There was absolutely a third option. Go with both platforms Android and MS. ( Ignoring that they already had a new OS ready to go. Tested, proven and in phones )
Who in their right minds would put all their eggs in the Microsoft basket when the entire planet knows Microsoft's track record with consumer products. At the time of the decision to go with Microsoft the Zune platform was circling the drain. Zune was a disaster from conception straight to it's death. Somehow the decision was made to go with an OS that really didn't exist. Wasn't in a consumer product that anyone had played with. And came from the same creative minds as:
Zune Kin ( One of the shortest lived phones in history ) MS Bob
Saying that the market was already flooded by cheap Asian android phones makes no sense at all. Since all the these manufacturers make MS phones as well. So you could easily state that the market will be flooded with cheap MS phones. ( I say will because at the time MS didn't really have a viable OS for mobiles ) So not matter what path was chosen Nokia would be battling Asian phones.
I have to completely disagree that choosing MS was the best option.
Choosing MS was a long shot. So to safe guard that bet Nokia had to have a backup plan that was and is clearly Android.
Total deregulation is a nightmare. You don't have to look far to see how corrupt and mismanaged a system can be. The financial markets under good old Bush progressively got more deregulated and it was the public that lost.
A degree of regulation is required. Regulation brings other things than penalties for violation of regulations. It brings standards. Standards give common ground for competition. Without the standards or regulations you be left with one other controlling structure, Patents. A deregulated wireless world where patents require each player to invent something completely different than the other. Leads to a world of incompatible wireless systems that constantly interfered with each other. The massive amounts of redundant infrastructure to support divergent technology can only lead to huge consumer costs and poor service.
There are no winners in a deregulated wireless world. Maybe only the equipment manufacturers would win.
The author of the article is just PO'd that he got bill shock after he downloaded a lot of naughty stuff while on a trip over his phone. Now he is standing on his soap box hoping someone will simpathise with him.
Of course you are going to have to pay for what you use. Wireless spectrum is not infinite. It is currently a finite resource. Any finite resource is partially regulated by the economic principle of Supply and Demand. Prices will drop when new tech increases supply thus causing prises to drop. When wireless Internet first started supply was huge compared to consumer base. Thus justifying unlimited plans. This is not the case any more thus a change in the pricing.
It is rather astounding that people can not remember principle of supply and demand even though it was taught to use in grade school.
Most countries this is 100% legal. They can also listen in on all phone conversations work related or not. They can also place a video camera pointed at your face from 1 foot away.
Is it good for the people working there. NOPE. Does it instil a sense of corporate loyalty. NOPE.
I've been through these call centres. I feel depressed just entering the floor. It's a cattle station with better flooring.
Get a trade, skill, education, anything and move on out.
QR codes are simply a method of encoding a blob of information. There is no magically connection between a blob of data containing a url and the magically fetching of the URL. You actually have to write more code to make it fetch the url. And fetching the url does not automatically result in infection. You still have to pass that url data through a browser engine to evaluate and act on the data. There are so many steps that would have to be coded that the likely hood of a moron coder making a mistake that would result in infection is 0.
QR codes allow for a visible representation of more information than can typically be printed in human language in the same amount of space. Presumably they can be printed in such a way that they are more durable than say a hologram and thus can be trusted to represent authenticity markings on the bill. As compared to a hologram which is easily damaged.
Both of these interfaces decided that desktop was dead and that the non-existent tablets of the time would rule the world by the time they were gold standard code.
Forums lite up like Xmas trees. People were not happy. Yet both camps stuck to the same line. "When we go live you will love it." Guess what, very few people do. It's been a couple of years of this now.
As a result the Linux as usable desktop got set back at least 2 years. Possibly longer if recovery time is factored in. Meanwhile the computing landscape is changing. Which is going to take even more effort to catch the change in direction consumer computing is taking.
Time to listen to the communities. Take down a list of what people actually liked in all variants of shells. Pick a reference set of code and branch with the community requests. The reference set of code could be gnome2 or 3. This reference code base could also be from one of the already in place forks. Saying woops, we are sorry will go a long way to help as well. It doesn't even have to be from the "team" responsible. If key players in the construction of these interfaces go. "Guess what, I was wrong in more support of gnome3 as a standard". This will help.
