Based on the article (and the ones it linked), I'm not ready to draw too many conclusions yet. It's a complex issue and the article is really just a screed.
What I'd like to see is a collection of use-cases.
For example, I use an ooma device for phone, whereas I'm sure Comcast prefer I use their phone service. In what ways, if any, will Comcast still be allowed to discriminate against data to/from Ooma? (Not that I've noticed any issues so far).
Second obvious use case, video. I buy video from netflix and amazon streaming. Could Comcast use their position to ruin these services for me, or will this regulation protect them and me?
I realize this legislation is rather complex, and by asking for specific analyses of these questions, I'm asking for a lot. But then again, if people can't answer such questions, they shouldn't take a position and rant about the govt. selling out, either.
In 50 or 100 years, no one is going to have the ancient tech necessary to read this and the company that maintains the web sites won't exist.
In the vast majority of cases, nobody will care about the corpse in 50-100 years, either.
However, including GPS coordinates in burial records absolutely makes sense, and would allow a visitor with a GPS and Internet-enabled device to automatically pull up biographical information. (Granted, GPS wouldn't narrow it down to the *exact* gravesite in many cases, but selecting a name from a list of sites in a 3m vicinity would be easy enough)
At Duke I was pretty much told "Go buy the textbook [$200+] and come to class if you have questions [which probably won't be answered]." The profs were just that. Profs. Not teachers.
Wow, Duke graduates must have great internal motivation! They must be wonderful self-starters! Where can I hire one:)
I know, but parse out what the army is actually considering, vs. what some company is pushing at them. Here's more of the quote you provided: "The company that developed the Patriot missile system has created several dedicated military apps for both systems, including one that allows soldiers to track colleague's locations on the battlefield."
Defense contractors everwhere are spinning off imaginative "apps" on how these things might be used. I still think the Army's actual implementation (if any) will be much, much less ambitious.
I doubt this is intended for the battlefield. Remember,soldiers spend 99.999% of their time not in combat, doing training or planning or arranging to get from point a to point b or whatever. The smarphones would probably fill a similar role as they do in any modern corporation, having little direct involvement in actual combat operations for the foreseeable future.
Obama is an extremely lame president. It seems to me he is just trying to get through his presidency without being called quitter.
He is certainly steady and quiet in a way. Sometimes it's frustrating. But then again, if you look at the record, he often accomplishes what he sets his mind to, usually in slow-motion, yet he gets it done. He got health care reform passed after everybody gave it up for dead. And now the same with this. He has steadily wound down the Iraq war. Even extending the Bush tax cuts (though I question it) is very consistent with his strategy of deficit spending to get the economy going; he wanted it and he got it. Now, it looks like even the START treaty might be ratified before Congress lets out. So, I can't agree that Obama is just running down the clock.
The problem is that this just left the decision to the military rather than grant blanket protection against discrimination.
But remember who is commander-in-chief of the military. Obama will be making a mistake if he doesn't have a press conference to, first, sign the bill, and second, give an order pronouncing DADT dead.
With someone like North Korea it is kill or be killed show no mercy because they will certainly show you no quarter.
Gee, where have I heard that before? A) poorly-written movies, and B) just before the ceasefire in the Korean War, about 60 years ago. And yet, according to you, it's impossible, the Reds are straining at the leash and the ceasefire will never last into 1954.
The problem with brinksmanship though is that sometimes both sides get locked into calling the others' bluff. If it gets to a point where neither side can back down without losing face, then you have a good chance of something terrible happening, for no real reason at all.
But it's not just Sci-Fi - all scripted TV shows (you know, the ones with writers, and sets, and paid actors, and therefore lots of bills to pay) are under great pressure from reality shows and gameshows because they're cheap to produce.
Imagine how much land could be saved if we didn't have to dedicate so much of it to roads.
I totally agree, except I hate the thought of "roadways" clogging the skyline. I'd like a reasonably economic way to move transportation into 3d - underground. Think of how unliveable DC would be if the subway system were suddenly and totally shut down. Think of the value of the acreage that could be re-captured in the LA area. Unfortunately Boston's Big Dig project wasn't too encouraging economically.
Maybe somebody leaked is because they were already "gone." Giving 4% of the company a pink slip for their Christmas "bonus" probably affected morale somewhat. Just guessing.
"Too many choices!!" doesn't really make sense as an explanation on why they are delaying until next year, anyways. (If there are so many valid choices, how about just putting them up on a dart-board?) So, why the delay?
Of course, delaying until 2011 might just mean delaying for a couple weeks, which is nothing. But if they haven't made an announcement by March, I'll be disappointed. Not that google owes me anything, but I'm cheering from the sidelines and would be disappointed if they pulled the plug.
