802.11 is a wireless add on to IP. What they are talking about here is a protocol that is built with wireless in mind, not an add on. Dynamically changing where you are connected comes to mind (the signal from this tower/satelite is stronger now) as well as tracking location. Before everyone put on their tinfoil hats keep in mind this is the military; they have a legitimate desire to know where their troops are. Which isn't to say that other branches of the government would use it for something different.
This isn't who is writing the email is. It's where the computer that sends it out is. The article mentions that Russia should be higher on the list but a lot of SPAM is sent through compromised computers in America.
Correlation implies causation. Not all implications hold true though.
In this case it may for some people. Technology invades our personal space and quiet time that some people (such as myself and other introverts) need to relax. Many people have a cell phone because they need one. I did for a time because I didn't want people to be able to contact me at any given time. When I no longer needed I got rid of it.
I try to limit how much technology allows other people to invade on my time. No cell phone, no pop-up messages when I get email, and so on. This allows me to take advantage of those aspects that reduce my stress so overall I benefit.
That's with an "extended battery" so I'm guessing with the default setup 2-3 hours. Granted that thing isn't much larger than my laptop's battery so you can't expect it to hold as much of a charge and there's still a lot that needs to be powered beyond the screen.
As a bit of trivia: you can't sue the government as a whole. Only departments and individuals. But I'm sure that hasn't stopped people from trying.
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Either just because someone hasn't broken a law doesn't mean they can't be sued or there are some very broad laws that allow lawsuits. For example:
Overheating coffee which is then spilled in someone's lap
Not putting a sign that says "Caution, picknick tables stacked here" in the middle of a field during the winter
Not putting a warning that tells the consumer not to scratch an ear itch with a toothpick and popping an ear drum
All of these cases were won by the person that brought the suit. Some of these have far less claim than not being protected on a network.
You forgot to add in the equipment to load the fuel into the the tanker, the people to work the equipment, the other vehicles in the convoy to take the tanker down, and the soldiers in the convoy to make sure the thing isn't attacked. That probably doesn't add up to $40 but it makes it a lot more than ten cents and I don't think the military needs over a million gallons of gas in Baghdad which increases the price per gallon even more.
A while ago I read a book (the name of which I can no longer remember) where the major plot was around a society that had a foolproof lie detector. Eventually it became affordable for everyone to have one and carry it around. The lie detector caused a crisis as it became more commonly used. The prison system couldn't handle the amount of people that were coming in so everyone was allowed to confess any previous crime, any crime at all, before a certain date with a promise they would never be charged for that crime (they were still held responsible for future ones.)
There was also an enormous change in society because no one could effectively lie. Not only did people need to learn to tell the truth (Son, have you been smoking pot?) they had to learn how to take the truth (Does this dress make me look fat?) If memory serves me correctly the majority of society was much happier after the adjustment phase than how things are today.
The person who programmed the device also programmed in a back door for himself and due to the patent he had no one else could make a lie detector on his algorithem so his company made all of the lie detectors in use for years. Somehow I don't think that would work now.
I have a laptop and if I remember correctly the last time I used a modem to connect was when I was at my grandmother's last time I visited. My parents both have laptops and they would have used a phone line the same place. I can keep listing people including my roommate and many, many frieds. Just because someone owns a laptop doesn't meant they connect with a modem.
While the article doesn't say it FORTUNE does believe that Google has done a lot right, they've published other articles saying that. This article is about the problems in Google. It would be a better article if the balanced it with what Google is doing right but that's a different issue.
"Oh no, there's this company here that values engineers highly, and does all sorts of wacky non-corporate stuff. How can they survive ?
The point isn't that they value engineers highly, the point is that there's a very distinct caste system set up. Smaller companies can survive with just engineers, Google can't. If they make it so no one wants to be an accountant, marketer, or receptionist there they won't have many of the people they need to support the engineers. You try having an engineer pretend to be a receptionist.
Due to the fact that anyone can maintain it spammers can add and change it. Now, can any number of people find and delete spam in a Wiki faster than however many bots the spammers decide to throw at it?
While the barcode is a good idea, in my opinion the main advantage to having a paper printout is so that the voter can visually verify that their vote is correct. Due to the fact that the main issue here is votes getting recorded correctly confirmation on the screen isn't enough. A barcode isn't good enough for that unless it's easy to read (have a sheet with what each code matches for example.)
While we're at it, why do electronic voting at all if they need to be verified with counting? If the paper is just there in case someone disputes the results that's one thing but if it will be counted to verify anyway it's not worth doing electronic voting.
