We're sure to have an answer to climate change soon, now that NASA has some skin in the game...
1. notice the talk about climate change 2. get some skin in the game 3..... 4. profit
If we could just terra-form this planet and make it suitable for.... oh wait, never-mind.
Seriously, what is the world going to do when they figure out that humans didn't do it, can't fix it, and we're in for 250 years of icy weather? Think about it. If they figure out that the flip of the magnetosphere will cause dramatic climate change, wtf are we supposed to do? Or, if that combined with the breeding patterns of small red crustaceans in the Mediterranean are causing global warming and the last breeding pair of such crustaceans was destroyed 24 months ago for a dinner meeting by the UN on climate control?
Who here actually thought that these new posts by the new administration are more than puppets? Reinventing the wheel is stupid enough, and it has relatively few features. Reinventing security? WTF already.
The fact that the NSA has been working on this for some time and the results we've seen only highlight that the previous system was broken, no matter that it did produce some good results. Change is needed, but you can't make it happen by decree, it only looks like you did something when that happens and now you can blame who you want for the failure. This resignation may have been planned?
To think the NSA is not part of obscure security operations is fucking naive at best, dangerous at worst. When the people of the US have transparent oversight of all branches of government it might be okay to say such a thing. Till then such assumptions are dangerous.
When they get a breakthrough on high capacity systems it will make a lot of things possible that currently are not, not just cars. It is the battery technology that really puts the hobbles on generating your own electricity at home. Well, that and solar collector technology as well as HOA restrictions etc.
If I could get tax breaks to install a 95%+ self sufficiency system I'd do it in the blink of an eye. Having an electric car on top of that would be even better. I would like a nice little commuter car or two; 40 mile range is great if it will also support solar trickle charging while parked etc.
With an initial investment, I could become 95% free of the grid... well, if I could do that, I'm all in... big time.
Don't you wish you had a job where some very important work you're doing can be described thus:
Their idea is to build a centimeter-scale metal model of the system they want to investigate, place it in salt water, and bombard it with microwaves and see what happens.
This sounds like a Saturday afternoon in the garage with just a couple too many beers, an old tube tv, a broken microwave, and a friend that is just a little too happy to be 'experimenting' with stuff at your place because of the garage fire he had last year.
Props to Myth Busters for making 'blowing shit up' cool again...
Treason? I am kind of feeling let down. All those Hollywood movies about the Mob and this is definitely stepping on their territory, so why haven't the mob put a hit on the CxO's of Diebold?
In Russia, they murder spammers... fuck knows what they do to people that rig elections without permission.
Either the mob is a bunch of pansies or the mob is in on the fix!
Forget treason, just work to get the Mob pissed off at Diebold...
I think what is missing from the current picture, or any picture from around the world was implied by the war in Iraq, or at least by some of those perpetuating it: If you show people some freedom they will naturally grab hold of it and demand democracy and freedom for themselves. What is unknown is what it takes to move a westernized populace to revolt en mass. What amount of salt must a western government grind with it's boots into the wounds of its citizens rights before they revolt with guns, bombs, and beheadings? How far are we from that point? What revealed lie or uncovered atrocity against civil rights will be required to bring armed revolution to the front pages of newspapers around the world. What manner of indignation will it take to push the people into forcibly retaking government and reducing its size one head at a time?
These are the questions that must be pondered mightily in the halls of power. These are the questions that we the people should be looking for the government's preparation against. When the government is shown to be preparing for it, it's already time to be shooting at government loyalists.
Ask yourself, will it take only one head? Three heads? How many will be required to satisfy the people and the world that there has been a change of management? How do we in the US simply get rid of the federal government? Declare it null and void and fight off any who argue? Whose brother do you shoot? Whose father? If not bullets, what?
Now is the time to join politically active groups who want real change, change you can be part of and not just change you can believe in. You can believe all change once it happens; both good and bad. What we want is to be part of the change, change that benefits us all, not just corporations and pseudo fascist bureaucrats.
How much more will you take? How much more can you take?
âoeThere are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.â â" Ed Howdershelt
"Router to nowhere" jokes? or should that be "Layer 3 switch to nowhere" I can't decide, but in view of the Psion news, we should remember that "bridge to nowhere" has already been taken.
