I posted these same thoughts last time I saw a "secure" phone on slashdot. Apparently it was long enough ago that it's no longer in my post history?
Regardless, there are two options I am aware of: 1) end to end encryption or 2) insecure messages/communication
The problem with #1 is that it requires secure devices on BOTH ENDS of the communication. You get very little bonus security if your device is secure, but the text messages, emails, phone calles etc. go unencrypted over the wire. That's fine, but now I have to persuade my parents and all my friends to get THIS exact phone, understand how it works well enough to set it up, and actually use those features.
I have a lot of respect for Zimmerman, but I'm extremely skeptical.
* Where does the 54tbps number come from? I'm skeptical this is anything other than internal. It might be their switching setup's theoretical max, but even if every one of the 120,000 wireless clients pushed the theoretical 300mbps of 802.11n, that's still only about 35tbps. Overkill, okay, but without knowing what the 54tbps stat refers to, it doesn't really say much.
* There's an airport in Sochi. Why truck crucial equipment, especially if the roads are bad?
* Okay, you have to truck your equipment in for some strange reason, fine. Why through Kazakhstan? I haven't driven it so I'm just going from a map, but there look to be at least two major routes between Moscow and Sochi. Not short routes (20+ hours, G. Maps estimates), but still shorter than anything that goes through Kazakhstan.
This seems like a fluff marketing piece for Avaya. I'm sure they're doing some really cool stuff in Sochi, but we didn't learn much about it for all that text. Sad face.
I've seen pricing on serious bandwidth -- it's just too expensive. Example: REALLY good pricing on 50mb/s (20mb/s commit) is somewhere around $1600/mo. The 20mb/s commit means your average bandwidth for the month doesn't go over 20mb/s -- they usually drop the highest and lowest couple days or the like to calculate their average. Bump it to, say, 150mb/s with a 50mb/s commit and you're up to $2200/mo. The only other number I remember off the top of my head was for 10gb/s was well, well into six figures per month.
None of that's crazy if you need it, but it's going to hurt if you don't have a really good chunk of start-up capital to keep you going until you've set up whatever hosting/reselling you're hoping falls into place.
Anyway, point being, it ain't gonna work if this music project is having trouble with $500/mo. bandwidth bills.
$0.15/GB storage. $0.18/GB outbound from CDN (Akamai) -- including regular transfer, ssl, and streaming.
While this sounds steep for me, as a personal use (5TB outbound is $900), I assume you're making money at this. Nonetheless, it's also a massive savings over $0.50/GB. You could keep your existing host for regular web traffic and set up a subdomain, music.yourdomain.com or whatever that's just a CNAME that points to the CDN domain.
Also, I do not work for Rackspace -- I'm just exposed to their products via my work.
This seems, unfortunately, like it would be asking for indiscriminate violence. If lots of people insult violent extremists, why bother with specific targets? If thousands are providing "justification," it may also sway less extreme people that the West really is filled with people deserving of some punishment (even if they wouldn't pull the trigger or press the button themselves).
I know, it's not like these people need a rational reason, but I'd personally feel pretty guilty if a bomb went off somewhere because of something I participated in.
Parent makes a lot of great points but, in my experience, physical solutions don't work very often. For example, what happens if teacher sees little Jim punch little Bully Bill on the playground? Most likely Jim gets detention and his parents called while poor, "victim" Bill gets to laugh in Jim's face the next day.
I said something like this above, but I got into plenty of fights as a kid with bullies and, yes, it felt damn good, but it didn't really protect me from the truly damaging part of the bullying. That truly awful part is what extends to IM, myspace, etc. -- the unraveling of a child's belief in his or herself. The most important thing is not "hit back, just stop being a victim" but Jim's self-esteem. The real bullies instinctively know how to get their claws in there and shred any happiness (present and future), but the part that Jim needs to truly grok is that his person, his being is not determined by what a bully says or does to him. The Jim with strong self-esteem will hit back, will not willingly be a victim, and probably won't be bullied in the first place.
