FTA: "Femtocell maker Picochip says London needs large numbers of micro cell towers by 2015" and "Dr Pulley’s report also stated that there needs to be in excess of ten million small cells worldwide by end of 2015". Now why would a maker of small cells say that?
Many coaster enthusiasts keep records of all the roller coasters they ride and try to rack up as many different roller coaster "credits" as possible - for no real better reason than bragging rights. "Credit and forget it" is an expression one uses when you ride a kiddy coaster or other unremarkable ride that you just rode to get it on your list. Somehow the expression seems appropriate here.
My results do not correspond with the results reflected in the report.
I have one of the monitoring boxes at home and my results (or at least my perceived experience) do match the results in the report. I am a Verizon (now Frontier) fiber customer. The service rocks.
Africa is kind of a big place. There are something like 50 countries there, all with different kinds of people, politics, and needs. it might help if you indicted where in Africa you were planning on going. Once you pick a country, are you planning on going to a large metropolitan city, a medium city, a small town or village, or what? Does the place you are going to have an industrial or economic base or are the people there just subsistence living? Like other places in the world Africa has a mix of all of this.
Without further information I would give the same advice that I would give any geek looking for volunteer work anywhere in the world (or at home): Find activities that inspire others to be smart, inquisitive, and have a passion to figure out how stuff works. Focus on the young.
So is the article talking about a separate physical network that is firewalled off from what we now call the Internet or is it just talking about a new top level domain that by policy requires domain owners to demand some sort of verifiable credentials for access to services on hosts that are pointed to by DNS entries within the new domain?
Unless it is a separate physical network with firewalls or other edge devices that require authentication and there is a mechanism to securely forward the credentials from the edge device to the internal host, you haven't crated any more real security.
Creating a new TLD on an existing "insecure" network that doesn't require authentication to access the physical network doesn't add any security. In this scenario anyone can still access the machines and it is up the owners of the machines to implement their own security. If the government (and others) can't manage security on their machines now, crating a new naming system for those machines isn't going to help.
Yes, Amazon provides some of that lifestyle. Of course Amazon sells it using the DARPA developed internet and ships it on public roads, often using the US Postal Service. They hire programmers who were educated in public schools and at public universities. When they're worried about competition, they sue their competitors in Federal Court, often over patents issued by the USPTO. Their facilities are protected from crime by publicly funded police and from foreign invaders by the US military. If one of their buildings catches fire, it will be put out by publicly funded fire fighters. That's a developed world lifestyle, and it's made possible by the continuous effort of a capable government.
This is about state level taxes, not federal. So your reference to DARPA, the Postal Service, Federal Court, USPTO, and the military don't make sense as they are all funded by federal taxes which Amazon pays.
You refer to service from the fire department, If Amazon has no facilities to burn in California, why should they be paying for fire protection in the state? Same thing about programmers, presumably they hire programmers where they have facilities and would be paying taxes in those states to help fund the education of those programmers.
Roads are funded by fuel taxes and Amazon is paying those.
So why again should Amazon be paying taxes in a state where they have no physical presence?
Or maybe use a smartcard. A smart card contains a processor and some non-volatile memory. There are lots of use cases for these, but basically you load you private key on the card and let the card do any sort of crypto processing that requires protection. Note that the private key never leaves the card (and cannot be read from the card) if you are using it correctly.
I believe there exist states that do not have state sales tax. [...]-
The state of Oregon has no sales tax (we have a high income tax and we have property tax, but no sales tax.)
On the other hand some areas of the country have county, city, and even regional sales taxes in addition to state sales taxes. This means that Amazon would not only need to know what state the customer is in, but also the city and county. This is one of the reasons you will occasionally come across a web site that asks for your county in addition to your mailing address. Figuring out the exact sales tax for a given address is a complicated algorithm and the rules surrounding it change frequently.
Excellent. Now instead of paying less then a dollar for a perfectly good incandescent light bulb, and instead of paying $50 for a light equivalent LED "bulb", I can now pay $55 for a light equivalent LED light with network connectivity. Sure over time the costs will go down, but I bet that adding the network connectivity will always cost more than the original incandescent bulb would have.
Yes, and this hybridized notation is responsible for the confusion around expressions like 6/2(1+2). Some people think the answer is 9, others say 1. If you bring to bear a fair amount of knowledge about precedence and associativity of the operators involved, you find the correct answer is 9.
It is clear that the operation in parenthesis occurs first so 6/2(1+2) becomes 6/2(3) or 6/2x3. The question then is do you multiply or divide first. The precedence I learned in school was multiply, divide, add, subtract (mnemonic "My Dear Aunt Sally") so that would be 6/6 or 1.
