They don't owe us anything other than what they've agreed to already. You're making an arbitrary line in the sand based on nothing but your nerd rage. Why can't they try to charge to prioritize traffic? Might not work out well for them, however, when their customers bitch enough about it. The government can also use other means to get them to play ball, we don't need some bullshit law. Just start applying regulatory pressure.
Yeah, I'm sure AT&T's customers would put up with that. People forget that we, the customers, will raise holy hell if network performance is degraded for reasons like this.
So we have the iPad now, which many of you rushed out to buy. It's missing a lot of basic things connectivity and storage wise. Things what it's obvious people wants.
So Apple of course planned this and the Next iPad will Solve All Your Problems. Nevermind that your problems are artificially created.
So my question is, when you rush out and buy the Next iPad that Solves All The Problems that Apple made inherent to the current iPad specifically _so_ you'd buy the next one, won't you feel really stupid? I mean, seriously? We both know it's going to happen.
You're forgetting something fairly obvious. Intel has fab and process advantages other CPU makers don't have.
For the very lowest power devices, x86 probably won't be a good fit. Smartphones? MIDs? Tablets? Hell yes, wait until you see Medfield. Why do you think Intel just bought part of Infineon? Integration. Anywhere you see a high end ARM you'll see x86 competitive at worst.
Good luck interoperating with those, dipshit. And good luck getting them to work over NFS(*). And if you're not one of the 1% of environments out there using Kerberos for NFS, it's funny to me that you break the oldest rule of security - don't trust the client.
Give me root on one of your Linux machines and I'll copy any piece of NFS data I want unless you're one of the very few organizations using secured NFS.
Despite the "free from government" leanings here on slashdot
We must be on two different SlashDots. Maybe you've been gone from slashdot for 10 years and are just coming back? There is definitely no "free from government" leaning here. The latest boogieman is..da da daaaaa (sinister music).. The Corporation.
Good, then when assholes talk about "stupid Americans", you fall under the umbrella. I for one welcome this new rewriting of terms to define "America" and "American" as anyone in North or South America. Spread the hate a little, you know what I mean?
Riiight. I'll up and move to Chile tomorrow, I'm sure my standard of living wouldn't change - amirite?
Some of those countries are pretty nice, though it'll be amusing for me to watch Europe collapse under its own weight. How's that plummeting birth rate, population replacement by poor immigrants, and overwhelming social program burden working out for them?
Thank God, I mean we've got hundreds of thousands of servers out there tasked with running QMail and DJBDNS, now we can rest assured they're all secure.
This is truly a good day for the hordes of IT people dutifully running all those QMail and DJBDNS instances!
California simply understands the "fact" that government money is both free and endless. What's the worst that could happen, a few people don't get voted in for spending too much money? Meh, they'll just go on to bigger and better things.
How quaint. For what it's worth, I agree in theory. We should mind our own business far more than we do.
As for being 1/20th the world's population, sorry, not all people have equal power. If you don't like that, maybe you can take up your whining with the Universe, God, or whoever you hold responsible for what we call "reality".
The US has NEVER cared about people, only about oil, power and control at the expense of every other poor bastard on earth.
So? What's your point? I'm sure you can point out all the other countries in the world who are run by selfless martyrs concerned primarily with the well being of not only their own people but those of everyone else in the world.
The anti-Americanism around here truly gets tiresome after a while. The US is far from perfect, that's absolutely true. But we're slightly less far from perfect than almost any other country in the world.
I think the part you fail to grasp is that people are fundamentally flawed, and of course any country formed by people is flawed.
Exactly. I was going to post similar but you captured it. The "Right" we have is self interest and the power to do something to protect that self interest.
I'm not worried about Iran using a nuclear weapon. I'm worried about their government failing or having piss poor security and someone who _is_ crazy enough to use it getting ahold of one.
What's funny is this claim (that Iran somehow made genocidal threats against Israel) has been disproved many times yet it still comes up in _any_ discussion of why Iran is pure evil.
I'm unclear as to what you think precipitated anti-semitism in the middle east. I mean, you don't seriously think it's the same as the European flavor, do you?
Your sarcasm is hilarious, but not in the way you intended. More like when some moonshot doubter mocks people - "Hahaha, like we _really_ landed on the moon! Riiiiiight.".
Usually when one applies game theory one should try to at least apply _some_ sort of motivation to the actors. Iran has no motive to withhold oil, especially as it's their lifeblood, unless they go full retard because someone attacks them.
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They don't owe us anything other than what they've agreed to already. You're making an arbitrary line in the sand based on nothing but your nerd rage. Why can't they try to charge to prioritize traffic? Might not work out well for them, however, when their customers bitch enough about it. The government can also use other means to get them to play ball, we don't need some bullshit law. Just start applying regulatory pressure.
Jesus, dude. You're like a parody of yourself. Corporations, Big Brother, Patriot Act, Newspeak, I think you hit all the hippie bases there.
