The answer is to pass laws that reverse the decision made in court cases such as State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group, AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications and others that lead to the mess we have now.
For anyone doing OS and BIOS level programming on the PC in the DOS days (and not writing games), the "Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC & PS/2" was a great book for understanding BIOS and DOS calls.
Peter Norton was one of the visionaries of the IBM PC software days and the DOS versions of the Norton Utilities were a godsend for things like repairing a damaged floppy disk or doing low-level hex editing.
It wasnt until Norton sold his company to Symantec that the Norton product line became the piece of junk it is today.
I suspect the reason you dont see more Anime in the original Japanese with subtitles is because the Anime hasn't just been dubbed, its been edited and redone to suit a mainstream western audience (including removing things not appropriate for children because of this perception that cartoons are for kids)
Often the Japanese company that made the show and/or the US company that did the dubbing and editing have agreements in place that the original Japanese version will not be made available in the US. (I do know for a fact that Nintendo will NEVER make the original Japanese Pokemon cartoons legally available in the west)
The #1 reason the studios HATE streaming content is because more and more people are replacing cable TV (or premium cable TV options) with internet based content (including Hulu, BitTorrent, YouTube, Netflix, iTunes and others).
Apples problem is that they cant keep competing in the marketplace forever.
Android is already out-selling Apple in the handset market (depending on which set of numbers you look at) and could do so in the tablet market if a vendor produces a compelling offering at the right price point.
The iPod cant survived forever, many people dont use a MP3 player and instead listen to their music on their phone. Or on their car radio. (more and more radios now have the ability to load songs directly into internal storage or to use a USB key for music). Plus the iPod is being challenged by its competitors (including devices such as the Galaxy Player from Samsung and the Walkman from Sony)
As music moves into the "cloud" (either through cloud storage or through streaming services like Spotify) we will see increased use of mobile phones for music, further eroding the iPod.
Apple knows they wont be king of the hill in mobile devices forever and they want to use their patent portfolio to shut down their competitors and maintain their dominance of the market.
We need governments (both over there in New Zealand AND here in Australia) that are willing to say NO to the US and to giant greedy US media corporations.
As an Aussie, I can tell you that trying to ban encryption would be political suicide for the current government.
In the US, it would probably result in a supreme court challenge on constitutional grounds.
As for Pakistan, can someone remind me why we support these idiots? Oh yeah, because we need Pakistan to get to Afghanistan and because Pakistan has an unstable government, fundamentalist islamic groups that would LOVE to be running the country and (unlike Iran) functioning nukes that could probably hit targets in countries like India or Israel if the bad guys wanted to use em.
with proper cryptographic protocols like DNSSEC, the only way to change DNS (and hence SSL certificates stored in DNS) without raising red flags is to actually change the DNS record itself. Any man-in-the-middle attacks by hackers, ISPs or foriegn governments (great firewall of china etc) will cause the DNSSEC chain-of-trust to fail.
Now it might be possible for a bad guy to convince the DNS provider or operator to accept new cryptographic keys, DNSSEC signatures or DNS data but that is a lot harder than convincing a dodgy CA to issue a fake certificate for PayPal or Google.
As for the US government, if the US government wanted to take action, they could use secret national-security apparatus to force a CA to issue a valid certificate just as easily as they could use it to force a DNS provider to change DNS
Are DNSSEC certificates the magic bullet? No. But they do eliminate the possibility of rogue CAs being bribed or otherwise convinced to offer fake SSL certificates. And they eliminate the high costs of SSL certificates (dont like what your DNS provider wants to charge you to store certificates in your DNS record and sign it with DNSSEC? Just go to another provider, no need for it to be one of a handful of approved CAs)
Show me ONE example (real or hypothetical) where a DNS record has been altered (with or without the cooperation of the DNS provider) by someone other than the legitimate domain owner (e.g. hackers, government etc) where storing certificates in DNS would make things worse than if the site was using current CA-issued certificates and I will accept your arguments.
HPs problem is that IBM pretty much INVENTED the idea of the computer as something a company would buy (as opposed to something used by governments and universities) and have been at the "software and big iron and servers" game since before HP even started selling computers.
HP competing with IBM (or even SAP or Oracle) in that space would be like Toyota trying to compete with Boeing or Airbus in the Jet airliner business.
