That people still believe in it or study it doesn't mean it's not on shaky grounds. There is still ample study being funded that tries to defy both standard and quantum physics (creation of energy out of nothing) or that tries to defy science (some states in the US try to tell the world was created in literally 7 days and the earth (and everything else) is only 8000 years old). Abiogenesis was believed in by Greeks but Pasteur eventually found out that nothing comes out of nothing.
The biggest problem with abiogenesis as is proposed by the Miller experiment is that they don't take into account that amino acids -> structured rna -> protocell would take much longer than the environment would have been around and even if it was, the environment would've killed off the cells as soon as they were created (the amount of oxygen needed alone would burn those things right up). Chemistry, geology and astronomy tells us that the amount of time such excellent conditions existed on earth would've been fairly short (the necessary elements in the atmosphere would've decayed or at least have reacted by then according to chemists, geologists tell us the environment itself would've changed a lot between then and astronomy tells us that it would've been all blown away by meteor strikes (which were common in those time periods).
I'm not saying it's a dead science or that it's all wrong, just that those type of environments in the big picture would've meant nothing.
Why would it be a blow to anyone especially the loony creationists? This experiment, looking at it a few years later, didn't prove anything but that scientist also can be caught in hypes. Even 60 years later after these 'ideal' environments were defined and many more experiments with it, nothing more but amino acids have been created in a lab. To go from an amino acid to a single living cell is a big jump. A lot of those amino acids have to line up perfectly into things called RNA and DNA and then they have to all come together and somehow be jolted to life and THEN you have a single cell. Then that single cell has to be strong enough and survive long enough in that environment (whether it be lightning or volcanoes which are both very violent and tend to destroy stuff) it was created in and then it has to somehow figure out how to reproduce and in all that time, these 'ideal' environments have to calm down to a certain level so multi-celled organisms can survive.
This hypothesis has very little credibility now in the 'real' scientific world. It might still be in high school and college textbooks and some of you armchair scientists might know of them but the probability of it actually happening that way is so very low that even hardcore (read: religionist) evolutionists just look at it and say 'meh, let's look at something else'.
Run it through your own parser and then spit out the relevant stuff in good html. You could also put it in an object tag (<object data="page.html" type="text/html" width="100">) or use some JavaScript to import it after the page has been loaded (given you're not using an XML based option).
There must be some bad mail (server) admin then or a bad stick of RAM in the server. I maintain a very high uptime throughout a typical business day and I only have a single server. The most the server has been down during business is 2 hours and in that time I had to rebuild half the machine. Even Exchange which I utterly hate doesn't have that much downtime.
In my philosophy, if you can't recover your e-mail system from a disaster within 4 business hours you're doing something wrong (in my opinion) and you either have to fire your admin, spend some money on a backup system, split it up in some fashion (per department, per site etc.) or you have to replace your e-mail system. The problem with giving your e-mail to a hosting provider without any control is that you can't guarantee that to your customers.
These days setting up Postfix with a synchronized MySQL database (or other database) and a parallel storage backend is not a big deal anymore and those type of systems are so flexible there is really no excuse to have a large amount of downtime if you can afford a backup system. I will do it for you under $20,000 including hardware and you should be able to support up to 2000 users with it.
We already got such systems yet (almost) nobody uses it. There are several systems going from very cheap to very expensive. The 'problem' is that each of these systems needs to be implemented (by a contractor with teh mad skillz) and have components added for each part. Whether or not you have a single wire or an ethernet cable ran to the lights, you still need to run *gasp* power lines to the lightbulbs, so why not just interrupt the power line with a simple on-off switch (or dimmer) instead of running 2 lines concurrently and adding some chips to both socket and switch which at least doubles the price of both.
