Anyone can transmit the page ID age the encrypted text in the clear and be assured of totally secure communication between the two parties who have both the encryption key and the decryption keys.
The algorithm consists of something non-computable.
In my case my the WEP2 key on my wireless LAN consists of my own unique way with keys (like I was going to tell you my idiosyncratic keying algorithm,) and an entire paragraph from a book on my shelf of selections from my favorite author (like I was going to tell you who that really was.)
Now extent that of a whole pad of keys...
Unbreakable is a phrase that comes unbidden to my lips.
Its not that the Lisp-ish implementation of Cyc is particularly elegant since (<operator> <predicate>...) syntax gets extremely unwieldy and everything can be described as an atom at some point, but that Doug Lenat has been at it since 1984.
By sheer rabid bloody-mindedness he has assembled a friggin' huge predicate base.
This behemoth is capable of some novel (almost inteligent:-) symbolic manipulation behavior; it just takes much too long to do it.
What is missing in all of these the the unfortunate fact that all current language implementations are interchangeably (as Turin showed by thee development of the Turing Machine,) incomplete.
None of the current and trivially interchangeable formal languages is capable of expressing a Relation and its instantiation as a Connection.
This is a fundamental concept in psychology and several other fields, like education. (You know, dealing with real intelligence, [what ever that is.])
Until we have a formalism capable of expressing that "Relation <r> ties <object> with <object|relation>"* as well as the current Object definitions, and an operating environment capable instantiating these Connections, we're pissing into the wind
* If you want the EBNF go screw yourself. I'm through with trying to make people see the evident. I'm too old to care.
Its not that the Lisp-ish implementation of Cyc is particularly elegant since (...) syntax gets extremely unwieldy and everything can be described as an atom at some point, but that Doug Lenat has been at it since 1984.
By sheer rabid bloody-mindedness he has assembled a friggin' huge predicate base.
This behemoth is capable of some novel (almost inteligent:-) symbolic manipulation behavior; it just takes much too long to do it.
What is missing in all of these the the unfortunate fact that all current language implementations are interchangeably (as Turin showed by thee development of the Turing Machine,) incomplete.
None of the current and trivially interchangeable formal languages is capable of expressing a Relation and its instantiation as a Connection.
This is a fundamental concept in psychology and several other fields, like education. (You know, dealing with real intelligence, [what ever that is.])
Until we have a formalism capable of expressing that "Relation ties with "* as well as the current Object definitions, and an operating environment capable instantiating these Connections, we're pissing into the wind
* If you want the EBNF go screw yourself. I'm through with trying to make people see the evident. I'm too old to care.
It was a letter to the editor and it referred to the "new" 5"1/4 hard drives that were just becoming available for PC's and Macs.
I wasn't referring to the "Winchester" cartridge systems which had been around since the mid-70s or the RAMACs DASDs on mainframes which were available from IBM or Hitachi. [I still remember my string of 3330s fondly. The disk controller was more complex that the 360 it was attached to. [Or the removable muti-platter systems on the PDP-11 class of mini-computer.;-}])
I was trying to warn of the Hell that was about to befall the small Mom&Pop shops who were just starting to get into computerizing their records.
No a minute of thought was ever paid to all those poor suckers who were being sold a bill of goods without understanding what MTBF meant and what to do WHEN the drive system croaked.
have to wait until the blog rolls, uh, uh roll past, not to mention, if the pastor wants it to stay public, he can just ReTweet links to the various blog posts.
Its a lot easier to come out as a Local Hero, and come up with a license agreement which puts "Best Buy"® and "The Geek Squad"(TM) in the best light possible, than it will be to try to control history.
Call me when I can replace my 320GB "spinning rust" drives for about the same amount of money.
I remember writing to PC Magazine in 1986 about the need for adequate procedures when the first 5MB (Not GB but MB:-) hard drives were reaching the market.
Now I have 3+ terabytes on my desktop machines. Backups are just as painful as ever.
Now instead of slow diskettes for backups, I use redundant drives and DVD-Rs for off-line backups and purchased software solutions. (And I know about using "Time Machine" to back up the Macs every night, but that's local, not off-line.)
