Furthermore I can easily see traditional universities branching out and while they won't bite the hand that feeds them they will start to offer non traditional and more focused degrees online and compete with the likes of CompTIA. They will do this through computerized testing and examination performed at local universities and community colleges and in more rural areas: satellite community testing centers. In fact I can easily see these types of education certification programs overshadowing more traditional Masters and PhD. programs - though not the traditional university liberal education which has always been and always will be more about a hazing ritual and belonging to social club/class than about education.
Just image if instead of having a degree from just one college someone was certified competent in a wide range of focused topics in a field of study from a couple dozen of the top universities... top Universities would no longer be quite as competitive and would instead be more complimentary. Education might then be more like collecting merit badges. Further if you really learned your subject you could always upgrade later to a more prestigious and expensive certification.
I would even welcome a pass/fail system where %85 or %90 was required to pass rather than confusing it all with grades and test scores.
This Slashdot post connected a few dots for me. I was reading about Wikileaks this weekend and now this post reminds me of another post a year or so back about how Google is censoring it's Google-maps for various Governments.
It occurs to me now that censoring Google-maps is a bad idea for governments unless your only trying to block attempts by poor amateur crackpot terrorists. If you have the money you could no doubt get a hold of an uncensored world photo database and then all you would need to do is compare them with Google-maps and you would know all the sensitive areas in the world. Ironically only camouflaged and non censored areas can be top secret and not just sensitive.
Other random correlations. Holographic research has no doubt been getting a lot of funding recently. And with private industry poised to take over the space industry it's no wonder my Government wants to influence who has launch capabilities and what gets into space. And totally random - the best way to take a satellite out of commission would be to wrap it in a blanket thereby avoiding space junk; kind of like the earlier post about deobiting satellites.
I think we should have a scoreboard for his machines. Post the operating logs and create a scoreboard. How many barrel of crude oil Costner's company was able to reclaim from the ocean and multiply that by the cost of crude oil. Then compare that to the price tag Costner charged them.
They need a fleet of these machines able to be deployed anywhere in the world and they need to refine the machines or create others to bring the underwater plumes to the surface. The oil companies weren't ready when they should have been.
Sorry to rant a bit but why the hell would a civilization sent out a radio signal from their planet? Look at us, all we do is "listen" but we don't build any transmitters capable of transmitting a signal across a thousand light years. Transmit first, listen second.
But wait, what if they are capable of interstellar travel, they could send an invasion fleet... we are paranoid, why wouldn't another species be as well?
So what to do? One you don't send a signal from your planet. Two you design your signal to be easily found; found by another species not even listening randomly for a signal. Answer: you build a spacecraft and send it someplace interesting. Some place an astronomer would find interesting and you either transmit from there or somehow you modulate the natural phenomena to carry a signal for you.
You would have three types of signals. The first signal would be to get your attention and make you wait and listen for the second signal which would contain enough information (location, frequency, polarity, whatever) to direct you to a third signal that would actually contain an entire database worth of information.
For an example of a type one signal I don't think it's too far outside possibilities that in the future we might discover a way to generate gravity waves and while they might not travel very far they might be strong enough to influence a star, white dwarf, neutron star, nebula. Imagine one day an astronomer looks at a nebula only to think.. hmmm, that part there sure looks like an arrow...
Hmmm... we have some DNA... Good, let's just send it to the lab and throw that guy in jail. No need to vet it. Look judge... the DNA matched!!!
Moral of the story, if your going to be a serial killer you need to find a dupe that is pretty straight and unlikely to have too many dealings with the law and mostly a loner and plant his DNA at all the crime scenes.
Absolutely. I can't believe everything it's pointing it out.
And the point of the article is idiotic. He is unsuccessfully trying to argue that the inverse of mpg is a more informative number when it's the same number just inverted. Sounds like an oil company spokesman attempting to point out that a less efficient vehicle can be cheaper for you. By the same argument you could get a rebuilt car down in Mexico that costs $5000 and will last 20 years with $500 a years in maintenance but only get 5 miles to the gallon. Being wasteful can be cheaper, what a novel concept.
We really need to get away from all this political BS.
Let's just setup a multi trillion dollar trust fund over the next 20 years and be done with it. Then we won't have to support it with taxes anymore. I think we can afford to spend 20 years frugally developing space engineering. Let's work on getting garbage collectors and street cleaners in space before we start polluting the moon and mars.
