I imagine pirates will have some role too. We're producing huge amount of media now, but it's all going onto storage of very short lifespan - once the companies that own it go out of business, a lot of obscure stuff will be lost to public record. Pirates, though, love collecting terabyte upon terabyte of useless crap - and they maintain it too.
Depending on where you live, the ownership of trash can be quite complicated. There's at least one case of a city in the US prosecuting someone for theft after they took some discarded equipment (I think it was an aircon unit) from the trash. Not theft from the former own, but theft from the city: They saw that trash as recycling scrap-metal value, and didn't take kindly to someone else stealing what they regarded as city property.
I can't remember enough details to find any links supporting it though, so you'll have to make do with rumor from me.
Apple is a hardware company, and a services company. These are not mutually exclusive options. If they can make profit from their device at sale and then make even more profit from it after-sale, why wouldn't they? Google doesn't make phones (Except a vanishingly small number of Nexuses), so they have to settle for the services and some licencing money from the real manufacturers. They do have the advantage of much greater experience in targetted advertising.
Content-addressible networking. It couldn't completly solve the problem, as it is useless on dynamic content, but it's reduce the load imposed by images, videos and any other unchanging resource to a tiny fraction of what it is today.
Depends - if you have a killer app, people might want access to the mesh in addition to internet even if they are not connected. The only thing I can imagine being so popular is piracy, though. A lot of people would be happy to buy a fancy mesh router if reliable told that somewhere hidden on the network lies a server with ten terabytes of movies, TV and games all ready for the taking.
"I'd much rather go with a virtual network on top of my regular Internet connection."
If you're doing the activist thing, you'd be better off with both - plus a shared-store CAN as well. Each serves their own niche in the least-regulateable manner.
There were issues in the UK with that, and Virgin internet. They started deploying their hundred-meg broadband a while ago (must be over a year now), but as part of the installation installed something they called the SuperHub. A cable modem, router and AP combined, but with no way to disable the router part and seriously buggy firmware. Once installed, no uninstalling - they refused to reauthorise any older device. Eventually, after months of trying to fix the firmware and much customer complaining, they finally released an update that allowed it to be used as a pure modem.
He never said he paid retail. I grabbed a spool out of a skip at university many years ago, a leftover from their own network expansion, and I think I still have some left.
When I was with Virgin cable (I'm not now) they actually inserted ads into the channels themselves - you could tell because their editing tended to be off by a couple of seconds, and because the adverts were invariably for Virgin cable/phone/internet. They only advertised themselves, and I assume that a huge payment was made to the channel providers to get them to agree to such editing. This was years ago though, so they probably don't do it any more.
There's something of an emerging generational issue. I don't know exactly why, but I've read of a number of studies on the subject - it seems that email just isn't used by the younger internet population. They've abandoned it in favor of social networking and instant messaging, mostly the former.
Stop thinking like an engineer, and lower yourself to the thoughts of a typical computer user.
"A weird box just popped up! IT says something about certificates and signing, whatever that means. If I click 'accept' I'll get to see the website, so I'll do that."
There are legal issues. For one, a lot of countries have a strange aversion to letting armed ships dock at their ports. You've also got to consider escalation: If you give your men guns, the pirates are going to reply with rocket launchers and build-it-yourself torpedoes. If South American drugrunners can build their own submarines, how hard can it be for a somali pirate to assemble a speedboat with a half-inch of steel plate over the occupents? It could certainly be entertaining for us to read about the arms race between bodgetastic pirates and shipping companies, but it'd be very expensive.
In the more afflulent countries, I see many schools making the same mistake with the iPad. Not even just tablets in general - they all go straight for the iPad without even considering other options. A lot of the time administrators or teachers see a cool toy first, and then try to figure out how they could use it.
That's how the school at which I work ended up with a piece of crap called a Spykee. Little more than a toy ROV, but someone thought having a cool-looking robot would help stimulate student interest in engineering. It doesn't, even on the rare occasions we can make the thing work.
Effective, but note the 'even non-techies.' Us geeks can handle encfs and sshfs, but the rest of the population would struggle to work out why they can't attach a folder to an email. I work in tech support, I've had to explain that on a few occasions.
My own backup system involves tar piped to pigz, accessed via inetd from another server which connects with netcat piped to gpg. The network traffic is cleartext, as it's only going from one end of the house to the other, but it'd be easy to modify for encrypted-in-transit. I just run the pigz and gpg on seperate computers are they are both processor-intensive. Same reason I use netcat-to-xinetd rather than ssh: I need all cycles I can get for the compression and encryption.
Encrypt your stuff, send to a friend elsewhere in the world. He can likewise encrypt his stuff and send to you. Doesn't even need any fancy cryptographic stuff - even the non-techies can set a password on a winrar archive, and winrar's crypto is sufficiently hard to break that the only way I've ever found is to brute-force the password - which still is very slow, due to the use of a multi-round hardened hash.
I have wondered... if you could set up, say, ten of these in a dispersed area, and switch from one to the next every tenth of a second or so... time it right and the recievers shouldn't notice, but it'll really screw with anyone trying to use a tracker.
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My cynical side thinks there is another factor in play: By making water rights exclusive, the state can sell them to a water company.
I imagine pirates will have some role too. We're producing huge amount of media now, but it's all going onto storage of very short lifespan - once the companies that own it go out of business, a lot of obscure stuff will be lost to public record. Pirates, though, love collecting terabyte upon terabyte of useless crap - and they maintain it too.