The C&D letter should have been accompanied with an offer to let the pastor buy a license for $1.00
It wasn't because the lawyers for Best Buy, make that Worst Buy, are humorless idiots who can't see an opportunity for getting some good PR when its staring them in the face.
You get to eat whatever crap the FDA has deemed wouldn't kill you right off the bat. (Stuff like e-coli, Mad Cow and the stuff that you never read about except in a Merck Manual.)
The FDA is there to ensure that food doesn't spoil before you PAY for it.
Its not there for YOU THE CONSUMER!
Its there for the AGRIBUSINESS.
Those are the troll accountants who push shit your way without any regard to your wants or desires, because they're fixated and controlled by the profit motive.
And "Fleur de sel" is fine when I control how much I want.
How much salt is there in that bag of chips?
How much salt is there in that jar of salsa?
How much salt is there in that pack of hot-dogs?
How much salt is there in that soft drink?
Do you know?
Can you opt for less than the RDA (recommended daily allowance) in a single summertime snack?
What about the rest of the day.
Did you know that you probably exceeded the RDA of salt before you got up from the breakfast table?
Mass-produced cereal, boiled-to-death pap without salt and packed with unpronounceable crap, tastes like the cardboard box it was shipped in.
High-fructose corn-syrup (the cheapest government subsidy-ed shit that the accountant/processors can get,) other inexpensive glucose compounds, the alphabet-soup of crap added as preservatives and some artificial color and flavor doesn't taste like anything other than salty sweet. If you're pre-pubescent its sweet salty.
It won't kill you right off the bat, but have you noticed that the "Obesity Epidemic" started about the same time that the corn growing agribusiness started getting all those subsidies. Coincidence? I think NOT! I actually remember drinking soft drinks BEFORE they swapped out the cane sugar for the corn-syrup. I can still buy it. Its just more expensive.
This food adulteration is NOT for YOUR benefit. Its to insure maximum shelf-life.
The average meal my wife and I can buy, as opposed to make ourselves, in the US is the FDA Approved over-processed crap.
Even in good restaurants (read somewhere FAR from a "Happy McMeal",) they are forced to buy FDA Approved ingredients (read: over-processed, over-preserved, salt-laden, boiled-to-death pap.)
The worst part is that I have to pay a small fortune to the grocer for what he manages to AVOID putting into he food.
From pesticides,
to nitrates, nitrites and other taste killers,
to anti-biotics, growth hormones and other drugs (read a Merck Manual and then try to hold down your lunch. You'll need both hands!),
to what is euphemistically known as reprocessed feed.
You do NOT want to hear what they feed the animals, but I'll tell you anyway, its what ever part of the animal that they couldn't sell in the first place.
Don't like a particular cut? Don't worry about it going to waste. Its all sold to the few reprocessing plants left after the past 50 years of killer competition and killer profit taking. Its ground up, sort of sterilized to remove any hint of flavor, and fed to the next chicken or cow. ("Factory Fresh Fish" ain't faring a whole lot better.)
The chicken or cow has no choice in the matter. That why Mad Cow is such a big worry to the stock yards. The recalls involve millions of pounds of whatever issues from the cloaca of the reprocessing plant. The term cloaca is rather accurate since one of the most common problems come from e-coli.
When they get caught, not IF but WHEN, they have no idea which cow ate what crap when.
Know what e-coli is? Know where e-coli lives? Right.
Guess what, the FDA standards are there to maintain an absolute minimum of safety, not a maximum of cleanliness.
When I say ALL processed food is shitty, I mean it.
It doesn't work so well for biology subjects (they all become autopsy experiments, and after a week or so the smell from my desk reminds me of a "Body Farm," but I LIKE sticking things on a long vertical metal rod. (I KID, I KID...)
The cafeteria at my high school was terrible and would have gagged a maggot, if any had gone to school, but it was still healthier than the plastic petrified puke the kids are eating now.
Its just salt. There's no food which would go bad if you don't change it to keep it fresh, its just salt.
If you think I'm kidding, look at the rats.
The obese rats eat from fast food filled dumpsters.
There's a reason why salt pork, beef jerky and salt cod were "foods of last resort."
It was what was left after you'd gone through all of the fresh food and had only a choice between that and shoe leather.
