that decentralization was the driving force to even create DARPANET or TCP/IP. If we centralize everything again we might have some overhead on administration and traffic but when one or multiple nodes fail, the internet will still be there. If you centralize everything at say the USA and that country decides to implement the Great Firewall, you're pretty much boned.
Well, that's what I think of it... Isn't Sun almost dead?
You are wrong here. This has to do with reporters shield laws and pleading the Fifth. As we all now, since you are before a grand jury (something that never used to happen before) you cannot rely on those amendments anymore for some or another weirdo reason.
Witnesses do not have the right to have their attorneys present in grand jury rooms during hearings Grand juries, which return indictments in many criminal cases, are composed entirely of laymen and operate in secret; they are directed, but not controlled, by prosecutors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_th e_United_States_Constitution
Basically a small clause in the American amendments makes it possible to prosecute anyone for any reason as long as the court is called Grand Jury. That is what's happening here. The guy has supposedly a movie with some carburning in it (a minor offense since no-one got killed) because people don't like what the government is doing (they are trying to start a (small scaled) revolution). This guy says: I don't have that on my tape, so back off. The state says: Yes you do. This guy says: No I don't. The state then locks him up, brings him before a grand jury and decides that he must have destroyed the evidence or something since he doesn't have it.
Well, apparently, MS is pulling out of the Mac world. The sad thing about VirtualPC is that they handed some big cash over and instead of keeping it alive, they just killed it. It's just another company they silently bought and killed. I though that VPC was going to get killed anyway, MS didn't do any improvements to the Connectix version for a long time.
Finally they are killing Office too, time to get going for other options then. VBS is not a big deal, nobody uses it anyway (cross platform anyway) and it's not allowed to be used for financial calculation because it's not according to SoX.
Really, they made a good step in the direction with W2K and later with XP it was nice for end users and W2K3 is bearable but wtf are they doing with Vista. There is nothing exasperatingly new (like usage of the NT kernel in W2K) or a breakthrough in GUI (as with the speed of the GUI in XP) or a sysadmin-friendly environment (as in W2K3). In fact, nothing has really changed, a little GUI painted on but that's it.
IE7 still not W3C compliant or anywhere near there, still giant loopholes in the OS. Still using NTFS instead of the promised WinFS.
I was really (as an MS hater) looking forward to maybe a change within Microsoft since WGates left (and we all know a lot of work goes before the actual announcement) and Vista coming out and having promising features announced, but I can't see anything of that in their new OS.
As for a change, Stevie is announcing stuff at some convention and I am astounded. I mean, I didn't know they could do a lot more improvements in 10.4, but look at the Leopard Sneak Preview and a versioning file system and all kinds of other neat stuff... and that's right after a devving freeze in Vista which was supposed to copy some neat features out of OS X 10.3, maybe even 10.4, heck they could even copy stuff out of KDE for all I care, it still look better.
Microsoft (Gates or Ballmer, whoever has the power): I am very disappointed in you guys. I work in a mixed environment (Linux, Windows, Mac) and I have heard things in that my company (which has a bigass license with you) moving to Mac's for some non-critical users (that only need Office and to surf the intranet). If Apple pulls it off and actually builds in Win32 support in their OS, you are going to become just another SCO within a few years.
perhaps now is a good time for JAXA to join in with NASA on the Project Constellation rocket program."
I don't know why they would even think about joining projects with a nationalistic, slow, inefficient and bureaucratic organisation who will later take all the credits for doing something great while 80% of the real work was done by the Japanese. Not only that, but it would also show or suggest that they are not good enough or can't pull it off alone and from a Japanese cultural view, that (failure) is not an option.
Interplanetary travel and structures is imho the race for the stars of the 21st century and I guess that just like nearly 50 years ago the Soviet-USA did, the same is going to happen but with quite some different players (I'm thinking Europe, China, Japan and maybe even India). Africa and Russia are too poor to pull something like that, Australia and the Middle East is not interested and the USA has become too bureaucratic and is involved in other moneysucking projects like Iraq and the overaged Shuttle. Quite honestly, I think even Europe has it's head too much in administrational garbage to pull something off efficiently.
It was dubbed the 8086 and it's predecessor was the 8088 and the mathematical coprocessor was the 8087 for desktops you insensitive clod. The 80186 is the embedded (later enhanced) version of the 8086 processor and was not (or hardly) used in desktop computers.