The other issue with a printout is voter privacy. This isn't as large with the groups I hang out with but to others it may be a very big deal. This means that every page or section of a page that records a vote on paper must be hidden before the next voter enters. Not something that's hard but it needs to be considered.
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If a repurposed spot costs about $10k, it means the rights to the old footage cost far less than that. I can't imagine many big companies being interested in selling their old footage for small change like that...
Comparing $10,000 to $0 that's a large profit even if the ad is still being sold for less than it cost to make it. When a business has an unused resource if they can get any money for it there's a gain.
This isn't to say that 30 second commercials cost a lot to make. There is a very good film program at the school I go to and the students put out some very good films on a very small budget
But this isn't by remote control. My guess is that the hard part of this project isn't the hardware but the software that picks the route and keeps the helicopter steady.
I hate to tell you this but $1,000,000 isn't a drop in the bucket for anyone. While it may be a very small percentage of their operating budget it's still a very large sum of money. To get into the full details why would require going into how that operating budget is divided between the departments that gets messy.
In either case PSU didn't pay a million dollars for this, they most likely cut a deal with Napster and got it for a lot cheaper because it encourages students to buy the music.
The story specifically applies to hazardous waste, not to consumer vehicles. This would fall under the same laws as the rest of saftey regulations. The article also didn't mention who had the remote control to the vehicles. It may be that the company itself is entirely responsible for maintaining control of the vehicles in which case the government isn't control their property at all.
It depends on how deaf they are. It's the same thing with a cochlear implant. If the hairs in the inner ear that sense the vibrations are too damaged it wouldn't work. However, if they can still function but not to well then something like that would be able to help. What I am interested in is how this technology differs from what is currently used in cochlear implants. Would it work better?
Depending on how AOL phrased things the defamation suit may go through, I don't have enough information to make even an educated judgement though.
I agree that AOL probably doesn't have any contracts with CI Host. My only guess is that CI Host is referring to contracts with parties other than AOL, which of course AOL isn't bound to.
As far as unfair competition, there are ways to sell at different prices to two different competitors but the law still stands. I know bulk discounts are allowed as are loyalty discounts and adding fees to customers who are more expensive to deal with but whatever discounts are offered must be offered to everyone.
Defamation: If it is shown that CI Host shouldn't have qualified as a spammer AOL has committed defamation by giving CI Host a bad name when they don't deserve it. There are legal precedents for legal reprecussions for defamation.
Interference with contractual rights: AOL is held to any contracts that they have with CI Host (if any.) There are legal precendents for legal reprecussions for breaking a contract.
Unfair competition: Suppliers to businesses must provide equal opportunity to all competitors. For (a simple) example, Cisco can't sell their parts to reseller A at a lower cost than they do to reseller B. There are legal precendents for legal reprecussion for interferring with fair competition.
I can't think of any contracts that AOL would have with CI Host but the point is that AOL can't do whatever it wants just because it isn't the government.
The first thing you need to do with a class like this is make it interactive to keep the students interested. Have them talk about their projects and critic each other in class.
Now that I've said that, on to some ideas. I've broken them down by whether the focus is on writing or literature.
Writing:
Have them pick a more advanced feature of one of the programs on the computer and write instructions about how to use it.
For creative writing have them try and trick the spell checker.
Literature:
Many classics are no longer copyrighted and hence are available free online which makes them rather accessible. You should also be able to find different translations of the same work (such as Dante's Divine Comedy.) Take advantage of these.
Combination:
There are many amatuer writing sites (mostly poetry). Have the students compare what's there to stuff that is commercially published.
There are many documents archived online from recent and not so recent language as well as many documents that us "IM speak." Students can research how the English language has changed over the years.
These are just some ideas. There are also many teacher resource sites. There is a collection of links here that is kept up to date. The other sites I can think of off hand are Marco Polo and Ask Eric. If you are intereseted in more let me know, I'm sure I can find more.
The higher price in the UK could have to do with tariffs on computer imports. I'm not sure if Dell and the other large PC manufactureres have the same problems. If they don't, it may be that Apple doesn't have the money to soak up the tariffs and shipping.
For the most part tariffs are going away but there are still enough cases to support them (such as protecting a fledgling industry in the country) that they're going to be around for a long time yet.