HP should keep doing the things its good at doing and that includes offering a full package to companies that lets them buy all their computing needs from the one vendor, everything from a big iron server to the CEOs fancy laptop to the fully networked printer/scanner/copier in the copy room. HP even makes the network hardware (switches, routers etc) to make it all talk to each other.
Offer things other PC vendors arent doing.
How about a commodity desktop PC designed specifically to reduce power usage (lots of big companies would like saving money on their power bills).
What HP SHOULD do is to get out of the bottom of the market. Get out of selling consumer desktops and laptops aimed at home users and focus on the business customers. Or if it does need to stay in the home market, it could use the Compaq brand for low-end crap and the HP brand for the business-class hardware.
More to the point, stop doing crap like chipping your ink cartridges. Sell printers at realistic prices instead of relying on ink sales to subsidize printer costs and sell ink at prices that reflect the cost of production.
Most of all, TALK to the big business who buy large amounts of computer hardware and kit and find out what THEY want from HP.
I remember that the computer game Red Alert 2 had to modify the name and in-game representation of the Eiffel Tower because they couldn't get permission from the French to use it. Although the fact that they planned to have it rigged as a giant Tesla Coil may have something to do with why the French didnt like it...
ok, so whats the problem. Had the resupply mission succeeded, presumably they were planning to launch another Soyuz to the ISS with some new crew and a new Soyuz so that the current Soyuz capsule could land before it fails.
So do that and use the Dragon test as a way to get anything up there that they need that would have been delivered by the Progress.
Or is the issue that whatever made the Progress fail could also make the next one fail (i.e. a Soyuz with people on board)?
I think the intent is that this equipment would be brought into an area by a telco and be used with some sort of connectivity (whatever is available) to link back to the rest of the world. Then when the real towers are be brought back on line, this kit can be turned off.
Also, this kit (or kit like it) could be used to extend cell service to areas where there is none because building a proper tower is not fesable. Set this up and link it back to the telcos network somehow.
The real concern is not the wind, its the HUGE amount of rain that is going to be dumped (both because of the hurricane and because of other weather in the area) and the resulting storm surge/flooding. Think about what happened in Brisbane and how bad that was then imagine all the extra things NYC has (lots of tall skyscrapers, lots of aging medium rise apartment blocks, tunnels of all sorts underneath all parts of the city etc)
If you cant trust them to not abuse a mobile phone but you do want them to carry one, get one of the "kid friendly" mobile phones that can be locked down so they can only make/receive calls/SMS from "approved" numbers.
Or go with a carrier that lets you apply similar restrictions on incoming/outgoing calls at the network level.
The world would be a better place if Microsoft hadn't invented the garbage known as VBA and VBScript.
Whoever thought that emails should have scripting (or even HTML) should be hit on the back of the head with an IBM Model M keyboard. Same with the idiots that thought that having programming languages inside documents was a good idea.
The only reason Verizon are so popular is that they have spend vast sums of money buying spectrum (and in some cases exclusive rights in places like stadiums, subway systems, tunnels and other things) so that they can have the largest coverage footprint and can have coverage in all those places the other guys wont get.
If AT&T were smart, instead of investing big $$$ on LTE and high-speed-data, they would do whatever it takes so their coverage is as good as Verizon. And they would offer special deals to any Verizon customer willing to jump ship.
The fact that it insists on trying to force iTunes and Safari on you when you install QuickTime is the reason I never install QuickTime on my Windows box. If actually requires it, I find an alternative that does not...
Having played with development using J2ME, the only thing I found that is worse than J2ME is DoJa (which is basically a Japanese version of J2ME that happened to land on a few phones here and there in the west)
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The answer is to pass laws that reverse the decision made in court cases such as State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group, AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications and others that lead to the mess we have now.
For anyone doing OS and BIOS level programming on the PC in the DOS days (and not writing games), the "Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC & PS/2" was a great book for understanding BIOS and DOS calls.
Peter Norton was one of the visionaries of the IBM PC software days and the DOS versions of the Norton Utilities were a godsend for things like repairing a damaged floppy disk or doing low-level hex editing.
It wasnt until Norton sold his company to Symantec that the Norton product line became the piece of junk it is today.
