Everybody wants to self sign their stuff (for free) but due to browser warning boxes etc. the big Cert providers have a business. Could be a similar situation here where 'ID' providers get a reputation and you end up with a similar mix of a few big providers + the self-signed providers. Sadly, big ID providers could bribe email clients to include their brand as more trustworthy by default similar to Signed Certs.
I'm applying CONCEPTS from digital certificates/signing while trying to limit the downsides.
We ALREADY accept fake users from any email server; and blackhole server lists are next to dead today. Sure, this just makes user accounts get verified with a server-- which could be done with some sort of secure mechanism; although, using DNS (which would have to be better locked down, which is in the works already) it could point to account servers for verification. At this point, messing with SMTP more just doesn't seem like a great idea and OpenID is trying to create a new framework for problems like this.
Verification of the sender's address isn't something that has been done yet and would help combat spam greatly-- but to do so without compromising privacy. My own experiments with email servers shows massive drops in spam simply by DNS verification of the mail server alone. Grey lists stopped spam completely until spammers got wind of it.
Spam is fuzzy, server identity and email user identity don't have to be white/black listed they can also be RANKED 0-100 to give hints to the existing spam filters. Blackhole lists didn't work except for the worse offenders-- and a blacklisted server might put out largely legitimate email. Bad servers should be ranked-- by services, peers, or by user marked spam.
I'd like to see a peer ranking, open SSL signing model as well.
Integrate OpenID based signatures with email by inserting a line into the email header.
Not a new idea, its the same old 3rd party trust situation-- so clearly the trusted OpenID servers would be targeted; however, if you added a simplistic peer ranking system on those user IDs (extending openID a little) then the bad IDs would get ranked down by real people.
This would also provide a means for verification for multiple emails used by the same individual's OpenID which could shield their actual identity (but not any better privacy than you have already.)
Additional headers for point of origin server could also be useful as some servers are less trust worthy than others (note: spam ranking is fuzzy and a slight nudge either way near the threshold value can make a noticeable difference. ) Server identity issues are already being worked on; but emails are not tied securely to the original server.
I'd like to see a standard email header line for spam ranking (0-100?); I'm sick of these "{spam?}" lines inserted in subject lines that I see time to time.
An OpenID based solution would get OpenID heavily tested since spammers may solve the big AI problems as well as letting us know where to get Viagra.
The Constitution is a program written in a horrible programming language called "English" which is overly vague and interpretive. "English" was replaced 100s of years ago with a cryptic language called "Legalese" by the experts claiming it was easier for them to work in but many people think they just wanted it for job security.
The constitution is not about liberty, its about government structure and limitation; the 'bill of rights' and amendments are plug-ins and some of those deal with liberties but most of those also deal with government limitations. Ron Paul isn't as much for liberty as he is for strict constitutional observance (for example, Ron Paul is sometimes ok with limiting liberties within the confines of the constitution and the ACLU tends to put liberty 1st nearly all the time.)
I don't use yahoo for almost anything and haven't for many years.
#2 is not dead. Change is not the game; the shareholder game is about unsustainable growth at any cost. The traditional business model which used to be more common was about sustaining the business and long term growth and stability. Being #2 in search and not doing much else is just fine if they do not have to constantly INCREASE each quarter earnings and then get judged on the rate of increase as well...
Sometimes laws that have no chance of surviving the courts are supported as a form of pandering.
Nothing new in this case EXCEPT:
The Supreme court is corrupt and the republic has already fallen (making it just entertainment for the politically active.)
The population should be against it, so a move like this by Obama when he has a history of abstaining on this stuff is extremely interesting as to what really must be going on. We are not allowed to hear what he does; could be the CIA is feeding them more lies and Obama isn't wise enough (since he wasn't privy on the Iraq vote I never bought his line about always opposing the war.) OR certain powerful forces demand the passing of the bill and Obama serves or must kiss their ass.