Salt ISN'T a flavor agent folks. Its a preservative. (In French "Un Préservatif" is a condom. In English its a flavor. [We all know about English cooking. It wasn't until the foundation of the late 18th and 19th century British Empire, and the subjugation of any other cuisine at gun point, that the English discovered that food could be enjoyed.])
regardless of the complexity it encapsulates, since the only visible piece is the button, it constitutes the sole point of contact for the entire power train..
It would have come as a very great surprise to people in the 80s how microelectronics have changed the face what is actually possible.
The limitations of the iPad are ones of the physical limitations of human being holding them.
Your arms are only so strong, so long and so jointed.
The electronics and computing power we can cram into those dimensions may grow as Moore's Law continues apace but our arms and our eyes aren't going to change.
What a great concept for an interface. (Stick in all of the usual superlatives and adjectives like immersive, sharable, networkable, topographically deep display and interaction technology. ISNTDDIT [from the John Brunner school of neologism. {See "EngLReySattelServ". }])
Ultimately, I'd like to see something able to sense our reaching into a hologram which is projecting a synthetic image.
Considering the %*^&ing idiotic rat bastards I went to school with.
They made my life a living Hell.
I don't think that anybody would want to live in a town full of these low-life pond scum without being heavily armed and under a regime of outlawry*.
Although I know of two brothers who played "Cowboys and Indians" using real.22 caliber pistols and liked to go to the town dump and "fish for rats" from the overpass, they eventually disappeared from town never to be seen again.
*Outlawry is a legal regime of vengeance which says "If it was done onto you, you have the right to register your grievance with the authorities, get even and not have to worry about reprisals."
I am typing this on my MacBook Pro with a second LCD monitor hooked up to it (and external drives and MIDI devices and iPods and crap like that...:-)
I've got an old G4 PowerBook running Linux (which I suspect she'll start using next term,) and an old 21" G5 iMac for a HDTV TV set (with a 1TB drive hooked up to it and a EyeTV OTA converter. [We watch maybe 4 or 5 hours a week of TV. {You read right. Jeopardy 5 time a week and the occasional cooking shows on PBS add up to single digit viewing times per week.}])
My wife insists on using a Windows XP based desktop PC. (I'm installing a new desktop for her next week with Windows 7 and her old PC will become a Linux based file server.)
The insurance is to recover your loss should anything happen. (Get a general policy which doesn't limit the cause of your loss. [Theft, fire, flood and accident apartment/condo/house insurance is good coverage.])
Then you want to put up some very visible signs in all the windows saying "Protected by video, motion detectors and patrolled by security guards.
You might want to buy a bunch of camera mounts (the silvered half-dome kind,) and place them strategically around the perimeter of your dwelling high enough to keep them safe. (12 or so feet off the ground and 12 or so feet from any opening.)
Whether you get real motion detectors or not is immaterial.
The impression will be that the house next door is less hazardous to break into than yours.
We're going to have to eschew DRM because there is no guaranteed survival for any content distributor.
The shift to ebooks will accelerate, whether anybody likes to read them or not.
The book and news publishing industry, a form of 1:N broad casting using paper as it's medium, is reaching the tipping point where the economic pressures on the content producers will make the old methods of production "not worth pursuing" because of the real devastation of the existing distribution channels by the internet.
I'm not saying its impossible, just that its really, really unlikely.
Ever seen a traffic jam in almost any city in China? (Or anywhere else for that matter.)
The average driver doesn't pay any attention to anything that is happening in his lane, never mind the other lanes. (I'd hate to be a claims adjuster in China. Overwork or what?:-)
Forget about this concept of a bus going overhead, Even on a single unwavering track. There would be collisions a plenty.
You'll never get people used to thinking in three dimensions without special intensive training. Think of how often you look up when you're walking around, then riding a bike, then riding in a car or bus, and then driving a vehicle.
Its going to require very strict licensing after some intensive training and the ability to FAIL drivers (all of whom, specially in America, regard getting a driver's license as a rite of passage.)
You'd have as many people qualified to drive on a road as there are qualified to be pilots.
... as long as you remember the fundamental limitations of both.
Object Orientation is missing any way of tracking Relationships (instantiated as Connections) which means that most of your code will be making up for that lacunae. (Its a step up from having to write yet another fucking block of code to take care of linked-lists or garbage collection, but its not much of a step.)