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802.11 is a wireless add on to IP. What they are talking about here is a protocol that is built with wireless in mind, not an add on. Dynamically changing where you are connected comes to mind (the signal from this tower/satelite is stronger now) as well as tracking location. Before everyone put on their tinfoil hats keep in mind this is the military; they have a legitimate desire to know where their troops are. Which isn't to say that other branches of the government would use it for something different.
This isn't who is writing the email is. It's where the computer that sends it out is. The article mentions that Russia should be higher on the list but a lot of SPAM is sent through compromised computers in America.
Correlation implies causation. Not all implications hold true though.
In this case it may for some people. Technology invades our personal space and quiet time that some people (such as myself and other introverts) need to relax. Many people have a cell phone because they need one. I did for a time because I didn't want people to be able to contact me at any given time. When I no longer needed I got rid of it.
I try to limit how much technology allows other people to invade on my time. No cell phone, no pop-up messages when I get email, and so on. This allows me to take advantage of those aspects that reduce my stress so overall I benefit.
That's with an "extended battery" so I'm guessing with the default setup 2-3 hours. Granted that thing isn't much larger than my laptop's battery so you can't expect it to hold as much of a charge and there's still a lot that needs to be powered beyond the screen.
As a bit of trivia: you can't sue the government as a whole. Only departments and individuals. But I'm sure that hasn't stopped people from trying.
Either just because someone hasn't broken a law doesn't mean they can't be sued or there are some very broad laws that allow lawsuits. For example: Overheating coffee which is then spilled in someone's lap Not putting a sign that says "Caution, picknick tables stacked here" in the middle of a field during the winter Not putting a warning that tells the consumer not to scratch an ear itch with a toothpick and popping an ear drum All of these cases were won by the person that brought the suit. Some of these have far less claim than not being protected on a network.
You forgot to add in the equipment to load the fuel into the the tanker, the people to work the equipment, the other vehicles in the convoy to take the tanker down, and the soldiers in the convoy to make sure the thing isn't attacked. That probably doesn't add up to $40 but it makes it a lot more than ten cents and I don't think the military needs over a million gallons of gas in Baghdad which increases the price per gallon even more.
A while ago I read a book (the name of which I can no longer remember) where the major plot was around a society that had a foolproof lie detector. Eventually it became affordable for everyone to have one and carry it around. The lie detector caused a crisis as it became more commonly used. The prison system couldn't handle the amount of people that were coming in so everyone was allowed to confess any previous crime, any crime at all, before a certain date with a promise they would never be charged for that crime (they were still held responsible for future ones.)
There was also an enormous change in society because no one could effectively lie. Not only did people need to learn to tell the truth (Son, have you been smoking pot?) they had to learn how to take the truth (Does this dress make me look fat?) If memory serves me correctly the majority of society was much happier after the adjustment phase than how things are today.
The person who programmed the device also programmed in a back door for himself and due to the patent he had no one else could make a lie detector on his algorithem so his company made all of the lie detectors in use for years. Somehow I don't think that would work now.
I have a laptop and if I remember correctly the last time I used a modem to connect was when I was at my grandmother's last time I visited. My parents both have laptops and they would have used a phone line the same place. I can keep listing people including my roommate and many, many frieds. Just because someone owns a laptop doesn't meant they connect with a modem.
While the article doesn't say it FORTUNE does believe that Google has done a lot right, they've published other articles saying that. This article is about the problems in Google. It would be a better article if the balanced it with what Google is doing right but that's a different issue.
"Oh no, there's this company here that values engineers highly, and does all sorts of wacky non-corporate stuff. How can they survive ?
The point isn't that they value engineers highly, the point is that there's a very distinct caste system set up. Smaller companies can survive with just engineers, Google can't. If they make it so no one wants to be an accountant, marketer, or receptionist there they won't have many of the people they need to support the engineers. You try having an engineer pretend to be a receptionist.
Due to the fact that anyone can maintain it spammers can add and change it. Now, can any number of people find and delete spam in a Wiki faster than however many bots the spammers decide to throw at it?
While the barcode is a good idea, in my opinion the main advantage to having a paper printout is so that the voter can visually verify that their vote is correct. Due to the fact that the main issue here is votes getting recorded correctly confirmation on the screen isn't enough. A barcode isn't good enough for that unless it's easy to read (have a sheet with what each code matches for example.) While we're at it, why do electronic voting at all if they need to be verified with counting? If the paper is just there in case someone disputes the results that's one thing but if it will be counted to verify anyway it's not worth doing electronic voting. The other issue with a printout is voter privacy. This isn't as large with the groups I hang out with but to others it may be a very big deal. This means that every page or section of a page that records a vote on paper must be hidden before the next voter enters. Not something that's hard but it needs to be considered.
