Never happen. The moment the taxi authority even starts to think about driverless cabs, you will get EVERY taxi driver in NYC walking off the job (causing chaos) or worse, using their cabs to block up the streets or blockading the authorities office or both.
Mobile phone apps don't need to be sandboxed. Thats just garbage propaganda from the carriers. All you do is put the sensitive parts (like the cell network interface) on a separate CPU (like OpenMoko does)
It would help if Microsoft basically said "no" to any further updates whatsoever for XP SP3 and for XP with IE6 (i.e. make IE7 mandatory if you want any more security fixes, in IE or otherwise)
Anyone who saw a U2 or SR71 or F117 or other "black" aircraft flying around in the airspace near Area 51 would not have recognized what it was unless they has a security clearance. Ergo, to the general public, all of these "black" aircraft would (at the time they were being tested at Area 51 and before the public knew about it) have been Unidentified Flying Objects. Whether there has ever been aliens at Area 51 is another matter altogether.
Since its had a premier in Australia and this showing in Austin, its clearly FINISHED. So there is no reason they cant be pumping out copies as fast as the film duplication labs can do it and getting this on screens NOW instead of making people wait a month or so (or whatever it is)
I haven't played Eve or any of the other Sci-Fi MMOs mentioned so I don't know if this has been done before but one answer to Sci-Fi MMOs is to implement something more like Star Control where you don't have a player character, instead, your character is a ship that gets upgraded with better guns, better shields, better engines etc (and your ship would have a crew obviously). And the aim is to destroy the bad guys (i.e. those not friendly to your race), talk to and trade with the good guys (those friendly to your race) and try and form alliances with everyone else. Different areas of space would be declared as space controlled by different races and as the game progresses, the balance changes and control over different bits of space can change hands. Make this in a Trek MMO where you get to pick a race e.g. Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Borg, Ferengi, Human, Vulcan, Andorian or whatever else. Obviously you wouldnt start out in control of a Galaxy class starship but if you play the game and advance, you may be given command of a better ship than the one you started with. And eventually you might get to the Galaxy class.
There may actually be national security issues that would come up in any lawsuits involving warrentless wiretapping.
For example, we know that AT&T has or had equipment that is patched into their network and is doing analysis on it. If this thing gets to trial, people are going to start asking questions like "What traffic is passing through this equipment", "What traffic does this equipment examine" and "what is this equipment looking for". This information could potentially be of value to a terrorist.
Note that I do not support or endorse warrentless wiretapping in any way, I am just presenting the facts.
The government will not be running any services over this network. Everyone will be able to choose plans from any ISP who wants to offer plans over the network.
Since the ISPs will be the ones owning the routers, gateways and other layer 3 kit (and the ones giving you an IP address), any filtering or the like will be done by them. (whether filtering happens anyway with the ISPs being forced into it somehow is another matter)
Are the netbook vendors who ship Linux gimping the functionality (i.e. disabling support for MPEG and other proprietary codecs like many desktop distros do?). If so, that may be a factor in return rates ("I bought this netbook and I cant play my music on it")
Hardware support (i.e. support for all the USB devices people may want to plug in) may also be non-existent or gimped or hard to use on the distros netbook vendors are shipping (people may want to connect MP3 players, webcams, digital cameras, mobile phones, printers etc to their netbooks and use them, Linux may not support all of that or may not support it in an easy way)
I think what happened is that lots of people want a "portable computer" to do more than just access the web. They want something they can use to do word processing, spreadsheets and presentations (which for most people means Microsoft Office). They want something to connect to their email (which often means they need Outlook). Lots of people are sold on the idea of a device that can do these things that doesn't cost as much as a laptop (with some cellphone carriers offering bundles of netbooks and mobile broadband, its even more attractive)
If it was the Borg, we just need to upload Norton Internet Security. Based on the complete lack of network access I experienced last time I installed that piece of garbage, installing it on the Borg networks will cause them to loose connectivity to the collective.
Its not just the UK that is fighting the "war on photographers". I was taking photographs of local buses here in Perth, Australia and got pinged by a security guard who initially claimed I was a peeping tom (because I was in a location where lots of people were walking past, never mind that taking photos of people walking down the street for private purposes is NOT illegal) and then after looking at the bus photos on my camera claimed that taking photos of buses was a violation of "anti-terror laws", took my details (name, address etc) and told me that if I did it again I would be fined. (despite the fact that both the Transperth website and a direct email I got from Transperth directly claim that taking photos of buses and bus stations is perfectly fine)
No matter what the law and rules may actually say and no matter what the owner of the land/building/etc you are taking photos of or taking photos from says, Rent-A-Cops the world over more and more seem to think that filming/photography is bad and must be stopped.
