The next generation of kids won't even have to insert a disc in a drive let alone click and install anything. It'll all be done through app stores. This next generation wont even have root access to their DRM riddled devices. No wonder they seem barely interested in technology now.
Internet has disappeared into the walls like indoor plumbing and electricity. After much novelty, it becomes ubiquitous, for these kids it's just there and always has been.
The neophillia is experienced by the generation that bridge the period between when you had to walk to get water, and the period when you didn't, when you lit a candle and when you flicked a switch.
I understand the importance of a global digital network because I remember in my childhood there wasn't one, in my teenage years it was developing, and now I have a career in it. I've bridged the period of and no new generation will experience the same thing.
I thought it would be nice to have a dock for my Android phone and for other portable devices.
I started a project to empty the guts out of a 5.25 tray and make a slot formp3 players / Nexus One (or any Mini usb mobile or other device).
Like most projects I started the list of possible features grew somewhat...
Additional front USB ports (always useful)
IEEE 1394
eSATA port(s)
Hot swappable SSD bay
3.25" HDD sata dock
Addtional ethernet - possible rip apart a multi-port hub and integrate it
Various DC (5,12 and maybe 6 & 9v etc) adapters with a retractable cord.
Molex connectors
Fan headers
DC->DC power supply for hobbies
Single can peltier based beer cooler
Also like many project I start, I collected a few parts then got distracted by something else geeky.
Something that will shock Americans: Study found carrying a gun increased the risk to being more than four times more likely to be killed. When the victim had the chance to defend themselves, the odds of being shot were higher.
Guns are more a false sense of security than any real form of protection. They are fundamentally an offensive weapon, not defensive, whoever gets it out first, wins.
The U.S. doesn't have funatmentally lower rates of buglary, home invasion etc than countries with similar crime rate but lower gun ownership. Guns in homes is not much of a deterent, it just encourages criminals to be better equiped.
Buglars frequently defeat canine security systems with... meat.
Why not simply magnetize the dead satellite or include a small permanent magnet? This would create a magnetic sail. The magnetic field around the satellite would slowly trap plasma from the trace of gases and ions in earth orbit, as well as anything leaking from the sat itself. This would inflate the magnetic field lines and expand a kind of mini magnetosphere around the satellite. This would create drag against the earths magnetic field, and outer atmosphere.
Common permanent magnets can be much stronger than needed for this.
The internet is full of viruses, hackers, porn, movie pirates funding al queda, terrorists and sexual predators. A day doesn't go by with the mainstream media spreading these fearmongering stories.
Why do they do this? Because their business depends on it.
Ask anyone who gets their opinion of things from the 6pm news about the internet and they'll tell you what they've been told to say.
What the rich buy new now, is what the middle class buy used 3-10 years down the lifetime of the vehicle. The lower income brackets almost exclusively buy used cars than some richer person once owned.
Depending on the country the majority of car sales are used car sales, and the average age of the vehicle fleet is 5-10 years.
The cheap $4000 car I own some upper-middle class idiot paid full price for in 1998. So naturally I get a car tailored to a different customer with a whole lot of fancy features I don't need (thirsty V6, climate control, fancy dials, electric this and that) I'd rather just save the money, weight and fuss. Ironically I could almost afford to buy a upper-mid price sedan now, but I would get the same fuel economy as my old one, but more power, an iPod dock and uh... um...
I spot a problem if gas prices rise too much over the next decade.
This basically means the article is a fallacy. The rich need to be voractious early adopters right now to provide the masses cheap electric and hybrid cars over the next decade.
A mouse actually makes a lot of sense. Multi-touch is cute, but it's really a gimmick, people will see this when they get over the 'Ooh' effect seeing the browser zooming or album flip thing. Typing anything of length on a touch screen is painful, you really require an external keyboard. Swiping to scroll/zoom is cool when you show it off to your friends (I enjoying the short-lived attention). I find myself wishing I had a mouse quite often and sometimes I'd sell my left nut for a scroll wheel or home or end key.
