The prevailing wisdom with vital computer infrastructure is to have it on a private network with no internet interconnect, but how do you do that with a system designed to handle public input? I think the next step is a stripped down OS running software written just for that task, with no extra functionality. The simpler the system the fewer parts you have to security audit. Of course that still leaves the problem of are the people running the system trustworthy (It's a black box, with no public scrutiny of its operations).
The fundamental problem with legislating protection of the internet is that private companies don't care. Protection costs money, and the customers won't pay. The solution is to have the "toobes" owned and operated by the federal government. Not the servers or content, just the wires. From the backbones right down to the wires connecting your house/apartment (the last mile). As a government run department they can ensure it's completely secure (and block spam and kiddy porn at the same time). They could even block "illegal" content like wikileaks or music downloads, and monitor all our traffic. Why would we want this? Because it also means network neutrality and bigger pipes. With the gov paying for it, all the content providers will lobby hard for higher speeds. So we get gigabit internet, network neutrality, and we can still read wikileaks through crypto/ssh.
Based on the willingness of american ISP's to do anything the gov asks (ie warrantless illegal wiretaps), I don't see the need for this. As far as I can see, the only reason for this law is for the following situation:
Prez: Gee, them wikileaks guys sure pissed me off. We should shut them down.
legal advisor: Yes, but it's probably legal. And in a foreign country.
Prez: Well can't you send some boys over with wirecutters and shut them down?
legal advisor: not without some sort of draconian neo-nazi style law.
Prez: I said, why don't you boys do something about them terrists!
congress critter: You just leave it to me mister president, I know just the thing.
With vision recognition and traffic monitoring they already have that ability (and adding RFID to license plates would be easy). Private enterprise, however, doesn't have it yet. I expect targeted advertising (billboards and radio stations: and remember the wifi module in your car knows what you're listening to). The commercial potential must be huge.
Compressed air is a less "mature" technology than electric motors and batteries, but that will improve with use. The biggest advantage of air cars is they don't use rare earth anything, nothing more expensive than steel, nothing toxic. With mass production you could bring the cost down well below the cost of a gasoline car. You have a large (underground) air tank at the gas station or a smaller one at home to refill as required. At home you could just plug it into the wall and let it slowly fill overnight (or use solar panels and run it all day). It's dirt cheap, non toxic, easy to recycle, safe, and usable for everything that uses a gas engine (lawn mower, motorcycle, chain saw).
Laws and fairness only count if enforced. It's entirely possible for an ISP to increase bandwidth/latency for one provider while giving premium service to another that the customers will "choose" to give their business to the right one. You're not blocking, after all. Just giving better service to the paying customers.
If you eliminate agriculture subsidies I expect farmers will find plenty of arable land for a paying crop like this. The USA is a rich nation, there's no reason they can't buy food from the third world. It would certainly reduce poverty and war if they did, as well as keeping american sons out of cemeteries.
We're going to find out when the oil runs out, so the only question is when and how. And yes the bad men would still find bullets, but they'd not have us in their back yards as targets. In the absence of foreigners the arabs have traditionally turned their guns on each other, not gone looking for us. Also they -won't- have a much larger base of disenfranchised/angry people to recruit from because their population will collapse without the oil money. Immigration or death will drag the middle east population back down to a fraction of current levels.
Given the ease of hiding the origin of your attack (tried tracking spam?) you've got the problem of the hackers doing false flag attacks on you in order to trick you into attacking the real target of the hackers. The only way to actually stop attacks is to track them down and arrest them. No other plan will ensure the attacks permanently stop. On the other hand, having the RIAA attack MPAA in a full scale cyberwar would be kindof cool.
I don't think that's how statistics works. If 90% of chinese don't have computers but 90% of those who do use pirated software then software piracy rates are 90%. Also I believe only large multinational corps in china pay for software, everyone else just copies it. And given that they use windows to make the copies, I think that windows should be declared a criminal tool and outlawed.
If you are a large corp then you can afford to security audit your basic apps. If you run everything in a sandbox, with only the permissions it needs then the scope of problems is very small.
Or you could burn the key into the game disk, though that would cost more. Or you can have a console serial number and have the game register online during the install procedure (though that would require internet, bad for single player). Or you can have an online apps store, with games locked to the console. Regardless of method it's likely to be bad for selling games or going to a friends house to play.
Or we stop using math based encryption. In a world of cheap bandwidth and cheap storage we can switch to one time pads. While A sends encrypted data to B using one time pad P1, new one time pads are sent from crypto server C to both A and B using separate encryption keys/pads. There is no math problem to solve, no way to determine the key. Not even quantum computing will help with this.
This will fail because nobody wants to be sued. If the driver causes a crash he will claim it was the autopilot. If the autopilot causes a crash the corp will claim driver error. And the only evidence to counter that would be a log file in the autopilot. (and you know the evil corp will alter it, right?) Considering the huge number of auto crashes per year it's safe to assume these things would need expensive insurance, so only the rich will get one. But rich people can afford a professional driver (who gets sued in a crash, not the owner) so that won't work either. It's like a satellite phone, too expensive for anything but a small niche market. On the other hand, having road trains of transport trucks would be rather useful and could certainly save the big corporations buckets of money. One driver and thirty trucks!
