I haven't either, but it would pretty eliminate it. If the government owned the infrastructure, ISPs and such would go to the government for access, rather than Telstra. Telstra would just be another competitor.
Of course, Im not sure about the economics/legalities of that sort of a thing. At the moment the government has a 51% share in Telstra, I believe. Im not sure what proportion of Telstra'a net worth is infrastructure. But I think if its possible, that would go quite a way to solving the problem.
The main problem with privatizing Telstra is that it is not economically feasible to maintain its infrastructure to the more remote areas of Australia. What would be really good is if the infrastructure became run by a 100% government agency, while the services became 100% privatized, and paid a subscription to the government for access to the infrastructure. Then you could have equal access to the infrastructure for competitors, and no profit-based conflicts over maintaining the infrastructure.
That's what the government is designed for. Corporations are there to make money. The government is there to make sure they don't overstep the bounds in order to make their money.
Of course, when corpartions can buy legislations the system breaks down rather.
Mortensen always plays all his parts with his whole heart. In "A Perfect Murder", he played an artist, and all the art in the character's studio, Viggo painted himself. I thought that was very impressive.
After three years of researching Web credibility, the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab...
Persuasive Technology Lab sounds a bit ominous to me. I think the real agenda of this group is to come up with some sort of "persuadatron" a la Syndicate.
This "webpage design" survey was just a test run to see how many pointless sites they could "persuade" people into appreciating.
Its all about what's appropriate.
I know some people who hate all web applets on principle. I know a lot of people who hate all flash on principle. But what the whole thing really boils down to is this:
Does it add anything to the site, without taking anything away?
Flash with no way to avoid it detracts from the site because people with slow connections are inconvienved. Fancy applets everywhere detract from the site because not all browsers can handle them.
But applets that add optional extra usability, or flash navigational elements with a HTML alternative are fine by me.
coming up with reasons we can't code them this instant
If we cant code them this instant, theres no point in coding them. Im not talking about complexity of software here, but capability of hardware.
They are points worth bearing in mind as we develop, but we develop things that work, not things that *should* work when the hardware reaches our standards.
So, are you saying that if the OSS Community came up with something better, easier, more secure, more stable, and better supported people would not use it?
Yes. I am. Oh, not the business side of things. That runs by practicality, and they'll take whats most practical. And not the tech-savvy, who will try anything, especially if its free. But for the average shmoe, they want what they're used to.
There is a reason to this. Windows is currently king of the desktop market. Alternative OSes, like Linux, want to get Windowers to migrate to their system.
Users are not going to migrate if nothing works the same in the new system. Even if its "better", they're not going to use it if they can't understand it.
Linux, at least in terms of the UI elements, has to follow Windows conventions if it wants to win followers from the non-geek world. Is as simple as that.
The problem is, with software development, the software has to work.
You can go and design some fantastic system that writes to files as they are edited, and keeps apps suspended until they are needed and all sorts of fancy stuff. But when you try and run it on todays hardware, its gonna run like a three-legged dog.
Write software for today, but use good design practices to make it understandable, and easy to modify and upgrade, when and if the technology becomes available.
We've already had this
reported on here. The guys who teleported the laser said that they cant do matter transmission, but they can do energy.
So send up a satellite, get one of these little teleporty things going, and teleport the power straight into the grid. If its off a bit, it should earth itself, and because its getting from the satellite to earth without going through the space in between, it shouldnt fry anything in its way.
Wouldn't 99% of the laser beam being reflected into the surroundings be rather hazardous to the health of anything you were trying to save from the missile?
I believe that Palladium is coming in two stages. First stage has a Fritz chip on the mobo that handles security. If you can intercept data on the bus between the fritz and the rest of the machine, you can get the advantageous of being declared secure by the fritz, without actually having your machine sanitized.
However, later on they plan on integrating fritz into the cpu. This would make mod-chipping next to impossible. The only way to be able to do that, Id guess, is to reverse engineer the methods they have for authenticating a computers trusted status.
Actually, Gladiator was pretty true to the facts. The Emperor Commodus did actually fight in the Colloseum against gladiators, he did have an incestual interest in his sister, and his sister did take part in a attempt to have him killed. And he was killed by an athlete (not in the arena though).
Considering when I was last with Telstra they didn't even offer support for Linux with their broadband offerings, I can't imagine this will really come to much.
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I haven't either, but it would pretty eliminate it. If the government owned the infrastructure, ISPs and such would go to the government for access, rather than Telstra. Telstra would just be another competitor. Of course, Im not sure about the economics/legalities of that sort of a thing. At the moment the government has a 51% share in Telstra, I believe. Im not sure what proportion of Telstra'a net worth is infrastructure. But I think if its possible, that would go quite a way to solving the problem.