A yes the mouse, we don't realize how much we actually love them until you actually need one to get work done. It is a wondrously accurate and intuitive input device that has never been replaced. You can select down to one pixel, it scales small movements to larger ones. You have multiple buttons, scroll wheels (do you remember how you ever lived without a scroll wheel?)... that and having a mouse button configured as a browser 'back' function will change your life more than touchscreens ever did.
All these things a stylus or your fat fingers struggle to emulate.
Microsoft are going to make a tablet? About fucking time. I want to take notes on it with a stylus, not wave my fingers over the screen going 'oooo, I can make pictures big'. I want to be able stuff a USB stick in the side of it and put directories of data on it, not sync it to a fucking iTunes program running on an entirely separate computer (because, amongst other things, my Gentoo box really loves running iTunes). The iPad is pricey, pre-licked candy. Until someone else opens a sweetshop and starts selling their own candy, the only way you're getting any is with Steve Job's drool over it. Bring on the rivals, I say.
Too fucking right and better yet: it's x86... you can wipe it and install Linux.
Right. It gets worse, it's completely possible to hide malicious code in plain sighthttp://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=2. I doubt Apple analyze every single line of code, let alone rigorously review and test applications for malicious behavior. It's simply not logistically possible. I would go so far as to say they cannot actually test for malicious code or exploitable flaws on any reasonable level, that one has little grounds for excuse in assuming any iPhone app is 'safe' because it gets Apples stamp of approval.
If anything the walled garden vetting process is dangerous, it gives an enormous false sense of security to users, especially if it promises protection that is not only unfeasible but it demonstrably cannot give.
Give me the open source + Android security model any day. So far it's pretty good, and it will see honest attempts to improve rather than Apples denial and lies machine.
You mean they'd have to wait for approval by the App Store? An interesting proposal!
Bah, It'll never work. You'll never get developers for your App Store if you do that. Developers put their principals and professionalism first before money.
Personally I prefer to tap the bits into the hard drive platter with a magnetized sewing needle, that way I know it's safe... oh wait... what about the HDD's firmware?
Perfectly possible. Solar wind is a stream of charged particles. You could easily get 'traction' against this by accelerating this medium as you pass through it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail - but to go down wind faster than the solar wind (600km/s), you would need an external energy source such as solar panels, and a way to accelerate the interplanetary medium.
In short your magnetic sail could also double as a kind of ion engine. An arrangement of electrically charged hoops would accelerate the stellar medium. By this reasoning you could also extract and store energy from the solar wind, then use this energy for thrust once your sail passes equilibrium with the solar wind.
If you think a few windmills can screw up the electrical grid, imagine a couple of hundred thousand electric cars hopping on the grid to charge...
I sure as hell wouldnt want to be in charge of the grid *cringe* even with timed charging functionality in the cars.
Not that it is a problem yet.. most households lack the fusing to allow such large loads.. not something I expect to change fast as it requires a lot of expensive upgrades
Electric cars will draw current like turning on an oven, a heater, a air conditioner. It will be highly uneventful if the grid has the capactiy.
Unfortunately it's not impossible, and the cost carried over to the consumer would be negligible. Storage is cheap these days. ~$0.07 per GB and falling and if you just want to make a one time copy and dump it in a store room then the other overheads are small since it won't be 'hot' storage in a server somewhere. The cost of logging the entirety of my average monthly internet usage (average 20gb) is about $2 per month which represents the one time cost of the storage media, HDD tape etc.
But what is the point in logging encrypted (ie https) traffic? Do the policy makers even know such things exist? This will only cause more websites to switch to encryption.
Google reported they sold 100,000 of these phones in three months, which was their break even mark which was easily passed. That's impressive for any new phone release, and for one without any marketing/advertising program that's incredible.
It was, of course, an experiment in a alternate sales method, a very clever one indeed. Google is not out of pocket in the excercise and now has meaningful real-world data to use.
