They also refered to them as 'entitlement cards' which is name given the ID cards about to be issued to asylum seekers and refugees that to allow access to health care and social security without a national insurance number (citizenship).
I also work for a new entrant on Service provider side of this industry. We do DTV including VOD over ADSL not Cable. Streaming video in a glitch free manner requires a clear low latency path to your peer, the skill to produce a very high availability & robust network, robust servers and disks, expensive equipment and skills. These are things most P2Pers dont have, never mind consumers. The big advantage a Service provider is capital, economies of scale, robustness and locality.
However despite these I agree with the above VOD and PVR are complementary. The networking capability to the home required for P2P PVR will be provided by value added service providers. The simple fact is most consumers are ordinary people not geeks, most ordinary people are not prepared to pay the full real cost of a 4Meg DSL line, without services.
There is the content issue, we have a healthy revenue from adult content, movies, cartoons and music, but what consumers really like and use much more is the fast changing content like news and weather and that cannot be local enough. This is something P2P VOD cannot provide, yet, this will allow a whole new sector of local service providers, and these are likely to come in part from the P2P network users.
In summary: ISS currently has a crew of three, two americans and one russian. They where due to be rotated in March by Atlantis, but have supplies until June. Soyuz could be used to relieve the crew, and Progress can be used for supplies, so the plan is for them to sit tight for now.
it's unlikely that NASA will undertake any further shuttle missions or any other manned space flights for the next two years.
The launch freeze is unlikely to last that long, the ISS is still crewed and has only Soyuz-based escape capsule at their disposal. Whilst it is not inconsievable they would use this. It is likely to be avoided since it would cause problems with recrewing ISS since the replacement for this vehicle in not yet available.
I think we can expect a much quicker turn around in this investigation compared with that into Challenger.
The Slashdot link seems to have caused this article to rise to number 1 in the FT list of most popular articles (from 3 in the 10mins or so it took me to read it).
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagenam e= FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=10424909759 62&p=1012571727085# Looks like t
I've allways though the post office would be the best option, they are known to be trust worth organisation and avoids the issue of political complications. After all stamps started as stamps off as an notary device of trust and authority.
The right to exercise self defence IRL is recognised in both International and National laws providing the defence response is proportionate to the assault.
As a IT Professional with some interest in the security arena I think I could live with the same situation with regard to IT security providing a similar burden of proportionality existed.
I suggest that a proportionality criteria also allows a firm distinction between the demands of RIAA/MPAA for cracking rights for a minor civil copyright violations and the rights of a system operator/administrator seeking to halt DDOS attack or worm attack by remotely halting the attacking process.
In the UK, we have a similar issues with Welsh Gaelic. Nobody speaks it in reality but a few read & write it. All public documents must be translated at the taxpayers expense, Interestingly by the very same people that demand equal access to those documents in the first place.
I feel the need to reiterate and elaborate on some of these points. The current solution to U[C|B]E, client side filtering, is not working, it's not fixing the problem, it's not a viable solution, it's a temporary stop-gap that is coming to the end of it's life.
One of the reasons for all the articles on the wealth and success of bulk emails is that bulk email is still a growth market, for the bulk emailers creating the image of success is an effective sales tool. So the number of bulk emailers is growing as is the number of Corperate will to use them. The number of Internet users is also growing. Couple these two facts with a quick reference to the Metcalfe/Reed laws on Network Effect and the explosive growth is getting unreal. We've experienced a 16% growth in inbound email within the last month. The issue exhibits O(2^N) growth.
This poster [cluge (114877) ] is right the problem is growing faster than the hardware of Moores-Law, which is offering growing at O(N^2) per 18months, consider the difference and maths for a few moments.
It is unsustainable divergence.
This is is the reason that client side filtering is not a long term cure, at best it only a temporary stop gap, however the problem is actually worse, client side filtering cures the symptoms not the cause, much as the back bone traffic remains.