Some dude with cash and an idea has an idea to make money. Sign the bloody NDA. If it's a good idea you work on the project and pocket decent cash. If it's a bad idea you walk.
It's not like you are going to take his bad idea and try to make money from it.
It's only arrogant programmers that think they hold the keys to Fort Knox in their head. A good business idea has very little to do with the tech or the programming. A good idea is a complete package. Very very rarely does a small piece of code turn into billions. If you are holding out for this golden lottery ticket of luck you are a fool. you stand a better chance of making a fortune by working with others and hearing as many ideas as possible.
Listen up you are not signing away part of your brain when you sign an NDA. You'd be a bloody fool to turn down work and decent money from someone that has a good idea. A NDA is not a financial contract. If you like the idea and you think you are the key to it's success then you can negotiate money after the NDA is signed. If not you walk.
Also under an NDA you do not have to give away anything to the other party. There is no obligation that you tell everything you know on the subject at hand. You can hang onto your precious secrets.
If you are truly a smart guy/gal. Then missing out on one good idea is not going to make you poor. Smart IT people are also creative people. So missing out on one opportunity is not a big deal.
You are correct. All that is going to happen is companies are going to pick up and move off shore. Taking the cash and the IP with them. Basically moving out of US jurisdiction.
To be honest a lot of companies are not looking at the US as a must have for a user base anymore. They are looking at Asia and Europe. Population bases that far exceed the US. The cash side of the equation also makes Asia look very attractive.
The challenge companies will have is to make sure that data is created and housed out side of US jurisdiction. That's not so easy as still to this day most of the traffic routes through the US.
A frozen image in time means that what we see is literally seconds in the past. Which may in fact be a completely different scenario to the driving conditions of this moment. So now the driver has to guess how far back in time and then some how remap there location on the visual map then make an appropriate driving decision.
Yep, This is obviously safer than the current method of having millisecond accuracy ( Assuming your GPS doesn't suck ) with a simple glance then making a driving decision.
It takes 2 seconds to realise that this idea is bad.
I'm stunned this made the front page. This has been known for a long time actually. I had my CIO ring me up on this. He was freaking. He's seriously pissed at me for not fixing something we don't have a vulnerability too. "We use apache so why are you not fixing this!!!!!!!!"
I actually have a meeting with him and the security team on this, this week. I'm going to walk through the defect and walk through our config. I'm still going to be ordered to get my people to patch this. Even though the patch doesn't exist.
Don't even respond with NGINX been trying to win that for awhile now.
Interesting idea. Until you realise that the first time a child pram stops/gets stuck in the transition phase you will see that this can't possible work.
How can you possible ensure that all passengers transition properly.
Well you might think OK every passenger is in a pod where the pod transitions between vehicles. Again what if that now has trouble.
I like the thinking outside the box. However the human life/health risk component is too high.
How the hell does violence show that you are right and just?
Just because some people are corrupt it some how justifies violent acts. In all likely hood any attempted violence wouldn't even harm those that are corrupt. It most likely take the form property damage and have no impact on the "rich" but rather harm the lively hood of a hard working person.
As for "kneecapping" this has to be the dumbest thing I ever heard. Say you actually get close to a corrupt rich guy and kneecap him. Who do think is going to pay for the legal & medical bills. Hard working people via increased taxes and insurance costs. And guess who has to pay for your prison time?
I completely agree that some of these organisations that prosecute law abiding individuals are morally bankrupt. But good lord a violent response just shows who is wearing a white collar and who is wearing a gorilla suit.
Hear let me take a short cut and save all of us some money.
"Hey look over there, Yah just over there in that cage like thing. I nice tasty looking yellow banana. Look at that tasty banana. I know you want it. All you have to do is just go over and get it."
How about my ISP providing ipv6 DNS at all. You would be stunned to find out how few actually do.
Without DNS providing ipv6 addressing ipv6 is a dead end.
Note DNS for your toaster would most likely have to come from your own personal router. As the toaster would be using your home ipv6 prefix. It only makes sense that with in the address block the sub domain names would be supplied internal to your home. So the name would be like "4slicetoaser.419rigwaystreet.Chicago.us". Where you home domain is "419rigwaystreet.Chicago.us".
