You'll see that they only verify a few basic things. There are no standards for the amount of enzymes, pH, other contaminants, etc. Considering it's a 9-step process, there is a lot of room for contaminants to be introduced or not removed. I highly recommend not eating it if you're reading this;)
Not that I can find. I did find some studies involving HFCS as a food for bees. Apparently there are some other byproducts that are toxic to bees. Unfortunately, HFCS is commonly used as a food for bees to prime them. This article has a lot of information and analysis of commercial HFCS. Could this be part of the bee death problem in America? This is something we're going to be hearing about more and more over the next few years unless they can get to the bottom of it. It's not surprising, to me, to find another outlet for corn syrup causing problems. I hope that the increasing consumer education and pressure will hopefully lead to it fading away, or at least higher purity being enforced. Also, possibly alarmingly, a lot of commercial HFCS is made in China, and more than likely it finds it's way into food here in the US.
HFCS is created with an enzymatic process. The HFCS food companies buy is dirty. It's mostly fructose and glucose but it also contains the enzymes used to convert the corn starch. You can't remove it all, apparently. And the standards are based on very small serving sizes. When people are drinking 50-100g a day of it, this enzyme builds up in the human system and attaches to other starch and performs the same conversion process to sugar. Normally this process takes more energy but with the unnatural enzyme it doesn't, and therefore it causes more efficient breakdown of starch. These people also tend to have a bag of chips or fries with their 50-100g of corn syrup. This means all of that becomes sugar. Since the body can't use the sugar, insulin is released and reactions occur and "bada-bing" FAT.
This has the hallmarks of an acid test. Global law negotiations done in secret, under the guise of treaty...exactly the way we don't want it to go. From here there will be more laws in secret and the only way you'll find out you've violated them is that you don't have the required permit on your passport and you're accosted at the border. This is exactly how the global fascists (corpratists) want it. Without control over global travel, they cannot control the flow of goods and information. Each intersection of borders is a profit gradient. If goods are allowed to pass by osmosis, they lose all the leverage they could use to pump wealth back and forth between countries while taking a cut off the top. Sooner or later, they have it all.
There are basically two forks in this road: one, where there is a single world democracy with the corporations below that rule of law and the other where there are separate country laws (like there are now) and the corporations flit above them BUT prohibit the individual. That's where we're headed now.
Buy a Dell. Then you have a nice warranty, all the stuff works well, they use decent motherboards, etc. If you need a fancy video card, just order an Optiplex or Precision from the small business side and then buy the graphics at newegg..
BR sucks, LTO4. It's fast, and guaranteed readable for at least 20 years. If you want to keep drives spinning for 20 years, or spin up a drive that hasn't been on in 20 years, be my guest. This is the optimal solution.
Buy a drive, doesn't have to be a changer. It's about $2K. Then get a 20 pack of tapes, about 800 bucks. They are 800GB each uncompressed but the drive does hardware compression. I do full baremetal backups of linux servers and get around 1.1TB a tape with compression. Add the cost of the tapes $40-120 to the client's fee (with your standard mark-up). Add a storage cost of $100/tape per year billed annually to client for as long as they want to keep the data. Then get more clients.
For an online backup, I highly recommend rsync.net instead. Starts at.80 a GB, goes down rapidly in bulk. Designed for storage, not mail or something. More expensive than AWS but it goes down every month as disk prices drop. Plus other benefits. You're not going to beat cheap hard drives for bulk storage, but I like LTO4 a lot for archival backups. But of course it's all worthless if you have a fire in the server room or something.
More than likely all religion will cease to exist before "Islamists" control your world. There's around 2 billion Christians and 1 billion Hindi and 1 billion Buddists. The remaining 1 billion muslims are not going to crush those other groups any time soon. Furthermore, islam is quite similar to Christianity in it's interpretation of a single diety, and it's not surprising since both were written around the same time in the same area. Radicals are radicals, and there are plenty of radical christians out there. Interestingly, the Cold War has some interesting ties to the rise of radical fundamentalist islam as well, as the U.S. thought it would be a good envelope to keep communism out of the middle east. So we armed them, trained them and gave them the policial support to become real entities rather than just fringe groups. Whoops!
