The wife's question of "What do we need the TV for?" was really "What do we need CABLE/SATELLITE TV for?"
The GP even goes on to say that the kids watch things over the internet, and that their programs are available on-line.
They aren't really questioning the medium so much as the delivery mechanism. I agree with most of their points, but agree with you that the TV set itself isn't going away anytime soon. Its just that the Cable/Satellite box will be replaced by a box that can deal with time shifting ATSC signals along with streaming from the internet (Hulu/ABC/NetFlix), and Video On Demand (Rentals/Purchases from Amazon Video/iTunes/Sony Video/MicroSoft Marketplace).
We've already got: MythTV and TiVo that fulfill most of those functions, and AppleTV and PS3/Xbox 360 that fulfill some of those functions (no ATSC tuner).
Bluntly, pick one from column A and one from column B and you probably can ditch Cable/Satellite in favor of a cheaper yearly solution even if you're purchasing all your content legitimately (I don't download from TPB).
We're in a similar situation in my house in the NYC AREA except replace MythTV by TiVo (its easier for my wife and requires zero maintenance from me).
We're switching to ATSC from cable (the HD TiVo's have built in dual tuners) since most of what we watch is available over the air (and since we almost exclusively time shift things to when WE want to watch them). For the few shows that are cable exclusive, a lot are available "on-line", or available on Amazon Video(directly integrated into HD TiVo) if we need to watch them "now" (or Sony's Video store if you have a PS3, or iTunes if you have an AppleTV, or MicroSoft's Video store if you have an XBox360).
Otherwise we can wait for the inevitable "season boxed set" and still save money over the course of the year, compared to the prices the cable companies are charging, for things we don't want/need and absolutely crappy service.
Funny note. For the longest time I went along as one more sheep just paying them and not worrying. THen they truly messed up service, and spent three months trying to fix it, often canceling appointments and generally doing everything wrong. If they had just managed to get things working efficiently I would have been happy, instead they got me looking at alternatives (and mentioning those alternatives whenever someone might be listening).
Its true. I have a couple friends who have finished LPN and had hospitals fighting over them while they were working on their RN's. No matter where they go, they'll get their BSN or Nurse Practitioner schooling paid for by the hospital (with a 3 year work agreement after they finish). But getting paid to finish your education and have a job guaranteed at the end of it...
Almost makes it sound like Nursing is a better profession than Doctor.:)
It's a bailout for incompetence, and Obama's administration would be foolish to support them. But it's too late - from the way the big 3 car manufacturers have been bailed out, I see more incompetence being rewarded.
One thing to remember, is that the car manufacturers, as opposed to ALL the other bailouts, asked for short term low interest loans to keep going, because the credit market had frozen, and they couldn't get the loans they needed.
Every other bailout was a free handout to the company (including AIG TWICE!). While I'm not saying I supported the money paid to the car manufacturers, there is a world of difference between what they were asking for and got, and what other companies got almost without asking for it.
Only an idiot would invest 24 million to get back only 1-2 million dollars worth of wage taxes.
I think you meant:
Only an idiot politician would invest 24 million to get back only 1-2 million dollars worth of wage taxes and enough votes to make his re-election a shoe in despite his idiot decision.
Remember, the money the politician spent on keeping the company in the area doesn't just translate into increased taxes from wages.
It doesn't just translate into increased taxes on materials spent, and other service and supply industries feeding into that company.
The money spent translates into a situation the politician can point to and say "I just saved your job, vote for me!".
The only modern ternary computer Setun was built in the late 1950s in the Soviet Union at the Moscow State University, and it had notable advantages over the binary computers (such as lower electricity consumption and lower production cost) which eventually replaced it.
(I was actually wondering about this sort of idea the other day...our company is leary of VPN access to personal machines, so why not package up a VM and they can use that...their potentially infected machine doesn't actually touch the network itself right?)
Ultimately Computer Security depends on Physical Security. If someone can get to the hardware on a box, there are all sorts of other things that need to be secured (bootloader/BIOS).
If you are distributing a VM image, then having the image could constitute "Physical Access". Not to mention that a host machine can usually transfer files to a VM, which could theoretically be used an a vector for infection by either a Virus or Trojan.
