>>>"Imagine your house having an option to be hooked up to 4 different sewer systems - do you really care?"
That actually sounds like a good deal. One company charges $10 a month, another $5 a month, and the third $2 a month. Guess which company I'll pick? Yep. The cheapest (unless for some reason their pipes keep clogging, then I might upgrade to the $5 company).
I like choice.
I like having the power to decide in MY hands how I will spend my money; live my life. Yeah, you clearly do not own a house or at least not owned it long enough to deal with municipal utility "companies". They will ALL charge you $10, plus each will charge you thousands when something goes wrong with each of the sewer lines on your property - regardless of if you actually use it. Plus they all will exercise the easement rights so they can dig up your front and back yard as they please, when they please. Did I mention you will also have to pay 4x the taxes to support them all? But hey, at least you have a choice.
By the same token... 'it is so sad that it is necessary to have that may [operating system kernels] pretty much doing the same thing'. If you are forced to run all of them at the same time regardless which kernel you are actually using, yes it is sad. These are not competing systems - they will all be running at same time.
Why is that sad? What's wrong with having multiple separate systems, anyway? Its sad because these are not competing systems. The GPS sats are not really high tech (all the real high tech stuff is in the receiver) - they are pretty much the same thing with only difference of who controls it. They are infrastructure, and having one or four makes NO difference to the consumer (Imagine your house having an option to be hooked up to 4 different sewer systems - do you really care? - just makes things more complicated)
Its sad because the only reason there are already three of these, and I am certain soon China will launch a fourth one (if they have not already), is purely political. Because no one trusts each other (and rightfully so, mind you!)
So, I totally get why we NEED to pollute the sky with this crap, but it IS sad. Money that could be spent for much better purposes
So, pretty soon we will have three "gps" major systems out there. But hey, China still does not have one - so #4, here we come...
Its so sad that it is necessary to have that many systems doing pretty much same thing. With each needing a few dozen birds - it's getting crowded up there...
Cellulose is plant matter. You know. Grass clippings, corn stalks, etc. I see you really must like eating GRASS CLIPPINGS along with the COWS. Similar intelligence, perhaps?
I am not going to even mention the crazy salad eaters, but what do you think the COWS eat? In fact at least one process for getting energy out of cellulose is based on mimicking the way cows convert cellulose food into energy by genetically modifying the plant to contain the same enzymes in the cellulose as cows have in one of their stomachs.
Also, cellulose is a major source of nutrients in the ground that support most crops.
"Cellular GPS LoJack Id: 81231982
If found contact: 123-456-7890"
If you are savy enough, hack BIOS to display the same message at boot time (some BIOSes allow you to add your own images - thats one way, or add message to MBR)
Better yet, on boot print "GPS position is acquired and transmitted."
Probably won't get your laptop back, but may mess with their heads and make them wonder if they are being tracked by hardware.;-)
yes, look up "etherchannel" or "bonding" Wow, that takes me back years. A little over 10 years ago, straight out of college and not knowing any better I purchased the "cisco etherchannel interconnect" kit for their catalyst switches. I had to work hard to track down a cisco reseller that actually had it (which should have been a clue). When I finally got it, the entire "kit" contents were, I kid you not, two cross connect cat5 cables. I learned an important lesson about marketing that day.
-Em
P.S. In all fairness to Cisco the cost of the kit was about same as you would expect to pay for two cross connect cables in a retail store. Not that I would have bought cat5 cables at a store.
Networking is getting faster in leaps and bound, yet hard drives are still uber slow. Yeah, but they are getting larger and cheaper. You can have drives in parallel (RAID) which will increase your throughput significantly. If you have $$ to spend on 10Gig link, you are unlikely to be hooking up a single drive.
Though if you sell "applications" for your OS in an exclusive way, blocking your competitors from doing same - they call it "anti-competitive behavior", which comes with lawsuits and what not. But if you call them "OS Modules" - then go right ahead and rip people off and use proprietary hidden APIs - after all, its OS modules!!!