The duration of energy storage depends on how large the container is and how well it is insulated. Wikipedia claims: "the thermal energy can be usefully stored for up to a week."
Yes, you do lose you advantage by initiating conflict where you do not hold the high ground. (Not that I think the US is responsible for this attack).
Even in international relations there are expectations and informal conventions. For example, by the US deciding not to retaliate or attack after Sputnik, it was accepted that a "flyover" in space does not constitute a violation of "airspace." Everybody is still working out what their rules of cyber-engagement will be. If near-constant, low level, anonymous cyber-warfare becomes the status quo, it will be a drag on the world economy, which is bad for everybody, but especially bad for us.
Compare the expense and risk involved in writing this virus versus firing off cruise missiles or sending planes on bombing missions or an actual ground invasion.
In other words, the relative advantage conferred by our overwhelming advantage in wealth and firepower is being tossed out for a level playing field in which we are very vulnerable and, even developing nations can pose a serious threat.
Thanks for the link. I agree white noise is the best way to block out conversations. For me it works better with headphones rather than PC speakers. If you really want to muffle outside noise (but without spending much money or wearing huge studio isolation headphones), try Koss "The Plug" earbuds. I use them for motorcycling and have probably bought half a dozen of them over the years. If they seem to be poking your brain, try trimming the foam plugs a bit shorter.
as apposed to the arrests made on a member of anonymous?
Well, yes, as opposed to that. The quiet arrest of one or a few people has a different effect than images of brutality perpetrated on protesters 123.
Did you know that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were initially publicised with almost no public interest? It was not until the photos leaked that anybody cared.
Showing up in meatspace and blocking the front door of a business is the cyberspace equivalent of relentlessly pinging its website; True.
If you're talking about the 1960's civil rights protests in the US, there was a big difference - those protesters were getting hit over the head by cops with billy clubs, and sometimes worse. That imagery was hugely influential because there was real sacrifice, opposed by blatant evil.
Both the Chinese machine and the German machine are not cutting edge designs. They represent what you can do with near commodity hardware and good but not fully custom packaging.
The cooling system sounds genuinely innovative and beneficial, if successful:
It will also use a new form of cooling that IBM developed, called Aquasar, that uses hot water to cool the processors, a design that should cut cooling electricity usage by 40 percent, the company claims.
"SuperMUC will provide previously unattainable energy efficiency along with peak performance by exploiting the massive parallelism of Intel's multicore processors and leveraging the innovative hot water cooling technology pioneered by IBM. This approach will allow the industry to develop ever more powerful supercomputers while keeping energy use in check," said Arndt Bode, chairman of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre board of directors, in a statement.
The problem with the phone company is just the same - I don't want their phone service (I use ooma). All their advertized rates assume you bundle. I have tried and tried to figure out exactly how much my monthly bill from them would be, and how fast the service to my home would be, and they simply won't tell you.
Call me crazy, but I like to watch networks' nightly news. It seems to me that because it is so mainstream, and not targeted to much of anybody in particular, that it is more balanced (compared to most Internet news sites). And because they are constrained to a 1/2 hour format, they don't waste so much time on talking heads, and repeating themselves (compared to cable news). Finally the production value is very high; they send people to do onsite reporting, obtain the best footage available, have more access to noteworthy people, etc. Note: this is not a blanket endorsement of everything they do.
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What I'd like to see is a collection of use-cases.
For example, I use an ooma device for phone, whereas I'm sure Comcast prefer I use their phone service. In what ways, if any, will Comcast still be allowed to discriminate against data to/from Ooma? (Not that I've noticed any issues so far).
Second obvious use case, video. I buy video from netflix and amazon streaming. Could Comcast use their position to ruin these services for me, or will this regulation protect them and me?
I realize this legislation is rather complex, and by asking for specific analyses of these questions, I'm asking for a lot. But then again, if people can't answer such questions, they shouldn't take a position and rant about the govt. selling out, either.
In the vast majority of cases, nobody will care about the corpse in 50-100 years, either.
However, including GPS coordinates in burial records absolutely makes sense, and would allow a visitor with a GPS and Internet-enabled device to automatically pull up biographical information. (Granted, GPS wouldn't narrow it down to the *exact* gravesite in many cases, but selecting a name from a list of sites in a 3m vicinity would be easy enough)
Wow, Duke graduates must have great internal motivation! They must be wonderful self-starters! Where can I hire one :)
Defense contractors everwhere are spinning off imaginative "apps" on how these things might be used. I still think the Army's actual implementation (if any) will be much, much less ambitious.
I doubt this is intended for the battlefield. Remember,soldiers spend 99.999% of their time not in combat, doing training or planning or arranging to get from point a to point b or whatever. The smarphones would probably fill a similar role as they do in any modern corporation, having little direct involvement in actual combat operations for the foreseeable future.
