You are correct. We should not need to give up our way of life because a subset of the population is hell bent on destroying it. The problem is the radicals are willing to take radical action to achieve their ends, but western society does not have the political stomach to take the actions needed to solve the issues. Make no mistake. These terrorist acts will only continue and with greater frequency.
You simply cannot have that many radicals in a population and expect nothing to happen. You must either.. A. Remove or restrict freedom of moment and Freedom in General B. Remove the factors which contribute to a person becoming radicalized C. Remove that portion of the population which is most likely to become radicalized. D. Ignore the issue and live with constant threat of terrorist attacks.
I know that in the west do not want to appear intolerant and to a large extent we must tolerate some things we do not personally agree with. But not things which are not compatible with western core beliefs. We are not at war with Radical Islam. Radical Islam is however at war with us. Unless we fight back, we are going to lose.
A lot of folks like to say this. I remember some years back as a renter. Time Warner was the incumbent provider in my area, but didnt offer service to our place as it was a new building. Finally, after what seemed like forever they offered "Broadband". A massive 15mbps for the low low price of 80$/month! Looking through the terms and conditions, where a lot of things we didnt like. Sure we could just not sign it and not have internet. How many people are going to say, OK, I'll just have no internet at all. You can't get by without it anymore.
Not sure I would agree with that. Comcast, when they choose to can offer very fast and reliable service. Even in the bay area there are loads of areas which do not have access to fiber or even competition. My employer has used Point to Point in the past and I can tell you... Never again. The real issue is the provider. They are greedy and they know they can get away with it. Your current system is designed to enable and encourage this behavior. Best of all, they have gamed the system so well that many people actually apologies for them. Businesses, after all, are people too!!
I mean seriously, this is par for the course. And you know what, you guys deserve it. Time and time again you elect officials who go out of their way to protect the incumbent ISPs and other special interests even though it is expressly against your own interests. And then everyone makes noise about it and then every does fuck all about it. So, what the hell do you think the end result will be? You have Comcast literally writing laws to outlaw competition for F's sake! Then in the next election cycle, the same asshats are voted back into office. I have no sympathy at all regarding the currently political landscape in the US.
See above. There are LiFi enabled office lighting systems powered by Ethernet cable. This was shown at the last THREAD meeting. And no, it is not only one way.
LiFi will not be interesting to almost all home consumers. And, there is no compelling reason it needs to be, given that the average home internet speed is WAY too slow to care about that sort of data rate. Most folks are also not running home media servers either.
No. What LiFi is really intended for is office space. There are a few new LiFi enabled industrial systems that can be powered by LAN cables. This means that the contractor need to only pull the LAN cable, which is far cheaper than running electrical lines. Not to mention, you don't even need a qualified electrician to do it.
So, once you have installed the LiFi lights over the work stations, you have light AND very high speed data. Better still is the built in security. At my company, we do have wireless, but it is fire-walled to our internal servers since we have a reasonable chance for industrial snooping. With LiFi we could have wireless within the confines of our office area and team meeting rooms with zero leakage and no chance for people in the next room to latch on to the signal. Then, when it's quitting time, turn off the lights and no more connection.
Hefty fine would probably hurt only VW employees anyway.
Are you joking? I can't tell. The "fine" and following lawsuits which are being proposed are actually enough to bankrupt the VAG. This does not ONLY impact VAG (VW Audi Group). There is a massive supply chain which goes into car production. There is a fare numbers of VWs made in the US, did you know that? Did you know that a great many companies in the US produce the electronics for VW and Audi? What about the dealers? Do they not employ people? VAG employees almost 600,000 people world wide. That is a LOT of lives which rely on VW for their well-being. Do all of those people deserve to suffer because the management cheated?
Also, what is the US government going to do with the money VW gives them? Buy more bombs to drop on brown people? Will that somehow help you? Why not have them spend the money on something which actually make the situation better in the long term?
That is a completely ridiculous comment. I think that you have no concept of how standards groups and certifications work. Without everyone complying to the same standard AND actually testing the products against said standards, the technology will never take off.
Take Bluetooth for example. In the early days, the BT SIG made folks test the physical layers of the device, but not the profiles. As such, the link layer was great, but using the products sucked. Then they started testing the profile stack as well and things got better. Now, through the use a free tool, (for members) you can test all the profiles you implement and behold...a working duhicky!
At the moment, there are several firms pushing their own platforms with respect to the IoT and none of these things interact with things from other companies. This is not good for consumers. In the end, it's also not good for companies.
Is that guy serious? Does he think that if he just starts calling petrol powered vehicles inconvenient that it becomes true?
As several others have pointed out, electric cars are massively inconvenient for those that drive a long commute and/or live in an apartment complex where no charging is possible.