The key point is legacy apps. There are countless legacy programs out there that need wintel, so switching to armdroid won't work. This has always been microsofts core strength, the reason they can't be stopped. Tablets and cellphones break this because there isn't any legacy code to deal with, and that's why wintel can't take the market. Armdroid should fix the lack of legacy code, allowing people to base their buisness/life around some piece of 20 year old software written in pascal or visual basic or cobol. The only question is will microsoft participate in that market or just watch from the sidelilnes as their market share falls.
The public highway system definately benefits americans. Or do you prefer to drive/walk/cycle on dirt roads? I suspect you prefer having public police rather than street gangs or private armies running each area of the city. Having enforced standards for food is in your best interest, unless you like having your kids get food poisoning.
I think he believes in shining a light into the dark nooks of the world to illuminate crime and corruption. I don't think he screens anything as part of some sort of political crusade. I believe wikileaks released the banking info now because they -received- it now.
The UN is not a government, it's an old boys club where governments talk about stuff. If you are on the moon it's yours (what you control, anyway). The only time the UN enters the picture is if you need help/supplies from a country on earth that is a UN member and signed the silly treaty.
You don't need rocket fuel to travel from the moon to the earth, a good catapult will suffice. (though slowing down at the end might be tricky). Likewise an ion engine doesn't require any form of combustion, you could use aluminum as reaction mass if you had a power source. The only time you actually -need- rocket fuel is for getting out of the earths atmosphere (or you build a really long catapult, so the acceleration doesn't kill you).
It's generally a bad idea to switch to an energy source that is -less- common than the one you've got. Considering that there are no known reserves of this stuff, I think we're wasting time and money designing/prototyping stuff for its use.
I think storing the suns heat in molten salts (underground), and radiating the heat out into space during the night might work. Of course it would work on earth just as well, and a lot cheaper. If your goal was net energy you might use a parabolic mirror (in solar orbit, say Mercury) to focus a beam of light onto a solar array in a high solar synchronous orbit(to avoid heating the earth), that would then beam down the energy as microwaves. Due to the mirrors proximity to the sun it would get much more light than the solar array alone, and focusing the beam would keep that energy density. Of course you'd need 2 or 3 due to eclipses.
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I think a fundamental fact of the rich: they never gamble with -their- money, just yours.
The prevailing wisdom with vital computer infrastructure is to have it on a private network with no internet interconnect, but how do you do that with a system designed to handle public input? I think the next step is a stripped down OS running software written just for that task, with no extra functionality. The simpler the system the fewer parts you have to security audit. Of course that still leaves the problem of are the people running the system trustworthy (It's a black box, with no public scrutiny of its operations).
Sorry, the original article explicitly excludes works of fiction. I can't recall any time a nation or government used an honest politician.
The fundamental problem with legislating protection of the internet is that private companies don't care. Protection costs money, and the customers won't pay. The solution is to have the "toobes" owned and operated by the federal government. Not the servers or content, just the wires. From the backbones right down to the wires connecting your house/apartment (the last mile). As a government run department they can ensure it's completely secure (and block spam and kiddy porn at the same time). They could even block "illegal" content like wikileaks or music downloads, and monitor all our traffic. Why would we want this? Because it also means network neutrality and bigger pipes. With the gov paying for it, all the content providers will lobby hard for higher speeds. So we get gigabit internet, network neutrality, and we can still read wikileaks through crypto/ssh.
I think you just described the current situation in Egypt, where their bread and circuses were just cut.
Based on the willingness of american ISP's to do anything the gov asks (ie warrantless illegal wiretaps), I don't see the need for this. As far as I can see, the only reason for this law is for the following situation: Prez: Gee, them wikileaks guys sure pissed me off. We should shut them down. legal advisor: Yes, but it's probably legal. And in a foreign country. Prez: Well can't you send some boys over with wirecutters and shut them down? legal advisor: not without some sort of draconian neo-nazi style law. Prez: I said, why don't you boys do something about them terrists! congress critter: You just leave it to me mister president, I know just the thing.
With vision recognition and traffic monitoring they already have that ability (and adding RFID to license plates would be easy). Private enterprise, however, doesn't have it yet. I expect targeted advertising (billboards and radio stations: and remember the wifi module in your car knows what you're listening to). The commercial potential must be huge.
Compressed air is a less "mature" technology than electric motors and batteries, but that will improve with use. The biggest advantage of air cars is they don't use rare earth anything, nothing more expensive than steel, nothing toxic. With mass production you could bring the cost down well below the cost of a gasoline car. You have a large (underground) air tank at the gas station or a smaller one at home to refill as required. At home you could just plug it into the wall and let it slowly fill overnight (or use solar panels and run it all day). It's dirt cheap, non toxic, easy to recycle, safe, and usable for everything that uses a gas engine (lawn mower, motorcycle, chain saw).