Mod parent up. I'm tired of the "kids need to learn to stand up for themselves" arguments.
I ended up in lots of fights when I lived in the UK (~6 to 14 years old) because I "stood up for myself" -- and I don't think any of them helped much. It felt good to smack jerks in the face, certainly, but the emotional undermining just doesn't stop because you dish out a few black eyes. The bullying continued when I got to the US but that status quo was so ingrained in my world view that I didn't even notice. A guidance counselor asked me about it and I replied, "What bullying?" My self-esteem is still recovering almost a decade later -- and not without professional help.
I agree that the effort needs to be made to curb bullying but I just don't see what teachers can do. The problem, unsurprisingly, needs to be addressed by parents. Particularly, the parents of the bullies.
From the wikipedia article on Polonium linked to in the story:
Alpha particles emitted by polonium will damage organic tissue easily if polonium is ingested, inhaled, or absorbed (though they do not penetrate the epidermis and hence are not hazardous if the polonium is outside the body).
What the story says is that it is really not hard to get your hands on this stuff. The man was poisoned using Polonium because it's rare enough that he would probably die before anybody figured out what was wrong with him. Nobody said "OMG NUCULAR" -- until you did, anyway.
Firstly -- and I know the parent did not say this specifically -- but I just wanted to point out that "gas" in "gas turbine" does not mean "gasoline." "Gas" as in solid, liquid, gas. Howstuffworks has a pretty good article on the basics of how gas turbines work.
They accept most commercial fuels, such as natural gas, propane, diesel and kerosene. The are also able to produce renewable energy when fueled with biogas from landfills and sewage treatment plants.
Appreciably the fuels mentioned above are all "fossil fuels" but if I can more efficiently power my laptop with this ultra-micro turbine than the local coal based power station (or other non-environmentally friendly power source) then it'd still help lower my overall dependence. I'm not sure how a biofuel would fit into that picture but it sounds nice to get something useful from our trash other than new, dangerous and foul smelling hills.
I saw this argument every day in college: I can see the intellectual exercise of critiquing a book according to any number of schools of thought. What I don't get is for whom is such critique necessary? The reading audience isn't really interested in anything but a straight review. Politicians aren't interested in anything beyond general conversation about the negative effects of books. Maybe your professor wants to hear about it, but I doubt there's anything to say that hasn't been said before about books. I don't mean to be down on this, but it just seems like an utter waste of time and effort. There just doesn't seem to be a payoff here.
Sorry, but I don't buy it. I could care less about a post-deconstructionist analysis of my breakfast but that doesn't mean that it's not an interesting way to look at a bagel. Just because I don't care about it almost all of the time doesn't mean that it might not help me understand the world better.
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We didn't see any performance improvement by the use of DDR2 memories instead of DDR. In fact, Athlon 64 FX-60 was faster in several situations, showing that at least for the software we used having a bigger L2 memory cache is better than having DDR2 memory instead of regular DDR.
But, on the other hand, we have to consider the future and what is behind AMD's strategy in going to AM2 socket and DDR2 support. In our opinion, what is important isn't the release of Athlon 64 5000+, but the possibility of increasing the memory bus clock rate in the near future. For socket 939 platform this was not possible since the top DDR official standard was DDR400/PC3200. With AM2 AMD can finally go beyond that, as DDR2 official standards include at least three speed grades above that: DDR2-533, DDR2-667 and DDR2-800. That is promising.
This seems like a neat little gizmo but I doubt I'll be able to convince my girlfriend, father, sister, friends, etc. to buy one too -- so the encryption feature would actually do something. As nice as the idea is, you still need two of these phones for it to work.
There's a parallel problem with GPG or the like. Since very few people have or want to use it, sending unencrypted e-mail is the only way to communicate with most of the world.
