I can easily see police bypassing this. What if a "private citizen" plants the device? Couldn't not the citizen inform the police of a suspects movements?
If there are privacy laws preventing citizens from planting tracking devices could not the police cut a deal where the informer got a slap on the wrist in exchange for their testimony of someones whereabouts?
Maybe collusion with the police would matter or maybe it wouldn't. In any case it would be difficult to prove collusion.
Take for example the case where a known burglar breaks into a house and witnesses a man killing his wife.. could not the police cut a deal with the burglar for his testimony? I can see parallels here.
You only need to record a lecture one to three times with possible editing. Maybe update it now and then. It's the equivalent of a electronic textbook. Only thing left is answering questions and office hours per session. If he does this it just seems to me he will just be the director of a tutoring group. Are professors/teachers really needed anymore?
I am upset that my taxes go to supporting the film industry's copyright policing like this.
Keeping a person in jail for a year costs between 25-50K not including court costs.
That's money that can be used for more worthwhile things. What it's being spent on will not result in any changed behavior or profits for the entertainment industry. It only drives things more underground and makes people become more sophisticated. The only people making money from this are the lawyers collecting paychecks and not producing anything of worth for society.
It's also exposes all the corrupt politicians and the justice system. While they have always been corrupt I would have been happier to live in ignorance than to have it exposed out in the open like this.
Copyright police? Censorship? The original politicians that started this country are turning over in their graves. This country was started as a backlash to self serving corruption like this.
Most displays are digital now so having an aux VGA connector on a screen actually requires an analog to digital converter. That's extra circuitry. Then with multiple digital connectors you have extra processing logic for each and every signal. Multiple standards with multiple revisions.
It's better if display cards and monitors just have one type of input/output each and you use an external converter (the same electronics that would have been on the card and or in the displays). Fortunately with digital signals going into the future the build quality of the converter doesn't really affect anything other than if the works or not so converters can be cheap.
The one great thing about modern graphics cards is that they can drive more than one monitor. But I personally hate seeing VGA/DVI and now HDMI connectors on video cards. I want all just displayport or the latest connector. Must better to downgrade though an adapter you can choose.
Imagine if they had just endowed a couple open source/hardware BSD companies to generate competing projects. Two companies could hire a dozen programmers each to work year round for ten years. It would produce something everyone could use, the public, private companies, and the government itself would actually get a working system. And it would have only cost them around 35 million. 24 programmers x 100,000 x 10 years = $24mil. So another 11 million for overhead.
If the companies were designed from the get go to be BSD open sourced then there would be competition to actually be hired into the projects... you would get even more work than what you paid for...
They are basically breaking new ground putting fiber up there. As others have stated fiber optics don't need a conductor. If anything metal in a cable would be for structural strength for standard cables not designed for collocation with power lines. So Google may have to string commission non standard lines that use another material for reinforcement or use a heavier cable and ground it.
I think the regulation rules are reasonable. Homes need reliable electricity. Homes need reliable communication. Lines in inevitably need to be repaired at sometime and everything need to be repairable quickly and efficiently in a standard way. But it shouldn't take more than a month or two to get everyone to approve an acceptable standard.
Undoubtedly knowing apple each tablet has to have a hardware id/serial number. They will undoubtedly be able to deduce the ipad id's from the boxes. Then just track down the missing iPads and find out who sold it to them. Just follow the money. I would also wonder if the tablets/packages had any fingerprints.
All in all it's hard to fry a modern processor. Probably some time back they put fuses in the processors just in case of short circuit since then know people overclock them. It's probably sophisticated enough now that they can actually recycle the processors. Simply tear down the package and replace the micro fuses and install in a new package. They might even rely on this mechanism in their processor testing and slotting. So if they are already recycling processors with blown fuses why not insure extreme edition processors as well for a little extra. What they insure the processors for covers the costs probably but it makes buying and overclocking the expensive premium extreme edition a little less scary for those that might put down the money.
