So what exactly is homeland security about? Its obviously not about protecting US citizens.
As a government body, shouldn't homeland security be involved in helping to prevent such digital leakage, even if just setting down the rules to follow and pursuing violators of the rules?
I have twice been fooled by AT&T/Bell South telephone sales lying to me about increased bandwidth and lower prices with reasons for lower prices being bundeling and such. But when the bill came its was proven to be a lies. They tried a third time but this time I caught them and raised hell about it and had them take me off the call list.
I have had bandwidth problems too, one happened after I installed ubuntu feisty fawn but after trying everything to resolve it in feisty and also thru bell south, I swapped out network cards and that solved it. Other times I've had drop-outs and of course at the most inconvenient times. Of course AT&T wanted to find the problem at my end and charge me for it, for sending a technician out. I never had them send a technician out as I could determine it wasn't on my end, even the phone I could determine was ok.
The problem seemed to be related to weather, cold and wet. This of course suggesting problems in their realm of maintaining (outside of my home). I told them this over and over again but their remote testing supposedly showed no problems. Then there was a larger outage, where upon them fixing it seemed to have solved the weather problem.
I don't know about throttling as I'm not a bit torrent user (torrents have always seemed to take much longer to transfer files and participating as a source seemed to be flaky - so perhaps I have never known not being throttled?????) At any rate I gave up on torrents. And all my efforts of using a torrent have been legit, FOSS based.
Abstraction Physics proof is found in trying to not use any of its small set of action constants.
Eventually Abstraction Physics will come to be fully recognized and applied, just as today we recognize the decimal system with its zero (nothing can have value) place holder and that the earth revolves around the sun.
...how are they now going to explain the drop in game sales?
They won't be able to blame piracy, which in actuality has been a promotional tool. Without that promotional tool, well.... out of sight, out or mind.
Its been long established and even in some cases intentionally applied, that the non-legal distribution of software helps promotion of the software in sales.
This non-legal spread of software started before the word "Piracy" was coined by Bill Gates (as it applies to software). And Bill Gates profited off of the non-legal spread of his BASIC for the Altair computer.
I believe there are studies of this same drop in sales regarding music as piracy is cracked down on by unreasonable aggressive RIAA legal system tactics.
"In televison, the people are the PRODUCTS being delivered to the advertisers; the real customers."
lol, there is a difference between a broadcasters POV in effort to obtain advertising dollars and the consumers POV in whether or not they actually watch the advertisements.
In verification, an advertiser does not get my number, name or person by my just watching a commercial. But I get the advertiser number if I chose to watch and write it down and I get the product or service if I chose to by it. Advertisers are being delivered to me, the consumer, via commercials. It is this delivery media which the broadcasters are selling to the advertisers and nothing more than abstract an sales pitch that makes it sound like its the other way around.
I call it "bit flipping", the act of taking something and making it sound to be just the opposite of what it really is. As its all advertisement/promotion, be it a commercial I might see or a sales pitch the broadcaster pitches to the advertisers to "buy" air time.
But lets ignore facts and assume you are correct. Come February 2009, broadcasters inventory of consumers get reduced by the federal government. So how many broadcasters think they own me or more specifically, my attention? And how much of it does each own? I bet it adds up to much more than 24hrs of my attention a day. Doesn't that sound rather silly? Do not get so caught up in sales rhetoric that you lose sight of reality.
Come February 2009, I won't be watching broadcast TV. And I will have lost sight of whatever "Reality TV" is broadcast.
Listening to the radio this morning (I suppose radio will be the next thing to go totally digital) and there was a talk on how this Y generation is really DUMB, as in stupid, as in uneducated, as a result of computer technology. Even here in Gerogia the school test scores are so bad they actually through out all history tests with the conclusion that it can't be that bad, over 80% failed...
I suppose with the drive to use internet connection to broadcast TV shows and movies.... their will be a further contributing to the educational downfall. Another thing to add to teh list of student with pocket sized entertainment distractions.
And of course it all comes back to blaming piracy and suing the consumer.... Gotta teach them consumers not to watch.
I have a 32" working just fine non digital TV and don't have cable but use an antenna. I have no intention on getting a converter box or new TV. But I'll use the TV for DVD's and VHS, for which I buy inexpensive previewed media.
Since I'm no longer going to support the broadcast markets, including PBS, its advertisers and won't buy new media, there is one obvious things that is going to happen.
The MPAA is going to really get spoiled baby scream noisy and make all sorts of claims about piracy destroying their business when this digital only broadcast TV switch happens. From this they will pursue any and all non-authorized outlets, further isolating the property of their scope, away from me.