If something were cheaper to do, it would've already be done, there are people that spend time and money to see where they can save time and money. And in the car it's already done. The dashboards are now electronically controlled and just have a small data line running out to the several control unites and a power line coming in. The lights still need power, so a (sometimes solid-state) relay is used for that in both front and back and only 1 line is pulled to each light bulb, the power line. It was done similarly in an old VW Beetle me and my friend rebuilt except that the dashboard-switches controlled the relays directly.
You earn less than $100,000/year: your vote doesn't count anyway. You go with whoever makes you feel better or has better lies to tell. $100,000-250,000: Most likely you are in a business that makes use of the freedom-limiting laws like DMCA: Democrat $250,000 and above: You're rich and you like the tax breaks you get on the backs of the lower-earning folks: Republican
Or another overview for THIS election: Your IQ 120: Democrat
If they don't announce properly they have a search warrant, you can shoot them. You also have a right to refuse to unlock doors. They have a right to get a locksmith. The problem with encrypted data is almost no entity (unless you're the NSA) has a locksmith.
And you believe you'll be slinging burgers at all? McDonalds nor Wal-Mart wanted to hire me even though I didn't put my qualifications on my 'resume'. They just looked at me and noticed that I 'looked' smarter than that (even in jeans and a t-shirt on an interview), just told me they didn't believe I was going to be working there for very long.
On the other hand, I have never been out of an IT job longer than a month and a half. H1B doesn't scare me because I know that if an employer hires me, I'll save them more money than what I would cost them.s
Actually, with Google shooting (or at least helping out) stuff in orbit that scenario seems to be quite realistic. Nowadays it's just too expensive and not very cost effective to shoot a hunk-a-junk with a camera into space and let everyone have access to it (especially since it would most likely bankrupt the companies that rely on reselling their imagery) but I think Google and the like might actually be able to pull it off, if not just for a marketing stunt. The images would most likely also have to be post-processed so live-viewing is not really an option there. But if a government can do it, so can a private organization (with loads of money) and as far as the law goes, go somewhere where the law doesn't have such a fascist grip on what a free man (or corporation) can do in free space (Outer Space Treaty)
Optical in a high vibration environment... not so good. Optical is good if your wires are supposed to remain permanent, optical cables (especially the cheap stuff) tend to have their fibers break even if they're just being bent.
SMTP clients must look up for an MX record; if no MX record for domain is present, look up for an A RR record, and if such record is present, treat is as an MX record; if an MX record is present, clients MUST NOT use an A RR record.
They moved all institutions to Google after considering more than those 3 vendors.
Simple questions: How much does it cost to 1) switch to your system 2) remain in your system 3) get out of your system How easy is it to do the initial switch, general administration and the switch back out How easy is it for our students to use What integration have you available with our current portal(s) Do you have (open source) plugins in our favorite language that we can use to generate accounts from our favorite application. It's important that if you switch your local administration, the plugin can switch too. Can we do webmail, (secure) imap, (secure) pop and authenticated smtp relay, eventually secure calendaring What integration with your other apps do you have. What is the roadmap for your current apps. How does your system scale on a single domain
In audio/video engineering we would use balanced wires in that case. Shielding is heavy and costly yes, but for some systems (like this one) I would rather have an extra 5 kilo added than crash (or have injuries). Balanced wires don't add that much weight (just use the same thin wire twice) and if interference does show up on the wires, the nature of the beast will cancel it out in the receiver. Of course, if it's true what was said before (outsourcing of the installation or maintenance) and they wanted to save some money on copper and a few opamps, cutting or ignoring a wire in a balanced system doesn't make the system fail, it merely makes it susceptible to interference.
Yes, but marriage != sex. Lots of kids start having or experimenting with sex at years 12-14, more even between the ages of 14-18 and by 21 almost everyone has had a sexual experience. Todays social environment doesn't require marriage to have sex anymore, whether that's a good thing, I leave in the middle. Back in the day (when 90% of the people were strict christians) you had to be married in order to have sex, these days it seems you have to have sex in order to get married. But that was only so in the westerner world, in 'pagan' societies, there were things like shared wives/husbands or temple prostitutes although it seems most societies had some sort of marital arrangement where a wife or wives became sole property of the husband.