If you have proof that the images are yours, send a take down notice immediately. Not just to the stock image site but to any other sites out there are now using your images having bought them from the stock image site. Doing so will stop the stock image company from being able to make any more money from your images.
Most of Japan is high rises and stuff whereas America is all suburban, so lower population density. This means more cable is needed to get within range of everyone. Also, the kit the Japanese ISPs are using to connect people to the fiber is likely different to that Verizon is using (for example, the Japanese ISPs probably dont need to provide any kind of stuff to handle phone connections since just about EVERYONE has a mobile phone whereas Verizon has to support phone connections over FIOS with an expensive UPS to keep things going if there is an outage and someone needs to call 911 in a hurry. Also, a lot of the buildings in the US are older than those in Japan and weren't built with telecommunications in mind (just try and wire up most tenements in New York for fiber and see how expensive it is to create all the holes, conduits and such that you need. And thats assuming you can afford to pay the huge fees the building owner will likely want before they let you do it (if they let you do it at all)
Yeah, makes sense. If they cut them off, the dodgy VoIP providers will simply close up shop and reopen somewhere else under a new name and continue to find ways to place calls to the PSTN without paying for it.
If its really about money owed to the telcos by these VoIP providers, the right way for Verizon, AT&T etc to get their money back is to cut off whatever VoIP->PSTN gateway setup is being used. If its a 3rd party gateway, the third party gateway should be responsible for paying the telco and then the VoIP provider should be paying the 3rd party gateway. In any case, its possible to shut down whatever links are used to connect to the telcos networks
What about the model here in Australia? Everyone gets public hospital stuff funded through Medicare (people earning over a certain amount and dont take out private health insurance have to pay an extra levy for Medicare on top of normal income taxes but for most people its basically "free").
If you want better care (less waiting time for elective surgery, private rooms, choice of doctor, ancillary benefits like cover for glasses, physiotherapy, podiatry, chiropractic, dental etc) you have a choice of a large number of private health insurance plans and providers that all provide different levels of cover (with the better cover being more expensive). There is also a system where if you take out private health insurance for the first time later in life, you pay more than if you take it out when you are young and keep it for your whole life.
Best of both worlds, people who dont want (or cant afford) to pay for better care get minimum standards of care (some would say that those standards arent good enough but thats no fault of Medicare) and those who want better care can choose to pay for it. And its not like the public system is crap, our government here is investing big dollars in a new state of the art public hospital to serve as the major central hospital for the state.
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If Intel are smart they will release a chip containing one core (or 2 cores) from some kind of lower-power Core design and a pile of Larabee cores on the one die along with a memory controler and some circuits to produce the actual video output to feed to the LCD controler, DVI/HDMI encoder, TV encoder or whatever. Then do a second chip containing a WiFi chip, audio, SATA and USB (and whatever else one needs in a chipset). Would make the PERFECT 2-chip solution for netbooks if combined with a good OpenGL stack running on the Larabee cores (which Intel are talking about already).
Such a 2-chip solution would also work for things like media set top boxes and PVRs (if combined with a Larabee solution for encoding and decoding MPEG video). PVRs would just need 1 or 2 of whatever is being used in the current crop of digital set top boxes to decode the video.
As for the comment that people will need to understand how to best program Larabee to get the most out of it, most of the time they will just be using a stack provided by Intel (e.g. an OpenGL stack or a MPEG decoding stack). Plus, its highly likely that compilers will start supporting Larabee (Intel's own compiler for one if nothing else).
Tell that to all the people on Verizon Wireless who need service in any of the places (subway systems for example) where Verizon have paid large sums of money to ensure that they have a monopoly on service in that location.
Lately I have found I dont get much SPAM passing through my filters even though I have specifically turned OFF the SPAM filters my ISP provides (to avoid the chance of any false positives)
Knowing the way most "performance rights agencies" act (and the way that the laws are written), playing any music at all (regardless of whether its public domain or you have permission from the copyright holder or whatever) without paying the mandatory "performance rights agencies" license will get you hit with a notice.
One reason for region locking is to protect theater revenues. For example, I remember a situation where one of the Garfield films was available on DVD from dvdpacific.com in America. Yet the same film was not even OUT in the movie theaters in Australia yet (IIRC it opened about that time).
Thats an extreme example but there are others, especially with kids films (which usually have a short time between theater and DVD release and have different theater release dates around the world to best catch the school holidays).
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Never happen. The moment the taxi authority even starts to think about driverless cabs, you will get EVERY taxi driver in NYC walking off the job (causing chaos) or worse, using their cabs to block up the streets or blockading the authorities office or both.