Everything is hackable. Hardware is the new frontier.
There will be so much interest in Microsoft's private keys that they will be the prime target. They will need to have different keys for all devices just to maintain moderate security and that won't stop hardware hacking.
Let me repeat, the only way to defeat crackers is monetize the industry and give them a big cut of the action. Crackers against crackers. They design the system and if it's cracked their percentage goes to paying off the cracker. You end up with DRM companies trying to crack each others systems.
Split off the old film division into a maintenance company for film cameras. Commit to some old school film camera models and maintain them indefinitely. Preserve the ancient art. Support other manufacturers old equipment with parts and film. Raise the prices to maintain the business.
For the digital division come out with a few models of slightly oversized modular cameras. Focus on the amateur photographer. The cameras should be designed to be supported for 10 years and not obsolete in six months. Have the electronics internals replaceable/upgradeable. Build them more sturdy such that they can be dropped and used in the rain. Have unusual models useful for art type stuff such as multiple offset lenses of different types. Be the brand name people look for when what they are looking to do isn't standard. What if people want to use an IR/UV sensor for alternative photography, they won't find that at best buy.
Stop putting filters in the cameras and instead simply take raw images. Put out your own inexpensive inter-operating photo editing suite that will rival Photoshop to "develop" the images. Don't make the software point and click... make it capable. Make the image algorithms transparent though a compiled scripted mathematical language rather than purchased modules/addons.
Bring the people. Then do collaborative deals with commodity hardware companies.
TV sets should be no more than UV/IR "blue" screen hung on a wall.
Give me comfortable glasses that can overlay reality. Then I can use those glasses for all my general purpose viewing needs, be they 2D or 3D.
It's more than credible that you can turn off the lights in your bedroom or TV room and have the equivalent resolution experience of a movie theater, be it 2D or 3D.
They just need a short range transmitter with enough bandwidth that can match the resolution of both eyes for up to ten people in a room. Have an aux input that can plug into an external receiver for a specialized receiver for occasions where your in a larger crowd such as a theater. Everyone they can have the quality glasses they can afford. It opens up a world of augmented reality. Just like cell phones they will be big at first and then they will get smaller and more fashionable.
Then much further in the future we will have implants that plug directly into the optical nerve and augment what you see more directly.
We subsidize college students at all levels. Surely many of those can also teach and write. So reformat the grant programs so that those that write good textbooks and apps that are actually used can get compensated through tuition.
What percentage does the average PHD student actually pay for their tuition?
It would be revolutionary if you could trigger earthquakes. And if you can intentionally have smaller ones vs bigger ones even better. If it's true then we serious need Ohio to continue and seriously study the phenomenon. To where your fracking where there are no oil wells just to see if you can get results. This would save lives.
And it's a hard argument to say that pumping water at relatively low pressures and total energies (compared to what exists already) is actually causing earthquakes. That would be a thousand times more revolutionary. The energies involved in earthquakes are nuclear on an exponential scale.
Either way for the sake of humanity we need them to continue.
A passive system like RFID is too easy to forge and copy. An active ID system uses active encryption for challenge and response. It can't be easily bypassed unless you can take apart an integrated circuit and read it's memory contents directly.
This is what the ignorant executives at software games companies don't understand. They can't really sympathize with those that pirate. They can't get in their heads. As "PC games" are reduced it will only motivate those sorts of people to move to rooted consoles. By rooted console I mean hacked to the point it's connected up to a PC for all it's input and output. Games will still be distributed over the internet and pirated. Nothing short of eliminating all existing computer network technology will prevent that.
The pity here is that the PC is the Superior game platform. So when PC version of a game is put up on the net there is little motivation or want for the console version of the game. But as the PC games disappear consoles become the new focus for pirates. Pirates are techies. The harder something is to do the more pride and status you get from doing it.
The weakest link to DRM is the internet. It only takes only one person to hack into a locked platform and then they share that information with everyone.