No, I'm not a Hillary supporter. Hillary voted against it but I'm confident if she were in his shoes she would have voted for it FOR THE SAME CURIOUS REASONS.
Didn't you hear? BSD is dead--- it died decades ago way before it became the foundation of Mac OS X: the #1 unix distribution.
Yahoo is #2 and that doesn't mean they are dead. The market is doing poorly not just Yahoo; even if they are not making as much as they should be Yahoo is literally just an idea or two from improvement (and we all know Microsoft isn't the place for profitable ideas; their SEC filings show they are entirely dependent on their TWO overpriced monopoly product lines.)
Hydrogen fuel cells are almost as big a scam as ethanol was/is.
Hydrogen production will never be good and the best methods are the ones where most the energy was already invested -- the oil industry -- which is why Oil/gas love promoting H production. Its just the physics of the problem that would have to be turned on its head. (BTW, guess who produces most of the H today?)
EVERY power conversion comes with significant losses! Direct use with minimal transmission is the BEST way to go. Solar water heating makes FAR FAR more sense than chemical transmission and conversion, even if the waste is another fuel.
Natural Gas is cheap because its plentiful STORED energy but it is not sustainable (just like oil.)
Chemical Flow Batteries are the best battery tech we have and new-age fly wheels are possibly better; neither is portable. Super capacitors don't exist in scale (yet, and their power density to cost will likely always be lacking.)
Transmission likely will always have an edge over storage (and the required conversion) until somebody can make Energon cube.
Physics works! That is why it is called a SMART car. Even the metro work too. Sure, the car needed replacement but that is what insurance is for anyhow.
My brother pays more for his old truck not because his driving record is worse (its not) but because his truck will cost more in the damages it makes-- its his insurance that pays for the damage he makes with it. Even if somehow my insurgence was more because of the size/weight of my car I still save 5x the gas he does in his red-neck-mobile.
I was just remembering the stats repeated from 30 years ago up to when clinton removed the limits. One of the arguments often repeated during that span was safety. I admit I don't have numbers to back it up but I have not looked them up either.
You cite stats from after the cap was lifted. I see nothing on your link that indicates that driving faster lowered fatalities.
Its pretty simple to see its true, fast cars move further before stopping and more damage is done on faster impacts. Cars made to be safe at higher speed need more crumple zone etc. and the mass helps with stability at high speeds...
Non-profits in the USA since the last redefinition allow for 10% to go into the cause. I've known people who exploited this as a tax shelter.
Essentially they have created an investment firm that gets large write-offs by giving away 10%...
It shouldn't be a legal charity or get any tax benefits. If you want to invest 90% and be a charity you should include microloans as part of your cause and then that 90% becomes 100% charity work (as long as you can get an exception for microloans not being a normal investment.) Micro loans do far more to benefit the poor than many of the common alternatives.
I'm not saying that microloans are the end all solution and the free market religion is as blindly and foolishly followed as the other religions. It is however better than investing in EXON, DUPONT etc.
The smart car "bounces" off other cars with its intentionally rigid design so they other car gets more force of the impact because the smart car does not absorb any more than necessary.
Years ago we had a man die in a large truck down 1km from our house from a medium sized car. His massive truck didn't do a thing about the full speed car going thru a typical intersection! The SIDE of the toughest SUV can't save you from the sudden acceleration from a 60mph side impact (your brain actually sloshes in your head.) BTW, the driver had a crumple zone and only got a DWI.
FYI:
The human brain can handle more G forces forward or backward than from the side.
There were less fatal accidents when the speed limit was 55.
Turn-abouts are safer than intersections.
Injuries are much less if you are facing backwards (passengers, mass transit should take note of this... I mean the seats.)
Just like most universal statements, its implied the audience gets the point without taking it literally. It comes down to intent of the author really... and the level of false reasoning of the audience.
MOST people should realize that using up ZINC means that you are using up the ready supply of the stuff. I take this stuff assuming the obvious premises and view your objection as being argumentative. I thought the old "matter can not be created or destroyed" was common knowledge?
