Serious crime is the victims' fault? (Bullying has indeed lead to loss of lives on more than one occasion...)
In schools (for crying out loud!) where the juvenile perpetrators could still be punished before building a criminal record.
Hardly. You'll be shocked to learn who infamously posited: "As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
Enforcing "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength", swatting two civil liberties with one stone (or was it a bricked once-free DTV receiver?).
"War is Peace" may come to join them as soon as every TV viewer is digitally numbered and individually addressable, i.e. can be force-fed the very selected bits and pieces of information most useful to bring him or her into (party) line, and cut off from everything else.
As a matter of fact, Digital Restrictions Management with its inherently evil capabilities for censorship will indeed make every Adam Sutler drool with joy over its Orwellian prospects.
So who's a threat to whom if they have got a choice of paying Apple or reading Google's ads?
Apple want to maintain the high quality Apple-centric user experience and sell stuff to their users through the walled garden of the App Store and the iTunes music/video store. Apple are an implicit threat to Google because Google can't slap their ads all over those media.
For this to be a threat to Google, Apple would have to have exclusive content way superior to anything Google could ever get its hands on.
Their decision for using PHP might have to do with being able to get their business up and running now using PHP rather than envisaging go-live a few years down the road with their developer resources and learning curve adjusted to C++ (which in all its well-deserved glory does take its time to master). Probably C's savings in power don't outweigh PHP's savings in manpower.
The packet size for avian carriers with clay tablets is just too small (read zero delivered data).
You obviously haven't tried using pterodactyls yet, who deliver even the largest flat-screen animated clay tablets to the top floors more reliably than the postal (or Santa's reindeer) service. Our tribal elders say if you put yummy media-company lawyers on the recipient list, these messenger birdies even feed on them, providing an ideal cost structure and carbon footprint.Too bad for the MAFIAA, but heck, perfection is still a few million years off in this Jurassic Flintstone hard world.
And, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a frequent guest of Obama at the White House.
They have very close ties. He is also an advisor to the President on Science and Technology. I guess privacy matters are a low priority.
Obliged to webcast all of his visits, then, by his own standards: According to Eric Schmidt, if they had something to say that they didn't want everyone to know, maybe they shouldn't be talking in the first place.
So he'll have to start streaming all of it now, right after disabling all authentication on Google's and everyone else's skunkworks servers.
Oh, and while you're at it, rename that place in DC to The Wide Open House then, having removed all curtains of course!
I was actually considering to add to the earlier comment "in countries without a coroners system" (and probably similarly where local customs or religion call for an immediate burial), some of which are nearby on the European continent, and where deaths by disease or crime are more likely to be overlooked as presumably caused by "old age" or "accident".
The widespread availability of tomography for one thing, which could have been expected to account for a higher detection rate of tumors, even in the absence of Chernobyl fallout and powerful EM emitters glued to everyone's ear.
To be sure, the power behind Android has shifted the atmosphere around the mobile platform away from its initial positioning as an open source-driven platform, a position that to my mind slowed down Android and risked making it the mobile equivalent of desktop Linux: just a plaything for open source community. In other words, by partnering big, Android may have exponentially increased its appeal.
Of course, it could not have anything to do with the fact that few would want to be "partners" that have to build&bet their businesses on someone else's proprietary quicksand (nor is Symbian going open for a reason as well), so the article wouldn't have been complete without unwarranted stabs at all things FLOSS and Linux (conveniently sweeping under the rug the fact that Android actually is both).
Asia is a Nokia-dominated continent, with Nokia devices accounting for 60 percent of smartphone sales (up from 61 percent a year earlier)
It's human nature that people always want what they can't have -- which is why there's so much interest around the world in accessing the US-only Hulu site.
...and has yet to realize that there is no such thing on the Net as "can't haves" and "US-only sites". Technically, inaccessibility is damage and deservedly gets routed around. Laws trying to protect flawed business models that ask for the crippling of technological infrastructures to prevent larger audiences are a waste of taxpayers' money, much like a crackdown on automobiles would have been about a century ago to save forever the then status quo of the "flourishing" horse cart and pony express "industries".
Could you point out which provisions are supposed to impose this requirement? I know for a fact that many cinemas and even late-night TV are showing original language versions (subtitled at worst) which are popular with both expats and local movie enthusiasts in Germany and increasingly even France.