That's a good point, but I think that it would be unlikely that the government would commission a work that would have otherwise been under the GPL --so unlikely that I would accept that risk. Do you really mean to say the government is unlikely to build anything using, say, Linux??? I suggest Googling "Linux in military applications" or "Open Source Software in Government". So, now that the government IS using Linux, does that mean anyone should be able to grab Linux code and embed it in their own applications/os's without releasing the modifications or ever attributing authorship?
And the whole "GPL depends on copyright thing" is because the GPL is a brilliant hack *against* copyright--for the GPL to be invalid, so must be copyright. Thats all just marketing hype. GPL is a copyright license just like any other license or drm. It restricts what you can and cannot do by asserting a copyright over a work (count the number of times the word "MUST" appears in it!). Without copyright it is useless as you would not be able to enforce it.
But this is not just about GPL, its about any personal rights. Your rights cannot be taken away just because government bought it, you should always have a right to negotiate control over your own work.
True -- it's an icky loophole that the taxpayers can be shafted out of what they paid for by the government using contractors as a level of indirection. Works produced by contractors for the U.S. government should be considered "works of the U.S. government" and thus also automatically in the public domain as well, but there's a snowball's chance that'll ever happen given the endemic corruption of both major parties and the judiciary. But is it icky? Consider this: if this "loophole" is closed, any GPL licensed code used by government will no longer be covered by GPL, since GPL, in its core, is a restriction of rights under the copyright act. If there is no copyright - no more GPL. So this "loophole" actually is an attempt at protection of civilian copy rights.
I, for one, think we should ask Ms. Pikser (the lawyer who filed the complaint) why she thinks the work is copyrightable, even though it was made by the government. The DMCA notice conveniently says her email address is mpikser@reedsmith.com. For good measure we should probably all ask her. You know, just so we can compare responses... You can certainly ask, but its most likely she thinks so because she knows the law and you don't. Government can and does own copyright on many works. Why do you assume this video was made by the government? It is very unlikely it was. It was most probably contracted out to a non-government entity, which places the copyright ownership squarely and legally in Air Force's hands.
True, but it only takes one picture to embarrass somebody, to catch a crime in progress, or to simply show an individual in a location where they're rather it not be known they are. Many people are already aware that Street View captured the results of more than one automobile accidents . How would you like to be immortalized for riding your bike down the street, unaware that Google just snapped a picture of you showing your jeans riding down your backside? Yes and it takes one web form to get that one picture removed, unlike millions of pictures snapped by tourists each year that have lots of extra people in the shot that may live forever and you will not even know they have the picture of you online. Evil, evil tourists.
One picture in 6 mos to a year video surveillance does not make. Now those ATM and security cameras that have been around for 20 plus years EVERYWHERE are not scary, but GOOGLE's once a year picture - now thats BIG BROTHER for you... Dodos..
I was already looking into an online backup service (such as mozy.com) that would keep an off site backup of my files. Mozy has 'unlimited' storage too but only allows one person at a time to access the data. This would be great for mirroring files (such as class documents for students to access). Does anyone know a good way to use this service as an automatic backup? I'm thinking rsync if they support ssh or sftp. Is there OS X / unix backup software like Mozy's out there that will do this with any web host, or should I use a cron job? Frankly - no. The terms flat out say that you cannot use it for storage of data. Its for running a public web sites and storage of data needed for the site only, you cannot use it to do backups, etc. Also, the terms also say that since these are shared servers, your load is only unlimited as long as it is not interfering with other services - i.e. it is FAR from unlimited - more like un-metered but at a their whim. Its a great deal for a small site to not worry about bandwidth overages but its not unlimited by any stretch of the imagination.
no "smartphone" required. my 2 year old Verizon LG VX8300 is a "... mobile phone with removable storage, an internet connection, a camera and the ability to download audio or video files..." Not good enough United States Patent 7,321,783 Filed: November 20, 2003 Of top of my head, Handspring (now Palm) had a phone attached to PalmOS device capable of all of those things (not well, mind you, but capable) at least as far back as 2000. I believe 2000 was a few years before 2003, no?;-)
Here is the bottom line people, marriage, as far as state and government is concerned, is a legal contract bestowing a number of legal rights and responsibilities. In order for two parties to enter into a contract you first have to have two recognized parties. Which, as we know it now, excludes robots and animals alike as they are property and have no legal rights regardless of if they are "married" or not. A marriage to a robot is legally meaningless and if you don't need "legal" marriage, you can find a church to wed you to a brick wall if you want to.