You guys know how the internet works don't you? The only central authority is the IANA, and all they really do is make sure people don't reuse the same IP addresses (and assign the more important AS Numbers. When we're IPv6 in under five years (Sorry, but thanks Microsoft), they will be even less important (still important though). Other than that, it's just private organziations agreeing with each other to carry traffic through their routers. At one point this was Ma Bell but now you have radio links, satellite links, mesh networks, lasers, fiber optics, etc. It's too late for the government. They are going to keep trying to shut us down but the people of the world can all communicate on equal terms now and we know now more than every that we're all pretty much alike.
I think what the Obama policy is about is getting involved in the international aspects where diplomacy is needed. We need more relationships happening across international borders that foster this kind of communications. This will lead to a future where humans across the global can fully communicate on equal terms. At that point we don't really have a use for diplomacy and war because there will just be a lot of small disagreements rather than these large nationwide ones that are questionable anyway. In fact this is going to be the key to opening up new markets.
To think that this was ever the goal of the neo-cons and that Obama is somehow worse is falase beyond almost anything I've ever heard. The neo-cons are so embroiled in World War III, just read a history of president Reagan and all the weapons and stuff we developed then. No one seems to remember the rediculous cold war that looks REALLY rediculous now. That's the system Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld grew up in, forged with their own hands, saw it crumble with the public failure of the Soviet Union. All the power in the world, gone in 2 years.
Thus the fairly false threat of terrorism. Sure, it's a minor fear, but nothing compared to total nuclear anihilation. Anyway, your breathless posts about how Obama is not doing what he said he'd do is wrong. He said he would do all of this. Quit listening to the media and actually listen to the man.
Look at the V1 and V2 though. They used a simple clockwork system to guide them. Then you just need some trig and calc to determine around where you want it to go. When Israel invaded syria or whatever recently, it was because there were some groups doing that to Israel. Little 50 pound missles, into the center of a city. Not something you can defend against. Of course the best defense is not to offend.
There's nothing to fear but fear itself. People need to nut up and realize that we are all going to die someday. If your food prices go up 125% because of all the money wasted on national defense, and you have to eat McDonald's and you die at 60 as a result... We weigh these risks every day.
The absolute fact is that there aren't that many people willing to strap a bomb to their chest and kill Americans. Way less than people would have you believe. Sure, even one death is a tragedy, but in this country we have tons of gun violence from gangs, robberies, etc. and it just feels normal now.
All I saying is that maybe if we focused on spreading around the love a little and not so much on defending our little corner filled with plastic whozits and cheeseburger wrappers we'd actually see some improvement in the world order. You know, be nice to each other for a change.
Seems like the bezels could be modular caps so you could snap the monitors together. You could have a flexible joint under the bezel cap or have some sort of adapter that would plug the monitors together at a fixed angle. I don't know why no one's done this yet.. The bezel is really not necessary in the middle of the screen. Someone could probably mock this up with a few flat panels and a dremel and a hot glue gun, any takers?
Once that's done, you could further enhance it with a mesh network bus for video and audio. Audio would be especially cool coming out of the center of the monitor panel. You could address it geometrically in 3d space and it could just come out of the right monitor speaker.
I used VPSLink.com for a while. A VPS is really the way to go if you want to admin your own box. This place is the best I found in much research. They have the top 7 distros to choose from plus they'll pre-install a LAMP or Ruby stack, or a reseller panel. You can be under Xen or OpenVZ. You get to be root. You'll need to keep everything compact enough to run in 256 or 512MB. Probably want to use nginx instead of apache;)
Amazon EC2 is pretty cool also, but it's not cost effective for continuous hosting. But if you have a spike you can move some of your traffic to an EC2 node (maybe just static content or something) and maintain performance.