Now factor in the reverse charging model that U[C|B]E uses and that for some email servers 90% of email is U[C|B]E. That is a 10 fold cost increase for somebody. In many ISP's this cost has been hidden inside good times and Moores law. If not hidden from the ISP it certainly is from the consumer, who ultimatly pays.
However there is a sustainable solution, the introduction of a core network of trusted directory servers vouching for a network of authoritative MTA's which can and will vouch there users. This system is also vastly superior to the current black lists, which are fundamentally ineffective for the reasons revealed.
Dr. Peter Jakab, a curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., doesn't deny that Pearse got off the ground. "But what he flew was essentially a powered glider flying into a ravine. So it wasn't a true powered flight. He's just one of many pre-Wright claimants."
This looks like revisionist History to me and searching around uncovered this:
"Neither the Smithsonian Institution or its successors, nor any museum or other agency, bureau or facilities administered for the United States of America by the Smithsonian Institution or its successors shall publish or permit to be displayed a statement or label in connection with or in respect of any aircraft model or design of earlier date than the Wright Aeroplane of 1903, claiming in effect that such aircraft was capable of carrying a man under its own power in controlled flight."
http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/pearse/smithsonian.ht m
Add the fact George Carley's first flight predated the Wright Brothers by a hundred years.
most of the gun crime there is related to drug wars and not criminals vs. law abiding people.
Indeed real gun crime is extremely rare in the UK, so rare it usually makes the national news, and it nearly always inter-gang related. a lot of _armed_ crime is replica firearms.
WIMP - Window(*1) Icon Mouse(*2) Pointer was first coined by Parc Xerox early in 1970, this was well before Microsoft even existed.
(*1) Windows initially refered the concept we now know as a virtual or floating desktop. i.e. A 'window' on a larger space. (*2) 'Mouse' changed to 'Menu' as a result of the text mode UI's that where introduced in the 1980's.
So (using figures from the link) they have a fund worth 32 Billion, spent 12Million on Property and Equipment, receive 6 million in tax refunds & credits and payout just over 1 Million in grants.
Impressive./sarcasm.
It renforce the view that this is some fancy tax avoidance scheme.
Client side PVR is doomed, it offers too little too late. The future is server side PVR with offers big advantages over client side services, simpler units allow lower unit cost, much lower maintenance costs, more reliable; Server side content allows near limit-less libraries of content by comparison. Serverside allows transparent intergration with Digital Television Services & TV Email and TV-Web.
This is not pie in the sky futurology; this is it all being done in the UK by ourselves (see www.kitv.co.uk) a small regional telco. We use an IP enabled STB that is half the cost of TIVO, it requires no client side MPEG encoder or HD. This reduces the installation and maintenance costs, and significantly increases reliability. Since we encode off-line with industrial MPEG encoders, the video quality is vastly superior to TIVO, and delivered DRM clear. Since we normalised content, we can also offer a lot more choice of content, currently over 4000 hours of content on the largest Video Server Farm in the world. Consumers do not even need to flag content, they can browse the back catalogue of content, via EPG.
AIH I've repeatedly pointed out this out in the past and I usually get modded into obivion by bleating TIVO advocates, but I am right, they are wrong and time will prove it.
Slashdot Mirror
The above are all valid reason for the do not touch. There also the additional issue of heat, and burns.
Not all metals 'glow' when hot, the thermal capacity of some of the largest pieces would be hours, even days.
They also refered to them as 'entitlement cards' which is name given the ID cards about to be issued to asylum seekers and refugees that to allow access to health care and social security without a national insurance number (citizenship).
I also work for a new entrant on Service provider side of this industry. We do DTV including VOD over ADSL not Cable. Streaming video in a glitch free manner requires a clear low latency path to your peer, the skill to produce a very high availability & robust network, robust servers and disks, expensive equipment and skills. These are things most P2Pers dont have, never mind consumers. The big advantage a Service provider is capital, economies of scale, robustness and locality.
However despite these I agree with the above VOD and PVR are complementary. The networking capability to the home required for P2P PVR will be provided by value added service providers. The simple fact is most consumers are ordinary people not geeks, most ordinary people are not prepared to pay the full real cost of a 4Meg DSL line, without services.