Try Pandora FMS. It does the same as Nagios, is open source but only requires a minimum knowledge of shell scripting to get it working and can monitor everything you can think of inside (using an agent) or outside a host. I monitor about 100 hosts with it and have about 1200 data points every 5-10 minutes (temperatures, network packets, processes etc.) but it scales much larger (using MySQL as backend) even on simple hardware.
It's called citizens arrest. You can arrest a police officer even the president if you want to (and are able to) but you will have to eventually come up with proof and/or witnesses of a criminal act, misdemeanor or disturbance of the peace.
I've recently attended safe driving courses (because the judge told me to do so) here in NYS.
There they showed how ABS could be bad: A car had a big obstacle in front of them which they slammed the brakes. Without ABS the car just went straight ahead and slammed in the obstacle (albeit slower). In the other situation, they had ABS, the driver panicked and turned his steering wheel to avoid it thereby causing a head-on collision.
If you've ever driven in snow, you should know that most drivers panic when their car starts getting out of control. They steer around wildly to avoid whatever they think they're going to hit but then they go skidding, fishtailing and spinning at which point ABS won't help you very much.
It all depends on the conditions. ABS is good on dry and wet pavement. As soon as the car goes water planing over a longer distance (like it does on snow/ice conditions) it's completely useless unless you keep a cool head.
There is a saying: every man has his price. Whether it's money, blackmailing or special 'gifts', they can all be bought if you name the right price. It's just very risky if they're wrong.
Another point: Judges etc. are in a political position by some type of vote at some point in time (whether you call it appointments or whatever) either by a group of laymen or a group of politicians meaning that at one time they were politicians making themselves seem whatever they needed to be to get that position.
The RIAA is the single most rich media corporation although they are pretending to be a "non-profit" trade group sticking it out for the poor artist (their website - light grey text on white background doesn't really specify whether or not they are for-profit) but basically they are a storefront to big multinational media companies (Warner, Disney...) protecting the interests of those that generate their income.
And the first few links: McCain: Terrorists bypass laws by using gun shows
His McCain for President in 2000 and the legislation following 9/11 he introduced seems to be largely forgotten by now, but he was using the same stories Bush was using for similar purposes.
The world was better when MySpace was just a free (or paid) online storage and FaceBook was about having an address book with pictures.
1) There are several ways to restart your machine (man reboot and man shutdown for more information) some will be faster than the others. 2) Usually, it's a good idea to let a program clean up after itself, especially since leaving file descriptors open or abruptly closing it while it is writing something will damage your data. Programs shutting down are usually just writing their caches and journals to disk. The in-memory doesn't take a stellar amount of time unless you're swapping (and even then, see point 3) 3) These days (unlike back in the days of DOS and Windows) the kernel handles most if not all memory and disk-related activities including caches. Not flushing caches to disk (which can be large amounts of data depending on the caching strategy) during shutdown will leave you with data that hasn't been written even after the program has shut down. Again, the memory doesn't actively get swiped when free'ed (unless there is a call to zero it out before free or the kernel does it for security reasons) and it doesn't take a large amount of time either. 4) Most (if not all) non-kernel programs don't know whether you're shutting them down because you will restart or simply because you don't need them. Since that is so, they go through the exact same procedures whether you manually shut them down or you reboot. Leaving zombies on shutdown is not so bad, leaving zombies in a day-to-day environment will eat up your resources very quickly (especially if you're using large amounts of memory) 5) Most programs like to know whether they were shut down properly or not (see also point 4) especially if they're handling data. If not, they might have to go through self-checks on their data (databases for example) to check the consistency of your data and whether certain things still need to be done (journals), some (like Firefox) like to send their developers a note why the program wasn't shut down properly. 6) Not every program has the same characteristics, especially the background processes on any system. A lot of those background processes are used for more robust environments than your desktop and have dependencies on each other and thus need to wait for previous systems to shut down. On the other hand, some programs won't shut down until they handled their last call before shut down was called has been handled. A good example would be call center software which doesn't shut down until the last caller has hung up. Some processes in your computer are like call centers and some programs depending on it haven't been written correctly so they don't hang up on shut down but leave the line open until the call center decides it has timed out.