Yeah, but it comes off as tacky since it's a blatant ripoff. Something new and original is needed. Perhaps "Linux Outside"? Linux Outside, yes, it's used everywhere but your computer: routers, web servers, video content servers, game consoles, phones, video recorders, ATMs, in fact it's used all over the world, all over the Internet. Why don't you have it in your computer yet?
I think you are probably right, but for different reasons. If the Linux and F/OSS community swarmed this problem with viral PR for TomTom (thus against MS and proprietary IP litigation happy megolithics) it would possibly change how small companies are seen. Care would need to be taken that the PR is aimed at promoting goodness of Linux and F/OSS in general. You couldn't really do an "Hi, I'm a Mac" ads, but that would be the idea. Viral because there is no big financial war chest to draw from. What the Internet did for political candidates, it perhaps could do for F/OSS and GNU/Linux in particular.
"Intel Inside" would pale next to a well done "Linux Inside" advert.
So, coming to the aid of TomTom via the promotion of F/OSS and statements against the financial and business crippling effects of litigation, how it drives up prices for consumer goods, limits research/development etc. and so on would go far to help TomTom. Launching the goodness campaign in response to the TomTom lawsuit would be a good start, but it would need to continue for some time. The goal being that F/OSS is seen as a better choice than proprietary software; that open hardware and standards improve things, not cheapen them. On and on, We'd have to show who the enemies are, publicly and without prejudice. There are many organizations already working at this, it just needs to go viral.
That is pretty much right on. Subsidies is a word you were looking for. Bribes is another. I get tired of hearing about this problem from people who talk like we all know the statistics; like we each have a print out of the network traffic graphs from all ISPs at home; like we all have in our possession hard evidence that P2P traffic (or any kind for that matter) is directly responsible for congestion on ISP networks. The truth is that they have yet to show anyone, never mind a court, that P2P traffic or HTTP traffic or NNTP traffic is THE direct cause of congestion on their networks. They haven't even shown that it's more problematic than spam.
Whenever the conversation turns to network congestion the first question should be "can you prove that XXXX traffic is the cause of that congestion?"... followed by "ok, prove it!".... and the invisible pink unicorn will verify it, right?
WTF does the amount I personally download have to do with bandwidth available? If I have a 10Mbps pipe to my house, I have just that. If you cannot service that pipe, don't sell it. period.
My personal download habits are not directly related to internal congestion on/at the ISPs network servers. Usage based billing or bandwidth caps is just another way to share network resources but penalize anyone that dares to fully utilize the bandwidth they were sold.
All this public bs about network congestion. Fuck that! When in the last few years have you heard large and loud complaints about congestion on public networks that were not related to an outage or intentional throttling?
Please, for fucks sake, please show me where the ISPs can show they ACTUALLY have real and hard congestion problems; where hard refers to a congestion they cannot alleviate by configuration or routing. And NO, cut undersea cables do NOT count (whether they were cut intentionally or accidentally matters not here).
I'm waiting.....
Where is the justification for all this 'p2p is killing our networks' crybaby crap? When a highway or major thoroughfare needs more bandwidth everyone stuck in rush hour traffic knows about it... and long before anything is ever done about it. So where is the congestion that these monopolistic crybabies are whining about?
All that you are suggesting are stop-gap measures to handle overloaded networks without increasing bandwidth; bandwidth sharing with penalties. It's complete bs, nothing more, nothing less. If they really wanted to take care of the problem they might do like Verizon did... stick fiber (FTTH) everywhere, including more network backbone and interconnect bandwidth. No, they can't do that. Damn, that's like being responsible or something. Lets not forget they want to flood you with entertainment options that are served from their own content servers, not someone else's content, and at a price too. Imagine when they can sell you a service package that includes 1000MB per month of Google data, 15GB/month of Youtube, and 15GB/month of tier3 or tier4 data, and unlimited MyISP data for just $85 when open Internet connectivity will cost you $120 plus $15/month for content from your ISP's data servers.