Objects embedding other objects just means you got a database navigation problem, not its solution. Consider ALL relationships as fundamentally N:M. 1:1, 1:N, N;1 are just existential cases of N:M. (0->1 is object instantiation, 1->0 is garbage collection and both operations are executed in a context of the relationships the object participates in.)
Think of a brick wall. Bricks are objects, mortar is a collective noun for the gritty stuff between the bricks, but another component of any brick wall is the position of one brick in relation to its neighbors.
Relationships, and their instantiations as Connections, make the same pile of object bricks and mortar object instances into a pallet on a loading dock at Home Depot, a garden wall keeping dirt and flowers from the lawn, and the Cupola of the Piazza Duomo in Firenze.
Use cases suffer from a simple but revealing flaw. I'll use an elevator as an example.
You can make N many use cases all of which are 100% correct and none of which could be criticized in any way when you end up with everybody stranded on the roof because none of use cases for elevator doors included DOWN buttons.
Another example is when you have everybody stuck on the ground floor because none of the floors have holes cut into them to let a cage move from one floor to another.
Software architecture (and therefore all software built using it,) should be generative. Use cases are merely descriptive.
Because all software merely refers to real world objects and processes it is all to easy to discover after spending time and money that you have committed the equivalent errors, which would simply not be possible in the real-world.
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torn off of a "one time" pad.
Anyone can transmit the page ID age the encrypted text in the clear and be assured of totally secure communication between the two parties who have both the encryption key and the decryption keys.
The algorithm consists of something non-computable.
In my case my the WEP2 key on my wireless LAN consists of my own unique way with keys (like I was going to tell you my idiosyncratic keying algorithm,) and an entire paragraph from a book on my shelf of selections from my favorite author (like I was going to tell you who that really was.)
Now extent that of a whole pad of keys...
Unbreakable is a phrase that comes unbidden to my lips.
Its not that the Lisp-ish implementation of Cyc is particularly elegant since (<operator> <predicate> ...) syntax gets extremely unwieldy and everything can be described as an atom at some point, but that Doug Lenat has been at it since 1984.
By sheer rabid bloody-mindedness he has assembled a friggin' huge predicate base.
This behemoth is capable of some novel (almost inteligent :-) symbolic manipulation behavior; it just takes much too long to do it.
What is missing in all of these the the unfortunate fact that all current language implementations are interchangeably (as Turin showed by thee development of the Turing Machine,) incomplete.
None of the current and trivially interchangeable formal languages is capable of expressing a Relation and its instantiation as a Connection.
This is a fundamental concept in psychology and several other fields, like education. (You know, dealing with real intelligence, [what ever that is.])
Until we have a formalism capable of expressing that "Relation <r> ties <object> with <object|relation>"* as well as the current Object definitions, and an operating environment capable instantiating these Connections, we're pissing into the wind
* If you want the EBNF go screw yourself. I'm through with trying to make people see the evident. I'm too old to care.
Its not that the Lisp-ish implementation of Cyc is particularly elegant since ( ...) syntax gets extremely unwieldy and everything can be described as an atom at some point, but that Doug Lenat has been at it since 1984.
By sheer rabid bloody-mindedness he has assembled a friggin' huge predicate base.
This behemoth is capable of some novel (almost inteligent :-) symbolic manipulation behavior; it just takes much too long to do it.
What is missing in all of these the the unfortunate fact that all current language implementations are interchangeably (as Turin showed by thee development of the Turing Machine,) incomplete.
None of the current and trivially interchangeable formal languages is capable of expressing a Relation and its instantiation as a Connection.
This is a fundamental concept in psychology and several other fields, like education. (You know, dealing with real intelligence, [what ever that is.])
Until we have a formalism capable of expressing that "Relation ties with "* as well as the current Object definitions, and an operating environment capable instantiating these Connections, we're pissing into the wind
* If you want the EBNF go screw yourself. I'm through with trying to make people see the evident. I'm too old to care.
I told you it sucked to be old. :-)
It was a letter to the editor and it referred to the "new" 5"1/4 hard drives that were just becoming available for PC's and Macs.
