One workaround for this is to use ssh tunnels for things like an IMAP connection. Although, obviously the long-term fix is for all sensitive daemons to use encryption. I hope the expiration of the RSA patent in September makes this easier to implement.
Homogeneous? You obviously don't have any idea what you are talking about. Canada has it's problems, but so does the US. I won't advance Canada as being a "better" country than the United States, but most of your points here are complete nonsense and reflect the fact that you are basically talking out your ass. (Unfortunately not uncommon for slashdot users...)
Oh, yeah, attack me because I have a different point of view. Ah, the condescending attitude response...
Yes, homogeneous. Do you have anywhere near to the ethnic minority population levels as the U.S.? I think not. Yes, there are some areas in Canada, like Vancouver, that are starting to see significant immigrant populations. Not surprisingly, in those areas, you are starting to experience some of the same problems as we do in our cities here. Not because of the nature of the people, just because when you have a large groups of people with foreign cultures clustered together, it makes for a more balkanized culture, where people don't share the same values, and makes assimilation into the mainstream culture more difficult.
So, yes, I stand by my characterization of Canada's population, relative to the U.S. Can you show me, specifically, where I have gone wrong?
I cannot believe you're actually trying to justify such an absurd level of taxation.
You have a relatively high standard of living, but one would expect that in a huge country full of natural resources, and a tiny population. That the standard of living is not higher than it is is telling.
There are slums in Canada, but due to the tiny, largely homogeneous populatoin, they quite naturally are not as dilapidated as some slums in the U.S., although gentrification is remaking many of the U.S. slums into more livable areas.
don't need to buy health insurance, our taxes pay for that.
And you have shortages, and difficulty keeping medical professionals in the field. And waiting lines, sometimes weeks or more, for simple procedures. Oh, but maybe you'd just opt out, and pay a doctor directly for his services. BZZZT! Sorry, that's *illegal*!
but this drain is more than compensated for by well-educated foreign immigrants;
*This* is your answer? Rather than make the taxation regime more fair, just import people from poor countries that will be satisfied with the situation temporarily? I think these people will figure it out soon enough.
Sorry, you haven't convinced me. Any government, IMO, that takes from its citizens over half of what they earn is not a government of the people; it is a racket. And that goes for the U.S. government, too, after you figure out how much tax is paid between income tax, sales tax, taxes on manufacturers, Spanish-American War telephone tax, etc., etc. But it (U.S. and state gov'ts) still doesn't take nearly as much as Canada.
I don't mean to flame you; I just get really worked up about this issue.
FWIW, I was talking about crime *rates*, which are calculated per capita. As far as I know, *in the U.S.* (strangely, this isn't the case in most European countries), crime *rates* are considerably higher in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.
Probably, though, there is a certain density above which rates either stablize or drop off.
But you still have to recognize that many people don't want to live in a dense urban environment. IMO, you have to respect their desire to live as they wish. Believe you me, I despise surburbia as much as most people here (I favor rural/small town living), but that doesn't mean we have the right to outlaw it.
As far as the urban masses heading out to the rural areas on the weekends, I should have said "metropolitan area residents" to be more accurate. Clinton is going to add two more national monuments here in Oregon, to "protect" them. In reality, they will be trampled all the more by hikers. The ultimate irony: the more environmentalists lobby for protecting areas from development, the more damage is done by the herds from the cities.
All of your comparisons are bogus. You compare HMOs to Canada's government health care system. But in the U.S., there are other choices. I personally have a PPO; it works well for me, and costs are reasonable. I can go to pretty much any doctor I choose.
In Canada, you have no other choice; you're stuck in the system. Simple economics predicts the problems Canada's system is seeing. When you set prices below what the market dictates, supply will outstrip demand. This results in shortages, which is exactly what you're seeing.
At least in the U.K., you can opt for the private system.
I can't say that government services appear to me to be at a significantly higher level in Canada. Yet, taxes are considerably higher, as far as I can tell. I don't know about property tax, though. My guess is that is it higher. Here, I pay $2,700/year. Plus, I pay 28% federal income tax (far too high, IMO), 9% state income tax, and no sales tax.
Up in B.C., they pay a much higher income tax (49.5% + a two-tiered surcharge), 7.5% GST, 7.5% provincial sales tax, higher fuel taxes, and a host of other taxes.