Mobile phone apps don't need to be sandboxed. Thats just garbage propaganda from the carriers.
All you do is put the sensitive parts (like the cell network interface) on a separate CPU (like OpenMoko does)
It would help if Microsoft basically said "no" to any further updates whatsoever for XP SP3 and for XP with IE6 (i.e. make IE7 mandatory if you want any more security fixes, in IE or otherwise)
Anyone who saw a U2 or SR71 or F117 or other "black" aircraft flying around in the airspace near Area 51 would not have recognized what it was unless they has a security clearance. Ergo, to the general public, all of these "black" aircraft would (at the time they were being tested at Area 51 and before the public knew about it) have been Unidentified Flying Objects.
Whether there has ever been aliens at Area 51 is another matter altogether.
Since its had a premier in Australia and this showing in Austin, its clearly FINISHED. So there is no reason they cant be pumping out copies as fast as the film duplication labs can do it and getting this on screens NOW instead of making people wait a month or so (or whatever it is)
I haven't played Eve or any of the other Sci-Fi MMOs mentioned so I don't know if this has been done before but one answer to Sci-Fi MMOs is to implement something more like Star Control where you don't have a player character, instead, your character is a ship that gets upgraded with better guns, better shields, better engines etc (and your ship would have a crew obviously). And the aim is to destroy the bad guys (i.e. those not friendly to your race), talk to and trade with the good guys (those friendly to your race) and try and form alliances with everyone else. Different areas of space would be declared as space controlled by different races and as the game progresses, the balance changes and control over different bits of space can change hands.
Make this in a Trek MMO where you get to pick a race e.g. Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Borg, Ferengi, Human, Vulcan, Andorian or whatever else. Obviously you wouldnt start out in control of a Galaxy class starship but if you play the game and advance, you may be given command of a better ship than the one you started with. And eventually you might get to the Galaxy class.
There may actually be national security issues that would come up in any lawsuits involving warrentless wiretapping.
For example, we know that AT&T has or had equipment that is patched into their network and is doing analysis on it. If this thing gets to trial, people are going to start asking questions like "What traffic is passing through this equipment", "What traffic does this equipment examine" and "what is this equipment looking for". This information could potentially be of value to a terrorist.
Note that I do not support or endorse warrentless wiretapping in any way, I am just presenting the facts.
The government will not be running any services over this network. Everyone will be able to choose plans from any ISP who wants to offer plans over the network.
Since the ISPs will be the ones owning the routers, gateways and other layer 3 kit (and the ones giving you an IP address), any filtering or the like will be done by them. (whether filtering happens anyway with the ISPs being forced into it somehow is another matter)
Are the netbook vendors who ship Linux gimping the functionality (i.e. disabling support for MPEG and other proprietary codecs like many desktop distros do?). If so, that may be a factor in return rates ("I bought this netbook and I cant play my music on it")
Hardware support (i.e. support for all the USB devices people may want to plug in) may also be non-existent or gimped or hard to use on the distros netbook vendors are shipping (people may want to connect MP3 players, webcams, digital cameras, mobile phones, printers etc to their netbooks and use them, Linux may not support all of that or may not support it in an easy way)
I think what happened is that lots of people want a "portable computer" to do more than just access the web. They want something they can use to do word processing, spreadsheets and presentations (which for most people means Microsoft Office). They want something to connect to their email (which often means they need Outlook). Lots of people are sold on the idea of a device that can do these things that doesn't cost as much as a laptop (with some cellphone carriers offering bundles of netbooks and mobile broadband, its even more attractive)
If it was the Borg, we just need to upload Norton Internet Security. Based on the complete lack of network access I experienced last time I installed that piece of garbage, installing it on the Borg networks will cause them to loose connectivity to the collective.
Its not just the UK that is fighting the "war on photographers".
I was taking photographs of local buses here in Perth, Australia and got pinged by a security guard who initially claimed I was a peeping tom (because I was in a location where lots of people were walking past, never mind that taking photos of people walking down the street for private purposes is NOT illegal) and then after looking at the bus photos on my camera claimed that taking photos of buses was a violation of "anti-terror laws", took my details (name, address etc) and told me that if I did it again I would be fined. (despite the fact that both the Transperth website and a direct email I got from Transperth directly claim that taking photos of buses and bus stations is perfectly fine)
No matter what the law and rules may actually say and no matter what the owner of the land/building/etc you are taking photos of or taking photos from says, Rent-A-Cops the world over more and more seem to think that filming/photography is bad and must be stopped.
