or even if you don't. They've been saying for a while that the data points towars a barred spiral and the only thing I'm seeing that is new is the 45 degree bit which isn't unusual in barred spirals. There's a good number with folded bar layout already in the catalogs. We are pretty sure that the galaxy has eaten other smaller dwarfs and possibly one or more larger ones earlier on, but the upcoming Andromeda collision is going to be the big one. Too bad we'll be extinct through evolution or as one large Darwin Award by then.
...and that is that there's no real special needs for MSIE tchotchkes in patent reviews and filing. Never mind the top of the line standards, basic HTML 3.2 and before will more than convey any amount of data for the USPTO and its customers. There's no need for any high-end database connectivity that wasn't being done with CGI years ago. If they are going to do anything that requires MSIE most proprietary and non-standard things, then they are asking for trouble from a security standpoint.
That being said, most corporations are Windows/IE houses and since it comes with Windows, they will use it by default. As another poster mentioned, better than 90% of end-users are Windows users with MSIE and a lot of Mac users are still out there who use the Mac version of IE often but won't admit to it to avoid opprobrium from the anti-MS zealots in the Mac camp.
To the USPTO this will look like a tinfoil hat FUD paranoia fest in a teacup. To the corporations filing patents with abandon, they won't notice and won't care. To the people having to handle security for the USPTO IT systems, it will no doubt come back to haunt them.
It should be sold, as in licensed, and not merely given away as that generates licensing revenue for the government which if the laws covering it were written right, would allow a lessening of general tax revenue being sent to NASA proportionate to licensing income to a certain point above which NASA reaps the excess to expand their operations.
It should of course be in the domain of the executive and legislative branches as per usual as to international licensing/sharing of data gleaned from NASA work.
NASA should be in the business of straddling the line between government operations and private operations as a bridge between our heavy/technological industries and the government so that what we as taxpayers invest comes back to us in the form of improvements in our standard of living. It will never be NASA taking us to the moon for vacations. It will be private companies. We shouldn't do anything that cuts off or otherwise puts off that eventual future.
It is only horribly redundant because the average malware scumbag writer is taking the easy way out and going after Windows machines, taking advantage of end-user naivete and Windows' openness to infection. If they had any guts and were truly 1337, they'd try to get into a source repository on sourceforge and slip their own modded source in to get Linux people to infect their machines or something equally hard and nasty.
Come to think of it, what do we know of the server security at any of the big name OSS-hosting sites and does anyone really peruse the source anymore? Given the difference between being C++ proficient and merely being able to administer a Linux system is like the difference between the average Windows user and a Windows programmer, I'm guessing not too many.
This kind of arrogance is often attributed to the downfall of Nintendo (though more so on a software basis). As N came to the top, they got greedy with their control on who could release hardware and also had ridiculous fees for being a developer.
At first, I thought you were referring to APDA. Easy mistake. Never mind.
And spread with butter according to Victor Buono, but who's quibling?
You have a point. It's only because of our relative advancement in the west that we have the luxury to give a fart about the environment at all. I notice none of the environmental crowd was hot to use the military to stop rain forest destruction despite their claim that if it continued unabated, we'd all run out of oxygen. If the threat of human extinction isn't enough to make them act when they have power as they never bothered during the Clinton double feature administration, then what the fark would be?
Nope, easier to be self-righteous while you drive your Prius around and wax philosophical about the shuttle damaging the environment. Meanwhile, other countries are thinking, "they took that Kyoto thing way too seriously and now this. Forget Iraq, that's a symptom. Those people really are cuckoo."
We do a shuttle launch once every, what, four months even under the optimal conditions that never happen? And the city of Houston, Texas alone is pumping out how much greenhouse gas every day just from the cars alone?
Forget the city. The cows outside of Houston fart and belch more greenhouse gases. Come to think of it, we should probably abolish Taco Bell, chili and beans, cucumbers...
Though, that won't work for manned craft, and you need to keep in mind how much power one would use operating one.
