What AT&T says will happen in three years time has already happened in Japan, where the average advertised broadband download speed is 93 mbit/s (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/). I don't seem to remember a lot of Japanese ISPs going bankrupt.
I'm guessing they are crying wolf to get more money from the government.
That Kitten Auth got me thinking. With all the talk of human computation, why not make a little human computation part of the authentication.
For instance: identify all the images containing airplanes or select all images that are predominantly blue. Images that have already been learned would be presented with new images. And the new images could be learned by majority vote.
The images should of course be slightly randomized or random sections of the images be removed.
Think about it. You get authentication and some valuable data at the same time. And even if the exploiters find a way to "break" this, you still get the data.
The logic behind this statement is that it should encourage application vendors to eliminate as many unnecessary privilege escalations as possible by causing users to complain about all the UAC 'Cancel or Allow' prompts. That's flawed logic if I ever saw it. That's like trying to prevent car accidents by making it expensive to go to the hospital.
Now, if they want to instigate a cell-phone free area at the front or rear of the plane like they used to do with smoking versus no-smoking sections then I say go-for-it... This is actually in place in the trains in Denmark. The seats don't cost more, and everyone who sits there are all looking for peace and quiet, so it works quite well.
...the human analysis of the spam and use them to really go after the spammers in a more serious way.... Although I think your idea would catch the "casual spammer", I don't think this will work for the big fish. These guys use exploits on Joe-six-pack's computer to send the spam. Even if you get the computer that sent the spam there would be a million more computers they could use. And Joe-six-pack probably wouldn't be happy.
With SMTP as it currently is, I can't see how (aside from filtering) we can avoid spam.
Kind of like saying, "When did Chuck Norris become a bad ass." He's always been a bad ass, just like the universe has always existed. Yes, but all is not perpetual. Chuck Norris has a challenger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1nzEFMjkI4
The reality is that we've invested trillions of {insert favorite monetary unit here} in silicon-based tech. True. Aside from the research the fabs themselves are very expensive. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry_(electronics): "Estimates put the cost of building a new fab over one billion US Dollars with values as high as 3-4 billion US dollars not being uncommon."
The vibration mode thing seems like an essential thing (in ALL public places actually). The sound made by incoming texts is just as annoying as some retard talking on the plane into their phone. It's Pavlovian. The sound of incoming message alert is designed to attract the attention of the recipient -- unfortunately this also means everyone else within 40 feet. Agreed. I wish there was a way to force this on people, but as far as I know there isn't.
As an aside, I'm sure there must be a way of mathematically proving that the altitude of a phone call is inversely proportional to importance of the call. This on the other hand can be fixed. With pricing. Having the cell on the plane essentially means that people are roaming on the planes net, just as if you were in another country, and therefore you could attach a price to different usages. Voice could be made more expensive (i.e. meant for business use only), and data could be priced lower. I people really wanted to chit-chat they could use IM on their laptop instead.
"who's actual value will -- now and forever -- remain unknown."
Actually Pi's value is known exactly as various series expansions. This is exactly the way you "know" a real number; by stating it's series. 2 for instance has the series 2,2,2,...
I think you can draw many parallels between this and DRM (and the failure of it). You give people the object and want them to be able to use it only in a certain way, and not let them access the internals. It's flawed by design. You just can't do this without active monitoring of some sort.
Similarly, once it's out, it's out. With movies this means high quality piracy. With a nuclear reactor...
6 x as fast as 32-bit 2.8GHz HyperTransport 16 x as fast as x16 PCIe 2.0 60 x as fast as 20GFC fibre channel 400 x as fast as SATA-300 700 uncompressed 1080p HDTV streams (24bpp, 30fps) 15 million telephone calls Other than the LHC, who the hells needs that kind of bandwidth? Think volumetric video. At 1920x1080x700 that is exactly one uncompressed stream...
IANAAP (astro physicist), but as far as I know dark matter only interacts via gravity. Gravity is conservative, so it would not produce a drag on the satellite; it would change the orbit.
I'm think it's more something like atmospheric drag, but maybe they already accounted for this.
The erroneous IP assignments spread across the net within 1 minute, 45 seconds of its announcement by Pakistan Telecom, according to a timeline by Renesys. A minute and 45 seconds to spread across the world. Really makes you think. With approx. 20000 km from one point on the planet to it's opposite that's around 190 km/sec.
If this is true, then it effectively means that the world can be AIDS free in a generation. I'm willing to bet it's not going to happen, though. The drug companies have no interest in this.
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...in a new package.
My 2 cents.
Yeah, but the homework is awful. That's the other 3.9 years ;)
Is there a Godwin's Law equivalent for communism? It seems like it has the same effect in discussions.
Isn't this old news? Or was it just speculation up to this point?
Vim is there, but Emacs isn't!
Did you guys notice that this is the first drive with a spec. sustained data rate that can actually saturate a 1 Gbit/sec ethernet link?
Hard disk performance sure doesn't scale the way network performance does.
What AT&T says will happen in three years time has already happened in Japan, where the average advertised broadband download speed is 93 mbit/s (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/). I don't seem to remember a lot of Japanese ISPs going bankrupt.
I'm guessing they are crying wolf to get more money from the government.
That Kitten Auth got me thinking. With all the talk of human computation, why not make a little human computation part of the authentication.
For instance: identify all the images containing airplanes or select all images that are predominantly blue. Images that have already been learned would be presented with new images. And the new images could be learned by majority vote.
The images should of course be slightly randomized or random sections of the images be removed.
Think about it. You get authentication and some valuable data at the same time. And even if the exploiters find a way to "break" this, you still get the data.
Is it me, or does it look like the designer of the iPhone helped with the website?
...the human analysis of the spam and use them to really go after thespammers in a more serious way.
With SMTP as it currently is, I can't see how (aside from filtering) we can avoid spam.
I read that as Sweat Ducks...
I wasn't aware that there were any cool toys on /.
Anyone else think that June 30 is an excellent chance to push Linux to the desktop?
"who's actual value will -- now and forever -- remain unknown."
Actually Pi's value is known exactly as various series expansions. This is exactly the way you "know" a real number; by stating it's series. 2 for instance has the series 2,2,2,...
I think you can draw many parallels between this and DRM (and the failure of it). You give people the object and want them to be able to use it only in a certain way, and not let them access the internals. It's flawed by design. You just can't do this without active monitoring of some sort.
Similarly, once it's out, it's out. With movies this means high quality piracy. With a nuclear reactor...
6 x as fast as 32-bit 2.8GHz HyperTransport
16 x as fast as x16 PCIe 2.0
60 x as fast as 20GFC fibre channel
400 x as fast as SATA-300
700 uncompressed 1080p HDTV streams (24bpp, 30fps)
15 million telephone calls
Other than the LHC, who the hells needs that kind of bandwidth? Think volumetric video. At 1920x1080x700 that is exactly one uncompressed stream...
IANAAP (astro physicist), but as far as I know dark matter only interacts via gravity. Gravity is conservative, so it would not produce a drag on the satellite; it would change the orbit.
I'm think it's more something like atmospheric drag, but maybe they already accounted for this.
Four comments and about 7 moderator points have been used?!?! Cool it guys!
:)
Now use one Offtopic on me
If this is true, then it effectively means that the world can be AIDS free in a generation. I'm willing to bet it's not going to happen, though. The drug companies have no interest in this.