586 and 686 were actually Cyrix' processor just so you know.
that usually they don't or hardly get punished or even rewarded (they get 1-3 days paid leave) for doing such things. Another problem is that if you go after them (using an expensive lawyer) you can hardly sue for damages (spending a night in jail) because they have the right to put you in jail for a long time (48h or look @ Gitmo) without even charging you with anything. If the police wants to be anal they can hold you even longer (ongoing investigation without charging you) and I heard of people spending a week in jail without getting anything back (no damages rewarded, nearly lost their job, the neighbourhood viewing them as criminals) while they were not doing anything wrong (unless you say that a peaceful demonstration is illegal). The officers just got their kicks out of it. Then they wonder why they get shot (recently 2 officers in this area got shot) or dragged behind an ATV. I recently heard of someone in this area that got EXECUTED (as in shot after being in custody) according to witnesses after resisting an arrest warrant. 3 witnesses against a small police force don't stand up in court so what are we going to do about it. Yes this was the USA.
Computer simulations on some very expensive hardware. Sure it would cost more for them to develop such software but I think it's possible as long as you have enough resources and computer power. We are geeks after all, we come up with these idea's. But isn't that what Folding@Home and other related scientific projects are trying to do? Simulate some cells folding stuff. If you put all medical models so far in a database and put some time, power and money in it, then it is possible.
I also think it is possible to create a thinking machine like that. We are but the sum of our own thoughts and decisions and they are not more complicated than yes or no with a small probability calculator. Do I go to work: yes (75% keep job, 25% less free time) or no (25% keep job, 75% less free time). Put that in a gigantic database and fire some things on it and what it doesn't know, it learns (that's what we do ever since we are born) by looking at the results and evaluating whether it was more efficient or not.
IANAD (Doctor) but I guess cells and stuff are not that complicated, we evolved out of a single cell organism and some energy a few thousands of years ago or were we designed intelligently after all? We are intelligent enough (single cell organism) to create machines (energy) that can do this, right... or should we leave it to a deity after all? (This is not a flame, just how I would motivate scientists)
I'm sorry, but for complex things, Visio is just what you don't need. Sure it's nice and fancy on the output, but when you're trying to define a whole process it gets clogged and difficult on the input or later to change something.
I think the user is looking more for a simple programming language or layout specification (like you do in TeX) in which he can write his stuff easily and orderly. Then the output gets automagically and dynamically generated and all he needs to do is make it look nice (for managers, everything has to be very simple and there has to be lots of whitespace) and print it out. I am looking for something like that too, just didn't find it yet.
Yep, happens every year for me... but as soon as you try to leave the building: oooh, guruevi, guruevi, wait a second, we just got a problem with this computer.... aaargh...
Swamped with big fat white nerdboys that only have muscles in their opposable thumbs. Must be easy to manage. Although I would like to see them fight over the single computer standing in administration. Images of House on Haunted Hill come to mind...
Guaranteed jobs, 12.50 min wage There are a bunch of people working at Wal-Mart for $6. Try paying $500 rent, $100 taxes and food from that not to mention transportation to get to work
30 hour work week paid as 40 hours (ie: give everyone an extra 125/min per week) Has been working in Europe for a long time, I don't have a problem with it, the workaholics can keep working longer.
Life long public education -- there goes Americas private colleges: Harvard, Yale, etc. And do you really think it is necessary for those elitist schools to exist? Everybody is equal and should have the same access to education
Shut down all nuclear plants Ok, maybe not do that, nuclear is currently our primary future resource unless heavily investing is done in alternative methods
Break up corporate agribusiness -- there goes several billion-dollar businesses That is a good thing, have more people working to do the same, earning good instead of a single group of 10 persons creaming off the top 75% of a billion-dollar business income.
Every 20 years a company's charter must be reviewed to see if the government agrees with it -- no abuse could happen there Yeah, abuse happens now too. Look at Sarbanes-Oxley, it's a unnecessary expensive mess
Break up every company with more than 10% market share Break up Microsoft would be a good thing. We don't like monopolies local (Wal-Mart) or global.