Forget that. Taking off using a mass driver would be like using a railgun as your engine. Great, you take off but you blow a crater the size of Providence, RI in the Earth below by the time you reach orbit.
I too used to be a programmer, as well as end-user software support, in-house software testing, end-user hardware support, working from DOS to OS/2 to Windows XP. Cable modem, DSL, Ethernet, Token Ring, etc. In all cases, 99.9% of the user base is willfully clueless on technology and why should they not be to some degree? Do you need to be able to speed read an Audell's manual before you can drive a car?
Windows is INFINITELY EASIER for end-users than Linux ever has been and ever will be if the Linux crowd stays dominated by snotty arrogant geeks with self-esteem issues who need to pump their egos by doing things because they are hard and not because they are right.
Now, where was it that I read, only today, that as Linux spreads, end-users are demanding things they've taken for granted for years on Windows? And where was it I read of so many Linux/Unix programmers using the dreaded Microsoft's Visual Studio for their IDE as kicking the arse of anything on Linux/Unix that they've tried?
"Nine o'clock is 'still asleep time' in California you frigging idiot!"
The entire world has time zones. Time-Life will be only too happy to educate you on this with a nice desktop time zone calculator absolutely free with your 52 week subscription. Or they did for many many years.
Pretty much. It's the nude bars, fireworks, and cheap drugs in Canada that are being safeguarded. I mean, half of Detroit will take up arms if someone threatens the t*tty bars.
The majority of competitive DSL ISP offerings are through CLECs, which are Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. Should the ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) be required to keep their copper open to CLECs, then competitive DSL will still be an option should any CLEC choose to pay for the co-location, backhaul, per line cost, etc.
It makes no financial sense whatsoever to eliminate CLECs from the copper/fiber as they PAY the ILECs for the access/maintenance and always have. The majority of Speakeasy lines are through COVAD (properly capitalized, it is an acronym, COpper Value Added Distributor) if I am not mistaken. However, there really isn't a lot of money to be made at consumer DSL as a CLEC and acting as an ISP over ILEC DSL set-ups is more cost effective. This ruling eliminates the requirement that the ILECs open up their DSLAMs to other ISPs but it does not invalidate the existing contracts. Merely means that the ILECs will have supreme latitude in renegotiation at the contract's expiration. Don't like their terms? Tough.
But all those Speakeasy over COVAD lines aren't going anywhere. Most likely, they will have to do some hard thinking and probably look at partnering with CLECs.
BTW, DSLAM means DSL Access Multiplexor. These are where all the DSL lines terminate and aggregate first and then hand off usually via Fast Ethernet or DS-3 to a switch/router. CLECs may have one or several at a colocation. Some use multiple kinds and some use one kind. See Paradyne, Copper Mountain, Cisco, Lucent, Alcatel for DSLAM models availible.
The reason it never worked, and won't for Linux is that despite cynical modern thinking, the tail does not wag the dog. The children do not buy the PCs at home, the parents do. And they use Windows NT Workstation, Windows 2000 Pro, or XP Pro at work usually. And they buy Windows XP Home to use at home. They DO NOT buy Macs and did not buy Apple 2s because their kids used them at school.
If the schools want to disenfranchise their charges, teach them skills irrellevant to the majority of PC-using postions, go right ahead. Teach Linux. We'll end up with a plethora of idiots who know enough to be dangerous with Linux the way so many are with Windows except they won't know how to operate Windows software at a job any more than the kids who only use Macs.
Those of you who do not do end user support in Windows and have no experience in it might imagine that teaching Linux would make a difference. You might also imagine that the planet Saturn is sending secret transmissions to your fillings. You might believe anything if you think Linux makes a difference in the general brain-deadness of end-users.
Of course, it isn't as though they haven't already been doing this ever since Apple started giving the schools cut-rate deals. Schools have been disenfranchising the students from ther own society at large by teaching nonsensical and idiotic pop learning, the kids becoming screwed up young adults who have to learn about real life by experiencing it thus making much of their formative years in the educational system counterproductive and utterly wasted.
