You may not like that, but that's the way it is. Communications providers can be forced to provide back doors for "legal spying" by governments. All governments know this, and use other methods to protect "sensitive" communications. Any other stuff is, well, who cares?
I was assuming most of the authors would be dead already
Some dead folks tend to make a lot of money: Elvis and Bob Marley, for example. They generate millions every year, despite the fact that they are really quite dead. Amy Winehouse has just joined their choir. Lawyers get the most of it, though.
Even Monty Python's parrot is still making money, and no, he is not resting . . .
Big Media suing Small Church isn't exactly good PR. Especially since all the stuff in a church library is mostly His Words. But Big Media has a big enough Ego to sue God.
Big Media doesn't like books, because they can be transferred too easily without proper DRM tracking. Which is why books will be made illegal. Fire Departments will soon be tasked with burning them safely. Books will be classified, transcribed, and stored in one of the major corporate computer banks.
Maybe I could write a story (not a book!) about this . . .
Why did IBM sell the patents instead of licensing them to Google? Wouldn't it be better for IBM to hold the patents to license them to other folks, or have them in their patent defense arsenal?
Get yourself one of these personal home scanners, a copy of "Brain Surgery for Dummies", and sanitize the old Black & Decker and the Ginsu knives . . .
Maybe such a cheapo device could enable some office scanning that could eliminate the need for a much more expensive hospital scan?
Although with one of these scanners, you could open up your own alternative pseudo-scientific medical clinic. Ordinary folks never understand what they see in these scans anyway. Just point to something in the picture and say, "See this here? If you drink shark cartilage tea, this will be gone by next week, when you come for your next scan."
So, you can charge the battery via USB or via the solar panel. Now, how long it takes to charge the battery . . . it might help if you live some place where there is a lot of sunlight . . . like on Mercury.
I used something similar a while back on vacation in Portugal in summer . . . the solar charge of a whole day wasn't able to top off my cell phone at night.
Hey, but if you like to pretend that you're green, leave it out on your towel at the beach . . .
Then on Saturday, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck that released at least 40 times more energy than any of the previous 10 or more tremors that had rattled the region in 2011.
So all we need to do is to learn how to turn earthquake energy into electric power. Pumping fracking juice into the earth to purposely cause earthquakes could solve all our energy problems.
We've been doing it wrong all along: we've been pumping stuff out for energy, instead of pumping it in.
It might kinda suck for folks who live along fault lines, but with energy, you always have a "not in my backyard" crowd to deal with.
. . . ancient pottery technology left by aliens visiting the Earth ages ago proves that they were here. Stuff that they left around was used by ancient humans to build pyramids and monkey-shaped airfield landing patterns in deserts in South America and other stuff.
Although ancient humans possessed the technology for space travel, their governments kept squabbling about the strategic direction of space projects, so they never got off the ground.
Although US and Chinese companies do business with each other, I'm not really sure that they trust each other. And both sides have good reasons for being so. US companies want access to a growth market, but are wary of their investments in a country whose government and legal system don't function like they are used to elsewhere. China is fearful that foreign companies want to get in to exploit their market and resources, while cutting not fostering local business growth.
But at the moment, business and government go hand-in-hand in China: you can't deal with one, without automatically dealing with the other. So yes, if IBM wanted to dump their PC business anyway, because it is now a commodity business, why not use it as a pawn it a greater game with China?
However, IBM still makes high end Intel blade servers. What will happen when Lenovo starts to wander up into that end of the market?
Iran: "Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Ayatollah.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise...."
Actually, if Iran has an unlimited supply of boats and suicide-minded crews, the only way to stop them will be to bomb their bases of operation. In other words, carpet bombing Iran's coast: naval bases, fishing villages, women and children . . .
This was not an option on the table, when dealing with the Somali pirates.
This would be ugly, but war is an ugly business . . . and oil is thicker than blood.
You can call him "Sir Jonathan Ive" or "Sir Jonathan".
"Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you can call me RJJ Jr." ultimately ending with, "but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_J._Johnson"
Despite whatever titles granted to him by watery tarts hurling scimitars, I guess folks will just call him whatever they like.
I didn't know that Her Royal Baroness Thatcher was willing to come back out of retirement from politics.
. . . add to her Fergie, Duchess of York, Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and there you have your angry birds to govern Great Britain.
I personally think that the ideal government to run Great Britain would consist of Pippa Middleton's hot buns.