I like B.C., and the people there, but, really, I believe you'd have to be pretty much insane to keep living there, as they just continue to punish you for making a living.
Man...I gotta tell you; reading that leftist NDP rubbish on the B.C. govt website is enough to make one physically ill.
And, most U.S. citizens, like their counterparts in Canada, are in fact hard-working. You want to deny that, I believe, because it is the only way you can possibly justify the confiscatory levels of taxation you apparently prefer.
And, despite all the taxes in Canada, there are still more panhandlers in Victoria than I've ever seen in an U.S. city.
Of course it is censorship; it was put in place by government through coercion, and relies on the views of the particular people who do the rating to determine what is indecent, and what is not.
Algore and his little fascist wife are no better than the people pushing through the Fourth-Amendment-emasculating "anti-methamphetamine" law.
There is only one party that *consistently* *in all cases* opposes censorship: The Libertarian Party.
In my opinion, the solution isn't to pack people together tightly like cattle in a feedlot (that leads to other problems, like increased crime), I think the only real solution is to simply stop forcing people to go into an office five days a week.
This would reduce the fuel used by motorists, reduce time wasted in traffic, reduce wear and tear on existing roads, and reduce the need for new roads. Also, it would increase the amount of time people spend in their neighborhoods, and would help rebuild a sense of community in places where commuter neighbors hardly even know their next-door neighbor, resulting, in all likelihood, in a decrease in crime.
Particularly in the tech industries, there is just no valid reason to have people going into an office every day. People should be telecommuting 1-3 days a week, minimum.
Until we start doing this, there is not going to be any solution to the massive congestion (and other commuting-related woes) we are seeing in our metropolitan areas.
Then, we can move on to the rural congestion that is beginning to occur on weekends when the urban masses decide to hit the road.:-/
Y'know with a directive or something? If I were the judge, I would have required eBay to use reasonable technical defenses. If those failed, then, perhaps a legal solution could be pursued.
(Yes, on average, 312 children are shot and killed in the US every day.)
ROFL
Even the 80,000^H^H^H^H^H^HMillion Morons had that figure vastly inflated with their claim of 13 children per day (They include 19-year-old gang members as "children").
This dictates a deep social drift towards peace, and as such things like terrorists aren't generally feared because guns and such are so rare.
This seems to be a rather severe departure from reality. Anti-terrorist paranoia (i.e., heavy police presence, "anti-terrorist" squads, airport security) is, according to most sources, more common in Europe than in the U.S.
In fact, the anti-self-protection laws you cite, are themselves an example of paranoia that has not, as of yet, infected the U.S., apart from in some Northeast cesspools.
The U.S., by the way, is not a particularly violent country, when compared to the world as a whole, instead of comparing only against largely homogeneous (by comparison, mind you) Northern European countries.
IE is completely irrelevant to me, since I don't use Windows or MacOS.
I know that there are still weird things that happen to IE, though, that don't happen with Netscape. Co-workers have strange stability-related problems that probably have to do with the fundamental mis-design of Windows itself.
I'm using Konqueror most of the time now, anyway. Fast, simple and open source.
Here's an idea. Since Netscape, soon to be AOL 6.0 hopefully, is open, can't someone smarter than I write an add-on, plugin, something to stop, fuck-up, or otherwise make Double-click et alls data worthless?
I think we're in agreement. I wasn't meaning to say that each person must individually deal with this problem. What I was trying to say is that a technical solution is superior to a governmental solution, especially considering the international nature of the Internet.
Two years without a localhost hole in the default install!
I really don't think this is accurate; I know there were a number of local exploits in the past 6 months that affected all BSDs, including OpenBSD.
Now, this might just be a matter of hair-splitting; perhaps OpenBSD doesn't install any of the vulnerable BSD utils by default.
If that's the case, it's not a fair comparison, since RedHat has a number of different installation levels available.
That said, I'd like to see things like LIDS incorporated into the Linux kernel, available for all to use. That would go a long way towards helping make Linux distributions more secure, if they'd at least turn on some of the openwall stuff (which has supposedly been incorporated into LIDS).
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You can't visit very often.
OK...I knew someone was going to say this, but it is unfair.
Usually, when slashdot is down, it appears to be having network problems, or the web server isn't responding. How often do you see SQL errors?
