Even ignoring the bureaucracy and lobbying, the problem for NYC is that its so heavily built up (and with such a tangle of infrastructure already) that trying to run fiber would be a nightmare. Not to mention trying to convince the owners of all the 100s of apartment buildings and such to let Google (or anyone else) roll out new infrastructure into those buildings with all the disruption and things that entails.
There was a project to build out fiber somewhere in Southern California (I cant find a cite for exactly where) but it was abandoned (to the point where there are a bunch of dead fiber ends sticking out of a wall somewhere where they just cut the fiber off when they abandoned it).
If the fiber is still there it seems perfect for Google to come in and take over. Anyone remember where that was or know whether it would make sense for Google to come there?
Not if the router manufacturer uses digital signatures on their update packages such that remote updates sent from the automatic updater are verified with a signing key that only the manufacturer has to prevent spoofing.
Making Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobile, Sprint, T-Mobile, Time Warner and all the other ISPs common carriers will make it illegal to do any of the BS they have been doing lately and solve the problem once and for all.
Heck, it might even make it illegal for ISPs to continue with the "copyright alert system".
Anyone who thinks that Rupert Murdoch using his Australian media empire to influence politics in this country is something that has only recently happened clearly knows nothing about the relationship between Murdoch and politics in this country.
Murdoch has been using the Australian newspaper to influence politics in this country in his favor right from the very first issue.
Maybe the REAL reason that the US and its allies hate Huawei is because unlike Cisco or Juniper or HP or Ericsson or whoever, they cant put backdoors in the Huawei gear.
If the governments of this world took all the subsidies and concessions and things away from the coal, oil and gas industries, coal wouldn't be as cheap and the incentives to use better alternatives to generate electricity would be higher.
Why not pass narrow legislation that says that manufacturers who don't have any franchised dealers can run their own operations (like Telsa) but others who have franchises can't.
That way the Ford dealers and Toyota dealers and Lamborghini dealers and others don't have to worry about their supplier becoming their competitor but Telsa can do it because it does not have and has never had franchise dealers anywhere.
That said, the car dealers would probably still be annoyed because a Telsa (without all the dealer overhead added into the prices) is much better value than similar cars they sell (even more so once Telsa gets the "mass-market" Model E out in a few years time)
If I was Microsoft, I would be changing the way things work for Windows Phone app development. I would allow developers to register devices with MS and be able to write and load their own apps on the device without paying any money. The fees would only apply if you wanted to release your app to the world through the marketplace.
Make sure its not possible to use this to load pirated apps and make it difficult (i.e. gotta go to MS, register the device, install Visual Studio and the Windows Phone SDK, then load the apps via Visual Studio) to reduce the chance of people simply using this as a way to distribute "side-loaded" apps (i.e. things Microsoft doesn't want on Windows Phone or things where people don't want to pay MS)
This would mean people could develop for Windows Phone (both in the emulator and the actual hardware) at basically zero cost (other than buying the actual phone) and then if they decide they have something releasable, they can go to MS and get it approved and released (and pay the money). So all those who want to see if Windows Phone is a platform worth supporting without investing too heavily in it can do so.
Yeah, all this "merchants are liable" vs "banks are liable" vs "consumers are liable" stuff means nothing until payment processors start providing machines that can do chip & pin. Which will probably happen when big merchants like Target or Wal-Mart or 7-Eleven or whoever start asking their payment processor for the new devices so they can shift the liability for fraud away from them.
Given that it was a laser printer that caused RMS to start the whole "Free Software" thing, why cant I find a decent laser printer (or even inkjet) that doesn't require piles of driver crap and does all sorts of useless stuff I dont need.
Where is the company willing to make a 2D printer that respects my freedom and privacy?
ok, so clearly the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... that someone else linked to isn't working and needs to be strengthened to give manufacturers of aircraft stronger immunity against this kind of lawsuit (i.e. protection strong enough so that the manufacturer can get it thrown out of court before a jury even gets to it)
Maybe pass a law that gives manufacturers strong immunity from lawsuits (civil and criminal) if there is a valid FAA report showing that the manufacturers aren't to blame.
How come I cant find a job here in Australia despite looking for one for 3 years or more? Everyone wants 3 years commercial experience with.NET or J2EE or whatever technology they are using.