What's even better for them is the method appears to have failed, at least if their competitors are as stupid as bloggers, they won't try it themselves. So unless the definition of failure has been updated to anything that doesn't dethrone the iPhone then the Nexus One is a kick ass bit of kit that's done very well.
I would not be suprised if Google tries again, but this time with a full-on hype machine, now that they've shown this kind of thing to work. Why yes, I'll be sure to link back to this post in a suitably haughty fashion declaring I predicted this before.
BP released the full version of the image they admit was shopped for style. Some claim this image is not of the 'HIVE' response center either and was taken in 2001. This version of the image shows indications on the monitors photographs that it was taken on 16/07/10. (See middle screen above white screen).
Title: HIVE at Houston Command Center 16 July 2010
Authors: Marc Morrison
Date Taken: 06/03/2001 3:16 p.m.
Program Name: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
OMG Fake? No... it also shows it was taken with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III... now this 20 megapixel camera wasn't out until 2008, and certainly wasn't around in 2001.
What is unexplained in this the large monitors in this shot are the window titles showing 'Microsoft Excel' but perhaps these are some custom Excel based application that BP uses to display the ROV video feeds.
So frankly I find this whole event uninteresting. Someone didn't set the date stamp in a camera or a system somewhere along the way.
This is not a isolated incident however, so why is BP photoshopping so many images and doing such a amateurish job of it? (Ok maybe that latter part needs no explanation).
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The next generation of kids won't even have to insert a disc in a drive let alone click and install anything. It'll all be done through app stores. This next generation wont even have root access to their DRM riddled devices. No wonder they seem barely interested in technology now.
Internet has disappeared into the walls like indoor plumbing and electricity. After much novelty, it becomes ubiquitous, for these kids it's just there and always has been.
The neophillia is experienced by the generation that bridge the period between when you had to walk to get water, and the period when you didn't, when you lit a candle and when you flicked a switch.
I understand the importance of a global digital network because I remember in my childhood there wasn't one, in my teenage years it was developing, and now I have a career in it. I've bridged the period of and no new generation will experience the same thing.
What changes will my children face.
I thought it would be nice to have a dock for my Android phone and for other portable devices. I started a project to empty the guts out of a 5.25 tray and make a slot formp3 players / Nexus One (or any Mini usb mobile or other device).
Like most projects I started the list of possible features grew somewhat...
Additional front USB ports (always useful)
IEEE 1394
eSATA port(s)
Hot swappable SSD bay
3.25" HDD sata dock
Addtional ethernet - possible rip apart a multi-port hub and integrate it
Various DC (5,12 and maybe 6 & 9v etc) adapters with a retractable cord.
Molex connectors
Fan headers
DC->DC power supply for hobbies
Single can peltier based beer cooler
Also like many project I start, I collected a few parts then got distracted by something else geeky.
Something that will shock Americans: Study found carrying a gun increased the risk to being more than four times more likely to be killed. When the victim had the chance to defend themselves, the odds of being shot were higher.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carrying-a-gun-increases-risk-of-getting-shot-and-killed.html
Guns are more a false sense of security than any real form of protection. They are fundamentally an offensive weapon, not defensive, whoever gets it out first, wins.
The U.S. doesn't have funatmentally lower rates of buglary, home invasion etc than countries with similar crime rate but lower gun ownership. Guns in homes is not much of a deterent, it just encourages criminals to be better equiped.
Buglars frequently defeat canine security systems with... meat.
Darwin lived over 150 years ago. Understanding of evolution has come a long way.
While I'm here I might as well reconcile the entire Evolution vs Creation debate:
Evolution is the forge of God.
What language can be written entirely with only the bottom row of the keyboard?
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Why not simply magnetize the dead satellite or include a small permanent magnet? This would create a magnetic sail. The magnetic field around the satellite would slowly trap plasma from the trace of gases and ions in earth orbit, as well as anything leaking from the sat itself. This would inflate the magnetic field lines and expand a kind of mini magnetosphere around the satellite. This would create drag against the earths magnetic field, and outer atmosphere.
