How will Visa compete with shady business practices; keeping money from users, putting a stop on user accounts because there's a solar flare, not giving a damn about client data confidentiality, not being regulated as a bank. These things make it a tough act to follow for Visa.
The genome project has the potential to help people with their illnesses, especially with tailored treatment instead of the generic drugs that work on some people, but not on others and might cause toxicity with certain combinations of drugs which you won't know until you are subjected to that combination.
On the flip side, this could be a governments wonder weapon. Target a specific trait in the DNA, ie. people with black hair, or men, etc. etc. and kill them off, or make them weaker... all sorts of nasty things.
Keep sending an email from yourself to yourself every day, it doesn't have to have anything in the message, but it will waste the capacity of the ISP's logging hard drives having to log all the details of the email like time sent, from and to etc. etc.. The faster their drives fill up with garbage the faster they will burn through their profits, and maybe pull their fingers out of their backsides and protest against stupid laws.
A video editor built into youtube. Excellent! Can we remove the fingerprint then they add to files for "copyright" enforcement? No? Then it's a rubbish editor.
I know there's a problem with teenage pregnancy in the UK, but damn, getting a call from the FBI just because some teen said on their facebook page "party", "no parents", "beer", "condoms" is a bit much.
Disclaimer: The scenario posted in this comment bares no resemblance to any actual event in this life or a past life...
Very interesting video clip. What I've been wondering for many years now, is that the Space Shuttle is on a predicted flight path, so they know where it is and at what time. Why hasn't it's re-entry been filmed properly? Why don't they put a video camera on the Shuttle on somewhere like the tail so we can see what it's really like outside as it re-enters the atmosphere.
The video over recent missions of the shuttle going up from various points, ie. main tank, booster rockets... are very interesting.
I suspect video calls will mainly be used by horny teenagers so they can expose themselves to other horny teenagers.
I hope that UK teenagers don't do that, because with the crazy laws the UK now has, they will be up on paedophile (pedophile) charges and get a criminal record.... even if they are married to each other but under 18. It's not like there have never been cases taken to court over this law. The lawyers win from having such a law worded so badly.
When the new coalition speaks of all things being open, I don't think the people were thinking about their private details being among the information being "open".....
A controversial database of personal health records will continue to be rolled out despite Government pledges on civil liberties. Campaigners accused the coalition of a U-turn over a system they say people are bullied into signing up to and is too hard to opt out of. The Tories insist they never made a commitment to end it. Director of Big Brother Watch, said patients should be told the truth about its drawbacks and, like ID cards, it should be scrapped. This is a disgraceful U-turn by the coalition. The Government wants us to believe that they are serious about privacy and civil liberties - this is their first test and they have failed it.
Private tax information being used illegally by the public sector workforce.
More and more town hall bureaucrats have been caught snooping on private details held on a giant 'Big Brother' tax and benefits database. Instances of unlawful hacking of the Customer Information System, which belongs to the Department of Work and Pensions and holds the personal records of 85 million people, have increased sixfold in a single year to more than two a week. Council staff have looked at accounts belonging to their friends, family members, neighbours and even celebrities.
Quick pop quiz on the second article. There's 65 million people in the UK, so why are there 85 million tax records?
What they should have done is rename the file something like "Britney Spears entire album collection", then waste the RIAA's bandwidth on them downloading it, and lots of their time decompressing it and checking the files out to see if it contains WAV / FLAC / AAC / MP3 files.
This is not just going to affect The Times and The Sunday Times, but his other papers like "The Sun". The Sun rag is mostly know for page3 (a page that has a picture a day of a topless / semi-nude women on.... page 3). With so much free kink on the internet, does he think people will be willing to pay for his kink?
Although there is a separate challenge to anyone that can spot "news" in The Sun.
I do not use wireless, don't trust it, but my netbook has the ability to use it. So booting it up during the daytime (when there are usually less connections around) shows up that around me, there are two homes with 100% open WiFi connections, and a number with WEP and WPA, with the netbook telling me visually which is the weaker security protocol, and also the ID of the network being broadcast.... the box name anyway, so if you were a bad person, you could look up the manufacturers default passwords and change the box so you have unlimited access.
I'd love to tell the people here that they are running an open connection, because just the other day there was a car that parked up with a laptop who was scanning for WiFi, but rapidly drove away when I switched on my netbook with the connection ID "you are being scanned". They came back minutes later, and I tried to scan them again before they again rapidly drove away, this time not to return.