Its not the fault of the FCC, the FCC said "ISPs must do xyz", the ISPs went to the federal court and challenged it and the federal court said "we agree with the ISPs that the FCC doesn't have the right to require the ISPs to do xyz"
This could be used by dissidents in various countries worried about the government seizing their computers and using the information contained therein against them. Or heck, criminals would be interested too, if the feds come a knocking, they just hit some buttons and turn all their criminal record data to unreadable dust.
Not surprising considering the state government has the largest majority in the history of Queensland and thinks they can do whatever they like and the federal government has been breaking promises left and right (on everything from education to welfare to tax reform to broadband) and has an environmental policy that is essentially "give the big end of town whatever they want and to hell with the environment"
I use my mobile phone to access my bank all the time (usually when I am out and about and want to check my account balance and transaction history to see where I am at and whether I can afford the things I want to buy). One of the options my bank offers for extra security is SMS authentication. If the SMS is comming in on the same phone I am using to access the bank, its definatly not 2-factor authentication in any sense of the term.
In some states of Australia they are already clamping cars of people who owe money (unpaid traffic fines etc) to the state government. Switching off the car with this kind of system seems like the logical extention and unlike a wheel clamp, its not going to be something the owner of the car can defeat with a few tools. (or a set of lock-picks to pick open the padlock).
Given that Motorola (through the StarTac, DynaTac and MicroTac litterally INVENTED the mobile phone as we know it today, it makes sense that they would have a big patent portfolio.
Are you really suggesting that we should ban the use of radios, navigation aids and safety things in long-duration yacht racing (e.g. Sydney to Hobart)? Or that we ban electronics in F1 cars and go back to the days when the cars had to be started with a hand-crank? Although your point about materials makes sense in light of the whole furor over those special bodysuits they had in swimming for a while.
Its got (or will have once it goes on sale) all the good things about a N900 plus a faster CPU (not as fast as the latest iPhone or Android device though), better cellular radios and more.
To get to 4.0 they have to do all the work for the things in 3.3 AND all the work for things in 4.0 but not in 3.3. Therefore it makes sense to do all the work for the 3.3 things first so the driver can say "I support OpenGL 3.3" then after that, start working on the rest of the 4.0 support.
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Just have the car only accept signed updates from the manufacturer.
Even ignoring the bureaucracy and lobbying, the problem for NYC is that its so heavily built up (and with such a tangle of infrastructure already) that trying to run fiber would be a nightmare. Not to mention trying to convince the owners of all the 100s of apartment buildings and such to let Google (or anyone else) roll out new infrastructure into those buildings with all the disruption and things that entails.
There was a project to build out fiber somewhere in Southern California (I cant find a cite for exactly where) but it was abandoned (to the point where there are a bunch of dead fiber ends sticking out of a wall somewhere where they just cut the fiber off when they abandoned it).
If the fiber is still there it seems perfect for Google to come in and take over. Anyone remember where that was or know whether it would make sense for Google to come there?
Not if the router manufacturer uses digital signatures on their update packages such that remote updates sent from the automatic updater are verified with a signing key that only the manufacturer has to prevent spoofing.
Making Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobile, Sprint, T-Mobile, Time Warner and all the other ISPs common carriers will make it illegal to do any of the BS they have been doing lately and solve the problem once and for all.
Heck, it might even make it illegal for ISPs to continue with the "copyright alert system".
Anyone who thinks that Rupert Murdoch using his Australian media empire to influence politics in this country is something that has only recently happened clearly knows nothing about the relationship between Murdoch and politics in this country.
Murdoch has been using the Australian newspaper to influence politics in this country in his favor right from the very first issue.
Maybe the REAL reason that the US and its allies hate Huawei is because unlike Cisco or Juniper or HP or Ericsson or whoever, they cant put backdoors in the Huawei gear.
If the governments of this world took all the subsidies and concessions and things away from the coal, oil and gas industries, coal wouldn't be as cheap and the incentives to use better alternatives to generate electricity would be higher.
Why not pass narrow legislation that says that manufacturers who don't have any franchised dealers can run their own operations (like Telsa) but others who have franchises can't.
That way the Ford dealers and Toyota dealers and Lamborghini dealers and others don't have to worry about their supplier becoming their competitor but Telsa can do it because it does not have and has never had franchise dealers anywhere.
That said, the car dealers would probably still be annoyed because a Telsa (without all the dealer overhead added into the prices) is much better value than similar cars they sell (even more so once Telsa gets the "mass-market" Model E out in a few years time)
If I was Microsoft, I would be changing the way things work for Windows Phone app development. I would allow developers to register devices with MS and be able to write and load their own apps on the device without paying any money. The fees would only apply if you wanted to release your app to the world through the marketplace.
