What's destructive/violent about disassembling something to learn how it works? Oddly enough it's what I did as a child, and now as an adult (this skill is particularly valuable in the security industry for finding and fixing vulnerabilities). As for the target practice comment I look forward to teaching my kids how to throw accurately (as an adult I can underhand lob a bag of garbage a good 20 feet into the trash can outside, saving me about half of the walk which is especially practical in a Canadian winter).
Please don't teach children that it is wrong to be curious (e.g. disassembling things). We need people who actually care about how stuff works (hint: you're using a computer. not invented by the timid and afraid to break things)
The danger of allowing an advertising company to control the index of human knowledge is too obvious to ignore, writes White. 'The universal index is the shared heritage of humanity.
Just how are we to create incentives for an organization to do this? Commercial companies will want to make money off of it, advertising is one way to monetize this service, charging an access fee would be another. I wouldn't really trust a government to do this, not because they have agendas/etc. but because they simply are not technically competent enough to do this. Any non-profit/etc. organization would have to be insanely well funded to accomplish this task, so that's unlikely.
For better or worse it looks like we are stuck with Google. We could definitely do worse, but we could also do better I suspect (I just have no idea how it would be paid for).
uh... exchanging money does not necessarily increase GNP.
Actually it does:
A variety of measures of national income and output are used in economics to estimate total economic activity in a country or region, including gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), and net national income (NNI).
That link has absolutely no information on the rights/restrictions for an artist to license their own work. Now I did find http://www.socan.ca/jsp/en/pub/music_creators/creativecommons.jsp which has a lot of FUD about CC licensing, but doesn't explicitly say it is disallowed so I will send her that link and see what happens.
Facebook runs on Linux and can be used from any reasonably standards compliant web browser (all of which are free and many of which are open source) so what's your point exactly?
I hired an artist to write a song. She is a member of SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada - http://www.socan.ca/). To quote:
"As for releasing it under CC, I actually can't (And releasing things under CC for musicians is a whole neat problem unto itself that's a discussion for a totally different day!). I'm a member of SOCAN and my performing and association rights are already automatically assigned to them."
So basically if you join SOCAN you are barred from using CC licenses on your work, even if you want to, even if it is a work for hire, etc.
Simple, suspend their network access or hibernate them and see if anyone complains. When you do delete the server just make a backup of the virtual servers in case you do need them later. This isn't rocket science.
Uhmm. No. "private cloud" box is NOT a kind of oxymoron (it is in fact one of the 4 defined deployment models). The generally accepted definitions of cloud computing, as defined by NIST http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/ (click on "NIST Definition of Cloud Computing v15") define cloud computing as having the following characteristics:
On-demand self-service. - A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service’s provider.
Broad network access. - Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).
Resource pooling. - The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines.
Rapid elasticity. - Capabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time.
Measured Service. - Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.
Then as far as deployment models we have:
Private cloud. The cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Community cloud. The cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Public cloud. The cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is owned by an organization selling cloud services.
Hybrid cloud. The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load-balancing between clouds).
You should teach them the equivalent of the scientific method. Teach the kids how to learn and explore and how technology impacts them. This means giving them some fundamentals like what data storage looks like (hard drives, servers, things like facebook) and what it means to them (privacy, control of information, theft of information, etc.). Some basic networking and what encryption/authentication is and does (prevent eaves dropping, impersonation, etc.). Maybe some real world examples like social media sites, posting videos on youtube, and how once you have done that, because of the way the technology works they can never regain control of their data (only one person has to copy it and re-release it).
Also _please_ teach them about copying/distribution and indexing of information so they get a basic understanding of why posting drunken photos online may not be a good idea long term. Teach them about privacy, fair use and so on.
This is why most small GPS and cell phone jammers come with cigarette lighter plugins, so they can live in your car. If you want to take a private trip (and not have access to your own GPS or cell phone of course) you may want to invest in one of these (easier than crawling under your car and inspecting it every time you want to go do something. Or so I read in a magazine. http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.portable%20jammer.
You need to install the intermediate Startcom SSL certificate on your web server but that is easy and extensively covered in the documents. Again, there is NO excuse.
Do you provide your own DNS? Email? Do you use any mobile devices (they pretty much all use other peoples services). The cloud is here and you're already using it all the time; it's just extending where it gets used. Personally I moved all my stuff to cloud like facilities ages ago (VPS hosting, I don't want to maintain hardware, web hosting to he.net since they can provide IPv6, Gmail because I don't want to maintain mail servers and spam filtering, and so on).
You can still do redirects/etc, just edit the httpd.conf file (or whatever your web server is using). Or put a front end server like nginx/apache in proxy mode/etc. before it, etc.
