I don't think this will be so great for general internet usage, but think of what you could do if there was free wireless internet everywhere. Imagine all of the small machines that can now be easily networked and accessed remotely. Vending machines that take credit cards, better sensors for controlling traffic, traffic reports while driving, more inexpensive sensors for weather reports, water and electirc meters that can actually report your true usage, etc.
Just do the same thing everyone else does and start off refering to your product versions with years untill you hit 5 or 6. Then use real version numbers internally to keep your shit togather.
Since I use continous integration with build scripts, automated testing etc, I start brand new products at 1.0.0.0 Then move up on each build untill it's ready for a release. Then let the marketing guys name it.
First of all "Securing military networks" should be an intergral part of all the armed services not just one department in the USAF, and if you want to have a "cyber command" shouldn't that be the job of the CIA, NSA, or Homeland security? Again for network defense it's up to all of those services to keep their own networks on lockdown. For offensive cyber attacks I think it's a Job for the CIA or perhaps a new division. The USAF should focus on Air superiority and perhaps space travel / defensive satellites.
I want my 10Mbs when I want it and for as long as I want it. If the $77 I pay per month isn't enough to build the infrastructure to handle that then charge more and I will pay it untill another company offers me something better.
Don't offer me 10mbs which I pay $30 extra a month for, then try to shame me accepting anything less because i'm a "greedy bandwidth hog".
I want what you sell and i'm willing to pay for it. If your supply can't meet my demands then prepair to be replaced.
Thanks Facebook! I've never even heard of that site untill you pissed off the wrong person and got it noticed on slashdot. Now they are getting more traffic than their servers can handle.
I'm not worried too much about lack of scientific knolowedge, as the lack of knowledge in basic economics. Politicians of both the major parties have long used this ingorance to sway voters with promises of low taxes and free money. The Dems want to make a "windfall profits" tax against oil companies in order to rally the public against the "evil oil executives" where in reality they have one of the lowest profit margins, and over 95% of the stock is owned by the public in the form of Mutual Funds, 401k, pention plans, etc.
I'll stop there before I get banned for threadjacking. My point is that knowing basic economics is far more important for the average voter than science.
Not that I agree in the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, now that it is created shouldn't a "Cyber Command" be under it's jurisdiction for protecting the US military and commertial IT infrastructure? Offensive cyberwarfare should be an integrated tool in all of the millitary branches.
Why does everything the US is involved with have to be some kind of conspiracy? This was a good chance to test our technology and eliminate the possiblity of hazardous substances as well as large chunks of matter from hitting the ground.
Why is this still an issue?
Even if Google purposefully used Viacom's content that is no reason Google should have to give away it's property, the log files for usage statistics. If a walmart employ steals a CD from Target, that doesn't give Target the right to start stealing Plasmas from Wal-mart.
This is a wide-net search for illegal activities of private citizens as well as international viewers. To me that is a clear violation of the 4th amendment.
The judge should have ruled that it is the burden of Viacom to find the specific videos that violate their IP rights and notify YouTube of infringement. At that point either the video is taken down or they pay off Viacom to use the video on a case-by-case basis.
If I were the Viacom CEO I would work out a deal where Viacom would either sell high-quality clips or better yet offer them in exchange for the user statistics inorder to better judge who likes certian shows so they can use more targeted ads during their TV and full-length web showings.
It seems to me that many big Corps care more about using their power to bully people around than they do about actually making money, or to increase profits in other related markets. Ex. A Record label that owns CD producing factories have more incentive to kill mp3's since 10 CD sales gives them a higher net profit than 100 iTunes downloads.
Personally I like watching HDTV better than crappy web videos for full-length TV shows, but in case I miss the broadcast of "The Office" it's nice to watch it on the web the next day at work so that i'm not out of the loop for the next broadcast.
At some point my office went out and bought a bunch of those things before I got here, and as a 300lb guy I don't recommend them. I don't have any back problems or fatigue from the chair, but even with every adjustment at it's strongest setting the chair is always in full tilt mode.
So I usually end up either sitting up with no back support or leaning way back all the time. The arm rests are completly useless for me since my elbows don't come close to reaching them.
What I would really like to have is a chair/desk combo that has mounts for LCD screens that could tilt with the chair, and a totaly split keyboard mounted on each arm rest so that I could lounge back like I would in my lazyboy.
To me it seems kind of pointless to try to halt CO2 production in the world. Yes, we need to cut down on the other nasty gases that directly affect our cities, but why such an emphasis on C02?
