Not entirely true. Some Facebook pages (like mine: http://facebook.com/lannocc), are publicly viewable to anyone (as long as you're logged in). I actually wish FB would remove the logged-in restriction so my page could be searched and accessed by any person or web spider.
However, your other idea about hosting your own personal data is something I like and have thought about frequently. I imagine a social web of providers where you can pick a storage provider (or provide your own) from a marketplace. Some would be free, probably ad-supported. Others might take a small payment but guarantee an encrypted store with options for key delegation in the event of death, etc.
If properly designed, something like a Facebook page actually is cacheable. Once an entry is made the entry itself remains static unless there is an edit. The page is simply a feed of resources that are all may be cached individually. Imagine it's an XML document with many xlinks to other resources, optionally also embedded in the original request. This is how I would do it.
You're just not seeing the appropriate market differentiation: casual gamers (like myself) would gladly pay more for each use and enjoy a decent gaming service without investing in serious hardware. The article states this implementation sends down a simple H.264 stream, so even Raspberry Pi units could potentially make use of this! I can see it useful in a hosted retail environment (cafe/lab) or offered by a regional network provider (where latency can be controlled).
The footage, taken by a small surveillance camera MF/PL technologists installed after the FBI seizure of the server, is a rare glimpse of what appears to be an FBI operation.
Just goes to show that human-parts package management should be treated like a BSD Ports or Gentoo Portage installation; you need to take the entire system into consideration when looking at changes.
Giving rights to married couples is a violation of constitutional rights preventing laws which respect an establishment of religion...
Excellent point! Marriage should not be anywhere in U.S. law if we were following the constitution. That does however still leave the government to define civil unions however they (I mean we, the people) want. It should be a state thing, much like establishment of corporations.
You're assuming that the totality of human experience is captured in the neurons. I would argue it's not even all in the head! Physical maladies like a huge scar from knee surgery weigh on the "spirit" even if the original incident memory is long forgotten. I think we're doomed to discover the human, though possessing digital processing abilities, is a very much analog medium and so impossible to perfectly replicate. How do we completely quantify a physical entity with momentum?
Are you sure? The New Technology moniker was apparently "a rare spurt of product marketing by the original NT team members", so GP is right assuming his article is correct. The fact that you point to Microsoft's own websites almost guarantees that you've read a little marketing.
I'm sorry, but when something breaks, I fall back to my working computer (with a GUI) with access to Google.:P
In my experience it's more often the GUI that breaks. 9 times out of 10 you still have the command line available in a failure scenario, and some of us are too busy/lazy to get to another machine with working GUI, so it really is beneficial to know how to get things done on the command line. Of course, you need a system that actually makes it possible to get things done from the command line interface (thank you Unix family!). Google is still reachable from the CLI:P
You could be right, it may not be socialism. That last remark of mine was a little sarcastic. I don't think you could call it capitalism either, though.
My impression was, that in a nice show of cluelessness, they decided to fire this guy first, and then ask him for the passwords which they didn't have (i.e., they didn't have any plan of action if he got run over by a bus or otherwise dropped dead).
I think this is ultimately where the case might hinge, and if it's true that they fired him first then in my opinion (I'm not a legal professional) he might have a chance of winning. On one hand, say you are fired and your employer later discovers you took something of theirs with you, well you would obviously be charged with theft. But in this case we are dealing with information, in the guy's head, not physical property. At what point does information become property? What if he had something illegal hidden on the system, and his right against self-incrimination? Lot's of questions here, a fascinating case.
But there were a few people out there (like Edison's lab and Tesla) that could see and profit from innumerable uses awaiting.
There, as is the custom on/., I fixed that for you. It's worth paying attention to who will profit from a massive rollout of new infrastructure. Your main point still remains valid, that the masses need to be convinced of all the new empowerment (pun intended?) they'll receive from the new technology, and I would simply add that part of that convincing needs to show how everyone can profit. If not everyone can profit, it might be socialism!
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does this theory mess up any of our current Radiometric dating (and other similar) methods?
I was wondering the same thing. Another reason for the Creationists to argue that the carbon-dating is all wrong and the Earth is young.
Not entirely true. Some Facebook pages (like mine: http://facebook.com/lannocc), are publicly viewable to anyone (as long as you're logged in). I actually wish FB would remove the logged-in restriction so my page could be searched and accessed by any person or web spider.
However, your other idea about hosting your own personal data is something I like and have thought about frequently. I imagine a social web of providers where you can pick a storage provider (or provide your own) from a marketplace. Some would be free, probably ad-supported. Others might take a small payment but guarantee an encrypted store with options for key delegation in the event of death, etc.