We spend how many billions of dollars putting the ISS into space and it's scheduled for a 2020 end of service...? How many billions do we spend on satellites only to have them come crashing back into the atmosphere? It costs way too much money sending all those pounds of metal up there only to waste it. We need to concentrate on manufacturing and recycling. We need more automation in space.
We need plans to harvest asteroids and comets and put then into orbit around mars and Saturn for future manufacturing; I seriously doubt with all the asteroid doomsday movies that putting asteroids into earth orbit will get that much support. Mars is the scene of the next industrial revolution. The next wild west though it may take us a couple hundred years. And if you didn't realize it farming is destined for space. Power? You don't want a nuclear reactor next door? Guess where we can put it? It's all about real estate baby. Always has been and always will be and fortunately there is a quite a bit of it.
Our greatest gift to god will be creating a mind that can believe in him.
Why is it that AI research is always mislead by it's name? Namely they are too focused on the intelligence aspect of a programmed mind that they completely fail to recognize it's subjective emotions and motivation that they should be focusing on.
What is a soul? It's that part of a mind that is able to make a choice. It's the part of the mind that isn't logical. It's the part of the mind that can judge something as good and bad. It's has beliefs. It can be informed by reasoning but it can still choose mysticism over reason. It wants and it can choose. Behind every mind there is motivation. Sure it's still a program but it's the one that matters.
Just because you can give an ant mind super intelligence doesn't make it any less of an ant. It understands more but it is still an ant and wants what ants want. The reverse of this is a complex soul that can't make sense of the world around him; we tend to call this autism. Maybe the former is autism as well.
Most people should be able to agree that psychologists know enough that they can actually drive a sane person to insanity. Therefore we should also be able to drive an artificial mind to insanity.
It is not enough to recognize beauty; you have to feel it, you have know and believe that it is good and right.
I'm not quite sure I would call it evolution. I can easily imagine that many prions replicate not only themselves but variations as well and those variations will produce variations of different proportions and so on and so forth. So just because you subjected a prion to an adverse environment for a particular copy of a prion only means that form will be less populous.
It feels to me that this is less evolution and something more akin to chemical computation. Although ironically it does in some ways remind me of the poorly labeled Conway's game of life.
My first guess from this would be that EM radiation can affect the rate and or disposition of prion protein folding. More than likely only affecting weak prion self replication(which is slow) vs normal protein formation.
This makes would make EM radiation quantitatively non mutagenic and about as likely to cause cancer as someone spontaneously combusting.
This wouldn't affect non functional plaques caused by a mutant genes though.
Our brains are no doubt adapted to prions and plagues and there probably exists a garbage collection mechanism that can deal with it up to a certain level without getting overwhelmed. But undoubtedly all brain functions are increased with lower populations of prions.
A second theory would be that EM causes plaques to not stick together as much and hence make the garbage collection mechanism much more productive.
What's the point in investing in an ebook reader if your locked in?
I want a central copy registry where I have legal registration for copies I own and am guaranteed indefinite ownership and am guaranteed the right to transfer my ownership for individual items.. And I want to be able to lend items to people. Same as a physical book.
I want it an outside legal trust independent of any publisher with both the monetary backing to last over a hundred years and an endorsement by the US Senate and the EU and audited every 2 to 5 years. It will be this agency that dictates file formats and implements standardized copy protection. They will be required to develop and deploy software for any platform that meets certain criteria; essentially any platform with a to be determined minimal user base as well as being paid by a company or a platforms supporters to implement it. Sort of a combination of an international copyright office and a library of congress. They will also have the right override a publishers price according to laws in various countries with a mind toward maximizing revenue.
I further want a guarantee from all countries that they will not try to "legally confiscate" my licenses for material if I was not physically in that country when I purchased it. So if I step off the plane in Saudi Arabia they will not confiscate my digital playboy collection... Of course I would make the distinction between owning something and being able to use view it... so theoretically if some small country legalized child porn for sale one could own the material but not be entitled to view it. The latter is a separate issue. For this discourse I only care about ownership rights.
Let's lobby the patent office to create a wiki for lay man ideas. Then everyone normal that can't afford to patent every blog article that they can come up with on a daily basis can then upload their ideas to the database.
This should eliminate all patents for obvious stuff. And only the 10 or so really original ideas are still patentable.
This is pretty much what everyone in the android community has been calling for.
Google is finally going to push a default phone. And if I had to guess it will be pretty much sold at cost and be available in both GSM and CDMA. Maybe even a little below cost depending upon the politics with the carriers.
