People keep saying that, but that's not what I'm seeing:
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads>gpg --verify TrueCrypt-7.2.exe.sig gpg: Signature made 05/27/14 12:58:45 using DSA key ID F0D6B1E0 gpg: Good signature from "TrueCrypt Foundation "
The key I have isn't new:
pub 1024D/F0D6B1E0 2004-06-06 uid TrueCrypt Foundation sub 4077g/6B136ECF 2004-06-06
The new binary has not been signed with a new key.
"Stark Trek Luminaries?" was my first thought. Best I can tell, Marc Zicree only wrote two treatments (a detailed outline) for all of Trek. One episode for TNG, and one (bad) one for DS9. He didn't write the script for either. That means he was a freelancer, not a staff writer, and the writing staff didn't like his treatments enough to let him write the scripts. He only has one credit for Babylon 5 and his five credits for Sliders came at the end of the show, when it was garbage.
I wouldn't bet on much quality coming out of this "legendary sci-fi writer". That's a joke. Did Marc Zicree send this in himself or something?
That project in Alaska burned me up. $5.2 million to bring broadband to 60 people when my county's application only wanted about $4.1 million to bring broadband to *40,000* people. What's wrong with that picture?
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I hope it doesn't. I'll be extremely upset if it does. This money isn't for you. You've got broadband, I don't. Nobody around here does. No 2Mbps DSL, no 30Mbps cable, no wireless, not anything.
This money is supposed to go to underserved and unserved areas, not make your existing connection faster. If you want a faster connection, complain to your provider. I don't even have that luxury because there are no providers here.
What part of that don't people get? Why would it ever be acceptable to spend millions of dollars cranking up the speed of an existing connection "just a faster connection for day to day stuff" when there are millions of people that don't have anything at all?
To hell with that. I'm sorry your DSL isn't as fast as you want, but least you've got it.
Apple hardware launches are like game launches, they have a huge legion of fans that buy anything they make which means huge upfront sales that don't hold. Apple will not sell 1 million iPads per month. Comparing a hardware launch month to regular sales (for an entire class of hardware no less instead of an individual item) is apples and oranges right off the bat.
Didn't Apple say it sold 300,000 iPads in the first day (projected 700,000 by analysts)? That would mean they only sold another 600,000 in the remaining 30 days.
Day 1: 300k Days 2-30: 20k per day average.
48 million netbook units per year is ~131,000 per day, average. A straight average, while Apple's is a curve from the launch.
The telcos will never, ever run new lines to people like you. The cost per subscriber would be so high that they could never recover their investment, ever (factoring in time-value of money).
Sorry, but that's BS. They can build it out and it will cost a lot, but it's an investment, not a loss. And for telcos not even all that large.
Consider my own situation. I live roughly 9 miles from the exchange, and from what I understand it'd take a grand total of 1 regenerator to reach me. But that's not even necessary, because I also live roughly 1.9 miles from an equipment site that has power, a cinderblock "shed" with halon fire suppression systems and air conditioning, and perhaps 4-5 outdoor metal boxes with various equipment inside of them -- all connected to that exchange I just mentioned via fiber, fiber that has been in the ground for half a decade already.
If they put a DSLAM out there and flip a switch, not only do the people out here get DSL, they get pretty decent DSL at that. So what's that cost, $100k? $150k today?
You can't tell me with a straight face that they can't afford that investment. I've got a dial tone, and I've got electricity. Those lines weren't paid for with magic beans, they were paid out of debt and have long since been recouped.
Either these shitty companies need to start making investments -- for their own damn good -- or the government needs to force them to do it. Hell, we're bailing out the insurance companies, let's bail out the telcos too while we're at it. At least it'll be a one-time thing.
In the article, broadband internet and cellular access are considered to be available to everyone, though many Americans are still without decent internet access.
Well that's news to me, since I have no broadband. Sprint->Embarq->CenturySomethingOrOther has told our county that they've rolled out all the service they intend to, pretty much. My exchange isn't even over 50% for DSL availability. Time Warner has told the county the same thing. They've got all the easy customers they want and are telling anyone that asks from the state that they have no intention of rolling out new service anywhere, for any reason. Not even if the state pays them with subsidies and grants. Both companies have refused to even submit proposals for the broadband stimulus money -- they don't want it. They've got what they want and screw the entire communities being left behind.