If a repurposed spot costs about $10k, it means the rights to the old footage cost far less than that. I can't imagine many big companies being interested in selling their old footage for small change like that...
Comparing $10,000 to $0 that's a large profit even if the ad is still being sold for less than it cost to make it. When a business has an unused resource if they can get any money for it there's a gain.
This isn't to say that 30 second commercials cost a lot to make. There is a very good film program at the school I go to and the students put out some very good films on a very small budget
But this isn't by remote control. My guess is that the hard part of this project isn't the hardware but the software that picks the route and keeps the helicopter steady.
Regulating technology isn't the same as regulating free speech.
I hate to tell you this but $1,000,000 isn't a drop in the bucket for anyone. While it may be a very small percentage of their operating budget it's still a very large sum of money. To get into the full details why would require going into how that operating budget is divided between the departments that gets messy. In either case PSU didn't pay a million dollars for this, they most likely cut a deal with Napster and got it for a lot cheaper because it encourages students to buy the music.
The story specifically applies to hazardous waste, not to consumer vehicles. This would fall under the same laws as the rest of saftey regulations. The article also didn't mention who had the remote control to the vehicles. It may be that the company itself is entirely responsible for maintaining control of the vehicles in which case the government isn't control their property at all.
Unless the competition has made it so that by the time only a few companies are left they are so far in debt they aren't a strong investment.
In this case there is also a competing product which can "replace" VoIP, landline and cellular phones so VoIP isn't the whole sector.
It depends on how deaf they are. It's the same thing with a cochlear implant. If the hairs in the inner ear that sense the vibrations are too damaged it wouldn't work. However, if they can still function but not to well then something like that would be able to help. What I am interested in is how this technology differs from what is currently used in cochlear implants. Would it work better?
Depending on how AOL phrased things the defamation suit may go through, I don't have enough information to make even an educated judgement though.
I agree that AOL probably doesn't have any contracts with CI Host. My only guess is that CI Host is referring to contracts with parties other than AOL, which of course AOL isn't bound to.
As far as unfair competition, there are ways to sell at different prices to two different competitors but the law still stands. I know bulk discounts are allowed as are loyalty discounts and adding fees to customers who are more expensive to deal with but whatever discounts are offered must be offered to everyone.
There are many parts to CI Hosts lawsuit.
Defamation: If it is shown that CI Host shouldn't have qualified as a spammer AOL has committed defamation by giving CI Host a bad name when they don't deserve it. There are legal precedents for legal reprecussions for defamation.
Interference with contractual rights: AOL is held to any contracts that they have with CI Host (if any.) There are legal precendents for legal reprecussions for breaking a contract.
Unfair competition: Suppliers to businesses must provide equal opportunity to all competitors. For (a simple) example, Cisco can't sell their parts to reseller A at a lower cost than they do to reseller B. There are legal precendents for legal reprecussion for interferring with fair competition.
I can't think of any contracts that AOL would have with CI Host but the point is that AOL can't do whatever it wants just because it isn't the government.
The first thing you need to do with a class like this is make it interactive to keep the students interested. Have them talk about their projects and critic each other in class.
Now that I've said that, on to some ideas. I've broken them down by whether the focus is on writing or literature.
Writing:
Have them pick a more advanced feature of one of the programs on the computer and write instructions about how to use it.
For creative writing have them try and trick the spell checker.
Literature:
Many classics are no longer copyrighted and hence are available free online which makes them rather accessible. You should also be able to find different translations of the same work (such as Dante's Divine Comedy.) Take advantage of these.
Combination:
There are many amatuer writing sites (mostly poetry). Have the students compare what's there to stuff that is commercially published.
There are many documents archived online from recent and not so recent language as well as many documents that us "IM speak." Students can research how the English language has changed over the years.
These are just some ideas. There are also many teacher resource sites. There is a collection of links here that is kept up to date. The other sites I can think of off hand are Marco Polo and Ask Eric. If you are intereseted in more let me know, I'm sure I can find more.
The higher price in the UK could have to do with tariffs on computer imports. I'm not sure if Dell and the other large PC manufactureres have the same problems. If they don't, it may be that Apple doesn't have the money to soak up the tariffs and shipping.
For the most part tariffs are going away but there are still enough cases to support them (such as protecting a fledgling industry in the country) that they're going to be around for a long time yet.