It may be more difficult to fund installations where you cannot promise an ever-increasing margin of profit based on artificial scarcity. After all, if one guy wants to raise his rates, another guy can build a new collector. But with fossil and nuclear stuff, there are barriers to entry that protect the existing markets. It may be that in order to get that much money moving, you have to promise a constant increasing rate of return. Which implies control. And no one controls the sun. Just a guess....
Perhaps by just informing people that their machine may be infected? Perhaps by using another medium like an automated phone call or a note on their bill that says that traffic from their computer conforms to traffic seen by infected computers? Perhaps giving them some stats each month that says: this is how many email were seen to be sent by your Internet connection; hey this is pretty high for a home computer, have you updated your virus scanning? I do not necessary suggest that they block port 25 or insert means of cutting off users. But the users could be warned/informed of what the network was seeing.
I think they did a shot walking over a "sky bridge" for Amok Time. All in all, I have been very pleased with my purchase. When the old series was out, TVs were -really- bad: Reception, Sound, Color, everything else is better now. And with the new edits I sort of feel like these are the directors cuts of the episodes. Its nifty, and a nice surprise: I picked up the box at random and looked at the back. And it said, "Before" / "After".
Instead of messing with the cars, just make people hang onto their emissions statement. Report it on your taxes, and a copy of the emissions statement attached. Another stupid idea from government. What states do not have emissions testing yet?
With a comodo signed cert? Forever? I dont fault your logic, and I would do the same if I didnt think it would break an unknown number of things downstream....
Their laws regarding lawsuits may be entirely different. And they may have a small company that you could not recover the damages. The idea is -insane-.
This alone would bankrupt US companies trying to purchase goods made overseas. It would be a disaster. The good news is that it would drive US companies to require that all their suppliers use open-source software since the authors would not try destroy the US company. MS is insane.
I just learned of this, though they have been out a while I guess. They reworked the old Star Trek episodes with CGI special effects. This enables them to show Ships, landscapes, explosions, that are much better than the original. I am enjoying them a lot. Both because the sound and presentation are so much better than when they were on TV, but also because the updates are really nicely done. FYI
sending -kids- to prison to increase the prison population and make themselves money. Google "kids for cash scandal". And kids can't vote either. And even though the judges were found or pled guilty, I don't think they are themselves in prison. I think they are out on appeal. I doubt they have even felt cuffs yet.
My laptop for instance has two power buttons. One brings up the normal OS loader, and the other brings up an instant-on OS to play media files and a browser. I never use it, but its an idea. Put WebOS in its own partition. Let them choose it at boot time...or with its own power button. Heck, if its in ROM it could be pretty nifty.
At least that way the email addresses do not get spammed to everyone. Or maybe that should be an additional dialog: Do you want everyone to see all email addressees, do you want to hide email addresses with bcc, or do you want to cancel.
Its seems like a democracy is someplace where I could vote for/against the people who make the important decisions regarding my country. But I cannot do that. The important people are on committees in the House and Senate that are occupied by reps from other states. The important people are hired by people appointed by the president. I didnt vote for them, and during his second term, I cannot vote against the president having a third term. The important people are in the judiciary which are immune to any form of voting. And when it comes time for my actual representatives to vote, they are voting on a document that addresses so many different areas of law that the document is patently indecipherable. And then after the House and Senate vote on a bill, the bill can be changed by some schmuck before it goes to the President, and from then on its the law. So they are right: Its not a democracy if most of the decisions are made by people that I cannot vote for or against.
A http protocol that, instead of (connect, download, disconnect), allows for a sustained connection throughout the session and then a final disconnect when the session concludes. A persistent connection could mean that your credentials would be valid only for a single connection and logging out would sever that connection and invalidate the credentials. I am sure the idea has been tossed around and thrown out already, but I am curious.
Don't blame the computer assembly company....blame the actual authors of the code. Put up a hall of shame and make sure that you are very specific about which tool sucks and why it sucks. And what personal problems the authors must have to create such monstrosities. If its phoning home, clearly document what its doing. When the refrain becomes "XYZ company sucks because this POS stuff they load on computers does this...", then they will fix their code. If your computer boots 15seconds faster without the stuff, Document it! Include a little screenshot with some funny/creative commentary: "This is such a load off my computer, here is how you get rid of this computer disease"...
People thought CS people looked stupid when they found out dates were represented using two digits in computer programs. But those same people did not have to personally do anything; they just had to cross their fingers and hope that the programs got rewritten in time. This is going to effect a LOT of people directly. They are going to have to struggle with technological issues related to updating their equipment. Stuff that they barely got working the first time they set it up (TVs, wireless routers, game boxes). Its going to go on and on and on. And some stuff they are going to have to throw out because the company that built them wont offer upgrades or went out of business. Computer science is going to look like mud for a half a century after this transition starts breaking -every- toy they have.
