the original space program was political as well kennedy's made the speech because his poll numbers were dropping after the election. only after he was killed did congress really provide the funding. even then the work was split among so many congressional districts that it was the pork barrel of the decade. the economy was good and the government was spending it all
the last decade was spent on a lot of defense programs, but mostly data mining type software. once the war spending dies down all the people working for the NSA and other agencies will go into civilian life and we will have another huge tech boom
Doesn't have to be 100% effective Just enough to make it unprofitable to resell stolen phones. Thieves have bills and expenses so if you make it hard enough that they can't sell enough phones to live on, they will stop selling phones
Not all thieves are worthless scum either. The nypd busted some college kids last month who were running a stolen iPhone ring for extra cash
so how will the NSA fund this? do they have some magic money making machine?
they beg for money from congress like everyone else. there are a few senate and house committees with members from both parties that have oversight of this and they take the money begging testimony in special sealed rooms cleared for classified information
that's still aggregate data. they find out who bought a basket of goods and market to them based on the predictions of past purchases of previous of these items. they don't care what you personally buy, the computer looks at the aggregate purchasing history and automatically creates coupons based on research of what you are likely to buy
its all done by computer. not like there is some guy sitting around and checking out hot pics of your pregnant daughter.
50 years ago they would have blindly mailed out coupons to anyone 18-49 or pay money for a TV ad. 90% of it would have been ignored. 2013 they can better target the right coupons to people more likely to use them.
not like they are going to have a custom profile of you accessible to anyone on the internet so they can laugh at you and know everything about you
you really think there is some guy tracking you as you walk into a starbucks and yells out to the office, "qzukk is going into the starbucks, we got him"
that's assuming there is a guy in Maryland clicking names on a list tens of thousands long to see who is cheating on their spouse, which is impossible and a stupid waste of time.
say you do buy something that sets off a terrorist warning. chances are lots of other people are buying the exact same thing and setting off the same warning. its impossible for people to manually go through all the data and question everyone. even if they wanted to, they can't just question you for no reason. they just pass the info to the FBI. and they don't have enough people to question tens of thousands of people a year over what they buy. if they really did this it would be all over the internet
that's why in 2013 we have software that scans this data to find patterns
say the NSA is tracking 500 million people worldwide do you really think that there is a guy sitting in the NSA tracking you for no reason? out of all the tens of millions of people? what makes you so important?
its like the idiots who think the supermarkets are tracking them personally with the loyalty cards. stores want aggregate data and purchase bundles to do loss leader promotions. they really couldn't care what you buy personally
it was already said the NSA does the same. they think some muslim street vendor or cab driver is sending money to fund the jihad, they see who he is calling and so on. to build data on possible people in a network.
around 2000 there was a huge push for natural gas. lots of greenie talking heads on TV and ads on TV saying how natural gas was awesome and oil was evil demand surged, prices surged. people spent lots of money converting from oil heating we got fracking which the same environmentalists now say is evil along with natural gas which now causes global warming. but it didn't 13 years ago.
Ethanol had the same story a few years later
i would be looking to invest in some nuclear power. these people aren't rooting for the environment, but are leeches looking to make a buck for themselves at the expense of everyone else
yeah say 911 call comes in at 10:23am cell phone records show one of the drivers was on a 30 minute long call ending at 10:22 and the location data shows his phone moving at 70mph
so its not DSLR quality for family photos? big deal
i have my iphone with me all the time and can take a photo at any time while chasing after my kids. DSLR is like carrying around a diaper bag full of crap
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the original space program was political as well
kennedy's made the speech because his poll numbers were dropping after the election. only after he was killed did congress really provide the funding. even then the work was split among so many congressional districts that it was the pork barrel of the decade. the economy was good and the government was spending it all
the last decade was spent on a lot of defense programs, but mostly data mining type software. once the war spending dies down all the people working for the NSA and other agencies will go into civilian life and we will have another huge tech boom
Pork barrel for the 21st century
I'm sure the work will be spread out among every important congress person's districts
Amazon is cloud computing. The retailer part is just left overs from the 90's
My cell phone does not operate on 5ghz
Look at the problems Boeing had
Just because you build it, doesn't mean it's going to work
Doesn't have to be 100% effective
Just enough to make it unprofitable to resell stolen phones. Thieves have bills and expenses so if you make it hard enough that they can't sell enough phones to live on, they will stop selling phones
Not all thieves are worthless scum either. The nypd busted some college kids last month who were running a stolen iPhone ring for extra cash
A lot of stolen phones are shipped outside the USA. A kill switch would render them useless
Life was good for card carrying communist party members like my grandparents. For everyone else, not so much
In our apartment building in the late 1970's there was only one telephone. You had to ask the people living in the apartment to use it
so how will the NSA fund this? do they have some magic money making machine?
