China also understands the value of an educated management class. That's why they're cranking out MBA's as fast as they can. Will you, with your shiny new night-school MBA, be able to compete with an MBA who shares the language, culture, and time zone of the IT workers he manages?
Very true. My wife had her purse stolen 3 years ago, and it took us about six months to get everything straightened out.
This past January she received several credit cards and "reward program" cards. The thieves (or someone they sold data to) had opened multiple accounts at Best Buy, Home Depot, etc. using the information they'd originally obtained from the stolen purse. They're up to about $40,000 across three states.
Law enforcement has been minimally helpful. They mostly submit the minimum paperwork to allow us to file fraud claims with the store, credit card, and credit reporting agencies.
The thieves have spread their purchases across multiple jurisdictions and have intentionally avoided parking lot and in-store surveillance cameras. They also did a lot of their shopping during the Christmas season, so chaos was maximized and "unusual purchase" alerts were turned off or had thresholds raised (wouldn't want consumers to think twice about that HDTV purchase).
Isn't this the world of Snow Crash? Cool, when do I get my swords!
Well, privatizing every one of these things has some precedent, don't they? So it's not impossible to imagine, at least for some people, that these activities be done entirely by the private sector.
(1) Tornado warnings: there are private weather companies. In fact I'd say that tornado warnings if anything a stronger case for privatization than, say hurricane warnings, as the damage area for tornoadoes is localized, although the risk area is large.
(2) Welfare. At one point time this was the province of private charity, and some would like to be again.
(3) Police. It's called a private security firm. Think also gated communities.
(4) Judicial. It's called mediation. It's not a 100% replacement of course.
This may seem far out, but I've certainly met highly intelligent people who strongly believe that government withdrawal from these areas would be a good thing.
Now, as a liberal my philosophy is that the government should engage broadly in these areas, leaving scope for private enterprise to address market segment needs. So, the government should warn people of tornadoes. But if certain enterprises need greater lead time or higher geographic precision than the public as a whole nees, that's a business opportunity. Likewise, let the state provide care for pregnant drug addicted teens, and the private sector provide care for pregnant drug addicted teens from wealthy families. Let the public sector provide police, but private firms provide 7x24 on-premises monitoring.
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!
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I've used RPM to patch and update / change configurations on a number of in-house applications. We've got several hundred Red Hat systems of various vintages installed on customer networks.
Basically I make the "patch" RPM dependant on the original RPM, then use the %pre and %post areas of the spec file to ID the target system, update configurations, start / stop services, and move updated files into place.
It's not a perfect system and I only use it to do automated, broad-based configuration changes, not to scrimp on bandwidth. You have to track just about everything yourself and deal with regression testing.
An RPM to update named.conf, originally installed by the bind-9.3.1-14_FC4 RPM, might be named MyUpdate-bind-1.0-0. AutoRPM (some of these systems pre-date up2date, yum, etc. and I don't want two software management systems) handles noticing that new or updated RPMs are available.
Six months ago I really wanted to build / buy an HTPC, now I don't see the need.
My Tivo is part of my home network and easily plays movies, music, and displays photos from my PC through my home theatre (in addition to being a very effective and hackable PVR). My iPod doesn't connect to the network natively, but is happy to provide audio and video to my HT. And with the right gadgets it can do pretty much anything else, like connect to my network and stream Internet radio. Pretty sure the Tivo can do that too if I ever bother to look into it.
For now I'll be keeping my PC a big, bulky, general-purpose device that integrates with the entertainment system as needed.
That's great, but how do I attach it to the frickin' shark?
This proves Intelligent Design
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The experiment adds weight to the theory of panspermia - that life could somehow be transported between planets.
Only an intelligent designer could have calculated the trajectories and orbits necessary to spread life between planets. Especially given the limited computers available at the time of creation.
* Off-topic, but can someone explain to me why (at least with ISC dhcpd) I can't assign IPs on two different subnets on the same physical LAN? Can this be done with a different DHCP server? Is there any kind of limitation to the protocol that makes this impossible, or is it just an implementation problem?
You can run multiple subnets on the same physical LAN, although this is generally a bad idea since you'll spend a lot of time tracking down odd glitches and problems. You will, of course, have to route between those two subnets if you expect them to communicate.