Streaming has a lot of downsides for me. Its really bad at fast-forward / rewind. It does not support subtitles. Extra DVD features are not present. So I like DVDs better. That said, they could get around some of these issues by caching the content at my house. If I put movies into my streaming queue, the content should begin downloading to my home right then, and not wait until I want to watch it. Sort of like a dvr with remote PUSH capability. Also if I an my neighbour add the same movie, then we should be able to help each others caching. And your netflix devices should just grab local cached data instead of streaming it from the internet. Doing it this way, the downloads could be done slowly, some could be done at night in off hours. And same-subnet boxes could scatter-gather the content to be even more efficient. The local cache would make the FF/RW perform much better. And extra features could be added as extra chapters that you can skip to.
A secret account would allow you to accept money for services being performed under the table. Crafty ammendments, insider information, national secrets. There are lots of reasons why people should not have their accounts secret from the Law. Esp if they are elected or appointed officials. Even corporate board members should have their income visible...to make sure that any conflict of interest is quickly disclosed to the owners.
Also, if they are signing a tax return that says they have completely declared all income, but fail to disclose interest from a foreign bank account, then that fact should come up on their employment review ( or election ).
Ok, maybe its not fair. Maybe it is, but the truth is that the email clients and the web browsers are installing this crap on peoples machines. Without the programs to go out and make the tcpip connections, that shit would stay on their compromised boxes. Since the current click-to-proceed systems are currently -not- working, the ante should be upped and make it impossible to use these client programs to hurt the boxes they reside on. I am talking about making it -impossible- to save a file that can run as a program. Either in zip form or in real form. No click through, no nuthin. If the consumers want to download a -program- then only their anti-virus package should be able to do that. At that point, the anti-virus program takes responsibility for the behaviour of the downloaded content. Firefox, chrome, thunderbird, explorer, whatever. These packages are RESPONSIBLE for injecting unsafe content onto systems without an immune system. Like someone throwing manure at someone with no immune system. Or feeding peanuts to someone known to have that allergy. I am saying that the only safe way to download content to boxes now is to use the anti-virus programs as a download/installation agent. And we have to hold the agent responsible.
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It may be more difficult to fund installations where you cannot promise an ever-increasing margin of profit based on artificial scarcity. After all, if one guy wants to raise his rates, another guy can build a new collector. But with fossil and nuclear stuff, there are barriers to entry that protect the existing markets.
It may be that in order to get that much money moving, you have to promise a constant increasing rate of return. Which implies control. And no one controls the sun.
Just a guess....
They are even going to orphan the phones.
Perhaps by just informing people that their machine may be infected? Perhaps by using another medium like an automated phone call or a note on their bill that says that traffic from their computer conforms to traffic seen by infected computers? Perhaps giving them some stats each month that says: this is how many email were seen to be sent by your Internet connection; hey this is pretty high for a home computer, have you updated your virus scanning?
I do not necessary suggest that they block port 25 or insert means of cutting off users. But the users could be warned/informed of what the network was seeing.
I think they did a shot walking over a "sky bridge" for Amok Time. All in all, I have been very pleased with my purchase. When the old series was out, TVs were -really- bad: Reception, Sound, Color, everything else is better now. And with the new edits I sort of feel like these are the directors cuts of the episodes.
Its nifty, and a nice surprise: I picked up the box at random and looked at the back. And it said, "Before" / "After".
Instead of messing with the cars, just make people hang onto their emissions statement. Report it on your taxes, and a copy of the emissions statement attached.
Another stupid idea from government. What states do not have emissions testing yet?
With a comodo signed cert? Forever? I dont fault your logic, and I would do the same if I didnt think it would break an unknown number of things downstream....
Dont seal me in!
Their laws regarding lawsuits may be entirely different. And they may have a small company that you could not recover the damages. The idea is -insane-.
This alone would bankrupt US companies trying to purchase goods made overseas. It would be a disaster.
The good news is that it would drive US companies to require that all their suppliers use open-source software since the authors would not try destroy the US company. MS is insane.
I just learned of this, though they have been out a while I guess. They reworked the old Star Trek episodes with CGI special effects. This enables them to show Ships, landscapes, explosions, that are much better than the original. I am enjoying them a lot. Both because the sound and presentation are so much better than when they were on TV, but also because the updates are really nicely done.
FYI
sending -kids- to prison to increase the prison population and make themselves money.
Google "kids for cash scandal". And kids can't vote either. And even though the judges were found or pled guilty, I don't think they are themselves in prison. I think they are out on appeal. I doubt they have even felt cuffs yet.
The computer is just like a brain, and you can scan it with your brain. And blow it up and stuff.
