I think if Apple had not been so greedy in the beginning, FireWire would be the standard today. And I'm also sure in the end Apple would have made much more money from it, too.
What, USB 1 slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photos to a PC that only has RS232. Seriously, USB 1 is FAST. If you want slow, try RS232.
Of course, you can only type LaTeX very fast if you have the right keyboard layout. On German keyboards, you get the backslash by pressing AltGr (i.e. right hand side Alt key) and the ß key (to the right of the digit 0) at the same time. That's not something you do very fast, and in LaTeX you have to use the backslash a lot.
which will allow wearable electronics -- a T-shirt with a display, say, replacing a printed slogan for marketing or for showing support for a political candidate.
Great, just what I want: Having my clothes turned into a spamming device. There are certainly countless examples of how wearable electronics could be put to good use, but the first thing they think of is advertising. Very telling, I'd say.
Indeed, we should make a total immersive environment where you don't have to leave your home physically to experience the "real" world. Even better, just take the energy to drive the system directly from the attached humans. And to minimize the expenses of supporting your body, take advantage of the fact that you won't notice your basement anyway, and instead let people live inside the machine, where the basic necessities can more easily be cared about automatically. We might call that system the Matrix.
With encryption, they cannot see whether you are illegally sharing copyrighted material or transferring legal data. And I guess even with current legislation, "they have copied a large amount of data, but we have no clue what it was" would not be enough for legal action. Of course if the site they connected to contained only illegal content, it would probably enough. However, it probably isn't too hard to also put up torrents for all sorts of free material (Open Source material, Creative Commons stuff, etc.) besides the illegal stuff.
Another option would be to combine cryptography with steganography. Hide the encrypted illegal material inside larger, legal material. I think if done right, unless you know the password to decrypt, you shouldn't even have a chance to detect that there is encrypted material inside (but then, I'm not an expert in cryptography or steganography). The disadvantage of that method is, of course, that your files would have to get much larger (AFAIU it has to offer enough noise to be replaced by your data).
"How is the trial coming on?" "We surrendered." "So you lost?" "No, we won." "How that?" "Well, the accused was prepared to handle everything, except for us to surrender."
Must have been more real than seeing it for yourself...
Indeed. From the article: "Amazingly, the surgeons in the conference were able to visualize the surgery they were watching better than if they had been in the operating room live."
If you'd take down Google, you'd not have taken down the Internet. I still only use Google search (including specialized searches) and Google maps. For generic search, there are other alternatives around, and using them is just a matter of habit. For specialized searches I'm sure there are other options, which you might find with the help of the other generic search engine. There are also some other map services (or at least there have been a few years ago, never tried them lately).
Now, if you destroyed Google, probably all people using gmail would lose their mails, but that would be just a massive data loss, not a loss of email as service (there are enough other mail providers, both free and for pay). There would be a temporary problem getting people know your new email addresses, though.
Google Groups would be gone, but then, people would likely just relearn to use Usenet properly.
YouTube would be gone, but while it is the biggest video portal, it's certainly not the only one.
In short, if Google would suddenly disappear, it would be a major disruption, but by far not the end of the Internet.
Actually more trouble would come from the fact that many banks are not any more set up to handle all customers mailing payment orders or standing in line in the bank.
What we really need is a micropayment system which is not bound to a single company. Just like bank transfers work even if sender and receiver are on different banks, those micropayments should work the same. Currently if you want to pay per micropayment, both the sender and the receiver have to sign up on the same service (e.g. both have to use PayPal). This causes a market split (e.g. if you have Web.cent, but the receiver only accepts PayPal, you're out of luck), and leads to "natural" monopolies (you are pressed to go to the biggest provider, because that way you have the best chance that whoever you want to pay resp. whoever wants to pay you can do so; but by going there, you make that provider even bigger, increasing the pressure). With an universal micropayment system, you wouldn't care which company the other side chose, and you could choose the one you trust most yourself, instead of having to care how popular it is.
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Damn, now we find WMD on the moon, and Bush is already out of office. Imagine how much money NASA could have been given now!
You have no idea of modern art. You still think art has to be something traditional like music, paintings etc. Actually they are producing legal art by using the law in creative ways (and creativity is the base of art, isn't it?) and performance art where the performance is done by lawyers in the courtroom.
Yes. And the inhabitants of neighbouring countries who live near the border and therefore are in range of the senders as well. They will even have to pay doubly: Not only did they listen to unlicensed audio, they even listened to it through a radio station which didn't have a license in that country, so they were infringing on the legally broadcast material as well.
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I think if Apple had not been so greedy in the beginning, FireWire would be the standard today. And I'm also sure in the end Apple would have made much more money from it, too.
What, USB 1 slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photos to a PC that only has RS232. Seriously, USB 1 is FAST. If you want slow, try RS232.
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Of course, you can only type LaTeX very fast if you have the right keyboard layout. On German keyboards, you get the backslash by pressing AltGr (i.e. right hand side Alt key) and the ß key (to the right of the digit 0) at the same time. That's not something you do very fast, and in LaTeX you have to use the backslash a lot.
