Unfortunately, the real world dictates I not even consider this.
Just to split hairs - the legal world is the fictional one. In reality people can just share their connections with others in a grand mutual aid* collaboration. It's the made-up rules (legal fictions) that screw it all up.
Granted, there are large numbers of men with guns who hold these fictions to be reality.
* mine blocks outgoing SMTP, limits to 1Mbps max with a floor around 384Kbps if I'm using the rest.
Researchers: "We finally have conclusive evidence of Inflation!" [runs off to make a viral video] Critics: "That's pretty cool but did you consider X?"
Which reduces down to "it's no faster than a normal computer".
I'm not sure I get this argument. The guys selling this stuff have said for a while that their device is fast enough at quantum annealing to be useful for learning to program quantum computers, and that when their manufacturing ramps up they'll have many more qubits, and I think the implication is that the speed doesn't scale linearly. They were telling the Googles and the Lockheeds, 'look you need to invest in our product and services so you can be ready in the quantum computing space when the better hardware emerges'.
That it's not absolutely faster than a conventional computer at this point is interesting, academically, but not terribly relevant to their sales pitch, unless we can show that the problem at hand fits inside their limited qubit space and the types of algorithms its supposed to be able to handle at this point, and still does not do what's expected of it.
Also: did a tiny Canadian computer company produce a computer that's as fast (within the problem space) as a modern Xeon on their slim budget? That would almost seem revolutionary - AMD can't even do that with GlobalFoundary's fab on their side.
Maybe it is a scam, but this kind of analysis seems somewhat orthogonal to their claims. By all means, pop one open and find the i7 inside, and there won't be any question, but that's not really where we are today.
I'd really like to know just what kind of punishment can the NSA hand out, anyway. Is the guy under legitimate threat of being renditioned to some black hole never to be seen again?
The CIA rendition plane was waiitng for Snowden. When Joseph Nacchio (Qwest CEO) refused to play ball with NSA, they set the SEC on him with some bogus charges and then refused to allow him to defend himself in court by classifying the evidence.
When the government starts actually locking people up for dissent, it's game over, isn't it?
Only if people do nothing to stop them. So far, Americans seem as willing to fight as the 30's Germans.
But we haven't given competition the chance it needs
So very true. Most of the impediments are about pole-access for community broadband, and that's at the State level. So many attempts at competition have failed at the pole-access level (which suits the incumbents just fine!). Sure, if you have Google money you can get through all of it, but even they only have a handful of cities, a drop in the bucket. Inequitable pole access is one of the reasons for the meager success of WISP's, and though I wish them well, spectrum is limited, glass is not.
Whose internet is it anyway? And whose democracy is it anyway?
And then he goes off the rails. It's a republic, for Pete's sake, and it's the Internet of whomever builds it. The interconnection of many and varied private networks is the model that has led to the most successful technological innovation in history. Mess with that at your great peril. Yes, the too-big-to-fail fascist/corporate model is attractive to miscreants, but fix that, don't wreck the Internet.
He seems to be concluding that Congress is in a smarter position to fix it than the entrepreneurs who know what needs doing but are held back by the government regulations. Congress couldn't find its way out of a box unless K-Street told them where the exit was. Patching bad code with more bad code is not the way the Internet wins, either in a router or in the CFR. The odds of additional regulation from Congress not making things worse are slim to none.
I'm pretty sure that he just made things worse by correctly identifying real problems and then prescribing unicorn farts as the solution from his bully pulpit.
What I want is a well-made Android phone that runs CyanogenMod, has an easily-replaced battery and SD card, and works on T-mobile (at least until they get consumed by some shitty company like Verizon).
How about a Galaxy S4? That's what I'm running. I have a Sprint-branded model running on Verizon MVNO prepaid (only carrier around here - sounds like it's different where you live). I got mine from Amazon, as it happens - looks like they have a T-Mobile model too.
