What is going to happen? We will wish that we had standardized on gsm or something so that we could get the most efficient use from the spectrum. Congress's rush to sell spectrum for a windfall will come back to haunt us. This is what happens when policy makers don't really understand what they are making policy about.
This weekend there was an article in the travel section of NYT about how US credit cards are being denigned in Europe because we don't use Smart Card with pins to prevent fraud. The US credit card rep said it was because fraud was not such an issue in the US. HaHa. They are also in denial about that also or they just don't want to admit it.
Did some work for a publisher back in the 90's before CD-R's replaced books. The Publisher which will remain nameless but has initials (PH) seemed very concerned about certain content. Namely a particular cartoon Egg character and a male figure wearing a purple shirt. The Egg which had no gender or genitalia need clothes and of course the purple shirt might imply the male was somewhat less than manly. If you think books are too expensive it is because a lot of effort goes into issue such as these.
I weighed my laptop before and after I installed malware as a test. The weights are the same. I don't think the scales had the resolution necessary to measure the extra bits:)
As much as I hated school, found it boring and resented stupid teachers I find this idea totally alarming. Learning to press on through boring material is a skill. It is learned. And it is necessary to be successful at virtually anything. If you only pursue something while it is interesting you will always quit and find the next new thing which holds the instant gratification of being more interesting because you haven't hit the boring aspects of it yet. I also think this totally misses the added value of a skilled teacher that observes your conceptual road blocks and tries to figure out ways to help you around them. Certain things are more quickly learned through repetion and don't hold much intrinsic value or deep meaning. Many of these boring things are necessary to get to a level that has those qualities. It is simply more efficient to do the grind. This sounds like a recipe for prep[aring a 30 year old with a kindergarden mentality.
Ever go to a concert. You don't have rights to pictures you take. Try taking and using pictures or Baseball games without the Leagues permission. Nothing new here etc they want to let people use their personal images.
The companies bought bandwidth from the government with borrowed money. They now have to pay back. Just consider it another tax. Also the government refused to standardize. We are now stuck with a bunch of incompatible networks which prevents real competition between service providers. The cheaper countries did not do this. They lease the bandwidth for reasonable sums and set standards so that providers really compete. Hence lower prices.
If like so many before them Google adopts a business the hinges on MS death spiral they will eventually learn that there is no money to be made in MS demise. There can be only one out come. They will fail to respond to real threats to their core business and come to realize that even with MS gone or diminished their own profits will not increase. I as a loyal Google customer want my needs to be served regardless of what happens to MS (which btw I do not care to use).
Sounds like someone schilling Ad Block Plus. it is such a deterrent people are scared of Ad block Plus. Content providers seeing their ad revenues decline because of Ad Block Plus. Aliens deterred from attacking Earth due to Ad Block Plus.
So I get a copy and it gets cached or copy and pasted somewhere else. Busted. It is of limited use only for people that agree the data should be destroyed.
Just because a home address can be assigned to you (the home does not move BTW) does not mean you are guilty of a crime that originates from your home. Trying to identify an individual by IP address is absurd. Finally a judge that understands the internet is a series of pipes. WTF.
The assumption here is there is actually something useful being destroyed. Just the fact that there is a way to correctly answer the test makes it suspect for usefulness because the tester will never know if the testee is faking. Just think how many androids would remain loose if they could fake the test.
This with the clever investment in toilets http://www.i4u.com/article4746.html. Something the Japanese have been doing for years. Hey Mark any good recommendation for bidet derivative investments?
There is hysteria because they know what we can do offensively to other countries with cyberterror. They also know that we are just as vunarible as our enemies. But as usual it will all be alot of what if, maybe that. I grew up during the cold war. Russia was portrayed as this unstoppable juggernaut. The reality was that it was all smoke an mirrors. Their system colapsed mostly on its own, simply because it was unworkable. Most of this hype is thrown out by people who stand to make large sums of money by "protecting us." Beware the defense industrial complex.
Airbus A300 flying from New York to the Dominican Republic. Crashed because the tail is not structurally able to withstand deflecting the rudder from full on one side to full on the opposite side. I don't know about you but I think most pilots including myself would consider that a design flaw. It would not surprise me if this current disaster is something similar.
When cable first came out and they wanted you to subscribe there was a lot of content with limited interuption. Now there is no difference between cable and free TV except you can pay extra for not being interupted at all (HBO etc).
The media companies have not come to terms with the fact that their properties are not as valuable as they use to be. There are other entertainment options like gaming that are attracting peoples attention. It is not that money is not being spent, it is being spent on more and various other things that people find entertaining. The larger companies are finding it hard to adopt hence Sony's call for internet guard rails. Their business models are kaput and they are to big to fail I mean change:0
All I can say is good luck with that. I think we are looking at the next GMs.
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What is going to happen? We will wish that we had standardized on gsm or something so that we could get the most efficient use from the spectrum. Congress's rush to sell spectrum for a windfall will come back to haunt us. This is what happens when policy makers don't really understand what they are making policy about.
