Is the cost of those experiments passed on to customers? Overhead? Do the customers get discounts for the dual purpose mission? Would they want discounts but didn't think to ask because they weren't even aware?
How is the risk / insurance handled? It the added experiments' components caused a failure, who's insurance pays for it? Is the cost of that insurance passed on to customers?
The money their taxpayers save can be spent locally creating the same amount (measured in dollars) of jobs that it would have if the money makes a round trip through the federal government along the way.
It's not a matter of making the technology disappear.
It's about using appropriate technologies to keep sensitive data private.
I would hope that every foreign business in the world is now researching encrypted email, VPNs, etc for their corporate communication just to protect their industrial secrets and corporate IP.
And I would hope that US companies now assume that China and Russia are doing similar spying to the NSA -- and therefore are also researching encrypted email, VPNs, etc.
Once such companies do that (and they will - because money), the appropriate technogies will become widespread enough that reasonably encrypted email will trickle down to consumer tools like gmail/hotmal/etc.
And that's what'll re-enstate privacy for the common person.
people will connect to any open public access point and do all sorts of unencrypted business on it. Just name it "free wifi" or something
Somewhat surprisingly, they didn't (to the best of my knowledge).
That's exactly what I did, covering a reaonsably busy intersection in SF. Maybe back then people were more careful what they did online - but all I ever noticed was light casual use like bring up maps of the area.
For a better analogy, instead of Ham Radio -- consider that this "using unencrypted wifi == wiretapping" logic makes it really hard to run an open WiFi hotspot.
Back when in lived in SF, I provided free wifi to the coffee shop at the end of my block just for fun. QOS routing meant it didn't interfere with my traffic, and the only thing protecting it was a "please don't abuse this" welcome page.
Now people would be afraid to connect to it, on the grounds that even seeing if an access point welcomes the public could be seen as wiretapping.
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Perl 6...
Anyone else miss Perl 3 & 4?
Personally, I think Perl jumped the shark at Perl5.
As a better awk/sed/bash, I think I've never seen a tool as good as Perl4. But then Larry decided it had to one-up C++ in some sort of "what's the worst possible way to glom on some confusing fake-OO-wrapper around a language that's main strenght was being not-OO" contest.
The main feature improvment I'd like to see on MDM would be to suck less power when it's idle.
Seems in a previous version it was constantly pounding on the CPU when idle.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/vi...
My suspicion is MS, likewise, must get into the hardware business & become vertical.
Suspicion?
That's been pretty obvious for a while.
There's even a word in the tech community coined from how Microsoft resorts to competing with its hardware partners: http://gigaom.com/2006/07/22/z... "Microsoft Partners, You Been Zunked".
This should of been done 50 years ago.
Various California water districts have been doing it for quite some time:
http://www.acwd.org/index.aspx...
Just not on large scales.
Had a job that had conference rooms set up with hammocks in some rooms and couches in others so you could work from different posiitions.
Seems healthier than just the focus on sitting or standing.
I've done this on Twitter (signed up, thought it crap, forgot my password, never returned(as that same account)) at least a dozen times.
Same with Facebook. I have one throwaway facebook account for just about every damn application or website that makes me "log in / sign up using facebook" - and in each case I promptly forget my username and password and never log in again.
I imagine that's more typical than those companies care to admit.
Sure there are a couple F/OSS groups that paid the pretty significant cost to get a certificate. But not that many, especially when it comes to networking products.
Why all the focus on some archaic form of communication that's more a historical curiosity a few old people cling to than a relevant tool?
I guess politicians are such old people?
It'd be more interesting if they proposed a law to end bulk collection of Internet traffic.
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middle manager
I imagine it's hardest on the accountants.
etc.
With Surface, it seems Microsoft is a bigger threat to Lenovo than Dell, HP, IBM, etc.
With that in mind, I can't imagine why they'd support any Windows platforms.
They supplied the wires for some of that data, didn't they?
Lots of states will lose jobs?
They don't even lose jobs.
The money their taxpayers save can be spent locally creating the same amount (measured in dollars) of jobs that it would have if the money makes a round trip through the federal government along the way.
the ones that are great
Their mice and keyboards are.
Somethings I think they missed their calling and should have focused on that strength.
make the technology disappear
It's not a matter of making the technology disappear.
It's about using appropriate technologies to keep sensitive data private.