There is the content issue, we have a healthy revenue from adult content, movies, cartoons and music, but what consumers really like and use much more is the fast changing content like news and weather and that cannot be local enough. This is something P2P VOD cannot provide, yet, this will allow a whole new sector of local service providers, and these are likely to come in part from the P2P network users.
There is also the issue of content innovatations coming with VOD technology, viewer directed story lines, multiple view points, hyperlinked content streams. We are conducting trials of these new ideas. Thunder Road an Interactive soap with a dramatic fly on wall documentary and true documentary all in parallel, with the BBC. And it was our most popular VOD item yet.
Questions are being asked over whether cost-cutting at the US space agency Nasa might have contributed to the loss of the space shuttle Columbia.
This is a pretty interesting article on 'What now for International Space Station?'.
In summary: ISS currently has a crew of three, two americans and one russian. They where due to be rotated in March by Atlantis, but have supplies until June. Soyuz could be used to relieve the crew, and Progress can be used for supplies, so the plan is for them to sit tight for now.
it's unlikely that NASA will undertake any further shuttle missions or any other manned space flights for the next two years.
The launch freeze is unlikely to last that long, the ISS is still crewed and has only Soyuz-based escape capsule at their disposal. Whilst it is not inconsievable they would use this. It is likely to be avoided since it would cause problems with recrewing ISS since the replacement for this vehicle in not yet available.
I think we can expect a much quicker turn around in this investigation compared with that into Challenger.
The Slashdot link seems to have caused this article to rise to number 1 in the FT list of most popular articles (from 3 in the 10mins or so it took me to read it).
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagena
Looks like t
I've allways though the post office would be the best option, they are known to be trust worth organisation and avoids the issue of political complications. After all stamps started as stamps off as an notary device of trust and authority.
Um, the second most important claim is that "Skylink is a foreign Corporation" just how is this relevant to anything except possible curry favour?
The right to exercise self defence IRL is recognised in both International and National laws providing the defence response is proportionate to the assault.
As a IT Professional with some interest in the security arena I think I could live with the same situation with regard to IT security providing a similar burden of proportionality existed.
I suggest that a proportionality criteria also allows a firm distinction between the demands of RIAA/MPAA for cracking rights for a minor civil copyright violations and the rights of a system operator/administrator seeking to halt DDOS attack or worm attack by remotely halting the attacking process.
In the UK, we have a similar issues with Welsh Gaelic. Nobody speaks it in reality but a few read & write it. All public documents must be translated at the taxpayers expense, Interestingly by the very same people that demand equal access to those documents in the first place.
I feel the need to reiterate and elaborate on some of these points. The current solution to U[C|B]E, client side filtering, is not working, it's not fixing the problem, it's not a viable solution, it's a temporary stop-gap that is coming to the end of it's life.
One of the reasons for all the articles on the wealth and success of bulk emails is that bulk email is still a growth market, for the bulk emailers creating the image of success is an effective sales tool. So the number of bulk emailers is growing as is the number of Corperate will to use them. The number of Internet users is also growing. Couple these two facts with a quick reference to the Metcalfe/Reed laws on Network Effect and the explosive growth is getting unreal. We've experienced a 16% growth in inbound email within the last month. The issue exhibits O(2^N) growth.
This poster [cluge (114877) ] is right the problem is growing faster than the hardware of Moores-Law, which is offering growing at O(N^2) per 18months, consider the difference and maths for a few moments.
It is unsustainable divergence.
This is is the reason that client side filtering is not a long term cure, at best it only a temporary stop gap, however the problem is actually worse, client side filtering cures the symptoms not the cause, much as the back bone traffic remains.
Now factor in the reverse charging model that U[C|B]E uses and that for some email servers 90% of email is U[C|B]E. That is a 10 fold cost increase for somebody. In many ISP's this cost has been hidden inside good times and Moores law. If not hidden from the ISP it certainly is from the consumer, who ultimatly pays.