I wasn't referring to the "Winchester" cartridge systems which had been around since the mid-70s or the RAMACs DASDs on mainframes which were available from IBM or Hitachi. [I still remember my string of 3330s fondly. The disk controller was more complex that the 360 it was attached to. [Or the removable muti-platter systems on the PDP-11 class of mini-computer. ;-}])
I was trying to warn of the Hell that was about to befall the small Mom&Pop shops who were just starting to get into computerizing their records.
No a minute of thought was ever paid to all those poor suckers who were being sold a bill of goods without understanding what MTBF meant and what to do WHEN the drive system croaked.
have to wait until the blog rolls, uh, uh roll past, not to mention, if the pastor wants it to stay public, he can just ReTweet links to the various blog posts.
Its a lot easier to come out as a Local Hero, and come up with a license agreement which puts "Best Buy"® and "The Geek Squad"(TM) in the best light possible, than it will be to try to control history.
Call me when I can replace my 320GB "spinning rust" drives for about the same amount of money.
I remember writing to PC Magazine in 1986 about the need for adequate procedures when the first 5MB (Not GB but MB :-) hard drives were reaching the market.
Now I have 3+ terabytes on my desktop machines. Backups are just as painful as ever.
Now instead of slow diskettes for backups, I use redundant drives and DVD-Rs for off-line backups and purchased software solutions. (And I know about using "Time Machine" to back up the Macs every night, but that's local, not off-line.)
Same slow shit, different day.
The C&D letter should have been accompanied with an offer to let the pastor buy a license for $1.00
It wasn't because the lawyers for Best Buy, make that Worst Buy, are humorless idiots who can't see an opportunity for getting some good PR when its staring them in the face.
Now the SOB lawyers can go lick their own balls.
You get to eat whatever crap the FDA has deemed wouldn't kill you right off the bat. (Stuff like e-coli, Mad Cow and the stuff that you never read about except in a Merck Manual.)
The FDA is there to ensure that food doesn't spoil before you PAY for it.
Its not there for YOU THE CONSUMER!
Its there for the AGRIBUSINESS.
Those are the troll accountants who push shit your way without any regard to your wants or desires, because they're fixated and controlled by the profit motive.
And "Fleur de sel" is fine when I control how much I want.
How much salt is there in that bag of chips?
How much salt is there in that jar of salsa?
How much salt is there in that pack of hot-dogs?
How much salt is there in that soft drink?
Do you know?
Can you opt for less than the RDA (recommended daily allowance) in a single summertime snack?
What about the rest of the day.
Did you know that you probably exceeded the RDA of salt before you got up from the breakfast table?
Mass-produced cereal, boiled-to-death pap without salt and packed with unpronounceable crap, tastes like the cardboard box it was shipped in.
High-fructose corn-syrup (the cheapest government subsidy-ed shit that the accountant/processors can get,) other inexpensive glucose compounds, the alphabet-soup of crap added as preservatives and some artificial color and flavor doesn't taste like anything other than salty sweet. If you're pre-pubescent its sweet salty.
It won't kill you right off the bat, but have you noticed that the "Obesity Epidemic" started about the same time that the corn growing agribusiness started getting all those subsidies. Coincidence? I think NOT! I actually remember drinking soft drinks BEFORE they swapped out the cane sugar for the corn-syrup. I can still buy it. Its just more expensive.
This food adulteration is NOT for YOUR benefit. Its to insure maximum shelf-life.
YOU don't enter into it.
The average meal my wife and I can buy, as opposed to make ourselves, in the US is the FDA Approved over-processed crap.
Even in good restaurants (read somewhere FAR from a "Happy McMeal",) they are forced to buy FDA Approved ingredients (read: over-processed, over-preserved, salt-laden, boiled-to-death pap.)
The worst part is that I have to pay a small fortune to the grocer for what he manages to AVOID putting into he food.
From pesticides,
to nitrates, nitrites and other taste killers,
to anti-biotics, growth hormones and other drugs (read a Merck Manual and then try to hold down your lunch. You'll need both hands!),
to what is euphemistically known as reprocessed feed.
You do NOT want to hear what they feed the animals, but I'll tell you anyway, its what ever part of the animal that they couldn't sell in the first place.