So AT&T, fuck you. There are a ton of people in this country that have nothing and will get nothing for the foreseeable future.
As to landlines, fuck you again. I get one bar at home and have to wander around the yard to send a text. My battery that lasts 14 days in any normal place lasts about a day out here, it has to run so hot. I've got 40,000 people with me, so it's not like there are five guys living in a barn out here.
I swear these telco companies are some of the most evil our country has.
A treatment is akin to an inventor writing down an idea on a cocktail napkin. Before they even get to the pilot script, it'll have to be expanded by another nine pages or so, and if it exists as part a development deal rather than something done on spec, it'll most likely go back and forth between the exec and the studio a half dozen times before just that ten page treatment is given the OK.
The pilot script will probably go through at least that amount of haggling, and would need to be followed up with or maybe even proceeded by an entire series treatment which will probably take weeks if not months to do, before the studio would even consider shooting the pilot.
Not trying to rain on the parade or anything, I just want to put into perspective what this means, which isn't a whole lot right now. This is step one out of tens of dozens. Long way to go here.
Other networks are in the same fight. I wrote about this two months ago when Variety hit on it and again just now on Newsvine. NBC, ABC, and CBS are all in it with the Guild right now and it's going to come to a head when the contract is up next year.
"When I send somebody an e-mail, I expect them to respond. One day is nothing. Two days if you're busy, I can understand and appreciate that. Three days is rude, and anything beyond that is stupid. We're not talking about sitting down to write an essay here, some grand quest to prove to everyone that you do actually know how to spell, use grammar, punctuation, and occasionally capitalize letters. I'm talking about a simple "Sorry, I don't have any information about that." How hard was that? It takes a few seconds to read, a few to comprehend, and a few more to pen an answer.
Seriously, what is the point of having e-mail if you aren't going to use it? How can you ever expect it to be useful when you treat it with all the responsibility of a two-year-old? When the phone rings, you answer it. You wouldn't for a second think about letting it ring, figuring they'll just call back in a few weeks. And what the hell makes you think you're so special that someone who obviously wants something from you is going to find it acceptable that you made them wait days if not weeks to be blessed with your response?
This past week, I sent an e-mail to an executive producer for a TV show that airs on the SCI FI channel. I'm pretty sure I sent that on either a Friday or a Saturday night, and got a reply on Monday. That's fine, business and all that. I pinged him back, and within minutes got another reply. He was obviously sitting right there still dealing with his mail, and I appreciated him taking the time to help me out with something. But that's the rub, I appreciated him not taking a month to get back to me, something that otherwise should be baseline. It should be commendable that you answer your email within hours, not that you answered it at all." [...]
If by "3rd party mods" you mean Valve hiring John Cook and Robin Walker of TFS (TeamFortress Software), and having them (as well as other employees I'm sure) create TFC to be published by Valve...
If you break the law which they clearly have, you are going to get punished for it. If you don't want the FBI to come and take your stuff, well gee, DON'T GIVE THEM A REASON. K? Good.
I don't work for the cable company, but I'm pretty sure this is not possible. You see, cable systems are very similar to satellites in how they send information. Satellites 'broadcast' their signal to almost every inch of ground in an area that's thousands of miles wide. Anyone with an antenna in this area can recieve it, in order to have a business that sells services, they do something to the signal so that only their equipment can recieve/understand the data.
Since the Satellite can't simply aim at a single person to communicate with them, something must be used so that each client on the ground (in cable's case in your home) can figure out what data is intendted for it.
What this all boils down to is, every bit of information that you request is sent to everyone on your node (in your neighborhood). Each piece of data has something unique about it that allows your cable modem to percieve that data is destined for it and nobody else (encryption, packet modification, something like that).
Your modem is programmed to only acknowledge incoming data (TCP requires that you ACKnowledge you have recieved every single packet) at a certain rate, this is called rate limiting. Since all incoming data is sent to everyone, not just you, this rate limiting has to be done at the consumer site.
This is also why cable distribution is so flawed. Even if you are only downloading a file at say 100KB/s, everyone is getting that 100KB a second, their modems are simply ignoring it. With a couple hundred people, you're saturating the 36Mbit/s channel that cable uses for data. DirecPC uses dynamic rate limiting after downloading X data in X hours to avoid this congestion (It's annoying as hell but it work's like magic.)
You are correct, if the system had been designed with data trasnfer in mind it would work much better. But this sytem is really quite old, and we all have to live with it.
