Yeah, I was waiting for someone to comment on this. They have to index every data transaction for the government eavesdroppers. So when they want to know what you were doing at 1035 on 2 Feb 2008 they can. Or whatever. Obviously they do this with the IP routers they run which carry the majority of Internet traffic in the US (and the world). Stop and think of all the things increased information access has done for you. Then multiply it by 300 million and you have the benefits to anyone interesting in increasing their personal power through extortion. Tread lightly brings a whole new meaning--now it's advice for the consumer. DON'T deal with companies that provide detailed records to the government for ANY reason. It's none of their business.
It's definitely in contrast to protesting the UN by throwing a rock through their front door... So yes, they were "peaceful" in their protest. Of course, it might be illegal, but no one was really "hurt" in the process.
Petascale (n) - a unit of measure equivalent to the dead weight of all the cats used to test lipstick by getting it rubbed on their eyes over a calendar year.
That would be te free market way of doing things. You could buy and sell "DRM Certificates" not unlike you buy and sell "Stock Certificates" in companies. Too bad music isn't like money, where you actually get in trouble if you manufacture a copy of it. Because if that were the case, the music industry would be the biggest counterfeiters on the planet. Because the when the government prints money it's supposedly in all of our best interests, but when the music companies press plastic they are doing it for THEIR best interests. That's why publishing is the biggest scam. It's actually the antithesis of a free market since it absolutely REQUIRES legal regulation to work as a business model. Some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world are publishing companies. They are the ones who found a new legal loophole (license) to game the system. Oh, and they often have a useful product worth paying for. Examples include Microsoft, most drug companies (they deal in patents, all the drugs are manufactured in Mexico or China by other companies), almost all software companies, some record companies, some book publishers, some news organizations, etc. The ones that don't have a good product typically rely on excess legal pressure to make money, because it's not worth it to any consumer to pay the asking price.
Once this is done, the Last Access Time attribute for newly created files will simply be their File Creation Time. Disabling Last Access Time may affect the operation of backup programs that use the Remote Storage service. YMMV
Or there's a registry key, which requires a reboot:
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\FileSystem] Value Name: NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 = disable, 1 = enable)
And that's not to mention they are PUMPING WATER somewhere it doesn't belong. I think they should really think about what they are doing before doing it. If it causes earthquakes, maybe they should rethink it.... I think they should make a real closed loop, where the water never comes into contact with the rock. Then you don't have to worry about all the problems they were speaking of and no earthquakes. Also, why would the energy run out of the rocks? Isn't there a specific amount of heat at a given depth in the earth? So couldn't you just walk away from the well for a while and heat from the surroundings will soak back in to the area? Also, the fact that someone from Blackstone group is quoted in the article makes me believe this is a sham in some way. Just because it says MIT on it doesn't mean it's not supporting some political agenda somewhere.
My idea is for a closed loop system. You put an underground radiator (heatsink, really) in place using a lot of horizontal pipes. They have ways to do this now, in the drilling business. Then pump some sort of low specific heat like Freon or something like that down there to suck up the energy and expand rapidly. What you are looking for is pressure gradient, not necessarily boiling water. Water can hold a lot of energy but it's slow and has weird properties Freon or r134a doesn't.
Mod Parent Up, this is true. You really CAN'T trust any imagery or audio or any other information these days. The fact that we base nearly all of our judgements on foreign policy on the NEWS reports, and given the fact that it's so easy to manufacture information, it is an absolute FACT that it is POSSIBLE our entire lives are a fragile but very real illusion perpetuated by another party. Humans are experts at spinning facts, and politicians are literally raised FROM BIRTH to do it. Why wouldn't they spin this? Duh.
And of course all your numbers, messages, etc are stored on your local google server farm (off phone), thus it doesn't matter which google phone you use, you have your personal settings saved. So if you want to lend your friend a phone, they could use yours if their battery went dead or something. Simply insert micro-sd card or even better a login and password or other ID (biometric maybe), and your virtual phone is replicated in the device. Including your gmail, etc. The same software would also translate up to larger consoles with bigger screens in fixed locations like coffee shops, etc. No one would want to steal a Google phone because they are freely available at any Starbucks or whatever. Think gmail but with hardware. When you think about it, they are giving you hardware with Gmail, just a portion of some disk space and some server time and bandwidth. Extrapolate that out, into a durable, recyclable device for the masses.
Yes, very sweet. Very trackable. Plus of course you can check if they actually use the coupon or buy something else, or if they went straight to another competitor. Judging by the amount of money businesses spend on focus groups and stuff that give them no real hard data, this could provide a lot of information very cheap, while providing the user with something useful. Just like Google Search is now.
