The reason we haven't fought a war like WWII again, is because the casualties in WWII was almost exclusively civilian, for both sides, which was a fairly unique occurance in history. It left both sides, victor and vanquished, with a horrible taste in their mouths. The risk we have now is that fewer and fewer people are left alive who remember the total-war state of WWII. I think the risk of another WW is going up every year simply because of that fact and nothing else.
Conflict has been and always will be a part of human nature - resources (oil, water, food, pussy or other).
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, and we are fast losing those people who were there and remember it most vividly.
And sunlight doesn't penetrate to any depth? Ever been to a forest? Little trees under the canopy still manage to grow and become green. I'm not saying this isn't snake-oil, but I think your simple off-the-cuff math doesn't take into account other factors affecting biomass density. It's also agreeably a best-case calculation based on weather factors. Plus a plant is so much more than just sunlight - it's water, chemicals, nutrients and minerals.
We did learn from TMI and Chernobyl. What we haven't done is build any new reactors. Hell, the Navy has managed to keep 300+ reactors in operation over the past almost 50 some-odd years - why can't we take what they've learned and build better, safer reactors?
Because some bureaucrat in at NStar is going to shortchange the training and operations budget in the end, and we'll have TMI all over again.
I know, this should be common knowledge. Sales weasels always make sure their cut is a percentage of gross, not net, because you can squeeze the net all the way to zero pretty easily.
No, this is subject to license negotiations. Ford probably went to Cummins and said "we need the best damn super-duty diesel engine in the world and you're it". Cummins retorts, "sure you can, and we'll give 'em to you for simple mention on every piece of advertisement you guys distribute." Ford could have said, "no thanks" and bought their engines from someone else.
There's no law that says you have to give commercial attribution.
Using GPL software does not cause a license violation. Modifying and DISTRIBUTING GPL software causes license violations.:-) Big difference. Use all the GPL software I write to your hearts content, but don't think about changing it or distributing your derivative product. How hard is that to understand? Christ, I understood it as a high-school junior 16 some-odd years ago fresh to the Unix world.
The hostility comes from the non-GPL side (IMHO) which wants code for their commercial projects for free. Period. There's a small vocal group of GPL users who want to GPL-infect the world (RMS by FUD, again, IMHO). But for the most part, GPL developers just want to make sure that if Company A takes my code and makes a $BILLION off of it, that I at least get their code too. Fair's fair.
Remember, it was the commercial world that invented the term "viral-license" to FUD the GPL into oblivion.
Yes, using GPL-code has ramifications for your closed-source project. So either stick to LGPL projects, or STFU and write it yourself.
Actually, it's the reverse. Because the GPL is open, there's no risk that the "new" code you write is going to look anything like the original in a bottom-up implementation.
You can conclusively prove that code a is or is not derivative of gpl project b if b existed before a. Not so going the other direction. Remember that the GPL is a copyright license, not a patent license.
You laugh, but I'm having a hard time finding cogent resources to learn Cobol on the internet. Yes, I support Cobol -> Web Service middleware. fun fun.
The laws against martial artists (boxers included) do not prevent us from defending ourselves, only that we are held to a higher standard when we fail to stop when the assailant is subdued. If I throw a punch at a professional boxer, he is within is rights to bash my nose in to make me stop, but once I surrender, that's it - he can't keep beating me to give me a concussion.
At least that's how it should work in the real world.
My friends and I have one nearly every month. Mostly it's an excuse for us all to get together, drink, frag a bit, and socialize. Call it an indoor BBQ. It's pretty much the ONLY gaming I do all month.
Right, all of which the ISS has. What it doesn't have is an ALTITUDE corrector. It depends on the Space Shuttle for that.
Once the Shuttle is no longer required to visit the ISS, they can consider boosting it to a higher orbit that requires fewer reboosting visits. That 220 mile limit is an artifact of being the highest the Shuttle can reach with maximum cargo.
Easier said than done, matey. Some of these systems are running engines that cause me to cower. I have had issues with SQL/Oracle databases and the financial apps of companies that can afford a few hours, or even days downtime. Systems where it was feasible to run two separate versions at once with duplicate data entry.
I've only run theoretical experiments with some of the systems in other companies I've worked at that COULDN'T go down, except for very special periods of time (easter and christmas and new years), oddly enough, enough of the world isn't working those weekends that you can shut down.