Yes, I probably give sheeple too much credit.
Cheap sources will be extinct; eventually all alternatives will be as well. The world will have to adapt to sustainable economic models eventually as raw materials go extinct.
Turning Pb into Au is cost prohibitive.
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The "market" is not going to produce perpetual motion.
PEX has been used outside the USA for decades before the USA developed wide spread acceptance for radiant heating (which also was around for decades before the USA woke up to it.)
Its made from one of the few plastics left nobody has found problems (polyethylene) which has been around a long time.
PEX doesn't get messed up by freezing like copper does-- you shouldn't be freezing any pipes; if you need to be able to heat frozen pipes then something is wrong with the design.
I've worked in both sectors and the idiocy is the same in both and each has strong and weak points to their system but its human nature that is at fault.
Government is usually the largest organization in a country and that creates problems just like scaling private organizations. I've seen that the big problem is not the two systems but the human flaws they are trying to work around in the first place.
Bigger the org the more bloat it can carry; and BOTH have plenty bloat.
A lot of the issues holding back government on things are systematic in nature for a GOOD reason: government is dangerously powerful (it even DEFINES the corps and the marketplace; including the black market.)
Drivers are a threat because they live within the kernel memory space. A strictly defined and enforced driver model would limit the extent bad or insecure drivers can run.
A "good" driver can contain exploits and many likely do (remember the wifi driver problem?)
Drivers cause a great deal of the crashes out there; even on windows machines.
There are "old" mainframes that had hardware support for memory protection beyond the simple kernel / user model. Yes, if you move towards a more fine grained micro-kernel like system you WILL run slower, but its the price you pay for stability and better security. Virtual Machines are going in a odd-ball path towards this and people do not seem to mind their servers wasting tons of resources with the extreme overhead a VM involves-- so why can't we start trying these "old slow" techniques (which are more efficient) and have an OS that WORKS so good we don't need work-around "solutions" like VMs (most people using VMs are using it as a work around.)
Its as if we are moving towards a microkernel which manages DRM and VMs-- and may evolve into the next gen BIOS.
My experience has been that educators have a HARD time LEARNING things themselves.
I grew up in a cutting edge school district with brand new apple ][+ and later ][e computers. The few faculty who "knew" how to use them were a joke. The kids were largely let loose on logo because the school didn't know how to do anything except 1 teacher could make new logo disks. The kids surpassed the adults in no time and not just in logo, but in general operation of the computers as well. THOSE old computers were technical and geeky and we managed.
Something that doesn't work like Windows for many users appears complex and difficult but it could in fact be easier while being outside their paradigm. I've seen people who claimed to "know" PCs get completely LOST by having a few toolbar buttons moved.
There are plenty of features that are disabled or outside of the GUI that ALREADY exist, if they simply present and fix those they will have a 'new' feature list.
Resolution independence has existed in various forms from the beginning. 10.4 let developers fool around with it. If look into the widget PDFs in the OS you can see that in 10.5 they have been working on it.
ZFS is not ready but 10.5 has it. Fix it and its a "new" feature.
Refinements without major code changes are sometimes billed as new features.
I WELCOME any change in industry that focuses on quality and maintenance over feature creep. If you do not like software subscriptions then you haven't realized 99.99% of the way things have been.
Cost Solution: Free Software.
Upgrade Solution: never upgrade, live with bugs, live without new features, buy computers that never change xor break.
There are good stats; however, the USA seems to run on bad stats.
Unemployment is a BOGUS stat and that was before Bush made the math worse so he would look better. Its highly likely that unemployment is near DOUBLE the official rate.
The USA stat is based on people collecting unemployment; which they only do for a short period of time, if they even collect it at all (+number games +bush's new rules.)
Inflation is NOT reported anymore its also HIGHER than the numbers on TV. Economic growth is poorly measured in ways that do not reflect the life of MOST citizens. A better measure is what % of income it takes to buy a basic new car - but that isn't saying much.