Ever collected rain to water your garden? That's illegal in some US states.
Because if we vote the bastards out, the other bastard wins.
Depending on where you live, the ownership of trash can be quite complicated. There's at least one case of a city in the US prosecuting someone for theft after they took some discarded equipment (I think it was an aircon unit) from the trash. Not theft from the former own, but theft from the city: They saw that trash as recycling scrap-metal value, and didn't take kindly to someone else stealing what they regarded as city property.
I can't remember enough details to find any links supporting it though, so you'll have to make do with rumor from me.
Never believe anything reported in The Scum.
I'm sure Google pays Apple a substantial sum each year to be the default provider of those services.
Apple is a hardware company, and a services company. These are not mutually exclusive options. If they can make profit from their device at sale and then make even more profit from it after-sale, why wouldn't they? Google doesn't make phones (Except a vanishingly small number of Nexuses), so they have to settle for the services and some licencing money from the real manufacturers. They do have the advantage of much greater experience in targetted advertising.
... the usage caps will not increase.
Content-addressible networking. It couldn't completly solve the problem, as it is useless on dynamic content, but it's reduce the load imposed by images, videos and any other unchanging resource to a tiny fraction of what it is today.
Depends - if you have a killer app, people might want access to the mesh in addition to internet even if they are not connected. The only thing I can imagine being so popular is piracy, though. A lot of people would be happy to buy a fancy mesh router if reliable told that somewhere hidden on the network lies a server with ten terabytes of movies, TV and games all ready for the taking.
"I'd much rather go with a virtual network on top of my regular Internet connection."
If you're doing the activist thing, you'd be better off with both - plus a shared-store CAN as well. Each serves their own niche in the least-regulateable manner.
There were issues in the UK with that, and Virgin internet. They started deploying their hundred-meg broadband a while ago (must be over a year now), but as part of the installation installed something they called the SuperHub. A cable modem, router and AP combined, but with no way to disable the router part and seriously buggy firmware. Once installed, no uninstalling - they refused to reauthorise any older device. Eventually, after months of trying to fix the firmware and much customer complaining, they finally released an update that allowed it to be used as a pure modem.
He never said he paid retail. I grabbed a spool out of a skip at university many years ago, a leftover from their own network expansion, and I think I still have some left.
But money can be turned into TV, radio and other advertising, which can buy many more than 10,000 votes.
When I was with Virgin cable (I'm not now) they actually inserted ads into the channels themselves - you could tell because their editing tended to be off by a couple of seconds, and because the adverts were invariably for Virgin cable/phone/internet. They only advertised themselves, and I assume that a huge payment was made to the channel providers to get them to agree to such editing. This was years ago though, so they probably don't do it any more.
There's something of an emerging generational issue. I don't know exactly why, but I've read of a number of studies on the subject - it seems that email just isn't used by the younger internet population. They've abandoned it in favor of social networking and instant messaging, mostly the former.
Stop thinking like an engineer, and lower yourself to the thoughts of a typical computer user.
"A weird box just popped up! IT says something about certificates and signing, whatever that means. If I click 'accept' I'll get to see the website, so I'll do that."
There are legal issues. For one, a lot of countries have a strange aversion to letting armed ships dock at their ports. You've also got to consider escalation: If you give your men guns, the pirates are going to reply with rocket launchers and build-it-yourself torpedoes. If South American drugrunners can build their own submarines, how hard can it be for a somali pirate to assemble a speedboat with a half-inch of steel plate over the occupents? It could certainly be entertaining for us to read about the arms race between bodgetastic pirates and shipping companies, but it'd be very expensive.
Not epic battle.
Ultimate showdown.
Of ultimate destiny.
In the more afflulent countries, I see many schools making the same mistake with the iPad. Not even just tablets in general - they all go straight for the iPad without even considering other options. A lot of the time administrators or teachers see a cool toy first, and then try to figure out how they could use it.
That's how the school at which I work ended up with a piece of crap called a Spykee. Little more than a toy ROV, but someone thought having a cool-looking robot would help stimulate student interest in engineering. It doesn't, even on the rare occasions we can make the thing work.
Effective, but note the 'even non-techies.' Us geeks can handle encfs and sshfs, but the rest of the population would struggle to work out why they can't attach a folder to an email. I work in tech support, I've had to explain that on a few occasions.
My own backup system involves tar piped to pigz, accessed via inetd from another server which connects with netcat piped to gpg. The network traffic is cleartext, as it's only going from one end of the house to the other, but it'd be easy to modify for encrypted-in-transit. I just run the pigz and gpg on seperate computers are they are both processor-intensive. Same reason I use netcat-to-xinetd rather than ssh: I need all cycles I can get for the compression and encryption.
Encrypt your stuff, send to a friend elsewhere in the world. He can likewise encrypt his stuff and send to you. Doesn't even need any fancy cryptographic stuff - even the non-techies can set a password on a winrar archive, and winrar's crypto is sufficiently hard to break that the only way I've ever found is to brute-force the password - which still is very slow, due to the use of a multi-round hardened hash.
I have wondered... if you could set up, say, ten of these in a dispersed area, and switch from one to the next every tenth of a second or so... time it right and the recievers shouldn't notice, but it'll really screw with anyone trying to use a tracker.