So Google will answer questions will it. Okay, how about;
Question 1:
Why is Youtube uncontactable by email when companies are deliberately taking the P with their copyright claims, because a video you uploaded has 5 seconds of something in a 10 minute clip they take down the whole clip AND trash your "account standing" with Youtube's idiotic three strikes rule.
Question 2:
Why does Youtube think it is acceptable for unaccountable companies to file bogus DMCA notices on videos, and then expect YOU to give them your life story and inside leg measurement to counter these bogus DMCA notices? My private details are my business, not the property of the company that filed the bogus claims, and not the property of Youtube (who would data mine it for Google for ads my browser doesn't load).
Strangely, Google do not have these answers in their search engine.
I am not familiar with the US market, but will tell you what it's like in the UK.
One of my previous ISPs decided to introduce throttling on different services using deep packet inspection to implement it. Their priority was for websites (port 80) and POP3 email. Everything else was throttled, in particular P2P services, and VoIP like Skype. However, by strange coincidence, the ISPs own VoIP service was NOT being throttled.
As the company had to issue new terms of service you had to agree to because of the throttling, I left without penalty, and actually told them they were a bunch of shysters who were more interested in saving money that commissioning more capacity (they actually oversold the network and could not keep up). If you can, the only way to teach these companies is to leave them.
Sure, the ISP has grown, but that's on the backs of new users who don't know any better, and would think that different internet services were just that slow all the time.
Speaking for myself, I grew up mostly with Windows, did some machine language programming, C, and C++, Pascal, and eventually settled on Delphi RAD (souped up Pascal). The problem with Linux is there are many languages to choose from, who knows which GUI would help out for the GUI side of application design and make design a bit simpler for a newbie (like Delphi or Visual Basic), choice of QT, Gnome or KDE and so on.
As Linux is different to Windows, being able to pick one to start with would be good. At that point I will hear someone shout Mono, but that's in some small part mixed up with Microsoft and don't want any part of that any more.
It's the range of choices and thinking about it, the possibility of ending up designing something with dependencies which as a newbie you've never encountered.
It's all really daunting to a new comer to programming in Linux, and why I've not really progressed in it, even though I have an idea for an application to design.
From what I've seen over the years, people have no problem putting everyone's name into a CC field instead of BCC, so even if this was not an April Fool joke, there would be no benefit to a "fake" carbon copy, when people are so stupid and do it for real and use CC.
I have followed Formula One for many years, and enjoy the technical side just as much as the racing.
The huge amount of data has many uses. These days, many of the teams have test rigs back at the factory, so they can re-create the x,y,z motion of a race on a car, and investigate part failures or how to fix them, or even investigate if something is over-engineered so they can shave weight and thus shave lap times.
Additionally, some teams have developed their own simulators that the drivers sit in, and they can test out various configurations of the car, with weather patterns etc. and "drive" round a circuit. This is more beneficial now as the amount of real track testing has been severely restricted though the off-season and in-season. Some places like Monaco are street circuits, so the only practice and data you will get is during an actual race.
And finally, with more teams using computational fluid analysis of their cars aerodynamic packages, the data that the teams thought they would get can be matched with what they actually got, and refine their engineering calculations, and so save money on expensive x% sized model or full size mock-ups... autoclaves for carbon fiber are not cheap to run, and scrapping a part that you thought would work but didn't is equally not cheap, let alone the man hours wasted in manufacture.
If it can be seen to give tenths of a second per lap improvement, the teams would count that as reasonable success.
You better not be multilingual, you get stuck on a word in one language, and your thoughts on "oh damn, what's that word, sounds like whatever" gets put into your document as you're trying to remember the damn word you wanted.
A "super ID card", will see how good it is against a cigarette lighter, shove their ID cards cards where the sun don't shine (unfortunately I read that there are many current government ministers who would like that experience).
This corrupt government will force ID cards on people by stealth. There are plans to add a section to the passport application form. If you do not want an ID card, you will not get a passport. That's an easy way to force people to have cards they don't want. The current government are THE most corrupt in the UK's history.
Kick the corrupt UK government out of power, then the UK public will save £20bn, and not have every excuse for public sector "worker" from the police downwards asking "Papieren Bitte", just like in Nazi Germany.
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How will Visa compete with shady business practices; keeping money from users, putting a stop on user accounts because there's a solar flare, not giving a damn about client data confidentiality, not being regulated as a bank. These things make it a tough act to follow for Visa.