I was testing SSH clients for the iPhone so I bought about a half dozen, one of them flat out didn't work (filled out the problem form, no response). One didn't allow you to change the port to something other than 22. Only one app allowed you to import a key. Only one (a different one) allowed you to have more than one key. In other words one was completely broken, one was arguably missing basic functionality and all were missing common functionality. In other words the quality was abysmal.
I also tried to contact them, one had a website listed that was several years out of date and had no contact info (no names, emails, phone numbers, nothing). Not exactly inspiring of trust.
Based on this I can simply say I will not use them, for one thing they don't work terribly well. But mostly because who knows what they do in the background. Perhaps every 50th connection, assuming it is a Tuesday they send your connection details (user name, password, IP, etc.) in an outgoing packet to the bad guy that wrote the app.
I actually regret going with the iPhone (not that the android is much better in this respect). I'm so used to Open Source software having to use a closed source application from a basically unknown source (as opposed to someone who is at least known and ideally has a decent reputation they want to protect) is foreign to me and to be honest a deal breaker.
Basically from what I can tell it sounds like you're going to have to go with a startup type bank/payment service like Paypal which has actually made an effort to open its platform up.
I suspect most traditional banks won't change significantly for at least a few decades. My bet would be on ING and its brethren to open up first, try talking with them.
It's funny to see people thinking in terms of Media. It's like reading the old science fiction (Niven, etc.) where they constantly refer to tapes and even have the characters writing things down (they have faster than light travel but no PDAs, right). The next popular media format is already here and making rapid inroads, it's called the Internet and it's available in high speed local wired flavours (you can get a home gigabit switch for $20-40 easy) and wireless (802.11 a/b/g/n, 3G, 4G, WiMax, etc.). I'm not saying physical media will go away (try downloading 50 gigs worth of anything on less than a local gigabit network is very painful), but wireless especially will take care of most of the low end (most people I know can now email around attachments of several megabytes in size with no problems).
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What's destructive/violent about disassembling something to learn how it works? Oddly enough it's what I did as a child, and now as an adult (this skill is particularly valuable in the security industry for finding and fixing vulnerabilities). As for the target practice comment I look forward to teaching my kids how to throw accurately (as an adult I can underhand lob a bag of garbage a good 20 feet into the trash can outside, saving me about half of the walk which is especially practical in a Canadian winter).
Please don't teach children that it is wrong to be curious (e.g. disassembling things). We need people who actually care about how stuff works (hint: you're using a computer. not invented by the timid and afraid to break things)
The danger of allowing an advertising company to control the index of human knowledge is too obvious to ignore, writes White. 'The universal index is the shared heritage of humanity.
Just how are we to create incentives for an organization to do this? Commercial companies will want to make money off of it, advertising is one way to monetize this service, charging an access fee would be another. I wouldn't really trust a government to do this, not because they have agendas/etc. but because they simply are not technically competent enough to do this. Any non-profit/etc. organization would have to be insanely well funded to accomplish this task, so that's unlikely.
For better or worse it looks like we are stuck with Google. We could definitely do worse, but we could also do better I suspect (I just have no idea how it would be paid for).
uh... exchanging money does not necessarily increase GNP.
Actually it does:
A variety of measures of national income and output are used in economics to estimate total economic activity in a country or region, including gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), and net national income (NNI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measures_of_national_income_and_output
The dome-shaped tank offered 8-inch-thick walls of reinforced concrete and was
8, 18, close enough I guess.
That link has absolutely no information on the rights/restrictions for an artist to license their own work. Now I did find http://www.socan.ca/jsp/en/pub/music_creators/creativecommons.jsp which has a lot of FUD about CC licensing, but doesn't explicitly say it is disallowed so I will send her that link and see what happens.
Can you please point me in the direction of evidence/information to the contrary so I can send it to her? (citation please in other words).
Facebook runs on Linux and can be used from any reasonably standards compliant web browser (all of which are free and many of which are open source) so what's your point exactly?
I hired an artist to write a song. She is a member of SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada - http://www.socan.ca/). To quote:
"As for releasing it under CC, I actually can't (And releasing things under CC for musicians is a whole neat problem unto itself that's a discussion for a totally different day!). I'm a member of SOCAN and my performing and association rights are already automatically assigned to them."
So basically if you join SOCAN you are barred from using CC licenses on your work, even if you want to, even if it is a work for hire, etc.
Simple, suspend their network access or hibernate them and see if anyone complains. When you do delete the server just make a backup of the virtual servers in case you do need them later. This isn't rocket science.
They have nothing that touches Intel's 6 core line.