Plus they have a strong belief in algorithyms so their energy trading might be based on information they can mine from their database. Energy prices are based a lot on weather and other demands. The thing is, the market is not perfect because there aren't a lot of ways to move power around inter-regionally. Some of the stimulus funds are supposed to build some new centers for distribution between the various grids.
Google tends to build its datacenters near the power generation. So they can buy a lot of power at bulk rates with low transmission costs and then they can sell of the contracts they don't use to the market and come out as a wash or at least ahead. It's a way to corner more power for the future without having to pay for it. The aluminum companies in Washington state did the same thing. Energy prices ARE GOING to go up again.
The fact that they're getting licensed means they are going to do a lot of trading and that means market timing to me and other interesting stuff. For instance, Google could have 3x the capacity it needs in servers, spread across three regional data centers. At any given point, they only need 1/3 of them. It costs not very much to just have them sitting there off versus being used. So if they could just rotate their entire operations across the globe following the sun they could always run at lowest power rates. Google is a lot more busy during the daylight hours (like any non-porn website) so they need to efficiently serve those markets from afar, where it's dark, and that's what the fiber is for.
But having the trading license means they could contract all the power they'd need if they couldn't do this for some reason or some emergency kept them from being able to shut down during a peak power time. If they could, they just sell it off at peak rates.
Knowing Google, there'll be a nice control system that will optimize this and get better and better at saving money. Google knows they are not really making a ton of money and that the fortunes could change rapidly. It is the Internet after all, not food or housing or something people really need. So keeping costs down for their core search business is rather important for their future. This is just yet another example of Google being really good at analytical cost accounting and applying the practices of cost accounting creatively using technology to automate it.
But I think Google is making a big mistake to try to compete in the applications market.
Use the coax for video; pull cat6 for network. Anything else is going to miserable. Yeah, you might get it to work but not without some headaches and $$$. However, that coax may allow you to make an interesting video distribution network for a movie jukebox or something.
As if anyone checks the signature on the firefox BINARY they are downloading from the internet. Pft, you could just put in your own root certs and just make sure all the packets go to you first.
Without mutual trust you have to fall back on the less secure third party method. Verisign has something like 9 layers of keys kept in physical form in a locked vault. At then end of the day it's good enough to protect against theives and vandals but not foreign/domestic government level stuff.
Of course, the government knows this and what a disaster it would be if a foreign governemnt could execute an orchestrated attack on our financial markets and on military targets at the same time. That's why they have the cyberwarriors or whatever. Not bloody likely to do much for us. Too bad everything is based on confidence and trust nowadays, something so easy to undermine with the frantic media stories, the rampant caffine consumption, the obsession with personal achievement and beauty in America. We've got to change, and more security isn't going to solve the problems we could have. We're weak because we depend on money and other confidence backed mediums of exchange TOO much. But it's so convenient and makes life so easy.
I agree 100%. It's just the framework monkeys can whip out good looking apps right quick. Sure, you're in for a surprise when you try to scale but who cares, we got a real working application in 6 months vs. 2 years!
2.475x10^8 feet / 152 feet = 1,628,289 APs 1,628,289 * $40 = $65,131,578.95 or 21 cents per person in the U.S., one time.
Then move to the two lane highways, then on from there. People won't mess with them and if they do, simply have a budget to replace them once you get a certain number of them. Economy of scale will work wonders with this.
You'd have to make them really easy to deploy, like basically just drop them off a truck and they turn themselves on and connect to their neighbors. In bad places you'd need to drop more. They'd have to have some software that could estimate where they are that could also call out for repairs. You'd contract this job out by the square mile, as I said. This means tons of jobs for the makers and the deployers. Have one person in charge of half a square mile every other square mile. Let a computer do the job assignment based on an auction system so no one can game it. $65M is what they spent on free condoms for college students last year.
Tradeoffs, sure, terrorists could use it to communicate, just like they could use CB radios or flags or smoke signals. EVERYONE WOULD HAVE FREE INTERNET, UNOWNED BY ANYONE, EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.
