Is any software really at the point where we can install it and forget about it?
No, but neither is anything in the real world.
There is, however, a huge gap between "regular maintainance and it'll run forever" and "read security updates daily, look for updates every other day, and still you can't be sure there isn't an unpublished 0day".
One, the theory is well known. It's called "natural monopolies" where I learned some economics. It arises wherever projects need to be done, but are too large and too singular for competition to arise.
Incidently, almost all telecoms and airlines started out this way, at least here in europe.
Two, capitalism and democracy can't be shown to defeat nations if you look at history. It is dominance of singular beliefs that does. Right now, for example, a very narrow interpretation of capitalism is crowding out a) other capitalism variants, b) democracy, c) other economic and political systems.
Nah, I just didn't go to school in the US. Didn't know there is no E. So they get a D instead. Or whatever else you have that means "you passed. barely. And only because I had a good day".
But you are leading in high-tech. Just others. There is, for example, no country on the globe that comes even close to your recent advances in surveillance technology.
I also hear nobody else seriously contemplates voting machines, they all still use that old, primitive, slightly-more-reliable paper-ballot system.
has negative cultural, and religious ramifications."
Seriously, I'd consider that an advantage. What kind of people would refuse to run an OS because its mascot is a cuddly depiction of an image that was attached to the negative side of their religion sometime during the early middle ages?
Is it not a great bonus to not have these people as users?
The extra key could be used by anybody who wants to, and ignored by the rest.
Wrong. Once AOL uses system A, you have to use it as well because otherwise you can't talk to aol lusers anymore. Then Yahoo uses system B, so you have to use that as well. Next T-Online (bigger than AOL here in Germany) uses system C...
Before you know it, you have to support a dozen different systems, just to be able to keep mailing people.
Standards bodies may be slow and ugly, but sometimes it serves a purpose. As in, say preventing you from rushing headlong into desaster because you didn't think things through.
I don't remember who this quote is from, or whether I remember it 100% correctly, but it's great:
"To every challenging problem, there is a solution that is obvious, easy, and wrong."
Proprietary stuff like this one usually is that solution, because not enough eyes looked at it. That's why so many software projects fail, and that's why peer-review is so important in science.
Yahoo can't even teach their mailservers to play nicely with the rest of the world (they bounce when they should have rejected). I don't trust them an inch to patch sendmail or solve the spam problem.
WTF are all of you doing to get on so many spammers' lists?
Having your e-mail on your website so people can contact you is a surefire way to get on a few "100 million verified e-mail addresses!!!" CDs. Once you're on one, you'll be copied to others. It probably takes a few months before every spammer in the business has your address in his database.
Do a search in Google, especially for programming or technical topics, and you're more likely to retrieve 100 links to online stores selling a book on that topic, than finding actual content regarding that topic.
(topic) -checkout -buy
Other things that work well sometimes: (topic) site:.org (topic) -amazon (topic) -site:amazon.com -site:amazon.co.uk
and posts the same marketing page content ("Buy my plumbing supplies!") on each domain. A search on Google will then retrieve 100 separate links containing the same identical garbage.
Does it? I always thought that's exactly what google is filtering out behind the "12345 more results were omitted because they were similiar" thingy.
I've run apache on all kinds of systems, from the older pentiums you mention to big-iron Solaris systems.
The beauty is that it works on all of them. You tune some parameters slightly different, but you don't have to learn a new software because you're now hosting your site on a big machine.
Sorry, I applaud all the tiny-http-server efforts, but in real-life the only thing that I ever seriously considered was the kernel-httpd. That was for the image-server of a major dot-com site that made a several hundred hits a second at peak times.
Well, MoneyT, the outcry here is that we don't know. Namely, we don't know if their ballots were incorrect. We can't prove one way or the other. We can't find out if the voters were stupid, or the system is faulty.
Please put your civil rights into the bin on your left and leave your fingerprints at the office up ahead. DNA sampling is still in preparation, and we'll come to the firstborn son thing eventually.
Now come on in, we ain't got all day and I've gotta strip search that hot lady behind you, she sure looks like a terrorist.
It isn't hidden. There is, however, something called privacy.
The "if you're innocent, you have nothing to hide" argument is a strawman I tire of. It's not about hiding. When I'm in the bathroom, I am not hiding. That doesn't mean I want everyone looking.
Same for my bank account. It's simply nobodys business what's going on there. If the FBI wants to peek, they'd better have a good reason to, and until recently, it was a judges job to decide whether the reason is any good.
We have forgotten that the stock market has its own rules.
There are many reasons why SCOX is rising this year. One has been mentioned a couple times already: The lottery ticket theory.
Then, once a stock is rising, it usually drags investors in. Definitely the dumb kind ("oh, it's going up. Must buy"), often the smarter kind, who plan on selling it again as soon as it shows signs of dropping.
Also mentioned already was that SCOX doesn't exactly have a huge volume, so it can be moved by fairly small trades. And you can bet that Canopy and other investors do everything they can to drive the price up. It is, after all, part of their "net worth".