Now, if you will grant all legal rights of a human to AI's, then of course they will be able to get legally married as they will have all the rights of a human, but until that happens the only place they can be "married" is in a church with no legal rights. Getting an AI recognized with full rights as a human is going to be much more of a big deal than marriage ever will.
This article is all about getting left wing nuts to fight with the right wing nuts.
One of the companies I work with develops code on Windows machines that is supported to run in production on UNIX servers only. Despite the code actually running fine on windows boxes, they do not want the (at least perceived) burden, overhead, and reliability issues of supporting Windows servers. I believe they are fully in their right to do so - but that makes the moral stance of forcing people who use Linux in their products to support Linux desktop clients a bit awkward.
Reality is that support of Linux clients and use of Linux are two completely separate issues. I think once there is a sufficient enough base of Linux desktops, companies will support Linux desktops, just like now there is a huge increase of Mac support where a while ago there was next to none. Its all about who the customer is, and for the most part, their customers are currently running Windows and OS/X.
These include a black screen after 1 hour of browsing, no start menu or task bar, and no desktop. Using fear as a motivator, the email warns resellers to 'make sure your customers always get genuine Windows Vista preinstalled.'" This is brilliant. My machines been doing this since days of Win95 - work for about an hour then have exploder crash to have no desktop, no start menu, nothing working proper. Whomever came up with calling this a "new anti-piracy measure" deserves a medal. People always joke about it being not a "bug" but "undocumented feature" - and now MS is taking it a step further and making it a "documented feature". Bravo.
I bet next week we will see explorer chewing up all the memory billed as an "anti-virus" measure - see, if there is no free memory, viruses cannot run. Trust us, its worth the extra money. Upgrade now.
Downloaded GeoEye-lkonos-1M & started looking at Google earth. The link is what I saw at 38.28.55.70 119.24.18.17. Sure looks like a plane on the ground. http://ispmaster.net/ccc/plane.jpg This plane has been reported on B&W maps, but here is what I want to know- are the new color overlay just color version of same pictures as B&W - or is this a new set of pictures? Because if it is not same pictures, that completely changes the going theory that its a plane in the air.
Its about 22' long according to google earth ruler tool and looks very different than anything else around the area - it also does not seem to be on old pictures - but that may be a trick of light. What makes you think its a rock formation?
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That actually sounds like a good deal. One company charges $10 a month, another $5 a month, and the third $2 a month. Guess which company I'll pick? Yep. The cheapest (unless for some reason their pipes keep clogging, then I might upgrade to the $5 company).
I like choice.
I like having the power to decide in MY hands how I will spend my money; live my life. Yeah, you clearly do not own a house or at least not owned it long enough to deal with municipal utility "companies". They will ALL charge you $10, plus each will charge you thousands when something goes wrong with each of the sewer lines on your property - regardless of if you actually use it. Plus they all will exercise the easement rights so they can dig up your front and back yard as they please, when they please. Did I mention you will also have to pay 4x the taxes to support them all? But hey, at least you have a choice.
-Em
-Em
Its sad because the only reason there are already three of these, and I am certain soon China will launch a fourth one (if they have not already), is purely political. Because no one trusts each other (and rightfully so, mind you!)
So, I totally get why we NEED to pollute the sky with this crap, but it IS sad. Money that could be spent for much better purposes
-Em
So, pretty soon we will have three "gps" major systems out there. But hey, China still does not have one - so #4, here we come...
Its so sad that it is necessary to have that many systems doing pretty much same thing. With each needing a few dozen birds - it's getting crowded up there...
-Em
Cellulose is plant matter. You know. Grass clippings, corn stalks, etc. I see you really must like eating GRASS CLIPPINGS along with the COWS. Similar intelligence, perhaps?
I am not going to even mention the crazy salad eaters, but what do you think the COWS eat? In fact at least one process for getting energy out of cellulose is based on mimicking the way cows convert cellulose food into energy by genetically modifying the plant to contain the same enzymes in the cellulose as cows have in one of their stomachs.Also, cellulose is a major source of nutrients in the ground that support most crops.