Every worker should be able to elect their managers -- I always wanted to slack off at work.. this is sure to help the American economy I have always been working close to managers. Some of them get the job because they or their family is good friends with some higher manager. Most higher managers don't do a whole lot anyway and some are completely redundant.
Break up the 500 largest businesses in America Same as the point before the last one. Big businesses are bad for economy as they tend toward monopolies
6 weeks vacation time for everyone + the 10 federal holidays People NEED breaks. It is a shame that in the USA you don't get paid or get laid off for taking even a paid holiday or not showing up on federal holidays.
1 year paid educational leave every 7 years -- we'll just fire everyone every 6 years.. how does that sound? How about you can't fire someone for that reason then. It is all over in Europe, they usually put it together with their work schedules and it is totally voluntary. Pay is also not 100% anymore
1 year parental leave for each child Mothers in Europe have the right to do this in most countries. Even fathers can take quite some time off. Or you want your kids raised by their babysitter/grandparents/daycare
End all free trade treaties, and withdrawl from WTO WTO is not doing anything good anyway (see MPAA involvement). Free trade should be free and not governed by some body representing the interest of the richest countries.
Military:
Cut spending by 75%, and eventually by 99% Do we really need that much military? As you know the current types of wars are not fought on the battlefield anymore (terrorism)
withdraw all international forces and close all bases outside the U.S.Why are we there anyway? We need to focus on our own problems. Not start new ones or fix someone elses. American's have fought their own revolts, thrown over governments by themselves, defended and fought foreign and internal wars, other nations are capable of it themselves. If Iraqi's don't like Saddam, let them kill him themselves.
disarm all chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons Because I'm sure you would like to be accidentaly bombed by one of these ABC weapons
get rid of all offensive forces -- because apparently we can defend ourselves with just the national guard, and the coast guard Again, what are we defending ourselves against on own soil?
Disband NATO Because the UN, NATO or any other organization will do
We look forward to addressing his issues in a court of law.
My ex-wife had issues too, you want to address hers? Go Hogan, you might go down in history as the Hulk Hogan against the **AA, freeing us from all evil.
I hope he goes to court, wins and if they drop the charges, that he countersues.
The problem is that Intel does support DirectX8 and 9 (depending on the chip). The issue with it is, it doesn't accelerate, it let's the processor take over it's work and it doesn't support OpenGL.
No, a Nova would be eating a vindaloo and lighting farts, a Supernova would be eating a vindaloo and lighting farts while they are still in your bowels resulting in a great gooey mess of human intestines, blood, flesh and fat.
Gaming on laptops is not very wise. You need either a desktop replacement (like HP Pavilion) or be happy that it runs hot (the Pavilions run hot too).
GFX is very heavy on power usage, you better use a desktop if you really want to play games. On the other hand, the latest MacBooks don't run as hot anymore than the earlier ones, so you will be quite good on them.
As for your Linux: you can install X under Mac OS X, you can use Fink or DarwinPorts to install the necessary libraries and you can actually have the whole development done under Mac OS X with open source libraries. Not only will you make sure it works, you will also know that it works on Mac OS nor do you have to reboot all the time. You can also run your OS X apps next to your apps that you use for your schooling. Great way to get to know Unix-like systems.
ATI support for Linux is quite anal. Take the drivers for Windows, make them even worse and then remove support for all non-desktop Radeon cards. IGP Radeon's won't support 3D older or newer Radeon's won't work, anything else they sold that is not Radeon or Fire won't work... The open source drivers work better but they don't have full 3D support. You can try it, but it's a hassle.
Except for the RIAA hasn't been battling a whole lot. They just bully certain people into either paying a certain extortion fee or they can go to court and spend double that amount on lawyers, court costs and others. The consumer will get their rights, eventually, and they will get their lawyers fees etc. back, eventually, but in the mean time they get bankrupted or give up because they need to eat and their lawyers need to eat.
Now some people are standing up against the RIAA, saying: bring it on, and see what happens... all of a sudden RIAA doesn't have a case, they can't give any information, they stall the case as long as possible with excuses and threats yelling: pirates, pirates, protect your music by making sure you can't play it where you want.