I may use Linux, but no way would I want my kid's school to teach it when it isn't the thing used in the majority of businesses in the country. Nor would I want him being taught proprietary Macintosh hardware when PCs rule the land. Or Pascal or LOGO for that frigging matter. Any mainframe people think their kids should be taught COBOL or JCL instead of C++? Sure, they save money, but at what monetary cost to the kids who have to pay as adults for the classes to get the training the school system should have given them in the first place?
A cable modem cannot be used arbitrarily as a monitoring device and besides, it would only be sending a duplicate of every packet on the same line as those being duplicated. It would then be pretty easy to see when you were tapped as for whatever bandwidth you utilized, that actually used on the line would be twice that much.
Capture of packets would have to take place at the Cable Modem Termination System at the cable company head end and no closer than that. In DSL no closer to the endpoint than the DSLAM. Most likely multiple CMTS or DSLAM would be tapped at their aggregation routers/switches.
The best place to capture VoIP is at the VoIP service providers' servers if any, at the aggregation point(s) if not.
And does anyone know of SSH2 with public key encryption being trivially broken?
Upon reading the PDF, it's only about VoIP, so they can tap phones of Vonage, Packet 8 etc.
Which is an important point but with our government's history, and that of all human government, any breach no matter how carefully tailored must be looked askance at and in whatever form it takes, it must be clearly and with no ambiguity delineated and every detail be made public and kept that way.
I see no reason that VoIP should be free of the same court-ordered wiretaps that apply to landline and cell phones. HOWEVER, I see no reason to leave the control at the hands of the state and do without question believe it should be left where it has always been, in the hands of the service providers, and no invasion made without a court order. They should not be free to begin the electronic tap at any time they see fit for any reason, and I do not care what those reasons may be, real or imagined.
If good does evil, good becomes evil. There are some infringements that would remove one weakness before terrorists and create a new one before a state dismissive of its origins as being in power at the leisure of the populace and not the other way around. It is better to have a faulty shield honestly obtained than a perfect one that came at the cost of your soul.
...as it was in Roe vs. Wade where a "right to privacy" which is ennumerated in no way, shape, or form in the constitution was found by the SCOTUS, and then used to imply further that under this right there was a right to abortion. If these invasions of privacy, erosions of private individual and group securit at the hands of the state continue without appropriate challenge, it will eventually come about through force of history and precedence that there is no right to privacy and with that goes any right to abortion.
If this were made clear to the pro-abortion liberals, they might finally "connect" and grasp how this affects them. Right now, those in congress as afraid to be seen as pro-terrorism and pro-weakness to speak up, except for the usual suspects of token opposition.
If there's anything business tends to learn, for a combination of reasons which do include constant onslaught from those who are reflexively anti-business (attack and your enemy defends, it is easier to influence friends than defeat enemies), it is to do things as cheaply as possible.
Coders have as much right as anyone else to be paid for their work. Oh, but here comes Free Open Source Software. Legions of geeks willing to write all sorts of code you find useful and you can use it in your business. They want you to. Who needs to pay coders' relatively large salaries now? Now you have a cudgel in the fight against giving the coders the pay they want and feel they deserve. Why pay $60K/year to someone writing in-house apps when you can pay some geek who couldn't maintain a job at Dairy Queen but who has really good Linux skills half that?
THAT is what business learns from FOSS. And all OSS is FOSS in the minds of the majority of the OSS using and writing world. It certainly is in business. A way just needs to be found to insure that is isFOSS.
The socialistic and chintzy anti-corporate "free, free, free" brigades and the corporate "closed source if we can help it, open source if we pay nothing" people need to call a truce and establish a way that coding can be open to future learning from it without denying fair IP to anyone or making it hard to earn money from your labors or for those who are not in OSS. Corporations will always make money. If it is not handled right, then they will be the only ones making money and those doing the programming will make little to none. All because of blind fanaticism, inability to see the forest for the trees, and unwillingness to do what is needed in the way of compromise and different approaches to the conflict.
Not for nothing my day job isn't programming or supporting same anymore.