This phone is worse than that, though, since I can download GPG/cyrpto-software-of-your-choice and even install it for someone and show them how to use it -- but I'd have to persuade them to spend money on new hardware (and then convince them to actually use it with the crypto on!) in order to use the features of this phone.
That police chief might sound kind of shady, but it's okay, they got a serious "Internet Saftey Expert" Kieth Dunn to weigh in on the matter. I mean, he's a proud proponent of eBlaster Spy Software -- software that "records ALL emails, chats, instant messages, web sites visited, keystrokes typed, programs launched and peer-to-peer (P2P) files downloaded - then sends it to you via email in the form of a detailed Activity Report" -- so you can not only spy on your child but betray their trust at the very same time!
All for the low price of $99.95.... If only there was a "Report Spam" key for people.
Excellent video to share with your friends who aren't clear on what "trusted computing" has to offer: http://www.lafkon.net/tc/. Very scary stuff if you have half an imagination as to what big companies like to do when they have control.
... of sarcastic, obnoxious comments equating CmdrTaco with a zombie for posting a dupe.
Seriously, though, Id lost it's crown the moment Doom 3 started to be more about hyped graphics than superb gameplay (enhanced by good graphics). I played the entire game without feeling the need to get the ducktape mod, and thought it was a decent experience (there are definitely a few well scripted sequences that'll make you jump, as Bowler notes, but the cooler parts for me were in general creep-out factor -- that disembodied voice asking for help for example) but nothing remarkable. Sure, the graphics were great for an indoor game, but as everyone and their mother knows, graphics are only a tiny part of a good game.
Did anyone else notice the three ethernet ports on the back of the PS3? Is there any speculation as to what the heck we'd want or need 3 network connections for?
I just wanted to point out that no amount of screening will prevent this kind of cargo-container nuke. Ship sails into port, ship goes boom -- no need to wait for the inspectors to get on board. This is not a scenario that can be avoided by throwing money or inspectors at it.
The notion of anonymity in one's reading habits reeks of someone who is too afraid of their peer group, and not the government.
In this case, the notion of anonymity reeks of someone who is concerned that what they read will be used as evidence against them.
You obviously didn't pay attention in history class when they defined "McCarthyism". It's not so far in the past that being seen reading a "questionable" book by the wrong person could get you blacklisted (Orson Welles), finish your career (Charlie Chaplin), or even serve toward your imprisonment (Alger Hiss).
Given the right circumstances, say the Red Scare or the hysteria surrounding terrorism, your comment, "... most citizens are smart enough to know that just because..." is irrelevant. Reading "Mein Kampf" doesn't make you the next Hitler, and that is the point.
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I posted these same thoughts last time I saw a "secure" phone on slashdot. Apparently it was long enough ago that it's no longer in my post history?
Regardless, there are two options I am aware of: 1) end to end encryption or 2) insecure messages/communication
The problem with #1 is that it requires secure devices on BOTH ENDS of the communication. You get very little bonus security if your device is secure, but the text messages, emails, phone calles etc. go unencrypted over the wire. That's fine, but now I have to persuade my parents and all my friends to get THIS exact phone, understand how it works well enough to set it up, and actually use those features.
I have a lot of respect for Zimmerman, but I'm extremely skeptical.
There are some questions TFA doesn't answer.
This seems like a fluff marketing piece for Avaya. I'm sure they're doing some really cool stuff in Sochi, but we didn't learn much about it for all that text. Sad face.
I've seen pricing on serious bandwidth -- it's just too expensive. Example: REALLY good pricing on 50mb/s (20mb/s commit) is somewhere around $1600/mo. The 20mb/s commit means your average bandwidth for the month doesn't go over 20mb/s -- they usually drop the highest and lowest couple days or the like to calculate their average. Bump it to, say, 150mb/s with a 50mb/s commit and you're up to $2200/mo. The only other number I remember off the top of my head was for 10gb/s was well, well into six figures per month.
