- We are already all caught on video dozens of times per day. - Your smart phone already listens to everything you say, in case you might say some key word that it needs to react to. - Newer TVs and other electronic devices are becoming more voice activated.
The trend is definitely in the direction of more surveillance. It's just a matter of time before that includes audio, as well as video.
Store receipts are one example where we can't really replace paper yet. I'm not inclined to give my email address to every business I buy from, so they can send me an emailed receipt, along with spam.
You sign your name on a touch screen at many stores to authorize a credit card payment. Doctor's offices, even government agencies, now accept electronic signatures. What's the problem?
There are still lots of people out there running IE 6, 7, and 8, none of which support HTML 5 video. My company's site still sees about 10% if its traffic coming from IE 8 or older. If you are running a site that people actually want to visit, you don't tell your visitors they have to upgrade their browser, you make sure that your site will work on whatever they have. Most people have Flash installed, so it solves an important problem for these sites.
Once everybody is on 5G, it will make it possible for ALL devices to show us advertising. Your refrigerator, your faucet, your toilet, your chair...they will ALL be conspiring to show you advertisements, all the time. As long as AdBlockPlus gets ported to all these devices, we'll be OK!
There are malicious creatures, people, and governments everywhere. Accidents happen. Life itself is a struggle for survival. Why would networks be any different?
Hey, I think you're on to something! Since the law can't possibly get passed, that means Lessig wouldn't actually have to resign, there would be no broken promise if he stayed around for the entire term...making him no different from every other politician out there.
I admire your unrestrained enthusiasm for a particular politician and party. I suspect I've been around a little longer than you, because I've learned that one thing is true about ALL politicians: they lie. At least, whenever their lips are moving. One day you'll learn that even Obama himself is...a politician.
If he has only one bill he wants to pass, and then resign, that doesn't seem like much of a vision to me. The country can't be "fixed" by changing one law. I'd rather elect somebody who has a vision with a bit more scope.
BUT ping pong balls are less than 1 inch in diameter, so you'd have to use about 20 of them to replace each one of the larger black balls. Now the cost savings doesn't look quite so dramatic.
People may be cutting the cord, but they are still paying for TV. Now they are just paying Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Sling, instead of Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter. Oh, wait, they still are paying Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter for the Internet service so they can also pay for streaming services. I'm not sure the total bill will be going down much.
Were these honeypot pumps set up in the same way real systems would be set up? In other words, how realistic was the experiment? Were hackers able to attack these systems because they were set up to be honeypots, or does the experiment really indicate that gas pumps around the world are vulnerable?
When Wozniak took over the reins of Apple in 1985, the company nearly died. It wasn't until Jobs returned that the company was resuscitated. It was the guy at the top who made all the difference.
Every great company has a great leader at the helm.
Shop floor guys know who to run equipment, they don't have a clue how to save $2 million a year in manufacturing costs. It really IS the manager who made that happen.
The new chemical dye process? Ideas are a dime a dozen, it takes a good leader to recognize which ones will actually work.
Programmers need to have leaders to focus their efforts, or they go down rabbit holes and gold-plate their corner of the code. Without the director tying all the loose ends together and making decisions about what NOT to do, the project would never get done, even with the best programming talent.
It is the nature of the poor and unsuccessful to assume that success is just a lucky break. They don't see the big picture.
"Luck" is the term used by envious unsuccessful people, who don't understand all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into someone else's success.
If a person gets it right 1 out of 100 times, it's the ones who try 100 times who will get "lucky," not the ones who try only 10 times. "Good luck" is something that you make for yourself, not something that falls out of the sky into your lap.
Good luck with that! There are no security models that will keep breaches from happening. Even the NSA couldn't keep Snowden for walking away with tons of highly secure data.
In order to use Cortana, you have to switch your Windows login to be your Microsoft account. No, thanks! I have no intention of changing my desktop login to be my Microsoft account. Cortana will have to wait.
You don't drive your house around, but you still insure it. Home insurance is a thriving industry, despite the low odds of payouts, especially compared to the odds of payouts for car insurance. Don't worry, car insurance companies will still be in business, and make money. They will adapt.
Maybe an idea like this could be used in countries whose governments want to squelch free speech. Radio Free Europe did this kind of thing during the Cold War, broadcasting ideas that weren't welcome in the Eastern Bloc. Satellite-based Internet is out of reach for most citizens of such countries, but maybe not something based lower down, like in the stratosphere.
It works fine on all three. But what I thought was interesting was that when I opened the page in IE, the computer's fan started revving up. As I zoomed in and out and panned around, it really got going. Chrome and Firefox...both cool as a cucumber. That says something about the optimization (or lack thereof) in IE's rendering engine.
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True, but consider this:
- We are already all caught on video dozens of times per day.
- Your smart phone already listens to everything you say, in case you might say some key word that it needs to react to.
- Newer TVs and other electronic devices are becoming more voice activated.
The trend is definitely in the direction of more surveillance. It's just a matter of time before that includes audio, as well as video.