You're right that their machine doesn't actually access the network, but a truly paranoid Security Administrator would be running each VPN connection through a firewall that is limiting its access to only what it needs, and is requiring the "Something you know/Something you have" type of token authentication (like SecureID).
The BEST way to offer something like that would be to have a LiveDVD that would boot the machine and provide the VPN client (perhaps set p to work with a config file on a USB drive, since you'll need some way to save data if you want anyway). The host machine is booted off the DVD and is in a "clean" environment.
Yeah, its a bit extreme, and people can still defeat that if they want to, but for most it would be WAY too much of a hassle. The toughest part though would be how to enforce that people are using the LiveDVD to connect, instead of just installing the software on their home system and connecting "normally"?
Okay, so let me get this straight, in one Tablet you've got a wireless smart card reader, an RFID reader, a barcode scanner, a finger print scanner, a 2Mpixel camera w/dual LED lights, can house two battery packs, 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR,
and according TFA
You can also specify an integrated 7.2mbps HSDPA adapter, or even a GPS receiver.
Except for the 1GB RAM, and the Atom processor, this sounds like a Security Crackers dream box (for information gathering, or anything where you won't need quick keyboard access).
"It was hardly their intention. But since the article was withdrawn, I have received lots of mail and requests for copies of the article. The article would not have been read to this extent if the company had simply ignored it in silence," says Francisco Lacerda to the Dagens Nyheter.
I also find it funny, and sad, that a Swedish entity caved so easily to a legal threat from outside the country (and from outside the country's legal system).
When Nemesysco Limited, an Israeli company which produces lie detecting equipment, caught wind of the story, the firm contacted Equinox, the journal's British publisher, and demanded the article be withdrawn.
Its the British Publisher who caved, not the Swedish entity.
Nemesysco's Poly-Layered Voice Analysis measures 18 parameters of speech in real-time for interrogators at police, military and secret-services agencies. Its accuracy as a lie detector has proven to be less important than its ability to more quickly pinpoint for interrogators where there are problems in a subject's story. Officers then can zero in much more quickly with their traditional interrogation techniques.
The software measures voice for a variety of parameters including deception, excitement, stress, mental effort, concentration, hesitation, anger, love and lust. It works prerecorded, over the phone and live, the company said. V Entertainment recommends it for screening phone calls, checking the truthfulness of people with whom you deal or gauging romantic interest.
The display can show each measured parameter in a separate window, with real-time traces of instantaneous measurements while flashing the overall for each parameter, such as "false probable," "high stress" and "SOS." Ultimately, the company plans to offer versions of its detectors for cell phones, dating services, teaching aids, toys and games.
Interesting. I wonder how it measures up to method acting.... and politicians.
I can imagine someone taking a politicians speech and running it through this sort of analysis, especially since it can use recorded audio.
Heck, start by computing a baseline and run through recordings of previous Presidents, working your way toward the current administration.
I expect it would make for a very interesting paper (and I expect a footnote, you can contact me for proper attribution. No grant money kickback necessary, but if you need a data-cruncher, I'd be happy to help.:) )
1- The vast majority of their servers run Solaris- this wasn't some sort of cross-platform attack.
Even if the vast majority are Solaris, a previous poster mentioned a fair amount of HP hardware may also be in the mix.
Something we all would do well to recognize is that a shell script can easily be "cross platform", at least regarding all the flavors of *nix including Solaris, HPUX, Linux and BSD.
(although I'd probably use perl to pull in the libraries and speed up development time)
Heck, with only a little bit of work, you could probably make a java app that could crossover to MS as well. Include a quick command to set it up in crontab, and another quick command to set it up in the MS equivalent (whose name eludes me), and you're done, with your cross-platform "bomb" ready to go off.
2- They have an infrastructure that allows a single admin server to execute commands on the entire farm simultaneously.
Suddenly being able to wipe out everything doesn't sound too difficult does it? From what I heard from friends- it was just a couple lines of shell, and it was discovered because there was a typo, and script to failed. Not a virus by any stretch.
Sounds very possible. reminds me of a similar story we heard a few years ago of someone trying to do the same thing.
Its no wonder these people got fired considering they don't bother to test their code before deploying it.;)
I'm going to hope that this is sincere and not just a troll (but what the hey I'm having too much fun answering to care).:)
I don't want 1-in-trillions, I want zero risk, and even if YOU conclude the risk is really zero and not 1-in-trillions, you still have no right making decisions for me.