But the fact of the matter is, it is the entertainment industry attacking consumers, that is the biggest turn off, where the digital TV switchover will be turning off the set for the consumer, whom will not turn it back on so quickly...
This is not even a hindsight article as the hindsight is still based on speculation.
Of course as things at Apple have evolved in this vain, We have Automator and its phenomenally (cough) successful.....
Of course Hypercard and Automator are platform specific (mac only) but as a comparison to platform agnostic and network-able relatively easy scripting, there is REBOL and specifically REBOL VIEW (if you want to discuss web browsers). But how successful has REBOL become?
What Automator generates under the hood in teh way of files, when a person creates an automation, is incredibly massive. Especially in comparison to the incredibility small scripts of REBOL.
I'm not promoting either here, just presenting a comparison that is relevant to the speculated hindsight of the WIRED article.
Congrats. And hopefully it won't be the kind of upgrade the last four ISPs I've delt with did..... an upgrade to less... quite the opposite of the claims.
instead of eating HFCS and adding to obesity, use it for the production of greener fuel. Since people are eating it less, they will weigh less and the greener fuel will have a lighter load to transport.
Think holistically.
As to the evidence of obesity and HFCS, don't take my word for it, google scientific research on it. There is a reason soft drink makers stopped making available such softdrinks in schools, and replaced them with healthier drinks that don't have hfcs. But on that same note, after this happened more breads began including HFCS. Couldn't figure out why I started gaining weigh, then I noticed the breads I was buying, because they didn't include HFCS, now did. Of course they are now non-purchases of mine and the only breads without it are a lot more expensive. Needless to say, I now eat less bread, but this was long after the initial drop of 30lbs from buying the same type of products but without the HFCS. Also there is medical records showing my triglycerides dropping as a result of removing HFCS.
believe what you want, try it out for yourself even.
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Yes the two ns.ev1servers.net are effected.
... his running mate will be Al Gore.
The first thing I thought, without reading the article,was what did he die of? Focused Wifi beams?
digital diarrhea...
So what exactly is homeland security about? Its obviously not about protecting US citizens.
As a government body, shouldn't homeland security be involved in helping to prevent such digital leakage, even if just setting down the rules to follow and pursuing violators of the rules?
I have twice been fooled by AT&T/Bell South telephone sales lying to me about increased bandwidth and lower prices with reasons for lower prices being bundeling and such. But when the bill came its was proven to be a lies. They tried a third time but this time I caught them and raised hell about it and had them take me off the call list.
I have had bandwidth problems too, one happened after I installed ubuntu feisty fawn but after trying everything to resolve it in feisty and also thru bell south, I swapped out network cards and that solved it. Other times I've had drop-outs and of course at the most inconvenient times. Of course AT&T wanted to find the problem at my end and charge me for it, for sending a technician out. I never had them send a technician out as I could determine it wasn't on my end, even the phone I could determine was ok.
The problem seemed to be related to weather, cold and wet. This of course suggesting problems in their realm of maintaining (outside of my home). I told them this over and over again but their remote testing supposedly showed no problems. Then there was a larger outage, where upon them fixing it seemed to have solved the weather problem.
I don't know about throttling as I'm not a bit torrent user (torrents have always seemed to take much longer to transfer files and participating as a source seemed to be flaky - so perhaps I have never known not being throttled?????) At any rate I gave up on torrents. And all my efforts of using a torrent have been legit, FOSS based.
...abstractions.
Abstraction Physics proof is found in trying to not use any of its small set of action constants.
Eventually Abstraction Physics will come to be fully recognized and applied, just as today we recognize the decimal system with its zero (nothing can have value) place holder and that the earth revolves around the sun.
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... there is a philosophy lesson in all this .... somewhere...
...how are they now going to explain the drop in game sales?
They won't be able to blame piracy, which in actuality has been a promotional tool.
Without that promotional tool, well.... out of sight, out or mind.
Its been long established and even in some cases intentionally applied, that the non-legal distribution of software helps promotion of the software in sales.
This non-legal spread of software started before the word "Piracy" was coined by Bill Gates (as it applies to software). And Bill Gates profited off of the non-legal spread of his BASIC for the Altair computer.
I believe there are studies of this same drop in sales regarding music as piracy is cracked down on by unreasonable aggressive RIAA legal system tactics.
one hour and counting?
....http://www.newsweek.com/id/138536
"In televison, the people are the PRODUCTS being delivered to the advertisers; the real customers."
lol, there is a difference between a broadcasters POV in effort to obtain advertising dollars and the consumers POV in whether or not they actually watch the advertisements.