Here in Australia, I see a fairly even mix of Android vs Apple vs Nokia vs whatever.
In my own family there is me who owns a Nokia N900 plus others who own 2 x HTC Desire, an old iPhone 3G or so and a new iPhone 4.
I suspect the reason you dont see more Anime in the original Japanese with subtitles is because the Anime hasn't just been dubbed, its been edited and redone to suit a mainstream western audience (including removing things not appropriate for children because of this perception that cartoons are for kids)
Often the Japanese company that made the show and/or the US company that did the dubbing and editing have agreements in place that the original Japanese version will not be made available in the US. (I do know for a fact that Nintendo will NEVER make the original Japanese Pokemon cartoons legally available in the west)
The #1 reason the studios HATE streaming content is because more and more people are replacing cable TV (or premium cable TV options) with internet based content (including Hulu, BitTorrent, YouTube, Netflix, iTunes and others).
Apples problem is that they cant keep competing in the marketplace forever.
Android is already out-selling Apple in the handset market (depending on which set of numbers you look at) and could do so in the tablet market if a vendor produces a compelling offering at the right price point.
The iPod cant survived forever, many people dont use a MP3 player and instead listen to their music on their phone. Or on their car radio. (more and more radios now have the ability to load songs directly into internal storage or to use a USB key for music). Plus the iPod is being challenged by its competitors (including devices such as the Galaxy Player from Samsung and the Walkman from Sony)
As music moves into the "cloud" (either through cloud storage or through streaming services like Spotify) we will see increased use of mobile phones for music, further eroding the iPod.
Apple knows they wont be king of the hill in mobile devices forever and they want to use their patent portfolio to shut down their competitors and maintain their dominance of the market.
We need governments (both over there in New Zealand AND here in Australia) that are willing to say NO to the US and to giant greedy US media corporations.
As an Aussie, I can tell you that trying to ban encryption would be political suicide for the current government.
In the US, it would probably result in a supreme court challenge on constitutional grounds.
As for Pakistan, can someone remind me why we support these idiots? Oh yeah, because we need Pakistan to get to Afghanistan and because Pakistan has an unstable government, fundamentalist islamic groups that would LOVE to be running the country and (unlike Iran) functioning nukes that could probably hit targets in countries like India or Israel if the bad guys wanted to use em.
with proper cryptographic protocols like DNSSEC, the only way to change DNS (and hence SSL certificates stored in DNS) without raising red flags is to actually change the DNS record itself. Any man-in-the-middle attacks by hackers, ISPs or foriegn governments (great firewall of china etc) will cause the DNSSEC chain-of-trust to fail.
Now it might be possible for a bad guy to convince the DNS provider or operator to accept new cryptographic keys, DNSSEC signatures or DNS data but that is a lot harder than convincing a dodgy CA to issue a fake certificate for PayPal or Google.
As for the US government, if the US government wanted to take action, they could use secret national-security apparatus to force a CA to issue a valid certificate just as easily as they could use it to force a DNS provider to change DNS
Are DNSSEC certificates the magic bullet? No.
But they do eliminate the possibility of rogue CAs being bribed or otherwise convinced to offer fake SSL certificates. And they eliminate the high costs of SSL certificates (dont like what your DNS provider wants to charge you to store certificates in your DNS record and sign it with DNSSEC? Just go to another provider, no need for it to be one of a handful of approved CAs)
Show me ONE example (real or hypothetical) where a DNS record has been altered (with or without the cooperation of the DNS provider) by someone other than the legitimate domain owner (e.g. hackers, government etc) where storing certificates in DNS would make things worse than if the site was using current CA-issued certificates and I will accept your arguments.
Forget that, go with SSL certificates in DNS and DNSSEC to verify the records.
Some cellphones and portable devices now have special charging setups where you just put the device on a charging mat and it charges.
Scale that up in size and voltage and embed it in the road and let EV drivers charge up whilst sitting at the lights or driving down the interstate.
HPs problem is that IBM pretty much INVENTED the idea of the computer as something a company would buy (as opposed to something used by governments and universities) and have been at the "software and big iron and servers" game since before HP even started selling computers.
HP competing with IBM (or even SAP or Oracle) in that space would be like Toyota trying to compete with Boeing or Airbus in the Jet airliner business.
