Had he given up the crackberry, the healthcare debate would have been over a year ago, the budget would be balanced, and there would be peace in the middle east. I'm going to sue RIM for undermining all my hope./sarcasm
Soildiers, sailors and marines, as well as their families, earn everything they get. I would hardly call it an 'entitlement' program to give benefits to people that we ask to give up their youngest, healthiest years and spend them slogging through mud, risking their lives; or for their families to have to sit back and wait, wondering if their spouse/parent will come home in one piece, if not alive. I'm not saying this because of the "rah-rah-rah" stuff, I'm saying it because there is a world of difference between soldiers earning keep for themselves and their families and, say, welfare. "Back in the day" there might have been something to be said for perhaps a tiered system where those "in the rear with the gear", who were at less risk, didn't get as sweet a deal. But, as we're now in wars where there really aren't front lines and safe zones, where anyone is a potential enemy and you're just one grenade away from death, even at the supply depot, there really isn't a whole lot of difference now.
this sounds better than quick-clot (which is probably still the first-step treatment) in that it cauterizes and dis-infects. Qick-clot isn't a "permanent" treatment, and it doesn't replace stitches/staples/glue
I'm a Westerner, but I think this is pretty cool. Is it particularly useful for me? No, not really. Besides a semesters worth of Japanese in college, I studied Spanish and Latin, both in high school and in college. Amazingly, both use the Latin alphabet. I've dabbled in some Italian and German as well, but I can type the majority of those characters on my keyboard, too, or with character combinations to get at the unicode. However, if this enables further localization for geo-location specific sites and content for those to whom its relevant, then its a pretty big step forward. Most foreign sites which need to be easily accessible to westerners will still probably maintain a Romanized domain name which points to their English/Spanish/German content, while leaving their native language content accessible via the native language hostname, thus making it so that everyone is comfortable getting at information without having to switch brain modes. American and Europeans doing business with Asian and Middle Eastern customers will probably do the same, providing access via native-language domain names for their major markets. Is it extra work? Yes, but in the long run its going to be worth it, and it may provide an excuse for people to learn an Asian or Semitic language, or even an Indo-Aryan language like Russian or Greek which uses non-Roman letters. People should do that anyway, though.
isn't causing fear and panic among large swaths of the population in order to affect a political outcome the definition of terrorism? If so, his expert opinion may actually be pretty valid. Just saying.
Because it's cool to hate Apple, or at least 'typical' Apple customers, so any time there is a product fault or a questionable business move we're going to hear about it, just like years ago there were more stories about Microsoft being schmucks than there were stories actually related to Linux or BSD. Now that Oracle has Sun in-tow, we're seeing more stories about poor ol' Sun, mostly as a back-handed attack on Oracle. It's the tao of the slashdot.
I know the copper ds0 line from the real phone company for a real phone carries voltage separately from the rest of the electrical system. I don't think the cable line does, though, is my point -- why pay for digital phone from the cable company when, if the power goes out, i can't use the phone to call and report a power outage? It's a waste.
At the risk of being "That Guy", I don't have a TV and I don't really have any plans of getting one. My old roommate just moved out, and the cable was in his name. I just ordered service (currently, I'm leaching Wifi... sucks), which despite the fact I have gear and am already wired, apparently they have to send someone to me or some crap. Point is, despite the fact they really wanted to bundle me TV and digital phone service (I have a cell phone, why do I need a 'land line', especially if it'll go down if the power is out?), I had no reason to bite.
I think that as younger generations come up and are the ones making these types of purchasing decisions, it's going to be more and more common to just "do without" "old people" entertainment. The few things I want on cable, I can get on Hulu, or on southparkstudios.com the day after the episode was on TV. I use the internet to keep in touch with my friends that don't live near by, group coordinate stuff with those who do, get my the news that I don't get off of NPR in the car, obtain my software updates, work on personal projects, and sometimes work from home. I don't really need TV and I don't want it. Hell, I think if my parents' generation realized that they can get the weather on the internet without having to weight until "the eights", they'd probably ditch cable, too.