ISC DHCP (or any DHCP server) will receive your DHCP request in one of two ways. Either as a broadcast packet, which indicates the DHCP client is on the local subnet, or as a unicast packet from a DHCP relay agent (i.e. a router with ip-helper configured in Cisco-speak). The unicast packet contains the IP address of the relay agent which lets the DHCP server know which pool of addresses to draw your lease from.
You cannot have mulitiple IP addresses assigned to an interface with a DHCP relay agent or to an interface which has a DHCP server bound to it. That breaks the protocol since it makes it impossible for the DHCP server to determine which pool of leases to draw from. See the RFC for more details. http://www.bind9.net/rfc-dhcp
You also cannot use DHCP to assign two IP addresses to a single client NIC, whether those addresses are on the same subnet or not.
the Soviet authorities in 1970 set up a new KGB section, known as Directorate T, to plumb Western research and development for badly needed technology. Directorate T's operating arm to steal the technology was known as Line X.
tethereal, the often overlooked text version of Ethereal, is a better tcpdump than tcpdump. Like tcpdump it uses libpcap, so you can still use all your tcpdump filters. It reads and writes many sniffer formats as well as being a great packet capture tool. Here's the man page: http://www.ethereal.com/docs/man-pages/tethereal.1 .html
I find the rise in the belief in homeopathic medicine (dilute a poison until it becomes a cure), crystal healing, Wicca, anything-Eastern medicine (willow bark may cure your headache, but that doesn't mean that ground tiger-penis will cure impotence as effectively as Viagra), etc., just as disturbing as the resurgence in the belief that the scientific theory of evolution must somehow damage Christian faith.
I suspect that what is being perceived as anti-science is a direct result of the '70's "every opinion is equally valid" self-esteem building approach to education. If every opinion is equally valid, then so are the "facts" and beliefs that those opinions are founded upon. Likewise any questioning of those beliefs directly assaults the self-esteem of the belief holder.
Take this to its logical conclusion and you get a subset of Christians who are overly defensive along with Public Radio stations poking fun at said Christians while hosting hour long homeopathic medicine seminars (I'm talking about you WYSO).
So yeah, pesudo-science is on the rise in the media and in those focused upon by the media. That said, the vast majority of Americans that I know are well grounded, both in their faith (Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, pretty rocks, nothing, whatever) and in their understanding of science. They want to be productive members of their community, raise some decent kids, live a decent lifestyle, and be part of a society that facilitates those goals.
I'm not too worried. The right-wing nuts keep the left-wing nuts occupied, and vice-versa, leaving the rest of us to get along with our lives. America has survived worse.
Anyone with small children cares about making backup copies of DVDs. You'll care too the first time your three year old is still crying at 1 am because Dora or Peep is to scratched to play. Fragile media targeted at 3-5 year olds needes to be backed up.
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http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question. htm (the story)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question (about the story)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_02 /b3966074.htm
I no longer use DNS / BIND -- I use bittorent to download the Internet hosts file every night.
This past January she received several credit cards and "reward program" cards. The thieves (or someone they sold data to) had opened multiple accounts at Best Buy, Home Depot, etc. using the information they'd originally obtained from the stolen purse. They're up to about $40,000 across three states.
Law enforcement has been minimally helpful. They mostly submit the minimum paperwork to allow us to file fraud claims with the store, credit card, and credit reporting agencies.
The thieves have spread their purchases across multiple jurisdictions and have intentionally avoided parking lot and in-store surveillance cameras. They also did a lot of their shopping during the Christmas season, so chaos was maximized and "unusual purchase" alerts were turned off or had thresholds raised (wouldn't want consumers to think twice about that HDTV purchase).
Let's be careful out there.
But that trick never works...
This time for sure!
Formerly known as Windows Mobile. Pricing will start in the mid-70's.
You forgot Vista Cruiser for mobile devices.
Yeah, but how many channels of Red Green do ya really need, eh?