Common permanent magnets can be much stronger than needed for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/magnetic_sail
The internet is full of viruses, hackers, porn, movie pirates funding al queda, terrorists and sexual predators. A day doesn't go by with the mainstream media spreading these fearmongering stories.
Why do they do this? Because their business depends on it.
Ask anyone who gets their opinion of things from the 6pm news about the internet and they'll tell you what they've been told to say.
Fair use is worth $ Trillions in the US alone. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/fairuse-economy/ An independant, peer-reviewed study.
Oh wait... finally. I get it now. Copyright trolls want a slice of that untapped uncontroleld trillion dollar economy.
I'm not going to RTFA, or all your comments. I just read the headline and posted this. Any redundancy is intentionally accidental.
This is a big solar storm, so it's more like Gokkun.
What the rich buy new now, is what the middle class buy used 3-10 years down the lifetime of the vehicle. The lower income brackets almost exclusively buy used cars than some richer person once owned.
Depending on the country the majority of car sales are used car sales, and the average age of the vehicle fleet is 5-10 years.
The cheap $4000 car I own some upper-middle class idiot paid full price for in 1998. So naturally I get a car tailored to a different customer with a whole lot of fancy features I don't need (thirsty V6, climate control, fancy dials, electric this and that) I'd rather just save the money, weight and fuss. Ironically I could almost afford to buy a upper-mid price sedan now, but I would get the same fuel economy as my old one, but more power, an iPod dock and uh... um...
I spot a problem if gas prices rise too much over the next decade.
This basically means the article is a fallacy. The rich need to be voractious early adopters right now to provide the masses cheap electric and hybrid cars over the next decade.
A mouse doesn't really make sense
A mouse actually makes a lot of sense. Multi-touch is cute, but it's really a gimmick, people will see this when they get over the 'Ooh' effect seeing the browser zooming or album flip thing. Typing anything of length on a touch screen is painful, you really require an external keyboard. Swiping to scroll/zoom is cool when you show it off to your friends (I enjoying the short-lived attention). I find myself wishing I had a mouse quite often and sometimes I'd sell my left nut for a scroll wheel or home or end key.
... that and having a mouse button configured as a browser 'back' function will change your life more than touchscreens ever did.
A yes the mouse, we don't realize how much we actually love them until you actually need one to get work done. It is a wondrously accurate and intuitive input device that has never been replaced. You can select down to one pixel, it scales small movements to larger ones. You have multiple buttons, scroll wheels (do you remember how you ever lived without a scroll wheel?)
All these things a stylus or your fat fingers struggle to emulate.
Microsoft are going to make a tablet? About fucking time. I want to take notes on it with a stylus, not wave my fingers over the screen going 'oooo, I can make pictures big'. I want to be able stuff a USB stick in the side of it and put directories of data on it, not sync it to a fucking iTunes program running on an entirely separate computer (because, amongst other things, my Gentoo box really loves running iTunes). The iPad is pricey, pre-licked candy. Until someone else opens a sweetshop and starts selling their own candy, the only way you're getting any is with Steve Job's drool over it. Bring on the rivals, I say.
Too fucking right and better yet: it's x86 ... you can wipe it and install Linux.
There are no links in your post so I will mod you down.
Right. It gets worse, it's completely possible to hide malicious code in plain sight http://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=2. I doubt Apple analyze every single line of code, let alone rigorously review and test applications for malicious behavior. It's simply not logistically possible. I would go so far as to say they cannot actually test for malicious code or exploitable flaws on any reasonable level, that one has little grounds for excuse in assuming any iPhone app is 'safe' because it gets Apples stamp of approval.
If anything the walled garden vetting process is dangerous, it gives an enormous false sense of security to users, especially if it promises protection that is not only unfeasible but it demonstrably cannot give.