My laptop for instance has two power buttons. One brings up the normal OS loader, and the other brings up an instant-on OS to play media files and a browser. I never use it, but its an idea.
Put WebOS in its own partition. Let them choose it at boot time...or with its own power button. Heck, if its in ROM it could be pretty nifty.
At least that way the email addresses do not get spammed to everyone. Or maybe that should be an additional dialog:
Do you want everyone to see all email addressees, do you want to hide email addresses with bcc, or do you want to cancel.
Its seems like a democracy is someplace where I could vote for/against the people who make the important decisions regarding my country. But I cannot do that. The important people are on committees in the House and Senate that are occupied by reps from other states. The important people are hired by people appointed by the president. I didnt vote for them, and during his second term, I cannot vote against the president having a third term. The important people are in the judiciary which are immune to any form of voting. And when it comes time for my actual representatives to vote, they are voting on a document that addresses so many different areas of law that the document is patently indecipherable. And then after the House and Senate vote on a bill, the bill can be changed by some schmuck before it goes to the President, and from then on its the law.
So they are right: Its not a democracy if most of the decisions are made by people that I cannot vote for or against.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013150,00.html
The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
Hmm, good thoughts. Thanks.
A http protocol that, instead of (connect, download, disconnect), allows for a sustained connection throughout the session and then a final disconnect when the session concludes. A persistent connection could mean that your credentials would be valid only for a single connection and logging out would sever that connection and invalidate the credentials. I am sure the idea has been tossed around and thrown out already, but I am curious.
More importantly; Does his wife?
Don't blame the computer assembly company....blame the actual authors of the code. Put up a hall of shame and make sure that you are very specific about which tool sucks and why it sucks. And what personal problems the authors must have to create such monstrosities. If its phoning home, clearly document what its doing.
When the refrain becomes "XYZ company sucks because this POS stuff they load on computers does this...", then they will fix their code. If your computer boots 15seconds faster without the stuff, Document it! Include a little screenshot with some funny/creative commentary: "This is such a load off my computer, here is how you get rid of this computer disease"...
Embarrass them!
I cant help but think that this will mean an end to the independence of the HP editorial staff.
This sucks.
People thought CS people looked stupid when they found out dates were represented using two digits in computer programs. But those same people did not have to personally do anything; they just had to cross their fingers and hope that the programs got rewritten in time. This is going to effect a LOT of people directly. They are going to have to struggle with technological issues related to updating their equipment. Stuff that they barely got working the first time they set it up (TVs, wireless routers, game boxes). Its going to go on and on and on. And some stuff they are going to have to throw out because the company that built them wont offer upgrades or went out of business.
Computer science is going to look like mud for a half a century after this transition starts breaking -every- toy they have.
Streaming has a lot of downsides for me. Its really bad at fast-forward / rewind. It does not support subtitles. Extra DVD features are not present. So I like DVDs better. That said, they could get around some of these issues by caching the content at my house. If I put movies into my streaming queue, the content should begin downloading to my home right then, and not wait until I want to watch it. Sort of like a dvr with remote PUSH capability. Also if I an my neighbour add the same movie, then we should be able to help each others caching. And your netflix devices should just grab local cached data instead of streaming it from the internet. Doing it this way, the downloads could be done slowly, some could be done at night in off hours. And same-subnet boxes could scatter-gather the content to be even more efficient. The local cache would make the FF/RW perform much better. And extra features could be added as extra chapters that you can skip to.
A secret account would allow you to accept money for services being performed under the table. Crafty ammendments, insider information, national secrets. There are lots of reasons why people should not have their accounts secret from the Law. Esp if they are elected or appointed officials. Even corporate board members should have their income visible...to make sure that any conflict of interest is quickly disclosed to the owners.
Also, if they are signing a tax return that says they have completely declared all income, but fail to disclose interest from a foreign bank account, then that fact should come up on their employment review ( or election ).
Ok, maybe its not fair. Maybe it is, but the truth is that the email clients and the web browsers are installing this crap on peoples machines. Without the programs to go out and make the tcpip connections, that shit would stay on their compromised boxes. Since the current click-to-proceed systems are currently -not- working, the ante should be upped and make it impossible to use these client programs to hurt the boxes they reside on.
I am talking about making it -impossible- to save a file that can run as a program. Either in zip form or in real form. No click through, no nuthin. If the consumers want to download a -program- then only their anti-virus package should be able to do that. At that point, the anti-virus program takes responsibility for the behaviour of the downloaded content.
Firefox, chrome, thunderbird, explorer, whatever. These packages are RESPONSIBLE for injecting unsafe content onto systems without an immune system. Like someone throwing manure at someone with no immune system. Or feeding peanuts to someone known to have that allergy.
I am saying that the only safe way to download content to boxes now is to use the anti-virus programs as a download/installation agent. And we have to hold the agent responsible.