I honestly can't believe that NAT will not be implemented by vendors of home equipment.
Of course it will.
All it will take is a ISP to issue a ridiculously small range to home users and Boom NAT comes into existence as a means of getting around the issue. ISP's are going to try and make money as they do today from issue static ip ranges to users. You can make more money if you make the ranges small. It's obvious that a money grab will cause home NATing.
Secondly small devices in the home will be connected as well. I mean everything from alarm clocks to dishwashers. It strikes me as insanity to expose these devices addresses to the network at large with out going through some sort of internal filter mechanism. The filter being a combination of firewall / NAT / Data aggregation. These small devices are a rich target space for hackers. As they are going to be basically little Trojan horses in every household inside the protect home network. I most definitely will want them masked behind NAT and a lot of other obfuscating technology.
So will there be a need for home networking protocols? Absolutely. Stuff that doesn't exist today? Yep. The reason is that more and more minor devices are going to be networked. Stuff that we do not think of as needing it today will be. Most likely all of it wirelessly too. If I can bring home a clock radio that I only ever have to plug into the wall and it magically connects to the home network to get time sync, my favourite music stations, my work calendar and the weather. I'm fairly positive that I don't want hackers into this now smart device that now has access to important personal data. At the same time I want this to magically work when I bring it home.
There is no standard for this sort of thing today. ( This is where someone brings up some esoteric reference to a standard no one really uses. ) Remember the standards are not just around communication protocols. It will also have a direct influence on the simple user interface conventions. Why? Well simply put we need a method of adding a device to the home network in a very easy and intuitive way. This method must provide a level of trust and security. It must also somehow be able to proxy the users authority. Since many home devices will belong to different individuals in the home each device will most likely have to be branded to a user or set of users. So in the end if there is no standard around these interfaces and protocols there will be a reduction in the quality, usability and security of home networks.
Back around to the parent post. So I absolutely see a need for home networks to NAT. NAT as just one of many tools used to secure and personalise the home network.
The fundamental issue IMHO is content and the ability to consume content. Tablets / touch screens as input devices are really really slow. So the area where they shine is in content consumption. As consumption requires very little user interaction.
There are two primary issues around consumption.
First thing is the tablet version of Android pretty much sucks. The interface still is not complete. This fundamentally complicates and confuses the consumer. The consumer question is "How do I?" At the moment this is not a simple answer.
The Second item is. "Where is my content?" At the moment there is a varied mix of content sources. And to be honest most that are available around the world suck,
In a nutshell the problem with Android tablets is all about content. Will this improve? Absolutely. There is simply to much consumer market pressure for vendors not to address these issues.
Apple at the moment has a huge leg up with iTunes. iTunes combines content and the how to consume in one product. A product that ships with the device. iTunes also works all over the world.
1. It is not un-reasable that an advanced civ would extend beyond the origin planet to look for resources. 2. Resource extraction is messy. Waste does need to be dealt with no matter the environment.
In space you want the waste away from you and with a low probability to collision. The best way is to dump it into gravity wells like gas giants and suns. This is going to give of spectrum of some sort. Consider it spectral pollution The more industrialized the civ the more of this spectrum pollution would be present.
I would suspect that most "mining" type operations would happen neat gas giants. As the large gravity well would have already created an aggregation of heavy matter. They would to be good locations for slingshot and breaking maneuvers. It seems reasonable to watch the gas giants for unusual spectral emissions.
Solar mining for radiation and light particles would have very little effluent. So I don't believe there would be much to detect in the form of pollution here.
Who would have thought it. Mars could well be the thing that puts a positive influence on the world economy and world direction.
The moon landing energised the world, it literally invented modern computing technology.
Why can't a Mars landing?
In order to get to Mars significant advances in material, energy, and food science are going to have to be achieved. All of which would have real world positive impacts.
Amazon would move in a heart beat if they ever lost the finical incentives they get. Also note Amazon services other parts of the world too. They already have distribution hubs in other parts of the world. It would not be a company killer to up and move. They already have. Do you honestly think a company as big as Amazon would hedge all it's bets on a single location making them vulnerable to changes in an areas economic conditions.