The Solution: The only strategy that will actually work is putting crackers on the payroll. As it is now they can't approach a company like Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft because of the "digital" IP laws these companies have pushed. It looks too much like extortion. But in truth that is the solution, to turn the resources and talent of the internet to your favor. Getting the crackers to fix the hardware and software themselves.
How you come up with an appropriate reward amount has to be open for negotiation. The companies and the crackers must be free to call each others negotiation bluffs without repercussions for the crackers. If the cracker won't accept a specific amount of money then he must be able to release details of his crack. The company can then handle the repercussions and then fix the crack themselves. The cracks are not kept secret, they are actually fixed. There is motivation to fix them. And the free market then decides what is fair compensation.
There then becomes an industry of "professionals" (even more motivated and talented) to not only develop security measures but to defeat them. They actually get a cut of the action. The current crackers doing it as a hobby then have no chance because if they had the ability they would be working for a professional cracking company or have their own.
In essence the problem doesn't actually exist. The entertainment companies are greedy and just don't want to pay that percentage. So they bully people through law suits and create laws that inhibit free speech and the free market economics. They would rather give the percentages to lawyers and politicians.
So they withdrew public support and will become private supporters.
The only support that matters to senators is private and the most important to them... money.
The only think that I can think of that might work is an organized group that publicized what politicians supported and stopped a him from being reelected but in a way that they could take credit. A politicians would listen to them then.
In this modern era what I would most want to see is direct democracy. We don't really need senators or representatives except superficially. What would be great is a mixed private vote and a delegated representative(s). That way on certain issues you care about you could directly vote. Maybe even set up a hierarchy of who controls your vote.
Losing these a handful of big websites doesn't cost Godaddy more than $100 a year. The negative publicity affects them much worse.
I think what is really needed is to get all the big name companies together and sponsor research into an alternative to DNS that can't be touched by any government and you can't sue for trademark infringement. Perhaps some combination of public key encryption and p2p. Then webpages the world over could provide links to the public key to search for. Instead of being able to directly go to a website you would need to go through (gasp) a search engine, then forever hence your web browser could find the site. Perhaps the public keys could even be encoded in those newfangled 2d bar codes.
His company doesn't have to use it and it doesn't need to compensate him for it. He should have requisitioned the company to contract the creation of the software, outlining what it would do and how valuable it would be. How it would make/save them money. Writing the requisition is part of the job. Then suggest the name of someone that could do the work at a reasonable price. This is where it's nice to have a good friend. You can have him pass the work off and give him a small percentage.
He is not in any position to do anything else. He will move on to another company later. Better to give the company your code and get acknowledged in writing or to make the code more applicable to other businesses and open source the code. If the software is so valuable they will need you to maintain it. Do everything you can for your company but get it in writing what you did and how it's beyond your job description and make it known how your keeping your resume out there... That your ambitious.
They forgot to stress that there Kiosks are about giving away free samples... Children would definitely abuse it and since their parents won't be buying them expensive pudding... nothing for them. They probably also keep a biometric record of your face so adults can't abuse it either.
Way back in the beginning you could see them as single computers but nowadays a supercomputer looks more like a local network of computers or a local cloud/cluster. Where does the computer start and stop?
Science centers certainly need the computing power but I can't see how relevant it is to think of these specialized clusters as a single computer or how one rates against another. These clusters are constantly being upgraded and expanded. The interconnects and topology is the only interesting thing but you can't necessarily compare two systems since every system is specialized for certain calculations and software.
The greatest idea if I ever heard of. The equivalent of FreeBSD jails on an smart phone. Business and private is sand-boxed separately. Practically two separate devices. Add VPN to the business sandbox and it's a killer app. Install all the trojans and viruses you want if you personal sandbox. Business won't be affected.
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I can easily see police bypassing this. What if a "private citizen" plants the device? Couldn't not the citizen inform the police of a suspects movements?
