Even today, a lot of people are pretty dang confused about what them there internets have on 'em.
And how to drive a non-automatic transmission vehicle, switch the AV setup from cable to watch the dvd, calculate their interest on the credit card, what's the relationship of pounds to kilos and meters to feet, read a map... Basic everyday activities. The internet did improve this, but education still could use a revolution.
FS snapshotting and backups are the only way, but make sure your backups are protected (locked up) etc.
I disagree. The best method for dealing with a skilled rogue admin is getting on your knees, pleading mercy, and agreeing to all his demands. Either that or format and reenter all the data from paper. Provided he didn't manage to get the corrupt data onto the paper reports too.
When the last holder of an idea dies, the idea dies, unless someone discovers it again, or find some documentation. Has happened many times in history. Concrete, or other liquid stone, is thought to have some forms in the past which are no longer known. It was also used in Rome but largely forgotten for about 1000 years.
Libraries have this problem building faster and faster. Instead of just books, they have rapidly growing archives of media in oddball, forgotten formats and rooms full of old equipment to read it.
Applying that business perspective, what would make the most sense is to allow massive immigration, to have lots of laborers, and keep it illegal, to have them work cheap. Which is more or less what happens. But I'm sure the dynamics are a lot more complex than that. Even in Italy, where racism and immigrant deportation is much quicker than the US, immigrants are quite numerous. As I see it, many of these countries provide cheap labor, cheap natural resources, etc, which get shipped to another country with more financial resources for very low prices. Well, after a while, they become depleted of of everthing, and start following their resources. The fact that their immigration is illegal is just a regulatory, technical inconvenience. Nobody is going to be sitting waiting in poverty for economic equality, justice, opportunity, etc. They just go where the jobs are.
They are here illegally, therefore as elrous0 said, they should be sent back home. I can think of far worse things for someone that breaks the law than being fitted with a tracking device.
Indeed. Next we just have to figure out how to tag senators with tracking devices.
I thought they used cellphone tracking for these things. Oh well, maybe immigration didn't have access to that data, so they created their own data source. Either way I think this is the future of data. What data is acessible and possible is sought, not what data is legal.
Right. Sony does not have a monopoly, it is a fair and honest competition player. In some ideal, dreamy corporate-competition-is-always nice-and-honest free-market-and-paradise-for-true-believers dreamland. Maybe some people don't agree and think millions in profit flows from monopolist marketing cornered market strategies, not from much of anything else, and equates abusive pricing. Don't forget the profit is calculated *after* salaries and bonuses are paid to everyone, whereas lots of small game authors don't even get a regular salary or anything at all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11650482 Sony profits on PC and game sales The firm made 31bn yen ($386m, £242m) in the three months to September
Why is this surprising? Some might say backdoor, all it is is an update mechanism. Are there going to be articles on how Firefox has a backdoor that allows execution of any code Mozilla want?
There is such a thing a being a trusted party, yes. But still, people will denounce and despise Mozilla, if Mozilla starts losing trust, showing they want to force people to run code that is harmful to their needs. So far Mozilla has not shown it's in their interest or values to do such things. People run their updates and trust them.
To much sodium is bad for you. It increases blood pressure.
Technically too much sodium will kill you.
Drinking too much water at once will also kill you. It happened around here when a radio program challenged a guest to break some record of drinking water. Water goes to the blood too fast, and lowers the concentration of something or other, which can kill. In fact even breathing too fast and deep is bad for you.
...and it's even more infuriating that the lefties forced us to abandon practical forms of energy (like nuclear) some 30+ years ago using the same fear tactics that they are now
The accidents were not the only factor involved in the politics. It seems you have forgotten that nuclear weapons actually were used in war twice, marking a green light for their deplyment. And that they were growing at an alarming and uncontrolled pace. And that nuclear weapons still are a major international concern. And that nuclear weapons and power were closely linked back then, and still are. Only very recently is that coupling being debated, questioned and reducing, politically and technically.
Not sure it's necessarily bad for the US if China has this technology. The more energy they get from nukes, the less China will compete for oil on the int'l market.
Regardless of what happens, the massive amount of research, ideas, discussion and demand for alternative energy sources is already producing a number of sources, and the costs, availability and practicality of multiple forms of energy is going to improve dramatically. Costs will likely be higher for a long time, but it seems lots of people are willing to pay more for alternative sources for the "coolness" factora alone, or for extended range, reduced weight or other technical advantages, in some cases.
