Unless driver support (from oems) on Linux continues to be a mixed bag and hassle.
It is often a mixed bag and hassle, but it is getting better and tends to be the place where the hardware companies start (I would guess mostly because that is where they perceive the sales to be coming from).
AVG and Avast both provide reasonable antivirus at no cost. Spyware is also generally free (huck huck huck). More seriously, no one is paying for 3 layers of protection; maybe a suite from one of the bigger vendors, but not 3 different packages (and anyone advising that a third party software firewall is necessary is giving bad advice).
If the user doesn't want to pirate Office (people don't care), they can make do with OpenOffice.org running on Windows just as well as they would running it on Linux.
The software costs you are talking about are not there.
Are you joking? He is talking explicitly about the books California is publishing and directly answering the question "Where is the source?". He isn't talking about all text books at all. If you aren't joking, perhaps you are intentionally being dishonest or you have a reading deficit.
Of course, I don't think that it is particularly likely that a state of California funded project will end up using Latex.
I would think you could upload the tarball the same way you uploaded the pdf (But who knows).
Also, noticed a couple of errors/issues in the preface: starring should be staring and defense is probably preferred over defence (you aren't calling it a maths book, so presumably you are writing to a US audience).
It's easier to take the battery out of your phone (or can the FBI activate some hidden battery!!?) than it is to closely monitor and inspect your vehicle.
I guess what I was reaching for is that the power company might be interested in the capital investments, even if the consumer isn't.
I still hold some hope for PV solar. Making somewhat conservative estimates, they are 'only' a factor of 5 or 6 away from a price point where people would go buy them to save money.
(at $2 per watt, 500 hours per year, $0.10 per kwh for grid power, payback is 40 years. There are some people who would do 8 year payback, most people would probably do 3 year payback, so there is a long way to go. $2 per watt is probably slightly cheap for installed power, but 500 hours is a pretty low estimate, so those numbers shouldn't be egregiously bad. 5 or 6 is still a pretty big factor, but it is being attacked from 3 directions: grid prices don't appear to be going down, production efficiency is going up, and the solar efficiency is going up (which at the very least should decrease installation costs). If none of those avenues peter out, it could happen on a reasonable time scale.)
Sure. Personally, I wouldn't pay much attention to it if it didn't have good signing, and if it could control the car (rather than notifying me), I would avoid driving as much as possible.
Higher end cars are already incorporating radar (or whatever, I'm not sure of the exact sensor tech) based safety braking; with such a system, the extra network information only matters if it makes the system more effective (i.e., if the system stops the car in 150 ft either way, the network information doesn't matter).
"I have poor reading comprehension" isn't that great of a joke.
If you really didn't figure it out yet (I suspect you actually have), the ability to detect a pattern that should occur in natural data but probably will not be present in fraudulent data (a sophisticated fraudster can generate to any test...) is what makes it interesting for detecting fraud, not the fact that the pattern was first elucidated from prime numbers.
Benford's law can be used to detect fraud (the article states this, I don't have any reason to doubt it). They studied primes and found a pattern that is associated with a related property that they are calling Generalized Benford's Law. Presumably, the generalized rule can be used to detect a wider range of unnatural activity than Benford's law itself.
They are allowing developers that work for a company they purchased (so the developers work for Microsoft) to continue contributing to software released under the Apache 2.0 license.
No matter what the rest of the company is doing, this activity is exactly the "Open Source" that you seem to think it isn't.
I would think that big central air units could easily draw 1kw all by themselves. A large number of homes are naturally going to present a fairly even load, but I can see where there would be behavioral spikes in the load (getting home from work, etc.), so it might make a lot of sense for the power company to be able to level that out a bit (at worst, just use the house to store the cold). They probably have enough information that they can even attack the top of the peak.
Assuming that any such system would come with a relatively strong signing system, the first car below would say "'Hacker' broadcasting false information", the second car would say "I agree with first car 'Hacker' broadcasting false information" and the third car would say "I agree with One and Two, 'Hacker' broadcasting false information, disregard, police contacted".
Could you maybe explain a little more? I don't understand what you are getting at.
(I suppose you mean that wireless providers are trying to control everything, but as a counter, I point you at the Mifi from Verizon; expensive, but convenient and reasonably open in terms of what you can use it for, just not how much you can use it, and I suspect that mesh networks would not have huge amounts of transfer available for quite some time.)
This is one of the many situations where someone is complaining about the status quo because they want other people to behave differently, not because they are facing horrible restrictions (he even points out that much of his use of the word "Ubuntu" is likely fine, even under trademark restrictions). If the damage from trademarks were truly severe, there is nothing stopping anybody from working around them, so the article is basically complaining that they don't like trademarks.
Mesh network or not there is still good reason for long wires and paid connectivity; 20 hops over the mesh would probably be a bit tiresome; 50 hops, with dropout, would suck.
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Unless driver support (from oems) on Linux continues to be a mixed bag and hassle.
It is often a mixed bag and hassle, but it is getting better and tends to be the place where the hardware companies start (I would guess mostly because that is where they perceive the sales to be coming from).
AVG and Avast both provide reasonable antivirus at no cost. Spyware is also generally free (huck huck huck). More seriously, no one is paying for 3 layers of protection; maybe a suite from one of the bigger vendors, but not 3 different packages (and anyone advising that a third party software firewall is necessary is giving bad advice).