Seriously, measuring the median of inflation adjusted income growth would make sense for economic growth.
Tax "rebates" are NOT free money it is a loan on your taxes for next year. It is YOUR MONEY (unless you manage to make below a taxable income.) Talk to a tax expert, I did.
Two sheets of paper with a 1 inch air gap that is not open to outside circulation has an insulation value of R5.
They mention great tensile strength, not shear strength which is more important for drywall/wood. BTW, drywall is NOT strong without the paper covering which is in tension; therefore, this paper would benefit drywall - perhaps make drywall thinner and easier to handle? (how about something smarter like adding or replacing the plaster with a phase change material that can store some BTUs...)
The last mile's LAND is largely public except in foolish areas that gave up their public rights to their land. Anybody doing stuff on this land is subject to local regulation; the phone company always had to get permission and compromise with local governments over the PUBLIC land.
If you have a house, you know that the sidewalk edge of your property is not exclusively yours; this is in addition the land the roads are on. Those power/phone polls and lines are on the peoples' property. Without this common land, it would be impossible to run roads etc or at least prohibitively expensive.
Unfortunately, there are slow movements undermine the whole concept; you may have heard of the supreme court ruling allowing abuse of immanent domain for private corporations. Combined with plundering of public resources there is a progression towards a model where we the people will have NO power. At the moment we just don't effectively use the power we have.
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Everybody wants to self sign their stuff (for free) but due to browser warning boxes etc. the big Cert providers have a business. Could be a similar situation here where 'ID' providers get a reputation and you end up with a similar mix of a few big providers + the self-signed providers. Sadly, big ID providers could bribe email clients to include their brand as more trustworthy by default similar to Signed Certs.
I'm applying CONCEPTS from digital certificates/signing while trying to limit the downsides.
We ALREADY accept fake users from any email server; and blackhole server lists are next to dead today. Sure, this just makes user accounts get verified with a server-- which could be done with some sort of secure mechanism; although, using DNS (which would have to be better locked down, which is in the works already) it could point to account servers for verification. At this point, messing with SMTP more just doesn't seem like a great idea and OpenID is trying to create a new framework for problems like this.
Verification of the sender's address isn't something that has been done yet and would help combat spam greatly-- but to do so without compromising privacy. My own experiments with email servers shows massive drops in spam simply by DNS verification of the mail server alone. Grey lists stopped spam completely until spammers got wind of it.
Spam is fuzzy, server identity and email user identity don't have to be white/black listed they can also be RANKED 0-100 to give hints to the existing spam filters. Blackhole lists didn't work except for the worse offenders-- and a blacklisted server might put out largely legitimate email. Bad servers should be ranked-- by services, peers, or by user marked spam.
I'd like to see a peer ranking, open SSL signing model as well.
Integrate OpenID based signatures with email by inserting a line into the email header.
Not a new idea, its the same old 3rd party trust situation-- so clearly the trusted OpenID servers would be targeted; however, if you added a simplistic peer ranking system on those user IDs (extending openID a little) then the bad IDs would get ranked down by real people.
This would also provide a means for verification for multiple emails used by the same individual's OpenID which could shield their actual identity (but not any better privacy than you have already.)
Additional headers for point of origin server could also be useful as some servers are less trust worthy than others (note: spam ranking is fuzzy and a slight nudge either way near the threshold value can make a noticeable difference. ) Server identity issues are already being worked on; but emails are not tied securely to the original server.
I'd like to see a standard email header line for spam ranking (0-100?); I'm sick of these "{spam?}" lines inserted in subject lines that I see time to time.
An OpenID based solution would get OpenID heavily tested since spammers may solve the big AI problems as well as letting us know where to get Viagra.
The Constitution is a program written in a horrible programming language called "English" which is overly vague and interpretive. "English" was replaced 100s of years ago with a cryptic language called "Legalese" by the experts claiming it was easier for them to work in but many people think they just wanted it for job security.