As a matter of EU law, the Common Market actually demands Television without Frontiers with the rights having to be acquired by the broadcaster for the entire satellite footprint, i.e. regularly across national and language borders.
X10 is [...] heavily unreliable. The modulation scheme hasn't been revamped in decades to take advantage of modern ECC schemes (which are no longer computationally expensive).
They could have had great success with an "X10 version 2" with a more robust ECC scheme and larger address space
They did revamp X10 to some extent, and called it A10. No doubt engineering has long surpassed X10's decades-old approach, but few other standards are affordably anywhere near mass market and "FLOSS-friendly".
However, 2-way communications only shine where the return channel provides useful information such as the position of blinds or the power consumption, ambient temperature or brightness at the remote location where a device has been switched on (and all of these sensors, or a simple standard plug or screw terminal to wire the latter two as appropriate, should only add about a dollar combined to the cost of making the modules).
The key is not to get tied into any particular vendor's "ecosystem" (hint on marketdroid newspeak: the consumer is never on top of these food chains, and overpricing companies do go out of business, and/or force customers into upgrade cycles every bit as much as in the unfree part of IT).
LIRC can actually drive RF transmitters as well (by simply turning off the software-generated carrier), but even for IR very few devices are more than simple receivers, though the code would allow for both recording and playback of commands for a gazillion appliances.
Factor in a few weather/proximity sensors (some can even be received by that very same hardware) and outputs such as LivingColors as an "Ambilight on steroids" (aside the usual suspects such as roller blinds, home entertainment gear and "conventional" lamps) for computer-generated scenarios based on age-old magic like the sunrise equation, and you get an idea of how much can be accomplished with minimal hardware.
Combining IR and RF puts within every hobbyist's reach the Holy Grail of integrating each and every remote-controlled device in the house, from high-end all the way down to the El-Cheapo DIY market.
The current crop of microcontrollers should provide a candidate that could do the trick sitting on an Ethernet plug - or piggybacked e.g. on the USB, "hidden" internal serial or GPIO port of some popular Wi-Fi router.
Doug Neubauer's Star Raiders, a 1979 game for the Atari 8-bit line of personal computers, is a shining example of what happens when a developer is told that something can't be done, does it anyway, and then is promptly forgotten for having done it. Star Raiders is one of those rare games that can truly be said to have been ahead of its time.
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Serious crime is the victims' fault? (Bullying has indeed lead to loss of lives on more than one occasion...)
In schools (for crying out loud!) where the juvenile perpetrators could still be punished before building a criminal record.
Astounding insights from the same system that advises parents to "get counseling" to fight inventiveness in their kids:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/16/1550207/Police-Called-Over-11-Year-Olds-Science-Project
Hardly. You'll be shocked to learn who infamously posited: "As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
Or wait a minute, probably he didn't mean that kind of Forth: http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~comp03a/misc/humour/shootfoot.html
Even though it triggers Godwin's Law...
Enforcing "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength", swatting two civil liberties with one stone (or was it a bricked once-free DTV receiver?).
"War is Peace" may come to join them as soon as every TV viewer is digitally numbered and individually addressable, i.e. can be force-fed the very selected bits and pieces of information most useful to bring him or her into (party) line, and cut off from everything else.
As a matter of fact, Digital Restrictions Management with its inherently evil capabilities for censorship will indeed make every Adam Sutler drool with joy over its Orwellian prospects.
Only the one with a "b" is a matter of public record AFAICT ;-)
Seen through the crystal ball: headline from an HR management magazine, 2013 A.D. approx.
Similar publication by 2017 ;-/
Erm, doesn't the law say those of low quality shouldn't even issue? http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_35_00000103----000-.html
For this to be a threat to Google, Apple would have to have exclusive content way superior to anything Google could ever get its hands on.
Their decision for using PHP might have to do with being able to get their business up and running now using PHP rather than envisaging go-live a few years down the road with their developer resources and learning curve adjusted to C++ (which in all its well-deserved glory does take its time to master). Probably C's savings in power don't outweigh PHP's savings in manpower.
The packet size for avian carriers with clay tablets is just too small (read zero delivered data).
You obviously haven't tried using pterodactyls yet, who deliver even the largest flat-screen animated clay tablets to the top floors more reliably than the postal (or Santa's reindeer) service. Our tribal elders say if you put yummy media-company lawyers on the recipient list, these messenger birdies even feed on them, providing an ideal cost structure and carbon footprint.Too bad for the MAFIAA, but heck, perfection is still a few million years off in this Jurassic Flintstone hard world.