The genome project has the potential to help people with their illnesses, especially with tailored treatment instead of the generic drugs that work on some people, but not on others and might cause toxicity with certain combinations of drugs which you won't know until you are subjected to that combination.
On the flip side, this could be a governments wonder weapon. Target a specific trait in the DNA, ie. people with black hair, or men, etc. etc. and kill them off, or make them weaker... all sorts of nasty things.
Keep sending an email from yourself to yourself every day, it doesn't have to have anything in the message, but it will waste the capacity of the ISP's logging hard drives having to log all the details of the email like time sent, from and to etc. etc.. The faster their drives fill up with garbage the faster they will burn through their profits, and maybe pull their fingers out of their backsides and protest against stupid laws.
A video editor built into youtube. Excellent! Can we remove the fingerprint then they add to files for "copyright" enforcement? No? Then it's a rubbish editor.
I know there's a problem with teenage pregnancy in the UK, but damn, getting a call from the FBI just because some teen said on their facebook page "party", "no parents", "beer", "condoms" is a bit much.
Disclaimer: The scenario posted in this comment bares no resemblance to any actual event in this life or a past life...
Very interesting video clip. What I've been wondering for many years now, is that the Space Shuttle is on a predicted flight path, so they know where it is and at what time. Why hasn't it's re-entry been filmed properly? Why don't they put a video camera on the Shuttle on somewhere like the tail so we can see what it's really like outside as it re-enters the atmosphere.
The video over recent missions of the shuttle going up from various points, ie. main tank, booster rockets... are very interesting.
I suspect video calls will mainly be used by horny teenagers so they can expose themselves to other horny teenagers.
I hope that UK teenagers don't do that, because with the crazy laws the UK now has, they will be up on paedophile (pedophile) charges and get a criminal record.... even if they are married to each other but under 18. It's not like there have never been cases taken to court over this law. The lawyers win from having such a law worded so badly.
When the new coalition speaks of all things being open, I don't think the people were thinking about their private details being among the information being "open".....
Private medical details open for all to read via the NHS copmputer system
A controversial database of personal health records will continue to be rolled out despite Government pledges on civil liberties. Campaigners accused the coalition of a U-turn over a system they say people are bullied into signing up to and is too hard to opt out of. The Tories insist they never made a commitment to end it. Director of Big Brother Watch, said patients should be told the truth about its drawbacks and, like ID cards, it should be scrapped. This is a disgraceful U-turn by the coalition. The Government wants us to believe that they are serious about privacy and civil liberties - this is their first test and they have failed it.
Private tax information being used illegally by the public sector workforce.
More and more town hall bureaucrats have been caught snooping on private details held on a giant 'Big Brother' tax and benefits database. Instances of unlawful hacking of the Customer Information System, which belongs to the Department of Work and Pensions and holds the personal records of 85 million people, have increased sixfold in a single year to more than two a week. Council staff have looked at accounts belonging to their friends, family members, neighbours and even celebrities.
Quick pop quiz on the second article. There's 65 million people in the UK, so why are there 85 million tax records?
What they should have done is rename the file something like "Britney Spears entire album collection", then waste the RIAA's bandwidth on them downloading it, and lots of their time decompressing it and checking the files out to see if it contains WAV / FLAC / AAC / MP3 files.
This is not just going to affect The Times and The Sunday Times, but his other papers like "The Sun". The Sun rag is mostly know for page3 (a page that has a picture a day of a topless / semi-nude women on.... page 3). With so much free kink on the internet, does he think people will be willing to pay for his kink?
Although there is a separate challenge to anyone that can spot "news" in The Sun.
I think that Adolf Hitler would have a approved such a scheme. Seemingly nobody has learned ANYTHING from history.
I do not use wireless, don't trust it, but my netbook has the ability to use it. So booting it up during the daytime (when there are usually less connections around) shows up that around me, there are two homes with 100% open WiFi connections, and a number with WEP and WPA, with the netbook telling me visually which is the weaker security protocol, and also the ID of the network being broadcast.... the box name anyway, so if you were a bad person, you could look up the manufacturers default passwords and change the box so you have unlimited access.
I'd love to tell the people here that they are running an open connection, because just the other day there was a car that parked up with a laptop who was scanning for WiFi, but rapidly drove away when I switched on my netbook with the connection ID "you are being scanned". They came back minutes later, and I tried to scan them again before they again rapidly drove away, this time not to return.