That'd be about a T1's rate for about a T1's price. Now, in light of other broadband offerings, it's wayyy pricey, but considering that they're allowing mobile service and can cover areas that the Telcos and Comcast have no apparent desire to support...
A T1 typically has a four hour commit to repair time; that is, the provider has four hours to begin making repairs to the connection. That's each T1 separately. If the WiMax tower equipment goes down, will they begin repairs within four hours? it might take them five or six to get a tech to the site in the first place depending on their manpower and distribution of same.
Meanwhile I get 5Mbpsx512Kbps on cable with, so far, 90% reliability and no outage lasting longer than two days with the average lasting less than one hour, over the five years I've had it. I pay $60/month for it and know full well I'm not getting T1 SLAs nor paying anything like it.
Whether it is worth it or not depends on whether or not you live and die by mobile data access. If so, it may be worth it for you. If not, then not.
To say that the telcos and cable operators have no desire to cover areas that WiMax will is fallacious and shows zero knowledge of the cable operators. I worked cable for years and keep tabs on the industry so I do know that they are very interested in serving the rural markets. Their take is different than a superficial knowledge would believe however. They are more and more leaving the service to local operators who live there and know the people and building alliances behind the scene. They are succeeding and biting back into satellite penetration numbers which previously had been biting theirs. Telcos are also not forgetting the rural areas. Like cable they know the bulk of the money is in urban and suburban markets which will pay off the infrastructure buildout in a way that the rural customers never could have afforded were it entirely on their shoulders.
We urban and suburband high speed customers are the ones paying for the future services of the rural customers. Nature of the business.
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There are other, smaller options like TCC that is a complete C compiler, but it's too geared to 386+ and Linux to be a good playground. Other open-source C compilers tend to be variations of Small C that, while understandable, don't implement the entire language.
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I think that was the entire point. We don't implement the entirety of the English language every day here where I live or in British universities for that matter and we're quite understandable. It might be different if to survive parsing by the listener not to mention quality review by the head of your department, that you had to squeeze in words like obsequious, vituperation, or Charles Schultz' favorite antidisestablishmentarianism.
Except... in programming it is inevitably that the words aren't big and things may reduce to cryptic things like () and ++ which kills the understandability. So sad that something so easily read as Dartmouth standard BASIC should be tossed aside in favor of things that make you want to beat on an IBM Selectric at random to see if it produces a legal string of Perl code.
Actually, chances are that it would and would win the code obfuscation contests, and if submitted to congress mistaken for the EPA's next budget and probably result in ten dozen public deconstruction readings in the local colleges finally being pontificated on in the editorial pages of the New York Post before being sued by Creators Syndicate for infringing on the IP of Johnny Hart as shamelessly stealing the conveyance of comic strip swearing, with three dupe postings in the YRO section of Slashdot.
All because we insist on languages that must be implemented in their entirety to get anything done but are as non-understandable as an obsequious and vituperative antidisestablishmentarian.
That site and nearly everything I click on in it is totally Gooletastic... Googleriffic... Googlebarf...
Yeah, that last one works. I put Google Ads on my blog for kicks, not for making bucks. I want to Gooooooogle my eyes out at the sight of that site. (grammatically challenged/.ers take notice of that sentence, please).
Programming in Linux might be so much cooler if we got to act like Jason Statham in The Transporter... nailing hot exotic babes and kicking serious bad guy ass... "You broked the rules, with that virus you wrote and clogged up my network. Some rules were not made to be broken, but I'm guessing your face was."
...please mod down any posts making jokes regarding Asian foods and dog meat. Please. They're old. Although if anyone comes up with a way to plausibly reference a Beowulf cluster with this, that would be okay. Once. Second attempts should be met with terminal force. Just a humble request.
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or even if you don't. They've been saying for a while that the data points towars a barred spiral and the only thing I'm seeing that is new is the 45 degree bit which isn't unusual in barred spirals. There's a good number with folded bar layout already in the catalogs. We are pretty sure that the galaxy has eaten other smaller dwarfs and possibly one or more larger ones earlier on, but the upcoming Andromeda collision is going to be the big one. Too bad we'll be extinct through evolution or as one large Darwin Award by then.
