The Coanda Effect will work great when the airflow is all downward, over the shell. I'm guessing the this craft will not perform very well in high crosswinds. Or even low crosswinds.
The lack of pitch control says to me that this devices is not meant to go very fast. Probably it is only meant to go up and down, and maybe crab a little sideways.
It think that it will be a great aerial photo platform, as it seems to be designed, but I don't see this scaling into anything larger very easily.
The problem as I see it is that ISPs don't want to be responsible for net security.
An ISP could detect bot IRC traffic and notify a customer who is originating bot commands. It's not that hard. All these bots use IRC. The IRC traffic is sent in plain text using well known commands. Even the most of the channel names are well known. Every ISP knows the email address (and billing details) associated with every active IP address on their network. It's basic logging.
But if an ISP were to "offer this service" of bot detection, it would give the expectation that ISPs are responsible for network security. ISPs do not want to be responsible for network security. They don't even want to be perceived as being responsible for network security. There is no money in it for them. Even though every ISP has a AUP (acceptable use policy), there is little incentive for them to spend any money or effort (same thing) to enforce it.
Responsibility - Authority - Money : You can only have one, which one would you want?
our legal system can hardly get more crippled
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Let's examine this:
- it's for sale to large corporations (see RIAA, MPAA, DCMA, etc.) - there is no punishment to abusing the system (see SCO v IBM) - the concept of "prior art" and "obvious" has disappeared (see overbroad patents lawsuits) - add your own...
I got nothing out lectures when I took notes. I was too busy taking notes to pay attention to the material. If I reviewed the notes later, maybe they would make sense. Often, they made no sense. I found that I probably only just re-created the lecture outline being used by the lecturer.
You experience of getting absolutely nothing out of lectures by sitting there and listening to the speaker is the opposite of my experience. Of course, it depends on the lecturer, but I could forgo all book reading and taking notes for many classes if I just listened, and listened to the point of understanding, to the lecture. If I understood the lecture, I learned the material.
Make them share the posts/e-mail/network traffic with The House Un-American Activities Committee ^H^H^H^H The Department of HomeLand Security! There could be communist ^H^H^H^H terrorist posting - sending e-mail - using the networks...
The reason that many elderly lack ID cards is because the state issued ID cards that they have are expired. Expired ID cards are not accepted as identification.
If you live at the same address, are the same height, same gender, and eye color - why do you need a new ID card?
Why the heck ID cards expire is a good question. Anyone have an answer? I always wondered why. Change of appearance is a poor reason. I could grow a beard and dye my hair the day after getting an ID card. Is it because they are worried that people might age poorly? Gain too much weight? Change genders?
Yes, chargebacks can be a problem. But your other points are not unversial. For me, there is little need to keep the credit card information once the transaction has been completed. The only piece of info that I store is the Transaction ID. I never store the Authorization number. Once the transaction is auth'ed, there is no point.
Refunds don't have to be made the the same credit card. But if I wanted to enforce that as a policy, I could go back to my processor (VeriSign) and lookup the the credit card number using the Transaction ID.
All it takes to create a new segmentor is for an integrator to get laid off (maybe a couple of times).
Have your ever seem an integrator after a layoff? They have a complete mental breakdown. I'm serious! That really teaches integrators about identifying themselves through their workplace.
Someday Google will have layoffs. It happened to every other "Excellent" company 20 years ago (just look at where the "In search of Excellence" companies are now, or the "Good to Great" companies.
All those Google integrators are going to be severely depressed after their layoff.
It takes nothing to talk to a staffer. And anything a staffer sends out is still on congressional letterhead.
True, if you are having trouble with your VA benefits, you probably aren't going to get the attention of the big guy. But a letter relating to an FBI matter will get some attention.
Every congressional office has a large staff for constitute services. While you might be clueless, a lot of people use those services. The staffers don't necessarily know who's a contributor and who's not. But they do know that if they foul up too badly the cost might be a negative story in the hometown newspaper. So be nice to them.
There are people who help citizens with governmental problems: they are call congressmen (and women).
They are YOUR representatives. If you ever receive a federal letter that makes strange demands of you, like this one, your first phone call should be to the office of you congressman. I can attest that congressmen do get involved on behalf of the citizens they represent in matters of federal government.
