Like all battery tech, it will be patented and will not lead to much change... Although it's a nice thought.
Battery tech is far too distributed amongst far too many companies for anyone to develop "smaller, cheaper and safer" batteries that are any better than what we have.
While the iDevice app maybe new, the camera-in-car-park scenario has been operating in at least one place that I know (and use) quite frequently; Brisbane Airport.
When you drive in, it images and OCRs your plate at the boom-gate, printing your rego on the ticket. Each car park has a camera pointed at it with a large multi colour light that reads - Red; park occupied, Green; park vacant, and Blue; park about to be vacated. When you pay for/validate your ticket, the light above your car goes from red to blue, and as soon as you pull out, it flicks to green.
I'm all for this tech, it makes park hunting so much easier, plus you would be amazed at the number of stolen cars that are stolen for the express purpose of the criminal driving it to their destination (such as the airport or shopping centre) with no intention of doing anything with the car other than avoiding a taxi fare. Thousands of stolen cars are recovered from parking lots each year, undamaged and usually, unlocked!
The NSW Attorney General abstained because it hasn't been discussed in the NSW Parliament, despite (in his own words) "the issue being around for over 9 years".
I really do despise Conservatives that are unable to make a decisions without asking someone else. Why do you think you are in that position? It's because obviously people trust you to make the right decisions from time to time without having to go back and ask them all the time!!
I'd say you are pretty spot on with that train of thought. Like many big corporates, the overlords are so disconnected from the worker bees and other talent that they don't even know where or what they sell.
It mist have been someone like Morheim that went in to the top brass and slammed the 'bad press' in their face resulting in the official turn around, plus the bonus "show of good faith" with the invite to Irvine.
This has nothing to do with foul language and everything to do with people walking out the door with account numbers, medical records, credit card info, social security numbers and other valuable private information.
Yes, this is true.
Although I don't know why this is "Breaking News" considering it has been offered on Xerox products for over 3 years. And I should know, we sell this stuff to government departments purely based on the security we can offer them.
It might be easy to hand write the details off the screen for circumvention, but that is only going to net you a small data set. These systems are designend to stop people walking off with entire client databases and that type of thing. In the governemnt, it's more about keyword 'flagging' that sends the MIB to your desk on very short notice.
I will add my 2c and say it is the increased usage of cordless 2.4GHz phones during those hours. Some of the (cheap) units don't behave particularly well with WiFi and I've personally seen just one phone cause a complete outage of all WiFi in a house.
Chances are that one of your neighbours with a teenage daughter bought some cheap but funky looking cordless phone off eBay and uses it every night during your outage window.
A similar story Slashdot ran a few years ago about an entire Italian city being taken to court for lowering the time of the amber light on only the intersections where red light cameras were present!
And don't get as nerdy types started on the effectiveness of speed cameras...
Well I might work for the biggest player in the industry and have slightly tainted views of this, but this concept is not new
Add to that, the 'non-consumable' paper is still $3.30 a piece, or at best, $0.0033 (0.3 of a cent). Since regular paper is 0.5 to 0.8c anyway, you would absolutely need to get your full usage out of your plastic to be saving money since the cost of a b/w print is less than a cent too.
Paper + B/W print = 1.2c Thermal + plastic = $3.30 Break even is therefore 275 uses per sheet... Good luck with that.
Like many others I saw the real reason for the introduction of the app store changes in the 3.0 release of iPhone firmware; the ability to produce a framework app that allowed paid content distribution. This opened up the iPhone to content owners/providers as a portal for their paid content, and in the case of book publishers, a new medium through which to supply ebooks without fear of them hitting the internet for mass duplication as PDF.
Remember that Apple are big supporters of DRM, and they are just looking for a small piece of the publication profits for e-distribution. With the upcoming 'slate', this will be extended to movies, newspapers and other paid content too.
