That's the sound that the privacy-conscious traveller of the future will hear as he travels without haste, half-cokes, three peanuts meals and air-rage, all the while enjoying the scenery in a rooooomy seat or the privacy of a comfortable bedroom.
Now is time to travel with Amtrak more than ever...
This is completely correct. TrustE will certify that you have a privacy policy, that's about it.
Here is our privacy policy: everything that you send us will be archived into a datawarehouse where anybody with big bucks to afford our data-mining rates can go data-mining.
There. Now, can I have my TrustE certificate, pleeeeze????
Funny you should talk about movie theatres.
For some reason, when a movie pans in a theatre it always seems blurred, like watching a movie on an old laptop.
The same movie released on TV doesn't blur.
I thot theatres were supposed to have high res and all that crap.
Remember the old, original movie "A New Hope - Episode IV of The Journal of the Whills" (A.K.A. Star Wars) filmed with only analog effects (gee, that was 25 years ago!!!)? Like the big battle scene where you see individually-filmed X-wing & TIE fighters dogfighting and then pasted-together?
Well, it looked seamless in the theater, but when it is shown on TV, you happen to SEE the seams aroung the various spacecraft...
The press can't attend? Well, if John Q. Public can attend, what's to stop him from posting trial reviews on Usenet? Or, better yet, from abroad via e-mail and an accomplice that's safely beyond the reach of yankee kangaroo courts???
The media (and/.ers) have been suckered again. Obviously, this is an INTENTIONAL leak of false information, either just to stir up interest, or to simply gauge public reaction to some elements of the plots, in order to re-adjust it according to responses.
Tinseltown has shown remarkable ability in playing with people's brains, and this is yet another example of it.
Government regulation had the effect of largely denying affordable air travel to the middle class. This made things a lot more convenient for everyone else, but it's not a good thing.
The middle class has no business flying. It should take the train; if it took the train, rail service would be oders of magnitude better than it is now in the US.
That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
Actually, sometimes, you're glad that the light at the end of the tunnel is actually a train... (Scroll near the end to "The beginning of the end...").
Actually, price descrimination can be a good thing. For example, price descrimination is largely responsible for the availability of cheap airline tickets and airline tickets being generally available on short notice. Without price descrimination, you'd likely have a situation where you'd pay more than the cheapest fares these days and/or there'd be no seats available for the last minute traveller.
Without "price discrimination" in the airline business, that is government regulation, just like it was until about 22 years ago, you had:
Fixed fares set by the government.
No ruinous competition over profitable rules, competition that leaves with airlines unable to replace their aircraft fleet (the US has an average fleet age that rivals many third world countries. Before deregulation, it had the newest aircraft fleet.
No out-of-the-way towns left without service, or with pretatorly-priced fares
Airlines had to serve little out-of-the-way towns at a reasonable fare, because it was forced to subsidize money-losing routes with the big moneymakers. And there was money available because the big moneymaking routes had no ruinous competition.
Safety standards were adhered to, because Government regulation insured that there would be enough money coming-in to maintain planes properly. With deregulations, airlines struggle to survive and will cut corners on maintenance and even falsify service records to go by.
When airlines are responsible for the security checkpoints, dwindling revenues make them cut corners there, so they hire stupid morons at minimum wages to let people with box cutters go aboard planes.
'Nuff said. The "invisible hand of market" is just ideological bullshit to suit the biggest fish at the expense of the small fry.
I'd like to see federal law that provides some disincentive to spam-sending critters. Making spamming illegal makes spammers into official criminals. I just can't see 'industry' self-regulation working very well when most spammers aren't even a part of any legitimate industry.
Like if american federal law will be useful against Asia-based spammers...
I think you forgot that every TCP/IP packet has its orginal MAC-address witten in and its not changed by NAT. When the ISP sees two different MAC-addresses they can assume that the user is using NAT.
The MAC address is strictly an Ethernet thing; it has nothing to do with TCP/IP which can work on many other things than Ethernet, like serial (RS-232C) links, parallel ports (PLIP), USB or carrier pigeon.
A $15,000 yearly salary in other countries is enough to make one live like a king. In India (I've been told; perhaps someone can comment), a $15,000 U.S.-equivalent salary is enough to have a personal cook prepare your lunch, and a personal servant bring it to your workplace.
I have friends who came from the Philippines. She is a nurse, and he is a sysadmin. Not exactly big huge salaries. Yet, they have brought along their maid when they arrived from the Philippines.
Actually, that means a company is forced to compete with it's own product, and therefore each release should be better and worth more than the release that preceeds it.
Somehow I get the notion that this idea won't exactly fly very high with the suits...
A professor at a local US University handed our help desk a CD labeled "Adobe & Macromedia's Greatest Hits, Vol. II"
She wanted us to install Photoshop and Dreamweaver off the disk.
A teacher in Canada was fired by a public school board some years ago for refusing to pirate software as her boss asked...
Hardly newfangled. More than 25 years ago, the French embarked in an ambitious "transit-on-demand" development program, which culminated in the Aramis test network in Paris.
The technology used automobile-sized cars that could follow each-other at a less-than braking distance whenever they had to run on the same track.
Needless to say, the complexity of implementing the required movable block technology proved too much for the researchers, and the whole idea was scrapped.
If having an "able" fighting army is dependent upon having more and more sophisticated technology, you can bet your ass that ennemies will certainly use "conventionnal" warfare, but instead resort to shadowy fighting, à la Ossama Ben-Laden...
It is fine and easy to level a tiny country like Afganistan, but what happens with something more like India or Indonesia???
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That's the sound that the privacy-conscious traveller of the future will hear as he travels without haste, half-cokes, three peanuts meals and air-rage, all the while enjoying the scenery in a rooooomy seat or the privacy of a comfortable bedroom.
Now is time to travel with Amtrak more than ever...
There. Now, can I have my TrustE certificate, pleeeeze????
Well, it looked seamless in the theater, but when it is shown on TV, you happen to SEE the seams aroung the various spacecraft...
The press can't attend? Well, if John Q. Public can attend, what's to stop him from posting trial reviews on Usenet? Or, better yet, from abroad via e-mail and an accomplice that's safely beyond the reach of yankee kangaroo courts???
Tinseltown has shown remarkable ability in playing with people's brains, and this is yet another example of it.
- Fixed fares set by the government.
- No ruinous competition over profitable rules, competition that leaves with airlines unable to replace their aircraft fleet (the US has an average fleet age that rivals many third world countries. Before deregulation, it had the newest aircraft fleet.
- No out-of-the-way towns left without service, or with pretatorly-priced fares
- Airlines had to serve little out-of-the-way towns at a reasonable fare, because it was forced to subsidize money-losing routes with the big moneymakers. And there was money available because the big moneymaking routes had no ruinous competition.
- Safety standards were adhered to, because Government regulation insured that there would be enough money coming-in to maintain planes properly. With deregulations, airlines struggle to survive and will cut corners on maintenance and even falsify service records to go by.
- When airlines are responsible for the security checkpoints, dwindling revenues make them cut corners there, so they hire stupid morons at minimum wages to let people with box cutters go aboard planes.
'Nuff said. The "invisible hand of market" is just ideological bullshit to suit the biggest fish at the expense of the small fry.A wireless WAN? So what? It's censored anyways.
Smart move!!!
The technology used automobile-sized cars that could follow each-other at a less-than braking distance whenever they had to run on the same track.
Needless to say, the complexity of implementing the required movable block technology proved too much for the researchers, and the whole idea was scrapped.
It is fine and easy to level a tiny country like Afganistan, but what happens with something more like India or Indonesia???