Not particularly, no. I don't really mind the government maintaining a DNA database.
This is the same UK government that is so expertly careful about protectingpersonalinformation. Any information you give them (and I mean anything... contact details, date of birth, NI number (=SSN for you Americans), medical history, tax returns, your library borrowing list that shows you have a penchant for lycanthropic porn, etc. etc.) you may as well cut out the middleman and post it on MySpace for the world to read, chances are it will become that public in short order anyway. And you're willing to trust them with your DNA?
In that case I have a bridge you may be interested in purchasing...
Is he claiming that not one single soldier (all of whom are armed to the teeth) has ever been "forced" to do something? Wow, I didn't realise the military was run by consensus at every level.
I can understand something like the.XXX tld, for the purpose of openly idenfitying what a site is (and ease in blocking porn sites in school LAN's and such)
Yes, because it is absolutely impossible for anyone to figure out "who is" the owner of a blocked domain name and IP address, and then browse to that host by IP address. Especially teenage children, who demographically are the most inept computer users.
Seriously, the justification provided for the XXX TLD was not half-assed. As far as ideas go, it was more like an infected blackhead on the surface of an inflamed haemorrhoid attached to the prolapsed sphincter of whatever was left of the ass.
Frankly, you should be embarrassed for even bringing it up. And see your doctor for some topical cream or something.
I am pretty sure 2 9s of uptime would be 3.9 days of downtime a year.
Not quite... not far off, but the math is so easy I'm surprised you didn't get it: two 9's = 99%... which means 1% downtime. Now 1% of 365 days = 3.65 days.
Not to mention the difficulty of scheduling a possibly several hour phone conversation during business hours PST when you're in Iraq.
Given that this is Dell Support we're talking about, I'm assuming the PST you're referring to is actually "Pakistan Standard Time" which is only 30 minutes different from Afghanistan, and 2 hours from Iraq... shouldn't be much of a problem really.
Obviously, if you change your passwords, you have to change what's in the safety deposit box, so there is some upkeep there.
Actually it can be easier than that. You just need to escrow one single key for decryption somewhere (on a USB key in a safe deposit box seems to be the popular choice).
Then you can keep an encrypted list of passwords on your system and update them whenever you like, with no upkeep unless you decide to change the encryption. After death, the key is released to whoever, they decrypt your list, etc.
There are already plenty of programs that can do this (AnyPassword is one for Windows that I'm aware of, although the encryption strength is not military grade).
This is a fairly old argument, and in a dev/test environment it is not accurate. Databases and other disk intensive operations may experience performance issues when virtualized, however there are ways around this, pass-thru disks, iscsi storage (which can be done with software on the host box), etc.
Whoa, tiger! Remember this guy is a n00b program manager, you think he'll be able to configure and maintain all that?
Personally, I think he should make sure he gets a mauve-colored database, because it has the most RAM...
Got a link to support that 6.5 billion figure? Per my earlier link above, the UK government itself is claiming operating costs are 1.2 billion... Even assuming your ticket revenue figure is correct, that's still a 25% profit.
* 1,037,000,000 passenger trips a year. * Ticket price varies roughly in a range of 2-4 GBP per trip. * That comes to maybe 3,000 million GBP annual revenue.
Yes, that's 3 billion pounds (American billion) give or take a bit, which is more than the GDP for most of the smaller African nations. Apparently this is all used to cover operating costs, although annual operating cost is actually in the region of 1.2 billion pounds (PDF warning, see section 3).
Sounds to me like they're actually turning a hefty profit.
1. Anyone capable of altering the card can give themselves free unlimited travel. 2. If the card is damaged to the point where it no longer works, you lose your remaining balance.
It's the RFID equivalent of storing all your Internet banking data (accounts, balances, etc.) on the client side as a browser cookie.
So even if a Linux distro wanted to be verified at a higher level - who's going to fork over the dough?
How about the NSA themselves? (a) They're the people doing the certification anyway; and (b) they pretty much built SELinux themselves... sounds like a good fit if you ask me.
Even if the code had disclaimers, they won't necessarily stop someone bringing a lawsuit (although they might stop them from winning that suit, assuming they are legal and binding in the relevant jurisdiction, which is a big assumption). And even frivolous lawsuits can be expensive for an individual to defend - a company has a bigger bankroll.
Here's a thought: if the employer claims all your free-time coding is their property, does that then mean they take on the liability for that work?
EG. someone sues you over a bug in some code you wrote. Can you then say "Sorry, this code is actually property of my employer, LargeEvilMegaCorporation. Please direct your suit to their immense legal department, grab your ankles and prepare for a reaming"...
If the employer wants to have their cake, they'd damn well better be prepared to eat it too.
your mom may not have told you this, but businesses depend on their customers to make money. so listening to consumers and meeting consumer demands is generally a good idea (ever heard of market research?)
There's your problem: for most big businesses, consumer != customer. As a consumer you have no importance as an individual, and often you are only vaguely relevant as a secondary market. Especially if you are a niche market.
AMD isn't in the business of selling video card drivers, just the video cards.
To a distributor. Who sells them to a retailer. Who sells them to you.
When your mom-and-pop computer shop opens their own chip manufacturing plant and sells direct to the public, then your opinion might start to matter.
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Not particularly, no. I don't really mind the government maintaining a DNA database.
This is the same UK government that is so expertly careful about protecting personal information. Any information you give them (and I mean anything... contact details, date of birth, NI number (=SSN for you Americans), medical history, tax returns, your library borrowing list that shows you have a penchant for lycanthropic porn, etc. etc.) you may as well cut out the middleman and post it on MySpace for the world to read, chances are it will become that public in short order anyway. And you're willing to trust them with your DNA?
