And the sad truth is that the only way our country can sustain itself is by having a massive expenditure on the military and an even larger spending on private contracting.
Is that the true "truth"?
While spend $100 Billion on the military and private contractors to stimulate the economy would work, but spending $100 Billion to get the homeless off the streets and into a job, with much of the money going to private contracotrs, would work just as well, if not better.
We spend $100 Billion on military contractors because the contractors have incredible political power, and they are able to push all the right buttons.
I guess it depends on the philosophy and needs of your developers.
Personally, many Unix users that I know aren't smart about system administration-- I've had too many instances where the developer mucked up the/bin and/etc directories. This week I had to clean up a machine where the user ran 'chmod -R 777 *' in the/etc directory, creating a nice security hole. In other instances I've had developers replace the native/bin/* utilities with the GNU versions of those utilities, which will break many things.
Yes, you can restore those files from an image, but why even let it get to that level?/devel/bin is is fine for this purpose ./usr/local/bin also works, but/usr/local/bin is usually needed by third party utilities that the sysadmins install.
Tell me you don't have root access to your workstation... If you do, then are you login as root at all time?
Regular users and developers don't usually need admin access to their workstations.
You can design the workstation in a way that lets a regular user install software, but still keeps the rest of the system protected. They can install software to their home directory, or you can create a special partition named '/devel', with/devel/bin/devel/etc, etc. and give them full access.
That way, they can install software without interfering with the critical utilities in/bin or/etc.
So even Microsoft has realized you can't do crap under a limited login in XP.
I'm curious, is there a way in Windows to allow users to install only software which has been approved by the administrators? Can a Windows admin sign the software or something?
I'm now the unwilling admin of a Windows network (my realm is Unix), and I'd love to say "Ok guys, the latest AIM is here. You can upgrade when you get the chance", without giving them the ability to install the spyware programs that they love to install...
Every power user here has a dozen spyware programs on their system... I want a respositoy of approved software...
It's still a game. While the game may teach strategic thinking, stop before you shoot, it pales in comparison to any war. The game is safe. The consequences for death, killing your teammate are light. You're a hero!
Where's the blood? The dead babies? The feeling when your leg gets blown off. Post Tramautic Syndrome? The hundreds-of-thousands veterans who commit suicide because war is so horrible? Not sure the Army wants you to think about those things...
Personally, I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'...."
Apples and oranges.
Google Desktop Search (and presumably Yahoo DS) also searches inside the actual files. If I search for "VPN", I see a list of all files (and Outlook messages) which contain the string "VPN".
'find / |grep' doesn't do any of that.... even "find / -exec grep foo {} \;" is much slower then an indexed database engine.
I haven't installed it (Not sure I trust it), but a coworker was showing it to me yesterday. Pretty handy...
Many of the drug dealers probably don't worry about people getting busted, since people are expendable. They worry about losing the drugs, which can still happen with an autonomous vehicle.
Probably not Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and not something that's scientifically provable either way.
But given that there was alot of heavy anti-Irish sentiment and bias at the time, it's not suprising that someone tried to blame some poor Irish farmer.
Well, first you're talking about insurance fraud after the 1906 quake (which I can believe) and then you tried to connect this dishonesty with your own personal experiences (suckerpunch).
You're trying to say that SF has a culture of dishonest frauds and backstabbers. In reality we're not any worse then any other American city.
Sounds like you had a bad experence in SF (Dumped by a girl? Burned by the dotcomers?), but as you pointed out, most people in SF aren't native SFians.
From reading your other comments in this thread, I think I know which report you are talking about. I think it was an SF Chroncle/UC Berkeley study-- apprently many more people may have died in the 1906 earthquake. The official death toll is '3000', but there are thousands more death records in 1906 then there were in 1907.
What's really entertaining is when a faultline goes under a sidewalk or a building. You walk down the sidewalk, the sidewalk shifts left about 6 feet and continues on...
There are couple buildings built on top of the fault line (used for storage mostly) that have giant 6 foot gaps and a thousand attempts to patch the hole.
all their own buildings. and mostly harmless, but don't turn your back, or you'll get the suckerpunch.
Out for a little SF-Bashing, are we? "Don't feel too sorry for the San Franciscians, because they did it to themselves."
We're used to reciving blame for things we have little control over, but it still hurts.
Where's your evidence?
If they "torched all their own buildings", then you would see a more even distribution of massive fires throughout the City. Instead, the fires were concentrated in the eastern half of the city.
The Mission and Castro districts were hit by the quake, and there were fires, but few buildings burned to the ground and the neighborhood buildings were largely untouched by the Fire.
How many homes and businesses had insurance at all back in 1906? Not many I suspect. You lose your home or business, and you're fucked.
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Silly me! I forgot to mention the shackles and public humiliation...
Where's the part with the burning and the fires?