Mine's running 4.4.2 CM milestone, fully encrypted. 64GB SanDisk SDHC (make sure you do an aligned format under Linux) w/ Incipio Dual Pro case. Battery pops out on demand. Make sure you get Odin for Windows if you intend to install custom ROM's.
the government is being superficially lazy to benefit wealthy interests? You don't say. Organize a protest outside Goldman Sachs when the auction is over - if you're lucky it'll be on the same day that the government sold a few billions of dollars of Fed bonds through them so they could take their percentage.
How you get from a military theocracy to some sort of representative and stable government is a question that has yet to be answered.
If the US is any guide, you need a couple hundred years of near-anarchy conditions to get the people used to self-determination, self-ownership, and self-responsibility. Then, if they accept a govenment, they'll put strong restrictions on it (whether those are honored is another matter). Colonial America wasn't pure anarchy, but compared to most of the regions of the world today, it was pretty close.
Given modern communications, that couple hundred years might not be necessary, though there are limits to generations' flexibility and those generations have lengthened, not shortened.
Colonial America wasn't perfect, but the oppression of a strong military certainly isn't better.
I love it how the free-market economist won a primary and now the Republicans are freaking out. Showing their true colors - not the hype they spout to fool ordinary small-government Americans.
People are said to seek rents when they try to obtain benefits for themselves through the political arena. They typically do so by getting a subsidy for a good they produce or for being in a particular class of people, by getting a tariff on a good they produce, or by getting a special regulation that hampers their competitors. Elderly people, for example, often seek higher Social Security payments; steel producers often seek restrictions on imports of steel; and licensed electricians and doctors often lobby to keep regulations in place that restrict competition from unlicensed electricians or doctors.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society's economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the "national interest" - that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
I find it particularly interesting that not only does Uber do background checks on its drivers and allows the rider to rate the cabbie and cab, it also allows the cabbie to rate the rider, potentially increasing safety for the cabbie in ways that the government model does not and can not. Cabbie murder is a real thing and government does not offer a solution. But it's still not surprising that the cartel members are upset that their cartel membership is losing value.
Tenure should be viewed as a bonus or a nice reward, not a career goal.
Tenure is a hugely valuable asset - we shouldn't be surprised that people go after it. Similar in many ways to a huge annuity, except you do have to teach the Freshman lecture to keep getting it.
Some are even starting to talk about how tenure's value should be taxed.
Intel has released a beta of its native development environment called Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience, (INDE) and written plugins for Eclipse the most Android developers use to build for Android so the apps can be X86 compatible and execute efficiently on Atom processor-based hardware.
Right, Ballmer is expected to make back his investment within a year, with new TV contracts expected to be a minimum of $3B, possibly reaching $7B, any of those far exceeding the operating costs. The competition is high in LA which is why he probably won't move the team to Seattle, at least until the upcoming contacts expire in several years.
Not so much as even that - it's become purely political. Say what you want about Gore and his slideshow, but if you compare him to the other nominees that year, it's embarrassing. And then Obama and the EU? Fonzarelli's Jump was more credible.
As long as you just complain while they take assertive action, they will win.
You're just an example - we have a broad coordination problem. We either need to solve that or get a message to future generations to not adopt this kind of system.
The UK has always had a headstart on corporate-driven fascism, way back to the Empire, but Americans are proving adept at catch-up. See, this kind of sentencing makes perfect sense as soon as you adopt the position that only corporate interests matter.
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Unfortunately, the real world dictates I not even consider this.
Just to split hairs - the legal world is the fictional one. In reality people can just share their connections with others in a grand mutual aid* collaboration. It's the made-up rules (legal fictions) that screw it all up.
Granted, there are large numbers of men with guns who hold these fictions to be reality.
* mine blocks outgoing SMTP, limits to 1Mbps max with a floor around 384Kbps if I'm using the rest.
No society where the police have unlimited power to cover up their own abuses and make any charge they want stick can last.
Ah, the silver lining.