So Google will answer questions will it. Okay, how about; Question 1: Why is Youtube uncontactable by email when companies are deliberately taking the P with their copyright claims, because a video you uploaded has 5 seconds of something in a 10 minute clip they take down the whole clip AND trash your "account standing" with Youtube's idiotic three strikes rule. Question 2: Why does Youtube think it is acceptable for unaccountable companies to file bogus DMCA notices on videos, and then expect YOU to give them your life story and inside leg measurement to counter these bogus DMCA notices? My private details are my business, not the property of the company that filed the bogus claims, and not the property of Youtube (who would data mine it for Google for ads my browser doesn't load). Strangely, Google do not have these answers in their search engine.
A one molecule computer faster than a PC. I find that hard to believe. My Asus Netbook is powered by one "atom", and it's still dog slow.
I am not familiar with the US market, but will tell you what it's like in the UK.
One of my previous ISPs decided to introduce throttling on different services using deep packet inspection to implement it. Their priority was for websites (port 80) and POP3 email. Everything else was throttled, in particular P2P services, and VoIP like Skype. However, by strange coincidence, the ISPs own VoIP service was NOT being throttled.
As the company had to issue new terms of service you had to agree to because of the throttling, I left without penalty, and actually told them they were a bunch of shysters who were more interested in saving money that commissioning more capacity (they actually oversold the network and could not keep up). If you can, the only way to teach these companies is to leave them.
Sure, the ISP has grown, but that's on the backs of new users who don't know any better, and would think that different internet services were just that slow all the time.
Speaking for myself, I grew up mostly with Windows, did some machine language programming, C, and C++, Pascal, and eventually settled on Delphi RAD (souped up Pascal). The problem with Linux is there are many languages to choose from, who knows which GUI would help out for the GUI side of application design and make design a bit simpler for a newbie (like Delphi or Visual Basic), choice of QT, Gnome or KDE and so on.
As Linux is different to Windows, being able to pick one to start with would be good. At that point I will hear someone shout Mono, but that's in some small part mixed up with Microsoft and don't want any part of that any more.
It's the range of choices and thinking about it, the possibility of ending up designing something with dependencies which as a newbie you've never encountered.
It's all really daunting to a new comer to programming in Linux, and why I've not really progressed in it, even though I have an idea for an application to design.
I'm speechless!
From what I've seen over the years, people have no problem putting everyone's name into a CC field instead of BCC, so even if this was not an April Fool joke, there would be no benefit to a "fake" carbon copy, when people are so stupid and do it for real and use CC.
Maybe you're thinking of the wrong brand?
I have followed Formula One for many years, and enjoy the technical side just as much as the racing.
The huge amount of data has many uses. These days, many of the teams have test rigs back at the factory, so they can re-create the x,y,z motion of a race on a car, and investigate part failures or how to fix them, or even investigate if something is over-engineered so they can shave weight and thus shave lap times.
Additionally, some teams have developed their own simulators that the drivers sit in, and they can test out various configurations of the car, with weather patterns etc. and "drive" round a circuit. This is more beneficial now as the amount of real track testing has been severely restricted though the off-season and in-season. Some places like Monaco are street circuits, so the only practice and data you will get is during an actual race.
And finally, with more teams using computational fluid analysis of their cars aerodynamic packages, the data that the teams thought they would get can be matched with what they actually got, and refine their engineering calculations, and so save money on expensive x% sized model or full size mock-ups... autoclaves for carbon fiber are not cheap to run, and scrapping a part that you thought would work but didn't is equally not cheap, let alone the man hours wasted in manufacture.
If it can be seen to give tenths of a second per lap improvement, the teams would count that as reasonable success.
Nerds playing with girls, don't be so stupid. We all know nerds only like playing with themselves.... lol
You better not be multilingual, you get stuck on a word in one language, and your thoughts on "oh damn, what's that word, sounds like whatever" gets put into your document as you're trying to remember the damn word you wanted.
How long before dedicated code will be found to use smart mobiles for some kind of bot-nets?
3.5TeV, did the earth move for you honey!?
A "super ID card", will see how good it is against a cigarette lighter, shove their ID cards cards where the sun don't shine (unfortunately I read that there are many current government ministers who would like that experience).
This corrupt government will force ID cards on people by stealth. There are plans to add a section to the passport application form. If you do not want an ID card, you will not get a passport. That's an easy way to force people to have cards they don't want. The current government are THE most corrupt in the UK's history.
Kick the corrupt UK government out of power, then the UK public will save £20bn, and not have every excuse for public sector "worker" from the police downwards asking "Papieren Bitte", just like in Nazi Germany.