Laws and fairness only count if enforced. It's entirely possible for an ISP to increase bandwidth/latency for one provider while giving premium service to another that the customers will "choose" to give their business to the right one. You're not blocking, after all. Just giving better service to the paying customers.
If you eliminate agriculture subsidies I expect farmers will find plenty of arable land for a paying crop like this. The USA is a rich nation, there's no reason they can't buy food from the third world. It would certainly reduce poverty and war if they did, as well as keeping american sons out of cemeteries.
We're going to find out when the oil runs out, so the only question is when and how. And yes the bad men would still find bullets, but they'd not have us in their back yards as targets. In the absence of foreigners the arabs have traditionally turned their guns on each other, not gone looking for us. Also they -won't- have a much larger base of disenfranchised/angry people to recruit from because their population will collapse without the oil money. Immigration or death will drag the middle east population back down to a fraction of current levels.
Given the ease of hiding the origin of your attack (tried tracking spam?) you've got the problem of the hackers doing false flag attacks on you in order to trick you into attacking the real target of the hackers. The only way to actually stop attacks is to track them down and arrest them. No other plan will ensure the attacks permanently stop. On the other hand, having the RIAA attack MPAA in a full scale cyberwar would be kindof cool.
I don't think that's how statistics works. If 90% of chinese don't have computers but 90% of those who do use pirated software then software piracy rates are 90%. Also I believe only large multinational corps in china pay for software, everyone else just copies it. And given that they use windows to make the copies, I think that windows should be declared a criminal tool and outlawed.
If you are a large corp then you can afford to security audit your basic apps. If you run everything in a sandbox, with only the permissions it needs then the scope of problems is very small.
Or you could burn the key into the game disk, though that would cost more. Or you can have a console serial number and have the game register online during the install procedure (though that would require internet, bad for single player). Or you can have an online apps store, with games locked to the console. Regardless of method it's likely to be bad for selling games or going to a friends house to play.
The Catholic church is a deeply political organization, I'm relieved to hear a viable explanation for their behavior that doesn't cost me anything.
Or we stop using math based encryption. In a world of cheap bandwidth and cheap storage we can switch to one time pads. While A sends encrypted data to B using one time pad P1, new one time pads are sent from crypto server C to both A and B using separate encryption keys/pads. There is no math problem to solve, no way to determine the key. Not even quantum computing will help with this.
This will fail because nobody wants to be sued. If the driver causes a crash he will claim it was the autopilot. If the autopilot causes a crash the corp will claim driver error. And the only evidence to counter that would be a log file in the autopilot. (and you know the evil corp will alter it, right?) Considering the huge number of auto crashes per year it's safe to assume these things would need expensive insurance, so only the rich will get one. But rich people can afford a professional driver (who gets sued in a crash, not the owner) so that won't work either. It's like a satellite phone, too expensive for anything but a small niche market. On the other hand, having road trains of transport trucks would be rather useful and could certainly save the big corporations buckets of money. One driver and thirty trucks!
The key point is legacy apps. There are countless legacy programs out there that need wintel, so switching to armdroid won't work. This has always been microsofts core strength, the reason they can't be stopped. Tablets and cellphones break this because there isn't any legacy code to deal with, and that's why wintel can't take the market. Armdroid should fix the lack of legacy code, allowing people to base their buisness/life around some piece of 20 year old software written in pascal or visual basic or cobol. The only question is will microsoft participate in that market or just watch from the sidelilnes as their market share falls.
The public highway system definately benefits americans. Or do you prefer to drive/walk/cycle on dirt roads? I suspect you prefer having public police rather than street gangs or private armies running each area of the city. Having enforced standards for food is in your best interest, unless you like having your kids get food poisoning.
I think he believes in shining a light into the dark nooks of the world to illuminate crime and corruption. I don't think he screens anything as part of some sort of political crusade. I believe wikileaks released the banking info now because they -received- it now.
The UN is not a government, it's an old boys club where governments talk about stuff. If you are on the moon it's yours (what you control, anyway). The only time the UN enters the picture is if you need help/supplies from a country on earth that is a UN member and signed the silly treaty.
You don't need rocket fuel to travel from the moon to the earth, a good catapult will suffice. (though slowing down at the end might be tricky). Likewise an ion engine doesn't require any form of combustion, you could use aluminum as reaction mass if you had a power source. The only time you actually -need- rocket fuel is for getting out of the earths atmosphere (or you build a really long catapult, so the acceleration doesn't kill you).
It's generally a bad idea to switch to an energy source that is -less- common than the one you've got. Considering that there are no known reserves of this stuff, I think we're wasting time and money designing/prototyping stuff for its use.
I think storing the suns heat in molten salts (underground), and radiating the heat out into space during the night might work. Of course it would work on earth just as well, and a lot cheaper. If your goal was net energy you might use a parabolic mirror (in solar orbit, say Mercury) to focus a beam of light onto a solar array in a high solar synchronous orbit(to avoid heating the earth), that would then beam down the energy as microwaves. Due to the mirrors proximity to the sun it would get much more light than the solar array alone, and focusing the beam would keep that energy density. Of course you'd need 2 or 3 due to eclipses.