He is certainly steady and quiet in a way. Sometimes it's frustrating. But then again, if you look at the record, he often accomplishes what he sets his mind to, usually in slow-motion, yet he gets it done. He got health care reform passed after everybody gave it up for dead. And now the same with this. He has steadily wound down the Iraq war. Even extending the Bush tax cuts (though I question it) is very consistent with his strategy of deficit spending to get the economy going; he wanted it and he got it. Now, it looks like even the START treaty might be ratified before Congress lets out. So, I can't agree that Obama is just running down the clock.
google
site:intel.com "anti-theft 3.0"
returns 0 hits, so all the comments here, and the story itself, are just speculative rubbish.
But remember who is commander-in-chief of the military. Obama will be making a mistake if he doesn't have a press conference to, first, sign the bill, and second, give an order pronouncing DADT dead.
Gee, where have I heard that before? A) poorly-written movies, and B) just before the ceasefire in the Korean War, about 60 years ago. And yet, according to you, it's impossible, the Reds are straining at the leash and the ceasefire will never last into 1954.
The problem with brinksmanship though is that sometimes both sides get locked into calling the others' bluff. If it gets to a point where neither side can back down without losing face, then you have a good chance of something terrible happening, for no real reason at all.
But it's not just Sci-Fi - all scripted TV shows (you know, the ones with writers, and sets, and paid actors, and therefore lots of bills to pay) are under great pressure from reality shows and gameshows because they're cheap to produce.
I totally agree, except I hate the thought of "roadways" clogging the skyline. I'd like a reasonably economic way to move transportation into 3d - underground. Think of how unliveable DC would be if the subway system were suddenly and totally shut down. Think of the value of the acreage that could be re-captured in the LA area. Unfortunately Boston's Big Dig project wasn't too encouraging economically.
Maybe somebody leaked is because they were already "gone." Giving 4% of the company a pink slip for their Christmas "bonus" probably affected morale somewhat. Just guessing.
Of course, delaying until 2011 might just mean delaying for a couple weeks, which is nothing. But if they haven't made an announcement by March, I'll be disappointed. Not that google owes me anything, but I'm cheering from the sidelines and would be disappointed if they pulled the plug.
The duration of energy storage depends on how large the container is and how well it is insulated. Wikipedia claims: "the thermal energy can be usefully stored for up to a week."
Sure, until the inflammatory assertion is backed up by hard data.
Even in international relations there are expectations and informal conventions. For example, by the US deciding not to retaliate or attack after Sputnik, it was accepted that a "flyover" in space does not constitute a violation of "airspace." Everybody is still working out what their rules of cyber-engagement will be. If near-constant, low level, anonymous cyber-warfare becomes the status quo, it will be a drag on the world economy, which is bad for everybody, but especially bad for us.
In other words, the relative advantage conferred by our overwhelming advantage in wealth and firepower is being tossed out for a level playing field in which we are very vulnerable and, even developing nations can pose a serious threat.
Thanks for the link. I agree white noise is the best way to block out conversations. For me it works better with headphones rather than PC speakers. If you really want to muffle outside noise (but without spending much money or wearing huge studio isolation headphones), try Koss "The Plug" earbuds. I use them for motorcycling and have probably bought half a dozen of them over the years. If they seem to be poking your brain, try trimming the foam plugs a bit shorter.
Well, yes, as opposed to that. The quiet arrest of one or a few people has a different effect than images of brutality perpetrated on protesters 1 2 3.
Did you know that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were initially publicised with almost no public interest? It was not until the photos leaked that anybody cared.
If you're talking about the 1960's civil rights protests in the US, there was a big difference - those protesters were getting hit over the head by cops with billy clubs, and sometimes worse. That imagery was hugely influential because there was real sacrifice, opposed by blatant evil.
The cooling system sounds genuinely innovative and beneficial, if successful:
The problem with the phone company is just the same - I don't want their phone service (I use ooma). All their advertized rates assume you bundle. I have tried and tried to figure out exactly how much my monthly bill from them would be, and how fast the service to my home would be, and they simply won't tell you.
To me this is a clear sign that something is messed up.
Call me crazy, but I like to watch networks' nightly news. It seems to me that because it is so mainstream, and not targeted to much of anybody in particular, that it is more balanced (compared to most Internet news sites). And because they are constrained to a 1/2 hour format, they don't waste so much time on talking heads, and repeating themselves (compared to cable news). Finally the production value is very high; they send people to do onsite reporting, obtain the best footage available, have more access to noteworthy people, etc. Note: this is not a blanket endorsement of everything they do.