MySQL does the job, if the job is something MySQL is suited to. I use it for simple database applications, but wouldn't use it to store customer info.
As a _desktop_ operating system, Linux has improved quite a lot since the release of Red Hat Linux 5.0 some years ago, but the lack of true equivalents of ACPI Plug and Play and DirectX (though you can get around that with OpenGL), plus somewhat iffy printer support still indicates that Linux has still a ways to go.
Yeah. I definitely have a hard time typing into XEmacs or StarOffice without DirectX.:-P
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I though libel was always a tort. Can someone help me out here?
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One workaround for this is to use ssh tunnels for things like an IMAP connection. Although, obviously the long-term fix is for all sensitive daemons to use encryption. I hope the expiration of the RSA patent in September makes this easier to implement.
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Oh, yeah, attack me because I have a different point of view. Ah, the condescending attitude response...
Yes, homogeneous. Do you have anywhere near to the ethnic minority population levels as the U.S.? I think not. Yes, there are some areas in Canada, like Vancouver, that are starting to see significant immigrant populations. Not surprisingly, in those areas, you are starting to experience some of the same problems as we do in our cities here. Not because of the nature of the people, just because when you have a large groups of people with foreign cultures clustered together, it makes for a more balkanized culture, where people don't share the same values, and makes assimilation into the mainstream culture more difficult.
So, yes, I stand by my characterization of Canada's population, relative to the U.S. Can you show me, specifically, where I have gone wrong?
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I was just going by what was listed there.
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You have a relatively high standard of living, but one would expect that in a huge country full of natural resources, and a tiny population. That the standard of living is not higher than it is is telling.
There are slums in Canada, but due to the tiny, largely homogeneous populatoin, they quite naturally are not as dilapidated as some slums in the U.S., although gentrification is remaking many of the U.S. slums into more livable areas.
don't need to buy health insurance, our taxes pay for that.
And you have shortages, and difficulty keeping medical professionals in the field. And waiting lines, sometimes weeks or more, for simple procedures. Oh, but maybe you'd just opt out, and pay a doctor directly for his services. BZZZT! Sorry, that's *illegal*!
but this drain is more than compensated for by well-educated foreign immigrants;
*This* is your answer? Rather than make the taxation regime more fair, just import people from poor countries that will be satisfied with the situation temporarily? I think these people will figure it out soon enough.
Sorry, you haven't convinced me. Any government, IMO, that takes from its citizens over half of what they earn is not a government of the people; it is a racket. And that goes for the U.S. government, too, after you figure out how much tax is paid between income tax, sales tax, taxes on manufacturers, Spanish-American War telephone tax, etc., etc. But it (U.S. and state gov'ts) still doesn't take nearly as much as Canada.
I don't mean to flame you; I just get really worked up about this issue.
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Gimme a break...
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Probably, though, there is a certain density above which rates either stablize or drop off.
But you still have to recognize that many people don't want to live in a dense urban environment. IMO, you have to respect their desire to live as they wish. Believe you me, I despise surburbia as much as most people here (I favor rural/small town living), but that doesn't mean we have the right to outlaw it.
As far as the urban masses heading out to the rural areas on the weekends, I should have said "metropolitan area residents" to be more accurate. Clinton is going to add two more national monuments here in Oregon, to "protect" them. In reality, they will be trampled all the more by hikers. The ultimate irony: the more environmentalists lobby for protecting areas from development, the more damage is done by the herds from the cities.
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Obviously, I meant to say "demand will outstrip supply."
Dang keyboard! :-)
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In Canada, you have no other choice; you're stuck in the system. Simple economics predicts the problems Canada's system is seeing. When you set prices below what the market dictates, supply will outstrip demand. This results in shortages, which is exactly what you're seeing.
At least in the U.K., you can opt for the private system.
I can't say that government services appear to me to be at a significantly higher level in Canada. Yet, taxes are considerably higher, as far as I can tell. I don't know about property tax, though. My guess is that is it higher. Here, I pay $2,700/year. Plus, I pay 28% federal income tax (far too high, IMO), 9% state income tax, and no sales tax.
Up in B.C., they pay a much higher income tax (49.5% + a two-tiered surcharge), 7.5% GST, 7.5% provincial sales tax, higher fuel taxes, and a host of other taxes.