...and that is that there's no real special needs for MSIE tchotchkes in patent reviews and filing. Never mind the top of the line standards, basic HTML 3.2 and before will more than convey any amount of data for the USPTO and its customers. There's no need for any high-end database connectivity that wasn't being done with CGI years ago. If they are going to do anything that requires MSIE most proprietary and non-standard things, then they are asking for trouble from a security standpoint.
That being said, most corporations are Windows/IE houses and since it comes with Windows, they will use it by default. As another poster mentioned, better than 90% of end-users are Windows users with MSIE and a lot of Mac users are still out there who use the Mac version of IE often but won't admit to it to avoid opprobrium from the anti-MS zealots in the Mac camp.
To the USPTO this will look like a tinfoil hat FUD paranoia fest in a teacup. To the corporations filing patents with abandon, they won't notice and won't care. To the people having to handle security for the USPTO IT systems, it will no doubt come back to haunt them.
It should be sold, as in licensed, and not merely given away as that generates licensing revenue for the government which if the laws covering it were written right, would allow a lessening of general tax revenue being sent to NASA proportionate to licensing income to a certain point above which NASA reaps the excess to expand their operations.
It should of course be in the domain of the executive and legislative branches as per usual as to international licensing/sharing of data gleaned from NASA work.
NASA should be in the business of straddling the line between government operations and private operations as a bridge between our heavy/technological industries and the government so that what we as taxpayers invest comes back to us in the form of improvements in our standard of living. It will never be NASA taking us to the moon for vacations. It will be private companies. We shouldn't do anything that cuts off or otherwise puts off that eventual future.
It is only horribly redundant because the average malware scumbag writer is taking the easy way out and going after Windows machines, taking advantage of end-user naivete and Windows' openness to infection. If they had any guts and were truly 1337, they'd try to get into a source repository on sourceforge and slip their own modded source in to get Linux people to infect their machines or something equally hard and nasty.
Come to think of it, what do we know of the server security at any of the big name OSS-hosting sites and does anyone really peruse the source anymore? Given the difference between being C++ proficient and merely being able to administer a Linux system is like the difference between the average Windows user and a Windows programmer, I'm guessing not too many.
They started Adobe Premiere on it yesterday and it is just about finished loading the plug-ins. That's record speed there.
This kind of arrogance is often attributed to the downfall of Nintendo (though more so on a software basis). As N came to the top, they got greedy with their control on who could release hardware and also had ridiculous fees for being a developer.
At first, I thought you were referring to APDA. Easy mistake. Never mind.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions..
And spread with butter according to Victor Buono, but who's quibling?
You have a point. It's only because of our relative advancement in the west that we have the luxury to give a fart about the environment at all. I notice none of the environmental crowd was hot to use the military to stop rain forest destruction despite their claim that if it continued unabated, we'd all run out of oxygen. If the threat of human extinction isn't enough to make them act when they have power as they never bothered during the Clinton double feature administration, then what the fark would be?
Nope, easier to be self-righteous while you drive your Prius around and wax philosophical about the shuttle damaging the environment. Meanwhile, other countries are thinking, "they took that Kyoto thing way too seriously and now this. Forget Iraq, that's a symptom. Those people really are cuckoo."
We do a shuttle launch once every, what, four months even under the optimal conditions that never happen? And the city of Houston, Texas alone is pumping out how much greenhouse gas every day just from the cars alone?
Forget the city. The cows outside of Houston fart and belch more greenhouse gases. Come to think of it, we should probably abolish Taco Bell, chili and beans, cucumbers...
Though, that won't work for manned craft, and you need to keep in mind how much power one would use operating one.
Forget that. Taking off using a mass driver would be like using a railgun as your engine. Great, you take off but you blow a crater the size of Providence, RI in the Earth below by the time you reach orbit.
Then get him good and soused and get him to sign off on a lawsuit against the USPTO. Should be good for five years worth of Slashdot fun.
