Every tech I know has an always-on desktop connected to the internet with a rarely changing IP.
And the forum has instructions on setting it up on Linux.
I recall a recent article saying they purchase a very large portion of all hard drives.
That means they are partially responsible for lowering storage prices.
If the software is properly written, it will take care of the permissions. It's trivial to make a PHP script that checks the permissions on each folder and file in the program, and change them if they aren't right. You can even have the script fall back to FTP if PHP doesn't have permission to change permissions.
With that much money (which is just for the checkout lanes), I bet they could:
-Put RFID tags in all their value cards
-Put RFID readers on all the shelves and aisles
When they require their suppliers to put RFID stickers on all their products, they can now monitor all their inventory in real time. They can track merchandise for shrink purposes. They can track where their shoppers go, where they stop, what merchandise they handle. Combine that information with their purchasing information from the value card and I'm sure you could do all kinds of targeted advertising.
Want to actually display targeted advertising in the store? Put it in the shopping carts. Not the baskets, not the shelves. Carts to encourage more purchases. Any ads displayed on the cart automatically apply at checkout. Heck, now that you have screens built into the carts, and the cart knows the content of the cart, you can show the shopper a running estimated subtotal with tax and coupons.
Plus it opens you up scan-free checkout. Basket reports to the register what's in it, cashier verifies, done.
Maybe instead of braking (which is dangerous) and turning the engine off (which doesn't make any sense), temporarily lowering the voltage to the fuel pump (to reduce flow) would be better. There aren't any strange forces being applied to your car, your engine stays running, and your speed is forced down.
I'm banking on nanites. I bet they could make the road itself a solar collector; maybe even melt snow and ice, funnel water off the road, provide illuminated stripes, and carry data and power to beef up our internet/power grids.
Remember this is part of a bigger proposal, that if you allow your Comcast connection to be used by others, you in turn will get to use any Comcast access point.
Not quite.
I had a chance to see the internal Comcast documentation on this once. You won't have a choice, if you have one of their wireless gateways, it will eventually be turned on for you and you can't turn it off.
However, the XFinity wifi network is completely separate from your network, so unless someone finds a flaw in the firmware it should be secure. And, your network gets higher priority, and any data usage by a wifi customer doesn't count against the download speed you pay for (if you pay for 30mb down you can get the full 30mb down while another customer uses the wifi).
Someday I'm confident we'll have nanite roads. Maybe we could have the roadway act as a solar collector - if all the roads on the planet were solar roads, we would generate 100x our current power demands (which includes oil/gas). Plus, the nanites could form power conduits, creating a large, redundant power generation and distribution network. Maybe we could use them for data too - gigabit to every home.
Nanites could clear debris, break up ice, melt ice and snow, and could directly generate the lines on the road - allowing for glowing lines (which would greatly increase safety). Light poles would be more feasible since it's a few feet to connect them, instead of having to run power lines. The nanites could automatically repair themselves. Heck, maybe we could get them to self replicate within the confines of the road, so we just have to spray an initial thin layer on and let them do the rest of the work.
People who claim that the desktop/laptop is dying and everything is going to tables and phones are full of two things.
One is wishful thinking.
Can you guess the other one?
Seen a lot of customers get the Windows 8 upgrade, then ask us to downgrade them.
Too bad microsoft made it almost impossible to revert the Windows 8 upgrade.
Sorry, stupid Slashdot comments deleted the line breaks and I clicked to Confirm too fast. And now it doesn't seem to want to save any line breaks, may be from Opera. Too much effort to figure it out.
>suspecting it is just a game of no real value
A game in the way that pyramid schemes are games.
The root purpose for stocks is to be paid dividends. You pay the company some money for a portion of ownership, and when they pay out to the owners, you get your cut.
However, it seems that many companies don't do dividends, and that people buy stocks in the hope that they can sell them to someone else at a better price - eventually, that price drops, and someone loses money. Just like a pyramid scheme, someone is left eventually holding the bag.
The article summary says "the tweet briefly wiped out $136.5 billion of the S&P 500 index's value", except that stocks have no inherent dollar value. When I buy $10 worth of stock from Google, Google has $10 and I have an IOU which may or may not be redeemable at face value. When I sell it to someone else, now I have money and they have an IOU. You can't buy anything with stocks, you can only trade them, and no one is required to buy them.
So yes, the Stock Market is a game with no real value, only perceived value. You alter people's perceptions, those stocks are worthless. If you have $10 million in the bank and $1 billion in stocks, you are worth $10 million, not $1.01 billion, because other people have the $1 billion you spent on those stocks.
Eventually, the market will completely collapse, as it needs constant care and attention to stay afloat.
Also, just came up with a great analogy: A share of stock is like a raffle ticket. You might get a prize for it (the "dividend"), you might be able to sell it to someone else, or it may just become completely worthless.
YOUR current computer is enough.But it was probably quite a bit more powerful than the average when you bought/built it.
Most people buy PC's in the low $$$ range, which means they fall behind after 3-5 years. TONS of people still on ~3GHz P4's with 512MB of RAM.
I don't know, Reddit is a pretty amazing news platform based out of the US. Yes, you might get some low quality articles and some bad comments, but you also get tons of great content.
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Every tech I know has an always-on desktop connected to the internet with a rarely changing IP. And the forum has instructions on setting it up on Linux.
I think you're trying (and failing) to make a pun. "Open Sores" = vulnerable proprietary systems. Lame.
I recall a recent article saying they purchase a very large portion of all hard drives. That means they are partially responsible for lowering storage prices.