Don't like a particular cut? Don't worry about it going to waste. Its all sold to the few reprocessing plants left after the past 50 years of killer competition and killer profit taking. Its ground up, sort of sterilized to remove any hint of flavor, and fed to the next chicken or cow. ("Factory Fresh Fish" ain't faring a whole lot better.)
The chicken or cow has no choice in the matter. That why Mad Cow is such a big worry to the stock yards. The recalls involve millions of pounds of whatever issues from the cloaca of the reprocessing plant. The term cloaca is rather accurate since one of the most common problems come from e-coli.
When they get caught, not IF but WHEN, they have no idea which cow ate what crap when.
Know what e-coli is? Know where e-coli lives? Right.
Guess what, the FDA standards are there to maintain an absolute minimum of safety, not a maximum of cleanliness.
When I say ALL processed food is shitty, I mean it.
It doesn't work so well for biology subjects (they all become autopsy experiments, and after a week or so the smell from my desk reminds me of a "Body Farm," but I LIKE sticking things on a long vertical metal rod. (I KID, I KID...)
The cafeteria at my high school was terrible and would have gagged a maggot, if any had gone to school, but it was still healthier than the plastic petrified puke the kids are eating now.
Its just salt. There's no food which would go bad if you don't change it to keep it fresh, its just salt.
If you think I'm kidding, look at the rats.
The obese rats eat from fast food filled dumpsters.
There's a reason why salt pork, beef jerky and salt cod were "foods of last resort."
It was what was left after you'd gone through all of the fresh food and had only a choice between that and shoe leather.
Salt ISN'T a flavor agent folks. Its a preservative. (In French "Un Préservatif" is a condom. In English its a flavor. [We all know about English cooking. It wasn't until the foundation of the late 18th and 19th century British Empire, and the subjugation of any other cuisine at gun point, that the English discovered that food could be enjoyed.])
... software is often designed from Use Cases?
They are the most singularly unhelpful and woefully incomplete design documents ever created.
They should be generated from the design, not the other way around.
regardless of the complexity it encapsulates, since the only visible piece is the button, it constitutes the sole point of contact for the entire power train..
THAT is why use cases are pointless. :-)
It explains the popularity of tabloids (NY Post and DailY News sized) over broadsheets (NY Times and Wall Street Journal,)
The device HAS to fit fit naturally within our limitations.
Would YOU walk around with a 17.5"x22" tablet weighing 12 pounds?
It was the kind of interface described in "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson. (Written, or more accurately typed, on an old Underwood manual.)
You don't need the latest and greatest wizz-bang tech to have one hell of an imagination. :-)
I have a podcast about Paul Otlet and his vision for a kind of Google years before there was even an internet.
"Make it look more like the Mac."
The PADD is just the display portion of the iPad.
It would have come as a very great surprise to people in the 80s how microelectronics have changed the face what is actually possible.
The limitations of the iPad are ones of the physical limitations of human being holding them.
Your arms are only so strong, so long and so jointed.
The electronics and computing power we can cram into those dimensions may grow as Moore's Law continues apace but our arms and our eyes aren't going to change.
What a great concept for an interface. (Stick in all of the usual superlatives and adjectives like immersive, sharable, networkable, topographically deep display and interaction technology. ISNTDDIT [from the John Brunner school of neologism. {See "EngLReySattelServ". }])
Ultimately, I'd like to see something able to sense our reaching into a hologram which is projecting a synthetic image.
F&^* the mouse and my flat screens.
This would rock...
Considering the %*^&ing idiotic rat bastards I went to school with.
They made my life a living Hell.
I don't think that anybody would want to live in a town full of these low-life pond scum without being heavily armed and under a regime of outlawry*.
Although I know of two brothers who played "Cowboys and Indians" using real .22 caliber pistols and liked to go to the town dump and "fish for rats" from the overpass, they eventually disappeared from town never to be seen again.
*Outlawry is a legal regime of vengeance which says "If it was done onto you, you have the right to register your grievance with the authorities, get even and not have to worry about reprisals."
It was used during the 9th century in Iceland.
