The "Here in Canada we have bigger issues..." comment is not true.While we do have some network failover routes that run through the US, most traffic can be and is routed exclusively inside Canada. Almost all government and public sector organizations have laws & policies in place prohibiting network traffic from passing through the United States since the Patriot Act was implemented. Frankly, that act has been great for our network and Data Centre industries. Which is not to say that CSIS are not snooping just like the NSA.
I am trying to understand how you are blocking access to a web site? Do your users all go thru a http proxy? What if they don't? I have three internet access points, none use a web proxy (That I know of:-) Do you block DNS? I can point my dns anywhere I want. Do you block an IP address? Falling back to the Internet sees censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. How do you stop people from routing around you? (WIthout begin China and having controll of all the network links in and out of the country) Just trying to understand this. thanks.
I think it's fair to assume that if there ever comes a time when it is possible for an organisation to come along and create and distribute drugs for free to anyone who wants them, the incumbent drugs companies would fight tooth and nail against it. And they would have a good case. It is illegal in most of the world to sell a product below its cost, especially when you do it to drive a competitor out of business. It is called predatory pricing. OSS would probably be sued out of existance except for the fact that their cost is nearly zero.
What Rogers is attempting with web traffic is standard procedure with their television traffic. They pick up US network feeds, strip out the commercials, substitute their own commercials for a fee, and forward the new stream to Canadian consumers. This is all normal and sanctioned by the CRTC, Canada's broadcast police, and Canadian Law. Go figure. So they must think, "Why not do the same with Web traffic?"
I have done a lot of work installing desktops & servers that were under lease. The hidden pot of gold to the leasing company comes at the end of the lease. Over 90% of businesses are not ready to return the equipment at the end of the lease. They need to arrange upgrades, replacements, new software, whatever. But the leases are financed such that all the costs are covered by the end of the lease, say 36 months. And if the equipment is not returned on the anniversary date, the monthly payments continue until it is returned, or the client buys out the equipment. These payments after 36 months are almost all total profit to the leasing company. HP Financial, Dell Financial and GE Capital all make a killing at this point. If your business is proactive and arranges to replace the equipment as is comes due you do OK, but most get fleeced for 3 or 4 months, some over a year until they can make a decision and implement it.
I don't have much experience viewing BBC, but I watch the US PBS all the time. I think it is head and shoulders above the CBC. The PBS nightly news is first rate. Their panels are always balanced, with one Republican vs one Democrat, or and Industry rep versus and Enviromental rep, etc. The CBC is always slanted to the left, so much so they would never consider inviting someone from a Left-of-Centre think tank. PBS puts out lots of other great shows, like children's programming. I think the CBC should look at what PBS are doing and emulate it.
pet peeve. CBC are Eastern based (and biased), and do a news program at 10PM in the East. Then they re-broadcast that program at 10PM in the West and call it National News. It Ain't./pet peeve
I work for a fairly large corporation, > 27k people. We had Nimda running loose inside our firewall. So did all the major firms in town that I work with. Someone gets a laptop infected at home, then brings it in to work. Poof, the corporation is infected. Best not to run IIS at all.
Maybe this could be a way for hackers to make money. Hey, I found an overflow problem in Bind, send me money and I will tell you what it is. Oh, wait.... That's what they're doing isn't it. Never mind.
You need to grow. The company that you work for needs you to grow. Businesses need people that are willing to take on new challenges as the business takes on new challenges. The business has invested time, money & training in you. So now it is payback time, they want more productivity out of you. A business cannot afford to keep on people that cannot grow with the business, and you can be sure that when they hired you, they thought you had the ability to grow, or they would not have hired you. If you refuse the promotion now, it means that they made a mistake when they hired you, and it will be time for them to admit the mistake, and replace you with someone that CAN grow to the position. It comes down to some old cliches: "Are you a team player?" , "Can you think outside the box (Or your cubicle)" , "Do you have the right stuff". If not, go find a job somewhere else, and let someone with desire to grow take your job.
Remember, a rut is just a grave with both ends open.
I downloaded and installed Netscape 6 tonight on a WindowsNT box. Every site that I visit that has a SUBMIT button, when I hit submit, takes me to the Netscape page as if I had done a search on cgi-bin.
Is this a bug or a feature;-)
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Finally someone has shouted The Emporer has no clothes. MySql is _not_ OpenSource. The developers need to be convinced that opensource is the way to go. Till then, they look like the local heroin pushers, giving out free samples, but sure to raise the price real soon now. Stick with Postgresql, it _is_ Opensource.
I suppose this begs the question "If you were working with a bunch of people who's talents you did not trust what language would you pick?" Are bugs, logic flaws, & poor code easier to find & fix in some other language?
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The "Here in Canada we have bigger issues..." comment is not true.While we do have some network failover routes that run through the US, most traffic can be and is routed exclusively inside Canada. Almost all government and public sector organizations have laws & policies in place prohibiting network traffic from passing through the United States since the Patriot Act was implemented. Frankly, that act has been great for our network and Data Centre industries.