That is simply not possible in the world we live in. There is a chance greater than zero that:
You will walk out of your house today and be hit by a bus.
Your family will be killed by a meteor coming through your roof during dinner time.
The sun will eject a huge solar flare that will strip all the satellites from orbit and cause them to come crashing down raining fiery death across the planet.
If this were about the risks of carbon pollution, then there would be a Stalinist agenda to stamp out dissent. The risk of global warming is just too great, you see...
That also because the media has decided that Global Warming is the cause Du-Jour. There are still some people who disagree with the whole Global Climate Change theories. If the media as a whole decides that LHC is going to blow up the planet, then we'll see lots of stories about it, and celebrities "taking up the cause", wether it has any merit or not.
But when you are a scientist and it's your ambition that requires calculated risk, suddenly you're a god who gets to decide what everyone else should think and feel about your sacred experiment... after all nothing in the world is more important than you and your data....
Regardless of their concern for their own lives, consider that quite a few of the scientists have families of their own whom they would rather not consign to oblivion. I would imagine that they have as much motivation for ensuring the safety of the experiment as anyone else. The fact that this could open huge doors in physics is certainly a draw, but you can bet that if there was a credible chance of things going "very badly" we'd be hearing a large outcry... even (or especially?) from those involved with the LHC who had families.
Any chance they might make substantial enough changes to the bill that they have to spend more time reconciling it with the Senate version before it gets passed and sent to Obama for signature?
I'm assuming he'll sign off on this if it gets to him since he's in favor of the delay, even if I'm not. The ONLY good thing about the delay is that the people surprised by the conversion... both of them... will be dealing with updating/reorienting antennas and what-not in June instead of Feb. (Less snow on roofs for them to slip off of:/ )
That the proper music to accompany civilization burning is Country and Western?
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It's Moore's other law - once fast enough is achieved, you have to slow it down with shite like rounded 3d-effect buttons, smooth rolling semi-transparent fade-in-and-out menus and ray-traced 25 squillion polygon chat avatars.
Its usually expressed as Gate's Corollary to Moore's Law: Whatever Moore Giveth, Gates Taketh Away.
Well... that WAS true, but at this point, the child has slain the parent.
In Short: AT&T forced by the government to spin out into several regional phone companies (the "baby bells"), and some services it kept for itself. Time passed, "baby bells" consolidated and gained power. AT&T and BellSouth (a "baby bell") form "Cingular" as a joint venture, AT&T Wireless becomes Cingular. SouthWestern Bell Corporation (SBC) one of those "baby bells" (all grown up now), merges with AT&T and keeps the AT&T name (logo is polarized to signify "new":/ ). The "new" AT&T merges with BellSouth, consolidating ownership of Cigular, Cingular/Wireless branch is rebranded "AT&T Mobile". The "old" AT&T is reborn albeit a bit smaller (without Verizon, Qwest bells).
In layman's terms, the Dark Lord (AT&T) was defeated and his power scattered across the earth. Over time, he has managed to regain most of his power and restore himself to most of his former glory, but some of that power has taken on a life of its own and become its own Dread Lord (Verizon), and a small Shadow Lord (Qwest), and he has found other new enemies of equal power (TWC/ComCast/T-Mobile/Sprint/etc.) ensconced in his lands so he has no choice but to share.
Fuck. Guess I'm spending $100 on an outdoor antenna, and a weekend on its installation. Where's my fucking coupon?
Alternatively, you could still wait four months and see how things are. Don't forget, besides moving channels, stations are also going to be boosting signal strength (in most cases).
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The wife's question of "What do we need the TV for?" was really "What do we need CABLE/SATELLITE TV for?"
The GP even goes on to say that the kids watch things over the internet, and that their programs are available on-line.
They aren't really questioning the medium so much as the delivery mechanism. I agree with most of their points, but agree with you that the TV set itself isn't going away anytime soon. Its just that the Cable/Satellite box will be replaced by a box that can deal with time shifting ATSC signals along with streaming from the internet (Hulu/ABC/NetFlix), and Video On Demand (Rentals/Purchases from Amazon Video/iTunes/Sony Video/MicroSoft Marketplace).