I like B.C., and the people there, but, really, I believe you'd have to be pretty much insane to keep living there, as they just continue to punish you for making a living.
Man...I gotta tell you; reading that leftist NDP rubbish on the B.C. govt website is enough to make one physically ill.
And, most U.S. citizens, like their counterparts in Canada, are in fact hard-working. You want to deny that, I believe, because it is the only way you can possibly justify the confiscatory levels of taxation you apparently prefer.
And, despite all the taxes in Canada, there are still more panhandlers in Victoria than I've ever seen in an U.S. city.
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Algore and his little fascist wife are no better than the people pushing through the Fourth-Amendment-emasculating "anti-methamphetamine" law.
There is only one party that *consistently* *in all cases* opposes censorship: The Libertarian Party.
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This would reduce the fuel used by motorists, reduce time wasted in traffic, reduce wear and tear on existing roads, and reduce the need for new roads. Also, it would increase the amount of time people spend in their neighborhoods, and would help rebuild a sense of community in places where commuter neighbors hardly even know their next-door neighbor, resulting, in all likelihood, in a decrease in crime.
Particularly in the tech industries, there is just no valid reason to have people going into an office every day. People should be telecommuting 1-3 days a week, minimum.
Until we start doing this, there is not going to be any solution to the massive congestion (and other commuting-related woes) we are seeing in our metropolitan areas.
Then, we can move on to the rural congestion that is beginning to occur on weekends when the urban masses decide to hit the road. :-/
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Y'know with a directive or something? If I were the judge, I would have required eBay to use reasonable technical defenses. If those failed, then, perhaps a legal solution could be pursued.
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ROFL
Even the 80,000^H^H^H^H^H^HMillion Morons had that figure vastly inflated with their claim of 13 children per day (They include 19-year-old gang members as "children").
The real figure is much, much lower.
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This seems to be a rather severe departure from reality. Anti-terrorist paranoia (i.e., heavy police presence, "anti-terrorist" squads, airport security) is, according to most sources, more common in Europe than in the U.S.
In fact, the anti-self-protection laws you cite, are themselves an example of paranoia that has not, as of yet, infected the U.S., apart from in some Northeast cesspools.
The U.S., by the way, is not a particularly violent country, when compared to the world as a whole, instead of comparing only against largely homogeneous (by comparison, mind you) Northern European countries.
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Pretty much shows that our gov't is *not* representative of the people or our interests, eh?
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I know that there are still weird things that happen to IE, though, that don't happen with Netscape. Co-workers have strange stability-related problems that probably have to do with the fundamental mis-design of Windows itself.
I'm using Konqueror most of the time now, anyway. Fast, simple and open source.
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Now, perhaps it's OK on slashdot, given this site's status as a quasi-journalistic, quasi-advocacy discussion board.
But it just seemed a bit too much like a pure rant, without any attempt to be fair.
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I think we're in agreement. I wasn't meaning to say that each person must individually deal with this problem. What I was trying to say is that a technical solution is superior to a governmental solution, especially considering the international nature of the Internet.
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I'd much rather deal with the problem myself, personally.
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I really don't think this is accurate; I know there were a number of local exploits in the past 6 months that affected all BSDs, including OpenBSD.
Now, this might just be a matter of hair-splitting; perhaps OpenBSD doesn't install any of the vulnerable BSD utils by default.
If that's the case, it's not a fair comparison, since RedHat has a number of different installation levels available.
That said, I'd like to see things like LIDS incorporated into the Linux kernel, available for all to use. That would go a long way towards helping make Linux distributions more secure, if they'd at least turn on some of the openwall stuff (which has supposedly been incorporated into LIDS).
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OK...I knew someone was going to say this, but it is unfair.
Usually, when slashdot is down, it appears to be having network problems, or the web server isn't responding. How often do you see SQL errors?
MySQL does the job, if the job is something MySQL is suited to. I use it for simple database applications, but wouldn't use it to store customer info.
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If that's not marketer-speak, I dunno what is.
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Yeah. I definitely have a hard time typing into XEmacs or StarOffice without DirectX. :-P
ITYM "gaming operating system."
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The RSA patent expires in September. Then, we'll be able to put openssl right into Konqueror, Lynx and other web browsers, AFAIK.
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