If you have proof that the images are yours, send a take down notice immediately. Not just to the stock image site but to any other sites out there are now using your images having bought them from the stock image site.
Doing so will stop the stock image company from being able to make any more money from your images.
If thats the case North Korea would have never gotten far enough to set off a nuclear explosion.
Most of Japan is high rises and stuff whereas America is all suburban, so lower population density. This means more cable is needed to get within range of everyone. Also, the kit the Japanese ISPs are using to connect people to the fiber is likely different to that Verizon is using (for example, the Japanese ISPs probably dont need to provide any kind of stuff to handle phone connections since just about EVERYONE has a mobile phone whereas Verizon has to support phone connections over FIOS with an expensive UPS to keep things going if there is an outage and someone needs to call 911 in a hurry.
Also, a lot of the buildings in the US are older than those in Japan and weren't built with telecommunications in mind (just try and wire up most tenements in New York for fiber and see how expensive it is to create all the holes, conduits and such that you need. And thats assuming you can afford to pay the huge fees the building owner will likely want before they let you do it (if they let you do it at all)
Yeah, makes sense. If they cut them off, the dodgy VoIP providers will simply close up shop and reopen somewhere else under a new name and continue to find ways to place calls to the PSTN without paying for it.
If its really about money owed to the telcos by these VoIP providers, the right way for Verizon, AT&T etc to get their money back is to cut off whatever VoIP->PSTN gateway setup is being used. If its a 3rd party gateway, the third party gateway should be responsible for paying the telco and then the VoIP provider should be paying the 3rd party gateway.
In any case, its possible to shut down whatever links are used to connect to the telcos networks
What about the model here in Australia? Everyone gets public hospital stuff funded through Medicare (people earning over a certain amount and dont take out private health insurance have to pay an extra levy for Medicare on top of normal income taxes but for most people its basically "free").
If you want better care (less waiting time for elective surgery, private rooms, choice of doctor, ancillary benefits like cover for glasses, physiotherapy, podiatry, chiropractic, dental etc) you have a choice of a large number of private health insurance plans and providers that all provide different levels of cover (with the better cover being more expensive). There is also a system where if you take out private health insurance for the first time later in life, you pay more than if you take it out when you are young and keep it for your whole life.
Best of both worlds, people who dont want (or cant afford) to pay for better care get minimum standards of care (some would say that those standards arent good enough but thats no fault of Medicare) and those who want better care can choose to pay for it. And its not like the public system is crap, our government here is investing big dollars in a new state of the art public hospital to serve as the major central hospital for the state.
If Intel are smart they will release a chip containing one core (or 2 cores) from some kind of lower-power Core design and a pile of Larabee cores on the one die along with a memory controler and some circuits to produce the actual video output to feed to the LCD controler, DVI/HDMI encoder, TV encoder or whatever. Then do a second chip containing a WiFi chip, audio, SATA and USB (and whatever else one needs in a chipset). Would make the PERFECT 2-chip solution for netbooks if combined with a good OpenGL stack running on the Larabee cores (which Intel are talking about already).
Such a 2-chip solution would also work for things like media set top boxes and PVRs (if combined with a Larabee solution for encoding and decoding MPEG video). PVRs would just need 1 or 2 of whatever is being used in the current crop of digital set top boxes to decode the video.
As for the comment that people will need to understand how to best program Larabee to get the most out of it, most of the time they will just be using a stack provided by Intel (e.g. an OpenGL stack or a MPEG decoding stack). Plus, its highly likely that compilers will start supporting Larabee (Intel's own compiler for one if nothing else).
Tell that to all the people on Verizon Wireless who need service in any of the places (subway systems for example) where Verizon have paid large sums of money to ensure that they have a monopoly on service in that location.
Its not about stopping the distribution of the film. Its about finding the guys who leaked it and sending them to federal pound me in the ass prison.
Lately I have found I dont get much SPAM passing through my filters even though I have specifically turned OFF the SPAM filters my ISP provides (to avoid the chance of any false positives)
Knowing the way most "performance rights agencies" act (and the way that the laws are written), playing any music at all (regardless of whether its public domain or you have permission from the copyright holder or whatever) without paying the mandatory "performance rights agencies" license will get you hit with a notice.
One reason for region locking is to protect theater revenues. For example, I remember a situation where one of the Garfield films was available on DVD from dvdpacific.com in America. Yet the same film was not even OUT in the movie theaters in Australia yet (IIRC it opened about that time).
Thats an extreme example but there are others, especially with kids films (which usually have a short time between theater and DVD release and have different theater release dates around the world to best catch the school holidays).
The question is, why are you still with this particular provider if they are blocking something critical to your environment?