Of course, that means that the service providers aren't going to let "network neutrality" ever happen, aren't going to stop doing stuff like DNS hijacking if they can get away with it, and advertisers are going to continue polluting the tubes. Why? 'Cause they have to make up the revenue somehow, and if we're not watching TV, they'll move to where we are.
You just gave me really good idea for an app... a magic 8 ball that uses the accelerometer on the iphone, and all of the answers relating directly to whether or not your app will get approved for the app store. Unfortunately, I doubt that this app would get approved for the app store, either. oh well.
is that counting birthday cards or no? If you've never gotten one piece of legitimate, personal snail mail then I pitty you. But, as my sister says, 'write a letter to get a letter'. She's big on real mail... and emily post. Marriage has ruined her punk-rockitude.:-/
No, it'll just continue to lead to the war on islam vis a vis the "war on terror." Pretty much the only way to defeat terrorism is to ignore it until it goes away, as the goal of terrorist tactics is to provoke a reaction.
Can't you put the virtual disk image for as a regular file on a USB stick, then load it into Virtual Box from there? That way, no purchase necessary with regards to software to run the VM, and you can issue a standardized appliance image to start with. Of course, you need to make sure that everyone has a thumb drive of sufficient size.
I, too, was kind of disappointed with what it turned out to be. Its definitely cooler than any of the e-readers on the market right now, but it enough to make me want to buy one. What I've seen/heard of the features to be expected in the MS Courier device, that looks to be more like what I was hoping the iPad would be like -- something more akin to a digital notebook rather than a giant iPod Touch. Hopefully I won't get disappointed a second time, but I'm not holding my breath.
Well, you're right that not all threats are external. That is why proper egress ACLs are necessary as well as ingress filtering. Egress filtering is often neglected. Having security at the host level shouldn't be foregone entirely, but having dedicated hardware packet filtering solutions cleaning up network traffic off-host, you can reduce the number of rules you need to enforce host-level, and thus free up more cycles for actual work... which is allegedly why we have computers in the first place -- to do other things than use them to use other computers.
IPv6 isn't going to eliminate the need for DMZs and stuff like that. Sure, NAT can be don away with, but NAT isn't "firewalling". Really, what we should be talking about is packet filtering, and in this sense, dedicated packet filtering boxes are key. There is no reason that network hosts should be wasting cycles on packet filtering if putting a box out in front a network segment, say, behind a boarder router or in front of an aggregation switch, can dedicate cycles to the task -- especially if the box doing the packet filtering doesn't introduce latency beyond an acceptable level.
The BSD 'pf' packet filter is pretty good. There is even a FreeBSD-based project known as pfsense which you might want to take a look at, as it offers a pretty-much drop-in solution for packet filtering, as well as NAT, load balancing, VPN connectivity, etc. There is a web-based administration GUI as well. It looks pretty sweet, but I haven't played with it much in any serious deployment personally.
The corporation is a tyranny with regards to its internal sphere of influence -- the properties it controls and the workers it employs. As a potential customer, you can avoid their tyranny to a point, but when they have monopoly power, or are part of a cartel, then what are you going to do? Tea baggers want to bitch about "rationing" of medial care, but right now we have rationing of medical care. It's just the terms are dictated by corporations rather than the government, but apparently that's OK, despite the fact all the insurance companies are pretty much in on the scam together.
Aside from the obvious fact that this was a publicity stunt, could they even enforce a contract claiming ownership over a mythical construct anyway? Doubtful at best.... how can i keep idle from ever showing up on the front page again?
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Had he given up the crackberry, the healthcare debate would have been over a year ago, the budget would be balanced, and there would be peace in the middle east. I'm going to sue RIM for undermining all my hope. /sarcasm
My mom's often adversarial relationship with school administrations kept me out of some truly weird shit.
