Why would the existence of MS Security Essentials possibly convince Intel to shell out billions to get in on that action?
AV, as it stands, is basically a thankless, reactive chore, with the occasional destructive false positive to brighten your day. Now that Microsoft has come out with a competent(by the standards of the industry) and unobtrusive(by the standards of the industry) free offering from a trusted (if you are running Windows, clearly you trust them to some degree) name, the only gold left in home AV is fool's gold.
There is still some cash to be had in corporate AV, since MS ain't exactly giving ForeFront away; but what would a company whose software experience consists largely of compilers, drivers, and the occasional linux project want getting in there?
And, even if they do have some clever plan involving leveraging their Intel AMT motherboard stuff, why McAfee? There are plenty of smaller, presumably cheaper, outfits that are at least as competent, many more so, and the brand name won't matter once Intel starts using theirs. One imagines that they could have gotten Kaspersky for half as much, if that.
I'm sure that "Global Rainmakers Inc."(Seriously, could you have come up with something creepier?) have a foolproof plan for making sure that half the people involved aren't on one or more cartel payrolls, using the systems for tracking and assassinations, before the hardware is even in the field...
I'm certain that legal changes-of-name aren't public records, unlike virtually everything else the courts do(the interface might suck ass, it might even involve tromping down to the courthouse or some document depository somewhere; but that is what you pay LexisNexis for...)
The idea that the system is going to be so omnipresent and good at remembering that you would like to escape your past is highly probable, whether or not google aids and abets. The idea that such a system could be fooled by anything short of a cool few million in back alley sci-fi medicine, some seriously impressive document doctoring skills, and probably changing every habit, friend, and familiar location you've ever had is silly.
I'd assume that you don't make it to "CEO" without learning that, while the rules usually don't apply to you, they can suddenly apply good and hard if, for other reasons entirely, you are no longer considered to be desirable...
This guy is the CEO of a gigantic multinational corporation. FY 2009, he apparently took home 24million and change. I'm guessing that he could have afforded a nice laptop and a decent cellular broadband connection....
Virtually all FM-capable portable electronics(there are actually quite a few, the chip is tiny and cheap) just use the headphone cable as a makeshift FM aerial. Works well enough, and is something that everybody is using anyway.
If it is the cheapest way to get developers churning out c# applications running on Server2008/MSSQL/Azure on the back and Silverlight on the front, yeah I could imagine them doing that.
The horse has very much left the barn(for all but the most ossified projects that are also millstones around Microsoft's neck because they don't want to deal with IE6 anymore) when it comes to controlling the internet by being the de-facto HTML renderer and being a real oddball about it.
If, however, MS can reduce HTML to the header and footer that you wrap around your XAMLtastic chunk of Silverlight, the could easily save considerable money and lose essentially no influence by putting trident on ice(as some "compatibility mode", enableable by group policy for the corporate types) and switching to cheaper webkit for embedding silverlight objects.
There could be something more to the story(financial shell-gaming, byzantine corporate re-org raiding, or whatever); but there is no particular reason to expect any of the graphics cards companies to be markedly better than the others.
They operate on the cutthroat business of basically buying chips and slapping them on reference designs, often distinguished by no more than a sticker on the cooling module, maybe a funny PCB color, and the choice of either a CGI robot or a CGI chick with big breasts to go on the box.
Nvidia and AMD, along with outfits like TSMC and GlobalFoundries, determine how good the chips will be, and how overclockable, and what they will be sold for. The card makers just get to fight over whatever margins are left in slapping them on a board and populating it with passives. Somebody has to do it; but that isn't a business that screams "family dynastic tradition of quality and service"...
Depending on how economically striated the city is, possibly, possibly not.
I'd assume that they are more interested in pictures taken out and about. Where do you vacation, dine out, meet up with friends, etc?
As you say, IP geolocation does a pretty decent job for wired connections(I don't know whether wireless carriers will sell out customer locations, and, if so, what the price is); but people take a lot of photos, possibly the majority, away from their primary wired ISP.
Unfortunately, being roaches isn't really a distinguishing characteristic in the telcomm sector. It's just that MagicJack is the sleazy looking guy in the cheap suit, with his Hawaiian shirt open to show gold chains nestled in greasy coils of chest hair, while most of the established operators are no more honest; but can afford a decent tailor and a storefront that isn't in a scamhole like Florida.