The edit wars are probably still on regarding this point ;-)
as BlackBerry is already trademarked and taken ;-)
And, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a frequent guest of Obama at the White House. They have very close ties. He is also an advisor to the President on Science and Technology. I guess privacy matters are a low priority.
Obliged to webcast all of his visits, then, by his own standards:
According to Eric Schmidt, if they had something to say that they didn't want everyone to know, maybe they shouldn't be talking in the first place.
So he'll have to start streaming all of it now, right after disabling all authentication on Google's and everyone else's skunkworks servers.
Oh, and while you're at it, rename that place in DC to The Wide Open House then, having removed all curtains of course!
I was actually considering to add to the earlier comment "in countries without a coroners system" (and probably similarly where local customs or religion call for an immediate burial), some of which are nearby on the European continent, and where deaths by disease or crime are more likely to be overlooked as presumably caused by "old age" or "accident".
The widespread availability of tomography for one thing, which could have been expected to account for a higher detection rate of tumors, even in the absence of Chernobyl fallout and powerful EM emitters glued to everyone's ear.
Of course, it could not have anything to do with the fact that few would want to be "partners" that have to build&bet their businesses on someone else's proprietary quicksand (nor is Symbian going open for a reason as well), so the article wouldn't have been complete without unwarranted stabs at all things FLOSS and Linux (conveniently sweeping under the rug the fact that Android actually is both).
Oh well...
...and has yet to realize that there is no such thing on the Net as "can't haves" and "US-only sites". Technically, inaccessibility is damage and deservedly gets routed around. Laws trying to protect flawed business models that ask for the crippling of technological infrastructures to prevent larger audiences are a waste of taxpayers' money, much like a crackdown on automobiles would have been about a century ago to save forever the then status quo of the "flourishing" horse cart and pony express "industries".
Could you point out which provisions are supposed to impose this requirement? I know for a fact that many cinemas and even late-night TV are showing original language versions (subtitled at worst) which are popular with both expats and local movie enthusiasts in Germany and increasingly even France. As a matter of EU law, the Common Market actually demands Television without Frontiers with the rights having to be acquired by the broadcaster for the entire satellite footprint, i.e. regularly across national and language borders.
X10 is [...] heavily unreliable. The modulation scheme hasn't been revamped in decades to take advantage of modern ECC schemes (which are no longer computationally expensive).
They could have had great success with an "X10 version 2" with a more robust ECC scheme and larger address space
They did revamp X10 to some extent, and called it A10. No doubt engineering has long surpassed X10's decades-old approach, but few other standards are affordably anywhere near mass market and "FLOSS-friendly".
However, 2-way communications only shine where the return channel provides useful information such as the position of blinds or the power consumption, ambient temperature or brightness at the remote location where a device has been switched on (and all of these sensors, or a simple standard plug or screw terminal to wire the latter two as appropriate, should only add about a dollar combined to the cost of making the modules).
The key is not to get tied into any particular vendor's "ecosystem" (hint on marketdroid newspeak: the consumer is never on top of these food chains, and overpricing companies do go out of business, and/or force customers into upgrade cycles every bit as much as in the unfree part of IT).
LIRC can actually drive RF transmitters as well (by simply turning off the software-generated carrier), but even for IR very few devices are more than simple receivers, though the code would allow for both recording and playback of commands for a gazillion appliances.
Factor in a few weather/proximity sensors (some can even be received by that very same hardware) and outputs such as LivingColors as an "Ambilight on steroids" (aside the usual suspects such as roller blinds, home entertainment gear and "conventional" lamps) for computer-generated scenarios based on age-old magic like the sunrise equation, and you get an idea of how much can be accomplished with minimal hardware.
Combining IR and RF puts within every hobbyist's reach the Holy Grail of integrating each and every remote-controlled device in the house, from high-end all the way down to the El-Cheapo DIY market.
The current crop of microcontrollers should provide a candidate that could do the trick sitting on an Ethernet plug - or piggybacked e.g. on the USB, "hidden" internal serial or GPIO port of some popular Wi-Fi router.
http://www.huitsing.nl/irftdi/ and http://www.mediola.com/products.htm are just a few of the places to look for inspiration.
So this is the end of the end of the world as we know it?