It makes a whole hell of a lot of difference when responding to one of those demand letters when it comes back to them on congressional letterhead.
As long as one follows the guidelines of the corporation (which are presumed to be legal), a person in a corporation has no personal liability. So don't expect corporate folks to act like anybody cares about personal responsibility.
A corporation is not a place for "people to stand up for what they believe in". Their duty is to the stockholders!
If they really want to make the RIAA go away, they need a better data retention policy.
A month is way to too to keep IP address (I assume DHCP) records.
At an ISP where I used to work, we kept RADIUS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS ) logs far too long too. I think it was realized that a data retention policy was needed when the RIAA started sending their lawyer letters (that was back in 2001).
In most cases, the logs are only need for a few hours. In rare cases maybe a day or two. Longer than that, the only reasons are not related to network or system administration. If your security is so poor that you need IP address logs from a month ago to see who was on what server, you have serious security problems.
If I ran an ISP (or a university network), I would retain the logs for one day. And maybe I would not retain full logs at all, for any length of time, if they became a liability.
"most people don't want to wipe their data out..."
Are you aware that paper shredders are very common in a business setting. For the same reason, business users, very much do want to wipe their data out. Forever - with no copies or hidden backups.
I can cite many cases (Google them yourself) of business data falling into the wrong hands because of the "undelete" or "unformat" commands that make "file > delete" in Windows a joke.
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Headline should read:
"SCO Chairman Discovers Naked Young Boys On The Internet!"
Along with several Utah politicians, and their "assistants", he'll be studying this further....
Good luck finding a home computer that will host that cookie for 30 years.
How are they going to get people to read all the way to the end of a domain name?
Subdomain names make a joke out of this idea of a ".safe" TLD.
The Coanda Effect will work great when the airflow is all downward, over the shell. I'm guessing the this craft will not perform very well in high crosswinds. Or even low crosswinds.
The lack of pitch control says to me that this devices is not meant to go very fast. Probably it is only meant to go up and down, and maybe crab a little sideways.
It think that it will be a great aerial photo platform, as it seems to be designed, but I don't see this scaling into anything larger very easily.
The problem as I see it is that ISPs don't want to be responsible for net security.
An ISP could detect bot IRC traffic and notify a customer who is originating bot commands. It's not that hard. All these bots use IRC. The IRC traffic is sent in plain text using well known commands. Even the most of the channel names are well known. Every ISP knows the email address (and billing details) associated with every active IP address on their network. It's basic logging.
But if an ISP were to "offer this service" of bot detection, it would give the expectation that ISPs are responsible for network security. ISPs do not want to be responsible for network security. They don't even want to be perceived as being responsible for network security. There is no money in it for them. Even though every ISP has a AUP (acceptable use policy), there is little incentive for them to spend any money or effort (same thing) to enforce it.
Responsibility - Authority - Money : You can only have one, which one would you want?
Let's examine this:
- it's for sale to large corporations (see RIAA, MPAA, DCMA, etc.)
- there is no punishment to abusing the system (see SCO v IBM)
- the concept of "prior art" and "obvious" has disappeared (see overbroad patents lawsuits)
- add your own...
Yes, I'm a cynic.
BSF (SCO's legal team) would just brag about losing a SLAPP in their marketing literature.
I got nothing out lectures when I took notes. I was too busy taking notes to pay attention to the material. If I reviewed the notes later, maybe they would make sense. Often, they made no sense. I found that I probably only just re-created the lecture outline being used by the lecturer.
You experience of getting absolutely nothing out of lectures by sitting there and listening to the speaker is the opposite of my experience. Of course, it depends on the lecturer, but I could forgo all book reading and taking notes for many classes if I just listened, and listened to the point of understanding, to the lecture. If I understood the lecture, I learned the material.
Your mileage my vary.
This is slashdot...
Isn't anyone going to ask if Nicole is hot?
What collection of features constitutes "Vista"? Only a full install with every option/feature?
At what point does the removal of features from Vista, is the software no longer "Vista".
I think that Microsoft will win this one because the computer industry has long accepted crippleware.
Crippleware (noun) - the removal the essential features while still claiming it to be a viable product.
Or read the Wiki version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware
Why stop at suing them?