Abusive EULAs, mandatory binding arbitration kangaroo courts, spying for commercial and other purposes, are all standard features in the telcomm field. MagicJack just has no taste at all about it and can't seem to afford the veneer of respectability and impenetrable legal verbiage that their better established competitors can.
You should be very careful to distinguish how the guns come from the US...
The US is, in fact, a pretty decent place for civilians to buy moderately zesty firearms without too much hassle. However, the US government also has a habit of handing out all sorts of military-grade goodies to governments it considers to be friends and allies.
Mexican security forces, for reasons that aren't all that hard to understand, has had some trouble stemming corruption and even the flow of former personnel into cartel forces. "Los Zetas" for instance, are largely ex-security forces, now working for the cartels.
Obviously, there is no point in arguing that none of the guns being used in Mexico are of US origin. That is almost certainly wrong, I suspect a reasonable percentage of them are. The question, though, is are they diverted hardware from the American civilian market or are they American military aid being lost because of Mexican government corruption? Both types are "American Guns"; but they have very different policy implications...
While I suspect that many of them do, in fact, have better battery lives(if only because customers are willing to put up with slightly larger cases), a pretty substantial percentage of modern GPS units(ie. anything that isn't just a greyscale compass arrow and maybe a 20-waypoint save function), are in fact little embedded computers running WinCE or Linux, with some navigation app/multifunction skin set to load on startup and paper over that fact.
That depends on the phone. Some phones have no actual GPS functions, and rely purely on the tower; but an increasing number, especially of the nicer models, do have actual GPS chips in there. They may also, when used with a cell plan, use a variety of cell-assisted AGPS tricks to increase fix speed, or work better in urban areas, or compensate for the fact that they are working with a dinky trace antenna because no phone is going to sell with some big chunky GPS antenna sticking out of it; but those phones will work without any cell connection at all(the one exception, is phones where the GPS has been software locked by the carrier, and is enabled only for the carrier's shittastic $X/month navigation application. Mean and wasteful; but not unheard of).
The funny thing is that the folks in TFS seem to be focusing on using games to do stuff that is very hard to do with computers, and very cheap(comparatively) to do with people, rather than focusing on the stuff that is relatively easy to do with computers and extremely costly to do with people.
Learn interviewing skills? Here kid, put this badge on, go two floors down, and watch real doctors interviewing the steady stream of people who won't stop coming through the doors. If you are just too nervous, go take an improv class at any community college and then come back. This should cost virtually nothing, and be more effective than any motion-captured and voice-acted uncanny-valley-regional-medical-center scripted crap.
By contrast, with decent haptic feedback peripherals(pricey; but not extraordinarily so, and reusable) and good display goggles(ditto), it should be possible for our budding young surgeon to run through any procedure in the library, on hundreds of different bodies generated algorithmically from medical imaging data, with occasional complications thrown in, as many times as he wants without depleting the supply of charismatic fuzzy animals or killing anybody.
Why focus on simulating the patient interview? The world is overflowing with interviewable patients, many of whom wouldn't mind a med student, and simulating human interaction(and properly detailed humans, without incredibly heavy use of the real thing during production) is hard.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
From section 8 "Powers of Congress" of the US Constitution.
There are some state-level relics as well, which complicate the copyright provenance of certain material; but the federal stuff is explicitly mentioned. I assume that the "reasoning" is that uniformity is convenient, and it makes people with influence happy.
Does the FBI know how many missing persons may have disappeared carring ipods with hundreds, even thousands, of tracks being illicitly enjoyed by their captors, even as we speak, in various isolated cabins, underground dungeons, and seedy motels all around america?
This is true; but wars(unless your opponent is a putz), tend to destroy the relatively new, rather than the relatively old.
Casualties are disproportionately among the young, who would otherwise be enjoying their most productive and creative years, with the old being destroyed only as an afterthought, if the enemy has the resources for overkill, if at all.
Similarly, in terms of material damage, any competent enemy is going to focus their limited resources on damaging the most valuable infrastructure first, leaving the junk for last, if at all.
By contrast, the processes of competitive pressure and controlled demolition, along with death by old age and age-related-ailments, tend to selectively pick off the outdated, inefficient, and old, quite the opposite pattern of war.
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Why would the existence of MS Security Essentials possibly convince Intel to shell out billions to get in on that action?
AV, as it stands, is basically a thankless, reactive chore, with the occasional destructive false positive to brighten your day. Now that Microsoft has come out with a competent(by the standards of the industry) and unobtrusive(by the standards of the industry) free offering from a trusted (if you are running Windows, clearly you trust them to some degree) name, the only gold left in home AV is fool's gold.