Lets say we listen to the Envirotards and totally stop burning oil right now. It would cost the world trillions of dollars which represents a huge percentage of human effor on this planet.
Now that we are in a C02 reduced paradise, a huge volcano erupts spitting millions of tons of the stuff into the atmospheare. What the hell did we accomplish?
I say that we reduce pollution accross the board as it fits into economic constraints, and spend the money and research hours on Geoengineering and learning how to colonize other planets.
A major climate change is but one of many human extinting events that we have to face if we want to continue to survie for another millenium.
"three strikes and out rule to warn and ultimately disconnect the estimated 6.5 million customers whose accounts are (supposedly) used for regular criminal activity"
I think the customers should ban togather and hammer the network with downloads 24/7. When they find out that 5 mil of their 6.5 mil customers are getting disconnected they may think twice about their policy. If enough people want to download then there will be another ISP that comes along to fill in the gap.
If you have no other option in internet service then I would suggest opening up 4 - 5 browser windows and stream the "legal" music off the internet whenever you are not using you computer.
People can talk smack about MS all day long, but the fact is that if you sell software you owe a debt of gratitude to MS. Before Gates came along software was "sold" to the hardware companies and each system was totally incompatible with each other. Gates came up with the idea to "lease" instances of his OS to IBM so that he could then also sell to other hardware companies. They opened the door for hundreds of PC builders to come into the market place withouth having to direclty compete with IBM.
Also, unlike apple, MS opened the door for any software developer to create applications to sell to consumers running his "IBM compatible" OS. Even now that we have linux which is a "free" OS many developers and consumers simply find MS products easier and cheaper to work with.
So go ahead and hate MS all you want, but think long and hard about where your paycheck actualy comes from.
I'm hard-pressed to spend any money on Blu-Ray technology due to Sony's actions.
The $300 million they spent to bribe Warner Bros god knows how much on others, should have been used to cut the cost of players and media, then they could have won the Format war following free market ideals instead of underhanded deals that are now requiring Sony to jack up the prices on everything Blu-Ray to make up the diffrence.
I would really like to see the Justice department go after Sony for these pratices. If M$ gets hit with anti-trust violations because they included a useful web browser integrated with thier OS, how does Sony get away with out right bribery to force out the competition?
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I don't think this will be so great for general internet usage, but think of what you could do if there was free wireless internet everywhere. Imagine all of the small machines that can now be easily networked and accessed remotely. Vending machines that take credit cards, better sensors for controlling traffic, traffic reports while driving, more inexpensive sensors for weather reports, water and electirc meters that can actually report your true usage, etc.
Just do the same thing everyone else does and start off refering to your product versions with years untill you hit 5 or 6. Then use real version numbers internally to keep your shit togather. Since I use continous integration with build scripts, automated testing etc, I start brand new products at 1.0.0.0 Then move up on each build untill it's ready for a release. Then let the marketing guys name it.
First of all "Securing military networks" should be an intergral part of all the armed services not just one department in the USAF, and if you want to have a "cyber command" shouldn't that be the job of the CIA, NSA, or Homeland security? Again for network defense it's up to all of those services to keep their own networks on lockdown. For offensive cyber attacks I think it's a Job for the CIA or perhaps a new division. The USAF should focus on Air superiority and perhaps space travel / defensive satellites.
I want my 10Mbs when I want it and for as long as I want it. If the $77 I pay per month isn't enough to build the infrastructure to handle that then charge more and I will pay it untill another company offers me something better. Don't offer me 10mbs which I pay $30 extra a month for, then try to shame me accepting anything less because i'm a "greedy bandwidth hog". I want what you sell and i'm willing to pay for it. If your supply can't meet my demands then prepair to be replaced.
Thanks Facebook! I've never even heard of that site untill you pissed off the wrong person and got it noticed on slashdot. Now they are getting more traffic than their servers can handle.
Boo Hoo a major US company got a standard approved. Get over it.
I'm not worried too much about lack of scientific knolowedge, as the lack of knowledge in basic economics. Politicians of both the major parties have long used this ingorance to sway voters with promises of low taxes and free money. The Dems want to make a "windfall profits" tax against oil companies in order to rally the public against the "evil oil executives" where in reality they have one of the lowest profit margins, and over 95% of the stock is owned by the public in the form of Mutual Funds, 401k, pention plans, etc. I'll stop there before I get banned for threadjacking. My point is that knowing basic economics is far more important for the average voter than science.
Not that I agree in the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, now that it is created shouldn't a "Cyber Command" be under it's jurisdiction for protecting the US military and commertial IT infrastructure? Offensive cyberwarfare should be an integrated tool in all of the millitary branches.