I'm pretty sure the AMD 12 core CPUs will "touch" Intel's 6 core CPUs quite nicely (locally they are both about $1200 retail from the store).
On-demand self-service. - A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service’s provider.
Broad network access. - Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs).
Resource pooling. - The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines.
Rapid elasticity. - Capabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time.
Measured Service. - Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.
Then as far as deployment models we have:
Private cloud. The cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Community cloud. The cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Public cloud. The cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is owned by an organization selling cloud services.
Hybrid cloud. The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load-balancing between clouds).
You should teach them the equivalent of the scientific method. Teach the kids how to learn and explore and how technology impacts them. This means giving them some fundamentals like what data storage looks like (hard drives, servers, things like facebook) and what it means to them (privacy, control of information, theft of information, etc.). Some basic networking and what encryption/authentication is and does (prevent eaves dropping, impersonation, etc.). Maybe some real world examples like social media sites, posting videos on youtube, and how once you have done that, because of the way the technology works they can never regain control of their data (only one person has to copy it and re-release it).
Also _please_ teach them about copying/distribution and indexing of information so they get a basic understanding of why posting drunken photos online may not be a good idea long term. Teach them about privacy, fair use and so on.
This is why most small GPS and cell phone jammers come with cigarette lighter plugins, so they can live in your car. If you want to take a private trip (and not have access to your own GPS or cell phone of course) you may want to invest in one of these (easier than crawling under your car and inspecting it every time you want to go do something. Or so I read in a magazine. http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.portable%20jammer.
Chrome also lacks a proper firebug.
You'll never get 100% recovery. Stuff always leaks. Couplings, etc.
You need to install the intermediate Startcom SSL certificate on your web server but that is easy and extensively covered in the documents. Again, there is NO excuse.
Invalid argument: Free SSL certificates: http://cert.startcom.org/.
The United States Federal government, as well as the governments of 49 of the 50 states, are legally insolvent.
I'm curious, which one is solvent?
Do you provide your own DNS? Email? Do you use any mobile devices (they pretty much all use other peoples services). The cloud is here and you're already using it all the time; it's just extending where it gets used. Personally I moved all my stuff to cloud like facilities ages ago (VPS hosting, I don't want to maintain hardware, web hosting to he.net since they can provide IPv6, Gmail because I don't want to maintain mail servers and spam filtering, and so on).
You can still do redirects/etc, just edit the httpd.conf file (or whatever your web server is using). Or put a front end server like nginx/apache in proxy mode/etc. before it, etc.
undoing an accidental moderation
I was testing SSH clients for the iPhone so I bought about a half dozen, one of them flat out didn't work (filled out the problem form, no response). One didn't allow you to change the port to something other than 22. Only one app allowed you to import a key. Only one (a different one) allowed you to have more than one key. In other words one was completely broken, one was arguably missing basic functionality and all were missing common functionality. In other words the quality was abysmal.
I also tried to contact them, one had a website listed that was several years out of date and had no contact info (no names, emails, phone numbers, nothing). Not exactly inspiring of trust.
Based on this I can simply say I will not use them, for one thing they don't work terribly well. But mostly because who knows what they do in the background. Perhaps every 50th connection, assuming it is a Tuesday they send your connection details (user name, password, IP, etc.) in an outgoing packet to the bad guy that wrote the app.
I actually regret going with the iPhone (not that the android is much better in this respect). I'm so used to Open Source software having to use a closed source application from a basically unknown source (as opposed to someone who is at least known and ideally has a decent reputation they want to protect) is foreign to me and to be honest a deal breaker.
The Future of Money: It’s Flexible, Frictionless and (Almost) Free/
Basically from what I can tell it sounds like you're going to have to go with a startup type bank/payment service like Paypal which has actually made an effort to open its platform up.
I suspect most traditional banks won't change significantly for at least a few decades. My bet would be on ING and its brethren to open up first, try talking with them.
It's funny to see people thinking in terms of Media. It's like reading the old science fiction (Niven, etc.) where they constantly refer to tapes and even have the characters writing things down (they have faster than light travel but no PDAs, right). The next popular media format is already here and making rapid inroads, it's called the Internet and it's available in high speed local wired flavours (you can get a home gigabit switch for $20-40 easy) and wireless (802.11 a/b/g/n, 3G, 4G, WiMax, etc.). I'm not saying physical media will go away (try downloading 50 gigs worth of anything on less than a local gigabit network is very painful), but wireless especially will take care of most of the low end (most people I know can now email around attachments of several megabytes in size with no problems).
Mind 2: huh? You can buy AMD based servers you know. Sun/Oracle, Dell, IBM, pretty much every other company that sells servers.