It's just like the American government with Saddam. They bully every nation in the Middle East: all your oil is belong to us and hide those nuclear weapons we gave you a few years ago. Then there are some like Iraq and Iran that say: bring it on. They go in, do some havoc in Iraq and then they are just standing there: oops, we don't have a case, no WMD, no terrorist training camps, not enough troops, troops want to go home... shit..: terrorists, terrorists, protect freedom by taking it away.
It doesn't matter which type of security you have, usually it gets compromised because of these 2 things:
Administration and the human being. It's too difficult to manage a 2000 or even 200 member authentication database. The simplest administration is just not done because it is tedious or takes too much time. For example: single time sign on, a user can only be logged in once anywhere or time constrained logons, there is no reason an office employee to login in the middle of the night on the other hand, the graveyard shiftworkers in the factory don't need to come in at 12am and it's not necessary for any employee to be logged in longer than 10 hours (except if you work in the IT department)
But those limits are not being set or used while they were in every single security system before I was even born. Why: it's too tedious work on the side of the department manager or supervisor, it's too much work and administration to let it be done by IT-persons and it's too boring, expensive and sensitive to let it be done by a low-wage computer operator. Automation still needs input from workers or integration between one or more closed source systems.
On the other hand, you have the human being that lets everyone into the building, security guards that think you work there because they've seen you before, meeting rooms filled with all-open network connections and a bunch of people that write down their password on a sticky note, even if it's as simple as their husband's name, brand of monitor or keyboard or something else.
I am a security administrator and I am very picky. I ask everyone that comes in to swipe their badge, I rip off all sticky notes with anything that looks like a password and I reset the password everytime I get to know someone's password because they yelled it throughout the office. People get angry at me, I know, but it's their own fault. Nobody is an administrator on the computers I gave them, the site coordinators have only administrator access to limited options and if possible, I enable the encryption modes on devices.
I myself have unlimited administrator access and walk around the hallways without a badge showing. I test physical security and although it's not my responsability, it's inherently broken because nobody gives a damn. We have to follow Sarbanes-Oxley according to the law and we have implemented it all too well, audits happen every 1, 3 and 6 months by respectively internal, external, governmental audit bureau's but although implemented in our financial systems and it comes out good every single time, I can still manipulate the systems without anyone noticing. When I get out, there is no audit trail, there is no replay, log or anything that can track it back to me, but the values have been changed in the database.
Finally I can start using Links2 or even Lynx to start browsing or any other curses based browser... mmm... gopher. Will work perfectly with my pine mail and telnet based IRC.
I really commend google for providing us and maybe even forcing webdevelopers to use decent, W3C compatible standards. This means soon enough, we'll have websites that aren't IE compatible.
It's not Fedora (or Red Hat's) fault that the licensing of those products and the US Laws on those subjects are so anal. Welcome to the age of DRM, patents and vendor lock-in due to the 2 previous reasons.
If you didn't know in the USA you are not allowed to reverse-engineer or even include software that is reverse engineered. You are not allowed to import it, export it or use it. Thus MP3, WMV, AAC support or the DRM-versions of it can not be included in a distro for/created in the USA. If you do, you get massive lawsuits or treated as a terrorist. You can of course go and ask permissions and pay big bucks to Fraunhofer/Thomson, MS or Apple.
Welcome to the Nazi world of the 21st century where the Fuhrers are big companies and the Gestapo respectively SS is represented by lawyers and government. Oh, you can of course always ratoutatyourfavoritekamerat.
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The problem I have with stuff that is "taken care of for you" is that it's pretty difficult to find out afterwards whether or not the framework forgot something and if they did, it creates a much larger set of vulnerable hosts. Of course Open Source is taking care of that so a fix is quite quick, but how much house/garden/kitchen programmers do actually upgrade their stuff once deployed?
A good programmer can also make mistakes, but if there is a decent thinking person and a small plan, then it will imho be just as good as those frameworks. The other thing is that you learn a lot and if you have a problem, you can take care of it yourself because you know how you think.
I don't know what level of redundancy they want, but if they have to build a brain box to figure that out:
There are a bunch of tools and specs out to get a fully (multiple) redundant system. You can have >1 server in any type of configuration, sharing any type of resource and when one fails, the other takes over, fully redundant.
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that decentralization was the driving force to even create DARPANET or TCP/IP. If we centralize everything again we might have some overhead on administration and traffic but when one or multiple nodes fail, the internet will still be there. If you centralize everything at say the USA and that country decides to implement the Great Firewall, you're pretty much boned.