Yeah, but my WiFi toaster doesn't read barcodes. And it wont make toast unless it gets Wired.
You mean, your toaster needs an internet connection where wired.com isn't blocked?
From the article:
Great, just what I want: Having my clothes turned into a spamming device.
There are certainly countless examples of how wearable electronics could be put to good use, but the first thing they think of is advertising. Very telling, I'd say.
Indeed, we should make a total immersive environment where you don't have to leave your home physically to experience the "real" world. Even better, just take the energy to drive the system directly from the attached humans. And to minimize the expenses of supporting your body, take advantage of the fact that you won't notice your basement anyway, and instead let people live inside the machine, where the basic necessities can more easily be cared about automatically. We might call that system the Matrix.
With encryption, they cannot see whether you are illegally sharing copyrighted material or transferring legal data. And I guess even with current legislation, "they have copied a large amount of data, but we have no clue what it was" would not be enough for legal action. Of course if the site they connected to contained only illegal content, it would probably enough. However, it probably isn't too hard to also put up torrents for all sorts of free material (Open Source material, Creative Commons stuff, etc.) besides the illegal stuff.
Another option would be to combine cryptography with steganography. Hide the encrypted illegal material inside larger, legal material. I think if done right, unless you know the password to decrypt, you shouldn't even have a chance to detect that there is encrypted material inside (but then, I'm not an expert in cryptography or steganography). The disadvantage of that method is, of course, that your files would have to get much larger (AFAIU it has to offer enough noise to be replaced by your data).
"How is the trial coming on?"
"We surrendered."
"So you lost?"
"No, we won."
"How that?"
"Well, the accused was prepared to handle everything, except for us to surrender."
Must have been more real than seeing it for yourself...
Indeed. From the article: "Amazingly, the surgeons in the conference were able to visualize the surgery they were watching better than if they had been in the operating room live."
Well, they probably just added it to the patient's hospital bill, so it was not a big deal.
Why stop there? Just let each application carry with it a complete OS.
Really? There's so much you can do with a computer without Internet connection ...
How do you turn off the internet? You can't. People would just link up again with each other. The genie is out of the bottle
Unless you've wiped most of humanity or brainwashed them into anti-technical belief systems, people will network.
Cut all communication cables and put up massive jammers to prevent wireless networking.
Bill Gates.
But I don't think I'd like the Internet he would build.
The botnet operators would certainly see a sudden network failure. :-)
If you'd take down Google, you'd not have taken down the Internet. I still only use Google search (including specialized searches) and Google maps. For generic search, there are other alternatives around, and using them is just a matter of habit. For specialized searches I'm sure there are other options, which you might find with the help of the other generic search engine. There are also some other map services (or at least there have been a few years ago, never tried them lately).
Now, if you destroyed Google, probably all people using gmail would lose their mails, but that would be just a massive data loss, not a loss of email as service (there are enough other mail providers, both free and for pay). There would be a temporary problem getting people know your new email addresses, though.
Google Groups would be gone, but then, people would likely just relearn to use Usenet properly.
YouTube would be gone, but while it is the biggest video portal, it's certainly not the only one.
In short, if Google would suddenly disappear, it would be a major disruption, but by far not the end of the Internet.
call 1-900-SLASHDOTPOLL-x
where "x" is replaced by your option of choice (0 to 5).
You obviously haven't thought this through. How can you have friends without the internet?
By leaving your basement.
Actually more trouble would come from the fact that many banks are not any more set up to handle all customers mailing payment orders or standing in line in the bank.
Everyone can turn off the internet. You just have to press the red button.
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What we really need is a micropayment system which is not bound to a single company. Just like bank transfers work even if sender and receiver are on different banks, those micropayments should work the same. Currently if you want to pay per micropayment, both the sender and the receiver have to sign up on the same service (e.g. both have to use PayPal). This causes a market split (e.g. if you have Web.cent, but the receiver only accepts PayPal, you're out of luck), and leads to "natural" monopolies (you are pressed to go to the biggest provider, because that way you have the best chance that whoever you want to pay resp. whoever wants to pay you can do so; but by going there, you make that provider even bigger, increasing the pressure). With an universal micropayment system, you wouldn't care which company the other side chose, and you could choose the one you trust most yourself, instead of having to care how popular it is.
Damn, now we find WMD on the moon, and Bush is already out of office.
Imagine how much money NASA could have been given now!
You have no idea of modern art. You still think art has to be something traditional like music, paintings etc. Actually they are producing legal art by using the law in creative ways (and creativity is the base of art, isn't it?) and performance art where the performance is done by lawyers in the courtroom.
Yes. And the inhabitants of neighbouring countries who live near the border and therefore are in range of the senders as well. They will even have to pay doubly: Not only did they listen to unlicensed audio, they even listened to it through a radio station which didn't have a license in that country, so they were infringing on the legally broadcast material as well.