I can't imagine taking down the backends of the likes of Bank of America or Citibank. I lived through the quagmire that was the BankBoston/Fleet merger, and they fucked that up royally. And that's just merging systems, not wholesale replacement.
Perhaps shame on me for not RTFAing the project scope, but I was under the impression this was a simple push to the masses about projects and funding levels, and not an end-all-be-all project tracking system (which I find almost ludicrous to think they'd try and implement).
If it's the former, $18 million for 5 years is ludicrous. And if it's the latter, $18/million over 5 years, as you say, probably won't be enough. But it's ludicrous to even attempt, because it'll probably ultimately fail.
The hosting provider is irrelevant. I could have just picked godaddy or network solutions, both of which have comparable hosting pricing (though I have yet to find anyone with as generous a bandwidth policy as 1and1).
My guess is that on slashdot a really large percentage of the readers are capable of producing a website. A smaller percentage could make a good website and a really small percentage could make a website that will be every bit as good as the upcoming $18 million website from the govt 2.0. </quote>
With you so far.
<quote> Let's say we just take about $1 million and buy a really nice building somewhere. That may not get you much in DC, but all we need is a connection to the internet, right? I seem to heard something in the news recently about real estate and how some people are having trouble selling theirs. Maybe for $1 million dollars we could pick up a really nice building in the mid-west somewhere? </quote>
For $1million dollars I can rent, wait for it (1and1.com:
$100/month dual-core 2x2.4Ghz, 2GB of memory, 2TB of traffic
So for $1 million I can rent 833 servers, and 1600 TB of traffic per month. That's a shitload, let me tell you. And it's only for a short life-span, there's NO need to buy or build infrastructure. This is in fact the sort of application that should be pushed to hosting facilities.
I would expect them to start at $100,000, with some off-the-shelf drupal, and work up from there.
+1 I love this post. This is exactly what I was striving for with Nagios at my last installation. Smart enough to know that the router on this side of the frame circuits was DOA, and to stop bitching about the FTP, Web and email servers on the other side of the circuits.
there would be survivors walking out of that building. Survivors would be walking out of a building 1 km removed from a 250 megaton nuclear blast (which is generated by a hydrogen bomb, not a "pure" atom bomb).
Sure there would. If that building was made of 1km thick concrete and steel.
<quote>you just can't trust wikipedia for anything which has too much propaganda around it, and there's nothing more propagandistic than a nuclear blast.</quote>
Except there are dozens of sources, published in real-world and online that predate wikipedia, that agree with them.
<quote>Just about everyone on the same street as the detonation would die, and the 2 or 3 closest buildings would collapse, killing 50-60% of the people inside those buildings, 5 at best... and that would be it.</quote>
A single truck filled with Ammonium Nitrate and diesel fuel managed to take down half a building in Oklahomo City. Did you never see a single picture of the damage such a weapon does, such as the aftermath of Hiroshima, or the Bikini Atoll tests? And WWII battleships were about the best you're ever gonna get for hardened targets.
Wow, you are either an idiot, or delusional. Yes, the spectre of Nuclear War has been overblown and overhyped, but I certainly wouldn't want to be within 10 miles of such a blast. You don't even start to consider the resulting firestorm damage that would occur.
Only because 99% of them were either performed at sea, or deep in the desert (nothing to burn). Things would have been mighty different if they'd used the Redwood forest as ground-zero.
You sir, are an idiot. First, the largest device ever detonated or built was Tsar Bomba by the Soviets at 53 MT.
And one of those, I guarantee you, will level the island of Manhattan. Render it uninhabitable for centuries? Probably not. That still doesn't change the fact that 3-11 million people will just cease to exist in a flash.
Was a step above Nagios in terms of reliability (I didn't have to restart the server four times a day just to keep it running), and did much better at autodiscovery.
That fact that it is also NRPE compatible was a plus - I could use all the Nagios plugins and check scripts I'd written.
I was also planning on using it to launch a more aggressive webmin-style management solution - since OpenNMS built this great database of data about my devices and hosts, I could use it to do actual management - change data/settings.
Cons: It's a Java/Tomcat tool, as much as that is really a con. It's not like you need to run Jboss or Websphere to use it (though I suppose you could).
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The reason we haven't fought a war like WWII again, is because the casualties in WWII was almost exclusively civilian, for both sides, which was a fairly unique occurance in history. It left both sides, victor and vanquished, with a horrible taste in their mouths. The risk we have now is that fewer and fewer people are left alive who remember the total-war state of WWII. I think the risk of another WW is going up every year simply because of that fact and nothing else.