If properly designed, something like a Facebook page actually is cacheable. Once an entry is made the entry itself remains static unless there is an edit. The page is simply a feed of resources that are all may be cached individually. Imagine it's an XML document with many xlinks to other resources, optionally also embedded in the original request. This is how I would do it.
Logic AND religious arguments? So which side are supposed to be the nut-jobs here?
You're just not seeing the appropriate market differentiation: casual gamers (like myself) would gladly pay more for each use and enjoy a decent gaming service without investing in serious hardware. The article states this implementation sends down a simple H.264 stream, so even Raspberry Pi units could potentially make use of this! I can see it useful in a hosted retail environment (cafe/lab) or offered by a regional network provider (where latency can be controlled).
The footage, taken by a small surveillance camera MF/PL technologists installed after the FBI seizure of the server, is a rare glimpse of what appears to be an FBI operation.
The FBI has returned equipment? Rare indeed!
Just goes to show that human-parts package management should be treated like a BSD Ports or Gentoo Portage installation; you need to take the entire system into consideration when looking at changes.
Migration from now on means war.
So we must refuse any governance/ownership system where this is the case. For the interest of longevity, I cannot accept it as necessary!
lol... your post sums up the Vi vs. Emacs flamewar perfectly!
This is a really great clarification, something more people need to understand! Thank you.
I find that memory recall success is all about organization.
Giving rights to married couples is a violation of constitutional rights preventing laws which respect an establishment of religion...
Excellent point! Marriage should not be anywhere in U.S. law if we were following the constitution. That does however still leave the government to define civil unions however they (I mean we, the people) want. It should be a state thing, much like establishment of corporations.
You're assuming that the totality of human experience is captured in the neurons. I would argue it's not even all in the head! Physical maladies like a huge scar from knee surgery weigh on the "spirit" even if the original incident memory is long forgotten. I think we're doomed to discover the human, though possessing digital processing abilities, is a very much analog medium and so impossible to perfectly replicate. How do we completely quantify a physical entity with momentum?
Now they could have the best value on the market
(emphasis mine)
I believe you are confusing value with price. I personally find another, more expensive provider, to be the greater overall value.
I never listened to their marketing. I was quoting Microsoft's own Windows history webpage.
Are you sure? The New Technology moniker was apparently "a rare spurt of product marketing by the original NT team members", so GP is right assuming his article is correct. The fact that you point to Microsoft's own websites almost guarantees that you've read a little marketing.
I'm sorry, but when something breaks, I fall back to my working computer (with a GUI) with access to Google. :P
In my experience it's more often the GUI that breaks. 9 times out of 10 you still have the command line available in a failure scenario, and some of us are too busy/lazy to get to another machine with working GUI, so it really is beneficial to know how to get things done on the command line. Of course, you need a system that actually makes it possible to get things done from the command line interface (thank you Unix family!). Google is still reachable from the CLI :P
Guess I had it backwards, thanks for the clarification!
Midnight Commander? I remember running that on MS-DOS 3 and later it was renamed or replaced by Norton Commander.
I'll come visit once you're done.
Oh yeah? Prove it.
Ahh that's fun.
You could be right, it may not be socialism. That last remark of mine was a little sarcastic. I don't think you could call it capitalism either, though.
My impression was, that in a nice show of cluelessness, they decided to fire this guy first, and then ask him for the passwords which they didn't have (i.e., they didn't have any plan of action if he got run over by a bus or otherwise dropped dead).
I think this is ultimately where the case might hinge, and if it's true that they fired him first then in my opinion (I'm not a legal professional) he might have a chance of winning. On one hand, say you are fired and your employer later discovers you took something of theirs with you, well you would obviously be charged with theft. But in this case we are dealing with information, in the guy's head, not physical property. At what point does information become property? What if he had something illegal hidden on the system, and his right against self-incrimination? Lot's of questions here, a fascinating case.
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But there were a few people out there (like Edison's lab and Tesla) that could see and profit from innumerable uses awaiting.
There, as is the custom on /., I fixed that for you. It's worth paying attention to who will profit from a massive rollout of new infrastructure. Your main point still remains valid, that the masses need to be convinced of all the new empowerment (pun intended?) they'll receive from the new technology, and I would simply add that part of that convincing needs to show how everyone can profit. If not everyone can profit, it might be socialism!
Yes I know the phrase. I was indecisive on whether I was going to say "tit for tat" or "quid pro quo", so I sort of combined them. Yes, it's silly.
I think you have that power relationship backward - it's the Israelis that pressure the US, not the other way around.
Doesn't really matter, I'm sure there's some quid for quo.