I don't know about our government, but IF 1% of the 250M Americans decided to write an e-mail over the last week (which means 2.5 million e-mails over 5 days or 500,000 e-mails per day or 21,000 e-mails per hour which should be about 1 Mbyte/minute) then I would be able to handle the load with 1 or 2 Postfix servers and of course a large enough storage. Heck, I'm currently processing about 1000 connections per hour for an organization (100 IMAP connections, website etc. included) on a 4 year old PowerMac G5 including amavis, clamav and spamassassin and the load is generally about 0.10.
Of course there would be congestion and the solution should already be scaled adequatly to support the 500-somewhat congress critters but that amount of traffic is nothing to write home about, much less a press report.
And the so-called 'cloud computing' is all about proprietary computing on proprietary services. If one of those proprietary services (like Google, Amazon etc.) doesn't like you, they can close your account or they can plainly close out all accounts and it's pretty darn hard (and/or expensive) to write software to both run on their services and be easily moved elsewhere because somebody else uses different interfaces, API's and most of them are closed-source, allowing you to only look at your data the way they intend you to look at it while 'they' (whether that be government imposing control over the 'cloud' or very rich corporations (which in the US doesn't make a difference these days)) can implement other ways to look at it on a more broad (think: you and all their other customers) scale without you even knowing.
Think about cloud computing (not the end-user apps which we have been calling websites or web applications since the early '90s, but from a developers perspective) as a giant database and computing power which you pay or do not pay for. Since all of it is shared over many customers (which we used to call Shared Hosting) it gets pretty cheap so you might want to choose it because of the economic situation over a "Dedicated Hosting" or "Colocation". Now instead of a 'standard' hosting package that gives you SQL database and a slice of a host to do your thing on (let's say it's PHP and MySQL), they strip all function calls, put you in safe mode, disallow you from all standard SQL queries give you a set of Stored Procedures and a set of pre-determined functions to print out your dynamic HTML pages and give you totally NO log files. The naming of those functions and procedures is totally arbitrary, some developer or even worse, a PHB thought them up. There is no way of putting a direct SQL query against the database, there is no way of defining your own functions, there is hardly a way to back your data up or even erase data that's accidentally been created whether it be important information or not.
There you go, that's cloud computing for you, a dumbed down, limited version of your run-of-the-mill shared hosting package. It might be good for some (similar to those that used to create websites in Frontpage) but for anybody that requires control, portability and accountability of their software, it ain't going to work. Next to that, you don't have any way of knowing whether a hacker or a wayward admin (or the government) or the greedy marketing department has been looking at your data because you don't have the log files to the raw data access. If you want to move to another cloud for any reason, you'll have to recreate your whole application to use the other cloud's limited set and totally arbitrary set of functions and hope you have all the functionality you had before.
Quite simple: run a mailserver, then use these type of DNS servers. In a few days, you'll have so much mail that doesn't get accepted by xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (your provider's DNS) that it might fill your storage. Then 7 days later (instead of a few hours later) the e-mail gets sent back with the message that the other server doesn't accept the mail (instead of saying that the domain doesn't exist) after being retried hundreds of times eating up valuable bandwidth and processing time. Then if your end-user isn't smart enough, he'll retry sending it, not noticing he has a typo in his address book, because after all, the other e-mail server DOES exist.
