Comcast could be free to throttle. Except that the initial cost of building the "Comcast owned" networks was paid for by tax payers. Also, because they acted dubiously, and pretended that it wasn't them that was throttling, but instead some connection problem, or other problem with the application. Throttling is ok, provided you have a choice of choosing another provider (internet providers usually have a monopoly, or at best, duopoly, in most areas) and that they make it completely clear to the customer what they are throttling. Throttling all instances of a specific type of traffic, even when there is no congestion going on, is really not what anybody wants.
I've experienced this first hand. In university, many of the lecture halls were underground and surrounded by rebar enforced concrete. No signal in there. A couple classes in there a day, and your cell phone wouldn't last until the end of the day.
My thoughts exactly. The moon is already blasted with radiation all the time. There's no atmosphere, and no electromagnetic field like we have on earth. Having a nuclear meltdown on the moon wouldn't even be noticable. I guess there could be some concern over the nuclear fuel exploding on takeoff, but, I think proper precautions could be taken such that even if the launch rocket did blow up, that it wouldn't contaminate the atmosphere.
Well, they probably already have UPS units on their servers, which are effectively batteries. However, these units (in a datacentre) are usually only enough for a few minutes, long enough to get the generator up and running. I don't think enough batteries could be gathered to run these servers for long enough to take advantage of the change in energy prices.
I don't think the power grid is set up to let everyone on the grid run their electricity at 100%. It's set up to run at somewhere above the maximum expected load. I don't think the maximum expected load is anywhere need 100% of customers using 100% of their circuits. Take the example of everyone flushing the toilets at the same time. The system isn't made to handle extreme situations like this, because the odds of them happening are zero. Now, if you have many data centres in close proximity, and for some reason, every computer there starts going at 100%, when usually they would only be going at 20%, I think that the power grid might have a hard time adjusting to this kind of spike.
No, there's other web based APIs. Where you don't actually keep any of the credit card info on your server, but you post it to the third party for the client in the background to authorize the client's credit card. Without PCI compliance, you aren't even allowed to receive or have the credit card data in memory, let alone store it to a database.
I'd rather pay for the state to rehabilitate them, and make them productive members of society, then to pay for them to be on welfare for the rest of their life, or even worse, to have tons of homeless people all over the streets begging for money.
Sorry, but gambling is always rigged so that the casino always wins. You may win once or twice, but the odds are rigged so that the casino always makes money. About the only casino type game that doesn't have the odds tipped in the casino's favour is poker, Oh, and you can win at blackjack too. But don't start winning too much, or they'll kick you out of the casino. I would have to say that sports betting is probably the least rigged kind of betting one could do. At least there could be many long shots that would win. Because sports contain the human factor, there is always some kind of uncertainty on the odds. Much more so than with roulette or computerized slot machines.
Very true. She only got in trouble because she posted it on a blog. Who's to say criminals aren't collecting all the same information and keeping it to themselves. If some random woman can find out all the information about these undercover cops, I would be that many criminals already know their identities.
Yes, but if your whole office has MS Word with XML, and you need to get the new employee a computer, you can no longer get a license for Word with XML, just Word sans XML. So now the new person at the office can't read any of the existing documents. And all the existing users have to make sure they only use the old.doc version.
But Mir wasn't really detached from earth. It might as well have just been an oil platform in the middle of the ocean. We just kept on shipping more supplies to it whenever it ran out. It wasn't self sustaining at all. Let me know when we get something in orbit or on the moon (or mars) that is self sustaining, and doesn't require that we keep on shipping them supplies.
I have to agree with this. NASA needs to do something new. Go to the moon? Get real. They did that 40 years ago. Time to move on to something new. Sending people to the moon should be routine by now. Not something that requires a 10 year engineering project. Sending people to Mars would be cool.
However, as much as visiting Mars would be cool, I think that exploring space is really kind of pointless of boring compared to all the earth based science and engineering one could do with the same amount of money. So what if we make it to Mars. What's after that? It would take some serious scientific advancement. Probably hundreds of years away before we get technology for people to leave the solar system, or terraform Mars. Which would be the two really cool things you could do in space.
Give everybody their own RSA ID tag. You know, those little keychain things that spit out a new random number every 1 minute based on some secure cryptographic algorithm. That way you could prove your identity (or at least that you had your device) at any point in time, yet nobody could use that information to prove your identity at a future point in time. There would be a process for reporting a lost device, followed by a whole bunch of verification to ensure that when a new device was granted, that it was granted to the correct person. Wouldn't be fool proof, but would be much better than any current system I've seen.
That's funny I usually just provide my health card, and then I don't have to worry about giving out my social insurance number. I also don't have to worry about paying.
So if there are special restrictions, and they want to retain copyright, then give it a Creative Commons license. But definitely don't call it open source. Open source specifically applies to software.
Fundamental computer concepts don't change that often. That's why they are fundamental. Search algorithms haven't changed in 30 years. The languages we write them in has, but most of the stuff in computer science could be taught in pseudo-code, and the assignments could be done in any language. I would have preferred buying a bunch of cheaper open source books plus 5 or 6 programming-language-of-the-day books as a opposed to buying 30 books which weren't open source and didn't really cover anything that has changed in the past 10 years.