When you look at the networking of most smallish cities, there are usually only 3 or 4 real connections out of the city. Usually some OC192 or something to the nearest big city. It's all lined up along the original easements for railroads, power and telephones. A lot of the inter-city traffic is carried on microwave, which means no security at all. Sure, there are a lot more fibers today than in 1990 but after the dotcom burst people stopped pulling in most places. This Google thing may be the start of the next wave.
The smaller your city the further out on the spur you are and the more narrow your options for getting "to the internet" (or to other networks, essentially). The internet isn't ANYTHING, just a way to get from network to network. Right now, the networks themselves for consumers are all in the hands of the telcom companies because they already had the wire. IPv6 will change that because it makes it possible to have mesh networks that actually work. So you could get together with your neighbors at a city council meeting and pay the 10K to pull fiber to a block of houses or even better, neighborhood wireless. IPv4 always needed someone to organize it a little to make it work. It's still highly decentralized and if you look at most university networks, they tend to still follow the original path of lots of publically routable IPs, lots of leased line interconnects to other universities and leased line connections to the closest POPs. But those leased lines are mostly owned by the phone company.
If Google's buying dark fiber, great, but they are still a company. What we need is to look at the internet like a road or highway, something everyone should have access to for free. It's not that expensive to do this in the city, but we will end up heavily subsidizing the country so they can have it also.
At $40/pop that's only $16,886,194,520. ($20 for the AP, $20 for the solar panel)
The government is throwing in $7B, we're halfway there! If everyone spent a weekend deploying we could have the majority of country covered with 9mbps by the end of the year.
If you mesh them and use hexagonal cells you'll have 9mbps from the AP to your laptop even at the middle between cells, and 1mbps to each contigous cell. With IPv6 just use a geographic way to assign the prefix (county, township, section, etc. are already there for the entire country). With a similar setup you can ensure an entirely neutral net. Of course, there are better chunks of bandwidth just coming available. Unfortunately the government charges for the auctions. They need to reserve a nice big chunk for the public, license channels by the square mile using a homestead system where one person can only own 1 AP per mile, with no limit on the total they can own.
Implement micropayment billing to recover the costs and build wires (you need wires to be reliable). Keep greed away with stiff federal pound me in the ass penalties for tampering with APs or trying to price gouge. Problem solved.
Yes, it will be fucking slow at first but you have to start somewhere. The people who need high speed will still have their existing networks, they'll just want to patch into the mesh too to reach those potential customers.
Multi-task has the root word "task" which implies "work". This thing is designed for leisure, and people whose work is basically leisure (hanging out at coffee houses in a turtleneck). Apple has turned computers into fashion. That cool feeling you get when you use your iPhone or iPad in a public place is your ego talking. But now that everyone has an iPod, you don't want anyone to see it, because it makes you another follower. This is Apple's bread and butter and is pure marketing.
Now look, if it didn't work well it would not be cool. The software IS part of that image, as well as the hardware. But it's not THAT much cooler than what's already out there for cheaper. This is just a way for Apple to make more cash, because this thing is quite a bit cheaper to build than an iPhone but it costs more. I don't see it as a game changer though. The game is already set by the Kindle and the fast 3 and 4G data networks. I can already work from anywhere with a number of devices. I hate it. I don't get paid to answer emails on the weekend or off hours but now I'm expected to. I'm really expecting others to have a sort of luddite reaction to this stuff fairly soon as well. But the personal leisure aspect is one that might bear fruit as long as people have disposable income.
As far as business phones, I have not seen anything on an iPhone that is as seamless as BES server and Apple will never go that direction because enterprise is not their game.
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Here's the federal standards for corn syrup: In General and Glucose syrup analytics.
You'll see that they only verify a few basic things. There are no standards for the amount of enzymes, pH, other contaminants, etc. Considering it's a 9-step process, there is a lot of room for contaminants to be introduced or not removed. I highly recommend not eating it if you're reading this ;)
Not that I can find. I did find some studies involving HFCS as a food for bees. Apparently there are some other byproducts that are toxic to bees. Unfortunately, HFCS is commonly used as a food for bees to prime them. This article has a lot of information and analysis of commercial HFCS. Could this be part of the bee death problem in America? This is something we're going to be hearing about more and more over the next few years unless they can get to the bottom of it. It's not surprising, to me, to find another outlet for corn syrup causing problems. I hope that the increasing consumer education and pressure will hopefully lead to it fading away, or at least higher purity being enforced. Also, possibly alarmingly, a lot of commercial HFCS is made in China, and more than likely it finds it's way into food here in the US.