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That people still believe in it or study it doesn't mean it's not on shaky grounds. There is still ample study being funded that tries to defy both standard and quantum physics (creation of energy out of nothing) or that tries to defy science (some states in the US try to tell the world was created in literally 7 days and the earth (and everything else) is only 8000 years old). Abiogenesis was believed in by Greeks but Pasteur eventually found out that nothing comes out of nothing.
The biggest problem with abiogenesis as is proposed by the Miller experiment is that they don't take into account that amino acids -> structured rna -> protocell would take much longer than the environment would have been around and even if it was, the environment would've killed off the cells as soon as they were created (the amount of oxygen needed alone would burn those things right up). Chemistry, geology and astronomy tells us that the amount of time such excellent conditions existed on earth would've been fairly short (the necessary elements in the atmosphere would've decayed or at least have reacted by then according to chemists, geologists tell us the environment itself would've changed a lot between then and astronomy tells us that it would've been all blown away by meteor strikes (which were common in those time periods).
I'm not saying it's a dead science or that it's all wrong, just that those type of environments in the big picture would've meant nothing.
Why would it be a blow to anyone especially the loony creationists? This experiment, looking at it a few years later, didn't prove anything but that scientist also can be caught in hypes. Even 60 years later after these 'ideal' environments were defined and many more experiments with it, nothing more but amino acids have been created in a lab. To go from an amino acid to a single living cell is a big jump. A lot of those amino acids have to line up perfectly into things called RNA and DNA and then they have to all come together and somehow be jolted to life and THEN you have a single cell. Then that single cell has to be strong enough and survive long enough in that environment (whether it be lightning or volcanoes which are both very violent and tend to destroy stuff) it was created in and then it has to somehow figure out how to reproduce and in all that time, these 'ideal' environments have to calm down to a certain level so multi-celled organisms can survive.
This hypothesis has very little credibility now in the 'real' scientific world. It might still be in high school and college textbooks and some of you armchair scientists might know of them but the probability of it actually happening that way is so very low that even hardcore (read: religionist) evolutionists just look at it and say 'meh, let's look at something else'.
Run it through your own parser and then spit out the relevant stuff in good html. You could also put it in an object tag (<object data="page.html" type="text/html" width="100">) or use some JavaScript to import it after the page has been loaded (given you're not using an XML based option).
There must be some bad mail (server) admin then or a bad stick of RAM in the server. I maintain a very high uptime throughout a typical business day and I only have a single server. The most the server has been down during business is 2 hours and in that time I had to rebuild half the machine. Even Exchange which I utterly hate doesn't have that much downtime.
In my philosophy, if you can't recover your e-mail system from a disaster within 4 business hours you're doing something wrong (in my opinion) and you either have to fire your admin, spend some money on a backup system, split it up in some fashion (per department, per site etc.) or you have to replace your e-mail system. The problem with giving your e-mail to a hosting provider without any control is that you can't guarantee that to your customers.
These days setting up Postfix with a synchronized MySQL database (or other database) and a parallel storage backend is not a big deal anymore and those type of systems are so flexible there is really no excuse to have a large amount of downtime if you can afford a backup system. I will do it for you under $20,000 including hardware and you should be able to support up to 2000 users with it.
We already got such systems yet (almost) nobody uses it. There are several systems going from very cheap to very expensive. The 'problem' is that each of these systems needs to be implemented (by a contractor with teh mad skillz) and have components added for each part. Whether or not you have a single wire or an ethernet cable ran to the lights, you still need to run *gasp* power lines to the lightbulbs, so why not just interrupt the power line with a simple on-off switch (or dimmer) instead of running 2 lines concurrently and adding some chips to both socket and switch which at least doubles the price of both.
If something were cheaper to do, it would've already be done, there are people that spend time and money to see where they can save time and money. And in the car it's already done. The dashboards are now electronically controlled and just have a small data line running out to the several control unites and a power line coming in. The lights still need power, so a (sometimes solid-state) relay is used for that in both front and back and only 1 line is pulled to each light bulb, the power line. It was done similarly in an old VW Beetle me and my friend rebuilt except that the dashboard-switches controlled the relays directly.