We've already got:
MythTV and TiVo that fulfill most of those functions, and AppleTV and PS3/Xbox 360 that fulfill some of those functions (no ATSC tuner).
Bluntly, pick one from column A and one from column B and you probably can ditch Cable/Satellite in favor of a cheaper yearly solution even if you're purchasing all your content legitimately (I don't download from TPB).
I agree.
We're in a similar situation in my house in the NYC AREA except replace MythTV by TiVo (its easier for my wife and requires zero maintenance from me).
We're switching to ATSC from cable (the HD TiVo's have built in dual tuners) since most of what we watch is available over the air (and since we almost exclusively time shift things to when WE want to watch them). For the few shows that are cable exclusive, a lot are available "on-line", or available on Amazon Video(directly integrated into HD TiVo) if we need to watch them "now" (or Sony's Video store if you have a PS3, or iTunes if you have an AppleTV, or MicroSoft's Video store if you have an XBox360).
Otherwise we can wait for the inevitable "season boxed set" and still save money over the course of the year, compared to the prices the cable companies are charging, for things we don't want/need and absolutely crappy service.
Funny note. For the longest time I went along as one more sheep just paying them and not worrying. THen they truly messed up service, and spent three months trying to fix it, often canceling appointments and generally doing everything wrong. If they had just managed to get things working efficiently I would have been happy, instead they got me looking at alternatives (and mentioning those alternatives whenever someone might be listening).
Almost makes it sound like Nursing is a better profession than Doctor. :)
One thing to remember, is that the car manufacturers, as opposed to ALL the other bailouts, asked for short term low interest loans to keep going, because the credit market had frozen, and they couldn't get the loans they needed.
Every other bailout was a free handout to the company (including AIG TWICE!). While I'm not saying I supported the money paid to the car manufacturers, there is a world of difference between what they were asking for and got, and what other companies got almost without asking for it.
I think you meant:
Remember, the money the politician spent on keeping the company in the area doesn't just translate into increased taxes from wages.
It doesn't just translate into increased taxes on materials spent, and other service and supply industries feeding into that company.
The money spent translates into a situation the politician can point to and say "I just saved your job, vote for me!".
In fairness, Apple is the first one that provided multi-touch en-masse to a large install base though.
Actually ... they tried that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119567/quotes
Ultimately Computer Security depends on Physical Security. If someone can get to the hardware on a box, there are all sorts of other things that need to be secured (bootloader/BIOS).
If you are distributing a VM image, then having the image could constitute "Physical Access". Not to mention that a host machine can usually transfer files to a VM, which could theoretically be used an a vector for infection by either a Virus or Trojan.
You're right that their machine doesn't actually access the network, but a truly paranoid Security Administrator would be running each VPN connection through a firewall that is limiting its access to only what it needs, and is requiring the "Something you know/Something you have" type of token authentication (like SecureID).
The BEST way to offer something like that would be to have a LiveDVD that would boot the machine and provide the VPN client (perhaps set p to work with a config file on a USB drive, since you'll need some way to save data if you want anyway). The host machine is booted off the DVD and is in a "clean" environment.
Yeah, its a bit extreme, and people can still defeat that if they want to, but for most it would be WAY too much of a hassle. The toughest part though would be how to enforce that people are using the LiveDVD to connect, instead of just installing the software on their home system and connecting "normally"?
"Tasted just like Flipper!" - JAWS II
Okay, so let me get this straight, in one Tablet you've got a wireless smart card reader, an RFID reader, a barcode scanner, a finger print scanner, a 2Mpixel camera w/dual LED lights, can house two battery packs, 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR,
and according TFA
Except for the 1GB RAM, and the Atom processor, this sounds like a Security Crackers dream box (for information gathering, or anything where you won't need quick keyboard access).
Actually, from an english version of the article:http://www.thelocal.se/17188/20090127/
Its the British Publisher who caved, not the Swedish entity.
Interesting. I wonder how it measures up to method acting. ... and politicians.
I can imagine someone taking a politicians speech and running it through this sort of analysis, especially since it can use recorded audio.
Heck, start by computing a baseline and run through recordings of previous Presidents, working your way toward the current administration.
I expect it would make for a very interesting paper (and I expect a footnote, you can contact me for proper attribution. No grant money kickback necessary, but if you need a data-cruncher, I'd be happy to help. :) )
Which is obviously part of their overall security policy, to only hire incompetent programmers.