Like gym class? I bet it was gym class, wasn't it?
Soildiers, sailors and marines, as well as their families, earn everything they get. I would hardly call it an 'entitlement' program to give benefits to people that we ask to give up their youngest, healthiest years and spend them slogging through mud, risking their lives; or for their families to have to sit back and wait, wondering if their spouse/parent will come home in one piece, if not alive. I'm not saying this because of the "rah-rah-rah" stuff, I'm saying it because there is a world of difference between soldiers earning keep for themselves and their families and, say, welfare. "Back in the day" there might have been something to be said for perhaps a tiered system where those "in the rear with the gear", who were at less risk, didn't get as sweet a deal. But, as we're now in wars where there really aren't front lines and safe zones, where anyone is a potential enemy and you're just one grenade away from death, even at the supply depot, there really isn't a whole lot of difference now.
this sounds better than quick-clot (which is probably still the first-step treatment) in that it cauterizes and dis-infects. Qick-clot isn't a "permanent" treatment, and it doesn't replace stitches/staples/glue
Me and Kenny don't give two shits about stupid-ass Wales anyway
what, you mean you haven't hurd?
yeah, but McAfee is disruptive/destructive by default. Are you sure that's a fair example?
I'm a Westerner, but I think this is pretty cool. Is it particularly useful for me? No, not really. Besides a semesters worth of Japanese in college, I studied Spanish and Latin, both in high school and in college. Amazingly, both use the Latin alphabet. I've dabbled in some Italian and German as well, but I can type the majority of those characters on my keyboard, too, or with character combinations to get at the unicode. However, if this enables further localization for geo-location specific sites and content for those to whom its relevant, then its a pretty big step forward. Most foreign sites which need to be easily accessible to westerners will still probably maintain a Romanized domain name which points to their English/Spanish/German content, while leaving their native language content accessible via the native language hostname, thus making it so that everyone is comfortable getting at information without having to switch brain modes. American and Europeans doing business with Asian and Middle Eastern customers will probably do the same, providing access via native-language domain names for their major markets. Is it extra work? Yes, but in the long run its going to be worth it, and it may provide an excuse for people to learn an Asian or Semitic language, or even an Indo-Aryan language like Russian or Greek which uses non-Roman letters. People should do that anyway, though.
isn't causing fear and panic among large swaths of the population in order to affect a political outcome the definition of terrorism? If so, his expert opinion may actually be pretty valid. Just saying.
Because it's cool to hate Apple, or at least 'typical' Apple customers, so any time there is a product fault or a questionable business move we're going to hear about it, just like years ago there were more stories about Microsoft being schmucks than there were stories actually related to Linux or BSD. Now that Oracle has Sun in-tow, we're seeing more stories about poor ol' Sun, mostly as a back-handed attack on Oracle. It's the tao of the slashdot.
I know the copper ds0 line from the real phone company for a real phone carries voltage separately from the rest of the electrical system. I don't think the cable line does, though, is my point -- why pay for digital phone from the cable company when, if the power goes out, i can't use the phone to call and report a power outage? It's a waste.
At the risk of being "That Guy", I don't have a TV and I don't really have any plans of getting one. My old roommate just moved out, and the cable was in his name. I just ordered service (currently, I'm leaching Wifi... sucks), which despite the fact I have gear and am already wired, apparently they have to send someone to me or some crap. Point is, despite the fact they really wanted to bundle me TV and digital phone service (I have a cell phone, why do I need a 'land line', especially if it'll go down if the power is out?), I had no reason to bite.
I think that as younger generations come up and are the ones making these types of purchasing decisions, it's going to be more and more common to just "do without" "old people" entertainment. The few things I want on cable, I can get on Hulu, or on southparkstudios.com the day after the episode was on TV. I use the internet to keep in touch with my friends that don't live near by, group coordinate stuff with those who do, get my the news that I don't get off of NPR in the car, obtain my software updates, work on personal projects, and sometimes work from home. I don't really need TV and I don't want it. Hell, I think if my parents' generation realized that they can get the weather on the internet without having to weight until "the eights", they'd probably ditch cable, too.