However there is a sustainable solution, the introduction of a core network of trusted directory servers vouching for a network of authoritative MTA's which can and will vouch there users. This system is also vastly superior to the current black lists, which are fundamentally ineffective for the reasons revealed.
Dr. Peter Jakab, a curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., doesn't deny that Pearse got off the ground. "But what he flew was essentially a powered glider flying into a ravine. So it wasn't a true powered flight. He's just one of many pre-Wright claimants."
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This looks like revisionist History to me and searching around uncovered this
"Neither the Smithsonian Institution or its successors, nor any museum or other agency, bureau or facilities administered for the United States of America by the Smithsonian Institution or its successors shall publish or permit to be displayed a statement or label in connection with or in respect of any aircraft model or design of earlier date than the Wright Aeroplane of 1903, claiming in effect that such aircraft was capable of carrying a man under its own power in controlled flight."
http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/pearse/smithsonian.h
Add the fact George Carley's first flight predated the Wright Brothers by a hundred years.
most of the gun crime there is related to drug wars and not criminals vs. law abiding people.
Indeed real gun crime is extremely rare in the UK, so rare it usually makes the national news, and it nearly always inter-gang related. a lot of _armed_ crime is replica firearms.
There is a considerable argument to be made that gun control is to blame for an increase in violence in Britain.
Except crime is FALLING in the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2123249.stm
And defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. Usually because I've been thrown out of Windows by a BSOD.
WIMP - Window(*1) Icon Mouse(*2) Pointer was first coined by Parc Xerox early in 1970, this was well before Microsoft even existed.
(*1) Windows initially refered the concept we now know as a virtual or floating desktop. i.e. A 'window' on a larger space.
(*2) 'Mouse' changed to 'Menu' as a result of the text mode UI's that where introduced in the 1980's.
So (using figures from the link) they have a fund worth 32 Billion, spent 12Million on Property and Equipment, receive 6 million in tax refunds & credits and payout just over 1 Million in grants.
Impressive.
It renforce the view that this is some fancy tax avoidance scheme.
It even possible to run engines on used vegetable oil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2117616.stm
you can get the box w/ a lifetime subscription for $250 more.
Life time subscription!
Where have I heard that before? Oh yeh Internet Access for life, the very short life of the company not mine.
Client side PVR is doomed, it offers too little too late. The future is server side PVR with offers big advantages over client side services, simpler units allow lower unit cost, much lower maintenance costs, more reliable; Server side content allows near limit-less libraries of content by comparison. Serverside allows transparent intergration with Digital Television Services & TV Email and TV-Web.
This is not pie in the sky futurology; this is it all being done in the UK by ourselves (see www.kitv.co.uk) a small regional telco. We use an IP enabled STB that is half the cost of TIVO, it requires no client side MPEG encoder or HD. This reduces the installation and maintenance costs, and significantly increases reliability. Since we encode off-line with industrial MPEG encoders, the video quality is vastly superior to TIVO, and delivered DRM clear. Since we normalised content, we can also offer a lot more choice of content, currently over 4000 hours of content on the largest Video Server Farm in the world. Consumers do not even need to flag content, they can browse the back catalogue of content, via EPG.
AIH I've repeatedly pointed out this out in the past and I usually get modded into obivion by bleating TIVO advocates, but I am right, they are wrong and time will prove it.
In the UK, you can register on-line with the Telephone Preference Service to avoid telemarketing calls.
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk
Similar services exist for Snail Mail
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk
and Fax.
http://www.fpsonline.org.uk/
The Data Protection register monitors these, and operates enforcement, so you can expect good results.
Set me thinking, I guess this makes Seti StarWalking/StarChalking ?
And I guess by Nokia standards that makes SETI bandwidth thieves ?
free guest logins for any martians passing by
Set me thinking, I guess this makes Seti StarWalking/StarChalking ?
The BBC also provide some the best Science and Technology coverage found in *any* mainstream media.
Including this interesting pience on why News beats porn online.