Well, that's what I think of it... Isn't Sun almost dead?
You are wrong here. This has to do with reporters shield laws and pleading the Fifth. As we all now, since you are before a grand jury (something that never used to happen before) you cannot rely on those amendments anymore for some or another weirdo reason.
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Witnesses do not have the right to have their attorneys present in grand jury rooms during hearings
Grand juries, which return indictments in many criminal cases, are composed entirely of laymen and operate in secret; they are directed, but not controlled, by prosecutors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_t
Basically a small clause in the American amendments makes it possible to prosecute anyone for any reason as long as the court is called Grand Jury. That is what's happening here. The guy has supposedly a movie with some carburning in it (a minor offense since no-one got killed) because people don't like what the government is doing (they are trying to start a (small scaled) revolution).
This guy says: I don't have that on my tape, so back off. The state says: Yes you do. This guy says: No I don't. The state then locks him up, brings him before a grand jury and decides that he must have destroyed the evidence or something since he doesn't have it.
Well, apparently, MS is pulling out of the Mac world. The sad thing about VirtualPC is that they handed some big cash over and instead of keeping it alive, they just killed it. It's just another company they silently bought and killed. I though that VPC was going to get killed anyway, MS didn't do any improvements to the Connectix version for a long time.
Finally they are killing Office too, time to get going for other options then. VBS is not a big deal, nobody uses it anyway (cross platform anyway) and it's not allowed to be used for financial calculation because it's not according to SoX.
Really, they made a good step in the direction with W2K and later with XP it was nice for end users and W2K3 is bearable but wtf are they doing with Vista. There is nothing exasperatingly new (like usage of the NT kernel in W2K) or a breakthrough in GUI (as with the speed of the GUI in XP) or a sysadmin-friendly environment (as in W2K3). In fact, nothing has really changed, a little GUI painted on but that's it.
IE7 still not W3C compliant or anywhere near there, still giant loopholes in the OS. Still using NTFS instead of the promised WinFS.
I was really (as an MS hater) looking forward to maybe a change within Microsoft since WGates left (and we all know a lot of work goes before the actual announcement) and Vista coming out and having promising features announced, but I can't see anything of that in their new OS.
As for a change, Stevie is announcing stuff at some convention and I am astounded. I mean, I didn't know they could do a lot more improvements in 10.4, but look at the Leopard Sneak Preview and a versioning file system and all kinds of other neat stuff... and that's right after a devving freeze in Vista which was supposed to copy some neat features out of OS X 10.3, maybe even 10.4, heck they could even copy stuff out of KDE for all I care, it still look better.
Microsoft (Gates or Ballmer, whoever has the power): I am very disappointed in you guys. I work in a mixed environment (Linux, Windows, Mac) and I have heard things in that my company (which has a bigass license with you) moving to Mac's for some non-critical users (that only need Office and to surf the intranet). If Apple pulls it off and actually builds in Win32 support in their OS, you are going to become just another SCO within a few years.
perhaps now is a good time for JAXA to join in with NASA on the Project Constellation rocket program."
I don't know why they would even think about joining projects with a nationalistic, slow, inefficient and bureaucratic organisation who will later take all the credits for doing something great while 80% of the real work was done by the Japanese. Not only that, but it would also show or suggest that they are not good enough or can't pull it off alone and from a Japanese cultural view, that (failure) is not an option.
Interplanetary travel and structures is imho the race for the stars of the 21st century and I guess that just like nearly 50 years ago the Soviet-USA did, the same is going to happen but with quite some different players (I'm thinking Europe, China, Japan and maybe even India). Africa and Russia are too poor to pull something like that, Australia and the Middle East is not interested and the USA has become too bureaucratic and is involved in other moneysucking projects like Iraq and the overaged Shuttle. Quite honestly, I think even Europe has it's head too much in administrational garbage to pull something off efficiently.
It was dubbed the 8086 and it's predecessor was the 8088 and the mathematical coprocessor was the 8087 for desktops you insensitive clod. The 80186 is the embedded (later enhanced) version of the 8086 processor and was not (or hardly) used in desktop computers.
586 and 686 were actually Cyrix' processor just so you know.