I would hope that every foreign business in the world is now researching encrypted email, VPNs, etc for their corporate communication just to protect their industrial secrets and corporate IP.
And I would hope that US companies now assume that China and Russia are doing similar spying to the NSA -- and therefore are also researching encrypted email, VPNs, etc.
Once such companies do that (and they will - because money), the appropriate technogies will become widespread enough that reasonably encrypted email will trickle down to consumer tools like gmail/hotmal/etc.
And that's what'll re-enstate privacy for the common person.
Gen. Keith Alexander denied that Snowden could have passed FISA content to journalists
Does that mean that Alexander's kinda a witness to Snowden's innocence in this leak?
If it goes to trial, a NSA director saying it couldn't have been Snowden who leaked this stuff is probably a pretty good alibi.
people will connect to any open public access point and do all sorts of unencrypted business on it. Just name it "free wifi" or something
Somewhat surprisingly, they didn't (to the best of my knowledge).
That's exactly what I did, covering a reaonsably busy intersection in SF. Maybe back then people were more careful what they did online - but all I ever noticed was light casual use like bring up maps of the area.
I think that'll be my answer for the OS too -- Ubuntu+Wine is probably closer to Windows 7 than Windows 8+ are.
Back when in lived in SF, I provided free wifi to the coffee shop at the end of my block just for fun. QOS routing meant it didn't interfere with my traffic, and the only thing protecting it was a "please don't abuse this" welcome page.
Now people would be afraid to connect to it, on the grounds that even seeing if an access point welcomes the public could be seen as wiretapping.
Perl 6 ...
Anyone else miss Perl 3 & 4?
Personally, I think Perl jumped the shark at Perl5.
As a better awk/sed/bash, I think I've never seen a tool as good as Perl4. But then Larry decided it had to one-up C++ in some sort of "what's the worst possible way to glom on some confusing fake-OO-wrapper around a language that's main strenght was being not-OO" contest.
The main feature improvment I'd like to see on MDM would be to suck less power when it's idle. Seems in a previous version it was constantly pounding on the CPU when idle. http://forums.linuxmint.com/vi...
Nokia would not have been able to ensure that the phones accept only applications approved by the company.
Sounds more like a feature than a bug. Do device "owners" really want phones that "accept only applications approved by the company".
My suspicion is MS, likewise, must get into the hardware business & become vertical.
Suspicion?
That's been pretty obvious for a while.
There's even a word in the tech community coined from how Microsoft resorts to competing with its hardware partners: http://gigaom.com/2006/07/22/z... "Microsoft Partners, You Been Zunked".
For handheld devices, they've been doing since at least 2003: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... .
And Surface is obviously a sign that Microsoft sees laptop vendors like HP and Dell as their direct competitors now.
and not sold to Coke.
Wouldn't education be even better if Coke subsidized it and passed the savings on to me?
Wonder if the OpenSSL guys have a good consulting business maintaining exactly those ports for ancient government projects.
Why carry your power source around at all?
Public transportation in many cities use overhead power lines. Just make that standard and cars can be much lighter==much more efficient.
Sure - but if you call them asking for technical support, they're likely to not be too helpful.
You know that without a traceable currency tax dollars cease to exist right?
That's obviously nonsense.
Tax collectors were around long before traceable currencies were.
This should of been done 50 years ago. Various California water districts have been doing it for quite some time: http://www.acwd.org/index.aspx... Just not on large scales.
Had a job that had conference rooms set up with hammocks in some rooms and couches in others so you could work from different posiitions. Seems healthier than just the focus on sitting or standing.
Same with Facebook. I have one throwaway facebook account for just about every damn application or website that makes me "log in / sign up using facebook" - and in each case I promptly forget my username and password and never log in again.
I imagine that's more typical than those companies care to admit.
Wine on Mint probably is compatible with more XP software than WIn8 is anyway.
why anybody anywhere would ever invest in proprietary crypto software.
People forced by their customers to buy off of this list (i.e. people who sell to the federal government):
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST...
Sure there are a couple F/OSS groups that paid the pretty significant cost to get a certificate. But not that many, especially when it comes to networking products.
Why all the focus on some archaic form of communication that's more a historical curiosity a few old people cling to than a relevant tool? I guess politicians are such old people? It'd be more interesting if they proposed a law to end bulk collection of Internet traffic.