The constitution is not about liberty, its about government structure and limitation; the 'bill of rights' and amendments are plug-ins and some of those deal with liberties but most of those also deal with government limitations.
Ron Paul isn't as much for liberty as he is for strict constitutional observance (for example, Ron Paul is sometimes ok with limiting liberties within the confines of the constitution and the ACLU tends to put liberty 1st nearly all the time.)
I don't use yahoo for almost anything and haven't for many years.
#2 is not dead. Change is not the game; the shareholder game is about unsustainable growth at any cost. The traditional business model which used to be more common was about sustaining the business and long term growth and stability. Being #2 in search and not doing much else is just fine if they do not have to constantly INCREASE each quarter earnings and then get judged on the rate of increase as well...
Sounds just like it to me; and I remember the crap Theo had to put up with for his keen observations.
Sometimes laws that have no chance of surviving the courts are supported as a form of pandering.
Nothing new in this case EXCEPT:
The Supreme court is corrupt and the republic has already fallen (making it just entertainment for the politically active.)
The population should be against it, so a move like this by Obama when he has a history of abstaining on this stuff is extremely interesting as to what really must be going on. We are not allowed to hear what he does; could be the CIA is feeding them more lies and Obama isn't wise enough (since he wasn't privy on the Iraq vote I never bought his line about always opposing the war.) OR certain powerful forces demand the passing of the bill and Obama serves or must kiss their ass.
No, I'm not a Hillary supporter. Hillary voted against it but I'm confident if she were in his shoes she would have voted for it FOR THE SAME CURIOUS REASONS.
Didn't you hear? BSD is dead--- it died decades ago way before it became the foundation of Mac OS X: the #1 unix distribution.
Yahoo is #2 and that doesn't mean they are dead. The market is doing poorly not just Yahoo; even if they are not making as much as they should be Yahoo is literally just an idea or two from improvement (and we all know Microsoft isn't the place for profitable ideas; their SEC filings show they are entirely dependent on their TWO overpriced monopoly product lines.)
Hydrogen fuel cells are almost as big a scam as ethanol was/is.
Hydrogen production will never be good and the best methods are the ones where most the energy was already invested -- the oil industry -- which is why Oil/gas love promoting H production. Its just the physics of the problem that would have to be turned on its head. (BTW, guess who produces most of the H today?)
EVERY power conversion comes with significant losses! Direct use with minimal transmission is the BEST way to go. Solar water heating makes FAR FAR more sense than chemical transmission and conversion, even if the waste is another fuel.
Natural Gas is cheap because its plentiful STORED energy but it is not sustainable (just like oil.)
Chemical Flow Batteries are the best battery tech we have and new-age fly wheels are possibly better; neither is portable. Super capacitors don't exist in scale (yet, and their power density to cost will likely always be lacking.)
Transmission likely will always have an edge over storage (and the required conversion) until somebody can make Energon cube.
Def: Yahoo = A rude, noisy, or violent person.
YahooSoft:
If you are not a rude, noisy, or violent computer user then you are not using our software!
or
If you had a monopoly you'd be a yahoo too!
How about Serfsoft? software for the masses.
It never been "micro" software.
Physics works!
That is why it is called a SMART car. Even the metro work too. Sure, the car needed replacement but that is what insurance is for anyhow.
My brother pays more for his old truck not because his driving record is worse (its not) but because his truck will cost more in the damages it makes-- its his insurance that pays for the damage he makes with it. Even if somehow my insurgence was more because of the size/weight of my car I still save 5x the gas he does in his red-neck-mobile.
I was just remembering the stats repeated from 30 years ago up to when clinton removed the limits. One of the arguments often repeated during that span was safety. I admit I don't have numbers to back it up but I have not looked them up either.
You cite stats from after the cap was lifted. I see nothing on your link that indicates that driving faster lowered fatalities.