Google doesn't want to get into the hardware market but this will keep the price of the phones down and motivate some hardware manufacturers to produce open phones themselves.
I actually trust Bid Brother Google to a certain extent right now. But that's only right now, trust changes with time. At the moment what really bothers me is governments and that they can get at your data with merely a judges signature, like there aren't any corrupt judges or judges deep in politics. Google is politically correct and follows laws of most of the countries on this planet so we also have to fear private interests that can bribe judges in other countries.
Now while I may not spend all my time plotting to take over the world I'm not about to give anyone anything that someone else can leverage against me. Show me a Switzerland for private data that is going to stand up to all government and private interests and is willing blow up it's facilities before handing it over my diary to anyone but me and maybe I upload an encrypted backup.
I give criminals rights and privacy so that I have them. Criminals don't need rights although they may use them it's only because it cheaper. Real criminals buy their freedom and take away our rights everyday.
And I don't give a crap about pedophiles online or their fantasy's. It's a red herring. We want them online trading images. We need to focus on those people making the images and identify the children involved. All these macho politicization pounding their chests going after pedophiles, why aren't they out lobbying the public to raise taxes to get children out of abusive homes?
You sound like some company taking advantage of H1B visa applicants. The whole theory of H1B is that they do go back home.
The goal is to raise the quality of life for the world. To create jobs and worldwide economic success. Our chief export should be success.
Just watch ten or twenty years from now when the tech companies using H1B applicants and the ones shipping jobs offshore find out that they created their own competition. Competition that is very hungry and aggressive. Competition that will one day be hiring the top 10% of American talent. Not because it's cheap but because of greater demand of genuine skills and talent.
I don't really understand what your saying. IPv6 works perfectly fine on local networks for consumers. If ISP's implemented IPv6 coming out of cable modems and DSL bridges we could turn off DHCP and NAT effectively turning the home routers into level 2 switches. IPv6 works perfectly fine at level 2 (mac addressing). If they can't convert the cable modems and DSL bridges then they could just distribute a software package to install a 6to4 tunnel to their IPv6 network.
I actually looked at the issue, it's actually harder to talk about than it is to implement.
We all use DHCP and NATing. The greater internet itself can remain IPv4 for ten or more years but there is no reason that users need to be connected though IPv4. Furthermore with 6to4 even if the ISP's infrastructure hardware is IPv4 users can trunk over it to the ISP's IPv6 network easily.
I think what ISP's are actually fearing is the all user IP's will become static then because of the nature of IPv6 but if they wanted there are things they can do to maintain the status quo such as binding specified mac address.
P.S. One interesting aside about IPv6 is that since it should remain mostly static, your IPv6 address can be used to track you. I can easily imagine database companies selling names, addresses and phone numbers based on IPv6 addresses. I'm surprised ISP's haven't implemented it just for that, within a few years it would take them mostly out of the loop for address records and ISP subpoenas (except for final confirmation). I imagine it would really cut torrent traffic down. But then of course everyone can still argue how their computer or wifi access point got hacked. All you got to do is subpoena a spammer and he can detail how they hijack computers with viralus trojans.
But what they don't tell you is they intentionally crash the stock. It's all about 3 and 7 year cycles.
They make the company look bad but they are technologically sitting on gold and silk furniture.
Devalue the stock and make people want to dump it while you invest your money elsewhere. Then you buy up all the trashed stock a couple years later and pump it back to what it should be, taking a minimum 60 percent return within a year.
Virtualization is the next big tech for windows. It lets them leave their old code base and computability issues behind. I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple applications of virtualization. We may even see driver virtualization so that old devices will continue to function albeit slowly.
On a separate issue it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft strong armed device companies to escrowed their driver code with them or even more radically compelled them to release the majority of the code under a Microsoft open source license with case by case exceptions such as software only drivers. In many ways it would compel companies to use Microsoft's blackbox tech and other DRM code while insuring that devices continue to function.
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But it will take more like 20 years and not 5.
Furthermore I can easily see traditional universities branching out and while they won't bite the hand that feeds them they will start to offer non traditional and more focused degrees online and compete with the likes of CompTIA. They will do this through computerized testing and examination performed at local universities and community colleges and in more rural areas: satellite community testing centers. In fact I can easily see these types of education certification programs overshadowing more traditional Masters and PhD. programs - though not the traditional university liberal education which has always been and always will be more about a hazing ritual and belonging to social club/class than about education.