No, it's not Microsoft Cobol, it's MicroFocus Cobol...from an entirely different company. MicroFocus has been making Cobol compilers for decades.
Store receipts are one example where we can't really replace paper yet. I'm not inclined to give my email address to every business I buy from, so they can send me an emailed receipt, along with spam.
You sign your name on a touch screen at many stores to authorize a credit card payment. Doctor's offices, even government agencies, now accept electronic signatures. What's the problem?
There are still lots of people out there running IE 6, 7, and 8, none of which support HTML 5 video. My company's site still sees about 10% if its traffic coming from IE 8 or older. If you are running a site that people actually want to visit, you don't tell your visitors they have to upgrade their browser, you make sure that your site will work on whatever they have. Most people have Flash installed, so it solves an important problem for these sites.
Once everybody is on 5G, it will make it possible for ALL devices to show us advertising. Your refrigerator, your faucet, your toilet, your chair...they will ALL be conspiring to show you advertisements, all the time. As long as AdBlockPlus gets ported to all these devices, we'll be OK!
There are malicious creatures, people, and governments everywhere. Accidents happen. Life itself is a struggle for survival. Why would networks be any different?
Hey, I think you're on to something! Since the law can't possibly get passed, that means Lessig wouldn't actually have to resign, there would be no broken promise if he stayed around for the entire term...making him no different from every other politician out there.
I admire your unrestrained enthusiasm for a particular politician and party. I suspect I've been around a little longer than you, because I've learned that one thing is true about ALL politicians: they lie. At least, whenever their lips are moving. One day you'll learn that even Obama himself is...a politician.
You sound like a true believer. Unfortunately, I'm much more cynical, I don't trust what ANY politician says, not even Lessig.
If he has only one bill he wants to pass, and then resign, that doesn't seem like much of a vision to me. The country can't be "fixed" by changing one law. I'd rather elect somebody who has a vision with a bit more scope.
BUT ping pong balls are less than 1 inch in diameter, so you'd have to use about 20 of them to replace each one of the larger black balls. Now the cost savings doesn't look quite so dramatic.
People may be cutting the cord, but they are still paying for TV. Now they are just paying Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Sling, instead of Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter. Oh, wait, they still are paying Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter for the Internet service so they can also pay for streaming services. I'm not sure the total bill will be going down much.
Were these honeypot pumps set up in the same way real systems would be set up? In other words, how realistic was the experiment? Were hackers able to attack these systems because they were set up to be honeypots, or does the experiment really indicate that gas pumps around the world are vulnerable?
Yes, exactly.
When Wozniak took over the reins of Apple in 1985, the company nearly died. It wasn't until Jobs returned that the company was resuscitated. It was the guy at the top who made all the difference.
Every great company has a great leader at the helm.
Spoken like someone who is not a leader.
Shop floor guys know who to run equipment, they don't have a clue how to save $2 million a year in manufacturing costs. It really IS the manager who made that happen.
The new chemical dye process? Ideas are a dime a dozen, it takes a good leader to recognize which ones will actually work.
Programmers need to have leaders to focus their efforts, or they go down rabbit holes and gold-plate their corner of the code. Without the director tying all the loose ends together and making decisions about what NOT to do, the project would never get done, even with the best programming talent.
It is the nature of the poor and unsuccessful to assume that success is just a lucky break. They don't see the big picture.
"Luck" is the term used by envious unsuccessful people, who don't understand all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into someone else's success.
If a person gets it right 1 out of 100 times, it's the ones who try 100 times who will get "lucky," not the ones who try only 10 times. "Good luck" is something that you make for yourself, not something that falls out of the sky into your lap.
Good luck with that! There are no security models that will keep breaches from happening. Even the NSA couldn't keep Snowden for walking away with tons of highly secure data.
Internet isn't a speed, it's a concept. The Internet can have connections at any speed.
In order to use Cortana, you have to switch your Windows login to be your Microsoft account. No, thanks! I have no intention of changing my desktop login to be my Microsoft account. Cortana will have to wait.
Privacy in danger? That question assumes that we still have some privacy to BE in danger. We haven't had any data privacy for a decade already.
You don't drive your house around, but you still insure it. Home insurance is a thriving industry, despite the low odds of payouts, especially compared to the odds of payouts for car insurance. Don't worry, car insurance companies will still be in business, and make money. They will adapt.
Maybe an idea like this could be used in countries whose governments want to squelch free speech. Radio Free Europe did this kind of thing during the Cold War, broadcasting ideas that weren't welcome in the Eastern Bloc. Satellite-based Internet is out of reach for most citizens of such countries, but maybe not something based lower down, like in the stratosphere.
It works fine on all three. But what I thought was interesting was that when I opened the page in IE, the computer's fan started revving up. As I zoomed in and out and panned around, it really got going. Chrome and Firefox...both cool as a cucumber. That says something about the optimization (or lack thereof) in IE's rendering engine.
This is fantastic work. It's a great demonstration of what WebGL can do, but also a great demonstration of what James Yoder can do with it.
James, if you're looking for a job, we need to talk!