Its pretty simple to see its true, fast cars move further before stopping and more damage is done on faster impacts. Cars made to be safe at higher speed need more crumple zone etc. and the mass helps with stability at high speeds...
Non-profits in the USA since the last redefinition allow for 10% to go into the cause. I've known people who exploited this as a tax shelter.
Essentially they have created an investment firm that gets large write-offs by giving away 10%...
It shouldn't be a legal charity or get any tax benefits. If you want to invest 90% and be a charity you should include microloans as part of your cause and then that 90% becomes 100% charity work (as long as you can get an exception for microloans not being a normal investment.) Micro loans do far more to benefit the poor than many of the common alternatives.
I'm not saying that microloans are the end all solution and the free market religion is as blindly and foolishly followed as the other religions. It is however better than investing in EXON, DUPONT etc.
The smart car "bounces" off other cars with its intentionally rigid design so they other car gets more force of the impact because the smart car does not absorb any more than necessary.
Years ago we had a man die in a large truck down 1km from our house from a medium sized car. His massive truck didn't do a thing about the full speed car going thru a typical intersection! The SIDE of the toughest SUV can't save you from the sudden acceleration from a 60mph side impact (your brain actually sloshes in your head.) BTW, the driver had a crumple zone and only got a DWI.
FYI:
The human brain can handle more G forces forward or backward than from the side.
There were less fatal accidents when the speed limit was 55.
Turn-abouts are safer than intersections.
Injuries are much less if you are facing backwards (passengers, mass transit should take note of this... I mean the seats.)
Just like most universal statements, its implied the audience gets the point without taking it literally. It comes down to intent of the author really... and the level of false reasoning of the audience.
MOST people should realize that using up ZINC means that you are using up the ready supply of the stuff. I take this stuff assuming the obvious premises and view your objection as being argumentative. I thought the old "matter can not be created or destroyed" was common knowledge?
Yes, I probably give sheeple too much credit.
Cheap sources will be extinct; eventually all alternatives will be as well. The world will have to adapt to sustainable economic models eventually as raw materials go extinct.
Turning Pb into Au is cost prohibitive.
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The "market" is not going to produce perpetual motion.
COST IS THE #1 PROBLEM.
The economy of the world is built around low costs from exploiting natural conditions not the future man-made situation.
Metals are not used in pure form that often!!
Take an easy element like COPPER:
1) Collect and clean (Copper pipe,etc)
2) Embedded removal (wire or circuit boards,etc) + step 1
3) Copper plating (pennies,etc) + #1 + #2
4) Metal alloys (brass,etc) + #1 + #2
5) Chemicals + #1 + #2
(hundreds of chemicals) X (hundreds of collection situations)
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The "market" is not going to produce perpetual motion.
PEX has been used outside the USA for decades before the USA developed wide spread acceptance for radiant heating (which also was around for decades before the USA woke up to it.)
Its made from one of the few plastics left nobody has found problems (polyethylene) which has been around a long time.
PEX doesn't get messed up by freezing like copper does-- you shouldn't be freezing any pipes; if you need to be able to heat frozen pipes then something is wrong with the design.
I've worked in both sectors and the idiocy is the same in both and each has strong and weak points to their system but its human nature that is at fault.
Government is usually the largest organization in a country and that creates problems just like scaling private organizations. I've seen that the big problem is not the two systems but the human flaws they are trying to work around in the first place.
Bigger the org the more bloat it can carry; and BOTH have plenty bloat.
A lot of the issues holding back government on things are systematic in nature for a GOOD reason: government is dangerously powerful (it even DEFINES the corps and the marketplace; including the black market.)
Drivers are a threat because they live within the kernel memory space. A strictly defined and enforced driver model would limit the extent bad or insecure drivers can run.
A "good" driver can contain exploits and many likely do (remember the wifi driver problem?)
Drivers cause a great deal of the crashes out there; even on windows machines.
