I am a network administrator by the definition of it; a mere desk jockey. I haven't a mind for international affairs, but I do for network related foo.
Having said that, and having not read a single reply (thusly this could be a redundancy) to this article I have to say... there are some great ideas that come from the government, but they are not always practical. This I do not think is practical. What do they want, an 802.11q VLAN? Ok... no, they want better technology... but throw VPN/IPSec out of the picture.
Instead of conforming to the Internet, they seek to change it; thus asking us to conform to them. Otherwise they are misinformed and do not understand the workings of a network in the present day and need to hire better informants, or I don't know what I'm talking about.
This might sound paranoid, or even cynical... potentially retarded.
If IE takes over the entire market again like it had, it would set us back starting the entire diversity process over again. Thus, should we avoid using IE out of principle? I think it would encourage developers to work on something else rather than "beating" IE and allows for a genuinely creative and new ideas; as less time is spent competing with the complete crap IE has historically been.
Any billion-dollar company can throw a bunch of programmers at a problem, and that's what they're probably starting to do. Jeez, how many years and version releases has it taken them to just get to IE8? And IE8 is still a half ass piece of sluggish shit.
You're right... we do. However we're ranked very low among the rich countries in health care quality, but we take the gold in medical bankruptcy... go USA!
There are a lot of ways to do it. If it involves a DHCP server and vital infrastructure, then anyway you put it seems stupid to me.
I log into my switches for troubleshooting, configuration changes, etc... we have about 350 or so.
So no, not for the ever so important SNMP data.
The problem with these moronic politicians is they have no real concept of how the internet works. They can't tax a freaking download, it isn't their bandwidth, it's not their equipment, etc. It makes sense to pay taxes to live here. It doesn't make sense to pay a toll on something they have no real control over.
Software patents scare the living crap out of me. I fear a world where Microsoft has a patent on "Operating System"
I think it's total bullshit that people can even do this. First off, I bet McAfee has some C++ programming in it... which derives from C, which was created by Dennis Ritchie... so where is his cut?
Everything we do, builds on something someone else did. In most cases, those things aren't necessarily things that someone did for money. It's a sad deal that this patent crap came into effect and is possible...
Maybe I'm in over my head a little bit. Can someone still release an open source GPL product that does the same thing as McAfee's deal and be untouchable?
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I am a network administrator by the definition of it; a mere desk jockey. I haven't a mind for international affairs, but I do for network related foo. Having said that, and having not read a single reply (thusly this could be a redundancy) to this article I have to say... there are some great ideas that come from the government, but they are not always practical. This I do not think is practical. What do they want, an 802.11q VLAN? Ok... no, they want better technology... but throw VPN/IPSec out of the picture. Instead of conforming to the Internet, they seek to change it; thus asking us to conform to them. Otherwise they are misinformed and do not understand the workings of a network in the present day and need to hire better informants, or I don't know what I'm talking about.
Maybe you need more discipline.
This might sound paranoid, or even cynical... potentially retarded. If IE takes over the entire market again like it had, it would set us back starting the entire diversity process over again. Thus, should we avoid using IE out of principle? I think it would encourage developers to work on something else rather than "beating" IE and allows for a genuinely creative and new ideas; as less time is spent competing with the complete crap IE has historically been. Any billion-dollar company can throw a bunch of programmers at a problem, and that's what they're probably starting to do. Jeez, how many years and version releases has it taken them to just get to IE8? And IE8 is still a half ass piece of sluggish shit.
You're right... we do. However we're ranked very low among the rich countries in health care quality, but we take the gold in medical bankruptcy... go USA!
There are a lot of ways to do it. If it involves a DHCP server and vital infrastructure, then anyway you put it seems stupid to me. I log into my switches for troubleshooting, configuration changes, etc... we have about 350 or so. So no, not for the ever so important SNMP data.
I hope your DHCP *never* goes down.
Would you recommend DHCP for network switches? I ask cause if you would....uh...why?
So does House still have a working liver at this point?
Run a mirror.
Linux + FTP
So, this means that mankind got lazy and then we created email to compensate?
Bring in a stripper with OSS tatoos
USB was created by the government to monitor data and to attempt to spy, control, and spy on peoples lives.
The problem with these moronic politicians is they have no real concept of how the internet works. They can't tax a freaking download, it isn't their bandwidth, it's not their equipment, etc. It makes sense to pay taxes to live here. It doesn't make sense to pay a toll on something they have no real control over.
Software patents scare the living crap out of me. I fear a world where Microsoft has a patent on "Operating System" I think it's total bullshit that people can even do this. First off, I bet McAfee has some C++ programming in it... which derives from C, which was created by Dennis Ritchie... so where is his cut? Everything we do, builds on something someone else did. In most cases, those things aren't necessarily things that someone did for money. It's a sad deal that this patent crap came into effect and is possible... Maybe I'm in over my head a little bit. Can someone still release an open source GPL product that does the same thing as McAfee's deal and be untouchable?
Don't get me wrong. Software patents scare the crap out of me. I fear a world where Microsoft has a patent on "Operating System"