Extra charges? Companies pick locations that are on average lowest cost. So if it costs $10 extra to ship a package to no where Idaho but they only ever ship 3 packages there they will eat the cost. When most of the biz ships to say LA for.20c a package. So actually they would go under if they didn't take advantage of multiple locations including other countries. Which they do by the way.
As I said before. Geography matters very little these days.
The board of directors could live where ever they want too. Co-location is not a requirement to run the company. It's a rarity when it does happen with other companies these days. So no the board would probably not live in China. As a matter of fact the board members of Amazon already live in several cities.
Sorry but ever single time someone tries to put this stupid law up I see another politician who has no grasp of current economic forces.
The Internet has essentially removed geographical boundaries that enabled things like local sales tax. Sales tax can only exist if you are able to regulate ALL product sales in a confined geographical area. So you must either tax at point of sale or at point of entry into the geographical area.
Point of sale is simply impossible. As most markets on the web operate completely outside the jurisdiction of US law makers. So this leaves you with essentially a manual customs inspection of every box coming into an area. And then processing each item and attributing tax and billing an appropriate party. This method would be prohibitive in expense and time. Effectively hand cuffing the local economy. Lets not even start on digital goods which require no physical transfer at all.
There will always be massive holes in any system that tries to implement a sales tax on the web. The honest people will only be priced out of existence. Kill this law before it wastes any more time and money.
Sorry but the days of arbitrary taxation systems are gone.
The simplest proxy that can do this is probably apache. This won't scale all too well. OR you could spend some money on say a blue coat proxy. Or something of that class.
The real issue is setting up a CA and making sure the browsers trust it. Getting this change pushed to the desktops can be a pain.
This fake cert generation you speak of is just a self signed cert. Don't worry about this. The CA you create will give you certs that are signed against it.
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There was absolutely a third option. Go with both platforms Android and MS. ( Ignoring that they already had a new OS ready to go. Tested, proven and in phones )
Who in their right minds would put all their eggs in the Microsoft basket when the entire planet knows Microsoft's track record with consumer products. At the time of the decision to go with Microsoft the Zune platform was circling the drain. Zune was a disaster from conception straight to it's death. Somehow the decision was made to go with an OS that really didn't exist. Wasn't in a consumer product that anyone had played with. And came from the same creative minds as:
Zune
Kin ( One of the shortest lived phones in history )
MS Bob
Saying that the market was already flooded by cheap Asian android phones makes no sense at all. Since all the these manufacturers make MS phones as well. So you could easily state that the market will be flooded with cheap MS phones. ( I say will because at the time MS didn't really have a viable OS for mobiles ) So not matter what path was chosen Nokia would be battling Asian phones.
I have to completely disagree that choosing MS was the best option.
Choosing MS was a long shot. So to safe guard that bet Nokia had to have a backup plan that was and is clearly Android.
Total deregulation is a nightmare. You don't have to look far to see how corrupt and mismanaged a system can be. The financial markets under good old Bush progressively got more deregulated and it was the public that lost.
A degree of regulation is required. Regulation brings other things than penalties for violation of regulations. It brings standards. Standards give common ground for competition. Without the standards or regulations you be left with one other controlling structure, Patents. A deregulated wireless world where patents require each player to invent something completely different than the other. Leads to a world of incompatible wireless systems that constantly interfered with each other. The massive amounts of redundant infrastructure to support divergent technology can only lead to huge consumer costs and poor service.
There are no winners in a deregulated wireless world. Maybe only the equipment manufacturers would win.
The author of the article is just PO'd that he got bill shock after he downloaded a lot of naughty stuff while on a trip over his phone. Now he is standing on his soap box hoping someone will simpathise with him.
Of course you are going to have to pay for what you use. Wireless spectrum is not infinite. It is currently a finite resource. Any finite resource is partially regulated by the economic principle of Supply and Demand. Prices will drop when new tech increases supply thus causing prises to drop. When wireless Internet first started supply was huge compared to consumer base. Thus justifying unlimited plans. This is not the case any more thus a change in the pricing.
It is rather astounding that people can not remember principle of supply and demand even though it was taught to use in grade school.
Most countries this is 100% legal. They can also listen in on all phone conversations work related or not. They can also place a video camera pointed at your face from 1 foot away.