Just image if instead of having a degree from just one college someone was certified competent in a wide range of focused topics in a field of study from a couple dozen of the top universities... top Universities would no longer be quite as competitive and would instead be more complimentary. Education might then be more like collecting merit badges. Further if you really learned your subject you could always upgrade later to a more prestigious and expensive certification.
I would even welcome a pass/fail system where %85 or %90 was required to pass rather than confusing it all with grades and test scores.
This Slashdot post connected a few dots for me. I was reading about Wikileaks this weekend and now this post reminds me of another post a year or so back about how Google is censoring it's Google-maps for various Governments.
It occurs to me now that censoring Google-maps is a bad idea for governments unless your only trying to block attempts by poor amateur crackpot terrorists. If you have the money you could no doubt get a hold of an uncensored world photo database and then all you would need to do is compare them with Google-maps and you would know all the sensitive areas in the world. Ironically only camouflaged and non censored areas can be top secret and not just sensitive.
Other random correlations. Holographic research has no doubt been getting a lot of funding recently. And with private industry poised to take over the space industry it's no wonder my Government wants to influence who has launch capabilities and what gets into space. And totally random - the best way to take a satellite out of commission would be to wrap it in a blanket thereby avoiding space junk; kind of like the earlier post about deobiting satellites.
And about $50 for that Hottie I saw walking getting on the plane before me last week!
If there was a better use for FOIA than I haven't heard of it!
It wouldn't surprise me if the scans penetrated a little below the skin for extra detail....
And maybe it's time the doctor was a woman....
I think we should have a scoreboard for his machines. Post the operating logs and create a scoreboard. How many barrel of crude oil Costner's company was able to reclaim from the ocean and multiply that by the cost of crude oil. Then compare that to the price tag Costner charged them.
They need a fleet of these machines able to be deployed anywhere in the world and they need to refine the machines or create others to bring the underwater plumes to the surface. The oil companies weren't ready when they should have been.
Sorry to rant a bit but why the hell would a civilization sent out a radio signal from their planet? Look at us, all we do is "listen" but we don't build any transmitters capable of transmitting a signal across a thousand light years. Transmit first, listen second.
But wait, what if they are capable of interstellar travel, they could send an invasion fleet... we are paranoid, why wouldn't another species be as well?
So what to do? One you don't send a signal from your planet. Two you design your signal to be easily found; found by another species not even listening randomly for a signal. Answer: you build a spacecraft and send it someplace interesting. Some place an astronomer would find interesting and you either transmit from there or somehow you modulate the natural phenomena to carry a signal for you.
You would have three types of signals. The first signal would be to get your attention and make you wait and listen for the second signal which would contain enough information (location, frequency, polarity, whatever) to direct you to a third signal that would actually contain an entire database worth of information.
For an example of a type one signal I don't think it's too far outside possibilities that in the future we might discover a way to generate gravity waves and while they might not travel very far they might be strong enough to influence a star, white dwarf, neutron star, nebula. Imagine one day an astronomer looks at a nebula only to think.. hmmm, that part there sure looks like an arrow...
Hmmm... we have some DNA... Good, let's just send it to the lab and throw that guy in jail. No need to vet it. Look judge... the DNA matched!!!
Moral of the story, if your going to be a serial killer you need to find a dupe that is pretty straight and unlikely to have too many dealings with the law and mostly a loner and plant his DNA at all the crime scenes.
It should be:
If I had two children and if one of the children was both a boy and born on a Tuesday then what is the probability that the other child is also a boy.
Any chance the original question was a translation from another language?
Absolutely. I can't believe everything it's pointing it out.
And the point of the article is idiotic. He is unsuccessfully trying to argue that the inverse of mpg is a more informative number when it's the same number just inverted. Sounds like an oil company spokesman attempting to point out that a less efficient vehicle can be cheaper for you. By the same argument you could get a rebuilt car down in Mexico that costs $5000 and will last 20 years with $500 a years in maintenance but only get 5 miles to the gallon. Being wasteful can be cheaper, what a novel concept.
We really need to get away from all this political BS.
Let's just setup a multi trillion dollar trust fund over the next 20 years and be done with it. Then we won't have to support it with taxes anymore. I think we can afford to spend 20 years frugally developing space engineering. Let's work on getting garbage collectors and street cleaners in space before we start polluting the moon and mars.
We spend how many billions of dollars putting the ISS into space and it's scheduled for a 2020 end of service...? How many billions do we spend on satellites only to have them come crashing back into the atmosphere? It costs way too much money sending all those pounds of metal up there only to waste it.