HFCS is created with an enzymatic process. The HFCS food companies buy is dirty. It's mostly fructose and glucose but it also contains the enzymes used to convert the corn starch. You can't remove it all, apparently. And the standards are based on very small serving sizes. When people are drinking 50-100g a day of it, this enzyme builds up in the human system and attaches to other starch and performs the same conversion process to sugar. Normally this process takes more energy but with the unnatural enzyme it doesn't, and therefore it causes more efficient breakdown of starch. These people also tend to have a bag of chips or fries with their 50-100g of corn syrup. This means all of that becomes sugar. Since the body can't use the sugar, insulin is released and reactions occur and "bada-bing" FAT.
See Alpha-amylase, Glucoamylase, and Xyloase.
This has the hallmarks of an acid test. Global law negotiations done in secret, under the guise of treaty...exactly the way we don't want it to go. From here there will be more laws in secret and the only way you'll find out you've violated them is that you don't have the required permit on your passport and you're accosted at the border. This is exactly how the global fascists (corpratists) want it. Without control over global travel, they cannot control the flow of goods and information. Each intersection of borders is a profit gradient. If goods are allowed to pass by osmosis, they lose all the leverage they could use to pump wealth back and forth between countries while taking a cut off the top. Sooner or later, they have it all.
There are basically two forks in this road: one, where there is a single world democracy with the corporations below that rule of law and the other where there are separate country laws (like there are now) and the corporations flit above them BUT prohibit the individual. That's where we're headed now.
Buy a Dell. Then you have a nice warranty, all the stuff works well, they use decent motherboards, etc. If you need a fancy video card, just order an Optiplex or Precision from the small business side and then buy the graphics at newegg..
Yeah, he forgot:
36. I'm nuckin' futs.
WTF? In one case, a web server has been vandalized. In the other, a person is dead.
But your whole argument crumbles if the web server in question is WOPR and that pesky hacker has just started World War Three.
BR sucks, LTO4. It's fast, and guaranteed readable for at least 20 years. If you want to keep drives spinning for 20 years, or spin up a drive that hasn't been on in 20 years, be my guest. This is the optimal solution.
Buy a drive, doesn't have to be a changer. It's about $2K. Then get a 20 pack of tapes, about 800 bucks. They are 800GB each uncompressed but the drive does hardware compression. I do full baremetal backups of linux servers and get around 1.1TB a tape with compression. Add the cost of the tapes $40-120 to the client's fee (with your standard mark-up). Add a storage cost of $100/tape per year billed annually to client for as long as they want to keep the data. Then get more clients.
For an online backup, I highly recommend rsync.net instead. Starts at .80 a GB, goes down rapidly in bulk. Designed for storage, not mail or something. More expensive than AWS but it goes down every month as disk prices drop. Plus other benefits. You're not going to beat cheap hard drives for bulk storage, but I like LTO4 a lot for archival backups. But of course it's all worthless if you have a fire in the server room or something.
More than likely all religion will cease to exist before "Islamists" control your world. There's around 2 billion Christians and 1 billion Hindi and 1 billion Buddists. The remaining 1 billion muslims are not going to crush those other groups any time soon. Furthermore, islam is quite similar to Christianity in it's interpretation of a single diety, and it's not surprising since both were written around the same time in the same area. Radicals are radicals, and there are plenty of radical christians out there. Interestingly, the Cold War has some interesting ties to the rise of radical fundamentalist islam as well, as the U.S. thought it would be a good envelope to keep communism out of the middle east. So we armed them, trained them and gave them the policial support to become real entities rather than just fringe groups. Whoops!
