Police is not the government is it - I believe there are court cases that interpret police as being either a power for the state or part of the people? The constitution nowhere states the provision of a standing army (aka police) to be used against constituents, the only reason state police are allowed in the constitution is for the safety, morals and health of the people and it's power is very limited. The fact that we have Federal police forces is imho a violation of the constitution in itself.
The desktop IS too difficult for most users. Today I had to explain somebody how to freakin' print a PDF that does not have 'Letter' dimensions (the printer would ask for a different size paper which they didn't understand even existed). However Apple is not going to take the control away from desktop computer because that would be suicide. If anything, this would basically be something similar to Dashboard - run iOS apps in Mac OS X natively or maybe a detachable iPad-like device.
Apple has maintained and even improved FireWire on most models but an ExpressCard may not fit in a 1.5" thick, 13" computer, in a 15" computer there is more place for that. My 13" does have and SD card slot. Who even uses ExpressCard? I have in my life had 2 or 3 PCMCIA cards (Iomega disk drive, 56k modem and ethernet) and I worked with computers for a good 20 years now, the only reason I have those is because Dell used to cheap out on those fancy network cards and a decent (non sound-card) modem. For most applications these days, USB is cheaper and more flexible than ExpressCard. The Iomega Clik I got from a garage sale because I thought the '40MB spy drives' looked really cool.
What do you mean with professional-level video cards? Most of their machines have nVidia or ATi cards, none of their desktops except for the really lowest line have Intel cards. There is no need to put a Tesla in there I think although you could do that if you're so inclined. Oh, maybe you mean Quadro's - yeah, you may know that those are the EXACT SAME cards as the GeForce's - there is absolutely no difference between them except for price and depending on the driver you might get different performance results. And yes, I am involved in GPU computing research.
Carpet? What schools have carpet? Or PVC (vinyl) flooring? Mine was built out of bricks, the floor was made out of cement tiles. The windows were steel/lead single paned 'windows' that rattled when the wind blew. The hallways were painted a dark lime green, the tiles were brown (although I think they were once grey). The only carpet was in the principals office, and wood was in the gym but the gym floor had bunches of holes in it so we always had to go outside (bad weather or not).
ZFS-stable? Seriously ZFS is one of the only points remaining besides the magnificent Fault Management Architecture, very good network stack, zones and dtrace.
Nexenta is doing a good job keeping the current Solaris distro's going but whenever Linux or BSD comes with a decent implementation of the most recent ZFS branch, there is probably going to be a massive conversion.
Unless of course you're in a hotel somewhere trying to play the game and you can't save the game, get any rewards and you can only play the campaign because you're not connected to your online account and according to some on the forums, if you lose your connection and stay disconnected during gameplay you can't save your game and potentially lose large amounts of gameplay.
I didn't buy Starcraft 2 exactly for that reason (neither did I pirate it) and I was planning on buying the $120 collector's edition. Sorry Blizzard but ever since WoW started you've been going down the tubes and the recent DRM restrictions have made me reconsider - I'm just playing my original StarCraft and Brood War again right now, you know the one with the CD key, the graphics still look pretty good actually...
A single dictator is easier to control than a democratic nation. The US government is no different than any other ruler in the world and in history - they want to expand their domain. You can do this in 2 ways: - You actively annex or conquer the domain - You make agreements with the existing rulers and make them your vassal
It's not, Telenet has bandwidth caps (30GB or so for the last good decade) and has recently allowed going over the bandwidth cap without being moved back to 56k by buying more GB's. They are complaining that people bought extra credits for bandwidth (or the most expensive packages in their line up) and are using it.
Telenet has a monopoly on Cable Internet in Flanders (the populated northern part of Belgium) for the next 20 years or so (the government sold this monopoly a couple of years ago)
I work in education and some of my family are teachers, my significant other is going to school to become a teacher. This is a moderate income city, average income as a sysadmin is $70k. Teachers start out making $50k and some end up making $150k with most of them around $100k (if they started working around 25 and retire around 55).
VERY good teachers may do a lot of work after hours, but I know a lot of others (most) that hardly do anything once they have their 8-9 hours in - they go home, watch TV, relax just like anybody else. A lot of them are incompetent, heck even the school district leadership is incompetent - they thought it would be a good idea to cancel detention and forbade teachers to kick rowdy kids out of their class (these are schools where kids are thought by their PARENTS to roam the streets to sell drugs and carry weapons) yet they cannot be removed. The freaking CITY (and there was a referendum on this) wants to take over school leadership.