If the user doesn't want to pirate Office (people don't care), they can make do with OpenOffice.org running on Windows just as well as they would running it on Linux.
The software costs you are talking about are not there.
Yeah, it's tough to say. I guess they could be pulling in information from bank auctions and so forth.
Wifi support is quite a bit more prevalent than PC Card at this point (think non-laptop devices) and it supports multiple devices at the same time.
I agree that the data costs way too much.
Wait for single bullet through your fucking crapflooding brain.
There will be no singularity for the dead.
Man, that not technically alliteration (It isn't quite assonance either, as you are switching between vowel sounds there).
Are you joking? He is talking explicitly about the books California is publishing and directly answering the question "Where is the source?". He isn't talking about all text books at all. If you aren't joking, perhaps you are intentionally being dishonest or you have a reading deficit.
Of course, I don't think that it is particularly likely that a state of California funded project will end up using Latex.
For millions of (paper) books, reproduction costs will dwarf the actual production costs.
Well, unless you get Zach Snyder to do it.
I would think you could upload the tarball the same way you uploaded the pdf (But who knows).
Also, noticed a couple of errors/issues in the preface: starring should be staring and defense is probably preferred over defence (you aren't calling it a maths book, so presumably you are writing to a US audience).
What is that in metric?
Or just move it to some car you find parked at the mall.
It's easier to take the battery out of your phone (or can the FBI activate some hidden battery!!?) than it is to closely monitor and inspect your vehicle.
I agree with you so much that I said something to that effect in the comment you replied to.
1974?
I guess it might make sense to also give Clinton some credit.
I guess what I was reaching for is that the power company might be interested in the capital investments, even if the consumer isn't.
I still hold some hope for PV solar. Making somewhat conservative estimates, they are 'only' a factor of 5 or 6 away from a price point where people would go buy them to save money.
(at $2 per watt, 500 hours per year, $0.10 per kwh for grid power, payback is 40 years. There are some people who would do 8 year payback, most people would probably do 3 year payback, so there is a long way to go. $2 per watt is probably slightly cheap for installed power, but 500 hours is a pretty low estimate, so those numbers shouldn't be egregiously bad. 5 or 6 is still a pretty big factor, but it is being attacked from 3 directions: grid prices don't appear to be going down, production efficiency is going up, and the solar efficiency is going up (which at the very least should decrease installation costs). If none of those avenues peter out, it could happen on a reasonable time scale.)
Sure. Personally, I wouldn't pay much attention to it if it didn't have good signing, and if it could control the car (rather than notifying me), I would avoid driving as much as possible.
Higher end cars are already incorporating radar (or whatever, I'm not sure of the exact sensor tech) based safety braking; with such a system, the extra network information only matters if it makes the system more effective (i.e., if the system stops the car in 150 ft either way, the network information doesn't matter).
"I have poor reading comprehension" isn't that great of a joke.
If you really didn't figure it out yet (I suspect you actually have), the ability to detect a pattern that should occur in natural data but probably will not be present in fraudulent data (a sophisticated fraudster can generate to any test...) is what makes it interesting for detecting fraud, not the fact that the pattern was first elucidated from prime numbers.
Benford's law can be used to detect fraud (the article states this, I don't have any reason to doubt it). They studied primes and found a pattern that is associated with a related property that they are calling Generalized Benford's Law. Presumably, the generalized rule can be used to detect a wider range of unnatural activity than Benford's law itself.
They are allowing developers that work for a company they purchased (so the developers work for Microsoft) to continue contributing to software released under the Apache 2.0 license.
No matter what the rest of the company is doing, this activity is exactly the "Open Source" that you seem to think it isn't.
I would think that big central air units could easily draw 1kw all by themselves. A large number of homes are naturally going to present a fairly even load, but I can see where there would be behavioral spikes in the load (getting home from work, etc.), so it might make a lot of sense for the power company to be able to level that out a bit (at worst, just use the house to store the cold). They probably have enough information that they can even attack the top of the peak.
Assuming that any such system would come with a relatively strong signing system, the first car below would say "'Hacker' broadcasting false information", the second car would say "I agree with first car 'Hacker' broadcasting false information" and the third car would say "I agree with One and Two, 'Hacker' broadcasting false information, disregard, police contacted".
Could you maybe explain a little more? I don't understand what you are getting at.
(I suppose you mean that wireless providers are trying to control everything, but as a counter, I point you at the Mifi from Verizon; expensive, but convenient and reasonably open in terms of what you can use it for, just not how much you can use it, and I suspect that mesh networks would not have huge amounts of transfer available for quite some time.)
This is one of the many situations where someone is complaining about the status quo because they want other people to behave differently, not because they are facing horrible restrictions (he even points out that much of his use of the word "Ubuntu" is likely fine, even under trademark restrictions). If the damage from trademarks were truly severe, there is nothing stopping anybody from working around them, so the article is basically complaining that they don't like trademarks.
Who? The ISPs or the mesh-makers?
Mesh network or not there is still good reason for long wires and paid connectivity; 20 hops over the mesh would probably be a bit tiresome; 50 hops, with dropout, would suck.