You guys know how the internet works don't you? The only central authority is the IANA, and all they really do is make sure people don't reuse the same IP addresses (and assign the more important AS Numbers. When we're IPv6 in under five years (Sorry, but thanks Microsoft), they will be even less important (still important though). Other than that, it's just private organziations agreeing with each other to carry traffic through their routers. At one point this was Ma Bell but now you have radio links, satellite links, mesh networks, lasers, fiber optics, etc. It's too late for the government. They are going to keep trying to shut us down but the people of the world can all communicate on equal terms now and we know now more than every that we're all pretty much alike.
I think what the Obama policy is about is getting involved in the international aspects where diplomacy is needed. We need more relationships happening across international borders that foster this kind of communications. This will lead to a future where humans across the global can fully communicate on equal terms. At that point we don't really have a use for diplomacy and war because there will just be a lot of small disagreements rather than these large nationwide ones that are questionable anyway. In fact this is going to be the key to opening up new markets.
To think that this was ever the goal of the neo-cons and that Obama is somehow worse is falase beyond almost anything I've ever heard. The neo-cons are so embroiled in World War III, just read a history of president Reagan and all the weapons and stuff we developed then. No one seems to remember the rediculous cold war that looks REALLY rediculous now. That's the system Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld grew up in, forged with their own hands, saw it crumble with the public failure of the Soviet Union. All the power in the world, gone in 2 years.
Thus the fairly false threat of terrorism. Sure, it's a minor fear, but nothing compared to total nuclear anihilation. Anyway, your breathless posts about how Obama is not doing what he said he'd do is wrong. He said he would do all of this. Quit listening to the media and actually listen to the man.
Look at the V1 and V2 though. They used a simple clockwork system to guide them. Then you just need some trig and calc to determine around where you want it to go. When Israel invaded syria or whatever recently, it was because there were some groups doing that to Israel. Little 50 pound missles, into the center of a city. Not something you can defend against. Of course the best defense is not to offend.
There's nothing to fear but fear itself. People need to nut up and realize that we are all going to die someday. If your food prices go up 125% because of all the money wasted on national defense, and you have to eat McDonald's and you die at 60 as a result... We weigh these risks every day.
The absolute fact is that there aren't that many people willing to strap a bomb to their chest and kill Americans. Way less than people would have you believe. Sure, even one death is a tragedy, but in this country we have tons of gun violence from gangs, robberies, etc. and it just feels normal now.
All I saying is that maybe if we focused on spreading around the love a little and not so much on defending our little corner filled with plastic whozits and cheeseburger wrappers we'd actually see some improvement in the world order. You know, be nice to each other for a change.
Last I heard you couldn't connect to private IPs via the Matrix. Pft.
Oh, they have curved lcd's now too, geeze, I am behind the times.
Seems like the bezels could be modular caps so you could snap the monitors together. You could have a flexible joint under the bezel cap or have some sort of adapter that would plug the monitors together at a fixed angle. I don't know why no one's done this yet.. The bezel is really not necessary in the middle of the screen. Someone could probably mock this up with a few flat panels and a dremel and a hot glue gun, any takers?
Once that's done, you could further enhance it with a mesh network bus for video and audio. Audio would be especially cool coming out of the center of the monitor panel. You could address it geometrically in 3d space and it could just come out of the right monitor speaker.
I used VPSLink.com for a while. A VPS is really the way to go if you want to admin your own box. This place is the best I found in much research. They have the top 7 distros to choose from plus they'll pre-install a LAMP or Ruby stack, or a reseller panel. You can be under Xen or OpenVZ. You get to be root. You'll need to keep everything compact enough to run in 256 or 512MB. Probably want to use nginx instead of apache ;)
Amazon EC2 is pretty cool also, but it's not cost effective for continuous hosting. But if you have a spike you can move some of your traffic to an EC2 node (maybe just static content or something) and maintain performance.