You need to see when they pull the gun from their pocket, not wait till it's pointed at your head to worry about what they might be up to..... sigh
Fantastic shining example of why we NEED network neutrality; to stop companies like this from having a monopoly on all entertainment and in doing so drag your business and information needs into the same quagmire of unregulated information highway robbery.
The data center where my servers are is a mixed client data center. It's not the decision of a single company there. There is one company who is using Windows server 2k3 but they are not upgrading. Some of their stuff is moving to Linux/Solaris. The RHEL stuff is a different company that replaced all their Windows servers and went full on RHEL. In my area, we use a mix of Win2k3, Solaris (5.8-10), and Linux (CentOS). There is a ton of telecomms stuff in half the data center as well. I'm not seeing any growth in Windows servers, quite the opposite. That's why I thought my experience might be 'average' so to speak.
To add a voice: I'm seeing more Linux installs than Win2k8 and Vista combined. This many mean nothing, or may mean I'm seeing what the average person is seeing. Consolidation and cost are driving what I'm seeing. When you see a row of several hundred blades running RHEL (replacing Windows in some cases) it's fairly convincing.
1 - I have high hopes that the RIAA settles in such a way that it damages all their other cases, and Patti is both vindicated and compensated - even if we never known what that compensation was.
2 - I wish that there were some way for Slashdot and readers were able to label NewYorkCountryLawyer's posts as a news service rather than just another post. Yes, I realize I can go and list all his posts, but I wish there were a way to quickly do so from the front page so that all users could easily benefit from this hugely beneficial information source. Lets not forget groklaw either.
Many of us like to assume we know something about the law here. These two people (perhaps others) have done much to keep such discussions and news both current and held in a view that does not stray very far for very long from goodness. I believe that they have done more to educate the public than anyone else and their efforts deserve some recognition here.
Here is the deal as I see it. He's an admin with a bit of an attitude, yet he did his job well apparently. Everytime that I'm asked to do inane bs at work, I turn it into a paperwork exercise. That is to say that I am happy to paper the office of whichever vp wants reports and to be in charge. Soon, they ask me to 'just take care of it' as I see fit. Either you want a competent admin or you don't. Once you get one, you have to trust them and work with them, even if there are conflicts of personality. This is simply because you as a vp or cxo cannot replace that person. You are forced to work with them... deal with it.
Positional authority is a powerful thing. If you as a cxo are afraid to give it to someone, get some certs... or perhaps learn to delegate and deal with that.
The fact that this made the level it did in courts is indicative of the fact that management is not willing to give away any power to anyone. In much of this situation, they had no need for what they ask for, and should not have had it.
In the cold light of day, if they gave him that much control, they got what they deserve. When you give someone that much power/authority, you must be nice to them. This is a situation that repeats itself across the globe without end. This particular one just happened to make the news because Terry has big balls.
No matter what happens, this is a simple case of bad management. period.
Dick? Dick Cheney, is that you? You're not allowed to play this game, being already disqualified by _actually_ killing thousands of people already. We won't even mention that Winchester acne remedy you tried on your friend. Furthermore, we've had Google black out all of your residences, and the Zillow people are so afraid of the black SUVs outside their offices, they won't even list your residences. Now quit trying to suck more out of the US economy, and go do your puzzle or whatever the nurse tells you it's time to do!
It's likely that he wasn't roaming because he was already registered through the telco relay on the ship, which charges at international rates, despite being within spitting distance of the shore.
The real problem is that he was able to register to the international point before the ship had left port. I wonder how many other people get ripped off by making calls in that area while that ship is in port?
I'm setting this up at home for the family. Do you know if deleted messages in Thunderbird can by sync'd to Google so that only a single delete is needed?
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errm... This is like the TPS for cars, but instead this monitors cow farts and dead trees?
pressure is building... did they just say that British Justice is a straw man?
This explains a lot.
Are you saying that we can call this program 'green'?
Or are you saying that this is an cuil Islamic effort to save the earth?
Will it run Linux?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these...
In Soviet Russia, climate monitors your skin
We're sure to have an answer to climate change soon, now that NASA has some skin in the game...
1. notice the talk about climate change ....
2. get some skin in the game
3.