None of that's crazy if you need it, but it's going to hurt if you don't have a really good chunk of start-up capital to keep you going until you've set up whatever hosting/reselling you're hoping falls into place.
Anyway, point being, it ain't gonna work if this music project is having trouble with $500/mo. bandwidth bills.
$0.15/GB storage.
$0.18/GB outbound from CDN (Akamai) -- including regular transfer, ssl, and streaming.
While this sounds steep for me, as a personal use (5TB outbound is $900), I assume you're making money at this. Nonetheless, it's also a massive savings over $0.50/GB. You could keep your existing host for regular web traffic and set up a subdomain, music.yourdomain.com or whatever that's just a CNAME that points to the CDN domain.
Also, I do not work for Rackspace -- I'm just exposed to their products via my work.
I always read "COICA" as "CLOACA." It seems appropriate.
This seems, unfortunately, like it would be asking for indiscriminate violence. If lots of people insult violent extremists, why bother with specific targets? If thousands are providing "justification," it may also sway less extreme people that the West really is filled with people deserving of some punishment (even if they wouldn't pull the trigger or press the button themselves).
I know, it's not like these people need a rational reason, but I'd personally feel pretty guilty if a bomb went off somewhere because of something I participated in.
Karma be damned, just wanted to give kudos to you for being so involved in your girlfriend's illness. If only we could all be so strong.
I know, it's not like there's anything particularly useful they could be discussing, so at least they'll get rid of those pesky leeches on society.
Excellent, well worded post.
Parent makes a lot of great points but, in my experience, physical solutions don't work very often. For example, what happens if teacher sees little Jim punch little Bully Bill on the playground? Most likely Jim gets detention and his parents called while poor, "victim" Bill gets to laugh in Jim's face the next day.
I said something like this above, but I got into plenty of fights as a kid with bullies and, yes, it felt damn good, but it didn't really protect me from the truly damaging part of the bullying. That truly awful part is what extends to IM, myspace, etc. -- the unraveling of a child's belief in his or herself. The most important thing is not "hit back, just stop being a victim" but Jim's self-esteem. The real bullies instinctively know how to get their claws in there and shred any happiness (present and future), but the part that Jim needs to truly grok is that his person, his being is not determined by what a bully says or does to him. The Jim with strong self-esteem will hit back, will not willingly be a victim, and probably won't be bullied in the first place.
Mod parent up. I'm tired of the "kids need to learn to stand up for themselves" arguments.
I ended up in lots of fights when I lived in the UK (~6 to 14 years old) because I "stood up for myself" -- and I don't think any of them helped much. It felt good to smack jerks in the face, certainly, but the emotional undermining just doesn't stop because you dish out a few black eyes. The bullying continued when I got to the US but that status quo was so ingrained in my world view that I didn't even notice. A guidance counselor asked me about it and I replied, "What bullying?" My self-esteem is still recovering almost a decade later -- and not without professional help.
I agree that the effort needs to be made to curb bullying but I just don't see what teachers can do. The problem, unsurprisingly, needs to be addressed by parents. Particularly, the parents of the bullies.
Fat chance, I know.
From the wikipedia article on Polonium linked to in the story:
What the story says is that it is really not hard to get your hands on this stuff. The man was poisoned using Polonium because it's rare enough that he would probably die before anybody figured out what was wrong with him. Nobody said "OMG NUCULAR" -- until you did, anyway.
Cream of Wheat was bad enough, now they want us to eat grey goo?
From Wikipedia's entry on gas turbines, specifically micro turbines: Appreciably the fuels mentioned above are all "fossil fuels" but if I can more efficiently power my laptop with this ultra-micro turbine than the local coal based power station (or other non-environmentally friendly power source) then it'd still help lower my overall dependence. I'm not sure how a biofuel would fit into that picture but it sounds nice to get something useful from our trash other than new, dangerous and foul smelling hills.