Of course, that means that the service providers aren't going to let "network neutrality" ever happen, aren't going to stop doing stuff like DNS hijacking if they can get away with it, and advertisers are going to continue polluting the tubes. Why? 'Cause they have to make up the revenue somehow, and if we're not watching TV, they'll move to where we are.
You just gave me really good idea for an app... a magic 8 ball that uses the accelerometer on the iphone, and all of the answers relating directly to whether or not your app will get approved for the app store. Unfortunately, I doubt that this app would get approved for the app store, either. oh well.
is that counting birthday cards or no? If you've never gotten one piece of legitimate, personal snail mail then I pitty you. But, as my sister says, 'write a letter to get a letter'. She's big on real mail... and emily post. Marriage has ruined her punk-rockitude. :-/
'cause John Wayne said so. /jingoism
No, it'll just continue to lead to the war on islam vis a vis the "war on terror." Pretty much the only way to defeat terrorism is to ignore it until it goes away, as the goal of terrorist tactics is to provoke a reaction.
So, you're saying that Islam is guilty of copyright infringement, eh? Well, then... it's only a matter of time before RIAA bombers take to the skies.
Can't you put the virtual disk image for as a regular file on a USB stick, then load it into Virtual Box from there? That way, no purchase necessary with regards to software to run the VM, and you can issue a standardized appliance image to start with. Of course, you need to make sure that everyone has a thumb drive of sufficient size.
I, too, was kind of disappointed with what it turned out to be. Its definitely cooler than any of the e-readers on the market right now, but it enough to make me want to buy one. What I've seen/heard of the features to be expected in the MS Courier device, that looks to be more like what I was hoping the iPad would be like -- something more akin to a digital notebook rather than a giant iPod Touch. Hopefully I won't get disappointed a second time, but I'm not holding my breath.
Well, you're right that not all threats are external. That is why proper egress ACLs are necessary as well as ingress filtering. Egress filtering is often neglected. Having security at the host level shouldn't be foregone entirely, but having dedicated hardware packet filtering solutions cleaning up network traffic off-host, you can reduce the number of rules you need to enforce host-level, and thus free up more cycles for actual work... which is allegedly why we have computers in the first place -- to do other things than use them to use other computers.
IPv6 isn't going to eliminate the need for DMZs and stuff like that. Sure, NAT can be don away with, but NAT isn't "firewalling". Really, what we should be talking about is packet filtering, and in this sense, dedicated packet filtering boxes are key. There is no reason that network hosts should be wasting cycles on packet filtering if putting a box out in front a network segment, say, behind a boarder router or in front of an aggregation switch, can dedicate cycles to the task -- especially if the box doing the packet filtering doesn't introduce latency beyond an acceptable level.
The BSD 'pf' packet filter is pretty good. There is even a FreeBSD-based project known as pfsense which you might want to take a look at, as it offers a pretty-much drop-in solution for packet filtering, as well as NAT, load balancing, VPN connectivity, etc. There is a web-based administration GUI as well. It looks pretty sweet, but I haven't played with it much in any serious deployment personally.
The corporation is a tyranny with regards to its internal sphere of influence -- the properties it controls and the workers it employs. As a potential customer, you can avoid their tyranny to a point, but when they have monopoly power, or are part of a cartel, then what are you going to do? Tea baggers want to bitch about "rationing" of medial care, but right now we have rationing of medical care. It's just the terms are dictated by corporations rather than the government, but apparently that's OK, despite the fact all the insurance companies are pretty much in on the scam together.
Aside from the obvious fact that this was a publicity stunt, could they even enforce a contract claiming ownership over a mythical construct anyway? Doubtful at best.... how can i keep idle from ever showing up on the front page again?
did you confuse slashdot for stormfront or something? typically people post trolls like that as 'anonymous'