If there are privacy laws preventing citizens from planting tracking devices could not the police cut a deal where the informer got a slap on the wrist in exchange for their testimony of someones whereabouts?
Maybe collusion with the police would matter or maybe it wouldn't. In any case it would be difficult to prove collusion.
Take for example the case where a known burglar breaks into a house and witnesses a man killing his wife.. could not the police cut a deal with the burglar for his testimony? I can see parallels here.
You only need to record a lecture one to three times with possible editing. Maybe update it now and then. It's the equivalent of a electronic textbook. Only thing left is answering questions and office hours per session. If he does this it just seems to me he will just be the director of a tutoring group. Are professors/teachers really needed anymore?
I am upset that my taxes go to supporting the film industry's copyright policing like this.
Keeping a person in jail for a year costs between 25-50K not including court costs.
That's money that can be used for more worthwhile things. What it's being spent on will not result in any changed behavior or profits for the entertainment industry. It only drives things more underground and makes people become more sophisticated. The only people making money from this are the lawyers collecting paychecks and not producing anything of worth for society.
It's also exposes all the corrupt politicians and the justice system. While they have always been corrupt I would have been happier to live in ignorance than to have it exposed out in the open like this.
Copyright police? Censorship? The original politicians that started this country are turning over in their graves. This country was started as a backlash to self serving corruption like this.
Most displays are digital now so having an aux VGA connector on a screen actually requires an analog to digital converter. That's extra circuitry. Then with multiple digital connectors you have extra processing logic for each and every signal. Multiple standards with multiple revisions.
It's better if display cards and monitors just have one type of input/output each and you use an external converter (the same electronics that would have been on the card and or in the displays). Fortunately with digital signals going into the future the build quality of the converter doesn't really affect anything other than if the works or not so converters can be cheap.
The one great thing about modern graphics cards is that they can drive more than one monitor. But I personally hate seeing VGA/DVI and now HDMI connectors on video cards. I want all just displayport or the latest connector. Must better to downgrade though an adapter you can choose.
Imagine if they had just endowed a couple open source/hardware BSD companies to generate competing projects. Two companies could hire a dozen programmers each to work year round for ten years. It would produce something everyone could use, the public, private companies, and the government itself would actually get a working system. And it would have only cost them around 35 million. 24 programmers x 100,000 x 10 years = $24mil. So another 11 million for overhead.
If the companies were designed from the get go to be BSD open sourced then there would be competition to actually be hired into the projects... you would get even more work than what you paid for...
I'm curious if it was MS or Linux.
We all know what is possibe with DNA/RNA. Show how it evolved from nothing in the laboratory.
The evolution to DNA is what is more interesting. What was before?
They are basically breaking new ground putting fiber up there. As others have stated fiber optics don't need a conductor. If anything metal in a cable would be for structural strength for standard cables not designed for collocation with power lines. So Google may have to string commission non standard lines that use another material for reinforcement or use a heavier cable and ground it.
I think the regulation rules are reasonable. Homes need reliable electricity. Homes need reliable communication. Lines in inevitably need to be repaired at sometime and everything need to be repairable quickly and efficiently in a standard way. But it shouldn't take more than a month or two to get everyone to approve an acceptable standard.
Undoubtedly knowing apple each tablet has to have a hardware id/serial number. They will undoubtedly be able to deduce the ipad id's from the boxes. Then just track down the missing iPads and find out who sold it to them. Just follow the money. I would also wonder if the tablets/packages had any fingerprints.
All in all it's hard to fry a modern processor. Probably some time back they put fuses in the processors just in case of short circuit since then know people overclock them. It's probably sophisticated enough now that they can actually recycle the processors. Simply tear down the package and replace the micro fuses and install in a new package. They might even rely on this mechanism in their processor testing and slotting. So if they are already recycling processors with blown fuses why not insure extreme edition processors as well for a little extra. What they insure the processors for covers the costs probably but it makes buying and overclocking the expensive premium extreme edition a little less scary for those that might put down the money.
