because that goes on my credit card. otherwise, they know very little about me.
i have a savings card for the local safeway - i actually have three i use in rotation, with fake names, numbers, and addresses.
at the moment, gmail is the biggest security hole in my life. i'm working on fixing that.
This is a license for the single-server version of their virtualization software. They had been selling this license for $495.
Essentially, ESXi is your OS, and you then run virtuals on top of it. ESXi provides software redundancy for your servers. If you want hardware redundancy for your ESXi installation, you need to purchase their enterprise-level products, which include a management server, VMotion (which lets you move virtuals from machine-to-machine), as well as other fun and incredibly useful tools.
Yesterday, to install ESXi on all ten machines would have cost you $4,950, and to run all 10 machines as a virtual cluster with all the bells and whistles would have cost you around $50k. Now the first option is free, but the second option is still around $50k.
This is exactly correct. I think that some /.ers wearing rose-colored glasses wish the government didn't have to go to court to enforce it's laws. But hey, that's America! I'm just glad California's finally making a stand for the little guy.
On one level, I agree with you about circular lawsuits. On the other hand (unfortunately) this is how our legal system works. There weren't a lot of people yelling at IBM, Novell, or Red Hat for bringing counter-suits against SCO. How effective were/are those counter-suits? That I don't know. Nonetheless, I have a hard time faulting California for attempting to enforce the law.
There is certainly the question of whether these laws are unenforceable. It's possible. Again, unfortunately, one of the only ways in the U.S. to determine if a law is unenforceable is to take it to court, and let a judge decide just that. That said, if the judge says this law *is* enforceable, all of a sudden there isn't really a recourse for the Big Six. And let's be honest, there's all sorts of evidence proving causation of (not global warming but) environmental damage from vehicle emissions. And there's a law on the books attempting to ameliorate that situation which the Big Six are trying to make an end-run around. I moved away from CA six months ago, but I am really glad they're taking a stand on this issue. *Someone* has to.
As to democracy and the Middle East, I have to confess to agnosticism about whether true democracy would actually result in a good government. We don't currently live in a democracy in the U.S., and I can't think of anywhere off the top of my head anywhere else in the world that does either. I know I'm being technical with my language, but I think there's a need for it. In America, when we say "bring democracy" we're really talking about colonization. "Democracies" that we like tend to be governments (of any stripe) that are wide open for American business interests, whereas countries we need to "bring democracy to" tend to be just the opposite. So I'm opposed to both the literal and American meaning of that term.
I am not, however, opposed to letting people decide for themselves what to do with their lives/communities/government. If we were to call that democracy, I would be all for bringing that to the Middle East, though I'm patently opposed to the idea of using force to do so (at least I'm opposed to using American/foreign forces to do so).
California has passed laws *besides* the emissions laws that are aimed specifically at manufacturers, and those laws have not been enforced because the Big Six have tied them up in court.
I think the main point is to try to get all costs for a product into the price that is paid - including the hidden costs like waste disposal, environmental damage. They're hidden costs that don't always strike home on a micro (read individual consumer) level but do hit home at a macro level.
Clearly, we have differing ideas about what is dumb. I happen to think that suing for the damages these companies have caused by attempting to evade state law is exactly why we have courts. I also think the *idea* of "bringing democracy to the middle east" is dumb to begin with, so any something's you would do in attempting to accomplish that would obviously be something dumb.
from the article:
" It comes less than a month after California lawmakers adopted the nation's first global warming law mandating a cut in greenhouse gas emissions.
California has also targeted the auto industry with first-in-the-nation rules adopted in 2004 requiring carmakers to force cuts in tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks.
Automakers, however, have so far blocked those rules with their own legal action -- prompting one analyst to say California's lawsuit represents a way for California to pressure car manufacturers to accept the rules.
"That's the objective," said David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization that provides public research and forecasts about the industry. "They want to get the automakers basically to bow down and pay homage to the (emissions) law."
All this is well and good, of course, if it weren't for the following: "In a series of recent cases, California's regulations have been challenged in court, not just by the auto industry, but by the federal government." So yes, CA needs to sue (technically, countersue, but who's counting?). The federal government has consistently hampered CA's attempts to clean up the air. Something needs to be done.
But of course, you're the phal^H^H^H^H environmentalist, so you probably knew all this already.
In Switzerland (at least), manufacturers are required to pay for the disposal of the packaging for their products. You're right, this cost is then built right into the cost of the product. But you also notice how all of a sudden there is MUCH less product packaging everywhere. The manufacturer realized that if they have to include the actual cost of their product, they'd have to pare it down to move product.
That law isn't perfect, but it's better than what was there before. Better than what goes on in America.
You're right! It is a governmental problem.
Of course, the actual problem is that CA got fed up waiting for the feds to pass any sort of emission standards with teeth, and when it wasn't happening created their own. So the car companies have been running back and forth to the federal government for protection. The government even sued CA for the car companies.
Sue the Big Six for not exceeding those standards.
Uh, no. This lawsuit is because the Big Six have not complied with those standards, and have already done everything they can do to not have to comply with CA's emission standards. Seems like a perfectly rational lawsuit to me.
Some environmentalist you are. I've been complaining for years about the tricks the auto companies are pulling to avoid meeting the aggressive emissions and fuel mileage standards the state has been setting. Now, the state finally decides to get tough about it, and all you have are dick jokes. Nice.
Manageengine Servicedesk Plus. Reasonable licensing (and the free version might work for your company). Support is good, and asset discovery is automatic on your network (and easily linkable to users, who are also automatically discovered). So far, it's been an excellent program.
Not that I'd know, having never been to South Africa, but if you trust the Telkom website, you're both either half right or half wrong, depending:
TelkomInternet powered by ADSL ~ Access options
TelkomInternet powered by ADSL provides both a shaped and unshaped service. Simply put, this means that we have built a service that will best meet your individual needs. For the general user the shaped service will fit most needs adequately.
* Shaped ~ In layman's terms, the shaped service prioritises keystroke activities - things you do while sitting in-front of your PC. So when you're surfing your favourite site, doing your banking online or checking you e-mail, this option will work best for you.
* For those of you that need to know more, read on. The shaped service distinguishes between the various protocols used over the Internet. The main priority is HTTP. At present, all international HTTP traffic is transparently cached for ADSL users. All international un-cached data is shaped. The following un-cached protocols are prioritised on the network: HTTP (in certain cases HTTP is not cached due to website incompatibilities), HTTPS, FTP, Mail (POP3, SMTP and IMAP), SSH and TELNET. Any protocol not mentioned above will receive a lower priority on the network. Unshaped ~ In layman's terms, whichever activity you are doing or leaving your PC to do, while not there, all available bandwidth will be used for this application or protocol.
* Unshaped ~This service will offer you unshaped international bandwidth and a higher data transfer rate. The unshaped service will not shape the un-cached protocols. All protocols will therefore share the available bandwidth equally. Similarly, local bandwidth will remain as is with no shaping implemented. Keeping this in mind, this service is typically designed for a niche market including, for example, your typical Forex Trader, specific gaming applications, secure work from home options and VPN's. All these applications can use unfamiliar protocols, which are not necessarily bandwidth intensive but require an unshaped service to work optimally.