I'm sure they'd have a one button "hold for emergency" button, not unlike the Jitterbug. It is probably mandated by law.. These are simple design issues. I'm sure they'd want to make the device appealing to parents.
The medium is the message. A big goal is location awareness. I doubt there will be audio advertising. More likely if you turn the phone on there will be a popup of a nearby business with a special offer or something. Or if you use data functions, there'll be targetted ads. GIS, you know.
Keep in mind they are bidding up that huge chunk of spectrum coming open soon and if they can snag some of it this could work pretty easily. Start small with a few towers in major markets, preferably near some dark fibre or a NOC they already have in place. Put their sales force to work and cross market to local businesses already using adwords. Lease airtime from other providers in the meantime, under the new regulations they have to provide a quality connection. They have plenty of cash to burn through and I think it would quickly prove itself one way or the other. Obviously offer the chance to "buy up" your service to remove some of the ads. But really try to make the ads real "content". Google has done a good job making ads "content" that actually provide value. In this case, let the consumer know that there's a nearby business offering a special. Don't spam the phone with popups for downloadable ringtones or phone sex lines.
Yeah, it's cyberpunk but whatever. Information Wants to be Free. See wikipedia also. The bottom line is that people will get to the information any way they can. If it's easier to get for free, they will do that. The absolute bottom line is that PUBLISHING COMPANIES CHARGE TOO MUCH, so we would rather steal than pay them extortive rates. No one doubts that the information is valuable, but if people want the information, they will tend to drive the price down, one way or the other. RIAA and the other MAFIAA tried to prevent this from happening with regulation, which was like putting a condom on a firehose.
Now, on the other hand, signing documents with PGP or something actually serves a useful purpose, yet this has been subjugated by industry and government alike. Weird how they don't seem to do what's in our (the customer's) best interests, isn't it? Well, too bad for them, they will go out of business and we will keep buying stuff from someone else. Nice knowing you, ttyl.
From TFS: last year alone, identity theft and online fraud cost British victims an estimated £414m
My Question: How much did it cost British victims to have a correct identity and have a clerical error or other problem occur with their accounts? I bet it's 10-20 times this number. Which goes to show, there are bigger problems. I hate it when newsies put a dollar figure on something like this. Identity is not really a big problem in groupthink anyway--just abstract the individual as an average of the group. Thus, identity theft is no longer an issue, and any costs of dishonesty within the group get spread over the entire group. Then, instead of all of us wasting time proving we are who we say we are, we can spend it finding out who's dishonest and punishing them. It's a positive feedback loop instead of the negative one constantly proposed (adding more ID, not less). It's quite simple, let society do it's work. We need less regulation, not more. Just need to look at everything differently.
It's totally the casino's fault. They put a bad machine out and didn't have effective accounting precautions in place to catch the broken machine. They should sue the machine's maker to the tune of their losses for providing bum software, but they should not go after the customers. That would be foolish. I'm really surprised they even mentioned that. That said, you should be honest if something is broken and tell someone. Morally speaking, that's the right thing to do. But I don't think there's any law against using a broken machine if they're letting you. Posession is 9/10ths of the law, and if they casino cage gives you money for your tokens and you walk out, it's yours.
Sounds like you lucked out; you are probably running the RH on a brand name system or a popular clone system with the right set of components. Anyway, the nature of the beast is that you have to compile your stuff to work right. If you are using libtool binaries which are using shared libraries (.so or.a) there is a strong chance the libraries on your system are not the same as the compiled binary was compiled against. Thus there may be subtle changes in the interface to the shared library which would cause a seg fault during runtime.
Load thrashing periodically is pretty suspicious. You should log your memory usage and monitor your system to figure out what is peaking. It is probably a configuration error on your part. Sometimes this is caused by swap, which you could easily monitor and find the offending process. Sometimes it is caused by heavy disk IO from an app. Sometimes it's caused by a rootkit installed on your box by some script kiddie because you failed to plug an exploit in your box. Either way, there is a solution, and it's probably not a fault of the software. That's not to say that NO software has faults.
I think that I can grant you that enterprise software on linux is probably less tested and bug free than say, Firefox. That's because you aren't leveraging the vast hobbiest demographic, who is content to messing around with xclock while the other 10% of us try to make a decent business intelligence app.
Good points but none of those people really stand out as a true leader, who identifies with the masses. The people you mentioned are geek leaders, which are not necessarily any good and communicating with the masses..
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Yeah, I was waiting for someone to comment on this. They have to index every data transaction for the government eavesdroppers. So when they want to know what you were doing at 1035 on 2 Feb 2008 they can. Or whatever. Obviously they do this with the IP routers they run which carry the majority of Internet traffic in the US (and the world). Stop and think of all the things increased information access has done for you. Then multiply it by 300 million and you have the benefits to anyone interesting in increasing their personal power through extortion. Tread lightly brings a whole new meaning--now it's advice for the consumer. DON'T deal with companies that provide detailed records to the government for ANY reason. It's none of their business.