I too used to be a programmer, as well as end-user software support, in-house software testing, end-user hardware support, working from DOS to OS/2 to Windows XP. Cable modem, DSL, Ethernet, Token Ring, etc. In all cases, 99.9% of the user base is willfully clueless on technology and why should they not be to some degree? Do you need to be able to speed read an Audell's manual before you can drive a car?
Windows is INFINITELY EASIER for end-users than Linux ever has been and ever will be if the Linux crowd stays dominated by snotty arrogant geeks with self-esteem issues who need to pump their egos by doing things because they are hard and not because they are right.
Now, where was it that I read, only today, that as Linux spreads, end-users are demanding things they've taken for granted for years on Windows? And where was it I read of so many Linux/Unix programmers using the dreaded Microsoft's Visual Studio for their IDE as kicking the arse of anything on Linux/Unix that they've tried?
I think we know where it was.
BTW, I use FC3 and I approve of this message.
Oh yeah, that'll work...
"Do you know what time it is?!"
"Nine o'clock, same as everywhere else."
"Nine o'clock is 'still asleep time' in California you frigging idiot!"
The entire world has time zones. Time-Life will be only too happy to educate you on this with a nice desktop time zone calculator absolutely free with your 52 week subscription. Or they did for many many years.
So the US/Canadian border is worthless?
Pretty much. It's the nude bars, fireworks, and cheap drugs in Canada that are being safeguarded. I mean, half of Detroit will take up arms if someone threatens the t*tty bars.
The majority of competitive DSL ISP offerings are through CLECs, which are Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. Should the ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) be required to keep their copper open to CLECs, then competitive DSL will still be an option should any CLEC choose to pay for the co-location, backhaul, per line cost, etc.
It makes no financial sense whatsoever to eliminate CLECs from the copper/fiber as they PAY the ILECs for the access/maintenance and always have. The majority of Speakeasy lines are through COVAD (properly capitalized, it is an acronym, COpper Value Added Distributor) if I am not mistaken. However, there really isn't a lot of money to be made at consumer DSL as a CLEC and acting as an ISP over ILEC DSL set-ups is more cost effective. This ruling eliminates the requirement that the ILECs open up their DSLAMs to other ISPs but it does not invalidate the existing contracts. Merely means that the ILECs will have supreme latitude in renegotiation at the contract's expiration. Don't like their terms? Tough.
But all those Speakeasy over COVAD lines aren't going anywhere. Most likely, they will have to do some hard thinking and probably look at partnering with CLECs.
BTW, DSLAM means DSL Access Multiplexor. These are where all the DSL lines terminate and aggregate first and then hand off usually via Fast Ethernet or DS-3 to a switch/router. CLECs may have one or several at a colocation. Some use multiple kinds and some use one kind. See Paradyne, Copper Mountain, Cisco, Lucent, Alcatel for DSLAM models availible.
The reason it never worked, and won't for Linux is that despite cynical modern thinking, the tail does not wag the dog. The children do not buy the PCs at home, the parents do. And they use Windows NT Workstation, Windows 2000 Pro, or XP Pro at work usually. And they buy Windows XP Home to use at home. They DO NOT buy Macs and did not buy Apple 2s because their kids used them at school.
If the schools want to disenfranchise their charges, teach them skills irrellevant to the majority of PC-using postions, go right ahead. Teach Linux. We'll end up with a plethora of idiots who know enough to be dangerous with Linux the way so many are with Windows except they won't know how to operate Windows software at a job any more than the kids who only use Macs.
Those of you who do not do end user support in Windows and have no experience in it might imagine that teaching Linux would make a difference. You might also imagine that the planet Saturn is sending secret transmissions to your fillings. You might believe anything if you think Linux makes a difference in the general brain-deadness of end-users.
Of course, it isn't as though they haven't already been doing this ever since Apple started giving the schools cut-rate deals. Schools have been disenfranchising the students from ther own society at large by teaching nonsensical and idiotic pop learning, the kids becoming screwed up young adults who have to learn about real life by experiencing it thus making much of their formative years in the educational system counterproductive and utterly wasted.