In that case I have a bridge you may be interested in purchasing...
Is he claiming that not one single soldier (all of whom are armed to the teeth) has ever been "forced" to do something? Wow, I didn't realise the military was run by consensus at every level.
Idiot.
Even so...
1% of 365.25 = 3.6525
I don't know how you got 3.9...
.tel someone who cares.
I can understand something like the .XXX tld, for the purpose of openly idenfitying what a site is (and ease in blocking porn sites in school LAN's and such)
Yes, because it is absolutely impossible for anyone to figure out "who is" the owner of a blocked domain name and IP address, and then browse to that host by IP address. Especially teenage children, who demographically are the most inept computer users.
Seriously, the justification provided for the XXX TLD was not half-assed. As far as ideas go, it was more like an infected blackhead on the surface of an inflamed haemorrhoid attached to the prolapsed sphincter of whatever was left of the ass.
Frankly, you should be embarrassed for even bringing it up. And see your doctor for some topical cream or something.
will incorrectly block up to 628.3 Encyclopedia Brittanicas per Library of Congress.
There, fixed that for you.
I am pretty sure 2 9s of uptime would be 3.9 days of downtime a year.
Not quite... not far off, but the math is so easy I'm surprised you didn't get it: two 9's = 99%... which means 1% downtime. Now 1% of 365 days = 3.65 days.
Not to mention the difficulty of scheduling a possibly several hour phone conversation during business hours PST when you're in Iraq.
Given that this is Dell Support we're talking about, I'm assuming the PST you're referring to is actually "Pakistan Standard Time" which is only 30 minutes different from Afghanistan, and 2 hours from Iraq... shouldn't be much of a problem really.
Obviously, if you change your passwords, you have to change what's in the safety deposit box, so there is some upkeep there.
Actually it can be easier than that. You just need to escrow one single key for decryption somewhere (on a USB key in a safe deposit box seems to be the popular choice).
Then you can keep an encrypted list of passwords on your system and update them whenever you like, with no upkeep unless you decide to change the encryption. After death, the key is released to whoever, they decrypt your list, etc.
There are already plenty of programs that can do this (AnyPassword is one for Windows that I'm aware of, although the encryption strength is not military grade).
France doesn't even play Baseball
Excusez-moi?
This is a fairly old argument, and in a dev/test environment it is not accurate. Databases and other disk intensive operations may experience performance issues when virtualized, however there are ways around this, pass-thru disks, iscsi storage (which can be done with software on the host box), etc.
Whoa, tiger! Remember this guy is a n00b program manager, you think he'll be able to configure and maintain all that?
Personally, I think he should make sure he gets a mauve-colored database, because it has the most RAM...
Got a link to support that 6.5 billion figure? Per my earlier link above, the UK government itself is claiming operating costs are 1.2 billion... Even assuming your ticket revenue figure is correct, that's still a 25% profit.
The objections you rise are valid. Thankfully the smartcard industry knows how to handle them.
Yeah, because they've been doing a great job so far...
Back-of-the-envelope calculations:
* 1,037,000,000 passenger trips a year.
* Ticket price varies roughly in a range of 2-4 GBP per trip.
* That comes to maybe 3,000 million GBP annual revenue.
Yes, that's 3 billion pounds (American billion) give or take a bit, which is more than the GDP for most of the smaller African nations. Apparently this is all used to cover operating costs, although annual operating cost is actually in the region of 1.2 billion pounds (PDF warning, see section 3).
Sounds to me like they're actually turning a hefty profit.
Off the top of my head...
1. Anyone capable of altering the card can give themselves free unlimited travel.
2. If the card is damaged to the point where it no longer works, you lose your remaining balance.
It's the RFID equivalent of storing all your Internet banking data (accounts, balances, etc.) on the client side as a browser cookie.
Does anybody know if OpenBSD (or any *BSD for that matter) has ever received a rating?
After hours of meticulous research, I've discovered *BSD is apparently rated as "DEAD", as confirmed by Netcraft.
I know it's true, I read it here on /. !
So even if a Linux distro wanted to be verified at a higher level - who's going to fork over the dough?
How about the NSA themselves? (a) They're the people doing the certification anyway; and (b) they pretty much built SELinux themselves... sounds like a good fit if you ask me.
I thought it was funny, even if the mods didn't...
No, we just get the flyboys to turn their F/A-18s into submarines for the holiday season...
Mod -1 Analogy that does not explicitly mention cars
Even if the code had disclaimers, they won't necessarily stop someone bringing a lawsuit (although they might stop them from winning that suit, assuming they are legal and binding in the relevant jurisdiction, which is a big assumption). And even frivolous lawsuits can be expensive for an individual to defend - a company has a bigger bankroll.
How do you know it wasn't actually Budweiser?
Here's a thought: if the employer claims all your free-time coding is their property, does that then mean they take on the liability for that work?
EG. someone sues you over a bug in some code you wrote. Can you then say "Sorry, this code is actually property of my employer, LargeEvilMegaCorporation. Please direct your suit to their immense legal department, grab your ankles and prepare for a reaming"...
If the employer wants to have their cake, they'd damn well better be prepared to eat it too.
your mom may not have told you this, but businesses depend on their customers to make money. so listening to consumers and meeting consumer demands is generally a good idea (ever heard of market research?)
There's your problem: for most big businesses, consumer != customer. As a consumer you have no importance as an individual, and often you are only vaguely relevant as a secondary market. Especially if you are a niche market.
AMD isn't in the business of selling video card drivers, just the video cards.
To a distributor. Who sells them to a retailer. Who sells them to you.
When your mom-and-pop computer shop opens their own chip manufacturing plant and sells direct to the public, then your opinion might start to matter.
She should be exiled.
Or elected.