4. profit
If we could just terra-form this planet and make it suitable for.... oh wait, never-mind.
Seriously, what is the world going to do when they figure out that humans didn't do it, can't fix it, and we're in for 250 years of icy weather? Think about it. If they figure out that the flip of the magnetosphere will cause dramatic climate change, wtf are we supposed to do? Or, if that combined with the breeding patterns of small red crustaceans in the Mediterranean are causing global warming and the last breeding pair of such crustaceans was destroyed 24 months ago for a dinner meeting by the UN on climate control?
Who here actually thought that these new posts by the new administration are more than puppets? Reinventing the wheel is stupid enough, and it has relatively few features. Reinventing security? WTF already.
The fact that the NSA has been working on this for some time and the results we've seen only highlight that the previous system was broken, no matter that it did produce some good results. Change is needed, but you can't make it happen by decree, it only looks like you did something when that happens and now you can blame who you want for the failure. This resignation may have been planned?
To think the NSA is not part of obscure security operations is fucking naive at best, dangerous at worst. When the people of the US have transparent oversight of all branches of government it might be okay to say such a thing. Till then such assumptions are dangerous.
There are tons of people working on better electric storage system technology. This makes it sound like they are doing the engineering on their own.
Look here and this one is really interesting IMO.
When they get a breakthrough on high capacity systems it will make a lot of things possible that currently are not, not just cars. It is the battery technology that really puts the hobbles on generating your own electricity at home. Well, that and solar collector technology as well as HOA restrictions etc.
If I could get tax breaks to install a 95%+ self sufficiency system I'd do it in the blink of an eye. Having an electric car on top of that would be even better. I would like a nice little commuter car or two; 40 mile range is great if it will also support solar trickle charging while parked etc.
With an initial investment, I could become 95% free of the grid ... well, if I could do that, I'm all in... big time.
Don't you wish you had a job where some very important work you're doing can be described thus:
Their idea is to build a centimeter-scale metal model of the system they want to investigate, place it in salt water, and bombard it with microwaves and see what happens.
This sounds like a Saturday afternoon in the garage with just a couple too many beers, an old tube tv, a broken microwave, and a friend that is just a little too happy to be 'experimenting' with stuff at your place because of the garage fire he had last year.
Props to Myth Busters for making 'blowing shit up' cool again...
I want to say 'suddenoutbreakofcommonsense' but you're probably right... no new tax breaks this year. It's about damn time there was though.
Treason? I am kind of feeling let down. All those Hollywood movies about the Mob and this is definitely stepping on their territory, so why haven't the mob put a hit on the CxO's of Diebold?
In Russia, they murder spammers... fuck knows what they do to people that rig elections without permission.
Either the mob is a bunch of pansies or the mob is in on the fix!
Forget treason, just work to get the Mob pissed off at Diebold...
I think what is missing from the current picture, or any picture from around the world was implied by the war in Iraq, or at least by some of those perpetuating it: If you show people some freedom they will naturally grab hold of it and demand democracy and freedom for themselves. What is unknown is what it takes to move a westernized populace to revolt en mass. What amount of salt must a western government grind with it's boots into the wounds of its citizens rights before they revolt with guns, bombs, and beheadings? How far are we from that point? What revealed lie or uncovered atrocity against civil rights will be required to bring armed revolution to the front pages of newspapers around the world. What manner of indignation will it take to push the people into forcibly retaking government and reducing its size one head at a time?
These are the questions that must be pondered mightily in the halls of power. These are the questions that we the people should be looking for the government's preparation against. When the government is shown to be preparing for it, it's already time to be shooting at government loyalists.
Ask yourself, will it take only one head? Three heads? How many will be required to satisfy the people and the world that there has been a change of management? How do we in the US simply get rid of the federal government? Declare it null and void and fight off any who argue? Whose brother do you shoot? Whose father? If not bullets, what?
Now is the time to join politically active groups who want real change, change you can be part of and not just change you can believe in. You can believe all change once it happens; both good and bad. What we want is to be part of the change, change that benefits us all, not just corporations and pseudo fascist bureaucrats.
How much more will you take? How much more can you take?