We need to concentrate on manufacturing and recycling. We need more automation in space.
We need plans to harvest asteroids and comets and put then into orbit around mars and Saturn for future manufacturing; I seriously doubt with all the asteroid doomsday movies that putting asteroids into earth orbit will get that much support. Mars is the scene of the next industrial revolution. The next wild west though it may take us a couple hundred years. And if you didn't realize it farming is destined for space. Power? You don't want a nuclear reactor next door? Guess where we can put it? It's all about real estate baby. Always has been and always will be and fortunately there is a quite a bit of it.
Our greatest gift to god will be creating a mind that can believe in him.
Why is it that AI research is always mislead by it's name? Namely they are
too focused on the intelligence aspect of a programmed mind that they
completely fail to recognize it's subjective emotions and motivation that they
should be focusing on.
What is a soul? It's that part of a mind that is able to make a choice. It's
the part of the mind that isn't logical. It's the part of the mind that can
judge something as good and bad. It's has beliefs. It can be informed by
reasoning but it can still choose mysticism over reason. It wants and it
can choose. Behind every mind there is motivation. Sure it's still a
program but it's the one that matters.
Just because you can give an ant mind super intelligence doesn't make it any
less of an ant. It understands more but it is still an ant and wants what
ants want. The reverse of this is a complex soul that can't make sense
of the world around him; we tend to call this autism. Maybe the former is
autism as well.
Most people should be able to agree that psychologists know enough that they
can actually drive a sane person to insanity. Therefore we should also be
able to drive an artificial mind to insanity.
It is not enough to recognize beauty; you have to feel it, you have know and
believe that it is good and right.
I'm not quite sure I would call it evolution. I can easily imagine that many prions replicate not only themselves but variations as well and those variations will produce variations of different proportions and so on and so forth. So just because you subjected a prion to an adverse environment for a particular copy of a prion only means that form will be less populous.
It feels to me that this is less evolution and something more akin to chemical computation. Although ironically it does in some ways remind me of the poorly labeled Conway's game of life.
My first guess from this would be that EM radiation can affect the rate and or disposition of prion protein folding. More than likely only affecting weak prion self replication(which is slow) vs normal protein formation.
This makes would make EM radiation quantitatively non mutagenic and about as likely to cause cancer as someone spontaneously combusting.
This wouldn't affect non functional plaques caused by a mutant genes though.
Our brains are no doubt adapted to prions and plagues and there probably exists a garbage collection mechanism that can deal with it up to a certain level without getting overwhelmed. But undoubtedly all brain functions are increased with lower populations of prions.
A second theory would be that EM causes plaques to not stick together as much and hence make the garbage collection mechanism much more productive.
Something like 256bits extra bits of encryption for every 5 or 10 years.
So well probably need approx 25Kbit keys if we are even to have a chance of keeping something encrypted for 100 years. 3Mbit keys for a 1000 years...
What's the point in investing in an ebook reader if your locked in?
I want a central copy registry where I have legal registration for copies I own and am guaranteed indefinite ownership and am guaranteed the right to transfer my ownership for individual items.. And I want to be able to lend items to people. Same as a physical book.
I want it an outside legal trust independent of any publisher with both the monetary backing to last over a hundred years and an endorsement by the US Senate and the EU and audited every 2 to 5 years. It will be this agency that dictates file formats and implements standardized copy protection. They will be required to develop and deploy software for any platform that meets certain criteria; essentially any platform with a to be determined minimal user base as well as being paid by a company or a platforms supporters to implement it. Sort of a combination of an international copyright office and a library of congress. They will also have the right override a publishers price according to laws in various countries with a mind toward maximizing revenue.
I further want a guarantee from all countries that they will not try to "legally confiscate" my licenses for material if I was not physically in that country when I purchased it. So if I step off the plane in Saudi Arabia they will not confiscate my digital playboy collection... Of course I would make the distinction between owning something and being able to use view it... so theoretically if some small country legalized child porn for sale one could own the material but not be entitled to view it. The latter is a separate issue. For this discourse I only care about ownership rights.
Let's lobby the patent office to create a wiki for lay man ideas. Then everyone normal that can't afford to patent every blog article that they can come up with on a daily basis can then upload their ideas to the database.
This should eliminate all patents for obvious stuff. And only the 10 or so really original ideas are still patentable.
Simple solution, maybe I should patent it...