I think the proper term to use in this case is "Public Domain". Open Source refers specifically to software, and the source code that comprises it. While Public Domain is any Copyrightable work that has been released by the copyright holder to be able to be reproduced by anyone.
Yes, but what exactly does one do a with a masters in political science. Other than proving that you can work hard, and that you are probably pretty smart, it doesn't give you any special abilities to do a specific job. There are some jobs which it would really help with, but not enough jobs to warrant the number of people getting degrees in things like political science. Just take a look at some statistics from the university I attended. Social sciences and arts are the two largest faculties even though there's probably the least number of jobs out there for people with degrees. Even science schools like Waterloo have a staggering number of students registered in the arts. You'd be much better off learning to be an industrial truck mechanical, or even just standard car mechanic than getting a degree in social science.
I would very much have to agree with this. On almost any machine that I've seen that blue screened on a regular basis, the fault was bad memory, or some other bad piece of hardware. The other reasons seem to be buggy drivers, or tons of malware. So, even if your OS Kernel is provably correct, I don't think that machines would be crashing any less.
The protected computer thing is just an extra charge they have on the books so they can put you in jail for longer, or fine you more. I remember a few years ago on the news, they reported somebody getting charged with a robbery, and one of the charges was "wearing a disguise while committing a felony". There's a lot of extra laws on the books just to increase the number of charges you get when you break an important law. I imagine that had he not actually committed fraud using that data, that there is no way he would have gotten charged, simply for downloading the information from the computer.
But slashdot is very US Centric. And in the US, you don't have to testify against yourself. You have the right to remain silent. If they had your safe, and had proper search warrants, they are free to do whatever is necessary to get into that safe. But they can't force you to turn over the combination. I could see why this would be considered unjust by many. Basically, if you have good enough encryption, you have the equivalent of a safe stored in the centre of the moon. Sure they can look in the safe if they want to, but getting into the safe would be prohibitively difficult.
But OpenOffice is owned by Sun, which is currently awaiting regulatory approval to be bought out by Oracle. I wouldn't doubt that if this law suit stands, they wouldn't get Oracle next, as they also have pretty deep pockets.
According to this article on DailyTech, it says that they are banned from selling MS Word across the entire US. I'm pretty sure you can still buy it, but how long until it gets taken off the shelves.
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Only harder to modify if you only have acrobat reader installed. If you only have MS Word document reader, both are equally hard to edit.
Comcast could be free to throttle. Except that the initial cost of building the "Comcast owned" networks was paid for by tax payers. Also, because they acted dubiously, and pretended that it wasn't them that was throttling, but instead some connection problem, or other problem with the application. Throttling is ok, provided you have a choice of choosing another provider (internet providers usually have a monopoly, or at best, duopoly, in most areas) and that they make it completely clear to the customer what they are throttling. Throttling all instances of a specific type of traffic, even when there is no congestion going on, is really not what anybody wants.
I've experienced this first hand. In university, many of the lecture halls were underground and surrounded by rebar enforced concrete. No signal in there. A couple classes in there a day, and your cell phone wouldn't last until the end of the day.
My thoughts exactly. The moon is already blasted with radiation all the time. There's no atmosphere, and no electromagnetic field like we have on earth. Having a nuclear meltdown on the moon wouldn't even be noticable. I guess there could be some concern over the nuclear fuel exploding on takeoff, but, I think proper precautions could be taken such that even if the launch rocket did blow up, that it wouldn't contaminate the atmosphere.
Well, they probably already have UPS units on their servers, which are effectively batteries. However, these units (in a datacentre) are usually only enough for a few minutes, long enough to get the generator up and running. I don't think enough batteries could be gathered to run these servers for long enough to take advantage of the change in energy prices.
I don't think the power grid is set up to let everyone on the grid run their electricity at 100%. It's set up to run at somewhere above the maximum expected load. I don't think the maximum expected load is anywhere need 100% of customers using 100% of their circuits. Take the example of everyone flushing the toilets at the same time. The system isn't made to handle extreme situations like this, because the odds of them happening are zero. Now, if you have many data centres in close proximity, and for some reason, every computer there starts going at 100%, when usually they would only be going at 20%, I think that the power grid might have a hard time adjusting to this kind of spike.
No, there's other web based APIs. Where you don't actually keep any of the credit card info on your server, but you post it to the third party for the client in the background to authorize the client's credit card. Without PCI compliance, you aren't even allowed to receive or have the credit card data in memory, let alone store it to a database.
I'd rather pay for the state to rehabilitate them, and make them productive members of society, then to pay for them to be on welfare for the rest of their life, or even worse, to have tons of homeless people all over the streets begging for money.
Sorry, but gambling is always rigged so that the casino always wins. You may win once or twice, but the odds are rigged so that the casino always makes money. About the only casino type game that doesn't have the odds tipped in the casino's favour is poker, Oh, and you can win at blackjack too. But don't start winning too much, or they'll kick you out of the casino. I would have to say that sports betting is probably the least rigged kind of betting one could do. At least there could be many long shots that would win. Because sports contain the human factor, there is always some kind of uncertainty on the odds. Much more so than with roulette or computerized slot machines.