I never thought I'd see Postgre make a jump like this, I guess I'll have to reevaluate my thinking after seeing many places start taking hard stands behind MySQL.
I've been running under the assumption that even if MySQL was not entirely (or fractionally) superior to Postgre, it's increasing use in places like Yahoo alone would give it that momentum to roll over better, but less used DB's.
I've heard people swear on their souls that Postgre can stand up to MySQL, I look forward to finding out if this is really true. If it stands on it's own as a truly competitive product, congratulations to the Postgre guys. If however it's drawbacks are real, this could very well crush it forever.
I hope they release the entire launch. The movies on the site in one of the comments (while VERY cool) were all less than thirty seconds or so. I know, maybe racing through clouds is boring, but I'd still like the see the entire thing.
I would have thought something like this would have happened a while ago, and I honestly expected a little more commercial exploitation of technology like this to pick up interest in shuttle launches. Can you imagine an IMAX camera on the outside tank? Or how about something from the inside, with sound and perhaps a unstable mount (a little shaking would make do a lot for conveying what it's like to really fly).
Better yet, how about a camera mounted on the shuttle itself for a landing? (think dashboard, what a view.)
Consolidation great for business, but this..?
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I've never tried any of the distros made by the people behind UnitedLinux, but I liked the idea that even if I found myself straying from my favorite, there were always quite a few other *quality* places to go to get something just a little different. Just because Redhat is growing by leaps and bounds doesn't mean everyone in the game has to come together just to compete. We're talking about things that usually take a while in an industry to happen, when it does a few things occur. Competition decreases, and consumer satisfaction bottoms out with it. Do we really need that kind of thing already?
I know, I'm being a little dramatic, there are tons and tons of distros rolling around but when a few big ones jump into bed, they become something that places like Redhat do have to deal with..I guess the point is why now? Redhat in the grand scheme of things is still pretty small, there's plenty of time to ramp up competition and let everyone use a field of quality products rather than a few.
Maybe of they re-visit this idea in a few years, it'll be more viable. Until them, they should all just chill and keep growing up a bit.
I definately think this is a good thing for linux but how is something that's over 10 years old an up-start OS? It's good PR for sure, and definately proving something we've already known, but describing something with such lax accuracy isn't going to help.
On a side note here I ran across about 10 devices like this last year that stored data and operated with cash registers. I don't remember what OS they had but it was probably some novell or DOS mix. The hardware was minimal, a single PCI slot, 12MB of memory, 800MB hard drives and all non-replacable AMB processors (probably around or under 100mhz, I can't remember).
They had floppy drives and I managed to get slackware running on one of them, but I couldn't get the internal NIC disabled (I put a NE2000 in the PCI slot), so I eventually trashed them. Let's see them try to get windows on those things:P
There's a document somewhere that describes how cable systems work, I wish I had the URL but if you search about I'm sure you can find it. I ran across it trying to find the technical limitations of cable systems to see how fast a dark system would go. If you do the same you'll find that most cable systems can have a very limited upstream capacity, something around 10mbit or something that really constrasts to the downstream limits. You can't give people what you don't have.
If you asked them to do so, you'd be in an even worse situation where you ask the capable company simply not to over-sell their ability to provide good service. But what do you have then? A company losing money. If they limit their customers so everyone has good speed, they only have a fraction of customer base they have now, they can't afford it, then nobody gets anything.
That's probably not a bad thing. They'd be hooking up with someplace that is friendly to that type of serivce and probably serves other businesses like it, slap a blacklist on them THERE and you'd probably nail more scum than innocent people like in this case.
What have you done for our nation's security? How many of the major threats have you personally dealt with? How many drunk drivers have you taken off of the roads? How many child abusers and wife beaters have you locked up? How many weapons have you taken away from high school students?
Completely and totally irrelavent. I have made no claims to have done such things, as such what you have done compared to what I have done means nothing at all. And since that reply wasn't directed at you,... well point made, means nothing.
Point 1: Again, you have the same common misconceptions as everyone else. Judges do NOT enforce the law, they interpret the law. If you go to the court and are fined, the judge has no power to force you to pay it, only the police do. They interpret that you broke traffic laws and issue you a fine, they interpret that you violated a court order and issue a warrant GRANTING THE POLICE THE AUTHORITY TO have you arrested. That's why we have police, you know.