It's definitely in contrast to protesting the UN by throwing a rock through their front door... So yes, they were "peaceful" in their protest. Of course, it might be illegal, but no one was really "hurt" in the process.
See me already have this idea here. (along with other great comments..)
Petascale (n) - a unit of measure equivalent to the dead weight of all the cats used to test lipstick by getting it rubbed on their eyes over a calendar year.
That would be te free market way of doing things. You could buy and sell "DRM Certificates" not unlike you buy and sell "Stock Certificates" in companies. Too bad music isn't like money, where you actually get in trouble if you manufacture a copy of it. Because if that were the case, the music industry would be the biggest counterfeiters on the planet. Because the when the government prints money it's supposedly in all of our best interests, but when the music companies press plastic they are doing it for THEIR best interests. That's why publishing is the biggest scam. It's actually the antithesis of a free market since it absolutely REQUIRES legal regulation to work as a business model. Some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world are publishing companies. They are the ones who found a new legal loophole (license) to game the system. Oh, and they often have a useful product worth paying for. Examples include Microsoft, most drug companies (they deal in patents, all the drugs are manufactured in Mexico or China by other companies), almost all software companies, some record companies, some book publishers, some news organizations, etc. The ones that don't have a good product typically rely on excess legal pressure to make money, because it's not worth it to any consumer to pay the asking price.
new desktop virtualisation technology called SoftGrid, which allows applications to be virtualised individually, rather than a whole OS.
Isn't this Java? I mean, individual applications running on a virtual machine? Duh?
You can disable it in a few different ways Once this is done, the Last Access Time attribute for newly created files will simply be their File Creation Time. Disabling Last Access Time may affect the operation of backup programs that use the Remote Storage service. YMMV
Or there's a registry key, which requires a reboot:
And that's not to mention they are PUMPING WATER somewhere it doesn't belong. I think they should really think about what they are doing before doing it. If it causes earthquakes, maybe they should rethink it.... I think they should make a real closed loop, where the water never comes into contact with the rock. Then you don't have to worry about all the problems they were speaking of and no earthquakes. Also, why would the energy run out of the rocks? Isn't there a specific amount of heat at a given depth in the earth? So couldn't you just walk away from the well for a while and heat from the surroundings will soak back in to the area? Also, the fact that someone from Blackstone group is quoted in the article makes me believe this is a sham in some way. Just because it says MIT on it doesn't mean it's not supporting some political agenda somewhere.
My idea is for a closed loop system. You put an underground radiator (heatsink, really) in place using a lot of horizontal pipes. They have ways to do this now, in the drilling business. Then pump some sort of low specific heat like Freon or something like that down there to suck up the energy and expand rapidly. What you are looking for is pressure gradient, not necessarily boiling water. Water can hold a lot of energy but it's slow and has weird properties Freon or r134a doesn't.
Mod Parent Up, this is true. You really CAN'T trust any imagery or audio or any other information these days. The fact that we base nearly all of our judgements on foreign policy on the NEWS reports, and given the fact that it's so easy to manufacture information, it is an absolute FACT that it is POSSIBLE our entire lives are a fragile but very real illusion perpetuated by another party. Humans are experts at spinning facts, and politicians are literally raised FROM BIRTH to do it. Why wouldn't they spin this? Duh.
The first side that effectively does so wins.
You're assuming the "side" is "America" as in "us", not the power elite. Sorry to say, this will do more to repress than any weapon before it.
And of course all your numbers, messages, etc are stored on your local google server farm (off phone), thus it doesn't matter which google phone you use, you have your personal settings saved. So if you want to lend your friend a phone, they could use yours if their battery went dead or something. Simply insert micro-sd card or even better a login and password or other ID (biometric maybe), and your virtual phone is replicated in the device. Including your gmail, etc. The same software would also translate up to larger consoles with bigger screens in fixed locations like coffee shops, etc. No one would want to steal a Google phone because they are freely available at any Starbucks or whatever. Think gmail but with hardware. When you think about it, they are giving you hardware with Gmail, just a portion of some disk space and some server time and bandwidth. Extrapolate that out, into a durable, recyclable device for the masses.
Yes, very sweet. Very trackable. Plus of course you can check if they actually use the coupon or buy something else, or if they went straight to another competitor. Judging by the amount of money businesses spend on focus groups and stuff that give them no real hard data, this could provide a lot of information very cheap, while providing the user with something useful. Just like Google Search is now.