Your spot on with the home office server which I agree, is where this is squarely aimed. I already use a Mac mini (G4) with OS X 10.4 server to run the home network, serve up music to all the other PCs and laptops around the place, and run as the local mail server. The last job it serves is as a test platform for any MAMP projects I do on the side, plus host my blog/web presence (which probably only gets all of 7 hits a week). I've had this scenario since 2005 and I'd actually been looking to upgrade to the Intel platform. This new box now gives me the perfect opportunity!
I'd have to agree that Australia does have one of the best systems of tertiary education payment in the world, and the fact that the loan is from the government means they are virtually garanteed to get it back as they pull it straight out of your Fereral income tax until it's paid back entirely. Even better, if you make voluntary additional payments, you get an extra 10% credit to your loan. It also means we don't have sharks lending students money and then screwing every last cent out of them when they need it most; when they are getting started in life.
I don't know about an avearge cost of $20k to $30k these days, that would be a pretty low cost degree... The minimum number of semesters at university (undergrad) is 6 and each university factors a cost of about $8k to $12k per semester. There are courses that are as high as $32,000 per semester (Medicine) and non-Citzens studying in Australia have to pay the whole lot, hence the term "full-fee" students.
The last time I was at uni was as a postgrad at USyd in 2005 and it came out at just under $15,000 for 2 semesters. The good thing is that education expenses are a tax deduction over here.
And to think that when our parents went to university, it was totally free!
The Prime Minister of Italy owns the largest Italian publishing house
You're spot on.
Unfortunately there are no laws or legal reason in some countires (I'm looking at you USA) why politicians can not hold an entire countries stock of media related buiness and not control the media related decisions of the government.
Another example would be a person, say the Defense Secretary, owning 8% of a defence contracting company like, say Haliburton, and then miraculously awarding them contracts to the tune of $2bn per annum.
Berlisconi clearly believes that as the PM of Italy, his ties to the Italian media are by no means a 'conflict of interests'...And that pigs can fly...
IANAL, but my guess on the sealing of the documents is to limit the number of 'copy-cat' cases that might be brought before the courts in other states/jurisdictions prior to this one being decided.
Don't rubbish people and tell them to "Do some research" without first doing your own.
I have an apartment in a building where everyone has 10MB/s ethernet straight out of the wall. And it is just about to be upped to 100MB/s because we don't even remotely use the 1Gb/s on the fibre coming in to the basement!
FTTN does already exist in some places, just no where you have lived, apparently.
Would the Chinese agents be covered by diplomatic immunity for breaking US Laws? I think not, and last time I checked, it was illegal to gain unwarranted access to a communications device (email in this case) under US Federal Law without a US issued court order. As the server is based in California, it does indeed fall under US law. The good thing about it being a Federal offence is that it gets looked after by the Feds who can actually do something about international suspects.
So how do you go about putting members of a foreign government department in to INTERPOL?
That requires population density, and density is something HK has plenty of, to the point where those services are cheap, however you must share it, and your street/building/rooftop/park/etc. with 10,000 other people.
You sir, have clearly never been to Edinburgh. All the Scottish Bankers and Politicians are there, in great numbers. Halifax Bank of SCOTLAND, Royal Bank of SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH Equitable (pensions, banking) SCOTTISH Widows (pensions), SCOTTISH Parliament, and so on, and so on.
English Bankers and Politicians are quite capable of fucking up their own country.
...both Edinburgh and Glasgow have relatively few BT customers at present. The residents in each city looking for broadband are pretty much all subscribers to the two major cable companies that provide phone services, pay TV and unlimited 1~10MB (shared bandwidth) cable internet for a fairly low fee. The cities are also fairly dense, but not too populated, thus making them good public pilot sites. There are also two fantastic Universities right in the heart of the cities that probably influence a lot of local council decisions.
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It doesn't matter what you want to put on your thesis, you university owns the copyrights to it.
I'd suggest you contact your Uni and put the same question to them, rather than 6 million /. Subscribers.
Like all battery tech, it will be patented and will not lead to much change... Although it's a nice thought.
Battery tech is far too distributed amongst far too many companies for anyone to develop "smaller, cheaper and safer" batteries that are any better than what we have.
While the iDevice app maybe new, the camera-in-car-park scenario has been operating in at least one place that I know (and use) quite frequently; Brisbane Airport.