Yeah, I'm sure AT&T's customers would put up with that. People forget that we, the customers, will raise holy hell if network performance is degraded for reasons like this.
4 words: You're doing it wrong.
So we have the iPad now, which many of you rushed out to buy. It's missing a lot of basic things connectivity and storage wise. Things what it's obvious people wants.
So Apple of course planned this and the Next iPad will Solve All Your Problems. Nevermind that your problems are artificially created.
So my question is, when you rush out and buy the Next iPad that Solves All The Problems that Apple made inherent to the current iPad specifically _so_ you'd buy the next one, won't you feel really stupid? I mean, seriously? We both know it's going to happen.
You're forgetting something fairly obvious. Intel has fab and process advantages other CPU makers don't have.
For the very lowest power devices, x86 probably won't be a good fit. Smartphones? MIDs? Tablets? Hell yes, wait until you see Medfield. Why do you think Intel just bought part of Infineon? Integration. Anywhere you see a high end ARM you'll see x86 competitive at worst.
Pedantry fail.
Utilize: To put to use, especially to find a profitable or practical use for.
Substitute:
more developers [putting to use] the Microsoft process for developing software
Yep, synonymous!
Good luck interoperating with those, dipshit. And good luck getting them to work over NFS(*). And if you're not one of the 1% of environments out there using Kerberos for NFS, it's funny to me that you break the oldest rule of security - don't trust the client.
Give me root on one of your Linux machines and I'll copy any piece of NFS data I want unless you're one of the very few organizations using secured NFS.
Right. History is littered with dimwits who thought x86 wouldn't impact _their_ market.
Despite the "free from government" leanings here on slashdot
We must be on two different SlashDots. Maybe you've been gone from slashdot for 10 years and are just coming back? There is definitely no "free from government" leaning here. The latest boogieman is..da da daaaaa (sinister music).. The Corporation.
Good, then when assholes talk about "stupid Americans", you fall under the umbrella. I for one welcome this new rewriting of terms to define "America" and "American" as anyone in North or South America. Spread the hate a little, you know what I mean?
Riiight. I'll up and move to Chile tomorrow, I'm sure my standard of living wouldn't change - amirite?
Some of those countries are pretty nice, though it'll be amusing for me to watch Europe collapse under its own weight. How's that plummeting birth rate, population replacement by poor immigrants, and overwhelming social program burden working out for them?
Yes...in .NET.
Thank God, I mean we've got hundreds of thousands of servers out there tasked with running QMail and DJBDNS, now we can rest assured they're all secure.
This is truly a good day for the hordes of IT people dutifully running all those QMail and DJBDNS instances!
You're probably right. It's not like Microsoft hires the best programmers in the world, they're probably all "stupid developers".
Sometimes I wonder if people ever go back and read what they've written a few seconds later and realize how daft it was.
Bull. He scanned it, found the call, and assumed it's broken. I'll believe explorer.exe has a bug when there's a specific exploit for it.
Nonsense. .NET uses signing, you can update the DLL all you'd like if you use the appropriate versioning semantics and sign with the same key.
California simply understands the "fact" that government money is both free and endless. What's the worst that could happen, a few people don't get voted in for spending too much money? Meh, they'll just go on to bigger and better things.
How quaint. For what it's worth, I agree in theory. We should mind our own business far more than we do.
As for being 1/20th the world's population, sorry, not all people have equal power. If you don't like that, maybe you can take up your whining with the Universe, God, or whoever you hold responsible for what we call "reality".
The US has NEVER cared about people, only about oil, power and control at the expense of every other poor bastard on earth.
So? What's your point? I'm sure you can point out all the other countries in the world who are run by selfless martyrs concerned primarily with the well being of not only their own people but those of everyone else in the world.
The anti-Americanism around here truly gets tiresome after a while. The US is far from perfect, that's absolutely true. But we're slightly less far from perfect than almost any other country in the world.
I think the part you fail to grasp is that people are fundamentally flawed, and of course any country formed by people is flawed.
Exactly. I was going to post similar but you captured it. The "Right" we have is self interest and the power to do something to protect that self interest.
I'm not worried about Iran using a nuclear weapon. I'm worried about their government failing or having piss poor security and someone who _is_ crazy enough to use it getting ahold of one.
What's funny is this claim (that Iran somehow made genocidal threats against Israel) has been disproved many times yet it still comes up in _any_ discussion of why Iran is pure evil.
I'm unclear as to what you think precipitated anti-semitism in the middle east. I mean, you don't seriously think it's the same as the European flavor, do you?
They keep threatening to wipe an entire country off the map.
Citation needed.
Your sarcasm is hilarious, but not in the way you intended. More like when some moonshot doubter mocks people - "Hahaha, like we _really_ landed on the moon! Riiiiiight.".
Usually when one applies game theory one should try to at least apply _some_ sort of motivation to the actors. Iran has no motive to withhold oil, especially as it's their lifeblood, unless they go full retard because someone attacks them.