Just in general elections:
You earn less than $100,000/year: your vote doesn't count anyway. You go with whoever makes you feel better or has better lies to tell.
$100,000-250,000: Most likely you are in a business that makes use of the freedom-limiting laws like DMCA: Democrat
$250,000 and above: You're rich and you like the tax breaks you get on the backs of the lower-earning folks: Republican
Or another overview for THIS election:
Your IQ 120:
Democrat
If they don't announce properly they have a search warrant, you can shoot them. You also have a right to refuse to unlock doors. They have a right to get a locksmith. The problem with encrypted data is almost no entity (unless you're the NSA) has a locksmith.
If you need 10 licenses, you're better off with the 2 Family Pack's: 5 licenses for $199 (about $40/license) is not that bad.
If you're a student or work in education you can get them even cheaper.
And you believe you'll be slinging burgers at all? McDonalds nor Wal-Mart wanted to hire me even though I didn't put my qualifications on my 'resume'. They just looked at me and noticed that I 'looked' smarter than that (even in jeans and a t-shirt on an interview), just told me they didn't believe I was going to be working there for very long.
On the other hand, I have never been out of an IT job longer than a month and a half. H1B doesn't scare me because I know that if an employer hires me, I'll save them more money than what I would cost them.s
I think the first version was VMS or maybe OS/2 Warp
Actually, with Google shooting (or at least helping out) stuff in orbit that scenario seems to be quite realistic. Nowadays it's just too expensive and not very cost effective to shoot a hunk-a-junk with a camera into space and let everyone have access to it (especially since it would most likely bankrupt the companies that rely on reselling their imagery) but I think Google and the like might actually be able to pull it off, if not just for a marketing stunt. The images would most likely also have to be post-processed so live-viewing is not really an option there. But if a government can do it, so can a private organization (with loads of money) and as far as the law goes, go somewhere where the law doesn't have such a fascist grip on what a free man (or corporation) can do in free space (Outer Space Treaty)
Optical in a high vibration environment... not so good. Optical is good if your wires are supposed to remain permanent, optical cables (especially the cheap stuff) tend to have their fibers break even if they're just being bent.
RFC 2821 sec. 5 clearly states that:
SMTP clients must look up for an MX record;
if no MX record for domain is present, look up for an A RR record, and if such record is present, treat is as an MX record;
if an MX record is present, clients MUST NOT use an A RR record.
They moved all institutions to Google after considering more than those 3 vendors.
Simple questions:
How much does it cost to 1) switch to your system 2) remain in your system 3) get out of your system
How easy is it to do the initial switch, general administration and the switch back out
How easy is it for our students to use
What integration have you available with our current portal(s)
Do you have (open source) plugins in our favorite language that we can use to generate accounts from our favorite application. It's important that if you switch your local administration, the plugin can switch too.
Can we do webmail, (secure) imap, (secure) pop and authenticated smtp relay, eventually secure calendaring
What integration with your other apps do you have. What is the roadmap for your current apps.
How does your system scale on a single domain
In audio/video engineering we would use balanced wires in that case. Shielding is heavy and costly yes, but for some systems (like this one) I would rather have an extra 5 kilo added than crash (or have injuries). Balanced wires don't add that much weight (just use the same thin wire twice) and if interference does show up on the wires, the nature of the beast will cancel it out in the receiver. Of course, if it's true what was said before (outsourcing of the installation or maintenance) and they wanted to save some money on copper and a few opamps, cutting or ignoring a wire in a balanced system doesn't make the system fail, it merely makes it susceptible to interference.
Yes, but marriage != sex. Lots of kids start having or experimenting with sex at years 12-14, more even between the ages of 14-18 and by 21 almost everyone has had a sexual experience. Todays social environment doesn't require marriage to have sex anymore, whether that's a good thing, I leave in the middle. Back in the day (when 90% of the people were strict christians) you had to be married in order to have sex, these days it seems you have to have sex in order to get married. But that was only so in the westerner world, in 'pagan' societies, there were things like shared wives/husbands or temple prostitutes although it seems most societies had some sort of marital arrangement where a wife or wives became sole property of the husband.