Point 2: Perhaps, perhaps not. Where you go is your choice, if you chose to go to someplace by public means then that fact is public knowledge. You are not hiding your face under a mask or driving in a car with blackened windows, you have no "expectation" of privacy, which is key with the law. What you buy, you buy from a company, that information is their property and unless they signed something saying they would not do XXX with it, or they violate some arcane government privacy law, that is also theirs to do with as they wish. Your social security information are papers, but they most certainly are not yours therefor your claim to privacy is limited. (Read: Confidential) There is no violation here, people just assume too many things about their life to be private by divine right, and it's simply not so.
Point 3: The applications for abuse of a database like this do not even BEGAIN to compare to the ability for the government to violate your rights with the new anti-terrorist laws passed recently. Which would you rather care about, some guy selling your address or criminal record to a company that wants information on you, or the FBI wire-tapping you without a warrant? How about the ability to hold you without a charge on suspiscions of terrorism? I hope you are never arrested since it's perfectly legal for them to listen to your conversations with your lawyer now.
Point 4: I'm not proposing better solutions because I'm not attacking ones brought to light by others. My point is what you take as a right to personal privacy is just not private. Your person, your place and your things are private, information, especially that which you do not OWN is not.
There are much more important things for you to worry about and yet here you are attacking something that 1. May help better secure our country 2. help you in the future by making POSSIBLY important information available to any agency that may need it in due course.
Not every person that disagrees with privacy nuts is instantly the enemy, a die-hard government supporter that would sell their mother for a dime. Most people who agree that things like this are needed are much more in tune with the reality of privacy and how our government functions as well as the bigger picture of just how much our lives have changed.
We are not giving up more freedom for security here, we are coming to the realization that certain freedoms never existed in the first place. We are finally coming down to earth and saying "This will make things better and safer for us all, some things are just worth putting up with."
And for reference, I did not call you a name, I described yours (and everyone elses) actions.
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People keep saying that, but that's not what I'm seeing:
C:\Users\Paul\Downloads>gpg --verify TrueCrypt-7.2.exe.sig
gpg: Signature made 05/27/14 12:58:45 using DSA key ID F0D6B1E0
gpg: Good signature from "TrueCrypt Foundation "
The key I have isn't new:
pub 1024D/F0D6B1E0 2004-06-06
uid TrueCrypt Foundation
sub 4077g/6B136ECF 2004-06-06
The new binary has not been signed with a new key.
"Stark Trek Luminaries?" was my first thought. Best I can tell, Marc Zicree only wrote two treatments (a detailed outline) for all of Trek. One episode for TNG, and one (bad) one for DS9. He didn't write the script for either. That means he was a freelancer, not a staff writer, and the writing staff didn't like his treatments enough to let him write the scripts. He only has one credit for Babylon 5 and his five credits for Sliders came at the end of the show, when it was garbage.
I wouldn't bet on much quality coming out of this "legendary sci-fi writer". That's a joke. Did Marc Zicree send this in himself or something?
Doug Drexler's resume is hardly legendary either.
Most YouTube videos are 360P at 330 Kbps, topping out at 720P at 2.25 Mbps. But I hear 720P is very rare. (Source)
That project in Alaska burned me up. $5.2 million to bring broadband to 60 people when my county's application only wanted about $4.1 million to bring broadband to *40,000* people. What's wrong with that picture?
I hope that this will affect us somehow.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I hope it doesn't. I'll be extremely upset if it does. This money isn't for you. You've got broadband, I don't. Nobody around here does. No 2Mbps DSL, no 30Mbps cable, no wireless, not anything.
This money is supposed to go to underserved and unserved areas, not make your existing connection faster. If you want a faster connection, complain to your provider. I don't even have that luxury because there are no providers here.
What part of that don't people get? Why would it ever be acceptable to spend millions of dollars cranking up the speed of an existing connection "just a faster connection for day to day stuff" when there are millions of people that don't have anything at all?
To hell with that. I'm sorry your DSL isn't as fast as you want, but least you've got it.
Apple hardware launches are like game launches, they have a huge legion of fans that buy anything they make which means huge upfront sales that don't hold. Apple will not sell 1 million iPads per month. Comparing a hardware launch month to regular sales (for an entire class of hardware no less instead of an individual item) is apples and oranges right off the bat.