The main problem with privatizing Telstra is that it is not economically feasible to maintain its infrastructure to the more remote areas of Australia. What would be really good is if the infrastructure became run by a 100% government agency, while the services became 100% privatized, and paid a subscription to the government for access to the infrastructure. Then you could have equal access to the infrastructure for competitors, and no profit-based conflicts over maintaining the infrastructure.
That's what the government is designed for. Corporations are there to make money. The government is there to make sure they don't overstep the bounds in order to make their money. Of course, when corpartions can buy legislations the system breaks down rather.
Mortensen always plays all his parts with his whole heart. In "A Perfect Murder", he played an artist, and all the art in the character's studio, Viggo painted himself. I thought that was very impressive.
No, the reason there are so many spelling errors on slashdot is because you have to be bothered to use a spell checker.
After three years of researching Web credibility, the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab...
Persuasive Technology Lab sounds a bit ominous to me. I think the real agenda of this group is to come up with some sort of "persuadatron" a la Syndicate.
This "webpage design" survey was just a test run to see how many pointless sites they could "persuade" people into appreciating.
Its all about what's appropriate.
I know some people who hate all web applets on principle. I know a lot of people who hate all flash on principle. But what the whole thing really boils down to is this:
Does it add anything to the site, without taking anything away?
Flash with no way to avoid it detracts from the site because people with slow connections are inconvienved. Fancy applets everywhere detract from the site because not all browsers can handle them.
But applets that add optional extra usability, or flash navigational elements with a HTML alternative are fine by me.
Nah, you play it 85 times louder on speakers 6 times bigger.
coming up with reasons we can't code them this instant If we cant code them this instant, theres no point in coding them. Im not talking about complexity of software here, but capability of hardware.
They are points worth bearing in mind as we develop, but we develop things that work, not things that *should* work when the hardware reaches our standards.
So, are you saying that if the OSS Community came up with something better, easier, more secure, more stable, and better supported people would not use it?
Yes. I am. Oh, not the business side of things. That runs by practicality, and they'll take whats most practical. And not the tech-savvy, who will try anything, especially if its free. But for the average shmoe, they want what they're used to.
And then put it back again, which is the tricky thing.
Einstein: "Look, ma, I split the atom!" Ma: "Good, now put it back the way you found it."
There is a reason to this. Windows is currently king of the desktop market. Alternative OSes, like Linux, want to get Windowers to migrate to their system.
Users are not going to migrate if nothing works the same in the new system. Even if its "better", they're not going to use it if they can't understand it.
Linux, at least in terms of the UI elements, has to follow Windows conventions if it wants to win followers from the non-geek world. Is as simple as that.
The problem is, with software development, the software has to work.
You can go and design some fantastic system that writes to files as they are edited, and keeps apps suspended until they are needed and all sorts of fancy stuff. But when you try and run it on todays hardware, its gonna run like a three-legged dog.
Write software for today, but use good design practices to make it understandable, and easy to modify and upgrade, when and if the technology becomes available.
Teleported energy.
We've already had this reported on here. The guys who teleported the laser said that they cant do matter transmission, but they can do energy.
So send up a satellite, get one of these little teleporty things going, and teleport the power straight into the grid. If its off a bit, it should earth itself, and because its getting from the satellite to earth without going through the space in between, it shouldnt fry anything in its way.
Actually, MySQL does have transaction support.
MySQL may not be something you want to rely on for mission-critical applications yet, but is certainly moving forwards in leaps and bounds.
Wouldn't 99% of the laser beam being reflected into the surroundings be rather hazardous to the health of anything you were trying to save from the missile?
Regarding mod-chipping
I believe that Palladium is coming in two stages. First stage has a Fritz chip on the mobo that handles security. If you can intercept data on the bus between the fritz and the rest of the machine, you can get the advantageous of being declared secure by the fritz, without actually having your machine sanitized.
However, later on they plan on integrating fritz into the cpu. This would make mod-chipping next to impossible. The only way to be able to do that, Id guess, is to reverse engineer the methods they have for authenticating a computers trusted status.
Uh, Telstra does charge you for making your number unlisted. A couple of bucks a month or so.
It also means that information is sent faster than the speed of lights. Beat my ping time now!
We hook up turbines to geckos and get them to climb to the walls?
Actually, Gladiator was pretty true to the facts. The Emperor Commodus did actually fight in the Colloseum against gladiators, he did have an incestual interest in his sister, and his sister did take part in a attempt to have him killed. And he was killed by an athlete (not in the arena though).
Yeah, hair like goats, teeth like sheep, pretty raunchy. Obviously the beloved was someone who didn't floss.
Considering when I was last with Telstra they didn't even offer support for Linux with their broadband offerings, I can't imagine this will really come to much.