There is simply no means of travel which is more convenient that petrol powered cars. I would love to have an electric car, but for where I live, it simply is out of the question given the massive limitations of today's battery and charging tech.
Actually, it does matter. You will find that often times the belt clip gives a higher power density measurement than direct contact, This is normally down to two factors. The wavelength of the band and the fact that most clips have a metal spring. This spring can have a coupling affect and change the radiation pattern of the phone.
Actually, there should not be any phones transmitting at 3 watts. The highest in the US is GSM in the 850 MHz band. That is 2 watts, or 33 dBm. Of course, nowadays most phones are using either UMTS or LTE.
So, in the same band, or any band for that matter will have a maximum output power of 24 dBm or 251 mW. Of course, by law you can transmit up to 7 Watts in some bands, but the networks do not allow for these high power class devices, so 24 dBm is the highest you will see as a consumer.
Wrong! You cannot "boost the radio" to get better reception. Reception is a function of the receiver and not one of output power. This is dictated by the gain of the antenna and receiver sensitivity. Depending on the band in use, that would be around -103 dBm TIS (Total Isotropic sensitivity).
Of course, this is an average in free space measured in a sphere. There will certainly be angles at which the performance is poor relative to the peak sensitivity.
Is SAR testing performed in body worn configuration using the belt clip? Sure it is. It is also done and various angles.
It is also tested against the head. It is also tested with a 1-5 mm separation distance. It is also tested with direct contact, and against the head, and extremities. SAR is tested in a lot of configurations. Belt clips are just one of them. Also, the author of the article clearly does not understand waveforms. Putting a phone in your pocket does NOT mean that your exposure is higher than when using a belt clip having an 8mm separation distance. In fact, it is very often the case that the slight separation yields a higher power density than direct contact. This is of course due to the wavelength of that particular frequency.
Nuclear isn't evil at all. Heavy water nuclear reactor are however, stupid. Totally stupid. There are several nuclear designs which produce a fraction of the waste, cannot melt down and are non-proliferation. I expect that last item is exactly why they are not used. We do not need more heavy reactor plants.
Have you ever used a Mac? They are famous for not giving two F's about compatibility from a previous version. Windows on the other hand has always been plagued by this hanging on to compatibility. So much so that there OS is huge. Much bigger than it needs to be.
While I agree that this time around they are all very, very slow, it is important for people to understand that in the US, the phone manufacturers cannot just "release" new software when ever they want. Nearly all carriers in the US are members PTCRB. When you update the software, you need to test and re-certify it. You need to update your SVN number as well. This takes time. Grants, not as long as it is taking. Unless of course, there are some fundamental issues which cause the protocol tests to fail.
Seriously, why is this guy's comment flamebait? Apple does this. They move billions of euros through Ireland to avoid paying any taxes. I find it curious that so many Slashdoters have no problem when a company uses all the advantages of society and yet refuses to contribute to keeping the society going. In this case, literally racking in billions upon billions in profit while barely contributing to the tax base.
Why do you think this is a good thing?
I work for a small company. We have only about 80 people. So, while we may not make as many jobs as Apple does we do pay our taxes. We also still have a profit.
Hey, you guys remember that time that the US government was so corrupt and greedy that they allowed the two worst companies in America to combine into one mega company and literally destroy the internet as we knew it? That was awesome.
Wow, that app must be exactly like Harry Potter's marauders map! Cops automatically appear on the map, no matter what. All cops too. Not just the ones reported by people in speed traps. I hope the terrorist don't get a hold of this!
And...is China tiny? The internet in China is way faster on average than in the US. And the just started!.
Americans seem to be unable to wrap their heads around this simple fact... Without a strong broadband service, your entire economy will be overtaken in time. You people do the same thing with education. All these stupid morons with no kids...derp derp, why should I have to pay taxes for education derp derp?? They never seem to understand that an uneducated country is a dead country. A country of mcdonalds workers.
Two words. Bull Shit. The reason is greed. Pure and simple. I travel to China all the time for work. Even remote places in China have faster internet than the US major cities. China, in case you didn't know it is also pretty damn large.
Where the hell in Germany are you living?? I am in Essen and paying 48€ with unitymedia. I literally didn't know it was possible to get that shitty of a connection here. At least in Essen, I am pretty sure you would need to special order such a crap connection.
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Muslim is not a race. It is a religion and ideology.
Races are not dangerous. Religion and ideology can be deadly.
You are correct. We should not need to give up our way of life because a subset of the population is hell bent on destroying it.
The problem is the radicals are willing to take radical action to achieve their ends, but western society does not have the political stomach to take the actions needed to solve the issues.
Make no mistake. These terrorist acts will only continue and with greater frequency.
You simply cannot have that many radicals in a population and expect nothing to happen.
You must either..