Didn't Apple say it sold 300,000 iPads in the first day (projected 700,000 by analysts)? That would mean they only sold another 600,000 in the remaining 30 days.
Day 1: 300k
Days 2-30: 20k per day average.
48 million netbook units per year is ~131,000 per day, average. A straight average, while Apple's is a curve from the launch.
Sorry, but that's BS. They can build it out and it will cost a lot, but it's an investment, not a loss. And for telcos not even all that large.
Consider my own situation. I live roughly 9 miles from the exchange, and from what I understand it'd take a grand total of 1 regenerator to reach me. But that's not even necessary, because I also live roughly 1.9 miles from an equipment site that has power, a cinderblock "shed" with halon fire suppression systems and air conditioning, and perhaps 4-5 outdoor metal boxes with various equipment inside of them -- all connected to that exchange I just mentioned via fiber, fiber that has been in the ground for half a decade already.
If they put a DSLAM out there and flip a switch, not only do the people out here get DSL, they get pretty decent DSL at that. So what's that cost, $100k? $150k today?
You can't tell me with a straight face that they can't afford that investment. I've got a dial tone, and I've got electricity. Those lines weren't paid for with magic beans, they were paid out of debt and have long since been recouped.
Either these shitty companies need to start making investments -- for their own damn good -- or the government needs to force them to do it. Hell, we're bailing out the insurance companies, let's bail out the telcos too while we're at it. At least it'll be a one-time thing.
Well that's news to me, since I have no broadband. Sprint->Embarq->CenturySomethingOrOther has told our county that they've rolled out all the service they intend to, pretty much. My exchange isn't even over 50% for DSL availability. Time Warner has told the county the same thing. They've got all the easy customers they want and are telling anyone that asks from the state that they have no intention of rolling out new service anywhere, for any reason. Not even if the state pays them with subsidies and grants. Both companies have refused to even submit proposals for the broadband stimulus money -- they don't want it. They've got what they want and screw the entire communities being left behind.
So AT&T, fuck you. There are a ton of people in this country that have nothing and will get nothing for the foreseeable future.
As to landlines, fuck you again. I get one bar at home and have to wander around the yard to send a text. My battery that lasts 14 days in any normal place lasts about a day out here, it has to run so hot. I've got 40,000 people with me, so it's not like there are five guys living in a barn out here.
I swear these telco companies are some of the most evil our country has.
A treatment is akin to an inventor writing down an idea on a cocktail napkin. Before they even get to the pilot script, it'll have to be expanded by another nine pages or so, and if it exists as part a development deal rather than something done on spec, it'll most likely go back and forth between the exec and the studio a half dozen times before just that ten page treatment is given the OK.
The pilot script will probably go through at least that amount of haggling, and would need to be followed up with or maybe even proceeded by an entire series treatment which will probably take weeks if not months to do, before the studio would even consider shooting the pilot.
Not trying to rain on the parade or anything, I just want to put into perspective what this means, which isn't a whole lot right now. This is step one out of tens of dozens. Long way to go here.
Other networks are in the same fight. I wrote about this two months ago when Variety hit on it and again just now on Newsvine. NBC, ABC, and CBS are all in it with the Guild right now and it's going to come to a head when the contract is up next year.
Not a study, but I did write about it...
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"When I send somebody an e-mail, I expect them to respond. One day is nothing. Two days if you're busy, I can understand and appreciate that. Three days is rude, and anything beyond that is stupid. We're not talking about sitting down to write an essay here, some grand quest to prove to everyone that you do actually know how to spell, use grammar, punctuation, and occasionally capitalize letters. I'm talking about a simple "Sorry, I don't have any information about that." How hard was that? It takes a few seconds to read, a few to comprehend, and a few more to pen an answer.
Seriously, what is the point of having e-mail if you aren't going to use it? How can you ever expect it to be useful when you treat it with all the responsibility of a two-year-old? When the phone rings, you answer it. You wouldn't for a second think about letting it ring, figuring they'll just call back in a few weeks. And what the hell makes you think you're so special that someone who obviously wants something from you is going to find it acceptable that you made them wait days if not weeks to be blessed with your response?
This past week, I sent an e-mail to an executive producer for a TV show that airs on the SCI FI channel. I'm pretty sure I sent that on either a Friday or a Saturday night, and got a reply on Monday. That's fine, business and all that. I pinged him back, and within minutes got another reply. He was obviously sitting right there still dealing with his mail, and I appreciated him taking the time to help me out with something. But that's the rub, I appreciated him not taking a month to get back to me, something that otherwise should be baseline. It should be commendable that you answer your email within hours, not that you answered it at all." [...]