I'm sure they'd have a one button "hold for emergency" button, not unlike the Jitterbug. It is probably mandated by law.. These are simple design issues. I'm sure they'd want to make the device appealing to parents.
The medium is the message. A big goal is location awareness. I doubt there will be audio advertising. More likely if you turn the phone on there will be a popup of a nearby business with a special offer or something. Or if you use data functions, there'll be targetted ads. GIS, you know.
Keep in mind they are bidding up that huge chunk of spectrum coming open soon and if they can snag some of it this could work pretty easily. Start small with a few towers in major markets, preferably near some dark fibre or a NOC they already have in place. Put their sales force to work and cross market to local businesses already using adwords. Lease airtime from other providers in the meantime, under the new regulations they have to provide a quality connection. They have plenty of cash to burn through and I think it would quickly prove itself one way or the other. Obviously offer the chance to "buy up" your service to remove some of the ads. But really try to make the ads real "content". Google has done a good job making ads "content" that actually provide value. In this case, let the consumer know that there's a nearby business offering a special. Don't spam the phone with popups for downloadable ringtones or phone sex lines.
Maybe Al Gore can do us all a favor and REinvent the Internet.
Yeah, it's cyberpunk but whatever. Information Wants to be Free. See wikipedia also. The bottom line is that people will get to the information any way they can. If it's easier to get for free, they will do that. The absolute bottom line is that PUBLISHING COMPANIES CHARGE TOO MUCH, so we would rather steal than pay them extortive rates. No one doubts that the information is valuable, but if people want the information, they will tend to drive the price down, one way or the other. RIAA and the other MAFIAA tried to prevent this from happening with regulation, which was like putting a condom on a firehose.
Now, on the other hand, signing documents with PGP or something actually serves a useful purpose, yet this has been subjugated by industry and government alike. Weird how they don't seem to do what's in our (the customer's) best interests, isn't it? Well, too bad for them, they will go out of business and we will keep buying stuff from someone else. Nice knowing you, ttyl.
From TFS: last year alone, identity theft and online fraud cost British victims an estimated £414m
My Question: How much did it cost British victims to have a correct identity and have a clerical error or other problem occur with their accounts? I bet it's 10-20 times this number. Which goes to show, there are bigger problems. I hate it when newsies put a dollar figure on something like this. Identity is not really a big problem in groupthink anyway--just abstract the individual as an average of the group. Thus, identity theft is no longer an issue, and any costs of dishonesty within the group get spread over the entire group. Then, instead of all of us wasting time proving we are who we say we are, we can spend it finding out who's dishonest and punishing them. It's a positive feedback loop instead of the negative one constantly proposed (adding more ID, not less). It's quite simple, let society do it's work. We need less regulation, not more. Just need to look at everything differently.
I had a great idea like this once. I called it the "Jump to Conclusions Mat".
Also check out the Spirit duplicator wikipedia entry.
I think you are getting mimeographs confused with the Spirit duplicator machine. With the purple copies. And the smell.
It's totally the casino's fault. They put a bad machine out and didn't have effective accounting precautions in place to catch the broken machine. They should sue the machine's maker to the tune of their losses for providing bum software, but they should not go after the customers. That would be foolish. I'm really surprised they even mentioned that. That said, you should be honest if something is broken and tell someone. Morally speaking, that's the right thing to do. But I don't think there's any law against using a broken machine if they're letting you. Posession is 9/10ths of the law, and if they casino cage gives you money for your tokens and you walk out, it's yours.
is it carbon neutral?
Looks like their site is up. This is probably FUD to generate blog hits.
Sounds like you lucked out; you are probably running the RH on a brand name system or a popular clone system with the right set of components. Anyway, the nature of the beast is that you have to compile your stuff to work right. If you are using libtool binaries which are using shared libraries (.so or .a) there is a strong chance the libraries on your system are not the same as the compiled binary was compiled against. Thus there may be subtle changes in the interface to the shared library which would cause a seg fault during runtime.
Load thrashing periodically is pretty suspicious. You should log your memory usage and monitor your system to figure out what is peaking. It is probably a configuration error on your part. Sometimes this is caused by swap, which you could easily monitor and find the offending process. Sometimes it is caused by heavy disk IO from an app. Sometimes it's caused by a rootkit installed on your box by some script kiddie because you failed to plug an exploit in your box. Either way, there is a solution, and it's probably not a fault of the software. That's not to say that NO software has faults.
I think that I can grant you that enterprise software on linux is probably less tested and bug free than say, Firefox. That's because you aren't leveraging the vast hobbiest demographic, who is content to messing around with xclock while the other 10% of us try to make a decent business intelligence app.
Good points but none of those people really stand out as a true leader, who identifies with the masses. The people you mentioned are geek leaders, which are not necessarily any good and communicating with the masses..