Is it good for the people working there. NOPE.
Does it instil a sense of corporate loyalty. NOPE.
I've been through these call centres. I feel depressed just entering the floor. It's a cattle station with better flooring.
Get a trade, skill, education, anything and move on out.
QR codes are simply a method of encoding a blob of information. There is no magically connection between a blob of data containing a url and the magically fetching of the URL. You actually have to write more code to make it fetch the url. And fetching the url does not automatically result in infection. You still have to pass that url data through a browser engine to evaluate and act on the data. There are so many steps that would have to be coded that the likely hood of a moron coder making a mistake that would result in infection is 0.
QR codes allow for a visible representation of more information than can typically be printed in human language in the same amount of space. Presumably they can be printed in such a way that they are more durable than say a hologram and thus can be trusted to represent authenticity markings on the bill. As compared to a hologram which is easily damaged.
Is it April already?
Both of these interfaces decided that desktop was dead and that the non-existent tablets of the time would rule the world by the time they were gold standard code.
Forums lite up like Xmas trees. People were not happy. Yet both camps stuck to the same line. "When we go live you will love it." Guess what, very few people do. It's been a couple of years of this now.
As a result the Linux as usable desktop got set back at least 2 years. Possibly longer if recovery time is factored in. Meanwhile the computing landscape is changing. Which is going to take even more effort to catch the change in direction consumer computing is taking.
Time to listen to the communities. Take down a list of what people actually liked in all variants of shells. Pick a reference set of code and branch with the community requests. The reference set of code could be gnome2 or 3. This reference code base could also be from one of the already in place forks. Saying woops, we are sorry will go a long way to help as well. It doesn't even have to be from the "team" responsible. If key players in the construction of these interfaces go. "Guess what, I was wrong in more support of gnome3 as a standard". This will help.
Some dude with cash and an idea has an idea to make money. Sign the bloody NDA. If it's a good idea you work on the project and pocket decent cash. If it's a bad idea you walk.
It's not like you are going to take his bad idea and try to make money from it.
It's only arrogant programmers that think they hold the keys to Fort Knox in their head. A good business idea has very little to do with the tech or the programming. A good idea is a complete package. Very very rarely does a small piece of code turn into billions. If you are holding out for this golden lottery ticket of luck you are a fool. you stand a better chance of making a fortune by working with others and hearing as many ideas as possible.
Listen up you are not signing away part of your brain when you sign an NDA. You'd be a bloody fool to turn down work and decent money from someone that has a good idea. A NDA is not a financial contract. If you like the idea and you think you are the key to it's success then you can negotiate money after the NDA is signed. If not you walk.
Also under an NDA you do not have to give away anything to the other party. There is no obligation that you tell everything you know on the subject at hand. You can hang onto your precious secrets.
If you are truly a smart guy/gal. Then missing out on one good idea is not going to make you poor. Smart IT people are also creative people. So missing out on one opportunity is not a big deal.
You are correct. All that is going to happen is companies are going to pick up and move off shore. Taking the cash and the IP with them. Basically moving out of US jurisdiction.
To be honest a lot of companies are not looking at the US as a must have for a user base anymore. They are looking at Asia and Europe. Population bases that far exceed the US. The cash side of the equation also makes Asia look very attractive.
The challenge companies will have is to make sure that data is created and housed out side of US jurisdiction. That's not so easy as still to this day most of the traffic routes through the US.
This is moronic.
A frozen image in time means that what we see is literally seconds in the past. Which may in fact be a completely different scenario to the driving conditions of this moment. So now the driver has to guess how far back in time and then some how remap there location on the visual map then make an appropriate driving decision.
Yep, This is obviously safer than the current method of having millisecond accuracy ( Assuming your GPS doesn't suck ) with a simple glance then making a driving decision.
It takes 2 seconds to realise that this idea is bad.
Yes!
I'm stunned this made the front page. This has been known for a long time actually. I had my CIO ring me up on this. He was freaking. He's seriously pissed at me for not fixing something we don't have a vulnerability too. "We use apache so why are you not fixing this!!!!!!!!"
I actually have a meeting with him and the security team on this, this week. I'm going to walk through the defect and walk through our config. I'm still going to be ordered to get my people to patch this. Even though the patch doesn't exist.