There is still some cash to be had in corporate AV, since MS ain't exactly giving ForeFront away; but what would a company whose software experience consists largely of compilers, drivers, and the occasional linux project want getting in there?
And, even if they do have some clever plan involving leveraging their Intel AMT motherboard stuff, why McAfee? There are plenty of smaller, presumably cheaper, outfits that are at least as competent, many more so, and the brand name won't matter once Intel starts using theirs. One imagines that they could have gotten Kaspersky for half as much, if that.
Color me confused.
I'm sure that "Global Rainmakers Inc."(Seriously, could you have come up with something creepier?) have a foolproof plan for making sure that half the people involved aren't on one or more cartel payrolls, using the systems for tracking and assassinations, before the hardware is even in the field...
I'm certain that legal changes-of-name aren't public records, unlike virtually everything else the courts do(the interface might suck ass, it might even involve tromping down to the courthouse or some document depository somewhere; but that is what you pay LexisNexis for...)
The idea that the system is going to be so omnipresent and good at remembering that you would like to escape your past is highly probable, whether or not google aids and abets. The idea that such a system could be fooled by anything short of a cool few million in back alley sci-fi medicine, some seriously impressive document doctoring skills, and probably changing every habit, friend, and familiar location you've ever had is silly.
The singularity is to nerds what the rapture is to fundamentalist protestant wackjobs....
I'd assume that you don't make it to "CEO" without learning that, while the rules usually don't apply to you, they can suddenly apply good and hard if, for other reasons entirely, you are no longer considered to be desirable...
This guy is the CEO of a gigantic multinational corporation. FY 2009, he apparently took home 24million and change. I'm guessing that he could have afforded a nice laptop and a decent cellular broadband connection....
Virtually all FM-capable portable electronics(there are actually quite a few, the chip is tiny and cheap) just use the headphone cable as a makeshift FM aerial. Works well enough, and is something that everybody is using anyway.
If it is the cheapest way to get developers churning out c# applications running on Server2008/MSSQL/Azure on the back and Silverlight on the front, yeah I could imagine them doing that.
The horse has very much left the barn(for all but the most ossified projects that are also millstones around Microsoft's neck because they don't want to deal with IE6 anymore) when it comes to controlling the internet by being the de-facto HTML renderer and being a real oddball about it.
If, however, MS can reduce HTML to the header and footer that you wrap around your XAMLtastic chunk of Silverlight, the could easily save considerable money and lose essentially no influence by putting trident on ice(as some "compatibility mode", enableable by group policy for the corporate types) and switching to cheaper webkit for embedding silverlight objects.
There could be something more to the story(financial shell-gaming, byzantine corporate re-org raiding, or whatever); but there is no particular reason to expect any of the graphics cards companies to be markedly better than the others.
They operate on the cutthroat business of basically buying chips and slapping them on reference designs, often distinguished by no more than a sticker on the cooling module, maybe a funny PCB color, and the choice of either a CGI robot or a CGI chick with big breasts to go on the box.
Nvidia and AMD, along with outfits like TSMC and GlobalFoundries, determine how good the chips will be, and how overclockable, and what they will be sold for. The card makers just get to fight over whatever margins are left in slapping them on a board and populating it with passives. Somebody has to do it; but that isn't a business that screams "family dynastic tradition of quality and service"...
Depending on how economically striated the city is, possibly, possibly not.
I'd assume that they are more interested in pictures taken out and about. Where do you vacation, dine out, meet up with friends, etc?
As you say, IP geolocation does a pretty decent job for wired connections(I don't know whether wireless carriers will sell out customer locations, and, if so, what the price is); but people take a lot of photos, possibly the majority, away from their primary wired ISP.
Might want to take a look at jhead. jhead -purejpg will, as the name suggests, strip everything that isn't actually the image.
After selling it to their advertising partners, of course...
Unfortunately, being roaches isn't really a distinguishing characteristic in the telcomm sector. It's just that MagicJack is the sleazy looking guy in the cheap suit, with his Hawaiian shirt open to show gold chains nestled in greasy coils of chest hair, while most of the established operators are no more honest; but can afford a decent tailor and a storefront that isn't in a scamhole like Florida.
Abusive EULAs, mandatory binding arbitration kangaroo courts, spying for commercial and other purposes, are all standard features in the telcomm field. MagicJack just has no taste at all about it and can't seem to afford the veneer of respectability and impenetrable legal verbiage that their better established competitors can.
