Okay here's the thing. If we have to worry about malfunctioning (malicious or buggy) computers shutting down or disrupting the internet, then the internet is already broken.
Does anyone remember that the Internet was a network designed to continue to operate after a nuclear war? We should not have to worry about this stuff. This is a problem for network architects, not the server admins.
If my server get's hacked then that should and must remain only my problem. Don't tell me the obvious, and don't shift responsibilities. These challenges can only be solved with distribution of resources and by maintaining excess capacity.
It must be taken as a given that a network like the internet will have bad actors whose malicious actions it must be able to absorb until the problem is corrected or blocked.
" my belief is that it should be required that end users have staff/contractors that are certified on their stuff *and* that hey maintain a maintenance log that documents actions or lack of them"
Gee... What about if I have to move away? As an end user, what will my mom do then? I guess under your plan she will just have to stop using the internet or be thrown in jail. Maybe you should be nicer to my mom.
Come on folks! Remember that the internet and servers aren't tied directly to our nervous system (in most cases). When an internet connected computer goes down or is hacked we are talking about economic disruption at worst, but usually it is no more than an annoyance.
I went 2 years without printing at home. Eventually something will come along that requires a pen signature, but you could always go down to kinkos when that happens. Otherwise, if the printer companies want to charge stupid amounts of money for a trivial product, then just don't buy. Or at least buy printers from companies that aren't afraid to compete in an open market.
emagin is alrady making micro oled displays for gaming and other applications.
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If the astronauts are prepared to take that risk then I don't think some crazy belief that this should be 100%, absolutely, perfectly, flawlessly safe should get in the way.
100% safe would be unreasonable, but so is 2% fatal.
If this was a mission to mars or the moon a 2% risk of failure might be worth that risk. But can you honestly say what important science is being done up there? Mostly it seems to be life sciences about the effects of zero g. Which we already know is really bad for people and is no way for people to travel around in space for extended periods.
The US space program should choose a loftier goal worthy of it's budget or stop wasting money and lives.
Who really cares about these awards besides Hollywood? Awards are a dime a dozen... if you don't like how they award these things just make another award.
As a paying customer I don't care who is the best actor, really it is the best performance or, more so, the best character that would be more relevant to me. What do I care if the person was really acting well or not or if it was even really a person? I just want to be entertained with a good performance, like when Anthony Hopkins portrays Nixon and I forget that it is Anthony Hopkins...that is great acting, but what do I care if it is really Anthony Hopkins or some computer generation?
Leave Hollywood alone to decide who gets their awards.
Agreed. Yes, people depend on them, but how easy would it to duplicate what they have if they suddenly become evil. Pretty darn easy, especially as computers get faster. The real danger when using products or service from a monopoly are the barriers to entry for competitors for a time when that company becomes corrupt, as many do.
Take for instance ball bearings... everyone's favorite WWII military strategy. Supposedly they are at the heart of a mechanized society, just as information organization is at the heart of a information age society. But it is a relatively simple thing to produce... so even though you might just as well buy your ball bearings from the #1 company with 90% market share, you can be certain that when that company becomes badly run and can't deliver on time or tries to charge more money than it's relative worth, that some other company will be able to take up the slack.
So, I'm certain that if google goes down the path the other search engines went, we will see the same rapid shift that we saw before, but towards some new company. Heck the basic hardware and software requirements would be under a million dollars, you could probably set up something bare bones, but still effective for under $50,000. The basic search algorithms are well known and you could probably store search data on most of the major sites for well under a terabyte.
Nobody should worry. Just be vigilant, considering that we've all seen the demise of countless search engines under the weight of their own overzealous greed.
Gee wiz.. After about ten or twenty years of the regulation of internet voice communications,I bet we will get touchtone. Then they can start making it backwards compatible with rotary phones. Soon after that we will truly have a system of telecommunications that will be suitable for the masses.
"The charge will encourage people to use public transportation."
"ecourage?" Fucking Mafia "encourages" people to use their protection services, this is just highway robbery.
Why not just eliminate the roads or not allow cars on the roads at all... that would eliminate the traffic problems and seems far more equitable than charging people for the fair use of a public way.
"The basic problem that all these companies have is that Moore's Law eventually changes every business into a low end commodity business."