This is pretty much what everyone in the android community has been calling for.
Google is finally going to push a default phone. And if I had to guess it will
be pretty much sold at cost and be available in both GSM and CDMA. Maybe even
a little below cost depending upon the politics with the carriers.
Google doesn't want to get into the hardware market but this will keep the
price of the phones down and motivate some hardware manufacturers to produce
open phones themselves.
I'm not saying that there shouldn't be legal oversight. The problem is which is the authority?
When are we going to have the first incident of someone paying off a third world judge to obtain private information?
Where is the Switzerland of the internet?
I actually trust Bid Brother Google to a certain extent right now. But that's only right now, trust changes with time. At the moment what really bothers me is governments and that they can get at your data with merely a judges signature, like there aren't any corrupt judges or judges deep in politics. Google is politically correct and follows laws of most of the countries on this planet so we also have to fear private interests that can bribe judges in other countries.
Now while I may not spend all my time plotting to take over the world I'm not about to give anyone anything that someone else can leverage against me. Show me a Switzerland for private data that is going to stand up to all government and private interests and is willing blow up it's facilities before handing it over my diary to anyone but me and maybe I upload an encrypted backup.
I give criminals rights and privacy so that I have them. Criminals don't need rights although they may use them it's only because it cheaper. Real criminals buy their freedom and take away our rights everyday.
And I don't give a crap about pedophiles online or their fantasy's. It's a red herring. We want them online trading images. We need to focus on those people making the images and identify the children involved. All these macho politicization pounding their chests going after pedophiles, why aren't they out lobbying the public to raise taxes to get children out of abusive homes?
In other words I could rig it to report realistic demographics and raise my demographic score on shows I like to watch?
You sound like some company taking advantage of H1B visa applicants. The whole theory of H1B is that they do go back home.
The goal is to raise the quality of life for the world. To create jobs and worldwide economic success. Our chief export should be success.
Just watch ten or twenty years from now when the tech companies using H1B applicants and the ones shipping jobs offshore find out that they created their own competition. Competition that is very hungry and aggressive. Competition that will one day be hiring the top 10% of American talent. Not because it's cheap but because of greater demand of genuine skills and talent.
I don't really understand what your saying. IPv6 works perfectly fine on local networks for consumers. If ISP's implemented IPv6 coming out of cable modems and DSL bridges we could turn off DHCP and NAT effectively turning the home routers into level 2 switches. IPv6 works perfectly fine at level 2 (mac addressing). If they can't convert the cable modems and DSL bridges then they could just distribute a software package to install a 6to4 tunnel to their IPv6 network.
I actually looked at the issue, it's actually harder to talk about than it is to implement.
We all use DHCP and NATing. The greater internet itself can remain IPv4 for ten or more years but there is no reason that users need to be connected though IPv4. Furthermore with 6to4 even if the ISP's infrastructure hardware is IPv4 users can trunk over it to the ISP's IPv6 network easily.
I think what ISP's are actually fearing is the all user IP's will become static then because of the nature of IPv6 but if they wanted there are things they can do to maintain the status quo such as binding specified mac address.
P.S. One interesting aside about IPv6 is that since it should remain mostly static, your IPv6 address can be used to track you. I can easily imagine database companies selling names, addresses and phone numbers based on IPv6 addresses. I'm surprised ISP's haven't implemented it just for that, within a few years it would take them mostly out of the loop for address records and ISP subpoenas (except for final confirmation). I imagine it would really cut torrent traffic down. But then of course everyone can still argue how their computer or wifi access point got hacked. All you got to do is subpoena a spammer and he can detail how they hijack computers with viralus trojans.
Buy low, sell high... we all know that.
But what they don't tell you is they intentionally crash the stock. It's all about 3 and 7 year cycles.
They make the company look bad but they are technologically sitting on gold and silk furniture.
Devalue the stock and make people want to dump it while you invest your money elsewhere. Then you buy up all the trashed stock a couple years later and pump it back to what it should be, taking a minimum 60 percent return within a year.
Virtualization is the next big tech for windows. It lets them leave their old code base and computability issues behind. I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple applications of virtualization. We may even see driver virtualization so that old devices will continue to function albeit slowly.
On a separate issue it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft strong armed device companies to escrowed their driver code with them or even more radically compelled them to release the majority of the code under a Microsoft open source license with case by case exceptions such as software only drivers. In many ways it would compel companies to use Microsoft's blackbox tech and other DRM code while insuring that devices continue to function.