Try Pandora FMS. It does the same as Nagios, is open source but only requires a minimum knowledge of shell scripting to get it working and can monitor everything you can think of inside (using an agent) or outside a host. I monitor about 100 hosts with it and have about 1200 data points every 5-10 minutes (temperatures, network packets, processes etc.) but it scales much larger (using MySQL as backend) even on simple hardware.
It's called citizens arrest. You can arrest a police officer even the president if you want to (and are able to) but you will have to eventually come up with proof and/or witnesses of a criminal act, misdemeanor or disturbance of the peace.
I've recently attended safe driving courses (because the judge told me to do so) here in NYS.
There they showed how ABS could be bad: A car had a big obstacle in front of them which they slammed the brakes. Without ABS the car just went straight ahead and slammed in the obstacle (albeit slower). In the other situation, they had ABS, the driver panicked and turned his steering wheel to avoid it thereby causing a head-on collision.
If you've ever driven in snow, you should know that most drivers panic when their car starts getting out of control. They steer around wildly to avoid whatever they think they're going to hit but then they go skidding, fishtailing and spinning at which point ABS won't help you very much.
It all depends on the conditions. ABS is good on dry and wet pavement. As soon as the car goes water planing over a longer distance (like it does on snow/ice conditions) it's completely useless unless you keep a cool head.
There is a saying: every man has his price. Whether it's money, blackmailing or special 'gifts', they can all be bought if you name the right price. It's just very risky if they're wrong.
Another point: Judges etc. are in a political position by some type of vote at some point in time (whether you call it appointments or whatever) either by a group of laymen or a group of politicians meaning that at one time they were politicians making themselves seem whatever they needed to be to get that position.
The RIAA is the single most rich media corporation although they are pretending to be a "non-profit" trade group sticking it out for the poor artist (their website - light grey text on white background doesn't really specify whether or not they are for-profit) but basically they are a storefront to big multinational media companies (Warner, Disney...) protecting the interests of those that generate their income.
Put the above points together yourself.
And the first few links: McCain: Terrorists bypass laws by using gun shows
His McCain for President in 2000 and the legislation following 9/11 he introduced seems to be largely forgotten by now, but he was using the same stories Bush was using for similar purposes.
The world was better when MySpace was just a free (or paid) online storage and FaceBook was about having an address book with pictures.
Several reasons.
1) There are several ways to restart your machine (man reboot and man shutdown for more information) some will be faster than the others.
2) Usually, it's a good idea to let a program clean up after itself, especially since leaving file descriptors open or abruptly closing it while it is writing something will damage your data. Programs shutting down are usually just writing their caches and journals to disk. The in-memory doesn't take a stellar amount of time unless you're swapping (and even then, see point 3)
3) These days (unlike back in the days of DOS and Windows) the kernel handles most if not all memory and disk-related activities including caches. Not flushing caches to disk (which can be large amounts of data depending on the caching strategy) during shutdown will leave you with data that hasn't been written even after the program has shut down. Again, the memory doesn't actively get swiped when free'ed (unless there is a call to zero it out before free or the kernel does it for security reasons) and it doesn't take a large amount of time either.
4) Most (if not all) non-kernel programs don't know whether you're shutting them down because you will restart or simply because you don't need them. Since that is so, they go through the exact same procedures whether you manually shut them down or you reboot. Leaving zombies on shutdown is not so bad, leaving zombies in a day-to-day environment will eat up your resources very quickly (especially if you're using large amounts of memory)
5) Most programs like to know whether they were shut down properly or not (see also point 4) especially if they're handling data. If not, they might have to go through self-checks on their data (databases for example) to check the consistency of your data and whether certain things still need to be done (journals), some (like Firefox) like to send their developers a note why the program wasn't shut down properly.