I concur. Stop promoting these sites.
Everything is hackable. Hardware is the new frontier.
There will be so much interest in Microsoft's private keys that they will be the prime target. They will need to have different keys for all devices just to maintain moderate security and that won't stop hardware hacking.
Let me repeat, the only way to defeat crackers is monetize the industry and give them a big cut of the action. Crackers against crackers. They design the system and if it's cracked their percentage goes to paying off the cracker. You end up with DRM companies trying to crack each others systems.
I don't favor the idea of permanently sequestering CO2. With normal biological processes sooner or later the O2 is recycled.
Seems to me they need to come up with with something natural that produces long chains of pure carbon.
Split off the old film division into a maintenance company for film cameras. Commit to some old school film camera models and maintain them indefinitely. Preserve the ancient art. Support other manufacturers old equipment with parts and film. Raise the prices to maintain the business.
For the digital division come out with a few models of slightly oversized modular cameras. Focus on the amateur photographer. The cameras should be designed to be supported for 10 years and not obsolete in six months. Have the electronics internals replaceable/upgradeable. Build them more sturdy such that they can be dropped and used in the rain. Have unusual models useful for art type stuff such as multiple offset lenses of different types. Be the brand name people look for when what they are looking to do isn't standard. What if people want to use an IR/UV sensor for alternative photography, they won't find that at best buy.
Stop putting filters in the cameras and instead simply take raw images. Put out your own inexpensive inter-operating photo editing suite that will rival Photoshop to "develop" the images. Don't make the software point and click... make it capable. Make the image algorithms transparent though a compiled scripted mathematical language rather than purchased modules/addons.
Bring the people. Then do collaborative deals with commodity hardware companies.
TV sets should be no more than UV/IR "blue" screen hung on a wall.
Give me comfortable glasses that can overlay reality. Then I can use those glasses for all my general purpose viewing needs, be they 2D or 3D.
It's more than credible that you can turn off the lights in your bedroom or TV room and have the equivalent resolution experience of a movie theater, be it 2D or 3D.
They just need a short range transmitter with enough bandwidth that can match the resolution of both eyes for up to ten people in a room. Have an aux input that can plug into an external receiver for a specialized receiver for occasions where your in a larger crowd such as a theater. Everyone they can have the quality glasses they can afford. It opens up a world of augmented reality. Just like cell phones they will be big at first and then they will get smaller and more fashionable.
Then much further in the future we will have implants that plug directly into the optical nerve and augment what you see more directly.
We subsidize college students at all levels. Surely many of those can also teach and write. So reformat the grant programs so that those that write good textbooks and apps that are actually used can get compensated through tuition.
What percentage does the average PHD student actually pay for their tuition?
It would be revolutionary if you could trigger earthquakes. And if you can intentionally have smaller ones vs bigger ones even better. If it's true then we serious need Ohio to continue and seriously study the phenomenon. To where your fracking where there are no oil wells just to see if you can get results. This would save lives.
And it's a hard argument to say that pumping water at relatively low pressures and total energies (compared to what exists already) is actually causing earthquakes. That would be a thousand times more revolutionary. The energies involved in earthquakes are nuclear on an exponential scale.
Either way for the sake of humanity we need them to continue.
A passive system like RFID is too easy to forge and copy. An active ID system uses active encryption for challenge and response. It can't be easily bypassed unless you can take apart an integrated circuit and read it's memory contents directly.
This is what the ignorant executives at software games companies don't understand. They can't really sympathize with those that pirate. They can't get in their heads. As "PC games" are reduced it will only motivate those sorts of people to move to rooted consoles. By rooted console I mean hacked to the point it's connected up to a PC for all it's input and output. Games will still be distributed over the internet and pirated. Nothing short of eliminating all existing computer network technology will prevent that.
The pity here is that the PC is the Superior game platform. So when PC version of a game is put up on the net there is little motivation or want for the console version of the game. But as the PC games disappear consoles become the new focus for pirates. Pirates are techies. The harder something is to do the more pride and status you get from doing it.