That seems to be true of every manufacturing industry, once the technology stops advancing high margins go away. Only those moving forward fast enough reap the highest rewards... it is a good thing for everyone (except for the slow and stupid that think they are entitled to riches).
"When you file a patent you enter a negotiation with the patent office. You start by claiming the sun, moon and stars (i.e. claim 1 which you quoted). Usually you end up with considerably more narrow coverage. Sometimes you end up with nothing (no patent)."
They should end up with nothing.
Seems like each and every part of the system that they are claiming as an invention has prior art unless they contrue the application very very narrowly. More so it is the way they've put together the whole thing that they are claiming is novel. But then they are claiming back all the parts of the system as their invention which is the only real reason to patent the thing. They really just want to make sure they have the power to license or eliminate compatible products.
If I put a 5th wheel on a car and drive it backwards while singing dixie... doesn't mean I've invented something. Just a desperate cry for love and attention maybe.
Who is going to fund studies into remedies that can't be patented? Isn't the medical industry biased towards expensive cures rather than those easy fixes that might bring greater benefit at least cost. I think the skepticism of the drug company's motive is warranted.
What if eating carrots and tomatoes every other Tuesday cured cancer? Do you think the drug companies would be rushing out the door to secure the funding for that study?
The analogy to the universe is important. The whole approach to physical sciences has been to simplify the rules (analogous to the lines of code) to as simple equations as possible. So the universe can be described with just a few equations with the rest just being data.
I think Jaron is onto something, but his conclusions are off. I think current methodologies are just where we need to go. Keep the code as simple (small) as possible and put the data in some database or something.
Just think of Microsoft... our favorite whipping Mega Corp... when separate groups work on millions of lines of code and try to piece it all together then the result is not always ideal. But when the goal is simple code and simple protocols then we get better software.
In effect The court has held that it is within Congress' power to determine the length of Copyright, even for existing works. So copyright isn't something that can be grandfathered unless Congress says so.
This is great! That means that these copyright extensions can be repealed without consideration of existing works. So, when we get around to making copyright reasonable again, say 20 or 30 years, then the legal challenge from publishers won't be able to argue anything about fairness.
yea... If I read this correctly it seems someone calculated that gravity travels/propogates at.95c and now people are conclude that it is just the same as 1.0c so this verifying one of the tenets of general relativity? What the hell is wrong with people??? This should not be a compelling conclusion to anyone with.95 of a brain. The.05c is a big enough difference with a.25 margin of error that they should acknowledge the result as having too large a margin of error to make any solid conclusions.
So, what if the result is more accurate than the experimenters are giving themselves credit for and gravity is about.05c slower than light? That would be big.
This point should be repeated until there is no doubt, The Bill of Rights in the constitution was not a granting of rights, but rather a recocgition of them. Dumb Socialist teachers seemed to have brainwashed generations of children to believe that the Bill or Rights is a list of rights that the government is to protect. This is not correct. The Bill of Rights is a statement of rights held by people that the governments of the United States may not interfere with.
To anyone who thinks this is an unimportant distinction, well before I suggest you move to China, I suggest you read the so called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" here and marvel at its impotence. This is because it has an inherent flaw. It dictates the actions of others and not itself. The US constitution recocgnizes that the greatest power one has is over one's own actions and doesn't try to dictate things that it has no power to control, but rather constrains the scope of its own authority.
The US government cannot for instance force me to let you in to my home to talk to me just because you have a right to speech. I would burn down my home first. But the government can pledge to respect your right and not keep you from public places so you can say what you wish.
Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's, for the rest is not his.
That is what is so powerful about the Bill of Rights and so weak about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Bill of Rights says "Congress shall make no law..." The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that it is a "common standard of achievement" for others to try to achieve and goes on to list many rights without saying what the governments of the world are to do or more importantly, what they are not to do.
So when people tell you that the Bill of Rights is a list of people's rights that are protected, ask them, from whom or from what are we being protected.
the $10/month is the service charge... then there is the $5/dollar per month universal service charge which will certainly be upped to $7 or $30/month by government mandate to "soften the blow" of all the secondary regulations that will be imposed after this supposed deregulation, then there will be taxes and other fees that go directly back to the corporations or to a fund a Senator's pet projects.