Rest is over here - http://bitch-what.blogspot.com/2006/08/e-mail-is-
If by "3rd party mods" you mean Valve hiring John Cook and Robin Walker of TFS (TeamFortress Software), and having them (as well as other employees I'm sure) create TFC to be published by Valve...
...well 'nuff said.
Update: 11/25 12:35 GMT by H: Yep, it's a dupe. Nope, I haven't had my coffee yet.
More like:
Update: 11/25 12:35 GMT by H: Yep, it's a dupe. Nope, I have no journalistic integrity.
If you break the law which they clearly have, you are going to get punished for it. If you don't want the FBI to come and take your stuff, well gee, DON'T GIVE THEM A REASON. K? Good.
I don't work for the cable company, but I'm pretty sure this is not possible. You see, cable systems are very similar to satellites in how they send information. Satellites 'broadcast' their signal to almost every inch of ground in an area that's thousands of miles wide. Anyone with an antenna in this area can recieve it, in order to have a business that sells services, they do something to the signal so that only their equipment can recieve/understand the data.
Since the Satellite can't simply aim at a single person to communicate with them, something must be used so that each client on the ground (in cable's case in your home) can figure out what data is intendted for it.
What this all boils down to is, every bit of information that you request is sent to everyone on your node (in your neighborhood). Each piece of data has something unique about it that allows your cable modem to percieve that data is destined for it and nobody else (encryption, packet modification, something like that).
Your modem is programmed to only acknowledge incoming data (TCP requires that you ACKnowledge you have recieved every single packet) at a certain rate, this is called rate limiting. Since all incoming data is sent to everyone, not just you, this rate limiting has to be done at the consumer site.
This is also why cable distribution is so flawed. Even if you are only downloading a file at say 100KB/s, everyone is getting that 100KB a second, their modems are simply ignoring it. With a couple hundred people, you're saturating the 36Mbit/s channel that cable uses for data. DirecPC uses dynamic rate limiting after downloading X data in X hours to avoid this congestion (It's annoying as hell but it work's like magic.)
You are correct, if the system had been designed with data trasnfer in mind it would work much better. But this sytem is really quite old, and we all have to live with it.
If there is no encoder, it's not a codec, it's just a dec. Some literacy, please.
I never thought I'd see Postgre make a jump like this, I guess I'll have to reevaluate my thinking after seeing many places start taking hard stands behind MySQL.
I've been running under the assumption that even if MySQL was not entirely (or fractionally) superior to Postgre, it's increasing use in places like Yahoo alone would give it that momentum to roll over better, but less used DB's.
I've heard people swear on their souls that Postgre can stand up to MySQL, I look forward to finding out if this is really true. If it stands on it's own as a truly competitive product, congratulations to the Postgre guys. If however it's drawbacks are real, this could very well crush it forever.
I hope they release the entire launch. The movies on the site in one of the comments (while VERY cool) were all less than thirty seconds or so. I know, maybe racing through clouds is boring, but I'd still like the see the entire thing.
I would have thought something like this would have happened a while ago, and I honestly expected a little more commercial exploitation of technology like this to pick up interest in shuttle launches. Can you imagine an IMAX camera on the outside tank? Or how about something from the inside, with sound and perhaps a unstable mount (a little shaking would make do a lot for conveying what it's like to really fly).
Better yet, how about a camera mounted on the shuttle itself for a landing? (think dashboard, what a view.)
I've never tried any of the distros made by the people behind UnitedLinux, but I liked the idea that even if I found myself straying from my favorite, there were always quite a few other *quality* places to go to get something just a little different. Just because Redhat is growing by leaps and bounds doesn't mean everyone in the game has to come together just to compete. We're talking about things that usually take a while in an industry to happen, when it does a few things occur. Competition decreases, and consumer satisfaction bottoms out with it. Do we really need that kind of thing already?
I know, I'm being a little dramatic, there are tons and tons of distros rolling around but when a few big ones jump into bed, they become something that places like Redhat do have to deal with..I guess the point is why now? Redhat in the grand scheme of things is still pretty small, there's plenty of time to ramp up competition and let everyone use a field of quality products rather than a few.