Give me the open source + Android security model any day. So far it's pretty good, and it will see honest attempts to improve rather than Apples denial and lies machine.
You mean they'd have to wait for approval by the App Store? An interesting proposal!
Bah, It'll never work. You'll never get developers for your App Store if you do that. Developers put their principals and professionalism first before money.
and write your own compiler.
Your compiler can't compile itself!
Personally I prefer to tap the bits into the hard drive platter with a magnetized sewing needle, that way I know it's safe... oh wait... what about the HDD's firmware?
Perfectly possible. Solar wind is a stream of charged particles. You could easily get 'traction' against this by accelerating this medium as you pass through it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail - but to go down wind faster than the solar wind (600km/s), you would need an external energy source such as solar panels, and a way to accelerate the interplanetary medium.
In short your magnetic sail could also double as a kind of ion engine. An arrangement of electrically charged hoops would accelerate the stellar medium. By this reasoning you could also extract and store energy from the solar wind, then use this energy for thrust once your sail passes equilibrium with the solar wind.
Charging the suckers for one thing...
If you think a few windmills can screw up the electrical grid, imagine a couple of hundred thousand electric cars hopping on the grid to charge...
I sure as hell wouldnt want to be in charge of the grid *cringe* even with timed charging functionality in the cars.
Not that it is a problem yet.. most households lack the fusing to allow such large loads.. not something I expect to change fast as it requires a lot of expensive upgrades
Electric cars will draw current like turning on an oven, a heater, a air conditioner. It will be highly uneventful if the grid has the capactiy.
Unfortunately it's not impossible, and the cost carried over to the consumer would be negligible. Storage is cheap these days. ~$0.07 per GB and falling and if you just want to make a one time copy and dump it in a store room then the other overheads are small since it won't be 'hot' storage in a server somewhere. The cost of logging the entirety of my average monthly internet usage (average 20gb) is about $2 per month which represents the one time cost of the storage media, HDD tape etc.
But what is the point in logging encrypted (ie https) traffic? Do the policy makers even know such things exist? This will only cause more websites to switch to encryption.
I'm confused how do you counterfeit open source software?
Android is open source. Are they going to change a few headers and recompile?
Green Dam kernel module?
Google reported they sold 100,000 of these phones in three months, which was their break even mark which was easily passed. That's impressive for any new phone release, and for one without any marketing/advertising program that's incredible.
It was, of course, an experiment in a alternate sales method, a very clever one indeed. Google is not out of pocket in the excercise and now has meaningful real-world data to use.
What's even better for them is the method appears to have failed, at least if their competitors are as stupid as bloggers, they won't try it themselves. So unless the definition of failure has been updated to anything that doesn't dethrone the iPhone then the Nexus One is a kick ass bit of kit that's done very well.
I would not be suprised if Google tries again, but this time with a full-on hype machine, now that they've shown this kind of thing to work. Why yes, I'll be sure to link back to this post in a suitably haughty fashion declaring I predicted this before.
BP released the full version of the image they admit was shopped for style. Some claim this image is not of the 'HIVE' response center either and was taken in 2001. This version of the image shows indications on the monitors photographs that it was taken on 16/07/10. (See middle screen above white screen).
... now this 20 megapixel camera wasn't out until 2008, and certainly wasn't around in 2001.
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/images/HIVE_houston01.jpg
The clues are in the image metadata:
Title: HIVE at Houston Command Center 16 July 2010
Authors: Marc Morrison
Date Taken: 06/03/2001 3:16 p.m.
Program Name: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
OMG Fake? No... it also shows it was taken with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
What is unexplained in this the large monitors in this shot are the window titles showing 'Microsoft Excel' but perhaps these are some custom Excel based application that BP uses to display the ROV video feeds.
So frankly I find this whole event uninteresting. Someone didn't set the date stamp in a camera or a system somewhere along the way.
This is not a isolated incident however, so why is BP photoshopping so many images and doing such a amateurish job of it? (Ok maybe that latter part needs no explanation).