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The article is missing a critical piece...
where enraged citizens storm the building, set it on fire, seize the funds from the bank accounts and distribute to orphanages everywhere and leave the Adware staff tied up to lightpoles with a note for the police.
it may be best to put it in orbit though (long term)
It would take an enormous amount of energy and money to launch all those materials into space. And you may lost most of that energy if you beam it back to Earth using,icrowaves.
Getting a return on this investment would take a very, very long time.
You'd be much better off investing that capital into better house insulation, energy-efficient appliances, public transit, bicycles, etc.
Not to mention, when you decrease your energy demands, you'll have to send up less solar panels later on.
Even if you went deeper into this scheme and tried to mine the materials from the moon or astroids, you're still talking about massive costs.
Fossil fuels have huge investment, economies of scale and infrastructure already, which bring prices down.
Not to mention the expense of war and other actions taken in the oil-producing nations. When you factor in the wars, support of favorable governments, destablizing unfavorable governments, fighting insurgants, or pissing off people enough so they run to the waiting arms of Osama bin Laden; oil becomes very, very expensive.
If the oil magically disappeared from the Middle East, the US and western military would not be there.
I buy shoes made in the European Union. The shoes are usually made in one of the poorer EU countries or petitioning EU countries, like the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary or even Spain or Italy.
The EU has pretty high labor standards.
These are easily available at high-end shoe stores-- with brands like Joseph Seibel and Ecco.
They are high quality leather shoes (not vegan), and incredibly comfortable. A typical pair costs $100-200. This may sound like alot for shoes, but consider that these shoes typically last me 3-4 years (more with the proper care).
Shoes (from Nike or Blackspot) will cost me $70, and I'd be lucky if they last a year. It's cheaper to buy the $150 shoes then to buy the $70 shoes.
I, for one, welcome our new 5-foot-tall, all-white-meat, pre-coated-with-tasty-batter chicken overlords.
I'm waiting for meat animals without heads or brains, so you can eat meat without the animals having to live unpleasent cruel lives. I love meat, but I feel really bad for the animals.
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And the sad truth is that the only way our country can sustain itself is by having a massive expenditure on the military and an even larger spending on private contracting.
Is that the true "truth"?
While spend $100 Billion on the military and private contractors to stimulate the economy would work, but spending $100 Billion to get the homeless off the streets and into a job, with much of the money going to private contracotrs, would work just as well, if not better.
We spend $100 Billion on military contractors because the contractors have incredible political power, and they are able to push all the right buttons.
Well, that went down like a Lead Stratellite...
If the applications people want are available on Windows, they will tend to stick with Windows
But competition is a good thing.
Similar software on Linux and Windows makes it easier to move users from Windows to Linux... it's the OpenOffice argument.
I guess it depends on the philosophy and needs of your developers.
/bin and /etc directories. This week I had to clean up a machine where the user ran 'chmod -R 777 *' in the /etc directory, creating a nice security hole. In other instances I've had developers replace the native /bin/* utilities with the GNU versions of those utilities, which will break many things.
/devel/bin is is fine for this purpose . /usr/local/bin also works, but /usr/local/bin is usually needed by third party utilities that the sysadmins install.
Personally, many Unix users that I know aren't smart about system administration-- I've had too many instances where the developer mucked up the
Yes, you can restore those files from an image, but why even let it get to that level?
This little piggy went "I'll buy it!".
... and this little piggy went "hehehe, hee hee hee" all the way to the bank.
This little piggy went "SUCKER!"
Tell me you don't have root access to your workstation... If you do, then are you login as root at all time?
/devel/bin /devel/etc, etc. and give them full access.
/bin or /etc.
Regular users and developers don't usually need admin access to their workstations.
You can design the workstation in a way that lets a regular user install software, but still keeps the rest of the system protected. They can install software to their home directory, or you can create a special partition named '/devel', with
That way, they can install software without interfering with the critical utilities in
This works in most cases.
So even Microsoft has realized you can't do crap under a limited login in XP.
I'm curious, is there a way in Windows to allow users to install only software which has been approved by the administrators? Can a Windows admin sign the software or something?
I'm now the unwilling admin of a Windows network (my realm is Unix), and I'd love to say "Ok guys, the latest AIM is here. You can upgrade when you get the chance", without giving them the ability to install the spyware programs that they love to install...
Every power user here has a dozen spyware programs on their system... I want a respositoy of approved software...
it is rather realistic.
It's still a game. While the game may teach strategic thinking, stop before you shoot, it pales in comparison to any war. The game is safe. The consequences for death, killing your teammate are light. You're a hero!
Where's the blood? The dead babies? The feeling when your leg gets blown off. Post Tramautic Syndrome? The hundreds-of-thousands veterans who commit suicide because war is so horrible? Not sure the Army wants you to think about those things...
...since it's Slashdotted after one comment. :(
Ironically, isn't this the sort of thing that Swarmstreaming is supposed to protect against?
"create the wartime culture that is so desperately needed now"
Wartime Culture is another way of saying "Clueless sheep who believe that a video game is like real war", or "cannon fodder".