Why does everything the US is involved with have to be some kind of conspiracy? This was a good chance to test our technology and eliminate the possiblity of hazardous substances as well as large chunks of matter from hitting the ground. Why is this still an issue?
Even if Google purposefully used Viacom's content that is no reason Google should have to give away it's property, the log files for usage statistics. If a walmart employ steals a CD from Target, that doesn't give Target the right to start stealing Plasmas from Wal-mart. This is a wide-net search for illegal activities of private citizens as well as international viewers. To me that is a clear violation of the 4th amendment. The judge should have ruled that it is the burden of Viacom to find the specific videos that violate their IP rights and notify YouTube of infringement. At that point either the video is taken down or they pay off Viacom to use the video on a case-by-case basis. If I were the Viacom CEO I would work out a deal where Viacom would either sell high-quality clips or better yet offer them in exchange for the user statistics inorder to better judge who likes certian shows so they can use more targeted ads during their TV and full-length web showings. It seems to me that many big Corps care more about using their power to bully people around than they do about actually making money, or to increase profits in other related markets. Ex. A Record label that owns CD producing factories have more incentive to kill mp3's since 10 CD sales gives them a higher net profit than 100 iTunes downloads. Personally I like watching HDTV better than crappy web videos for full-length TV shows, but in case I miss the broadcast of "The Office" it's nice to watch it on the web the next day at work so that i'm not out of the loop for the next broadcast.
At some point my office went out and bought a bunch of those things before I got here, and as a 300lb guy I don't recommend them. I don't have any back problems or fatigue from the chair, but even with every adjustment at it's strongest setting the chair is always in full tilt mode. So I usually end up either sitting up with no back support or leaning way back all the time. The arm rests are completly useless for me since my elbows don't come close to reaching them. What I would really like to have is a chair/desk combo that has mounts for LCD screens that could tilt with the chair, and a totaly split keyboard mounted on each arm rest so that I could lounge back like I would in my lazyboy.
To me it seems kind of pointless to try to halt CO2 production in the world. Yes, we need to cut down on the other nasty gases that directly affect our cities, but why such an emphasis on C02? Lets say we listen to the Envirotards and totally stop burning oil right now. It would cost the world trillions of dollars which represents a huge percentage of human effor on this planet. Now that we are in a C02 reduced paradise, a huge volcano erupts spitting millions of tons of the stuff into the atmospheare. What the hell did we accomplish? I say that we reduce pollution accross the board as it fits into economic constraints, and spend the money and research hours on Geoengineering and learning how to colonize other planets. A major climate change is but one of many human extinting events that we have to face if we want to continue to survie for another millenium.
"three strikes and out rule to warn and ultimately disconnect the estimated 6.5 million customers whose accounts are (supposedly) used for regular criminal activity" I think the customers should ban togather and hammer the network with downloads 24/7. When they find out that 5 mil of their 6.5 mil customers are getting disconnected they may think twice about their policy. If enough people want to download then there will be another ISP that comes along to fill in the gap. If you have no other option in internet service then I would suggest opening up 4 - 5 browser windows and stream the "legal" music off the internet whenever you are not using you computer.
They should throw the book at these kids. Given how easy it is to do these types of attacks the fear of punishment is needed.
People can talk smack about MS all day long, but the fact is that if you sell software you owe a debt of gratitude to MS. Before Gates came along software was "sold" to the hardware companies and each system was totally incompatible with each other. Gates came up with the idea to "lease" instances of his OS to IBM so that he could then also sell to other hardware companies. They opened the door for hundreds of PC builders to come into the market place withouth having to direclty compete with IBM. Also, unlike apple, MS opened the door for any software developer to create applications to sell to consumers running his "IBM compatible" OS. Even now that we have linux which is a "free" OS many developers and consumers simply find MS products easier and cheaper to work with. So go ahead and hate MS all you want, but think long and hard about where your paycheck actualy comes from.
I'm hard-pressed to spend any money on Blu-Ray technology due to Sony's actions. The $300 million they spent to bribe Warner Bros god knows how much on others, should have been used to cut the cost of players and media, then they could have won the Format war following free market ideals instead of underhanded deals that are now requiring Sony to jack up the prices on everything Blu-Ray to make up the diffrence. I would really like to see the Justice department go after Sony for these pratices. If M$ gets hit with anti-trust violations because they included a useful web browser integrated with thier OS, how does Sony get away with out right bribery to force out the competition?