Very true. She only got in trouble because she posted it on a blog. Who's to say criminals aren't collecting all the same information and keeping it to themselves. If some random woman can find out all the information about these undercover cops, I would be that many criminals already know their identities.
Yes, but if your whole office has MS Word with XML, and you need to get the new employee a computer, you can no longer get a license for Word with XML, just Word sans XML. So now the new person at the office can't read any of the existing documents. And all the existing users have to make sure they only use the old .doc version.
But Mir wasn't really detached from earth. It might as well have just been an oil platform in the middle of the ocean. We just kept on shipping more supplies to it whenever it ran out. It wasn't self sustaining at all. Let me know when we get something in orbit or on the moon (or mars) that is self sustaining, and doesn't require that we keep on shipping them supplies.
I have to agree with this. NASA needs to do something new. Go to the moon? Get real. They did that 40 years ago. Time to move on to something new. Sending people to the moon should be routine by now. Not something that requires a 10 year engineering project. Sending people to Mars would be cool.
However, as much as visiting Mars would be cool, I think that exploring space is really kind of pointless of boring compared to all the earth based science and engineering one could do with the same amount of money. So what if we make it to Mars. What's after that? It would take some serious scientific advancement. Probably hundreds of years away before we get technology for people to leave the solar system, or terraform Mars. Which would be the two really cool things you could do in space.
Give everybody their own RSA ID tag. You know, those little keychain things that spit out a new random number every 1 minute based on some secure cryptographic algorithm. That way you could prove your identity (or at least that you had your device) at any point in time, yet nobody could use that information to prove your identity at a future point in time. There would be a process for reporting a lost device, followed by a whole bunch of verification to ensure that when a new device was granted, that it was granted to the correct person. Wouldn't be fool proof, but would be much better than any current system I've seen.
That's funny I usually just provide my health card, and then I don't have to worry about giving out my social insurance number. I also don't have to worry about paying.
So if there are special restrictions, and they want to retain copyright, then give it a Creative Commons license. But definitely don't call it open source. Open source specifically applies to software.
Fundamental computer concepts don't change that often. That's why they are fundamental. Search algorithms haven't changed in 30 years. The languages we write them in has, but most of the stuff in computer science could be taught in pseudo-code, and the assignments could be done in any language. I would have preferred buying a bunch of cheaper open source books plus 5 or 6 programming-language-of-the-day books as a opposed to buying 30 books which weren't open source and didn't really cover anything that has changed in the past 10 years.
I think the proper term to use in this case is "Public Domain". Open Source refers specifically to software, and the source code that comprises it. While Public Domain is any Copyrightable work that has been released by the copyright holder to be able to be reproduced by anyone.
Yes, but what exactly does one do a with a masters in political science. Other than proving that you can work hard, and that you are probably pretty smart, it doesn't give you any special abilities to do a specific job. There are some jobs which it would really help with, but not enough jobs to warrant the number of people getting degrees in things like political science. Just take a look at some statistics from the university I attended. Social sciences and arts are the two largest faculties even though there's probably the least number of jobs out there for people with degrees. Even science schools like Waterloo have a staggering number of students registered in the arts. You'd be much better off learning to be an industrial truck mechanical, or even just standard car mechanic than getting a degree in social science.
I would very much have to agree with this. On almost any machine that I've seen that blue screened on a regular basis, the fault was bad memory, or some other bad piece of hardware. The other reasons seem to be buggy drivers, or tons of malware. So, even if your OS Kernel is provably correct, I don't think that machines would be crashing any less.
The protected computer thing is just an extra charge they have on the books so they can put you in jail for longer, or fine you more. I remember a few years ago on the news, they reported somebody getting charged with a robbery, and one of the charges was "wearing a disguise while committing a felony". There's a lot of extra laws on the books just to increase the number of charges you get when you break an important law. I imagine that had he not actually committed fraud using that data, that there is no way he would have gotten charged, simply for downloading the information from the computer.
But slashdot is very US Centric. And in the US, you don't have to testify against yourself. You have the right to remain silent. If they had your safe, and had proper search warrants, they are free to do whatever is necessary to get into that safe. But they can't force you to turn over the combination. I could see why this would be considered unjust by many. Basically, if you have good enough encryption, you have the equivalent of a safe stored in the centre of the moon. Sure they can look in the safe if they want to, but getting into the safe would be prohibitively difficult.
But OpenOffice is owned by Sun, which is currently awaiting regulatory approval to be bought out by Oracle. I wouldn't doubt that if this law suit stands, they wouldn't get Oracle next, as they also have pretty deep pockets.
Except that all the MPEG specs do contain many patented aspects. Which is the whole drive behind projects like Theora.
According to this article on DailyTech, it says that they are banned from selling MS Word across the entire US. I'm pretty sure you can still buy it, but how long until it gets taken off the shelves.