If you had proper typesetting (ala TeX) this wouldn't be ambiguous, but since it is inline you can't really tell. I would argue that in this case operator precedence rules prevail.
Are there really any current updates still available for Ubuntu 4.10 users?
Yes, 5.04 through 10.10.
And has already been said, Microsoft offers updates as well, the current being Windows 7. The only difference is you have to pay for them, just like you had to pay for XP (assuming that you didn't steal it.)
And who declared Google the "decider" of what should top search listings?
Google did. It is their web site and their search. They can rank web pages any way they want to. No one forces anyone to use Google and Google is not an "official" part of the Internet.
There's no way outside of reviewing Bing's algorithm and logs how many real search results are "powered by Google".
Why not do the following: Set up a handful of web pages that have unique terms on them. Configure the web servers serving these pages to either ignore or provide slightly different content to the Bing search bots. Have the Google minions perform the same honeypot effort and spend lots of time searching and clicking on these pages. If a Bing search turns up with these pages or returns the Bing specific content as summary info, then it would be clear the Bing is cheating.
Not exactly. Regressive taxation has a negative economic effect independent of the politics.
Citation please.
Even if regressive taxation always has a negative economic effect, the issue of whether a negative economic effect is a good or bad thing is a matter of politics. All negative economic effects are not necessarily bad.
Many people hold the opinion that discouraging certain economic activities (drug trade and child pornography for example) is a good thing even though doing so has a "negative" economic effect.
Because the very wealth pay less than their share as a percentage of their income.
Depends on how you measure "fair share". There are (at least) three ways of defining your "share". Percentage you pay in taxes as compared to:
your total income
the total taxes paid by all tax payers
the benefits you receive (or will receive)
There are politically charged terms for these such as "progressive" and "regressive", but remember that "progressive" is not necessarily good and "regressive" is not necessarily bad. It is a matter of political opinion.
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FTA: "Femtocell maker Picochip says London needs large numbers of micro cell towers by 2015" and "Dr Pulley’s report also stated that there needs to be in excess of ten million small cells worldwide by end of 2015". Now why would a maker of small cells say that?
Many coaster enthusiasts keep records of all the roller coasters they ride and try to rack up as many different roller coaster "credits" as possible - for no real better reason than bragging rights. "Credit and forget it" is an expression one uses when you ride a kiddy coaster or other unremarkable ride that you just rode to get it on your list. Somehow the expression seems appropriate here.
Right next to the Dulles airport in Virginia there is the CIT Building that has a similar look. Address is 2214 Rock Hill Road, Herndon, VA 20170.
My results do not correspond with the results reflected in the report.
I have one of the monitoring boxes at home and my results (or at least my perceived experience) do match the results in the report. I am a Verizon (now Frontier) fiber customer. The service rocks.
Africa is kind of a big place. There are something like 50 countries there, all with different kinds of people, politics, and needs. it might help if you indicted where in Africa you were planning on going. Once you pick a country, are you planning on going to a large metropolitan city, a medium city, a small town or village, or what? Does the place you are going to have an industrial or economic base or are the people there just subsistence living? Like other places in the world Africa has a mix of all of this.
Without further information I would give the same advice that I would give any geek looking for volunteer work anywhere in the world (or at home): Find activities that inspire others to be smart, inquisitive, and have a passion to figure out how stuff works. Focus on the young.
Come home safely. Enough said.
why would anyone want to learn powershell? ...
Powershell understands types and is object aware. That is kind of nice.
So is the article talking about a separate physical network that is firewalled off from what we now call the Internet or is it just talking about a new top level domain that by policy requires domain owners to demand some sort of verifiable credentials for access to services on hosts that are pointed to by DNS entries within the new domain?
Unless it is a separate physical network with firewalls or other edge devices that require authentication and there is a mechanism to securely forward the credentials from the edge device to the internal host, you haven't crated any more real security.
Creating a new TLD on an existing "insecure" network that doesn't require authentication to access the physical network doesn't add any security. In this scenario anyone can still access the machines and it is up the owners of the machines to implement their own security. If the government (and others) can't manage security on their machines now, crating a new naming system for those machines isn't going to help.
Yes, Amazon provides some of that lifestyle. Of course Amazon sells it using the DARPA developed internet and ships it on public roads, often using the US Postal Service. They hire programmers who were educated in public schools and at public universities. When they're worried about competition, they sue their competitors in Federal Court, often over patents issued by the USPTO. Their facilities are protected from crime by publicly funded police and from foreign invaders by the US military. If one of their buildings catches fire, it will be put out by publicly funded fire fighters. That's a developed world lifestyle, and it's made possible by the continuous effort of a capable government.