I may use Linux, but no way would I want my kid's school to teach it when it isn't the thing used in the majority of businesses in the country. Nor would I want him being taught proprietary Macintosh hardware when PCs rule the land. Or Pascal or LOGO for that frigging matter. Any mainframe people think their kids should be taught COBOL or JCL instead of C++? Sure, they save money, but at what monetary cost to the kids who have to pay as adults for the classes to get the training the school system should have given them in the first place?
A cable modem cannot be used arbitrarily as a monitoring device and besides, it would only be sending a duplicate of every packet on the same line as those being duplicated. It would then be pretty easy to see when you were tapped as for whatever bandwidth you utilized, that actually used on the line would be twice that much.
Capture of packets would have to take place at the Cable Modem Termination System at the cable company head end and no closer than that. In DSL no closer to the endpoint than the DSLAM. Most likely multiple CMTS or DSLAM would be tapped at their aggregation routers/switches.
The best place to capture VoIP is at the VoIP service providers' servers if any, at the aggregation point(s) if not.
And does anyone know of SSH2 with public key encryption being trivially broken?
Upon reading the PDF, it's only about VoIP, so they can tap phones of Vonage, Packet 8 etc.
Which is an important point but with our government's history, and that of all human government, any breach no matter how carefully tailored must be looked askance at and in whatever form it takes, it must be clearly and with no ambiguity delineated and every detail be made public and kept that way.
I see no reason that VoIP should be free of the same court-ordered wiretaps that apply to landline and cell phones. HOWEVER, I see no reason to leave the control at the hands of the state and do without question believe it should be left where it has always been, in the hands of the service providers, and no invasion made without a court order. They should not be free to begin the electronic tap at any time they see fit for any reason, and I do not care what those reasons may be, real or imagined.
If good does evil, good becomes evil. There are some infringements that would remove one weakness before terrorists and create a new one before a state dismissive of its origins as being in power at the leisure of the populace and not the other way around. It is better to have a faulty shield honestly obtained than a perfect one that came at the cost of your soul.
...as it was in Roe vs. Wade where a "right to privacy" which is ennumerated in no way, shape, or form in the constitution was found by the SCOTUS, and then used to imply further that under this right there was a right to abortion. If these invasions of privacy, erosions of private individual and group securit at the hands of the state continue without appropriate challenge, it will eventually come about through force of history and precedence that there is no right to privacy and with that goes any right to abortion.
If this were made clear to the pro-abortion liberals, they might finally "connect" and grasp how this affects them. Right now, those in congress as afraid to be seen as pro-terrorism and pro-weakness to speak up, except for the usual suspects of token opposition.
If there's anything business tends to learn, for a combination of reasons which do include constant onslaught from those who are reflexively anti-business (attack and your enemy defends, it is easier to influence friends than defeat enemies), it is to do things as cheaply as possible.
Coders have as much right as anyone else to be paid for their work. Oh, but here comes Free Open Source Software. Legions of geeks willing to write all sorts of code you find useful and you can use it in your business. They want you to. Who needs to pay coders' relatively large salaries now? Now you have a cudgel in the fight against giving the coders the pay they want and feel they deserve. Why pay $60K/year to someone writing in-house apps when you can pay some geek who couldn't maintain a job at Dairy Queen but who has really good Linux skills half that?
THAT is what business learns from FOSS. And all OSS is FOSS in the minds of the majority of the OSS using and writing world. It certainly is in business. A way just needs to be found to insure that is is FOSS.
The socialistic and chintzy anti-corporate "free, free, free" brigades and the corporate "closed source if we can help it, open source if we pay nothing" people need to call a truce and establish a way that coding can be open to future learning from it without denying fair IP to anyone or making it hard to earn money from your labors or for those who are not in OSS. Corporations will always make money. If it is not handled right, then they will be the only ones making money and those doing the programming will make little to none. All because of blind fanaticism, inability to see the forest for the trees, and unwillingness to do what is needed in the way of compromise and different approaches to the conflict.