When you drive in, it images and OCRs your plate at the boom-gate, printing your rego on the ticket. Each car park has a camera pointed at it with a large multi colour light that reads - Red; park occupied, Green; park vacant, and Blue; park about to be vacated. When you pay for/validate your ticket, the light above your car goes from red to blue, and as soon as you pull out, it flicks to green.
I'm all for this tech, it makes park hunting so much easier, plus you would be amazed at the number of stolen cars that are stolen for the express purpose of the criminal driving it to their destination (such as the airport or shopping centre) with no intention of doing anything with the car other than avoiding a taxi fare. Thousands of stolen cars are recovered from parking lots each year, undamaged and usually, unlocked!
The NSW Attorney General abstained because it hasn't been discussed in the NSW Parliament, despite (in his own words) "the issue being around for over 9 years".
I really do despise Conservatives that are unable to make a decisions without asking someone else. Why do you think you are in that position? It's because obviously people trust you to make the right decisions from time to time without having to go back and ask them all the time!!
If you have a Mac Mini with OSX Server, you really should be running it as such. There is a great write up regarding the setup for a complete noob here http://www.wazmac.com/servers_network/fileservers/osxserver_setup/osxserver106_setup.htm
I'd say you are pretty spot on with that train of thought. Like many big corporates, the overlords are so disconnected from the worker bees and other talent that they don't even know where or what they sell.
It mist have been someone like Morheim that went in to the top brass and slammed the 'bad press' in their face resulting in the official turn around, plus the bonus "show of good faith" with the invite to Irvine.
This has nothing to do with foul language and everything to do with people walking out the door with account numbers, medical records, credit card info, social security numbers and other valuable private information.
Yes, this is true.
Although I don't know why this is "Breaking News" considering it has been offered on Xerox products for over 3 years.
And I should know, we sell this stuff to government departments purely based on the security we can offer them.
It might be easy to hand write the details off the screen for circumvention, but that is only going to net you a small data set. These systems are designend to stop people walking off with entire client databases and that type of thing. In the governemnt, it's more about keyword 'flagging' that sends the MIB to your desk on very short notice.
I will add my 2c and say it is the increased usage of cordless 2.4GHz phones during those hours. Some of the (cheap) units don't behave particularly well with WiFi and I've personally seen just one phone cause a complete outage of all WiFi in a house.
Chances are that one of your neighbours with a teenage daughter bought some cheap but funky looking cordless phone off eBay and uses it every night during your outage window.
Old new indeed.
A similar story Slashdot ran a few years ago about an entire Italian city being taken to court for lowering the time of the amber light on only the intersections where red light cameras were present!
And don't get as nerdy types started on the effectiveness of speed cameras...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/2222219
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1938220
Well I might work for the biggest player in the industry and have slightly tainted views of this, but this concept is not new
Add to that, the 'non-consumable' paper is still $3.30 a piece, or at best, $0.0033 (0.3 of a cent). Since regular paper is 0.5 to 0.8c anyway, you would absolutely need to get your full usage out of your plastic to be saving money since the cost of a b/w print is less than a cent too.
Paper + B/W print = 1.2c
Thermal + plastic = $3.30
Break even is therefore 275 uses per sheet... Good luck with that.
Seriously, open the PDF and go to page 12.
Whoever signed that obviously doesn't have a chequebook or a credit card!
Like many others I saw the real reason for the introduction of the app store changes in the 3.0 release of iPhone firmware; the ability to produce a framework app that allowed paid content distribution. This opened up the iPhone to content owners/providers as a portal for their paid content, and in the case of book publishers, a new medium through which to supply ebooks without fear of them hitting the internet for mass duplication as PDF.
Remember that Apple are big supporters of DRM, and they are just looking for a small piece of the publication profits for e-distribution. With the upcoming 'slate', this will be extended to movies, newspapers and other paid content too.