Researchers: "We finally have conclusive evidence of Inflation!"
[runs off to make a viral video]
Critics: "That's pretty cool but did you consider X?"
tftfy
Wow, only about 15 years after beekeepers and alternative media started noticing the problem
Now that everybody else in the world is starting to zero-in on the solution, they want to step out in front of the parade. Typical.
US gov't is largest consumer of cryptographic products in the North American market
This doesn't make any sense. There are more Android phones than government employees, for instance (and thank goodness).
Vis-a-vis LibreSSL - screw FIPS, Dual EC DRBG, and weak NSA coefficients - let the feds use OpenSSL if they want to.
There are very few features that they could add to it without making a bloated piece of software.
Yeah, 'cause if the UI stopped refusing keyboard input while it was indexing a large folder the users would revolt!
Which reduces down to "it's no faster than a normal computer".
I'm not sure I get this argument. The guys selling this stuff have said for a while that their device is fast enough at quantum annealing to be useful for learning to program quantum computers, and that when their manufacturing ramps up they'll have many more qubits, and I think the implication is that the speed doesn't scale linearly. They were telling the Googles and the Lockheeds, 'look you need to invest in our product and services so you can be ready in the quantum computing space when the better hardware emerges'.
That it's not absolutely faster than a conventional computer at this point is interesting, academically, but not terribly relevant to their sales pitch, unless we can show that the problem at hand fits inside their limited qubit space and the types of algorithms its supposed to be able to handle at this point, and still does not do what's expected of it.
Also: did a tiny Canadian computer company produce a computer that's as fast (within the problem space) as a modern Xeon on their slim budget? That would almost seem revolutionary - AMD can't even do that with GlobalFoundary's fab on their side.
Maybe it is a scam, but this kind of analysis seems somewhat orthogonal to their claims. By all means, pop one open and find the i7 inside, and there won't be any question, but that's not really where we are today.
I'd really like to know just what kind of punishment can the NSA hand out, anyway. Is the guy under legitimate threat of being renditioned to some black hole never to be seen again?
The CIA rendition plane was waiitng for Snowden. When Joseph Nacchio (Qwest CEO) refused to play ball with NSA, they set the SEC on him with some bogus charges and then refused to allow him to defend himself in court by classifying the evidence.
When the government starts actually locking people up for dissent, it's game over, isn't it?
Only if people do nothing to stop them. So far, Americans seem as willing to fight as the 30's Germans.
If forking is against the license, it is impossible to fork...without violating the license.
Yet, the authors are unlikely to decloak to enforce their copyright.
No email archiving? really? Of an IRS director?
Kinda, sorta. This story has more details than any of the others I've seen.
It does appear that the IRS retention policies were in violation of the Federal Records Act. Maybe they'll fire some leaf-node IT guy over it.
How many other institutions are being used to pursue a political agenda instead of their true function?
All of them.
Except that is their true function. Don't mistake the window dressing for the window.
But we haven't given competition the chance it needs
So very true. Most of the impediments are about pole-access for community broadband, and that's at the State level. So many attempts at competition have failed at the pole-access level (which suits the incumbents just fine!). Sure, if you have Google money you can get through all of it, but even they only have a handful of cities, a drop in the bucket. Inequitable pole access is one of the reasons for the meager success of WISP's, and though I wish them well, spectrum is limited, glass is not.
Whose internet is it anyway? And whose democracy is it anyway?
And then he goes off the rails. It's a republic, for Pete's sake, and it's the Internet of whomever builds it. The interconnection of many and varied private networks is the model that has led to the most successful technological innovation in history. Mess with that at your great peril. Yes, the too-big-to-fail fascist/corporate model is attractive to miscreants, but fix that, don't wreck the Internet.
He seems to be concluding that Congress is in a smarter position to fix it than the entrepreneurs who know what needs doing but are held back by the government regulations. Congress couldn't find its way out of a box unless K-Street told them where the exit was. Patching bad code with more bad code is not the way the Internet wins, either in a router or in the CFR. The odds of additional regulation from Congress not making things worse are slim to none.