If you want your kids to have a good education in the US, do it yourself, emigrate to Canada or Europe or get a really good private school/teacher.
Well, it probably wouldn't be a good idea for Dell then. Because if it breaks, you just call their support phone lines in India, they keep pushing you from person to person (ignoring the fact that your boss actually has to pay you for all that time wasted calling them) while they keep promising to call you back for about 4-6 months only to charge your credit card to ship you a replacement part that you have to fix yourself and if you don't send back the bad part they won't ever give your money back. And when it's time to upgrade, you just toss your computer out and buy a new one.
Actually I have never had any issues with Apple support - all repairs were either made on-site by their techs or within 1 week (if you live outside the coverage area of their tech support) and if they can't commit to that (backlog or known issues) they send you a replacement, an empty box for the bad unit and all shipping labels completely free of charge. Plus it's international so you can walk in any store, anywhere in the world and get it fixed for free.
Of course, you will always lose your data if your hard drive goes bad (which is probably the most common failure in computers) regardless of manufacturer so there is no excuse for losing your data if YOU don't have a backup.
Yes, Security through Obscurity hasn't been a good strategy for decades now. As the poster points out, this wouldn't have happened if they wouldn't have killed the OS boot option - the only reason these machines get hacked is because people want to run other stuff on there as well (whether or not that's a good idea). The bootleggers and modchip makers only take what's readily available on the market and commercialize it - the margins are razor thin and risks vs. reward are high, they don't have the money to spend or the talent available to hack it themselves.
You develop cancer whether or not you're a highly intelligent creature. Even dogs and cats develop cancer. There is no correlation between higher IQ and cancer (if anything it would be inversely related since lower IQ could mean you're more prone to do the low-paid, dangerous jobs around known carcinogens)
Autism Spectrum Disorders are a range of disorders (not diseases) that you're born with, not something you develop (at least that's the current consensus). ASD-affected people however are either very high functioning (eg. Aspergers) or very low functioning (eg. Severe Autism) on the IQ scales however no consensus as to the validity of those tests has ever been developed as most autistic persons will function highly in a very specific domain (mathematics, memory...) and because it's difficult to communicate with most of them so they might just not understand the test or what they need to do or could possibly be utterly bored with it or just refuse to do it.
a) With IPv6 you won't need NAT (thank goodness). NAT is a security risk compared to 1-to-1 firewalls (whether in firmware or software). b) There is no good reason to use NAT and security through obscurity (which what you mean by IP Masquerading) is no security at all but could still be done in IPv6 although, again there is no good reason to do so. c) With IPv6 there is still (and possibly more) Provider-independent Address Space. How you failover your links between ISP's is up to you and a protocol like BGP is used for that. IP is (and should be) independent of that. d) With NAT you can still identify every PC in your local network based on the traffic it is sending and receiving on the separate ports, the timestamps, how pings are constructed and a host of other information you will find back in an average IP packet. With IPv6 you can likewise use IP Masquerading. SNAT/DNAT you won't need anymore because you're just doing IP Masquerading, the port numbers don't need to change. e) If you really want to stay with IPv4, you can still do that in your internal network, only the edges have to be upgraded. Your routers/cable modem could automatically copy your IPv4 address in an IPv6 address.
According to 90% of the world (most people in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East thinks it is), the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are unlawful. According to 99% of the world (even the US Government admits it is clandestine - only Fox would say it's lawful) the actions in Sudan, Jemen and the rest of the world where the US shoots rockets from drones at 'suspected' terrorists (where is the due process in that) are unlawful. Releasing 'classified' information on that is unlawful? Would releasing 'classified' information on Nazi death camps to the Allies be unlawful as well? It's the same thing, the US Military Complex is killing people across the globe for looking or thinking different, that's the real crime here.
I don't know if you ever were involved in organizing such concerts but those very famous rock stars get paid very well for doing a 'benefit' concert. They also have their 'demands' regardless of cost - why does a rock band need a bottle of blue label for each member before AND after the show and even worse, why is that stuff in their contract in the first place?
As with most humanitarian organizations, 90% of the benefits go to the organizers, 10% or less actually reaches the beneficiaries.
