I knew a person who didn't get a prescription filled in time, and when she took the first anti-depressant, whe immediately changed in personality. Clearly, the pill takes longer than that to take effect: the placebo effect is stronger than the actual medication!
(The 'i'm not a script' thingy is damn near impossible to read!!!! WTF?!?)
They already do, or the vast majority do. It's called an IP address.
Often the current IP addresses are not uniquely identifying to web sites. Only my ISP has knowledge of which IP address is assigned to me at this moment, out of their pool of many thousands of addresses. Of course, static IP addresses are a different matter, but those are not as common among home users as they are among businesses.
Pop Tarts have a few token vitamins and minerals thrown in, which is good marketing to naive parents. Also, most health food snack bars are not better than the Pop Tarts. It's all marketing marketing marketing.
It takes patience, but if you read all the labels, it is possible to find things like granola bars that have no hydrogenated oil, less puffed rice, and a respectable amount of fiber. But out of a dozen brands of granola, for example, odds are only one is the real deal.
The best part of DHCP and NAT: plausible deniability.
My IP address changes each time I reset my DSL, for example, which is what keeps places like OSNews still anonymous, in spite of the domains being posted along with comments.
NAT is also tremendously convenient for home networks. I have to only deal with my ISP for my DSL modem. The rest is up to me.
So, IMO, for every disadvantage of NAT, there are two advantages.
Well intentioned parents buy their kids crap like Pop Tarts or NutriGrain bars thinking they are healthy. Well read the ingredients and the nutrition label. Practically no fiber, and corn syrup and hydrogenated fat dominate.
Most of the breakfast convenience foods are just candy packaged differently. It's better to eat a piece of fruit (low glycemic index) or whole wheat toast, which, suprise suprise, are just as convenient!
CVS isn't better. In fact, CVS is worse. It places odd and unhelpful restrictions on the file history, such as the classic problem of restructuring directories under CVS.
In the FOSS world, I'm convinced that CVS is used because no one could muster replacing it until recently. Now, CVS simply has inertia carrying it on for many projects. It is gradually being phased out for better options as they mature.
CVS to version control is like using a small flat screwdriver to drive a phillips screw if left no other choice. The flat screwdriver can get the job done, but it might end up bent, the screw stripped, and the user injured due to it slipping when torqued.
I actively delete email, even with the huge inbox quotas, because a full inbox is ripe for identity theft. If a cracker can pick up lots of details about you from archived e-mail, it's likely they can social-engineer their way to the rest of your assets.
I don't even put things like account numbers on my PC, because all it takes is a new type of worm to e-mail a spreadsheet or Quicken file to some offshore server.
IMO, people are extremely complacent about information security, and it will burn society even further than all the recently publicised data compromises.
So what happens when we can quite easily put every piece of digital media we've ever even thought about owning -- all the movies, all the games -- on a single disk, without ever having to delete anything?
Civilization stops advancing, because we would become so obsessed with recording the present. Our children could spend the second half of their life watching the first half, and they will probably be looking for people to blame for their miserable existence (hey, I _was_ dropped on my head as an infant!).
This is neat and all, but when the Internet spontaneously starts remembering how you like your toast in the morning and photographs your wife (for, um, security purposes) while in the dressing room, then will it be so neat?
275K profit in 6 years...your profit alone is over twice the value of my 3BR house with an acre of land! No wonder some people say real estate is the new gold rush.
As for SQL I do not agree with point 4: SQL does not perform very well. We're in the age of Ghz processors, fast disk drives and it *still* is an performance issue to add a few million records to a database?
With tuning it isn't so bad. Usually a piss-poor database reflects on piss-poor developers.
Also, the better SQL engines out there have a decade+ of refinement and stability, along with transactional integrity on all those millions of inserts.
IBM is a master marketeer to have such a huge fan base at Slashdot, when IBM probably develops as much or more proprietary software than Microsoft (DB2, mainframe OS, Smartsuite, "IBM Global Services" consulting, AIX, etc.).
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I knew a person who didn't get a prescription filled in time, and when she took the first anti-depressant, whe immediately changed in personality. Clearly, the pill takes longer than that to take effect: the placebo effect is stronger than the actual medication!
(The 'i'm not a script' thingy is damn near impossible to read!!!! WTF?!?)
They already do, or the vast majority do. It's called an IP address.
Often the current IP addresses are not uniquely identifying to web sites. Only my ISP has knowledge of which IP address is assigned to me at this moment, out of their pool of many thousands of addresses. Of course, static IP addresses are a different matter, but those are not as common among home users as they are among businesses.
I've heard that the most popular food for infants under 1 year old is french fries. Gotta get'em started young to raise'em right, you know.
Pop Tarts have a few token vitamins and minerals thrown in, which is good marketing to naive parents. Also, most health food snack bars are not better than the Pop Tarts. It's all marketing marketing marketing.