Which is not to say that CSIS are not snooping just like the NSA.
I am trying to understand how you are blocking access to a web site? :-)
Do your users all go thru a http proxy? What if they don't? I have three internet access points, none use a web proxy (That I know of
Do you block DNS? I can point my dns anywhere I want.
Do you block an IP address?
Falling back to the Internet sees censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. How do you stop people from routing around you? (WIthout begin China and having controll of all the network links in and out of the country)
Just trying to understand this. thanks.
Plus Canada has lots of green hydro electricity. And data stored in Canada is exempt from the US Patriot act.
OSS would probably be sued out of existance except for the fact that their cost is nearly zero.
What Rogers is attempting with web traffic is standard procedure with their television traffic. They pick up US network feeds, strip out the commercials, substitute their own commercials for a fee, and forward the new stream to Canadian consumers. This is all normal and sanctioned by the CRTC, Canada's broadcast police, and Canadian Law. Go figure.
So they must think, "Why not do the same with Web traffic?"
Zap2it must have a source for the information. Where do they get the feed? Does anyone know?
I have done a lot of work installing desktops & servers that were under lease. The hidden pot of gold to the leasing company comes at the end of the lease. Over 90% of businesses are not ready to return the equipment at the end of the lease. They need to arrange upgrades, replacements, new software, whatever. But the leases are financed such that all the costs are covered by the end of the lease, say 36 months. And if the equipment is not returned on the anniversary date, the monthly payments continue until it is returned, or the client buys out the equipment. These payments after 36 months are almost all total profit to the leasing company. HP Financial, Dell Financial and GE Capital all make a killing at this point.
If your business is proactive and arranges to replace the equipment as is comes due you do OK, but most get fleeced for 3 or 4 months, some over a year until they can make a decision and implement it.
I don't have much experience viewing BBC, but I watch the US PBS all the time. I think it is head and shoulders above the CBC. The PBS nightly news is first rate. Their panels are always balanced, with one Republican vs one Democrat, or and Industry rep versus and Enviromental rep, etc. The CBC is always slanted to the left, so much so they would never consider inviting someone from a Left-of-Centre think tank.
/pet peeve
PBS puts out lots of other great shows, like children's programming. I think the CBC should look at what PBS are doing and emulate it.
pet peeve. CBC are Eastern based (and biased), and do a news program at 10PM in the East. Then they re-broadcast that program at 10PM in the West and call it National News. It Ain't.
Rules out a lot of perl code that is GPL.
This link has an interesting twist on the story.
http://www.artofsense.com/
Their page says they are an innocent victim. Collateral damage in war talk.
The Lycos site http://www.makelovenotspam.com/ is down, reportedly by spammers hitting back. They had to see it coming, no?!
I work for a fairly large corporation, > 27k people. We had Nimda running loose inside our firewall. So did all the major firms in town that I work with. Someone gets a laptop infected at home, then brings it in to work. Poof, the corporation is infected. Best not to run IIS at all.
Maybe this could be a way for hackers to make money. Hey, I found an overflow problem in Bind, send me money and I will tell you what it is. Oh, wait.... That's what they're doing isn't it. Never mind.
You need to grow. The company that you work for needs you to grow. Businesses need people that are willing to take on new challenges as the business takes on new challenges. The business has invested time, money & training in you. So now it is payback time, they want more productivity out of you. A business cannot afford to keep on people that cannot grow with the business, and you can be sure that when they hired you, they thought you had the ability to grow, or they would not have hired you. If you refuse the promotion now, it means that they made a mistake when they hired you, and it will be time for them to admit the mistake, and replace you with someone that CAN grow to the position. It comes down to some old cliches: "Are you a team player?" , "Can you think outside the box (Or your cubicle)" , "Do you have the right stuff". If not, go find a job somewhere else, and let someone with desire to grow take your job. Remember, a rut is just a grave with both ends open.
I downloaded and installed Netscape 6 tonight on a WindowsNT box. Every site that I visit that has a SUBMIT button, when I hit submit, takes me to the Netscape page as if I had done a search on cgi-bin. Is this a bug or a feature ;-)
Finally someone has shouted The Emporer has no clothes. MySql is _not_ OpenSource. The developers need to be convinced that opensource is the way to go. Till then, they look like the local heroin pushers, giving out free samples, but sure to raise the price real soon now. Stick with Postgresql, it _is_ Opensource.
I suppose this begs the question "If you were working with a bunch of people who's talents you did not trust what language would you pick?" Are bugs, logic flaws, & poor code easier to find & fix in some other language?
You have an IDE hard drive?! Maybe someday you
will get SCSI. Real men use SCSI. Real OS's run
on SCSI. DOS and IDE, both 3 letter words.
Get SCSI.