You should be very careful to distinguish how the guns come from the US...
The US is, in fact, a pretty decent place for civilians to buy moderately zesty firearms without too much hassle. However, the US government also has a habit of handing out all sorts of military-grade goodies to governments it considers to be friends and allies.
Mexican security forces, for reasons that aren't all that hard to understand, has had some trouble stemming corruption and even the flow of former personnel into cartel forces. "Los Zetas" for instance, are largely ex-security forces, now working for the cartels.
Obviously, there is no point in arguing that none of the guns being used in Mexico are of US origin. That is almost certainly wrong, I suspect a reasonable percentage of them are. The question, though, is are they diverted hardware from the American civilian market or are they American military aid being lost because of Mexican government corruption? Both types are "American Guns"; but they have very different policy implications...
While I suspect that many of them do, in fact, have better battery lives(if only because customers are willing to put up with slightly larger cases), a pretty substantial percentage of modern GPS units(ie. anything that isn't just a greyscale compass arrow and maybe a 20-waypoint save function), are in fact little embedded computers running WinCE or Linux, with some navigation app/multifunction skin set to load on startup and paper over that fact.
That depends on the phone. Some phones have no actual GPS functions, and rely purely on the tower; but an increasing number, especially of the nicer models, do have actual GPS chips in there. They may also, when used with a cell plan, use a variety of cell-assisted AGPS tricks to increase fix speed, or work better in urban areas, or compensate for the fact that they are working with a dinky trace antenna because no phone is going to sell with some big chunky GPS antenna sticking out of it; but those phones will work without any cell connection at all(the one exception, is phones where the GPS has been software locked by the carrier, and is enabled only for the carrier's shittastic $X/month navigation application. Mean and wasteful; but not unheard of).
"First blood", "double kill", "multi kill", "malpractice lawsuit".
The funny thing is that the folks in TFS seem to be focusing on using games to do stuff that is very hard to do with computers, and very cheap(comparatively) to do with people, rather than focusing on the stuff that is relatively easy to do with computers and extremely costly to do with people.
Learn interviewing skills? Here kid, put this badge on, go two floors down, and watch real doctors interviewing the steady stream of people who won't stop coming through the doors. If you are just too nervous, go take an improv class at any community college and then come back. This should cost virtually nothing, and be more effective than any motion-captured and voice-acted uncanny-valley-regional-medical-center scripted crap.
By contrast, with decent haptic feedback peripherals(pricey; but not extraordinarily so, and reusable) and good display goggles(ditto), it should be possible for our budding young surgeon to run through any procedure in the library, on hundreds of different bodies generated algorithmically from medical imaging data, with occasional complications thrown in, as many times as he wants without depleting the supply of charismatic fuzzy animals or killing anybody.
Why focus on simulating the patient interview? The world is overflowing with interviewable patients, many of whom wouldn't mind a med student, and simulating human interaction(and properly detailed humans, without incredibly heavy use of the real thing during production) is hard.
And victory will go to the uber-cheap nokia dumbphone being used as a trigger for that IED...
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
From section 8 "Powers of Congress" of the US Constitution.
There are some state-level relics as well, which complicate the copyright provenance of certain material; but the federal stuff is explicitly mentioned. I assume that the "reasoning" is that uniformity is convenient, and it makes people with influence happy.
Does the FBI know how many missing persons may have disappeared carring ipods with hundreds, even thousands, of tracks being illicitly enjoyed by their captors, even as we speak, in various isolated cabins, underground dungeons, and seedy motels all around america?
How could they be so blind?
For whatever reason, it is an American custom to eulogize dead politicians essentially without regard for quality. I'm not sure why.
Clearly they should have built that bridge to nowhere, so responders could quickly reach aircraft that crash there...
This is true; but wars(unless your opponent is a putz), tend to destroy the relatively new, rather than the relatively old.
Casualties are disproportionately among the young, who would otherwise be enjoying their most productive and creative years, with the old being destroyed only as an afterthought, if the enemy has the resources for overkill, if at all.
Similarly, in terms of material damage, any competent enemy is going to focus their limited resources on damaging the most valuable infrastructure first, leaving the junk for last, if at all.
By contrast, the processes of competitive pressure and controlled demolition, along with death by old age and age-related-ailments, tend to selectively pick off the outdated, inefficient, and old, quite the opposite pattern of war.
Is TFS politely admitting that "advertising" and "spying" have very similar prerequisites?