Don't even respond with NGINX been trying to win that for awhile now.
Interesting idea. Until you realise that the first time a child pram stops/gets stuck in the transition phase you will see that this can't possible work.
How can you possible ensure that all passengers transition properly.
Well you might think OK every passenger is in a pod where the pod transitions between vehicles. Again what if that now has trouble.
I like the thinking outside the box. However the human life/health risk component is too high.
How the hell does violence show that you are right and just?
Just because some people are corrupt it some how justifies violent acts. In all likely hood any attempted violence wouldn't even harm those that are corrupt. It most likely take the form property damage and have no impact on the "rich" but rather harm the lively hood of a hard working person.
As for "kneecapping" this has to be the dumbest thing I ever heard. Say you actually get close to a corrupt rich guy and kneecap him. Who do think is going to pay for the legal & medical bills. Hard working people via increased taxes and insurance costs. And guess who has to pay for your prison time?
I completely agree that some of these organisations that prosecute law abiding individuals are morally bankrupt. But good lord a violent response just shows who is wearing a white collar and who is wearing a gorilla suit.
Hear let me take a short cut and save all of us some money.
"Hey look over there, Yah just over there in that cage like thing. I nice tasty looking yellow banana. Look at that tasty banana. I know you want it. All you have to do is just go over and get it."
How about my ISP providing ipv6 DNS at all. You would be stunned to find out how few actually do.
Without DNS providing ipv6 addressing ipv6 is a dead end.
Note DNS for your toaster would most likely have to come from your own personal router. As the toaster would be using your home ipv6 prefix. It only makes sense that with in the address block the sub domain names would be supplied internal to your home. So the name would be like "4slicetoaser.419rigwaystreet.Chicago.us". Where you home domain is "419rigwaystreet.Chicago.us".
I honestly can't believe that NAT will not be implemented by vendors of home equipment.
Of course it will.
All it will take is a ISP to issue a ridiculously small range to home users and Boom NAT comes into existence as a means of getting around the issue. ISP's are going to try and make money as they do today from issue static ip ranges to users. You can make more money if you make the ranges small. It's obvious that a money grab will cause home NATing.
Secondly small devices in the home will be connected as well. I mean everything from alarm clocks to dishwashers. It strikes me as insanity to expose these devices addresses to the network at large with out going through some sort of internal filter mechanism. The filter being a combination of firewall / NAT / Data aggregation. These small devices are a rich target space for hackers. As they are going to be basically little Trojan horses in every household inside the protect home network. I most definitely will want them masked behind NAT and a lot of other obfuscating technology.
So will there be a need for home networking protocols? Absolutely. Stuff that doesn't exist today? Yep. The reason is that more and more minor devices are going to be networked. Stuff that we do not think of as needing it today will be. Most likely all of it wirelessly too. If I can bring home a clock radio that I only ever have to plug into the wall and it magically connects to the home network to get time sync, my favourite music stations, my work calendar and the weather. I'm fairly positive that I don't want hackers into this now smart device that now has access to important personal data. At the same time I want this to magically work when I bring it home.
There is no standard for this sort of thing today. ( This is where someone brings up some esoteric reference to a standard no one really uses. ) Remember the standards are not just around communication protocols. It will also have a direct influence on the simple user interface conventions. Why? Well simply put we need a method of adding a device to the home network in a very easy and intuitive way. This method must provide a level of trust and security. It must also somehow be able to proxy the users authority. Since many home devices will belong to different individuals in the home each device will most likely have to be branded to a user or set of users. So in the end if there is no standard around these interfaces and protocols there will be a reduction in the quality, usability and security of home networks.
Back around to the parent post. So I absolutely see a need for home networks to NAT. NAT as just one of many tools used to secure and personalise the home network.
But it's a blackberry!
The fundamental issue IMHO is content and the ability to consume content. Tablets / touch screens as input devices are really really slow. So the area where they shine is in content consumption. As consumption requires very little user interaction.
There are two primary issues around consumption.
First thing is the tablet version of Android pretty much sucks. The interface still is not complete. This fundamentally complicates and confuses the consumer. The consumer question is "How do I?" At the moment this is not a simple answer.