Actually, admitting oil is running out keeps pricing higher, they really like the idea that for the last 20 years oil has been running out.
that usually they don't or hardly get punished or even rewarded (they get 1-3 days paid leave) for doing such things. Another problem is that if you go after them (using an expensive lawyer) you can hardly sue for damages (spending a night in jail) because they have the right to put you in jail for a long time (48h or look @ Gitmo) without even charging you with anything. If the police wants to be anal they can hold you even longer (ongoing investigation without charging you) and I heard of people spending a week in jail without getting anything back (no damages rewarded, nearly lost their job, the neighbourhood viewing them as criminals) while they were not doing anything wrong (unless you say that a peaceful demonstration is illegal). The officers just got their kicks out of it. Then they wonder why they get shot (recently 2 officers in this area got shot) or dragged behind an ATV. I recently heard of someone in this area that got EXECUTED (as in shot after being in custody) according to witnesses after resisting an arrest warrant. 3 witnesses against a small police force don't stand up in court so what are we going to do about it. Yes this was the USA.
Computer simulations on some very expensive hardware. Sure it would cost more for them to develop such software but I think it's possible as long as you have enough resources and computer power. We are geeks after all, we come up with these idea's. But isn't that what Folding@Home and other related scientific projects are trying to do? Simulate some cells folding stuff. If you put all medical models so far in a database and put some time, power and money in it, then it is possible.
I also think it is possible to create a thinking machine like that. We are but the sum of our own thoughts and decisions and they are not more complicated than yes or no with a small probability calculator. Do I go to work: yes (75% keep job, 25% less free time) or no (25% keep job, 75% less free time). Put that in a gigantic database and fire some things on it and what it doesn't know, it learns (that's what we do ever since we are born) by looking at the results and evaluating whether it was more efficient or not.
IANAD (Doctor) but I guess cells and stuff are not that complicated, we evolved out of a single cell organism and some energy a few thousands of years ago or were we designed intelligently after all? We are intelligent enough (single cell organism) to create machines (energy) that can do this, right... or should we leave it to a deity after all? (This is not a flame, just how I would motivate scientists)
I'm sorry, but for complex things, Visio is just what you don't need. Sure it's nice and fancy on the output, but when you're trying to define a whole process it gets clogged and difficult on the input or later to change something.
I think the user is looking more for a simple programming language or layout specification (like you do in TeX) in which he can write his stuff easily and orderly. Then the output gets automagically and dynamically generated and all he needs to do is make it look nice (for managers, everything has to be very simple and there has to be lots of whitespace) and print it out. I am looking for something like that too, just didn't find it yet.
1: Share wireless internet, let neighbours use it
2: Flip and blur all images so they think there is a virus on their computer
3: ????
4: Profit
Where 3 could be "Repair" neighbours computer and make sure they use their own AP, charging $100.
Yep, happens every year for me... but as soon as you try to leave the building: oooh, guruevi, guruevi, wait a second, we just got a problem with this computer.... aaargh...
Swamped with big fat white nerdboys that only have muscles in their opposable thumbs. Must be easy to manage. Although I would like to see them fight over the single computer standing in administration. Images of House on Haunted Hill come to mind...
And why should that be so bad:
Guaranteed jobs, 12.50 min wage There are a bunch of people working at Wal-Mart for $6. Try paying $500 rent, $100 taxes and food from that not to mention transportation to get to work
30 hour work week paid as 40 hours (ie: give everyone an extra 125/min per week) Has been working in Europe for a long time, I don't have a problem with it, the workaholics can keep working longer.
Life long public education -- there goes Americas private colleges: Harvard, Yale, etc. And do you really think it is necessary for those elitist schools to exist? Everybody is equal and should have the same access to education
Shut down all nuclear plants Ok, maybe not do that, nuclear is currently our primary future resource unless heavily investing is done in alternative methods
Break up corporate agribusiness -- there goes several billion-dollar businesses That is a good thing, have more people working to do the same, earning good instead of a single group of 10 persons creaming off the top 75% of a billion-dollar business income.
Every 20 years a company's charter must be reviewed to see if the government agrees with it -- no abuse could happen there Yeah, abuse happens now too. Look at Sarbanes-Oxley, it's a unnecessary expensive mess
Break up every company with more than 10% market share Break up Microsoft would be a good thing. We don't like monopolies local (Wal-Mart) or global.