Nowadays we talk about open source and patent freedom, but it was invented long ago. They generally called it industrial espionage and theft, but it was essentially the same, learning from the ideas of others... There's a difference from legal or moral perspective, but in practice it's about the same. Copy and improve upon. Just instead of sending an email or discussing in a forum openly, everyone has to hire multiple spies to get information and communicate with the others, and believe (or pretend) that nobody else is thinking of the same ideas. Communication of ideas among groups becomes, let's say, a bit encumbered and limited. But it does happen to some extent.
A thorium reactor does not require the expensive hard-to-make enriched uranium fuel rods that conventional pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors do.
The manufacturers of nuclear reactor technology such as General Electric Nuclear and Westsinghouse Electric make big money from selling the expensive fuel rods and have no interest in reactor designs that dont need such fuel roads.
That's okay, let someone else build the reactors if they don't want to.
From a purely technical standpoint, I don't see why there can't be a transition tax, taxing carbon sources and funding/temporary subsidizing renewable sources, to encourage the economics of the issue. Of course there is resistance to change for those who will have to adapt or lose out economically and politically. Change is like that, it forces people to change.
Whatever happened to the 1950's/1960's America that the entire world looked to and admired?
Stopped being level headed civil and technology leader and started being paranoid military boss. Right around the 60's. But continued Hollywood propaganda. Bush got rid of the Hollywood niceties and overtly rubbed military in the world's face. Nobody liked it, and eight years of it followed by a couple of massive economic meltdowns sealed fate. The world has changed, momentum is gained in multiple-power-centers world politics, and allied with the speed of technology, the future is changing faster and more uncertainly by the day.
As far as I'm concerned this is old technology and called fish farming mainly, though I believe raising smaller animals, also may be an improvement over cattle in terms of carbon produced per-pound of meat.
Does anyone know how much influence net-enable mobile phones had on this? I would assume it is taking a huge bite it took out of the available IP numbers.
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I have a feeling we'll need one in the US very soon (sometime this decade).
Irconically it may be that in Egypt they won't need it after all. US envoy has told Mubarak they recommend him not to run again, not to participate in transition.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/middleeast/02transition.html?emc=na
"Any attempt by government to in any way censor or limit or shut down the Internet will lead to immediate execution of said members..."
I vote for it. Including under "censor" the categories of copyright, trademarks, and defamation.
Even today, a lot of people are pretty dang confused about what them there internets have on 'em.
And how to drive a non-automatic transmission vehicle, switch the AV setup from cable to watch the dvd, calculate their interest on the credit card, what's the relationship of pounds to kilos and meters to feet, read a map... Basic everyday activities. The internet did improve this, but education still could use a revolution.
The lawyers would just love this.
FS snapshotting and backups are the only way, but make sure your backups are protected (locked up) etc.
I disagree. The best method for dealing with a skilled rogue admin is getting on your knees, pleading mercy, and agreeing to all his demands. Either that or format and reenter all the data from paper. Provided he didn't manage to get the corrupt data onto the paper reports too.
When the last holder of an idea dies, the idea dies, unless someone discovers it again, or find some documentation. Has happened many times in history. Concrete, or other liquid stone, is thought to have some forms in the past which are no longer known. It was also used in Rome but largely forgotten for about 1000 years.
The Internet died in Egypt last week. Also much of its credibility for use in anti government actions.
Libraries have this problem building faster and faster. Instead of just books, they have rapidly growing archives of media in oddball, forgotten formats and rooms full of old equipment to read it.
Applying that business perspective, what would make the most sense is to allow massive immigration, to have lots of laborers, and keep it illegal, to have them work cheap. Which is more or less what happens. But I'm sure the dynamics are a lot more complex than that. Even in Italy, where racism and immigrant deportation is much quicker than the US, immigrants are quite numerous. As I see it, many of these countries provide cheap labor, cheap natural resources, etc, which get shipped to another country with more financial resources for very low prices. Well, after a while, they become depleted of of everthing, and start following their resources. The fact that their immigration is illegal is just a regulatory, technical inconvenience. Nobody is going to be sitting waiting in poverty for economic equality, justice, opportunity, etc. They just go where the jobs are.
They are here illegally, therefore as elrous0 said, they should be sent back home. I can think of far worse things for someone that breaks the law than being fitted with a tracking device.
Indeed. Next we just have to figure out how to tag senators with tracking devices.
I thought they used cellphone tracking for these things. Oh well, maybe immigration didn't have access to that data, so they created their own data source. Either way I think this is the future of data. What data is acessible and possible is sought, not what data is legal.