Conflict has been and always will be a part of human nature - resources (oil, water, food, pussy or other).
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, and we are fast losing those people who were there and remember it most vividly.
Wasn't this a huge part of Sum of All Fears and Red Storm Rising?
Why *ISN'T* Tom Clancy one of Obama-lhama's defense Czars?
And sunlight doesn't penetrate to any depth? Ever been to a forest? Little trees under the canopy still manage to grow and become green. I'm not saying this isn't snake-oil, but I think your simple off-the-cuff math doesn't take into account other factors affecting biomass density. It's also agreeably a best-case calculation based on weather factors. Plus a plant is so much more than just sunlight - it's water, chemicals, nutrients and minerals.
We did learn from TMI and Chernobyl. What we haven't done is build any new reactors. Hell, the Navy has managed to keep 300+ reactors in operation over the past almost 50 some-odd years - why can't we take what they've learned and build better, safer reactors?
Because some bureaucrat in at NStar is going to shortchange the training and operations budget in the end, and we'll have TMI all over again.
I know, this should be common knowledge. Sales weasels always make sure their cut is a percentage of gross, not net, because you can squeeze the net all the way to zero pretty easily.
No, this is subject to license negotiations. Ford probably went to Cummins and said "we need the best damn super-duty diesel engine in the world and you're it". Cummins retorts, "sure you can, and we'll give 'em to you for simple mention on every piece of advertisement you guys distribute." Ford could have said, "no thanks" and bought their engines from someone else.
There's no law that says you have to give commercial attribution.
Using GPL software does not cause a license violation. Modifying and DISTRIBUTING GPL software causes license violations. :-) Big difference. Use all the GPL software I write to your hearts content, but don't think about changing it or distributing your derivative product. How hard is that to understand? Christ, I understood it as a high-school junior 16 some-odd years ago fresh to the Unix world.
The hostility comes from the non-GPL side (IMHO) which wants code for their commercial projects for free. Period. There's a small vocal group of GPL users who want to GPL-infect the world (RMS by FUD, again, IMHO). But for the most part, GPL developers just want to make sure that if Company A takes my code and makes a $BILLION off of it, that I at least get their code too. Fair's fair.
Remember, it was the commercial world that invented the term "viral-license" to FUD the GPL into oblivion.
Yes, using GPL-code has ramifications for your closed-source project. So either stick to LGPL projects, or STFU and write it yourself.
Actually, it's the reverse. Because the GPL is open, there's no risk that the "new" code you write is going to look anything like the original in a bottom-up implementation.
You can conclusively prove that code a is or is not derivative of gpl project b if b existed before a. Not so going the other direction. Remember that the GPL is a copyright license, not a patent license.
You laugh, but I'm having a hard time finding cogent resources to learn Cobol on the internet. Yes, I support Cobol -> Web Service middleware. fun fun.
The laws against martial artists (boxers included) do not prevent us from defending ourselves, only that we are held to a higher standard when we fail to stop when the assailant is subdued. If I throw a punch at a professional boxer, he is within is rights to bash my nose in to make me stop, but once I surrender, that's it - he can't keep beating me to give me a concussion.
At least that's how it should work in the real world.
~chris~
white-belt for life.
My friends and I have one nearly every month. Mostly it's an excuse for us all to get together, drink, frag a bit, and socialize. Call it an indoor BBQ. It's pretty much the ONLY gaming I do all month.
Right, all of which the ISS has. What it doesn't have is an ALTITUDE corrector. It depends on the Space Shuttle for that.
Once the Shuttle is no longer required to visit the ISS, they can consider boosting it to a higher orbit that requires fewer reboosting visits. That 220 mile limit is an artifact of being the highest the Shuttle can reach with maximum cargo.
Have you done this or are you just talking out of your ass? j/k :) Make sure your app doesn't "seek()"? How'd this work with apache??
Easier said than done, matey. Some of these systems are running engines that cause me to cower. I have had issues with SQL/Oracle databases and the financial apps of companies that can afford a few hours, or even days downtime. Systems where it was feasible to run two separate versions at once with duplicate data entry.
I've only run theoretical experiments with some of the systems in other companies I've worked at that COULDN'T go down, except for very special periods of time (easter and christmas and new years), oddly enough, enough of the world isn't working those weekends that you can shut down.