Not releasing the documents might hurt 'our' soldiers too. But I think 'our' soldiers already know how 'your' soldiers work by simply observing them. There is no tactical information that cannot be gained from simply observing them over the past couple of years. Either way, the information has been leaked, the military knows what documentation has been lost by now, they have (or should have) mitigated the risk by now. You know what else hurts 'our' soldiers? 'Your' soldiers going to war against 'our' soldiers for no good reason but to expand the empire. Either way, 'your' soldiers voluntarily signed up to be cannon fodder to expand the empire, everytime I see one of 'your' soldiers walking around in uniform for no good reason while at home, I laugh because you're home, war is not here, uniform is unnecessary, it looks dumb and you look very dumb for even being enlisted.
I think with 'pirates' they meant the players in this virtual world that belong to some type of real 'pirate' faction intent on hijacking goods from other ships and destroying stuff for their own benefits. Kinda like having your base camp Zerg rushed in StarCraft.
Actually, once you go into the education stores, Apple's become evenly priced or even cheaper. It becomes a heck of a lot cheaper once you add in the 3 years warranty - Dell and HP could charge you easily $300-500 for the 3 year Premium Support plan while Apple charges maximum ~$180 for their top models (I believe it's $100 for the MacBooks).
Software patents have neither expensive nor difficult innovation. Most software is merely a brainfart being typed out by a programmer in a couple of days/weeks time. Most commercial software has a bunch of mathematicians, statisticians, process analysts or whatever field you want it to be in make up models which the programmer then types out in a specific fashion.
There is no software whatsoever that is truly expensive, innovative or special in one way or another. It's merely a representation or a mathematical model of how something in the physical world works. Now, you could make a piece of hardware that is covered by a patent that is really innovative or more controversial - a business model (although that's also in the realm of mathematical constructs). Controlling that hardware/business with software is in itself not so innovative (controlling motors, gears etc. has been done before). There is also nothing done in software that inherently hasn't been done in software or hardware before.
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Police is not the government is it - I believe there are court cases that interpret police as being either a power for the state or part of the people? The constitution nowhere states the provision of a standing army (aka police) to be used against constituents, the only reason state police are allowed in the constitution is for the safety, morals and health of the people and it's power is very limited. The fact that we have Federal police forces is imho a violation of the constitution in itself.
They have, it's called malpractice insurance and settlements. Hospitals have huge coffins with millions of dollars just for this kind of thing.
The desktop IS too difficult for most users. Today I had to explain somebody how to freakin' print a PDF that does not have 'Letter' dimensions (the printer would ask for a different size paper which they didn't understand even existed). However Apple is not going to take the control away from desktop computer because that would be suicide. If anything, this would basically be something similar to Dashboard - run iOS apps in Mac OS X natively or maybe a detachable iPad-like device.
Apple has maintained and even improved FireWire on most models but an ExpressCard may not fit in a 1.5" thick, 13" computer, in a 15" computer there is more place for that. My 13" does have and SD card slot. Who even uses ExpressCard? I have in my life had 2 or 3 PCMCIA cards (Iomega disk drive, 56k modem and ethernet) and I worked with computers for a good 20 years now, the only reason I have those is because Dell used to cheap out on those fancy network cards and a decent (non sound-card) modem. For most applications these days, USB is cheaper and more flexible than ExpressCard. The Iomega Clik I got from a garage sale because I thought the '40MB spy drives' looked really cool.
What do you mean with professional-level video cards? Most of their machines have nVidia or ATi cards, none of their desktops except for the really lowest line have Intel cards. There is no need to put a Tesla in there I think although you could do that if you're so inclined. Oh, maybe you mean Quadro's - yeah, you may know that those are the EXACT SAME cards as the GeForce's - there is absolutely no difference between them except for price and depending on the driver you might get different performance results. And yes, I am involved in GPU computing research.
Carpet? What schools have carpet? Or PVC (vinyl) flooring? Mine was built out of bricks, the floor was made out of cement tiles. The windows were steel/lead single paned 'windows' that rattled when the wind blew. The hallways were painted a dark lime green, the tiles were brown (although I think they were once grey). The only carpet was in the principals office, and wood was in the gym but the gym floor had bunches of holes in it so we always had to go outside (bad weather or not).
ZFS-stable? Seriously ZFS is one of the only points remaining besides the magnificent Fault Management Architecture, very good network stack, zones and dtrace.