It all boils down to this: Even if SCO is doomed to fail in the end, from an investment perspective, it can be smart to buy them right until the moment said end starts to happen.
The lawsuit certainly has a much smaller impact than you think. It is easily overshadowed by the press releases and quarterly reports.
Disclaimer: I used to work for a broker, but only for a short time and it's been a while.
Which puts you in exactly what position complaining about other peoples foreign language skills?
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Now I have to sort through page upon page of sites wanting to sell me said item,
Learn to search. Using a search engine properly is a little more than dumping a word into the tiny box.
Google offers pretty good advanced search options, which you can use to great effect to weed out the stuff you don't want, refine the search, offer alternative spellings or keywords, etc.
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Your assertion that his German passport was fake is just speculation.
It is that, and I made clear that it is as well as my reasons for believing so.
Israeli law does not allow police to execute people based on what they look like
And US law says that only Congress may declare war.
The only result of these things is that it's not called war, but, say "limited military operations" and that it's not called execution, but "shot in self-defense".
where do you get this stuff, anyway?
News, friends who have travelled to Israel, the 'net - the usual sources where we all get our data input.
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so you can get dual citizenship by getting your German citizenship first (by being born there, perhaps?) an then moving to Israel.
I can't quote you the paragraph (IANAL), but you would almost certainly be in for trouble when you return to Germany.
Let me state the obvious for a second: Terrorists can use fake passports to enter and leave a country using a false name,
So what? I'm sure most people in the US are peaceful, freedom-loving guys. So much, in fact, that they'll happily go to war and occupy a foreign nation in support of those ideals.
Spotted the point? Just because something is the choice weapon of your enemies doesn't mean you can't use it.
Israel therefore can't reasonably take an "extremely light, if not supportive position" on fake passports.
I thought this would have been clear from the context, but for those a little slow in reading between the lines: This does, of course, only apply to israel citizens. I'm sure anyone looking remotely arab caught with a fake passport will be shot before any questions are asked. Twice, just to make sure.
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Is any software really at the point where we can install it and forget about it?
No, but neither is anything in the real world.
There is, however, a huge gap between "regular maintainance and it'll run forever" and "read security updates daily, look for updates every other day, and still you can't be sure there isn't an unpublished 0day".
Good point.
One, the theory is well known. It's called "natural monopolies" where I learned some economics. It arises wherever projects need to be done, but are too large and too singular for competition to arise.
Incidently, almost all telecoms and airlines started out this way, at least here in europe.
Two, capitalism and democracy can't be shown to defeat nations if you look at history. It is dominance of singular beliefs that does. Right now, for example, a very narrow interpretation of capitalism is crowding out a) other capitalism variants, b) democracy, c) other economic and political systems.
Nah, I just didn't go to school in the US. Didn't know there is no E. So they get a D instead. Or whatever else you have that means "you passed. barely. And only because I had a good day".
O'Grady, agrees that he would give Microsoft 'improved marks,'
Have to agree there. Two years ago, it would have been a solid F (us) or 6 (de). Today it's an E (us) or 5 (de).
But you are leading in high-tech. Just others. There is, for example, no country on the globe that comes even close to your recent advances in surveillance technology.
I also hear nobody else seriously contemplates voting machines, they all still use that old, primitive, slightly-more-reliable paper-ballot system.
has negative cultural, and religious ramifications."
Seriously, I'd consider that an advantage. What kind of people would refuse to run an OS because its mascot is a cuddly depiction of an image that was attached to the negative side of their religion sometime during the early middle ages?
Is it not a great bonus to not have these people as users?
The extra key could be used by anybody who wants to, and ignored by the rest.
Wrong. Once AOL uses system A, you have to use it as well because otherwise you can't talk to aol lusers anymore. Then Yahoo uses system B, so you have to use that as well. Next T-Online (bigger than AOL here in Germany) uses system C...
Before you know it, you have to support a dozen different systems, just to be able to keep mailing people.
Standards bodies may be slow and ugly, but sometimes it serves a purpose. As in, say preventing you from rushing headlong into desaster because you didn't think things through.
I don't remember who this quote is from, or whether I remember it 100% correctly, but it's great:
"To every challenging problem, there is a solution that is obvious, easy, and wrong."
Proprietary stuff like this one usually is that solution, because not enough eyes looked at it. That's why so many software projects fail, and that's why peer-review is so important in science.
Yahoo can't even teach their mailservers to play nicely with the rest of the world (they bounce when they should have rejected). I don't trust them an inch to patch sendmail or solve the spam problem.
WTF are all of you doing to get on so many spammers' lists?
Having your e-mail on your website so people can contact you is a surefire way to get on a few "100 million verified e-mail addresses!!!" CDs. Once you're on one, you'll be copied to others. It probably takes a few months before every spammer in the business has your address in his database.
Why you should not host a website that might be featured on /. on an IIS server:
The page cannot be displayed
There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time.
Please try the following:
* Click the Refresh button, or try again later.
* Open the www.nuclearspace.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected
Internet Information Services
Technical Information (for support personnel)
* Background:
This error can occur if the Web server is busy and cannot process your request due to heavy traffic.