-Em
"Cellular GPS LoJack Id: 81231982
;-)
If found contact: 123-456-7890"
If you are savy enough, hack BIOS to display the same message at boot time (some BIOSes allow you to add your own images - thats one way, or add message to MBR)
Better yet, on boot print "GPS position is acquired and transmitted."
Probably won't get your laptop back, but may mess with their heads and make them wonder if they are being tracked by hardware.
-Em
-Em
P.S. In all fairness to Cisco the cost of the kit was about same as you would expect to pay for two cross connect cables in a retail store. Not that I would have bought cat5 cables at a store.
LOL, dead on.
Though if you sell "applications" for your OS in an exclusive way, blocking your competitors from doing same - they call it "anti-competitive behavior", which comes with lawsuits and what not. But if you call them "OS Modules" - then go right ahead and rip people off and use proprietary hidden APIs - after all, its OS modules!!!
Sad
-Em
... All people living today will be older or dead tomorrow!!!
(translation for sarcasm impaired - "duuh!!")
-Em
But this is not just about GPL, its about any personal rights. Your rights cannot be taken away just because government bought it, you should always have a right to negotiate control over your own work.
-Em
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One picture in 6 mos to a year video surveillance does not make. Now those ATM and security cameras that have been around for 20 plus years EVERYWHERE are not scary, but GOOGLE's once a year picture - now thats BIG BROTHER for you... Dodos..
-Em
Does anyone know a good way to use this service as an automatic backup? I'm thinking rsync if they support ssh or sftp. Is there OS X / unix backup software like Mozy's out there that will do this with any web host, or should I use a cron job? Frankly - no. The terms flat out say that you cannot use it for storage of data. Its for running a public web sites and storage of data needed for the site only, you cannot use it to do backups, etc. Also, the terms also say that since these are shared servers, your load is only unlimited as long as it is not interfering with other services - i.e. it is FAR from unlimited - more like un-metered but at a their whim. Its a great deal for a small site to not worry about bandwidth overages but its not unlimited by any stretch of the imagination.
-Em
Here is the bottom line people, marriage, as far as state and government is concerned, is a legal contract bestowing a number of legal rights and responsibilities. In order for two parties to enter into a contract you first have to have two recognized parties. Which, as we know it now, excludes robots and animals alike as they are property and have no legal rights regardless of if they are "married" or not. A marriage to a robot is legally meaningless and if you don't need "legal" marriage, you can find a church to wed you to a brick wall if you want to.
Now, if you will grant all legal rights of a human to AI's, then of course they will be able to get legally married as they will have all the rights of a human, but until that happens the only place they can be "married" is in a church with no legal rights. Getting an AI recognized with full rights as a human is going to be much more of a big deal than marriage ever will.
This article is all about getting left wing nuts to fight with the right wing nuts.
-Em
Firefox on mobile devices? Great, but where do I get 2GB of ram for my treo?
One of the companies I work with develops code on Windows machines that is supported to run in production on UNIX servers only. Despite the code actually running fine on windows boxes, they do not want the (at least perceived) burden, overhead, and reliability issues of supporting Windows servers. I believe they are fully in their right to do so - but that makes the moral stance of forcing people who use Linux in their products to support Linux desktop clients a bit awkward.
Reality is that support of Linux clients and use of Linux are two completely separate issues. I think once there is a sufficient enough base of Linux desktops, companies will support Linux desktops, just like now there is a huge increase of Mac support where a while ago there was next to none. Its all about who the customer is, and for the most part, their customers are currently running Windows and OS/X.
I bet next week we will see explorer chewing up all the memory billed as an "anti-virus" measure - see, if there is no free memory, viruses cannot run. Trust us, its worth the extra money. Upgrade now.
-Em
http://ispmaster.net/ccc/plane.jpg This plane has been reported on B&W maps, but here is what I want to know- are the new color overlay just color version of same pictures as B&W - or is this a new set of pictures? Because if it is not same pictures, that completely changes the going theory that its a plane in the air.
Its about 22' long according to google earth ruler tool and looks very different than anything else around the area - it also does not seem to be on old pictures - but that may be a trick of light. What makes you think its a rock formation?