Make sure its not possible to use this to load pirated apps and make it difficult (i.e. gotta go to MS, register the device, install Visual Studio and the Windows Phone SDK, then load the apps via Visual Studio) to reduce the chance of people simply using this as a way to distribute "side-loaded" apps (i.e. things Microsoft doesn't want on Windows Phone or things where people don't want to pay MS)
This would mean people could develop for Windows Phone (both in the emulator and the actual hardware) at basically zero cost (other than buying the actual phone) and then if they decide they have something releasable, they can go to MS and get it approved and released (and pay the money). So all those who want to see if Windows Phone is a platform worth supporting without investing too heavily in it can do so.
Yeah, all this "merchants are liable" vs "banks are liable" vs "consumers are liable" stuff means nothing until payment processors start providing machines that can do chip & pin.
Which will probably happen when big merchants like Target or Wal-Mart or 7-Eleven or whoever start asking their payment processor for the new devices so they can shift the liability for fraud away from them.
Given that it was a laser printer that caused RMS to start the whole "Free Software" thing, why cant I find a decent laser printer (or even inkjet) that doesn't require piles of driver crap and does all sorts of useless stuff I dont need.
Where is the company willing to make a 2D printer that respects my freedom and privacy?
ok, so clearly the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... that someone else linked to isn't working and needs to be strengthened to give manufacturers of aircraft stronger immunity against this kind of lawsuit (i.e. protection strong enough so that the manufacturer can get it thrown out of court before a jury even gets to it)
Maybe pass a law that gives manufacturers strong immunity from lawsuits (civil and criminal) if there is a valid FAA report showing that the manufacturers aren't to blame.
How come I cant find a job here in Australia despite looking for one for 3 years or more? .NET or J2EE or whatever technology they are using.
Everyone wants 3 years commercial experience with
Its not the fault of the FCC, the FCC said "ISPs must do xyz", the ISPs went to the federal court and challenged it and the federal court said "we agree with the ISPs that the FCC doesn't have the right to require the ISPs to do xyz"
This could be used by dissidents in various countries worried about the government seizing their computers and using the information contained therein against them. Or heck, criminals would be interested too, if the feds come a knocking, they just hit some buttons and turn all their criminal record data to unreadable dust.
Not surprising considering the state government has the largest majority in the history of Queensland and thinks they can do whatever they like and the federal government has been breaking promises left and right (on everything from education to welfare to tax reform to broadband) and has an environmental policy that is essentially "give the big end of town whatever they want and to hell with the environment"
Likely the Royal Canadian Mounted Police asked the Secret Service (the experts in dealing with counterfeit US currency) for help with the raid.
Then (per years of precedent from courts all across the land) the federal standard would apply.
I use my mobile phone to access my bank all the time (usually when I am out and about and want to check my account balance and transaction history to see where I am at and whether I can afford the things I want to buy). One of the options my bank offers for extra security is SMS authentication. If the SMS is comming in on the same phone I am using to access the bank, its definatly not 2-factor authentication in any sense of the term.
In some states of Australia they are already clamping cars of people who owe money (unpaid traffic fines etc) to the state government. Switching off the car with this kind of system seems like the logical extention and unlike a wheel clamp, its not going to be something the owner of the car can defeat with a few tools.
(or a set of lock-picks to pick open the padlock).
Given that Motorola (through the StarTac, DynaTac and MicroTac litterally INVENTED the mobile phone as we know it today, it makes sense that they would have a big patent portfolio.
Are you really suggesting that we should ban the use of radios, navigation aids and safety things in long-duration yacht racing (e.g. Sydney to Hobart)? Or that we ban electronics in F1 cars and go back to the days when the cars had to be started with a hand-crank?
Although your point about materials makes sense in light of the whole furor over those special bodysuits they had in swimming for a while.
Its got (or will have once it goes on sale) all the good things about a N900 plus a faster CPU (not as fast as the latest iPhone or Android device though), better cellular radios and more.
To get to 4.0 they have to do all the work for the things in 3.3 AND all the work for things in 4.0 but not in 3.3. Therefore it makes sense to do all the work for the 3.3 things first so the driver can say "I support OpenGL 3.3" then after that, start working on the rest of the 4.0 support.