I'd think this would be a problem for military folks with ships and planes scattered in time zones? How do they handle this? They must also have date line problems? Do they shift duty times when moving?
However, that was when I was still a child. Now I'm grown, it's time to put away childish things.
There is IBM Mainframe System 360 code from the '60s still running on current zEnterprise systems today. That code was probably written while you were still swimming around in your dad's balls (no offense intended; it's just an amusing expression).
This will also be the case with x86. It will stay around forever, because it has been around forever. Tautology intended.
However, supporting legacy stuff does not necessarily preclude innovation.
You mean, "make money reprogramming everything." I wouldn't be surprised if the IT Consulting industry was behind this idea. Checking code for Y2K was big bucks . . . let's add a leap week, and break some more stuff intentionally!
The stuff the Apollo crews left there is still in good condition - imagine what state it would be in if it were left almost anywhere on Earth
It would have been stolen and fenced on eBay . . . along with those Moon rocks "lost" by NASA . . .
Alien Earth Visitor to his Captain: "I have violated our Prime Directive. I left our technology on Earth. That will influence the development of their culture."
Captain: "Don't worry about it. Someone will steal it and sell on eBay, where no one will believe that it is authentic anyway. These Earthlings are a thieving race."
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Nothing new here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
You may not like that, but that's the way it is. Communications providers can be forced to provide back doors for "legal spying" by governments. All governments know this, and use other methods to protect "sensitive" communications. Any other stuff is, well, who cares?
. . . I call it my "front yard" . . .
But those paper magazines surely had a low data capacity.
. . . as opposed to new socially networking twittering systems that have high data capacity but low information content.
. . . that they should pay less taxes, and that somebody else should pay more.
Politicians this season should be touting the "Tax Foreigners Living Abroad" plan. That one never upsets any voters at home.
Applying this principle to cars, I think that the car of someone else should be taxed.
Now, if you tax gas (including diesel), you can manage to upset everyone in one fell swoop.
I mean, usually when these quests go wrong, the adventurers eat the sled dogs. So is she going to eat her bike?
. . . we could send someone up to dust them off, right?
"Check your oil for you, sir? That left front tire could use a bit of air . . . "
Now I remember why we used to call them "service stations" instead of "gas stations" . . .
I was assuming most of the authors would be dead already
Some dead folks tend to make a lot of money: Elvis and Bob Marley, for example. They generate millions every year, despite the fact that they are really quite dead. Amy Winehouse has just joined their choir. Lawyers get the most of it, though.
Even Monty Python's parrot is still making money, and no, he is not resting . . .
It depends where your library lives. Some countries have royalty fee Public Lending Right programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right
Others don't.
Big Media suing Small Church isn't exactly good PR. Especially since all the stuff in a church library is mostly His Words. But Big Media has a big enough Ego to sue God.
Big Media doesn't like books, because they can be transferred too easily without proper DRM tracking. Which is why books will be made illegal. Fire Departments will soon be tasked with burning them safely. Books will be classified, transcribed, and stored in one of the major corporate computer banks.
Maybe I could write a story (not a book!) about this . . .
Why did IBM sell the patents instead of licensing them to Google? Wouldn't it be better for IBM to hold the patents to license them to other folks, or have them in their patent defense arsenal?
Someone please enlighten me.
Get yourself one of these personal home scanners, a copy of "Brain Surgery for Dummies", and sanitize the old Black & Decker and the Ginsu knives . . .
Maybe such a cheapo device could enable some office scanning that could eliminate the need for a much more expensive hospital scan?
Although with one of these scanners, you could open up your own alternative pseudo-scientific medical clinic. Ordinary folks never understand what they see in these scans anyway. Just point to something in the picture and say, "See this here? If you drink shark cartilage tea, this will be gone by next week, when you come for your next scan."
A combo solar USB battery/charger: http://shop.philips.co.uk/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&Locale=en_GB&SiteID=rpeeub2c&productID=202504800
So, you can charge the battery via USB or via the solar panel. Now, how long it takes to charge the battery . . . it might help if you live some place where there is a lot of sunlight . . . like on Mercury.
I used something similar a while back on vacation in Portugal in summer . . . the solar charge of a whole day wasn't able to top off my cell phone at night.
Hey, but if you like to pretend that you're green, leave it out on your towel at the beach . . .