What costs $10/month these days? I'm sure we will get what we deserve in service. Does anyone trust ATT, AOL or Disney to give it to us?
No where did it say that terrorism was the way we should measure whether a country's population "hates" us. Besides, Don't Mexicans hate us or at least resent the US a bit? Doesn't anyone remember the Mexican American War? I think that the Mexicans do.
Come on, if Britain were in an economic, military and socially superior position to the US, then I think Americans would remember that they burned down the Whitehouse a bit more biterly. Well, the important part of this is that the US is no longer the land of opportunity (plentiful land and natural resources) that it once was and immigration policies should reflect that.
This is good because it is a consolidation move towards a common open source desktop for the unixes. This is good for gnome since it will increase its circulation and give it greater visibility.
I think it all boils down to being able to tell people when you install/sell systems which run gnome that it is the same desktop that comes with Sun Workstations.
With increased usage it will see greater improvements and more applications written for it. Which will hasten its adoption by greater numbers of people and so on. This is a good step on the road to wider adoption.
They asked me for my social security number once when I was buying some batteries... with cash! I actually started telling him the number as if on some dumbfounded autopilot, then I became very annoyed.
I might actually shop there again if they stop asking stupid questions... better yet if they actually start selling useful quality stuff I would be impressed
"seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours. A million people do *that* and I bet they'd stop filling our mailboxes with the landfill of tomorrow"
Last time I used there free hours I spent 45 minutes on hold trying to cancel the service. And then they called me early on a Saturday Morning a week later asking if I missed AOL and wanted to come back.
My advice, just use the damn disks turned upside down as shiny coasters and ignore AOL, it will eventually go away.
"In the laboratory, a 10m range for the system has been confirmed, but NTT is expecting to try and extend the range to 100m."
10 meters would limit its usefulness, but 100 meters would make this very useful. Hopefully, this has a useful range.
Could someone answer the question about how easily this frequency would pass through common substances, like walls?
Also, there was no mention of weather they would seek to license their technology to make this widely available or just make this a very expensive specialized niche product.
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Okay here's the thing. If we have to worry about malfunctioning (malicious or buggy) computers shutting down or disrupting the internet, then the internet is already broken.
Does anyone remember that the Internet was a network designed to continue to operate after a nuclear war? We should not have to worry about this stuff. This is a problem for network architects, not the server admins.
If my server get's hacked then that should and must remain only my problem. Don't tell me the obvious, and don't shift responsibilities. These challenges can only be solved with distribution of resources and by maintaining excess capacity.
It must be taken as a given that a network like the internet will have bad actors whose malicious actions it must be able to absorb until the problem is corrected or blocked.
" my belief is that it should be required that end users have staff/contractors that are certified on their stuff *and* that hey maintain a maintenance log that documents actions or lack of them"
Gee... What about if I have to move away? As an end user, what will my mom do then? I guess under your plan she will just have to stop using the internet or be thrown in jail. Maybe you should be nicer to my mom.
Come on folks! Remember that the internet and servers aren't tied directly to our nervous system (in most cases). When an internet connected computer goes down or is hacked we are talking about economic disruption at worst, but usually it is no more than an annoyance.
I went 2 years without printing at home. Eventually something will come along that requires a pen signature, but you could always go down to kinkos when that happens. Otherwise, if the printer companies want to charge stupid amounts of money for a trivial product, then just don't buy. Or at least buy printers from companies that aren't afraid to compete in an open market.
emagin is alrady making micro oled displays for gaming and other applications.
If the astronauts are prepared to take that risk then I don't think some crazy belief that this should be 100%, absolutely, perfectly, flawlessly safe should get in the way.
100% safe would be unreasonable, but so is 2% fatal.
If this was a mission to mars or the moon a 2% risk of failure might be worth that risk. But can you honestly say what important science is being done up there? Mostly it seems to be life sciences about the effects of zero g. Which we already know is really bad for people and is no way for people to travel around in space for extended periods.
The US space program should choose a loftier goal worthy of it's budget or stop wasting money and lives.
Who really cares about these awards besides Hollywood? Awards are a dime a dozen... if you don't like how they award these things just make another award.