Make them share the posts/e-mail/network traffic with The House Un-American Activities Committee ^H^H^H^H The Department of HomeLand Security! There could be communist ^H^H^H^H terrorist posting - sending e-mail - using the networks...
The reason that many elderly lack ID cards is because the state issued ID cards that they have are expired. Expired ID cards are not accepted as identification.
If you live at the same address, are the same height, same gender, and eye color - why do you need a new ID card?
Why the heck ID cards expire is a good question. Anyone have an answer? I always wondered why. Change of appearance is a poor reason. I could grow a beard and dye my hair the day after getting an ID card. Is it because they are worried that people might age poorly? Gain too much weight? Change genders?
Yes, chargebacks can be a problem. But your other points are not unversial. For me, there is little need to keep the credit card information once the transaction has been completed. The only piece of info that I store is the Transaction ID. I never store the Authorization number. Once the transaction is auth'ed, there is no point.
Refunds don't have to be made the the same credit card. But if I wanted to enforce that as a policy, I could go back to my processor (VeriSign) and lookup the the credit card number using the Transaction ID.
Your mileage may vary. But that is my experience.
If some AMA approved hack kills you, your family should visit an ABA approved lawyer.
I know which monopoly is winning today.
" suppliers today *could* collude to aggressively ... But they don't, because it would drive business into the arms of suppliers who don't."
BS - ever hear of diamonds?
There are always ways to corner a market - if the government allows it.
All it takes to create a new segmentor is for an integrator to get laid off (maybe a couple of times).
Have your ever seem an integrator after a layoff? They have a complete mental breakdown. I'm serious! That really teaches integrators about identifying themselves through their workplace.
Someday Google will have layoffs. It happened to every other "Excellent" company 20 years ago (just look at where the "In search of Excellence" companies are now, or the "Good to Great" companies.
All those Google integrators are going to be severely depressed after their layoff.
It takes nothing to talk to a staffer. And anything a staffer sends out is still on congressional letterhead.
True, if you are having trouble with your VA benefits, you probably aren't going to get the attention of the big guy. But a letter relating to an FBI matter will get some attention.
Every congressional office has a large staff for constitute services. While you might be clueless, a lot of people use those services. The staffers don't necessarily know who's a contributor and who's not. But they do know that if they foul up too badly the cost might be a negative story in the hometown newspaper. So be nice to them.
There are people who help citizens with governmental problems: they are call congressmen (and women).
They are YOUR representatives. If you ever receive a federal letter that makes strange demands of you, like this one, your first phone call should be to the office of you congressman. I can attest that congressmen do get involved on behalf of the citizens they represent in matters of federal government.
It makes a whole hell of a lot of difference when responding to one of those demand letters when it comes back to them on congressional letterhead.
As long as one follows the guidelines of the corporation (which are presumed to be legal), a person in a corporation has no personal liability. So don't expect corporate folks to act like anybody cares about personal responsibility.
A corporation is not a place for "people to stand up for what they believe in". Their duty is to the stockholders!
There are far better ways of addressing SMTP (spam) abuse than by relying on IP address log retention.
It goes back to my comment on "poor security" as an excuse to retain logs.
The rules are not evenly applied.
It really depends on the judge. In the SCO v IBM case, BSF, has flouted many court orders without any punishment what so ever.
Yes, stand up for something...
The tallest blade of grass is the first to get cut.
If they really want to make the RIAA go away, they need a better data retention policy.
A month is way to too to keep IP address (I assume DHCP) records.
At an ISP where I used to work, we kept RADIUS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS ) logs far too long too. I think it was realized that a data retention policy was needed when the RIAA started sending their lawyer letters (that was back in 2001).
In most cases, the logs are only need for a few hours. In rare cases maybe a day or two. Longer than that, the only reasons are not related to network or system administration. If your security is so poor that you need IP address logs from a month ago to see who was on what server, you have serious security problems.
If I ran an ISP (or a university network), I would retain the logs for one day. And maybe I would not retain full logs at all, for any length of time, if they became a liability.
"most people don't want to wipe their data out..."
Are you aware that paper shredders are very common in a business setting. For the same reason, business users, very much do want to wipe their data out. Forever - with no copies or hidden backups.
I can cite many cases (Google them yourself) of business data falling into the wrong hands because of the "undelete" or "unformat" commands that make "file > delete" in Windows a joke.