It takes patience, but if you read all the labels, it is possible to find things like granola bars that have no hydrogenated oil, less puffed rice, and a respectable amount of fiber. But out of a dozen brands of granola, for example, odds are only one is the real deal.
Porn might be the biggest obstacle. Do people really want to access porn sites with a unique identifying address in every packet they send?
The best part of DHCP and NAT: plausible deniability.
My IP address changes each time I reset my DSL, for example, which is what keeps places like OSNews still anonymous, in spite of the domains being posted along with comments.
NAT is also tremendously convenient for home networks. I have to only deal with my ISP for my DSL modem. The rest is up to me.
So, IMO, for every disadvantage of NAT, there are two advantages.
Well intentioned parents buy their kids crap like Pop Tarts or NutriGrain bars thinking they are healthy. Well read the ingredients and the nutrition label. Practically no fiber, and corn syrup and hydrogenated fat dominate.
Most of the breakfast convenience foods are just candy packaged differently. It's better to eat a piece of fruit (low glycemic index) or whole wheat toast, which, suprise suprise, are just as convenient!
How does this get modded insightful?!?
All of mankind could dump their waste heat into the oceans, and I'd be we couldn't even measure the change.
I'd bet more energy is dumped by undersea volcanic vents than we'd put there.
Hmmm...what's this feeling? Is that my brain's sarcasm lobe tingling?
And when it gets hot it expands. Just like me!
"*better since CVS does more than undo and redo."
CVS isn't better. In fact, CVS is worse. It places odd and unhelpful restrictions on the file history, such as the classic problem of restructuring directories under CVS.
In the FOSS world, I'm convinced that CVS is used because no one could muster replacing it until recently. Now, CVS simply has inertia carrying it on for many projects. It is gradually being phased out for better options as they mature.
CVS to version control is like using a small flat screwdriver to drive a phillips screw if left no other choice. The flat screwdriver can get the job done, but it might end up bent, the screw stripped, and the user injured due to it slipping when torqued.
I actively delete email, even with the huge inbox quotas, because a full inbox is ripe for identity theft. If a cracker can pick up lots of details about you from archived e-mail, it's likely they can social-engineer their way to the rest of your assets.
I don't even put things like account numbers on my PC, because all it takes is a new type of worm to e-mail a spreadsheet or Quicken file to some offshore server.
IMO, people are extremely complacent about information security, and it will burn society even further than all the recently publicised data compromises.
So what happens when we can quite easily put every piece of digital media we've ever even thought about owning -- all the movies, all the games -- on a single disk, without ever having to delete anything?
Civilization stops advancing, because we would become so obsessed with recording the present. Our children could spend the second half of their life watching the first half, and they will probably be looking for people to blame for their miserable existence (hey, I _was_ dropped on my head as an infant!).
Internet routed itself around damaged segments
This is neat and all, but when the Internet spontaneously starts remembering how you like your toast in the morning and photographs your wife (for, um, security purposes) while in the dressing room, then will it be so neat?
I feel a little like I felt after seeing the goatse guy...
Well, who wants to bet they're both the same person?
I hear Bill Gates will pat you down himself, rowr!
A "3 Musketeers" in the US is a "Milky Way" in the UK.
A "Milky Way" in the US is a "Mars Bar" in the UK.
A "Mars Bar" in the US is a "Snickers Almond Bar" in the UK.
AAARRRGHH! *head implodes*
I HOPE and PRAY that the embracing of linux on Palm will have the same effect that embracing UNIX had on Apple
Let's see...
Linux interoperates well with UNIX. Linux runs on lots of stuff, including, potentially, future Palm devices.
Sun _is_ UNIX. They interoperate with UNIX by default.
Apple also interoperates well with UNIX.
Microsoft is working with Sun on single sign on, directory stuff, etc.
Open standards _do_ win!
Pizza passes the Dr. Nick diet test!
275K profit in 6 years...your profit alone is over twice the value of my 3BR house with an acre of land! No wonder some people say real estate is the new gold rush.
That's probably so IBM can charge more in licensing and support.
As for SQL I do not agree with point 4: SQL does not perform very well. We're in the age of Ghz processors, fast disk drives and it *still* is an performance issue to add a few million records to a database?
With tuning it isn't so bad. Usually a piss-poor database reflects on piss-poor developers.
Also, the better SQL engines out there have a decade+ of refinement and stability, along with transactional integrity on all those millions of inserts.
WTF is BDB? Another buzzword du jour?
"Like from IBM
And Sun, and Red Hat, and HP, and Novell, and
IBM is a master marketeer to have such a huge fan base at Slashdot, when IBM probably develops as much or more proprietary software than Microsoft (DB2, mainframe OS, Smartsuite, "IBM Global Services" consulting, AIX, etc.).
Wow, looking at the expressions on the mice after seeing the nude woman, they are clearly both gay.
Another notch in the Disney conspiracy theorist bedpost!