âoeThere are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.â
â" Ed Howdershelt
"Router to nowhere" jokes? or should that be "Layer 3 switch to nowhere" I can't decide, but in view of the Psion news, we should remember that "bridge to nowhere" has already been taken.
BTW: Anyone know where to _BUY_ a Psion Netbook?
Yeah, but it comes off as tacky since it's a blatant ripoff. Something new and original is needed. Perhaps "Linux Outside"? Linux Outside, yes, it's used everywhere but your computer: routers, web servers, video content servers, game consoles, phones, video recorders, ATMs, in fact it's used all over the world, all over the Internet. Why don't you have it in your computer yet?
I think you are probably right, but for different reasons. If the Linux and F/OSS community swarmed this problem with viral PR for TomTom (thus against MS and proprietary IP litigation happy megolithics) it would possibly change how small companies are seen. Care would need to be taken that the PR is aimed at promoting goodness of Linux and F/OSS in general. You couldn't really do an "Hi, I'm a Mac" ads, but that would be the idea. Viral because there is no big financial war chest to draw from. What the Internet did for political candidates, it perhaps could do for F/OSS and GNU/Linux in particular.
"Intel Inside" would pale next to a well done "Linux Inside" advert.
So, coming to the aid of TomTom via the promotion of F/OSS and statements against the financial and business crippling effects of litigation, how it drives up prices for consumer goods, limits research/development etc. and so on would go far to help TomTom. Launching the goodness campaign in response to the TomTom lawsuit would be a good start, but it would need to continue for some time. The goal being that F/OSS is seen as a better choice than proprietary software; that open hardware and standards improve things, not cheapen them. On and on, We'd have to show who the enemies are, publicly and without prejudice. There are many organizations already working at this, it just needs to go viral.
IF you land on it, it will continue to travel without fuel for propulsion for a VERY long time... that could be rather useful
That is pretty much right on. Subsidies is a word you were looking for. Bribes is another. I get tired of hearing about this problem from people who talk like we all know the statistics; like we each have a print out of the network traffic graphs from all ISPs at home; like we all have in our possession hard evidence that P2P traffic (or any kind for that matter) is directly responsible for congestion on ISP networks. The truth is that they have yet to show anyone, never mind a court, that P2P traffic or HTTP traffic or NNTP traffic is THE direct cause of congestion on their networks. They haven't even shown that it's more problematic than spam.
Whenever the conversation turns to network congestion the first question should be "can you prove that XXXX traffic is the cause of that congestion?" ... followed by "ok, prove it!" .... and the invisible pink unicorn will verify it, right?
Just a couple of thoughts:
WTF does the amount I personally download have to do with bandwidth available? If I have a 10Mbps pipe to my house, I have just that. If you cannot service that pipe, don't sell it. period.
My personal download habits are not directly related to internal congestion on/at the ISPs network servers. Usage based billing or bandwidth caps is just another way to share network resources but penalize anyone that dares to fully utilize the bandwidth they were sold.
All this public bs about network congestion. Fuck that! When in the last few years have you heard large and loud complaints about congestion on public networks that were not related to an outage or intentional throttling?
Please, for fucks sake, please show me where the ISPs can show they ACTUALLY have real and hard congestion problems; where hard refers to a congestion they cannot alleviate by configuration or routing. And NO, cut undersea cables do NOT count (whether they were cut intentionally or accidentally matters not here).
I'm waiting.....
Where is the justification for all this 'p2p is killing our networks' crybaby crap? When a highway or major thoroughfare needs more bandwidth everyone stuck in rush hour traffic knows about it... and long before anything is ever done about it. So where is the congestion that these monopolistic crybabies are whining about?
All that you are suggesting are stop-gap measures to handle overloaded networks without increasing bandwidth; bandwidth sharing with penalties. It's complete bs, nothing more, nothing less. If they really wanted to take care of the problem they might do like Verizon did... stick fiber (FTTH) everywhere, including more network backbone and interconnect bandwidth. No, they can't do that. Damn, that's like being responsible or something. Lets not forget they want to flood you with entertainment options that are served from their own content servers, not someone else's content, and at a price too. Imagine when they can sell you a service package that includes 1000MB per month of Google data, 15GB/month of Youtube, and 15GB/month of tier3 or tier4 data, and unlimited MyISP data for just $85 when open Internet connectivity will cost you $120 plus $15/month for content from your ISP's data servers.