* More information:
Microsoft Support
Do a search in Google, especially for programming or technical topics, and you're more likely to retrieve 100 links to online stores selling a book on that topic, than finding actual content regarding that topic.
(topic) -checkout -buy
Other things that work well sometimes:
(topic) site:.org
(topic) -amazon
(topic) -site:amazon.com -site:amazon.co.uk
and posts the same marketing page content ("Buy my plumbing supplies!") on each domain. A search on Google will then retrieve 100 separate links containing the same identical garbage.
Does it? I always thought that's exactly what google is filtering out behind the "12345 more results were omitted because they were similiar" thingy.
"because it works"
I've run apache on all kinds of systems, from the older pentiums you mention to big-iron Solaris systems.
The beauty is that it works on all of them. You tune some parameters slightly different, but you don't have to learn a new software because you're now hosting your site on a big machine.
Sorry, I applaud all the tiny-http-server efforts, but in real-life the only thing that I ever seriously considered was the kernel-httpd. That was for the image-server of a major dot-com site that made a several hundred hits a second at peak times.
You know what? It might happen. The guys at Google are almost certainly geeky enough to do that, just like they did with the DMCA notices.
Or they could put in a couple paid advertisements...
Well, MoneyT, the outcry here is that we don't know. Namely, we don't know if their ballots were incorrect. We can't prove one way or the other. We can't find out if the voters were stupid, or the system is faulty.
And that's the point. We ought to know.
I only learned about SPF recently, but ever since I've been publishing SPF records for my domain.
It appears to be one of these "why didn't I think of that?" solutions that go and take care of a problem without ripping out everything around it.
Looks like they found the problem:
crash image
Welcome to the land of the free.
Please put your civil rights into the bin on your left and leave your fingerprints at the office up ahead. DNA sampling is still in preparation, and we'll come to the firstborn son thing eventually.
Now come on in, we ain't got all day and I've gotta strip search that hot lady behind you, she sure looks like a terrorist.
what reason would you have to hide it?
It isn't hidden. There is, however, something called privacy.
The "if you're innocent, you have nothing to hide" argument is a strawman I tire of. It's not about hiding. When I'm in the bathroom, I am not hiding. That doesn't mean I want everyone looking.
Same for my bank account. It's simply nobodys business what's going on there. If the FBI wants to peek, they'd better have a good reason to, and until recently, it was a judges job to decide whether the reason is any good.
Of course. It's not targetted at windows users.
We have forgotten that the stock market has its own rules.
There are many reasons why SCOX is rising this year. One has been mentioned a couple times already: The lottery ticket theory.
Then, once a stock is rising, it usually drags investors in. Definitely the dumb kind ("oh, it's going up. Must buy"), often the smarter kind, who plan on selling it again as soon as it shows signs of dropping.
Also mentioned already was that SCOX doesn't exactly have a huge volume, so it can be moved by fairly small trades.
And you can bet that Canopy and other investors do everything they can to drive the price up. It is, after all, part of their "net worth".
It all boils down to this: Even if SCO is doomed to fail in the end, from an investment perspective, it can be smart to buy them right until the moment said end starts to happen.
The lawsuit certainly has a much smaller impact than you think. It is easily overshadowed by the press releases and quarterly reports.
Disclaimer: I used to work for a broker, but only for a short time and it's been a while.
So how many of their languages do you speak?
Which puts you in exactly what position complaining about other peoples foreign language skills?
Now I have to sort through page upon page of sites wanting to sell me said item,
Learn to search. Using a search engine properly is a little more than dumping a word into the tiny box.
Google offers pretty good advanced search options, which you can use to great effect to weed out the stuff you don't want, refine the search, offer alternative spellings or keywords, etc.
Now if only we could get rid of all the rest of the pop-up ads.
It's called Mozilla.
Haven't seen a popup in ages.
Your assertion that his German passport was fake is just speculation.
It is that, and I made clear that it is as well as my reasons for believing so.
Israeli law does not allow police to execute people based on what they look like
And US law says that only Congress may declare war.
The only result of these things is that it's not called war, but, say "limited military operations" and that it's not called execution, but "shot in self-defense".
where do you get this stuff, anyway?
News, friends who have travelled to Israel, the 'net - the usual sources where we all get our data input.
so you can get dual citizenship by getting your German citizenship first (by being born there, perhaps?) an then moving to Israel.
I can't quote you the paragraph (IANAL), but you would almost certainly be in for trouble when you return to Germany.
Let me state the obvious for a second: Terrorists can use fake passports to enter and leave a country using a false name,
So what? I'm sure most people in the US are peaceful, freedom-loving guys. So much, in fact, that they'll happily go to war and occupy a foreign nation in support of those ideals.
Spotted the point? Just because something is the choice weapon of your enemies doesn't mean you can't use it.
Israel therefore can't reasonably take an "extremely light, if not supportive position" on fake passports.
I thought this would have been clear from the context, but for those a little slow in reading between the lines: This does, of course, only apply to israel citizens. I'm sure anyone looking remotely arab caught with a fake passport will be shot before any questions are asked. Twice, just to make sure.