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list, a DOS text file browser by Vernon D. Buerg. Anyone know where I can get a copy?

> So every iOS or Android device which pops up on our Windows DHCP/DNS needs a CAL

Only if you have Device CALs. If you are using User CALs then each user is licensed for as many devices as they/you want.

We have good sales company (in the UK) with a really great sales REP. We moved with him when he changed companies a couple of years back. We call him up, and we have an open license the next day. That said there are some pretty aweful MS partners.

I thought biggest improvement to the MS website, MSDN and technet included, would be simply to disable the incessant demands for feedback on the webpage or surveys.

Would you like to take a short 25 minute survey? You visited this site 25,000 times previously and we have asked each of those times, but maybe this time you will change your mind and answer the survey.

I set up a small Proxmox cluster, but this statement on their website seems to be misleading: "Proxmox VE is a complete open source server virtualization management software." On our test cluster, it continously prompts for a license.

I had some friends in high school, and during my first couple of year in college who where in the BBS scene who started experimenting with heroin. They started smoking heroin because it was cheaper than pot, and they started smoking pot because they couldn't get beer as easily. All three of them ended up addicted, 2 of them where only into 'smoking' heroin, the third started injecting it. The first guy, who was/is insanely smart, just stopped, but went through severe withdrawal--he learned his lesson when I bumped into him a decade later. The second guy was from an insanely wealthy family, whose family eventually sent him to rehab. The third guy is still a junkie as far as I heard.

I never started because of the education/indoctrination by Nancy Reagan's "just say no." I just said no thanks when offered, and was only able to watch as these guy's lives spiralled out of control.

Healthcare is actually a macro economic question. The private American system is much worse, and more expensive than the British public, universal system which is free at the point of delivery for everyone. Americans spend 17.9% of their GDP on healthcare, while the British only spend 9.6%. Americans are being ripped off by the American healthcare industry.

Personally, I rather pay a 10% tax to cover healthcare rather than 20% of my salary to insurance premiums.

https://docs.google.com/a/hackbinary.com/spreadsheets/d/1aMx...

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...

Euthanasing animals in India, or at least some parts, is illegal because they believe they can not kill animals, therefore many, if not most animals in India die terrible deaths in old age. I am not confident that chickens, goats, nor many other animals in India are well treated and have good quality of lives.

It certainly is not that case that just because you do not consume animals means you keep them in humane conditions.

Seriously? I think people in the west generally care more about animal welfare than in the far east. The UK has the highest animal welfare standards in the world. Sure there are people, farmers and pet keepers that do not obey the law, but in the main animals are very well taken care of.

As interesting as this is, the author should make it clearer on his main landing page that his site is not affiliated with Google.

http://www.gearthblog.com/about

> This blog is not officially affiliated with Google. Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, technology, and happenings for Google Earth.

Maybe the author is just out by an order of magnitude? Maybe it should be 10,000 words?

I was going to get a Nest, but now I'm having serious second thoughts.

No, these are all degrees of the same thing, concealment. That is the point of camouflage. There are two main strands to camouflage: 1. prevention of detection (crypsis), 2. look like something else (mimicry).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_camouflage https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/camouflage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

I'm sorry, but you're statement is contradictory:

   a.) Dazzle wasn't intended to hide the ship
   b.) make it difficult to ascertain it's [sic] class, speed and heading

   Hide = hard to find
   Difficult = hard
   Ascertain = to know, to find out, to determine

The point of camouflage is to hide 'information', and while that can be to make something blend in with its location/surroundings, it can also certainly be to make it appear to be something else, or doing something different from what it is actually doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage

I'm not sure why blocky camo seems so revolutionary. It was proven highly effective in WWI by both the American and British. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

I took it to mean the Oracle's support was lessor than that of Postgres', despite paying a fee for it up front.

But GWB was from a 'Good' family of the American aristocracy. (Yes I know the USA is technically a 'classless' society and does not have an upperclass in law (de jure), but it does have an upper class in practice (de facto).)

Won't buy IBM/Lenovo stuff ever again. It was too late to stop the purchase of our new VMware cluster and SAN last year, but this year we will not buy replacement IBM/Lenovo backup storage servers. Roughly £20,000 which is not huge, but then again, it is not nothing either.

I wonder how many 'security' holes and exploits are in this original version of Unix.

Well, ipfs sounds interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

Have you read a modest proposal by J Swift. Satire at its best! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

I prefer QGIS and PostGIS. Sorry.

Why should the 'workers' pay higher taxes, and the 'company' pay lower taxes? What makes that a morally just argument?

Is this not what we call "the race to the bottom"?

I thought this technology would use the MAC address and SSID, but not the IP address because surely most access points have WPA enabled by default now? And that these find-my-phone apps use data from the phones GPS and 802.11 wireless to build up a cross reference database. Then again, maybe most Americans do not have WPA security enabled?

Because Stanford has a silent proxy picking up SMTP traffic, and running it through their security system.

http://serverfault.com/questions/382329/routing-smtp-and-pop...

From the BBC source program: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z1zdt

"Hopefully make it [polio] the second decease ever, after Smallpox, to be completely eradicated"

Wrong, it would be the third decease ever. Rinderpest was the second.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/health/28rinderpest.html?p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderpest

Most of the dust inside computers is trapped from the surrounding environment, and not coming from the equipment itself. Therefore most dust from inside domestic and office based equipment is dead skin. That being said there will be trace amounts of other contaminants.

>> I've noticed a scary involuntary alliance of journalism with what you might call the US-style conservatives

I thought that this 'alliance' was called ownership. Rupert Murdoch et al whose political agenda is less government control and more control for the private sector which translates into private control by fewer (and fewer) people with less accountability. Essentially what we are going through, world wide, is a consolidation of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands.

This consolidation suites the purposes of the ownership of media companies, and it is the media companies that set the tone and content of their reporting. Over the last 50 years there has been a massive consolidation in the ownership of media companies, with a corresponding massive shift to a very right wing perspective in popular reporting.

I can not think of a single time that a strike by a Union has been reported in a favorable light, for example.

In other words, academic research is a punt in the dark. Much of it will not yield all that much, but some of it will.

It is kind of similar to what YC and VC's do: give a little bit of funding to a small number of businesses, but hope a (very) small number will pay off big.

Academia is a small investment to a number of ideas, with the hopes of big pay-offs in a very small number. The technology behind the Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN in the early nineties. You might not think that funding in high energy and particle physics would be worthwhile, but yet something completely different and revolutionary for all of humanity came out of it.

We just do not know where these revolutionary ideas come from, but what we do know is that they tend to come from some of the very brightest people.

Some would say that we should divide universities up into more separate institutions for Arts, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, Applied Science, Math, Social Sciences, Business, Law, Medicine (or is that a Science?) and others, but the point of universities is be places of knowledge, and to help foster cross pollination between the disciplines. The point of independent research is to be unfettered by government, business, and indeed wider society as a whole.

Government and business and society should not be fettering independent research, just the same as they should not be interfering with law courts. The point of independent research is for the independent researchers to have the freedom to follow their research even though it might not be popular with the local Wood Pulp mill pumping dioxins into the local river, and that is pollution is going to cause cancer. This research may not be popular with many in the community because it will impact their jobs. This research may not be popular with the government, and elected officials because it will affect their tax receipts and donations. This research my not be popular with you because it is going to put your family out jobs, but it is important research, we can ultimately make informed decisions.

That is the point of research, information, and knowledge--so we can make informed and reasoned decisions.

I just can not believe the attitude and entitlement of some who think that just because they pay tax they think everything that is not obviously useful to themselves is useless.