Plus they have a strong belief in algorithyms so their energy trading might be based on information they can mine from their database. Energy prices are based a lot on weather and other demands. The thing is, the market is not perfect because there aren't a lot of ways to move power around inter-regionally. Some of the stimulus funds are supposed to build some new centers for distribution between the various grids.
Google tends to build its datacenters near the power generation. So they can buy a lot of power at bulk rates with low transmission costs and then they can sell of the contracts they don't use to the market and come out as a wash or at least ahead. It's a way to corner more power for the future without having to pay for it. The aluminum companies in Washington state did the same thing. Energy prices ARE GOING to go up again.
The fact that they're getting licensed means they are going to do a lot of trading and that means market timing to me and other interesting stuff. For instance, Google could have 3x the capacity it needs in servers, spread across three regional data centers. At any given point, they only need 1/3 of them. It costs not very much to just have them sitting there off versus being used. So if they could just rotate their entire operations across the globe following the sun they could always run at lowest power rates. Google is a lot more busy during the daylight hours (like any non-porn website) so they need to efficiently serve those markets from afar, where it's dark, and that's what the fiber is for.
But having the trading license means they could contract all the power they'd need if they couldn't do this for some reason or some emergency kept them from being able to shut down during a peak power time. If they could, they just sell it off at peak rates.
Knowing Google, there'll be a nice control system that will optimize this and get better and better at saving money. Google knows they are not really making a ton of money and that the fortunes could change rapidly. It is the Internet after all, not food or housing or something people really need. So keeping costs down for their core search business is rather important for their future. This is just yet another example of Google being really good at analytical cost accounting and applying the practices of cost accounting creatively using technology to automate it.
But I think Google is making a big mistake to try to compete in the applications market.
Use the coax for video; pull cat6 for network. Anything else is going to miserable. Yeah, you might get it to work but not without some headaches and $$$. However, that coax may allow you to make an interesting video distribution network for a movie jukebox or something.
What about a multi-CA solution where you need two positives on each cert?
As if anyone checks the signature on the firefox BINARY they are downloading from the internet. Pft, you could just put in your own root certs and just make sure all the packets go to you first.
Without mutual trust you have to fall back on the less secure third party method. Verisign has something like 9 layers of keys kept in physical form in a locked vault. At then end of the day it's good enough to protect against theives and vandals but not foreign/domestic government level stuff.
Of course, the government knows this and what a disaster it would be if a foreign governemnt could execute an orchestrated attack on our financial markets and on military targets at the same time. That's why they have the cyberwarriors or whatever. Not bloody likely to do much for us. Too bad everything is based on confidence and trust nowadays, something so easy to undermine with the frantic media stories, the rampant caffine consumption, the obsession with personal achievement and beauty in America. We've got to change, and more security isn't going to solve the problems we could have. We're weak because we depend on money and other confidence backed mediums of exchange TOO much. But it's so convenient and makes life so easy.
I agree 100%. It's just the framework monkeys can whip out good looking apps right quick. Sure, you're in for a surprise when you try to scale but who cares, we got a real working application in 6 months vs. 2 years!
Sorry, I meant to add, start with the interstates and put one every 152 feet.
U.S. Interstate Highways: 46876 linear miles or 2.475x10^8 feet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
2.475x10^8 feet / 152 feet = 1,628,289 APs
1,628,289 * $40 = $65,131,578.95 or 21 cents per person in the U.S., one time.
Then move to the two lane highways, then on from there. People won't mess with them and if they do, simply have a budget to replace them once you get a certain number of them. Economy of scale will work wonders with this.
You'd have to make them really easy to deploy, like basically just drop them off a truck and they turn themselves on and connect to their neighbors. In bad places you'd need to drop more. They'd have to have some software that could estimate where they are that could also call out for repairs. You'd contract this job out by the square mile, as I said. This means tons of jobs for the makers and the deployers. Have one person in charge of half a square mile every other square mile. Let a computer do the job assignment based on an auction system so no one can game it. $65M is what they spent on free condoms for college students last year.
Tradeoffs, sure, terrorists could use it to communicate, just like they could use CB radios or flags or smoke signals. EVERYONE WOULD HAVE FREE INTERNET, UNOWNED BY ANYONE, EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.