Right. Sony does not have a monopoly, it is a fair and honest competition player. In some ideal, dreamy corporate-competition-is-always nice-and-honest free-market-and-paradise-for-true-believers dreamland. Maybe some people don't agree and think millions in profit flows from monopolist marketing cornered market strategies, not from much of anything else, and equates abusive pricing. Don't forget the profit is calculated *after* salaries and bonuses are paid to everyone, whereas lots of small game authors don't even get a regular salary or anything at all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11650482
Sony profits on PC and game sales
The firm made 31bn yen ($386m, £242m) in the three months to September
Why is this surprising? Some might say backdoor, all it is is an update mechanism. Are there going to be articles on how Firefox has a backdoor that allows execution of any code Mozilla want?
There is such a thing a being a trusted party, yes. But still, people will denounce and despise Mozilla, if Mozilla starts losing trust, showing they want to force people to run code that is harmful to their needs. So far Mozilla has not shown it's in their interest or values to do such things. People run their updates and trust them.
Makes you wonder how safe is it really to use these "game console" things, which is really a computer with no local rights to OS control.
Technically too much sodium will kill you.
Drinking too much water at once will also kill you. It happened around here when a radio program challenged a guest to break some record of drinking water. Water goes to the blood too fast, and lowers the concentration of something or other, which can kill. In fact even breathing too fast and deep is bad for you.
...and it's even more infuriating that the lefties forced us to abandon practical forms of energy (like nuclear) some 30+ years ago using the same fear tactics that they are now
The accidents were not the only factor involved in the politics. It seems you have forgotten that nuclear weapons actually were used in war twice, marking a green light for their deplyment. And that they were growing at an alarming and uncontrolled pace. And that nuclear weapons still are a major international concern. And that nuclear weapons and power were closely linked back then, and still are. Only very recently is that coupling being debated, questioned and reducing, politically and technically.
Not sure it's necessarily bad for the US if China has this technology. The more energy they get from nukes, the less China will compete for oil on the int'l market.
Regardless of what happens, the massive amount of research, ideas, discussion and demand for alternative energy sources is already producing a number of sources, and the costs, availability and practicality of multiple forms of energy is going to improve dramatically. Costs will likely be higher for a long time, but it seems lots of people are willing to pay more for alternative sources for the "coolness" factora alone, or for extended range, reduced weight or other technical advantages, in some cases.
The problem is... our law doesn't allow for "turn about is fair play".
Too bad. Deal with it, or change it. But actually, I'm pretty sure they just "fund some research" then "reach some breakthrough discoveries".
Nowadays we talk about open source and patent freedom, but it was invented long ago. They generally called it industrial espionage and theft, but it was essentially the same, learning from the ideas of others... There's a difference from legal or moral perspective, but in practice it's about the same. Copy and improve upon. Just instead of sending an email or discussing in a forum openly, everyone has to hire multiple spies to get information and communicate with the others, and believe (or pretend) that nobody else is thinking of the same ideas. Communication of ideas among groups becomes, let's say, a bit encumbered and limited. But it does happen to some extent.
A thorium reactor does not require the expensive hard-to-make enriched uranium fuel rods that conventional pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors do.
The manufacturers of nuclear reactor technology such as General Electric Nuclear and Westsinghouse Electric make big money from selling the expensive fuel rods and have no interest in reactor designs that dont need such fuel roads.
That's okay, let someone else build the reactors if they don't want to.
From a purely technical standpoint, I don't see why there can't be a transition tax, taxing carbon sources and funding/temporary subsidizing renewable sources, to encourage the economics of the issue. Of course there is resistance to change for those who will have to adapt or lose out economically and politically. Change is like that, it forces people to change.
Whatever happened to the 1950's/1960's America that the entire world looked to and admired?
Stopped being level headed civil and technology leader and started being paranoid military boss. Right around the 60's. But continued Hollywood propaganda. Bush got rid of the Hollywood niceties and overtly rubbed military in the world's face. Nobody liked it, and eight years of it followed by a couple of massive economic meltdowns sealed fate. The world has changed, momentum is gained in multiple-power-centers world politics, and allied with the speed of technology, the future is changing faster and more uncertainly by the day.
As far as I'm concerned this is old technology and called fish farming mainly, though I believe raising smaller animals, also may be an improvement over cattle in terms of carbon produced per-pound of meat.
Does anyone know how much influence net-enable mobile phones had on this? I would assume it is taking a huge bite it took out of the available IP numbers.
Hindsight always has 20/20 vision. It's terribly true.