In verification, an advertiser does not get my number, name or person by my just watching a commercial. But I get the advertiser number if I chose to watch and write it down and I get the product or service if I chose to by it. Advertisers are being delivered to me, the consumer, via commercials. It is this delivery media which the broadcasters are selling to the advertisers and nothing more than abstract an sales pitch that makes it sound like its the other way around.
I call it "bit flipping", the act of taking something and making it sound to be just the opposite of what it really is. As its all advertisement/promotion, be it a commercial I might see or a sales pitch the broadcaster pitches to the advertisers to "buy" air time.
But lets ignore facts and assume you are correct. Come February 2009, broadcasters inventory of consumers get reduced by the federal government. So how many broadcasters think they own me or more specifically, my attention? And how much of it does each own? I bet it adds up to much more than 24hrs of my attention a day. Doesn't that sound rather silly? Do not get so caught up in sales rhetoric that you lose sight of reality.
Come February 2009, I won't be watching broadcast TV. And I will have lost sight of whatever "Reality TV" is broadcast.
Listening to the radio this morning (I suppose radio will be the next thing to go totally digital) and there was a talk on how this Y generation is really DUMB, as in stupid, as in uneducated, as a result of computer technology. Even here in Gerogia the school test scores are so bad they actually through out all history tests with the conclusion that it can't be that bad, over 80% failed...
I suppose with the drive to use internet connection to broadcast TV shows and movies.... their will be a further contributing to the educational downfall. Another thing to add to teh list of student with pocket sized entertainment distractions.
And of course it all comes back to blaming piracy and suing the consumer.... Gotta teach them consumers not to watch.
I have a 32" working just fine non digital TV and don't have cable but use an antenna. I have no intention on getting a converter box or new TV. But I'll use the TV for DVD's and VHS, for which I buy inexpensive previewed media.
Since I'm no longer going to support the broadcast markets, including PBS, its advertisers and won't buy new media, there is one obvious things that is going to happen.
The MPAA is going to really get spoiled baby scream noisy and make all sorts of claims about piracy destroying their business when this digital only broadcast TV switch happens. From this they will pursue any and all non-authorized outlets, further isolating the property of their scope, away from me.
But the fact of the matter is, it is the entertainment industry attacking consumers, that is the biggest turn off, where the digital TV switchover will be turning off the set for the consumer, whom will not turn it back on so quickly...
Out of sight, out of mind.
.... he missed the mark.
This is not even a hindsight article as the hindsight is still based on speculation.
Of course as things at Apple have evolved in this vain, We have Automator and its phenomenally (cough) successful.....
Of course Hypercard and Automator are platform specific (mac only) but as a comparison to platform agnostic and network-able relatively easy scripting, there is REBOL and specifically REBOL VIEW (if you want to discuss web browsers). But how successful has REBOL become?
What Automator generates under the hood in teh way of files, when a person creates an automation, is incredibly massive. Especially in comparison to the incredibility small scripts of REBOL.
I'm not promoting either here, just presenting a comparison that is relevant to the speculated hindsight of the WIRED article.
... several times.... before it took.
Congrats. And hopefully it won't be the kind of upgrade the last four ISPs I've delt with did..... an upgrade to less... quite the opposite of the claims.
a fake ufo picture and a real one?
How will spammers make use of this? Well just make that viagra pill be reflected in a coke bottle.
anyone for a random bit generator to see what random results gets labeled?
Wonder what fractals might produce?
moral of the question: we can always break what we make.
.... the answer is always "a picture"
...you want your data to be secure?
Disconnect it from the net.
given the vast amount of digital leakage and other human errors, who are you really putting trust in?
.... new fusion overlords.
Perhaps they will humble the oil overlords.
needs REBOL but there are free use version.
the database program can be found here
...digital leakage...
... spam.
Considering that over 90% of all email is spam.....
... not what they claim such a system will be used for but rather what it will actually be used for.
Consider all the issues coming to light in pre-Olympic China, regarding human rights....
instead of eating HFCS and adding to obesity, use it for the production of greener fuel.
Since people are eating it less, they will weigh less and the greener fuel will have a lighter load to transport.
Think holistically.
As to the evidence of obesity and HFCS, don't take my word for it, google scientific research on it.
There is a reason soft drink makers stopped making available such softdrinks in schools, and replaced them with healthier drinks that don't have hfcs.
But on that same note, after this happened more breads began including HFCS. Couldn't figure out why I started gaining weigh, then I noticed the breads I was buying, because they didn't include HFCS, now did. Of course they are now non-purchases of mine and the only breads without it are a lot more expensive. Needless to say, I now eat less bread, but this was long after the initial drop of 30lbs from buying the same type of products but without the HFCS. Also there is medical records showing my triglycerides dropping as a result of removing HFCS.
believe what you want, try it out for yourself even.
....dust collector.