-Josh
I saw this argument every day in college: I can see the intellectual exercise of critiquing a book according to any number of schools of thought. What I don't get is for whom is such critique necessary? The reading audience isn't really interested in anything but a straight review. Politicians aren't interested in anything beyond general conversation about the negative effects of books. Maybe your professor wants to hear about it, but I doubt there's anything to say that hasn't been said before about books. I don't mean to be down on this, but it just seems like an utter waste of time and effort. There just doesn't seem to be a payoff here.
Sorry, but I don't buy it. I could care less about a post-deconstructionist analysis of my breakfast but that doesn't mean that it's not an interesting way to look at a bagel. Just because I don't care about it almost all of the time doesn't mean that it might not help me understand the world better.
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This seems like a neat little gizmo but I doubt I'll be able to convince my girlfriend, father, sister, friends, etc. to buy one too -- so the encryption feature would actually do something. As nice as the idea is, you still need two of these phones for it to work.
There's a parallel problem with GPG or the like. Since very few people have or want to use it, sending unencrypted e-mail is the only way to communicate with most of the world.
This phone is worse than that, though, since I can download GPG/cyrpto-software-of-your-choice and even install it for someone and show them how to use it -- but I'd have to persuade them to spend money on new hardware (and then convince them to actually use it with the crypto on!) in order to use the features of this phone.
Apathy/Laziness: 1
Discerning Citizens: 0
That police chief might sound kind of shady, but it's okay, they got a serious "Internet Saftey Expert" Kieth Dunn to weigh in on the matter. I mean, he's a proud proponent of eBlaster Spy Software -- software that "records ALL emails, chats, instant messages, web sites visited, keystrokes typed, programs launched and peer-to-peer (P2P) files downloaded - then sends it to you via email in the form of a detailed Activity Report" -- so you can not only spy on your child but betray their trust at the very same time!
... If only there was a "Report Spam" key for people.
All for the low price of $99.95.
Excellent video to share with your friends who aren't clear on what "trusted computing" has to offer: http://www.lafkon.net/tc/. Very scary stuff if you have half an imagination as to what big companies like to do when they have control.
nyud.net cache link.
Complain complain, moan moan, there should be cache links in article summaries. I mean, how hard is it with nyud.net?
... of sarcastic, obnoxious comments equating CmdrTaco with a zombie for posting a dupe.
Seriously, though, Id lost it's crown the moment Doom 3 started to be more about hyped graphics than superb gameplay (enhanced by good graphics). I played the entire game without feeling the need to get the ducktape mod, and thought it was a decent experience (there are definitely a few well scripted sequences that'll make you jump, as Bowler notes, but the cooler parts for me were in general creep-out factor -- that disembodied voice asking for help for example) but nothing remarkable. Sure, the graphics were great for an indoor game, but as everyone and their mother knows, graphics are only a tiny part of a good game.
Did anyone else notice the three ethernet ports on the back of the PS3? Is there any speculation as to what the heck we'd want or need 3 network connections for?
I just wanted to point out that no amount of screening will prevent this kind of cargo-container nuke. Ship sails into port, ship goes boom -- no need to wait for the inspectors to get on board. This is not a scenario that can be avoided by throwing money or inspectors at it.
In this case, the notion of anonymity reeks of someone who is concerned that what they read will be used as evidence against them.
You obviously didn't pay attention in history class when they defined "McCarthyism". It's not so far in the past that being seen reading a "questionable" book by the wrong person could get you blacklisted (Orson Welles), finish your career (Charlie Chaplin), or even serve toward your imprisonment (Alger Hiss).
Given the right circumstances, say the Red Scare or the hysteria surrounding terrorism, your comment, "... most citizens are smart enough to know that just because..." is irrelevant. Reading "Mein Kampf" doesn't make you the next Hitler, and that is the point.
The newest and latest technology results in the most beautiful image you will ever see*!
(*since reflected laser light will blind you and/or permanently burn the image into your retinas.)
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Moral: Sorority girls should date geeks.