The weakest link to DRM is the internet. It only takes only one person to hack into a locked platform and then they share that information with everyone.
The Solution: The only strategy that will actually work is putting crackers on the payroll. As it is now they can't approach a company like Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft because of the "digital" IP laws these companies have pushed. It looks too much like extortion. But in truth that is the solution, to turn the resources and talent of the internet to your favor. Getting the crackers to fix the hardware and software themselves.
How you come up with an appropriate reward amount has to be open for negotiation. The companies and the crackers must be free to call each others negotiation bluffs without repercussions for the crackers. If the cracker won't accept a specific amount of money then he must be able to release details of his crack. The company can then handle the repercussions and then fix the crack themselves. The cracks are not kept secret, they are actually fixed. There is motivation to fix them. And the free market then decides what is fair compensation.
There then becomes an industry of "professionals" (even more motivated and talented) to not only develop security measures but to defeat them. They actually get a cut of the action. The current crackers doing it as a hobby then have no chance because if they had the ability they would be working for a professional cracking company or have their own.
In essence the problem doesn't actually exist. The entertainment companies are greedy and just don't want to pay that percentage. So they bully people through law suits and create laws that inhibit free speech and the free market economics. They would rather give the percentages to lawyers and politicians.
So they withdrew public support and will become private supporters.
The only support that matters to senators is private and the most important to them... money.
The only think that I can think of that might work is an organized group that publicized what politicians supported and stopped a him from being reelected but in a way that they could take credit. A politicians would listen to them then.
In this modern era what I would most want to see is direct democracy. We don't really need senators or representatives except superficially. What would be great is a mixed private vote and a delegated representative(s). That way on certain issues you care about you could directly vote. Maybe even set up a hierarchy of who controls your vote.
Losing these a handful of big websites doesn't cost Godaddy more than $100 a year. The negative publicity affects them much worse.
I think what is really needed is to get all the big name companies together and sponsor research into an alternative to DNS that can't be touched by any government and you can't sue for trademark infringement. Perhaps some combination of public key encryption and p2p. Then webpages the world over could provide links to the public key to search for. Instead of being able to directly go to a website you would need to go through (gasp) a search engine, then forever hence your web browser could find the site. Perhaps the public keys could even be encoded in those newfangled 2d bar codes.
His company doesn't have to use it and it doesn't need to compensate him for it. He should have requisitioned the company to contract the creation of the software, outlining what it would do and how valuable it would be. How it would make/save them money. Writing the requisition is part of the job. Then suggest the name of someone that could do the work at a reasonable price. This is where it's nice to have a good friend. You can have him pass the work off and give him a small percentage.
He is not in any position to do anything else. He will move on to another company later. Better to give the company your code and get acknowledged in writing or to make the code more applicable to other businesses and open source the code. If the software is so valuable they will need you to maintain it. Do everything you can for your company but get it in writing what you did and how it's beyond your job description and make it known how your keeping your resume out there... That your ambitious.
They forgot to stress that there Kiosks are about giving away free samples... Children would definitely abuse it and since their parents won't be buying them expensive pudding... nothing for them. They probably also keep a biometric record of your face so adults can't abuse it either.
Way back in the beginning you could see them as single computers but nowadays a supercomputer looks more like a local network of computers or a local cloud/cluster. Where does the computer start and stop?
Science centers certainly need the computing power but I can't see how relevant it is to think of these specialized clusters as a single computer or how one rates against another. These clusters are constantly being upgraded and expanded. The interconnects and topology is the only interesting thing but you can't necessarily compare two systems since every system is specialized for certain calculations and software.
The greatest idea if I ever heard of. The equivalent of FreeBSD jails on an smart phone. Business and private is sand-boxed separately. Practically two separate devices. Add VPN to the business sandbox and it's a killer app. Install all the trojans and viruses you want if you personal sandbox. Business won't be affected.