Not for nothing my day job isn't programming or supporting same anymore.
That'd be about a T1's rate for about a T1's price. Now, in light of other broadband offerings, it's wayyy pricey, but considering that they're allowing mobile service and can cover areas that the Telcos and Comcast have no apparent desire to support...
A T1 typically has a four hour commit to repair time; that is, the provider has four hours to begin making repairs to the connection. That's each T1 separately. If the WiMax tower equipment goes down, will they begin repairs within four hours? it might take them five or six to get a tech to the site in the first place depending on their manpower and distribution of same.
Meanwhile I get 5Mbpsx512Kbps on cable with, so far, 90% reliability and no outage lasting longer than two days with the average lasting less than one hour, over the five years I've had it. I pay $60/month for it and know full well I'm not getting T1 SLAs nor paying anything like it.
Whether it is worth it or not depends on whether or not you live and die by mobile data access. If so, it may be worth it for you. If not, then not.
To say that the telcos and cable operators have no desire to cover areas that WiMax will is fallacious and shows zero knowledge of the cable operators. I worked cable for years and keep tabs on the industry so I do know that they are very interested in serving the rural markets. Their take is different than a superficial knowledge would believe however. They are more and more leaving the service to local operators who live there and know the people and building alliances behind the scene. They are succeeding and biting back into satellite penetration numbers which previously had been biting theirs. Telcos are also not forgetting the rural areas. Like cable they know the bulk of the money is in urban and suburban markets which will pay off the infrastructure buildout in a way that the rural customers never could have afforded were it entirely on their shoulders.
We urban and suburband high speed customers are the ones paying for the future services of the rural customers. Nature of the business.
From the FA:
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There are other, smaller options like TCC that is a complete C compiler, but it's too geared to 386+ and Linux to be a good playground. Other open-source C compilers tend to be variations of Small C that, while understandable, don't implement the entire language.
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I think that was the entire point. We don't implement the entirety of the English language every day here where I live or in British universities for that matter and we're quite understandable. It might be different if to survive parsing by the listener not to mention quality review by the head of your department, that you had to squeeze in words like obsequious, vituperation, or Charles Schultz' favorite antidisestablishmentarianism.
Except... in programming it is inevitably that the words aren't big and things may reduce to cryptic things like () and ++ which kills the understandability. So sad that something so easily read as Dartmouth standard BASIC should be tossed aside in favor of things that make you want to beat on an IBM Selectric at random to see if it produces a legal string of Perl code.
Actually, chances are that it would and would win the code obfuscation contests, and if submitted to congress mistaken for the EPA's next budget and probably result in ten dozen public deconstruction readings in the local colleges finally being pontificated on in the editorial pages of the New York Post before being sued by Creators Syndicate for infringing on the IP of Johnny Hart as shamelessly stealing the conveyance of comic strip swearing, with three dupe postings in the YRO section of Slashdot.
All because we insist on languages that must be implemented in their entirety to get anything done but are as non-understandable as an obsequious and vituperative antidisestablishmentarian.
That site and nearly everything I click on in it is totally Gooletastic... Googleriffic... Googlebarf...
/.ers take notice of that sentence, please).
Yeah, that last one works. I put Google Ads on my blog for kicks, not for making bucks. I want to Gooooooogle my eyes out at the sight of that site. (grammatically challenged
Programming in Linux might be so much cooler if we got to act like Jason Statham in The Transporter... nailing hot exotic babes and kicking serious bad guy ass... "You broked the rules, with that virus you wrote and clogged up my network. Some rules were not made to be broken, but I'm guessing your face was."
maybe the radiation is so bad that men grow boobies, anyway ..
So like, what, a quarter of men in IT have already been exposed to serious comic radiation?
...please mod down any posts making jokes regarding Asian foods and dog meat. Please. They're old. Although if anyone comes up with a way to plausibly reference a Beowulf cluster with this, that would be okay. Once. Second attempts should be met with terminal force. Just a humble request.