Your spot on with the home office server which I agree, is where this is squarely aimed. I already use a Mac mini (G4) with OS X 10.4 server to run the home network, serve up music to all the other PCs and laptops around the place, and run as the local mail server. The last job it serves is as a test platform for any MAMP projects I do on the side, plus host my blog/web presence (which probably only gets all of 7 hits a week). I've had this scenario since 2005 and I'd actually been looking to upgrade to the Intel platform. This new box now gives me the perfect opportunity!
I'd have to agree that Australia does have one of the best systems of tertiary education payment in the world, and the fact that the loan is from the government means they are virtually garanteed to get it back as they pull it straight out of your Fereral income tax until it's paid back entirely. Even better, if you make voluntary additional payments, you get an extra 10% credit to your loan. It also means we don't have sharks lending students money and then screwing every last cent out of them when they need it most; when they are getting started in life.
I don't know about an avearge cost of $20k to $30k these days, that would be a pretty low cost degree... The minimum number of semesters at university (undergrad) is 6 and each university factors a cost of about $8k to $12k per semester. There are courses that are as high as $32,000 per semester (Medicine) and non-Citzens studying in Australia have to pay the whole lot, hence the term "full-fee" students.
The last time I was at uni was as a postgrad at USyd in 2005 and it came out at just under $15,000 for 2 semesters. The good thing is that education expenses are a tax deduction over here.
And to think that when our parents went to university, it was totally free!
The Prime Minister of Italy owns the largest Italian publishing house
You're spot on.
Unfortunately there are no laws or legal reason in some countires (I'm looking at you USA) why politicians can not hold an entire countries stock of media related buiness and not control the media related decisions of the government.
Another example would be a person, say the Defense Secretary, owning 8% of a defence contracting company like, say Haliburton, and then miraculously awarding them contracts to the tune of $2bn per annum.
Berlisconi clearly believes that as the PM of Italy, his ties to the Italian media are by no means a 'conflict of interests'...And that pigs can fly...
IANAL, but my guess on the sealing of the documents is to limit the number of 'copy-cat' cases that might be brought before the courts in other states/jurisdictions prior to this one being decided.
But like I said, it's a guess.
Don't rubbish people and tell them to "Do some research" without first doing your own.
I have an apartment in a building where everyone has 10MB/s ethernet straight out of the wall. And it is just about to be upped to 100MB/s because we don't even remotely use the 1Gb/s on the fibre coming in to the basement!
FTTN does already exist in some places, just no where you have lived, apparently.
Would the Chinese agents be covered by diplomatic immunity for breaking US Laws? I think not, and last time I checked, it was illegal to gain unwarranted access to a communications device (email in this case) under US Federal Law without a US issued court order. As the server is based in California, it does indeed fall under US law. The good thing about it being a Federal offence is that it gets looked after by the Feds who can actually do something about international suspects.
So how do you go about putting members of a foreign government department in to INTERPOL?
Slashdot isn't free advertising space... we see though your flimsy disguise
That requires population density, and density is something HK has plenty of, to the point where those services are cheap, however you must share it, and your street/building/rooftop/park/etc. with 10,000 other people.
You sir, have clearly never been to Edinburgh. All the Scottish Bankers and Politicians are there, in great numbers. Halifax Bank of SCOTLAND, Royal Bank of SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH Equitable (pensions, banking) SCOTTISH Widows (pensions), SCOTTISH Parliament, and so on, and so on.
English Bankers and Politicians are quite capable of fucking up their own country.
...both Edinburgh and Glasgow have relatively few BT customers at present. The residents in each city looking for broadband are pretty much all subscribers to the two major cable companies that provide phone services, pay TV and unlimited 1~10MB (shared bandwidth) cable internet for a fairly low fee. The cities are also fairly dense, but not too populated, thus making them good public pilot sites. There are also two fantastic Universities right in the heart of the cities that probably influence a lot of local council decisions.
Stable hot rock 'relatively' close to the surface is hugely abundant where I live, Australia, and we don't get that much movement in the Earth.
Have a read on Geodynamics website for more info
How do you propose to power transportation?
without major advances in battery tech
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Actually, we have plenty of battery tech, it's just that the patents protecting it are spread amongst too many competing companies.