Maybe of they re-visit this idea in a few years, it'll be more viable. Until them, they should all just chill and keep growing up a bit.
Pardon, I meant AMD, not AMB. ;)
I definately think this is a good thing for linux but how is something that's over 10 years old an up-start OS? It's good PR for sure, and definately proving something we've already known, but describing something with such lax accuracy isn't going to help.
:P
On a side note here I ran across about 10 devices like this last year that stored data and operated with cash registers. I don't remember what OS they had but it was probably some novell or DOS mix. The hardware was minimal, a single PCI slot, 12MB of memory, 800MB hard drives and all non-replacable AMB processors (probably around or under 100mhz, I can't remember).
They had floppy drives and I managed to get slackware running on one of them, but I couldn't get the internal NIC disabled (I put a NE2000 in the PCI slot), so I eventually trashed them. Let's see them try to get windows on those things
There's a document somewhere that describes how cable systems work, I wish I had the URL but if you search about I'm sure you can find it. I ran across it trying to find the technical limitations of cable systems to see how fast a dark system would go. If you do the same you'll find that most cable systems can have a very limited upstream capacity, something around 10mbit or something that really constrasts to the downstream limits. You can't give people what you don't have.
If you asked them to do so, you'd be in an even worse situation where you ask the capable company simply not to over-sell their ability to provide good service. But what do you have then? A company losing money. If they limit their customers so everyone has good speed, they only have a fraction of customer base they have now, they can't afford it, then nobody gets anything.
That's probably not a bad thing. They'd be hooking up with someplace that is friendly to that type of serivce and probably serves other businesses like it, slap a blacklist on them THERE and you'd probably nail more scum than innocent people like in this case.
What have you done for our nation's security? How many of the major threats have you personally dealt with? How many drunk drivers have you taken off of the roads? How many child abusers and wife beaters have you locked up? How many weapons have you taken away from high school students?
... well point made, means nothing.
Completely and totally irrelavent. I have made no claims to have done such things, as such what you have done compared to what I have done means nothing at all. And since that reply wasn't directed at you,
Point 1: Again, you have the same common misconceptions as everyone else. Judges do NOT enforce the law, they interpret the law. If you go to the court and are fined, the judge has no power to force you to pay it, only the police do. They interpret that you broke traffic laws and issue you a fine, they interpret that you violated a court order and issue a warrant GRANTING THE POLICE THE AUTHORITY TO have you arrested. That's why we have police, you know.
Point 2: Perhaps, perhaps not. Where you go is your choice, if you chose to go to someplace by public means then that fact is public knowledge. You are not hiding your face under a mask or driving in a car with blackened windows, you have no "expectation" of privacy, which is key with the law. What you buy, you buy from a company, that information is their property and unless they signed something saying they would not do XXX with it, or they violate some arcane government privacy law, that is also theirs to do with as they wish. Your social security information are papers, but they most certainly are not yours therefor your claim to privacy is limited. (Read: Confidential) There is no violation here, people just assume too many things about their life to be private by divine right, and it's simply not so.
Point 3: The applications for abuse of a database like this do not even BEGAIN to compare to the ability for the government to violate your rights with the new anti-terrorist laws passed recently. Which would you rather care about, some guy selling your address or criminal record to a company that wants information on you, or the FBI wire-tapping you without a warrant? How about the ability to hold you without a charge on suspiscions of terrorism? I hope you are never arrested since it's perfectly legal for them to listen to your conversations with your lawyer now.
Point 4: I'm not proposing better solutions because I'm not attacking ones brought to light by others. My point is what you take as a right to personal privacy is just not private. Your person, your place and your things are private, information, especially that which you do not OWN is not.
There are much more important things for you to worry about and yet here you are attacking something that 1. May help better secure our country 2. help you in the future by making POSSIBLY important information available to any agency that may need it in due course.
Not every person that disagrees with privacy nuts is instantly the enemy, a die-hard government supporter that would sell their mother for a dime. Most people who agree that things like this are needed are much more in tune with the reality of privacy and how our government functions as well as the bigger picture of just how much our lives have changed.
We are not giving up more freedom for security here, we are coming to the realization that certain freedoms never existed in the first place. We are finally coming down to earth and saying "This will make things better and safer for us all, some things are just worth putting up with."
And for reference, I did not call you a name, I described yours (and everyone elses) actions.