I can't imagine taking down the backends of the likes of Bank of America or Citibank. I lived through the quagmire that was the BankBoston/Fleet merger, and they fucked that up royally. And that's just merging systems, not wholesale replacement.
Good F*ing Luck to you.
Perhaps shame on me for not RTFAing the project scope, but I was under the impression this was a simple push to the masses about projects and funding levels, and not an end-all-be-all project tracking system (which I find almost ludicrous to think they'd try and implement).
If it's the former, $18 million for 5 years is ludicrous. And if it's the latter, $18/million over 5 years, as you say, probably won't be enough. But it's ludicrous to even attempt, because it'll probably ultimately fail.
I like the word ludicrous today. Forgive me.
The hosting provider is irrelevant. I could have just picked godaddy or network solutions, both of which have comparable hosting pricing (though I have yet to find anyone with as generous a bandwidth policy as 1and1).
My guess is that on slashdot a really large percentage of the readers are capable of producing a website. A smaller percentage could make a good website and a really small percentage could make a website that will be every bit as good as the upcoming $18 million website from the govt 2.0.
</quote>
With you so far.
<quote>
Let's say we just take about $1 million and buy a really nice building somewhere. That may not get you much in DC, but all we need is a connection to the internet, right? I seem to heard something in the news recently about real estate and how some people are having trouble selling theirs. Maybe for $1 million dollars we could pick up a really nice building in the mid-west somewhere?
</quote>
For $1million dollars I can rent, wait for it (1and1.com:
$100/month dual-core 2x2.4Ghz, 2GB of memory, 2TB of traffic
So for $1 million I can rent 833 servers, and 1600 TB of traffic per month. That's a shitload, let me tell you. And it's only for a short life-span, there's NO need to buy or build infrastructure. This is in fact the sort of application that should be pushed to hosting facilities.
I would expect them to start at $100,000, with some off-the-shelf drupal, and work up from there.
+1 I love this post. This is exactly what I was striving for with Nagios at my last installation. Smart enough to know that the router on this side of the frame circuits was DOA, and to stop bitching about the FTP, Web and email servers on the other side of the circuits.
Never really got there, though.
there would be survivors walking out of that building. Survivors would be walking out of a building 1 km removed from a 250 megaton nuclear blast (which is generated by a hydrogen bomb, not a "pure" atom bomb).
... and that would be it.</quote>
Sure there would. If that building was made of 1km thick concrete and steel.
<quote>you just can't trust wikipedia for anything which has too much propaganda around it, and there's nothing more propagandistic than a nuclear blast.</quote>
Except there are dozens of sources, published in real-world and online that predate wikipedia, that agree with them.
<quote>Just about everyone on the same street as the detonation would die, and the 2 or 3 closest buildings would collapse, killing 50-60% of the people inside those buildings, 5 at best
A single truck filled with Ammonium Nitrate and diesel fuel managed to take down half a building in Oklahomo City. Did you never see a single picture of the damage such a weapon does, such as the aftermath of Hiroshima, or the Bikini Atoll tests? And WWII battleships were about the best you're ever gonna get for hardened targets.
Wow, you are either an idiot, or delusional. Yes, the spectre of Nuclear War has been overblown and overhyped, but I certainly wouldn't want to be within 10 miles of such a blast. You don't even start to consider the resulting firestorm damage that would occur.
Only because 99% of them were either performed at sea, or deep in the desert (nothing to burn). Things would have been mighty different if they'd used the Redwood forest as ground-zero.
You sir, are an idiot. First, the largest device ever detonated or built was Tsar Bomba by the Soviets at 53 MT.
And one of those, I guarantee you, will level the island of Manhattan. Render it uninhabitable for centuries? Probably not. That still doesn't change the fact that 3-11 million people will just cease to exist in a flash.
Was a step above Nagios in terms of reliability (I didn't have to restart the server four times a day just to keep it running), and did much better at autodiscovery.
That fact that it is also NRPE compatible was a plus - I could use all the Nagios plugins and check scripts I'd written.
I was also planning on using it to launch a more aggressive webmin-style management solution - since OpenNMS built this great database of data about my devices and hosts, I could use it to do actual management - change data/settings.
Cons: It's a Java/Tomcat tool, as much as that is really a con. It's not like you need to run Jboss or Websphere to use it (though I suppose you could).
And they'll get it one way or another involving a back door.
including applying a cattle-prod to your anus.
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Wisdom is knowing it burns when you put your hand in it.