As a paying customer I don't care who is the best actor, really it is the best performance or, more so, the best character that would be more relevant to me. What do I care if the person was really acting well or not or if it was even really a person? I just want to be entertained with a good performance, like when Anthony Hopkins portrays Nixon and I forget that it is Anthony Hopkins...that is great acting, but what do I care if it is really Anthony Hopkins or some computer generation?
Leave Hollywood alone to decide who gets their awards.
Agreed. Yes, people depend on them, but how easy would it to duplicate what they have if they suddenly become evil. Pretty darn easy, especially as computers get faster. The real danger when using products or service from a monopoly are the barriers to entry for competitors for a time when that company becomes corrupt, as many do.
Take for instance ball bearings... everyone's favorite WWII military strategy. Supposedly they are at the heart of a mechanized society, just as information organization is at the heart of a information age society. But it is a relatively simple thing to produce... so even though you might just as well buy your ball bearings from the #1 company with 90% market share, you can be certain that when that company becomes badly run and can't deliver on time or tries to charge more money than it's relative worth, that some other company will be able to take up the slack.
So, I'm certain that if google goes down the path the other search engines went, we will see the same rapid shift that we saw before, but towards some new company. Heck the basic hardware and software requirements would be under a million dollars, you could probably set up something bare bones, but still effective for under $50,000. The basic search algorithms are well known and you could probably store search data on most of the major sites for well under a terabyte.
Nobody should worry. Just be vigilant, considering that we've all seen the demise of countless search engines under the weight of their own overzealous greed.
Gee wiz.. After about ten or twenty years of the regulation of internet voice communications,I bet we will get touchtone. Then they can start making it backwards compatible with rotary phones. Soon after that we will truly have a system of telecommunications that will be suitable for the masses.
"The charge will encourage people to use public transportation."
"ecourage?" Fucking Mafia "encourages" people to use their protection services, this is just highway robbery.
Why not just eliminate the roads or not allow cars on the roads at all... that would eliminate the traffic problems and seems far more equitable than charging people for the fair use of a public way.
"The basic problem that all these companies have is that Moore's Law eventually changes every business into a low end commodity business."
That seems to be true of every manufacturing industry, once the technology stops advancing high margins go away. Only those moving forward fast enough reap the highest rewards... it is a good thing for everyone (except for the slow and stupid that think they are entitled to riches).
"When you file a patent you enter a negotiation with the patent office. You start by claiming the sun, moon and stars (i.e. claim 1 which you quoted). Usually you end up with considerably more narrow coverage. Sometimes you end up with nothing (no patent)."
... doesn't mean I've invented something. Just a desperate cry for love and attention maybe.
They should end up with nothing.
Seems like each and every part of the system that they are claiming as an invention has prior art unless they contrue the application very very narrowly. More so it is the way they've put together the whole thing that they are claiming is novel. But then they are claiming back all the parts of the system as their invention which is the only real reason to patent the thing. They really just want to make sure they have the power to license or eliminate compatible products.
If I put a 5th wheel on a car and drive it backwards while singing dixie
"Ever wondered where the source of the universe-program is stored?"
nope
or think of it this way...
Who is going to fund studies into remedies that can't be patented? Isn't the medical industry biased towards expensive cures rather than those easy fixes that might bring greater benefit at least cost. I think the skepticism of the drug company's motive is warranted.
What if eating carrots and tomatoes every other Tuesday cured cancer? Do you think the drug companies would be rushing out the door to secure the funding for that study?
The analogy to the universe is important. The whole approach to physical sciences has been to simplify the rules (analogous to the lines of code) to as simple equations as possible. So the universe can be described with just a few equations with the rest just being data.
I think Jaron is onto something, but his conclusions are off. I think current methodologies are just where we need to go. Keep the code as simple (small) as possible and put the data in some database or something.
Just think of Microsoft... our favorite whipping Mega Corp... when separate groups work on millions of lines of code and try to piece it all together then the result is not always ideal. But when the goal is simple code and simple protocols then we get better software.
In effect The court has held that it is within Congress' power to determine the length of Copyright, even for existing works. So copyright isn't something that can be grandfathered unless Congress says so.
