Nrsolis

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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I've never encountered it in my professional career. As near as I can tell, it offers nothing over the main Linux kernel except sourcing from the GNU Project. IMHO, not enough reason to abandon the Linux kernel. YMMV.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Correct. Tax avoidance has evolved into a shell game of jurisdiction shopping and regulatory arbitrage. In the USA, states got so fed up with companies assigning their trademark and copyrights to DE subsidiaries they could make tax-free roy
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
It doesn't appear that this is what was happening here. They did the deals in London and then claimed that they were done in Ireland for tax purposes. Essentially, they expected that no one would ever check whether a tax nexus was establ
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Maybe for you. But I don't think that someone else should have that power over me. Once you start allowing that barrier to be crossed, you're inviting all sorts of other incursions on what we consider to be personal liberties.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
The problem with this discussion is trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all response to every possible situation. Life doesn't work that way. It's all well and good for us to think about what we might do in a situation like that. In al
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Paul, I'm happy to. But when someone directly contradicts me, I think it's only fair that I indicate where I'm coming from. Otherwise, it's just an echo-chamber.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Consider this: if I bump you (even unintentionally), by the strictest reading of the law, I committed assault and battery. That's obviously ridiculous, so we use our common sense to keep society functioning. We consider intent, and the li
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Hey, you're the one offering a legal opinion. I'm willing to bet my experience with the justice system beats yours. For one thing, I've lived in the USA for my entire life. For another, I've lived in several states. For yet another, I've b
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I think the worry is that once the cameras become commonplace, it'll make the barrier that much lower. Once the barrier is lowered, more people will feel like there is little harm in crossing it.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Heh. Wanna bet? You seem to have a quaint notion of how the justice system works. Video evidence? Probably wont be surpressed by defense. Probably wont be contested because it's obtained as the result of an illegal act. The jury will p
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Because it's happened. Pervasive surveillance has already caused shifts in behavior that wouldn't exist without them. For one thing, teenage fights are filmed by bystanders and replayed/posted on the Internet. Pictures of women in comprom
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
By whose moral code? Yours? Society lays out the rules by law. And society judges when those rules have been breached. I think people forget that they have to live in a world where people other than themselves might have a different idea
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
See, there is where you are wrong. There are NUMEROUS statutes that prohibit the surreptitious filming of people where a reasonable expectation of privacy exists. I think a bathroom qualifies. And I think you'd have a hard time getting a j
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
It doesn't take a genius to see how cameras in a bathroom could be abused. I wouldn't expect every person who potentially faces Internet-scale humiliation that might come from the prospect of their private parts ending up on someone's FB p
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I don't know that I'd call running with the snorkel up anything but non-submerged. Although I will give you that running at p-depth is almost the same thing. I'm sure you'll agree that anything other than underway on main propulsion is a
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
One of my favorite skits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=UC4vz6I...
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
The IT crowd, for me, is one of those happy accidents in television where the writers, producers, and actors all manage to capture the humor of a subculture without patronizing it. When I saw the first episode, I knew that these folks had
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I'm not so sure I'm getting what they are trying to say here. Companies have been playing the taxation arbitrage game since the beginning of taxation. Isn't that what states to do each other in the USA? Why do you think FL has no income t
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I can appreciate that. And I was just having a little fun with you. But I was simply referring to the part where you surface the boat before starting the diesels. I think some folks might be under the impression that you can run those w
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
You skipped a step. LOLz.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Nice try, Ivan. Remember, it's called the silent service for a reason. Those who know, don't tell; those who tell, don't know.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
You're certain ??? Better check your sources.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I'll bite. I was in a gas-fired power plant when the call came in to spin up the plant turbine to meet demand. So as the turbine is spinning up, the guy misses the sync (which involves throwing a breaker when a certain light is almost exti
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
My point was to answer the comment that red-state extracurriculars serve as a black mark in the Ivy League. I think it's clear that they don't. And data is not what you're basing your argument on. It's an interpretation of some data that
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Uh, LOTS of folks in the admitted class at Harvard Business School each year is military officers. Ivy League admissions for both undergrad and graduate programs is NOT what most people think it to be. There are MANY factors they consider
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Agree. There is little to indicate that "presence" in the modern form of the word when applied to undergraduate education at most schools could be equated with anything approaching a one-on-one experience. There are courses in this country
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Uh, you don't know what you're talking about. ISPs dont block UDP. And IPv6 was held up by a lot more than hardware. Sorry. Go read up on how IP routers actually function and then report back with what you've learned. Source: I've been d
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Routers almost NEVER manipulate the transport unless they are doing something very un-Layer3 like NAT or some other encapsulation.
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Uh...these routers aren't "smart". They're doing the bare minimum to get a packet from an input interface to an output interface. Basically, ANYTHING you try to do at the speed and scale you'd end up needing to use these routers for would
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
How do you propose to modify all of the ASICs in routers that are optimized to do lookups on packet headers at the speeds they need to achieve? Routers today are doing 32x100GbE in a single chassis. That's an investment in hardware that is

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