HP should keep doing the things its good at doing and that includes offering a full package to companies that lets them buy all their computing needs from the one vendor, everything from a big iron server to the CEOs fancy laptop to the fully networked printer/scanner/copier in the copy room.
HP even makes the network hardware (switches, routers etc) to make it all talk to each other.
Offer things other PC vendors arent doing.
How about a commodity desktop PC designed specifically to reduce power usage (lots of big companies would like saving money on their power bills).
What HP SHOULD do is to get out of the bottom of the market. Get out of selling consumer desktops and laptops aimed at home users and focus on the business customers. Or if it does need to stay in the home market, it could use the Compaq brand for low-end crap and the HP brand for the business-class hardware.
More to the point, stop doing crap like chipping your ink cartridges. Sell printers at realistic prices instead of relying on ink sales to subsidize printer costs and sell ink at prices that reflect the cost of production.
Most of all, TALK to the big business who buy large amounts of computer hardware and kit and find out what THEY want from HP.
I remember that the computer game Red Alert 2 had to modify the name and in-game representation of the Eiffel Tower because they couldn't get permission from the French to use it.
Although the fact that they planned to have it rigged as a giant Tesla Coil may have something to do with why the French didnt like it...
ok, so whats the problem.
Had the resupply mission succeeded, presumably they were planning to launch another Soyuz to the ISS with some new crew and a new Soyuz so that the current Soyuz capsule could land before it fails.
So do that and use the Dragon test as a way to get anything up there that they need that would have been delivered by the Progress.
Or is the issue that whatever made the Progress fail could also make the next one fail (i.e. a Soyuz with people on board)?
I think the intent is that this equipment would be brought into an area by a telco and be used with some sort of connectivity (whatever is available) to link back to the rest of the world.
Then when the real towers are be brought back on line, this kit can be turned off.
Also, this kit (or kit like it) could be used to extend cell service to areas where there is none because building a proper tower is not fesable. Set this up and link it back to the telcos network somehow.
Is the scenery and texturing used open source? If so, just fix it yourself :)
The real concern is not the wind, its the HUGE amount of rain that is going to be dumped (both because of the hurricane and because of other weather in the area) and the resulting storm surge/flooding.
Think about what happened in Brisbane and how bad that was then imagine all the extra things NYC has (lots of tall skyscrapers, lots of aging medium rise apartment blocks, tunnels of all sorts underneath all parts of the city etc)
If you cant trust them to not abuse a mobile phone but you do want them to carry one, get one of the "kid friendly" mobile phones that can be locked down so they can only make/receive calls/SMS from "approved" numbers.
Or go with a carrier that lets you apply similar restrictions on incoming/outgoing calls at the network level.
Thats why you buy a phone running something like Android, root it and flash it with something that isn't crippled.
Or you do what I did and buy an off-the-shelf unbranded phone (in my case the Nokia N900) that has no crippling at all.
The world would be a better place if Microsoft hadn't invented the garbage known as VBA and VBScript.
Whoever thought that emails should have scripting (or even HTML) should be hit on the back of the head with an IBM Model M keyboard.
Same with the idiots that thought that having programming languages inside documents was a good idea.
There is a reason I have vowed NEVER to install anything Symantec or McAfee make on ANY PC I own...
Don't blame the OEMs, blame the carriers.
A number of OEMs (including HTC and Sony Erricson) have said that they WANT to ship unlocked Android handsets but that the carriers have said NO.
The only reason Verizon are so popular is that they have spend vast sums of money buying spectrum (and in some cases exclusive rights in places like stadiums, subway systems, tunnels and other things) so that they can have the largest coverage footprint and can have coverage in all those places the other guys wont get.
If AT&T were smart, instead of investing big $$$ on LTE and high-speed-data, they would do whatever it takes so their coverage is as good as Verizon. And they would offer special deals to any Verizon customer willing to jump ship.
The fact that it insists on trying to force iTunes and Safari on you when you install QuickTime is the reason I never install QuickTime on my Windows box. If actually requires it, I find an alternative that does not...
Having played with development using J2ME, the only thing I found that is worse than J2ME is DoJa (which is basically a Japanese version of J2ME that happened to land on a few phones here and there in the west)