You need to see when they pull the gun from their pocket, not wait till it's pointed at your head to worry about what they might be up to..... sigh
Fantastic shining example of why we NEED network neutrality; to stop companies like this from having a monopoly on all entertainment and in doing so drag your business and information needs into the same quagmire of unregulated information highway robbery.
Time for an information age robin hood?
This sort of greed is disgusting.
The data center where my servers are is a mixed client data center. It's not the decision of a single company there. There is one company who is using Windows server 2k3 but they are not upgrading. Some of their stuff is moving to Linux/Solaris. The RHEL stuff is a different company that replaced all their Windows servers and went full on RHEL. In my area, we use a mix of Win2k3, Solaris (5.8-10), and Linux (CentOS). There is a ton of telecomms stuff in half the data center as well. I'm not seeing any growth in Windows servers, quite the opposite. That's why I thought my experience might be 'average' so to speak.
To add a voice: I'm seeing more Linux installs than Win2k8 and Vista combined. This many mean nothing, or may mean I'm seeing what the average person is seeing. Consolidation and cost are driving what I'm seeing. When you see a row of several hundred blades running RHEL (replacing Windows in some cases) it's fairly convincing.
I have just two things to say (basically)
1 - I have high hopes that the RIAA settles in such a way that it damages all their other cases, and Patti is both vindicated and compensated - even if we never known what that compensation was.
2 - I wish that there were some way for Slashdot and readers were able to label NewYorkCountryLawyer's posts as a news service rather than just another post. Yes, I realize I can go and list all his posts, but I wish there were a way to quickly do so from the front page so that all users could easily benefit from this hugely beneficial information source. Lets not forget groklaw either.
Many of us like to assume we know something about the law here. These two people (perhaps others) have done much to keep such discussions and news both current and held in a view that does not stray very far for very long from goodness. I believe that they have done more to educate the public than anyone else and their efforts deserve some recognition here.
Here is the deal as I see it. He's an admin with a bit of an attitude, yet he did his job well apparently. Everytime that I'm asked to do inane bs at work, I turn it into a paperwork exercise. That is to say that I am happy to paper the office of whichever vp wants reports and to be in charge. Soon, they ask me to 'just take care of it' as I see fit. Either you want a competent admin or you don't. Once you get one, you have to trust them and work with them, even if there are conflicts of personality. This is simply because you as a vp or cxo cannot replace that person. You are forced to work with them... deal with it.
Positional authority is a powerful thing. If you as a cxo are afraid to give it to someone, get some certs... or perhaps learn to delegate and deal with that.
The fact that this made the level it did in courts is indicative of the fact that management is not willing to give away any power to anyone. In much of this situation, they had no need for what they ask for, and should not have had it.
In the cold light of day, if they gave him that much control, they got what they deserve. When you give someone that much power/authority, you must be nice to them. This is a situation that repeats itself across the globe without end. This particular one just happened to make the news because Terry has big balls.
No matter what happens, this is a simple case of bad management. period.
Dick? Dick Cheney, is that you?
You're not allowed to play this game, being already disqualified by _actually_ killing thousands of people already. We won't even mention that Winchester acne remedy you tried on your friend. Furthermore, we've had Google black out all of your residences, and the Zillow people are so afraid of the black SUVs outside their offices, they won't even list your residences. Now quit trying to suck more out of the US economy, and go do your puzzle or whatever the nurse tells you it's time to do!
Yeah, apparently his words are so manly he can make Texans run from the room in fear.
It's likely that he wasn't roaming because he was already registered through the telco relay on the ship, which charges at international rates, despite being within spitting distance of the shore.
The real problem is that he was able to register to the international point before the ship had left port. I wonder how many other people get ripped off by making calls in that area while that ship is in port?
I think he should take it to court...
I'm setting this up at home for the family. Do you know if deleted messages in Thunderbird can by sync'd to Google so that only a single delete is needed?