This is great! That means that these copyright extensions can be repealed without consideration of existing works. So, when we get around to making copyright reasonable again, say 20 or 30 years, then the legal challenge from publishers won't be able to argue anything about fairness.
yea... If I read this correctly it seems someone calculated that gravity travels/propogates at .95c and now people are conclude that it is just the same as 1.0c so this verifying one of the tenets of general relativity? What the hell is wrong with people??? This should not be a compelling conclusion to anyone with .95 of a brain. The .05c is a big enough difference with a .25 margin of error that they should acknowledge the result as having too large a margin of error to make any solid conclusions.
.05c slower than light? That would be big.
So, what if the result is more accurate than the experimenters are giving themselves credit for and gravity is about
Thank you.
..." The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that it is a "common standard of achievement" for others to try to achieve and goes on to list many rights without saying what the governments of the world are to do or more importantly, what they are not to do.
This point should be repeated until there is no doubt, The Bill of Rights in the constitution was not a granting of rights, but rather a recocgition of them. Dumb Socialist teachers seemed to have brainwashed generations of children to believe that the Bill or Rights is a list of rights that the government is to protect. This is not correct. The Bill of Rights is a statement of rights held by people that the governments of the United States may not interfere with.
To anyone who thinks this is an unimportant distinction, well before I suggest you move to China, I suggest you read the so called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" here and marvel at its impotence. This is because it has an inherent flaw. It dictates the actions of others and not itself. The US constitution recocgnizes that the greatest power one has is over one's own actions and doesn't try to dictate things that it has no power to control, but rather constrains the scope of its own authority.
The US government cannot for instance force me to let you in to my home to talk to me just because you have a right to speech. I would burn down my home first. But the government can pledge to respect your right and not keep you from public places so you can say what you wish.
Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's, for the rest is not his.
That is what is so powerful about the Bill of Rights and so weak about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Bill of Rights says "Congress shall make no law
So when people tell you that the Bill of Rights is a list of people's rights that are protected, ask them, from whom or from what are we being protected.
the $10/month is the service charge... then there is the $5/dollar per month universal service charge which will certainly be upped to $7 or $30/month by government mandate to "soften the blow" of all the secondary regulations that will be imposed after this supposed deregulation, then there will be taxes and other fees that go directly back to the corporations or to a fund a Senator's pet projects.
What costs $10/month these days? I'm sure we will get what we deserve in service. Does anyone trust ATT, AOL or Disney to give it to us?
Hmmm... libel laws where never meant to apply to corporations. At least my understanding is that libel laws precede the invention of the corporation.
No where did it say that terrorism was the way we should measure whether a country's population "hates" us. Besides, Don't Mexicans hate us or at least resent the US a bit? Doesn't anyone remember the Mexican American War? I think that the Mexicans do.
Come on, if Britain were in an economic, military and socially superior position to the US, then I think Americans would remember that they burned down the Whitehouse a bit more biterly. Well, the important part of this is that the US is no longer the land of opportunity (plentiful land and natural resources) that it once was and immigration policies should reflect that.
yes, woohoo.
This is good because it is a consolidation move towards a common open source desktop for the unixes. This is good for gnome since it will increase its circulation and give it greater visibility.
I think it all boils down to being able to tell people when you install/sell systems which run gnome that it is the same desktop that comes with Sun Workstations.
With increased usage it will see greater improvements and more applications written for it. Which will hasten its adoption by greater numbers of people and so on. This is a good step on the road to wider adoption.
They asked me for my social security number once when I was buying some batteries... with cash! I actually started telling him the number as if on some dumbfounded autopilot, then I became very annoyed.
I might actually shop there again if they stop asking stupid questions... better yet if they actually start selling useful quality stuff I would be impressed
"seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours. A million people do *that* and I bet they'd stop filling our mailboxes with the landfill of tomorrow"
Last time I used there free hours I spent 45 minutes on hold trying to cancel the service. And then they called me early on a Saturday Morning a week later asking if I missed AOL and wanted to come back.
My advice, just use the damn disks turned upside down as shiny coasters and ignore AOL, it will eventually go away.
"In the laboratory, a 10m range for the system has been confirmed, but NTT is expecting to try and extend the range to 100m."
10 meters would limit its usefulness, but 100 meters would make this very useful. Hopefully, this has a useful range.
Could someone answer the question about how easily this frequency would pass through common substances, like walls?
Also, there was no mention of weather they would seek to license their technology to make this widely available or just make this a very expensive specialized niche product.
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