This is about state level taxes, not federal. So your reference to DARPA, the Postal Service, Federal Court, USPTO, and the military don't make sense as they are all funded by federal taxes which Amazon pays. You refer to service from the fire department, If Amazon has no facilities to burn in California, why should they be paying for fire protection in the state? Same thing about programmers, presumably they hire programmers where they have facilities and would be paying taxes in those states to help fund the education of those programmers. Roads are funded by fuel taxes and Amazon is paying those. So why again should Amazon be paying taxes in a state where they have no physical presence?
Or maybe use a smartcard. A smart card contains a processor and some non-volatile memory. There are lots of use cases for these, but basically you load you private key on the card and let the card do any sort of crypto processing that requires protection. Note that the private key never leaves the card (and cannot be read from the card) if you are using it correctly.
The system will also include an experiment that uses phones' microphones to sense when riders are on buses.
What else does it "sense" via the microphone?
Where do you go to buy your moon rocks? Denny's of course!
I believe there exist states that do not have state sales tax. [...]-
The state of Oregon has no sales tax (we have a high income tax and we have property tax, but no sales tax.)
On the other hand some areas of the country have county, city, and even regional sales taxes in addition to state sales taxes. This means that Amazon would not only need to know what state the customer is in, but also the city and county. This is one of the reasons you will occasionally come across a web site that asks for your county in addition to your mailing address. Figuring out the exact sales tax for a given address is a complicated algorithm and the rules surrounding it change frequently.
Does this mean you'll be able to hack someone's toaster, like in the movies?
No, but you will be able to make the lights overhead explode and emit showers of sparks at dramatic moments.
Excellent. Now instead of paying less then a dollar for a perfectly good incandescent light bulb, and instead of paying $50 for a light equivalent LED "bulb", I can now pay $55 for a light equivalent LED light with network connectivity. Sure over time the costs will go down, but I bet that adding the network connectivity will always cost more than the original incandescent bulb would have.
Yes, and this hybridized notation is responsible for the confusion around expressions like 6/2(1+2). Some people think the answer is 9, others say 1. If you bring to bear a fair amount of knowledge about precedence and associativity of the operators involved, you find the correct answer is 9.
It is clear that the operation in parenthesis occurs first so 6/2(1+2) becomes 6/2(3) or 6/2x3. The question then is do you multiply or divide first. The precedence I learned in school was multiply, divide, add, subtract (mnemonic "My Dear Aunt Sally") so that would be 6/6 or 1. If you had proper typesetting (ala TeX) this wouldn't be ambiguous, but since it is inline you can't really tell. I would argue that in this case operator precedence rules prevail.
Are there really any current updates still available for Ubuntu 4.10 users?
Yes, 5.04 through 10.10.
And has already been said, Microsoft offers updates as well, the current being Windows 7. The only difference is you have to pay for them, just like you had to pay for XP (assuming that you didn't steal it.)
And who declared Google the "decider" of what should top search listings?
Google did. It is their web site and their search. They can rank web pages any way they want to. No one forces anyone to use Google and Google is not an "official" part of the Internet.
There's no way outside of reviewing Bing's algorithm and logs how many real search results are "powered by Google".
Why not do the following: Set up a handful of web pages that have unique terms on them. Configure the web servers serving these pages to either ignore or provide slightly different content to the Bing search bots. Have the Google minions perform the same honeypot effort and spend lots of time searching and clicking on these pages. If a Bing search turns up with these pages or returns the Bing specific content as summary info, then it would be clear the Bing is cheating.
Not exactly. Regressive taxation has a negative economic effect independent of the politics.
Citation please.
Even if regressive taxation always has a negative economic effect, the issue of whether a negative economic effect is a good or bad thing is a matter of politics. All negative economic effects are not necessarily bad.
Many people hold the opinion that discouraging certain economic activities (drug trade and child pornography for example) is a good thing even though doing so has a "negative" economic effect.
Because the very wealth pay less than their share as a percentage of their income.
Depends on how you measure "fair share". There are (at least) three ways of defining your "share". Percentage you pay in taxes as compared to:
There are politically charged terms for these such as "progressive" and "regressive", but remember that "progressive" is not necessarily good and "regressive" is not necessarily bad. It is a matter of political opinion.
So if someone hacks the control systems can they pilot it away?
Just asking.
and not the updated version Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)?
For anonymous transactions. This puts that concept at risk.