If the software is properly written, it will take care of the permissions. It's trivial to make a PHP script that checks the permissions on each folder and file in the program, and change them if they aren't right. You can even have the script fall back to FTP if PHP doesn't have permission to change permissions.
We don't need to trust them. We just need to trust the company that does the actual audit.
Because I live in the real world? You know, the one where most everyone uses Windows, and the major Linux distros have fucked up their UI?
That's a load of crap.
Using Kinect? Good god, how expensive.
With that much money (which is just for the checkout lanes), I bet they could:
-Put RFID tags in all their value cards
-Put RFID readers on all the shelves and aisles
When they require their suppliers to put RFID stickers on all their products, they can now monitor all their inventory in real time. They can track merchandise for shrink purposes. They can track where their shoppers go, where they stop, what merchandise they handle. Combine that information with their purchasing information from the value card and I'm sure you could do all kinds of targeted advertising.
Want to actually display targeted advertising in the store? Put it in the shopping carts. Not the baskets, not the shelves. Carts to encourage more purchases. Any ads displayed on the cart automatically apply at checkout. Heck, now that you have screens built into the carts, and the cart knows the content of the cart, you can show the shopper a running estimated subtotal with tax and coupons.
Plus it opens you up scan-free checkout. Basket reports to the register what's in it, cashier verifies, done.
if someone made a virus that automatically flashes vulnerable router firmware with DD-WRT with tor turned on.
Mandatory retest, every 5 years.
Maybe instead of braking (which is dangerous) and turning the engine off (which doesn't make any sense), temporarily lowering the voltage to the fuel pump (to reduce flow) would be better. There aren't any strange forces being applied to your car, your engine stays running, and your speed is forced down.
I'm banking on nanites. I bet they could make the road itself a solar collector; maybe even melt snow and ice, funnel water off the road, provide illuminated stripes, and carry data and power to beef up our internet/power grids.
Remember this is part of a bigger proposal, that if you allow your Comcast connection to be used by others, you in turn will get to use any Comcast access point.
Not quite. I had a chance to see the internal Comcast documentation on this once. You won't have a choice, if you have one of their wireless gateways, it will eventually be turned on for you and you can't turn it off. However, the XFinity wifi network is completely separate from your network, so unless someone finds a flaw in the firmware it should be secure. And, your network gets higher priority, and any data usage by a wifi customer doesn't count against the download speed you pay for (if you pay for 30mb down you can get the full 30mb down while another customer uses the wifi).
I'm fine with that.
How about specifying it must have enough gravity to make it round to be called a moon and not just a satellite?
Someday I'm confident we'll have nanite roads. Maybe we could have the roadway act as a solar collector - if all the roads on the planet were solar roads, we would generate 100x our current power demands (which includes oil/gas). Plus, the nanites could form power conduits, creating a large, redundant power generation and distribution network. Maybe we could use them for data too - gigabit to every home. Nanites could clear debris, break up ice, melt ice and snow, and could directly generate the lines on the road - allowing for glowing lines (which would greatly increase safety). Light poles would be more feasible since it's a few feet to connect them, instead of having to run power lines. The nanites could automatically repair themselves. Heck, maybe we could get them to self replicate within the confines of the road, so we just have to spray an initial thin layer on and let them do the rest of the work.
People who claim that the desktop/laptop is dying and everything is going to tables and phones are full of two things. One is wishful thinking. Can you guess the other one?
Seen a lot of customers get the Windows 8 upgrade, then ask us to downgrade them. Too bad microsoft made it almost impossible to revert the Windows 8 upgrade.
Sorry, stupid Slashdot comments deleted the line breaks and I clicked to Confirm too fast. And now it doesn't seem to want to save any line breaks, may be from Opera. Too much effort to figure it out.
>suspecting it is just a game of no real value A game in the way that pyramid schemes are games. The root purpose for stocks is to be paid dividends. You pay the company some money for a portion of ownership, and when they pay out to the owners, you get your cut. However, it seems that many companies don't do dividends, and that people buy stocks in the hope that they can sell them to someone else at a better price - eventually, that price drops, and someone loses money. Just like a pyramid scheme, someone is left eventually holding the bag. The article summary says "the tweet briefly wiped out $136.5 billion of the S&P 500 index's value", except that stocks have no inherent dollar value. When I buy $10 worth of stock from Google, Google has $10 and I have an IOU which may or may not be redeemable at face value. When I sell it to someone else, now I have money and they have an IOU. You can't buy anything with stocks, you can only trade them, and no one is required to buy them. So yes, the Stock Market is a game with no real value, only perceived value. You alter people's perceptions, those stocks are worthless. If you have $10 million in the bank and $1 billion in stocks, you are worth $10 million, not $1.01 billion, because other people have the $1 billion you spent on those stocks. Eventually, the market will completely collapse, as it needs constant care and attention to stay afloat. Also, just came up with a great analogy: A share of stock is like a raffle ticket. You might get a prize for it (the "dividend"), you might be able to sell it to someone else, or it may just become completely worthless.
I could easily write down what you're saying while you're talking to someone.
YOUR current computer is enough.But it was probably quite a bit more powerful than the average when you bought/built it. Most people buy PC's in the low $$$ range, which means they fall behind after 3-5 years. TONS of people still on ~3GHz P4's with 512MB of RAM.
I don't know, Reddit is a pretty amazing news platform based out of the US. Yes, you might get some low quality articles and some bad comments, but you also get tons of great content.
Didn't he throw a bunch of Generals and other officials in prison?
That way they're available for the common defense of Mankind, in the event of alien attack or some other event that threatens all of humanity equally.