When you look at the networking of most smallish cities, there are usually only 3 or 4 real connections out of the city. Usually some OC192 or something to the nearest big city. It's all lined up along the original easements for railroads, power and telephones. A lot of the inter-city traffic is carried on microwave, which means no security at all. Sure, there are a lot more fibers today than in 1990 but after the dotcom burst people stopped pulling in most places. This Google thing may be the start of the next wave.
The smaller your city the further out on the spur you are and the more narrow your options for getting "to the internet" (or to other networks, essentially). The internet isn't ANYTHING, just a way to get from network to network. Right now, the networks themselves for consumers are all in the hands of the telcom companies because they already had the wire. IPv6 will change that because it makes it possible to have mesh networks that actually work. So you could get together with your neighbors at a city council meeting and pay the 10K to pull fiber to a block of houses or even better, neighborhood wireless. IPv4 always needed someone to organize it a little to make it work. It's still highly decentralized and if you look at most university networks, they tend to still follow the original path of lots of publically routable IPs, lots of leased line interconnects to other universities and leased line connections to the closest POPs. But those leased lines are mostly owned by the phone company.
If Google's buying dark fiber, great, but they are still a company. What we need is to look at the internet like a road or highway, something everyone should have access to for free. It's not that expensive to do this in the city, but we will end up heavily subsidizing the country so they can have it also.
CONUS square miles: 2,959,064.44
CONUS square meters: 7.6639417x10^12 m^2
802.11 coverage per AP 802.11g@9mbps: 3.14159 * 76m^2= 18,145 square meters
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps4570/products_white_paper09186a00801d61a3.shtml
422,154,863 access points, 1 every 152 feet.
At $40/pop that's only $16,886,194,520. ($20 for the AP, $20 for the solar panel)
The government is throwing in $7B, we're halfway there! If everyone spent a weekend deploying we could have the majority of country covered with 9mbps by the end of the year.
If you mesh them and use hexagonal cells you'll have 9mbps from the AP to your laptop even at the middle between cells, and 1mbps to each contigous cell. With IPv6 just use a geographic way to assign the prefix (county, township, section, etc. are already there for the entire country). With a similar setup you can ensure an entirely neutral net. Of course, there are better chunks of bandwidth just coming available. Unfortunately the government charges for the auctions. They need to reserve a nice big chunk for the public, license channels by the square mile using a homestead system where one person can only own 1 AP per mile, with no limit on the total they can own.
Implement micropayment billing to recover the costs and build wires (you need wires to be reliable). Keep greed away with stiff federal pound me in the ass penalties for tampering with APs or trying to price gouge. Problem solved.
Yes, it will be fucking slow at first but you have to start somewhere. The people who need high speed will still have their existing networks, they'll just want to patch into the mesh too to reach those potential customers.
Multi-task has the root word "task" which implies "work". This thing is designed for leisure, and people whose work is basically leisure (hanging out at coffee houses in a turtleneck). Apple has turned computers into fashion. That cool feeling you get when you use your iPhone or iPad in a public place is your ego talking. But now that everyone has an iPod, you don't want anyone to see it, because it makes you another follower. This is Apple's bread and butter and is pure marketing.
Now look, if it didn't work well it would not be cool. The software IS part of that image, as well as the hardware. But it's not THAT much cooler than what's already out there for cheaper. This is just a way for Apple to make more cash, because this thing is quite a bit cheaper to build than an iPhone but it costs more. I don't see it as a game changer though. The game is already set by the Kindle and the fast 3 and 4G data networks. I can already work from anywhere with a number of devices. I hate it. I don't get paid to answer emails on the weekend or off hours but now I'm expected to. I'm really expecting others to have a sort of luddite reaction to this stuff fairly soon as well. But the personal leisure aspect is one that might bear fruit as long as people have disposable income.
As far as business phones, I have not seen anything on an iPhone that is as seamless as BES server and Apple will never go that direction because enterprise is not their game.