The Second item is. "Where is my content?" At the moment there is a varied mix of content sources. And to be honest most that are available around the world suck,
In a nutshell the problem with Android tablets is all about content. Will this improve? Absolutely. There is simply to much consumer market pressure for vendors not to address these issues.
Apple at the moment has a huge leg up with iTunes. iTunes combines content and the how to consume in one product. A product that ships with the device. iTunes also works all over the world.
This is why Android tablets suck at the moment!
I'm waiting for the overly keen to discover the pain for me and report it faithfully to /.
Just getting to old to beat my head into the keyboard any more. Well in this case touch screen.
I agree.
1. It is not un-reasable that an advanced civ would extend beyond the origin planet to look for resources.
2. Resource extraction is messy. Waste does need to be dealt with no matter the environment.
In space you want the waste away from you and with a low probability to collision. The best way is to dump it into gravity wells like gas giants and suns. This is going to give of spectrum of some sort. Consider it spectral pollution The more industrialized the civ the more of this spectrum pollution would be present.
I would suspect that most "mining" type operations would happen neat gas giants. As the large gravity well would have already created an aggregation of heavy matter. They would to be good locations for slingshot and breaking maneuvers. It seems reasonable to watch the gas giants for unusual spectral emissions.
Solar mining for radiation and light particles would have very little effluent. So I don't believe there would be much to detect in the form of pollution here.
Who would have thought it. Mars could well be the thing that puts a positive influence on the world economy and world direction.
The moon landing energised the world, it literally invented modern computing technology.
Why can't a Mars landing?
In order to get to Mars significant advances in material, energy, and food science are going to have to be achieved. All of which would have real world positive impacts.
Amazon would move in a heart beat if they ever lost the finical incentives they get. Also note Amazon services other parts of the world too. They already have distribution hubs in other parts of the world. It would not be a company killer to up and move. They already have. Do you honestly think a company as big as Amazon would hedge all it's bets on a single location making them vulnerable to changes in an areas economic conditions.
Extra charges? Companies pick locations that are on average lowest cost. So if it costs $10 extra to ship a package to no where Idaho but they only ever ship 3 packages there they will eat the cost. When most of the biz ships to say LA for .20c a package. So actually they would go under if they didn't take advantage of multiple locations including other countries. Which they do by the way.
As I said before. Geography matters very little these days.
The board of directors could live where ever they want too. Co-location is not a requirement to run the company. It's a rarity when it does happen with other companies these days. So no the board would probably not live in China. As a matter of fact the board members of Amazon already live in several cities.
Just one reference found.
http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2011/apr/13/amazon-doomed-without-governors-support-ar-1711638/
Sorry but ever single time someone tries to put this stupid law up I see another politician who has no grasp of current economic forces.
The Internet has essentially removed geographical boundaries that enabled things like local sales tax. Sales tax can only exist if you are able to regulate ALL product sales in a confined geographical area. So you must either tax at point of sale or at point of entry into the geographical area.
Point of sale is simply impossible. As most markets on the web operate completely outside the jurisdiction of US law makers.
So this leaves you with essentially a manual customs inspection of every box coming into an area. And then processing each item and attributing tax and billing an appropriate party. This method would be prohibitive in expense and time. Effectively hand cuffing the local economy.
Lets not even start on digital goods which require no physical transfer at all.
There will always be massive holes in any system that tries to implement a sales tax on the web. The honest people will only be priced out of existence. Kill this law before it wastes any more time and money.
Sorry but the days of arbitrary taxation systems are gone.
I can't defend this product. I can't justify it's existence. I can't possible fathom the price of the company or the product.
Even MS kin had more going for it.
The simplest proxy that can do this is probably apache. This won't scale all too well. OR you could spend some money on say a blue coat proxy. Or something of that class.
The real issue is setting up a CA and making sure the browsers trust it. Getting this change pushed to the desktops can be a pain.
This fake cert generation you speak of is just a self signed cert. Don't worry about this. The CA you create will give you certs that are signed against it.
Um as an Aussie we don't feel the "Aussie" is in any way insulting.
As an X Canadian I also did not feel any shame in being called a Canuck.
I assume you must be a Yank. Cause if I was a Yank I would be insulted.