I'm pretty sure that he just made things worse by correctly identifying real problems and then prescribing unicorn farts as the solution from his bully pulpit.
What I want is a well-made Android phone that runs CyanogenMod, has an easily-replaced battery and SD card, and works on T-mobile (at least until they get consumed by some shitty company like Verizon).
How about a Galaxy S4? That's what I'm running. I have a Sprint-branded model running on Verizon MVNO prepaid (only carrier around here - sounds like it's different where you live). I got mine from Amazon, as it happens - looks like they have a T-Mobile model too.
Mine's running 4.4.2 CM milestone, fully encrypted. 64GB SanDisk SDHC (make sure you do an aligned format under Linux) w/ Incipio Dual Pro case. Battery pops out on demand. Make sure you get Odin for Windows if you intend to install custom ROM's.
the government is being superficially lazy to benefit wealthy interests? You don't say. Organize a protest outside Goldman Sachs when the auction is over - if you're lucky it'll be on the same day that the government sold a few billions of dollars of Fed bonds through them so they could take their percentage.
How you get from a military theocracy to some sort of representative and stable government is a question that has yet to be answered.
If the US is any guide, you need a couple hundred years of near-anarchy conditions to get the people used to self-determination, self-ownership, and self-responsibility. Then, if they accept a govenment, they'll put strong restrictions on it (whether those are honored is another matter). Colonial America wasn't pure anarchy, but compared to most of the regions of the world today, it was pretty close.
Given modern communications, that couple hundred years might not be necessary, though there are limits to generations' flexibility and those generations have lengthened, not shortened.
Colonial America wasn't perfect, but the oppression of a strong military certainly isn't better.
Tech-savvy folks rip physical media and ffmpeg it into whatever format their device prefers. Fools spend money on DRM'ed downloads.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/eric-cantor-dave-brat-what-happened
I love it how the free-market economist won a primary and now the Republicans are freaking out. Showing their true colors - not the hype they spout to fool ordinary small-government Americans.
Pro or Con, Uber is pushing the boundaries and bringing some clarity to the old system. Some terms for discussion:
Rent seeking
Fascism
I find it particularly interesting that not only does Uber do background checks on its drivers and allows the rider to rate the cabbie and cab, it also allows the cabbie to rate the rider, potentially increasing safety for the cabbie in ways that the government model does not and can not. Cabbie murder is a real thing and government does not offer a solution. But it's still not surprising that the cartel members are upset that their cartel membership is losing value.
Tenure should be viewed as a bonus or a nice reward, not a career goal.
Tenure is a hugely valuable asset - we shouldn't be surprised that people go after it. Similar in many ways to a huge annuity, except you do have to teach the Freshman lecture to keep getting it.
Some are even starting to talk about how tenure's value should be taxed.
Somehow missing from TFS...
Right, Ballmer is expected to make back his investment within a year, with new TV contracts expected to be a minimum of $3B, possibly reaching $7B, any of those far exceeding the operating costs. The competition is high in LA which is why he probably won't move the team to Seattle, at least until the upcoming contacts expire in several years.
Not so much as even that - it's become purely political. Say what you want about Gore and his slideshow, but if you compare him to the other nominees that year, it's embarrassing. And then Obama and the EU? Fonzarelli's Jump was more credible.
As long as you just complain while they take assertive action, they will win.
You're just an example - we have a broad coordination problem. We either need to solve that or get a message to future generations to not adopt this kind of system.
The UK has always had a headstart on corporate-driven fascism, way back to the Empire, but Americans are proving adept at catch-up. See, this kind of sentencing makes perfect sense as soon as you adopt the position that only corporate interests matter.
And if you think that pointing a laser pointer at an airplane will make it "fall out of the sky", you're wrong.
Naw, man, that requires a grandma reading her Kindle in-flight.