Nexenta is doing a good job keeping the current Solaris distro's going but whenever Linux or BSD comes with a decent implementation of the most recent ZFS branch, there is probably going to be a massive conversion.
Unless of course you're in a hotel somewhere trying to play the game and you can't save the game, get any rewards and you can only play the campaign because you're not connected to your online account and according to some on the forums, if you lose your connection and stay disconnected during gameplay you can't save your game and potentially lose large amounts of gameplay.
I didn't buy Starcraft 2 exactly for that reason (neither did I pirate it) and I was planning on buying the $120 collector's edition. Sorry Blizzard but ever since WoW started you've been going down the tubes and the recent DRM restrictions have made me reconsider - I'm just playing my original StarCraft and Brood War again right now, you know the one with the CD key, the graphics still look pretty good actually...
You could always incinerate your own trash. Or not buy recyclable goods.
A single dictator is easier to control than a democratic nation. The US government is no different than any other ruler in the world and in history - they want to expand their domain. You can do this in 2 ways:
- You actively annex or conquer the domain
- You make agreements with the existing rulers and make them your vassal
It's not, Telenet has bandwidth caps (30GB or so for the last good decade) and has recently allowed going over the bandwidth cap without being moved back to 56k by buying more GB's. They are complaining that people bought extra credits for bandwidth (or the most expensive packages in their line up) and are using it.
Telenet has a monopoly on Cable Internet in Flanders (the populated northern part of Belgium) for the next 20 years or so (the government sold this monopoly a couple of years ago)
I work in education and some of my family are teachers, my significant other is going to school to become a teacher. This is a moderate income city, average income as a sysadmin is $70k. Teachers start out making $50k and some end up making $150k with most of them around $100k (if they started working around 25 and retire around 55).
VERY good teachers may do a lot of work after hours, but I know a lot of others (most) that hardly do anything once they have their 8-9 hours in - they go home, watch TV, relax just like anybody else. A lot of them are incompetent, heck even the school district leadership is incompetent - they thought it would be a good idea to cancel detention and forbade teachers to kick rowdy kids out of their class (these are schools where kids are thought by their PARENTS to roam the streets to sell drugs and carry weapons) yet they cannot be removed. The freaking CITY (and there was a referendum on this) wants to take over school leadership.
If you want your kids to have a good education in the US, do it yourself, emigrate to Canada or Europe or get a really good private school/teacher.
We tend to call them Father, Pastor, Priest, Bishop or Pope - depending on denomination other names might be used.
Well, it probably wouldn't be a good idea for Dell then. Because if it breaks, you just call their support phone lines in India, they keep pushing you from person to person (ignoring the fact that your boss actually has to pay you for all that time wasted calling them) while they keep promising to call you back for about 4-6 months only to charge your credit card to ship you a replacement part that you have to fix yourself and if you don't send back the bad part they won't ever give your money back. And when it's time to upgrade, you just toss your computer out and buy a new one.
Actually I have never had any issues with Apple support - all repairs were either made on-site by their techs or within 1 week (if you live outside the coverage area of their tech support) and if they can't commit to that (backlog or known issues) they send you a replacement, an empty box for the bad unit and all shipping labels completely free of charge. Plus it's international so you can walk in any store, anywhere in the world and get it fixed for free.
Of course, you will always lose your data if your hard drive goes bad (which is probably the most common failure in computers) regardless of manufacturer so there is no excuse for losing your data if YOU don't have a backup.
However, November 2nd is coming up!
Yes, Security through Obscurity hasn't been a good strategy for decades now. As the poster points out, this wouldn't have happened if they wouldn't have killed the OS boot option - the only reason these machines get hacked is because people want to run other stuff on there as well (whether or not that's a good idea). The bootleggers and modchip makers only take what's readily available on the market and commercialize it - the margins are razor thin and risks vs. reward are high, they don't have the money to spend or the talent available to hack it themselves.
Pretty please? Just give all their victims - I mean customers - their money back and just kill it off already. McAfee has no right even existing.