I've used RPM to patch and update / change configurations on a number of in-house applications. We've got several hundred Red Hat systems of various vintages installed on customer networks. Basically I make the "patch" RPM dependant on the original RPM, then use the %pre and %post areas of the spec file to ID the target system, update configurations, start / stop services, and move updated files into place. It's not a perfect system and I only use it to do automated, broad-based configuration changes, not to scrimp on bandwidth. You have to track just about everything yourself and deal with regression testing. An RPM to update named.conf, originally installed by the bind-9.3.1-14_FC4 RPM, might be named MyUpdate-bind-1.0-0. AutoRPM (some of these systems pre-date up2date, yum, etc. and I don't want two software management systems) handles noticing that new or updated RPMs are available.
Can they use it to make a dual-core that doesn't depend on the front side bus?
Six months ago I really wanted to build / buy an HTPC, now I don't see the need.
My Tivo is part of my home network and easily plays movies, music, and displays photos from my PC through my home theatre (in addition to being a very effective and hackable PVR). My iPod doesn't connect to the network natively, but is happy to provide audio and video to my HT. And with the right gadgets it can do pretty much anything else, like connect to my network and stream Internet radio. Pretty sure the Tivo can do that too if I ever bother to look into it.
For now I'll be keeping my PC a big, bulky, general-purpose device that integrates with the entertainment system as needed.
...the mainstream press used to site Slashdot for cutting edge tech stuff? And now Slashdot links to the mainstream press for Windows exploit news.
Hey, as a practicing lacto-ovo-pisces-avi-carne vegan I resent that.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=buying+vi rtual+real+estate&btnG=Search
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlif
That's great, but how do I attach it to the frickin' shark?
Only an intelligent designer could have calculated the trajectories and orbits necessary to spread life between planets. Especially given the limited computers available at the time of creation.
You can run multiple subnets on the same physical LAN, although this is generally a bad idea since you'll spend a lot of time tracking down odd glitches and problems. You will, of course, have to route between those two subnets if you expect them to communicate.
ISC DHCP (or any DHCP server) will receive your DHCP request in one of two ways. Either as a broadcast packet, which indicates the DHCP client is on the local subnet, or as a unicast packet from a DHCP relay agent (i.e. a router with ip-helper configured in Cisco-speak). The unicast packet contains the IP address of the relay agent which lets the DHCP server know which pool of addresses to draw your lease from.
You cannot have mulitiple IP addresses assigned to an interface with a DHCP relay agent or to an interface which has a DHCP server bound to it. That breaks the protocol since it makes it impossible for the DHCP server to determine which pool of leases to draw from. See the RFC for more details. http://www.bind9.net/rfc-dhcp
You also cannot use DHCP to assign two IP addresses to a single client NIC, whether those addresses are on the same subnet or not.
From the linked article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Bluecurve?
tethereal, the often overlooked text version of Ethereal, is a better tcpdump than tcpdump. Like tcpdump it uses libpcap, so you can still use all your tcpdump filters. It reads and writes many sniffer formats as well as being a great packet capture tool. Here's the man page: http://www.ethereal.com/docs/man-pages/tethereal.1 .html
I suspect that what is being perceived as anti-science is a direct result of the '70's "every opinion is equally valid" self-esteem building approach to education. If every opinion is equally valid, then so are the "facts" and beliefs that those opinions are founded upon. Likewise any questioning of those beliefs directly assaults the self-esteem of the belief holder.
Take this to its logical conclusion and you get a subset of Christians who are overly defensive along with Public Radio stations poking fun at said Christians while hosting hour long homeopathic medicine seminars (I'm talking about you WYSO).
So yeah, pesudo-science is on the rise in the media and in those focused upon by the media. That said, the vast majority of Americans that I know are well grounded, both in their faith (Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, pretty rocks, nothing, whatever) and in their understanding of science. They want to be productive members of their community, raise some decent kids, live a decent lifestyle, and be part of a society that facilitates those goals.
I'm not too worried. The right-wing nuts keep the left-wing nuts occupied, and vice-versa, leaving the rest of us to get along with our lives. America has survived worse.
Woohoo! I'm a minority!
Anyone with small children cares about making backup copies of DVDs. You'll care too the first time your three year old is still crying at 1 am because Dora or Peep is to scratched to play. Fragile media targeted at 3-5 year olds needes to be backed up.
What happens under the raft, stays under they raft. Works great. Don't ask me how I know this.