There are "old" mainframes that had hardware support for memory protection beyond the simple kernel / user model. Yes, if you move towards a more fine grained micro-kernel like system you WILL run slower, but its the price you pay for stability and better security. Virtual Machines are going in a odd-ball path towards this and people do not seem to mind their servers wasting tons of resources with the extreme overhead a VM involves-- so why can't we start trying these "old slow" techniques (which are more efficient) and have an OS that WORKS so good we don't need work-around "solutions" like VMs (most people using VMs are using it as a work around.)
Its as if we are moving towards a microkernel which manages DRM and VMs-- and may evolve into the next gen BIOS.
10.5.3 and it does not plug the hole.
My experience has been that educators have a HARD time LEARNING things themselves.
I grew up in a cutting edge school district with brand new apple ][+ and later ][e computers. The few faculty who "knew" how to use them were a joke. The kids were largely let loose on logo because the school didn't know how to do anything except 1 teacher could make new logo disks. The kids surpassed the adults in no time and not just in logo, but in general operation of the computers as well. THOSE old computers were technical and geeky and we managed.
Something that doesn't work like Windows for many users appears complex and difficult but it could in fact be easier while being outside their paradigm. I've seen people who claimed to "know" PCs get completely LOST by having a few toolbar buttons moved.
There are plenty of features that are disabled or outside of the GUI that ALREADY exist, if they simply present and fix those they will have a 'new' feature list.
Resolution independence has existed in various forms from the beginning. 10.4 let developers fool around with it. If look into the widget PDFs in the OS you can see that in 10.5 they have been working on it.
ZFS is not ready but 10.5 has it. Fix it and its a "new" feature.
Refinements without major code changes are sometimes billed as new features.
I WELCOME any change in industry that focuses on quality and maintenance over feature creep. If you do not like software subscriptions then you haven't realized 99.99% of the way things have been.
Cost Solution: Free Software.
Upgrade Solution: never upgrade, live with bugs, live without new features, buy computers that never change xor break.
Software maintenance is the largest expense.
There are good stats; however, the USA seems to run on bad stats.
Unemployment is a BOGUS stat and that was before Bush made the math worse so he would look better. Its highly likely that unemployment is near DOUBLE the official rate.
The USA stat is based on people collecting unemployment; which they only do for a short period of time, if they even collect it at all (+number games +bush's new rules.)
Inflation is NOT reported anymore its also HIGHER than the numbers on TV. Economic growth is poorly measured in ways that do not reflect the life of MOST citizens. A better measure is what % of income it takes to buy a basic new car - but that isn't saying much.
Seriously, measuring the median of inflation adjusted income growth would make sense for economic growth.
Tax "rebates" are NOT free money it is a loan on your taxes for next year. It is YOUR MONEY (unless you manage to make below a taxable income.) Talk to a tax expert, I did.
They get the rebate money back from you.
Two sheets of paper with a 1 inch air gap that is not open to outside circulation has an insulation value of R5.
They mention great tensile strength, not shear strength which is more important for drywall/wood. BTW, drywall is NOT strong without the paper covering which is in tension; therefore, this paper would benefit drywall - perhaps make drywall thinner and easier to handle? (how about something smarter like adding or replacing the plaster with a phase change material that can store some BTUs...)
The last mile's LAND is largely public except in foolish areas that gave up their public rights to their land. Anybody doing stuff on this land is subject to local regulation; the phone company always had to get permission and compromise with local governments over the PUBLIC land.
If you have a house, you know that the sidewalk edge of your property is not exclusively yours; this is in addition the land the roads are on. Those power/phone polls and lines are on the peoples' property. Without this common land, it would be impossible to run roads etc or at least prohibitively expensive.
Unfortunately, there are slow movements undermine the whole concept; you may have heard of the supreme court ruling allowing abuse of immanent domain for private corporations. Combined with plundering of public resources there is a progression towards a model where we the people will have NO power. At the moment we just don't effectively use the power we have.