Every worker should be able to elect their managers -- I always wanted to slack off at work.. this is sure to help the American economy I have always been working close to managers. Some of them get the job because they or their family is good friends with some higher manager. Most higher managers don't do a whole lot anyway and some are completely redundant.
Break up the 500 largest businesses in America Same as the point before the last one. Big businesses are bad for economy as they tend toward monopolies
6 weeks vacation time for everyone + the 10 federal holidays People NEED breaks. It is a shame that in the USA you don't get paid or get laid off for taking even a paid holiday or not showing up on federal holidays.
1 year paid educational leave every 7 years -- we'll just fire everyone every 6 years.. how does that sound? How about you can't fire someone for that reason then. It is all over in Europe, they usually put it together with their work schedules and it is totally voluntary. Pay is also not 100% anymore
1 year parental leave for each child Mothers in Europe have the right to do this in most countries. Even fathers can take quite some time off. Or you want your kids raised by their babysitter/grandparents/daycare
End all free trade treaties, and withdrawl from WTO WTO is not doing anything good anyway (see MPAA involvement). Free trade should be free and not governed by some body representing the interest of the richest countries.
Military:
Cut spending by 75%, and eventually by 99% Do we really need that much military? As you know the current types of wars are not fought on the battlefield anymore (terrorism)
withdraw all international forces and close all bases outside the U.S.Why are we there anyway? We need to focus on our own problems. Not start new ones or fix someone elses. American's have fought their own revolts, thrown over governments by themselves, defended and fought foreign and internal wars, other nations are capable of it themselves. If Iraqi's don't like Saddam, let them kill him themselves.
disarm all chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons Because I'm sure you would like to be accidentaly bombed by one of these ABC weapons
get rid of all offensive forces -- because apparently we can defend ourselves with just the national guard, and the coast guard Again, what are we defending ourselves against on own soil?
Disband NATO Because the UN, NATO or any other organization will do
We look forward to addressing his issues in a court of law.
My ex-wife had issues too, you want to address hers? Go Hogan, you might go down in history as the Hulk Hogan against the **AA, freeing us from all evil.
I hope he goes to court, wins and if they drop the charges, that he countersues.
To me SERPS and SEO sounds like sexually transmittable diseases.
The problem is that Intel does support DirectX8 and 9 (depending on the chip). The issue with it is, it doesn't accelerate, it let's the processor take over it's work and it doesn't support OpenGL.
No, a Nova would be eating a vindaloo and lighting farts, a Supernova would be eating a vindaloo and lighting farts while they are still in your bowels resulting in a great gooey mess of human intestines, blood, flesh and fat.
Gaming on laptops is not very wise. You need either a desktop replacement (like HP Pavilion) or be happy that it runs hot (the Pavilions run hot too).
GFX is very heavy on power usage, you better use a desktop if you really want to play games. On the other hand, the latest MacBooks don't run as hot anymore than the earlier ones, so you will be quite good on them.
As for your Linux: you can install X under Mac OS X, you can use Fink or DarwinPorts to install the necessary libraries and you can actually have the whole development done under Mac OS X with open source libraries. Not only will you make sure it works, you will also know that it works on Mac OS nor do you have to reboot all the time. You can also run your OS X apps next to your apps that you use for your schooling. Great way to get to know Unix-like systems.
ATI support for Linux is quite anal. Take the drivers for Windows, make them even worse and then remove support for all non-desktop Radeon cards. IGP Radeon's won't support 3D older or newer Radeon's won't work, anything else they sold that is not Radeon or Fire won't work... The open source drivers work better but they don't have full 3D support. You can try it, but it's a hassle.
Except for the RIAA hasn't been battling a whole lot. They just bully certain people into either paying a certain extortion fee or they can go to court and spend double that amount on lawyers, court costs and others. The consumer will get their rights, eventually, and they will get their lawyers fees etc. back, eventually, but in the mean time they get bankrupted or give up because they need to eat and their lawyers need to eat.
Now some people are standing up against the RIAA, saying: bring it on, and see what happens... all of a sudden RIAA doesn't have a case, they can't give any information, they stall the case as long as possible with excuses and threats yelling: pirates, pirates, protect your music by making sure you can't play it where you want.