I am typing this on my MacBook Pro with a second LCD monitor hooked up to it (and external drives and MIDI devices and iPods and crap like that ... :-)
I've got an old G4 PowerBook running Linux (which I suspect she'll start using next term,) and an old 21" G5 iMac for a HDTV TV set (with a 1TB drive hooked up to it and a EyeTV OTA converter. [We watch maybe 4 or 5 hours a week of TV. {You read right. Jeopardy 5 time a week and the occasional cooking shows on PBS add up to single digit viewing times per week.}])
My wife insists on using a Windows XP based desktop PC. (I'm installing a new desktop for her next week with Windows 7 and her old PC will become a Linux based file server.)
The insurance is to recover your loss should anything happen. (Get a general policy which doesn't limit the cause of your loss. [Theft, fire, flood and accident apartment/condo/house insurance is good coverage.])
Then you want to put up some very visible signs in all the windows saying "Protected by video, motion detectors and patrolled by security guards.
You might want to buy a bunch of camera mounts (the silvered half-dome kind,) and place them strategically around the perimeter of your dwelling high enough to keep them safe. (12 or so feet off the ground and 12 or so feet from any opening.)
Whether you get real motion detectors or not is immaterial.
The impression will be that the house next door is less hazardous to break into than yours.
Remember, you're insured...
I'm waiting for somebody to "Strike A Pose" and do "Cheesecake Shots" on these scanners and its guaranteed to make the rounds on the net.
like, we don' 'no', eh?
But there it was.
The Miracle Of Back Bacon.
Holy Jeez. Makes ya feel kinda small an' insignificant, eh?
We're going to have to eschew DRM because there is no guaranteed survival for any content distributor.
The shift to ebooks will accelerate, whether anybody likes to read them or not.
The book and news publishing industry, a form of 1:N broad casting using paper as it's medium, is reaching the tipping point where the economic pressures on the content producers will make the old methods of production "not worth pursuing" because of the real devastation of the existing distribution channels by the internet.
I'm not saying its impossible, just that its really, really unlikely.
Ever seen a traffic jam in almost any city in China? (Or anywhere else for that matter.)
The average driver doesn't pay any attention to anything that is happening in his lane, never mind the other lanes. (I'd hate to be a claims adjuster in China. Overwork or what? :-)
Forget about this concept of a bus going overhead, Even on a single unwavering track. There would be collisions a plenty.
You'll never get people used to thinking in three dimensions without special intensive training. Think of how often you look up when you're walking around, then riding a bike, then riding in a car or bus, and then driving a vehicle.
Its going to require very strict licensing after some intensive training and the ability to FAIL drivers (all of whom, specially in America, regard getting a driver's license as a rite of passage.)
You'd have as many people qualified to drive on a road as there are qualified to be pilots.
... as long as you remember the fundamental limitations of both.
Object Orientation is missing any way of tracking Relationships (instantiated as Connections) which means that most of your code will be making up for that lacunae. (Its a step up from having to write yet another fucking block of code to take care of linked-lists or garbage collection, but its not much of a step.)
Objects embedding other objects just means you got a database navigation problem, not its solution. Consider ALL relationships as fundamentally N:M. 1:1, 1:N, N;1 are just existential cases of N:M. (0->1 is object instantiation, 1->0 is garbage collection and both operations are executed in a context of the relationships the object participates in.)
Think of a brick wall. Bricks are objects, mortar is a collective noun for the gritty stuff between the bricks, but another component of any brick wall is the position of one brick in relation to its neighbors.
Relationships, and their instantiations as Connections, make the same pile of object bricks and mortar object instances into a pallet on a loading dock at Home Depot, a garden wall keeping dirt and flowers from the lawn, and the Cupola of the Piazza Duomo in Firenze.
Use cases suffer from a simple but revealing flaw. I'll use an elevator as an example.
You can make N many use cases all of which are 100% correct and none of which could be criticized in any way when you end up with everybody stranded on the roof because none of use cases for elevator doors included DOWN buttons.
Another example is when you have everybody stuck on the ground floor because none of the floors have holes cut into them to let a cage move from one floor to another.
Software architecture (and therefore all software built using it,) should be generative. Use cases are merely descriptive.
Because all software merely refers to real world objects and processes it is all to easy to discover after spending time and money that you have committed the equivalent errors, which would simply not be possible in the real-world.