See: http://www.princeton.edu/admission/whatsdistinctive/experience/the_preceptorial_system/
Or just google it: http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=princeton+preceptorial+system&pbx=1&oq=princeton+precep&aq=2&aqi=g3&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=1334l4298l0l7175l16l12l0l2l2l0l186l1404l5.7l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=da70dd10971034b4&biw=1376&bih=790
Well, I liked it.
FTFA:
Then on Saturday, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck that released at least 40 times more energy than any of the previous 10 or more tremors that had rattled the region in 2011.
So all we need to do is to learn how to turn earthquake energy into electric power. Pumping fracking juice into the earth to purposely cause earthquakes could solve all our energy problems.
We've been doing it wrong all along: we've been pumping stuff out for energy, instead of pumping it in.
It might kinda suck for folks who live along fault lines, but with energy, you always have a "not in my backyard" crowd to deal with.
. . . ancient pottery technology left by aliens visiting the Earth ages ago proves that they were here. Stuff that they left around was used by ancient humans to build pyramids and monkey-shaped airfield landing patterns in deserts in South America and other stuff.
Although ancient humans possessed the technology for space travel, their governments kept squabbling about the strategic direction of space projects, so they never got off the ground.
Although US and Chinese companies do business with each other, I'm not really sure that they trust each other. And both sides have good reasons for being so. US companies want access to a growth market, but are wary of their investments in a country whose government and legal system don't function like they are used to elsewhere. China is fearful that foreign companies want to get in to exploit their market and resources, while cutting not fostering local business growth.
But at the moment, business and government go hand-in-hand in China: you can't deal with one, without automatically dealing with the other. So yes, if IBM wanted to dump their PC business anyway, because it is now a commodity business, why not use it as a pawn it a greater game with China?
However, IBM still makes high end Intel blade servers. What will happen when Lenovo starts to wander up into that end of the market?
Their primary naval weapon is . . .
Iran: "Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Ayatollah .... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise...."
Actually, if Iran has an unlimited supply of boats and suicide-minded crews, the only way to stop them will be to bomb their bases of operation. In other words, carpet bombing Iran's coast: naval bases, fishing villages, women and children . . .
This was not an option on the table, when dealing with the Somali pirates.
This would be ugly, but war is an ugly business . . . and oil is thicker than blood.
You can call him "Sir Jonathan Ive" or "Sir Jonathan".
"Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you can call me RJJ Jr." ultimately ending with, "but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_J._Johnson"
Despite whatever titles granted to him by watery tarts hurling scimitars, I guess folks will just call him whatever they like.
Apple gives Britain an iPad app to run the country . . . Britain gives Apple a Knighthood . . .
. . . this was obviously an arranged exchange . . .
... Angry Birds ...
I didn't know that Her Royal Baroness Thatcher was willing to come back out of retirement from politics.
. . . add to her Fergie, Duchess of York, Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and there you have your angry birds to govern Great Britain.
I personally think that the ideal government to run Great Britain would consist of Pippa Middleton's hot buns.
. . . caused by global warming . . .
. . . just like where our water comes from . . .
That's just the "Occupy Zoo!" crowd!
I'd think this would be a problem for military folks with ships and planes scattered in time zones? How do they handle this? They must also have date line problems? Do they shift duty times when moving?
However, that was when I was still a child. Now I'm grown, it's time to put away childish things.
There is IBM Mainframe System 360 code from the '60s still running on current zEnterprise systems today. That code was probably written while you were still swimming around in your dad's balls (no offense intended; it's just an amusing expression).
This will also be the case with x86. It will stay around forever, because it has been around forever. Tautology intended.
However, supporting legacy stuff does not necessarily preclude innovation.
You mean, "make money reprogramming everything." I wouldn't be surprised if the IT Consulting industry was behind this idea. Checking code for Y2K was big bucks . . . let's add a leap week, and break some more stuff intentionally!
The stuff the Apollo crews left there is still in good condition - imagine what state it would be in if it were left almost anywhere on Earth
It would have been stolen and fenced on eBay . . . along with those Moon rocks "lost" by NASA . . .
Alien Earth Visitor to his Captain: "I have violated our Prime Directive. I left our technology on Earth. That will influence the development of their culture."
Captain: "Don't worry about it. Someone will steal it and sell on eBay, where no one will believe that it is authentic anyway. These Earthlings are a thieving race."