Even if the vast majority are Solaris, a previous poster mentioned a fair amount of HP hardware may also be in the mix.
Something we all would do well to recognize is that a shell script can easily be "cross platform", at least regarding all the flavors of *nix including Solaris, HPUX, Linux and BSD.
(although I'd probably use perl to pull in the libraries and speed up development time)
Heck, with only a little bit of work, you could probably make a java app that could crossover to MS as well. Include a quick command to set it up in crontab, and another quick command to set it up in the MS equivalent (whose name eludes me), and you're done, with your cross-platform "bomb" ready to go off.
Sounds very possible. reminds me of a similar story we heard a few years ago of someone trying to do the same thing.
Its no wonder these people got fired considering they don't bother to test their code before deploying it. ;)
I'm going to hope that this is sincere and not just a troll (but what the hey I'm having too much fun answering to care). :)
That is simply not possible in the world we live in. There is a chance greater than zero that:
That also because the media has decided that Global Warming is the cause Du-Jour. There are still some people who disagree with the whole Global Climate Change theories. If the media as a whole decides that LHC is going to blow up the planet, then we'll see lots of stories about it, and celebrities "taking up the cause", wether it has any merit or not.
Regardless of their concern for their own lives, consider that quite a few of the scientists have families of their own whom they would rather not consign to oblivion. I would imagine that they have as much motivation for ensuring the safety of the experiment as anyone else. The fact that this could open huge doors in physics is certainly a draw, but you can bet that if there was a credible chance of things going "very badly" we'd be hearing a large outcry ... even (or especially?) from those involved with the LHC who had families.
To quote Serenity:
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Define "interesting".
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?
Any chance they might make substantial enough changes to the bill that they have to spend more time reconciling it with the Senate version before it gets passed and sent to Obama for signature?
I'm assuming he'll sign off on this if it gets to him since he's in favor of the delay, even if I'm not. The ONLY good thing about the delay is that the people surprised by the conversion ... both of them ... will be dealing with updating/reorienting antennas and what-not in June instead of Feb. (Less snow on roofs for them to slip off of :/ )
That the proper music to accompany civilization burning is Country and Western?
Its usually expressed as Gate's Corollary to Moore's Law: Whatever Moore Giveth, Gates Taketh Away.
Well ... that WAS true, but at this point, the child has slain the parent.
In Short: :/ ).
AT&T forced by the government to spin out into several regional phone companies (the "baby bells"), and some services it kept for itself.
Time passed, "baby bells" consolidated and gained power.
AT&T and BellSouth (a "baby bell") form "Cingular" as a joint venture, AT&T Wireless becomes Cingular.
SouthWestern Bell Corporation (SBC) one of those "baby bells" (all grown up now), merges with AT&T and keeps the AT&T name (logo is polarized to signify "new"
The "new" AT&T merges with BellSouth, consolidating ownership of Cigular, Cingular/Wireless branch is rebranded "AT&T Mobile".
The "old" AT&T is reborn albeit a bit smaller (without Verizon, Qwest bells).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T#Divestiture_era_and_expansion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility#AT.26T_Wireless_merger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture#Evolution_of_the_RBOCs
The first and last links have neat pictures outlining the divestiture/merger cycle.
In layman's terms, the Dark Lord (AT&T) was defeated and his power scattered across the earth. Over time, he has managed to regain most of his power and restore himself to most of his former glory, but some of that power has taken on a life of its own and become its own Dread Lord (Verizon), and a small Shadow Lord (Qwest), and he has found other new enemies of equal power (TWC/ComCast/T-Mobile/Sprint/etc.) ensconced in his lands so he has no choice but to share.
Dum dum dum ...
You can get anything you see,
At Alice's I-S-P.
You can get anything you see,
At Alice's ISP.
Just plug right in, it'll download fast.
No filters in site, 'cause they just can't last.
You can get anything you see,
At Alice's ISP.
'cepting Alice
How's battery life on Netbooks w/Win7 vs XP vs Linux?
The two things that have always been attractive about the netbook market are the small footprint and the long battery life.
Alternatively, you could still wait four months and see how things are. Don't forget, besides moving channels, stations are also going to be boosting signal strength (in most cases).