It's just like the American government with Saddam. They bully every nation in the Middle East: all your oil is belong to us and hide those nuclear weapons we gave you a few years ago. Then there are some like Iraq and Iran that say: bring it on. They go in, do some havoc in Iraq and then they are just standing there: oops, we don't have a case, no WMD, no terrorist training camps, not enough troops, troops want to go home... shit..: terrorists, terrorists, protect freedom by taking it away.
It doesn't matter which type of security you have, usually it gets compromised because of these 2 things:
Administration and the human being. It's too difficult to manage a 2000 or even 200 member authentication database. The simplest administration is just not done because it is tedious or takes too much time. For example: single time sign on, a user can only be logged in once anywhere or time constrained logons, there is no reason an office employee to login in the middle of the night on the other hand, the graveyard shiftworkers in the factory don't need to come in at 12am and it's not necessary for any employee to be logged in longer than 10 hours (except if you work in the IT department)
But those limits are not being set or used while they were in every single security system before I was even born. Why: it's too tedious work on the side of the department manager or supervisor, it's too much work and administration to let it be done by IT-persons and it's too boring, expensive and sensitive to let it be done by a low-wage computer operator. Automation still needs input from workers or integration between one or more closed source systems.
On the other hand, you have the human being that lets everyone into the building, security guards that think you work there because they've seen you before, meeting rooms filled with all-open network connections and a bunch of people that write down their password on a sticky note, even if it's as simple as their husband's name, brand of monitor or keyboard or something else.
I am a security administrator and I am very picky. I ask everyone that comes in to swipe their badge, I rip off all sticky notes with anything that looks like a password and I reset the password everytime I get to know someone's password because they yelled it throughout the office. People get angry at me, I know, but it's their own fault. Nobody is an administrator on the computers I gave them, the site coordinators have only administrator access to limited options and if possible, I enable the encryption modes on devices.
I myself have unlimited administrator access and walk around the hallways without a badge showing. I test physical security and although it's not my responsability, it's inherently broken because nobody gives a damn. We have to follow Sarbanes-Oxley according to the law and we have implemented it all too well, audits happen every 1, 3 and 6 months by respectively internal, external, governmental audit bureau's but although implemented in our financial systems and it comes out good every single time, I can still manipulate the systems without anyone noticing. When I get out, there is no audit trail, there is no replay, log or anything that can track it back to me, but the values have been changed in the database.
Finally I can start using Links2 or even Lynx to start browsing or any other curses based browser... mmm... gopher. Will work perfectly with my pine mail and telnet based IRC.
I really commend google for providing us and maybe even forcing webdevelopers to use decent, W3C compatible standards. This means soon enough, we'll have websites that aren't IE compatible.
It's not Fedora (or Red Hat's) fault that the licensing of those products and the US Laws on those subjects are so anal. Welcome to the age of DRM, patents and vendor lock-in due to the 2 previous reasons.
If you didn't know in the USA you are not allowed to reverse-engineer or even include software that is reverse engineered. You are not allowed to import it, export it or use it. Thus MP3, WMV, AAC support or the DRM-versions of it can not be included in a distro for/created in the USA. If you do, you get massive lawsuits or treated as a terrorist. You can of course go and ask permissions and pay big bucks to Fraunhofer/Thomson, MS or Apple.
Welcome to the Nazi world of the 21st century where the Fuhrers are big companies and the Gestapo respectively SS is represented by lawyers and government. Oh, you can of course always rat out at your favorite kamerat.
The problem I have with stuff that is "taken care of for you" is that it's pretty difficult to find out afterwards whether or not the framework forgot something and if they did, it creates a much larger set of vulnerable hosts. Of course Open Source is taking care of that so a fix is quite quick, but how much house/garden/kitchen programmers do actually upgrade their stuff once deployed?
A good programmer can also make mistakes, but if there is a decent thinking person and a small plan, then it will imho be just as good as those frameworks. The other thing is that you learn a lot and if you have a problem, you can take care of it yourself because you know how you think.
I don't know what level of redundancy they want, but if they have to build a brain box to figure that out:
There are a bunch of tools and specs out to get a fully (multiple) redundant system. You can have >1 server in any type of configuration, sharing any type of resource and when one fails, the other takes over, fully redundant.