You develop cancer whether or not you're a highly intelligent creature. Even dogs and cats develop cancer. There is no correlation between higher IQ and cancer (if anything it would be inversely related since lower IQ could mean you're more prone to do the low-paid, dangerous jobs around known carcinogens)
Autism Spectrum Disorders are a range of disorders (not diseases) that you're born with, not something you develop (at least that's the current consensus). ASD-affected people however are either very high functioning (eg. Aspergers) or very low functioning (eg. Severe Autism) on the IQ scales however no consensus as to the validity of those tests has ever been developed as most autistic persons will function highly in a very specific domain (mathematics, memory...) and because it's difficult to communicate with most of them so they might just not understand the test or what they need to do or could possibly be utterly bored with it or just refuse to do it.
a) With IPv6 you won't need NAT (thank goodness). NAT is a security risk compared to 1-to-1 firewalls (whether in firmware or software).
b) There is no good reason to use NAT and security through obscurity (which what you mean by IP Masquerading) is no security at all but could still be done in IPv6 although, again there is no good reason to do so.
c) With IPv6 there is still (and possibly more) Provider-independent Address Space. How you failover your links between ISP's is up to you and a protocol like BGP is used for that. IP is (and should be) independent of that.
d) With NAT you can still identify every PC in your local network based on the traffic it is sending and receiving on the separate ports, the timestamps, how pings are constructed and a host of other information you will find back in an average IP packet. With IPv6 you can likewise use IP Masquerading. SNAT/DNAT you won't need anymore because you're just doing IP Masquerading, the port numbers don't need to change.
e) If you really want to stay with IPv4, you can still do that in your internal network, only the edges have to be upgraded. Your routers/cable modem could automatically copy your IPv4 address in an IPv6 address.
According to 90% of the world (most people in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East thinks it is), the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are unlawful. According to 99% of the world (even the US Government admits it is clandestine - only Fox would say it's lawful) the actions in Sudan, Jemen and the rest of the world where the US shoots rockets from drones at 'suspected' terrorists (where is the due process in that) are unlawful. Releasing 'classified' information on that is unlawful? Would releasing 'classified' information on Nazi death camps to the Allies be unlawful as well? It's the same thing, the US Military Complex is killing people across the globe for looking or thinking different, that's the real crime here.
I don't know if you ever were involved in organizing such concerts but those very famous rock stars get paid very well for doing a 'benefit' concert. They also have their 'demands' regardless of cost - why does a rock band need a bottle of blue label for each member before AND after the show and even worse, why is that stuff in their contract in the first place?
As with most humanitarian organizations, 90% of the benefits go to the organizers, 10% or less actually reaches the beneficiaries.
Not releasing the documents might hurt 'our' soldiers too. But I think 'our' soldiers already know how 'your' soldiers work by simply observing them. There is no tactical information that cannot be gained from simply observing them over the past couple of years. Either way, the information has been leaked, the military knows what documentation has been lost by now, they have (or should have) mitigated the risk by now. You know what else hurts 'our' soldiers? 'Your' soldiers going to war against 'our' soldiers for no good reason but to expand the empire. Either way, 'your' soldiers voluntarily signed up to be cannon fodder to expand the empire, everytime I see one of 'your' soldiers walking around in uniform for no good reason while at home, I laugh because you're home, war is not here, uniform is unnecessary, it looks dumb and you look very dumb for even being enlisted.
I think with 'pirates' they meant the players in this virtual world that belong to some type of real 'pirate' faction intent on hijacking goods from other ships and destroying stuff for their own benefits. Kinda like having your base camp Zerg rushed in StarCraft.
Exactly. Digital information can be destroyed with a click of a button. It's called backups, don't put all your eggs in one basket and backups.
That way it gets logged in the syslog - we /.-ers need that kind of proof or others won't believe us.
Actually, once you go into the education stores, Apple's become evenly priced or even cheaper. It becomes a heck of a lot cheaper once you add in the 3 years warranty - Dell and HP could charge you easily $300-500 for the 3 year Premium Support plan while Apple charges maximum ~$180 for their top models (I believe it's $100 for the MacBooks).
Software patents have neither expensive nor difficult innovation. Most software is merely a brainfart being typed out by a programmer in a couple of days/weeks time. Most commercial software has a bunch of mathematicians, statisticians, process analysts or whatever field you want it to be in make up models which the programmer then types out in a specific fashion.
There is no software whatsoever that is truly expensive, innovative or special in one way or another. It's merely a representation or a mathematical model of how something in the physical world works. Now, you could make a piece of hardware that is covered by a patent that is really innovative or more controversial - a business model (although that's also in the realm of mathematical constructs). Controlling that hardware/business with software is in itself not so innovative (controlling motors, gears etc. has been done before). There is also nothing done in software that inherently hasn't been done in software or hardware before.