VW replaced the traditional and intuitive left/right blinking lights with a single blinking light?
That's stupid! CR was right for knocking them.
Personally, I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'...."
Apples and oranges.
Google Desktop Search (and presumably Yahoo DS) also searches inside the actual files. If I search for "VPN", I see a list of all files (and Outlook messages) which contain the string "VPN".
'find / |grep' doesn't do any of that.... even "find / -exec grep foo {} \;" is much slower then an indexed database engine.
I haven't installed it (Not sure I trust it), but a coworker was showing it to me yesterday. Pretty handy...
Many of the drug dealers probably don't worry about people getting busted, since people are expendable. They worry about losing the drugs, which can still happen with an autonomous vehicle.
Set by Mrs. O'Leary's cow?
Probably not Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and not something that's scientifically provable either way.
But given that there was alot of heavy anti-Irish sentiment and bias at the time, it's not suprising that someone tried to blame some poor Irish farmer.
And homosexuals caused 9/11.
"Oh oh! Watch out Itchy! He's Irish!" -- Milhouse
Well, first you're talking about insurance fraud after the 1906 quake (which I can believe) and then you tried to connect this dishonesty with your own personal experiences (suckerpunch).
You're trying to say that SF has a culture of dishonest frauds and backstabbers. In reality we're not any worse then any other American city.
Sounds like you had a bad experence in SF (Dumped by a girl? Burned by the dotcomers?), but as you pointed out, most people in SF aren't native SFians.
From reading your other comments in this thread, I think I know which report you are talking about. I think it was an SF Chroncle/UC Berkeley study-- apprently many more people may have died in the 1906 earthquake. The official death toll is '3000', but there are thousands more death records in 1906 then there were in 1907.
Fences, bah.
What's really entertaining is when a faultline goes under a sidewalk or a building. You walk down the sidewalk, the sidewalk shifts left about 6 feet and continues on...
There are couple buildings built on top of the fault line (used for storage mostly) that have giant 6 foot gaps and a thousand attempts to patch the hole.
The last time a fire the size SF/1906 was set, NYC colonists burned their British landlords' buildings to the ground.
Well, there was also that Great Chicago Fire.
all their own buildings.
and mostly harmless, but don't turn your back, or you'll get the suckerpunch.
Out for a little SF-Bashing, are we? "Don't feel too sorry for the San Franciscians, because they did it to themselves."
We're used to reciving blame for things we have little control over, but it still hurts.
Where's your evidence?
If they "torched all their own buildings", then you would see a more even distribution of massive fires throughout the City. Instead, the fires were concentrated in the eastern half of the city.
The Mission and Castro districts were hit by the quake, and there were fires, but few buildings burned to the ground and the neighborhood buildings were largely untouched by the Fire.
How many homes and businesses had insurance at all back in 1906? Not many I suspect. You lose your home or business, and you're fucked.
Silly me! I forgot to mention the shackles and public humiliation...
The article is missing a critical piece...
where enraged citizens storm the building, set it on fire, seize the funds from the bank accounts and distribute to orphanages everywhere and leave the Adware staff tied up to lightpoles with a note for the police.
it may be best to put it in orbit though (long term)
,icrowaves.
It would take an enormous amount of energy and money to launch all those materials into space. And you may lost most of that energy if you beam it back to Earth using
Getting a return on this investment would take a very, very long time.
You'd be much better off investing that capital into better house insulation, energy-efficient appliances, public transit, bicycles, etc.
Not to mention, when you decrease your energy demands, you'll have to send up less solar panels later on.
Even if you went deeper into this scheme and tried to mine the materials from the moon or astroids, you're still talking about massive costs.
Fossil fuels have huge investment, economies of scale and infrastructure already, which bring prices down.
Not to mention the expense of war and other actions taken in the oil-producing nations. When you factor in the wars, support of favorable governments, destablizing unfavorable governments, fighting insurgants, or pissing off people enough so they run to the waiting arms of Osama bin Laden; oil becomes very, very expensive.
If the oil magically disappeared from the Middle East, the US and western military would not be there.
I buy shoes made in the European Union. The shoes are usually made in one of the poorer EU countries or petitioning EU countries, like the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary or even Spain or Italy.
The EU has pretty high labor standards.
These are easily available at high-end shoe stores-- with brands like Joseph Seibel and Ecco.
They are high quality leather shoes (not vegan), and incredibly comfortable. A typical pair costs $100-200. This may sound like alot for shoes, but consider that these shoes typically last me 3-4 years (more with the proper care).
Shoes (from Nike or Blackspot) will cost me $70, and I'd be lucky if they last a year. It's cheaper to buy the $150 shoes then to buy the $70 shoes.
Oh those pesky non-English alphabets!
I, for one, welcome our new 5-foot-tall, all-white-meat, pre-coated-with-tasty-batter chicken overlords.
I'm waiting for meat animals without heads or brains, so you can eat meat without the animals having to live unpleasent cruel lives. I love meat, but I feel really bad for the animals.