they beg for money from congress like everyone else. there are a few senate and house committees with members from both parties that have oversight of this and they take the money begging testimony in special sealed rooms cleared for classified information
isn't that the whole point of the program?
use data to find people living in the USA who are here to cause us harm in the future?
those are enterprise features? why would you OC a chip in something that brings you revenue and risk a problem?
that's still aggregate data. they find out who bought a basket of goods and market to them based on the predictions of past purchases of previous of these items. they don't care what you personally buy, the computer looks at the aggregate purchasing history and automatically creates coupons based on research of what you are likely to buy
its all done by computer. not like there is some guy sitting around and checking out hot pics of your pregnant daughter.
50 years ago they would have blindly mailed out coupons to anyone 18-49 or pay money for a TV ad. 90% of it would have been ignored. 2013 they can better target the right coupons to people more likely to use them.
not like they are going to have a custom profile of you accessible to anyone on the internet so they can laugh at you and know everything about you
yep, i can see it now
the NSA is going to sell data on anyone who has ever been within 5 feet of a McDonalds to the health insurance companies so they can jack our rates
and what would be the point?
you really think there is some guy tracking you as you walk into a starbucks and yells out to the office, "qzukk is going into the starbucks, we got him"
that's assuming there is a guy in Maryland clicking names on a list tens of thousands long to see who is cheating on their spouse, which is impossible and a stupid waste of time.
say you do buy something that sets off a terrorist warning. chances are lots of other people are buying the exact same thing and setting off the same warning. its impossible for people to manually go through all the data and question everyone. even if they wanted to, they can't just question you for no reason. they just pass the info to the FBI. and they don't have enough people to question tens of thousands of people a year over what they buy. if they really did this it would be all over the internet
that's why in 2013 we have software that scans this data to find patterns
say the NSA is tracking 500 million people worldwide
do you really think that there is a guy sitting in the NSA tracking you for no reason? out of all the tens of millions of people? what makes you so important?
its like the idiots who think the supermarkets are tracking them personally with the loyalty cards. stores want aggregate data and purchase bundles to do loss leader promotions. they really couldn't care what you buy personally
it was already said the NSA does the same. they think some muslim street vendor or cab driver is sending money to fund the jihad, they see who he is calling and so on. to build data on possible people in a network.
around 2000 there was a huge push for natural gas. lots of greenie talking heads on TV and ads on TV saying how natural gas was awesome and oil was evil
demand surged, prices surged. people spent lots of money converting from oil heating
we got fracking which the same environmentalists now say is evil along with natural gas which now causes global warming. but it didn't 13 years ago.
Ethanol had the same story a few years later
i would be looking to invest in some nuclear power. these people aren't rooting for the environment, but are leeches looking to make a buck for themselves at the expense of everyone else
So?
If you must fly for fun then no reason why you should not pay the environmental costs
yeah
say 911 call comes in at 10:23am
cell phone records show one of the drivers was on a 30 minute long call ending at 10:22 and the location data shows his phone moving at 70mph
China is already losing manufacturing jobs
Africa and the middle east is going to be the new frontier for low cost manufacturing
so its not DSLR quality for family photos? big deal
i have my iphone with me all the time and can take a photo at any time while chasing after my kids. DSLR is like carrying around a diaper bag full of crap
and if they weren't, who cares
original android was for a blackberry rip off phone. after the iphone came out google had to redesign a lot of it for touchscreens.
this is how change works. someone comes out with something, someone else copies it and ads their own twist. rinse, cycle, repeat
the point is that in post-pc you buy the mobile devices more often and they bring in more profit and value
the PC will be there but its something you only buy once in a while because you use your mobile device more
september or october like the last 3 releases