6) Not every program has the same characteristics, especially the background processes on any system. A lot of those background processes are used for more robust environments than your desktop and have dependencies on each other and thus need to wait for previous systems to shut down. On the other hand, some programs won't shut down until they handled their last call before shut down was called has been handled. A good example would be call center software which doesn't shut down until the last caller has hung up. Some processes in your computer are like call centers and some programs depending on it haven't been written correctly so they don't hang up on shut down but leave the line open until the call center decides it has timed out.
I don't know about our government, but IF 1% of the 250M Americans decided to write an e-mail over the last week (which means 2.5 million e-mails over 5 days or 500,000 e-mails per day or 21,000 e-mails per hour which should be about 1 Mbyte/minute) then I would be able to handle the load with 1 or 2 Postfix servers and of course a large enough storage. Heck, I'm currently processing about 1000 connections per hour for an organization (100 IMAP connections, website etc. included) on a 4 year old PowerMac G5 including amavis, clamav and spamassassin and the load is generally about 0.10.
Of course there would be congestion and the solution should already be scaled adequatly to support the 500-somewhat congress critters but that amount of traffic is nothing to write home about, much less a press report.
And the so-called 'cloud computing' is all about proprietary computing on proprietary services. If one of those proprietary services (like Google, Amazon etc.) doesn't like you, they can close your account or they can plainly close out all accounts and it's pretty darn hard (and/or expensive) to write software to both run on their services and be easily moved elsewhere because somebody else uses different interfaces, API's and most of them are closed-source, allowing you to only look at your data the way they intend you to look at it while 'they' (whether that be government imposing control over the 'cloud' or very rich corporations (which in the US doesn't make a difference these days)) can implement other ways to look at it on a more broad (think: you and all their other customers) scale without you even knowing.
Think about cloud computing (not the end-user apps which we have been calling websites or web applications since the early '90s, but from a developers perspective) as a giant database and computing power which you pay or do not pay for. Since all of it is shared over many customers (which we used to call Shared Hosting) it gets pretty cheap so you might want to choose it because of the economic situation over a "Dedicated Hosting" or "Colocation". Now instead of a 'standard' hosting package that gives you SQL database and a slice of a host to do your thing on (let's say it's PHP and MySQL), they strip all function calls, put you in safe mode, disallow you from all standard SQL queries give you a set of Stored Procedures and a set of pre-determined functions to print out your dynamic HTML pages and give you totally NO log files. The naming of those functions and procedures is totally arbitrary, some developer or even worse, a PHB thought them up. There is no way of putting a direct SQL query against the database, there is no way of defining your own functions, there is hardly a way to back your data up or even erase data that's accidentally been created whether it be important information or not.
There you go, that's cloud computing for you, a dumbed down, limited version of your run-of-the-mill shared hosting package. It might be good for some (similar to those that used to create websites in Frontpage) but for anybody that requires control, portability and accountability of their software, it ain't going to work. Next to that, you don't have any way of knowing whether a hacker or a wayward admin (or the government) or the greedy marketing department has been looking at your data because you don't have the log files to the raw data access. If you want to move to another cloud for any reason, you'll have to recreate your whole application to use the other cloud's limited set and totally arbitrary set of functions and hope you have all the functionality you had before.
Quite simple: run a mailserver, then use these type of DNS servers. In a few days, you'll have so much mail that doesn't get accepted by xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (your provider's DNS) that it might fill your storage. Then 7 days later (instead of a few hours later) the e-mail gets sent back with the message that the other server doesn't accept the mail (instead of saying that the domain doesn't exist) after being retried hundreds of times eating up valuable bandwidth and processing time. Then if your end-user isn't smart enough, he'll retry sending it, not noticing he has a typo in his address book, because after all, the other e-mail server DOES exist.