This weekend there was an article in the travel section of NYT about how US credit cards are being denigned in Europe because we don't use Smart Card with pins to prevent fraud. The US credit card rep said it was because fraud was not such an issue in the US. HaHa. They are also in denial about that also or they just don't want to admit it.
Did some work for a publisher back in the 90's before CD-R's replaced books. The Publisher which will remain nameless but has initials (PH) seemed very concerned about certain content. Namely a particular cartoon Egg character and a male figure wearing a purple shirt. The Egg which had no gender or genitalia need clothes and of course the purple shirt might imply the male was somewhat less than manly. If you think books are too expensive it is because a lot of effort goes into issue such as these.
Kind of makes you wonder why they were so slow in the first place:)
Nothing new here
I weighed my laptop before and after I installed malware as a test. The weights are the same. I don't think the scales had the resolution necessary to measure the extra bits:)
As much as I hated school, found it boring and resented stupid teachers I find this idea totally alarming. Learning to press on through boring material is a skill. It is learned. And it is necessary to be successful at virtually anything. If you only pursue something while it is interesting you will always quit and find the next new thing which holds the instant gratification of being more interesting because you haven't hit the boring aspects of it yet. I also think this totally misses the added value of a skilled teacher that observes your conceptual road blocks and tries to figure out ways to help you around them. Certain things are more quickly learned through repetion and don't hold much intrinsic value or deep meaning. Many of these boring things are necessary to get to a level that has those qualities. It is simply more efficient to do the grind. This sounds like a recipe for prep[aring a 30 year old with a kindergarden mentality.
Patents are virtual property and already exist. So are derivatives and many other things people trade that don't really exist.
Seems as though the rapidly expanding rich are getting more power in in China.
Ever go to a concert. You don't have rights to pictures you take. Try taking and using pictures or Baseball games without the Leagues permission. Nothing new here etc they want to let people use their personal images.
This will mark the end of private aviation as the cost of equipment will be cost prohibitive.
The companies bought bandwidth from the government with borrowed money. They now have to pay back. Just consider it another tax. Also the government refused to standardize. We are now stuck with a bunch of incompatible networks which prevents real competition between service providers. The cheaper countries did not do this. They lease the bandwidth for reasonable sums and set standards so that providers really compete. Hence lower prices.
If like so many before them Google adopts a business the hinges on MS death spiral they will eventually learn that there is no money to be made in MS demise. There can be only one out come. They will fail to respond to real threats to their core business and come to realize that even with MS gone or diminished their own profits will not increase. I as a loyal Google customer want my needs to be served regardless of what happens to MS (which btw I do not care to use).
Sounds like someone schilling Ad Block Plus. it is such a deterrent people are scared of Ad block Plus. Content providers seeing their ad revenues decline because of Ad Block Plus. Aliens deterred from attacking Earth due to Ad Block Plus.
By that argument providers shouldn't let iPhones on there network.
So I get a copy and it gets cached or copy and pasted somewhere else. Busted. It is of limited use only for people that agree the data should be destroyed.
Just because a home address can be assigned to you (the home does not move BTW) does not mean you are guilty of a crime that originates from your home. Trying to identify an individual by IP address is absurd. Finally a judge that understands the internet is a series of pipes. WTF.
The assumption here is there is actually something useful being destroyed. Just the fact that there is a way to correctly answer the test makes it suspect for usefulness because the tester will never know if the testee is faking. Just think how many androids would remain loose if they could fake the test.
This with the clever investment in toilets http://www.i4u.com/article4746.html. Something the Japanese have been doing for years. Hey Mark any good recommendation for bidet derivative investments?
And I'm not getting it out.
There is hysteria because they know what we can do offensively to other countries with cyberterror. They also know that we are just as vunarible as our enemies. But as usual it will all be alot of what if, maybe that. I grew up during the cold war. Russia was portrayed as this unstoppable juggernaut. The reality was that it was all smoke an mirrors. Their system colapsed mostly on its own, simply because it was unworkable. Most of this hype is thrown out by people who stand to make large sums of money by "protecting us." Beware the defense industrial complex.
This all sounds very similar to that new fangled gadget called a radio. I read about them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio
I use piratebay to replace all my porn and software pirating needs. An it's FREE!!!
Airbus A300 flying from New York to the Dominican Republic. Crashed because the tail is not structurally able to withstand deflecting the rudder from full on one side to full on the opposite side. I don't know about you but I think most pilots including myself would consider that a design flaw. It would not surprise me if this current disaster is something similar.
When cable first came out and they wanted you to subscribe there was a lot of content with limited interuption. Now there is no difference between cable and free TV except you can pay extra for not being interupted at all (HBO etc). The media companies have not come to terms with the fact that their properties are not as valuable as they use to be. There are other entertainment options like gaming that are attracting peoples attention. It is not that money is not being spent, it is being spent on more and various other things that people find entertaining. The larger companies are finding it hard to adopt hence Sony's call for internet guard rails. Their business models are kaput and they are to big to fail I mean change:0 All I can say is good luck with that. I think we are looking at the next GMs.