A. Remove or restrict freedom of moment and Freedom in General
B. Remove the factors which contribute to a person becoming radicalized
C. Remove that portion of the population which is most likely to become radicalized.
D. Ignore the issue and live with constant threat of terrorist attacks.
I know that in the west do not want to appear intolerant and to a large extent we must tolerate some things we do not personally agree with.
But not things which are not compatible with western core beliefs.
We are not at war with Radical Islam. Radical Islam is however at war with us. Unless we fight back, we are going to lose.
A lot of folks like to say this.
I remember some years back as a renter. Time Warner was the incumbent provider in my area, but didnt offer service to our place as it was a new building.
Finally, after what seemed like forever they offered "Broadband". A massive 15mbps for the low low price of 80$/month!
Looking through the terms and conditions, where a lot of things we didnt like. Sure we could just not sign it and not have internet. How many people are going to say, OK, I'll just have no internet at all. You can't get by without it anymore.
Not sure I would agree with that. Comcast, when they choose to can offer very fast and reliable service.
Even in the bay area there are loads of areas which do not have access to fiber or even competition.
My employer has used Point to Point in the past and I can tell you... Never again.
The real issue is the provider.
They are greedy and they know they can get away with it. Your current system is designed to enable and encourage this behavior.
Best of all, they have gamed the system so well that many people actually apologies for them. Businesses, after all, are people too!!
I mean seriously, this is par for the course. And you know what, you guys deserve it.
Time and time again you elect officials who go out of their way to protect the incumbent ISPs and other special interests even though it is expressly against your own interests. And then everyone makes noise about it and then every does fuck all about it.
So, what the hell do you think the end result will be? You have Comcast literally writing laws to outlaw competition for F's sake!
Then in the next election cycle, the same asshats are voted back into office. I have no sympathy at all regarding the currently political landscape in the US.
Did you even read anything about lifi?
http://purelifi.com/potential-...
not true at all.
http://purelifi.com/potential-...
See above. There are LiFi enabled office lighting systems powered by Ethernet cable. This was shown at the last THREAD meeting. And no, it is not only one way.
LiFi will not be interesting to almost all home consumers. And, there is no compelling reason it needs to be, given that the average home internet speed is WAY too slow to care about that sort of data rate. Most folks are also not running home media servers either.
No. What LiFi is really intended for is office space.
There are a few new LiFi enabled industrial systems that can be powered by LAN cables. This means that the contractor need to only pull the LAN cable, which is far cheaper than running electrical lines. Not to mention, you don't even need a qualified electrician to do it.
So, once you have installed the LiFi lights over the work stations, you have light AND very high speed data. Better still is the built in security.
At my company, we do have wireless, but it is fire-walled to our internal servers since we have a reasonable chance for industrial snooping. With LiFi we could have wireless within the confines of our office area and team meeting rooms with zero leakage and no chance for people in the next room to latch on to the signal.
Then, when it's quitting time, turn off the lights and no more connection.
Hefty fine would probably hurt only VW employees anyway.
Are you joking? I can't tell.
The "fine" and following lawsuits which are being proposed are actually enough to bankrupt the VAG. This does not ONLY impact VAG (VW Audi Group). There is a massive supply chain which goes into car production. There is a fare numbers of VWs made in the US, did you know that?
Did you know that a great many companies in the US produce the electronics for VW and Audi?
What about the dealers? Do they not employ people? VAG employees almost 600,000 people world wide. That is a LOT of lives which rely on VW for their well-being. Do all of those people deserve to suffer because the management cheated?
Also, what is the US government going to do with the money VW gives them? Buy more bombs to drop on brown people? Will that somehow help you?
Why not have them spend the money on something which actually make the situation better in the long term?
That is a completely ridiculous comment.
I think that you have no concept of how standards groups and certifications work.
Without everyone complying to the same standard AND actually testing the products against said standards, the technology will never take off.
Take Bluetooth for example. In the early days, the BT SIG made folks test the physical layers of the device, but not the profiles. As such, the link layer was great, but using the products sucked. Then they started testing the profile stack as well and things got better.
Now, through the use a free tool, (for members) you can test all the profiles you implement and behold...a working duhicky!
At the moment, there are several firms pushing their own platforms with respect to the IoT and none of these things interact with things from other companies.
This is not good for consumers. In the end, it's also not good for companies.
Is that guy serious?
Does he think that if he just starts calling petrol powered vehicles inconvenient that it becomes true?
As several others have pointed out, electric cars are massively inconvenient for those that drive a long commute and/or live in an apartment complex where no charging is possible.
There is simply no means of travel which is more convenient that petrol powered cars. I would love to have an electric car, but for where I live, it simply is out of the question given the massive limitations of today's battery and charging tech.
Actually, it does matter.
You will find that often times the belt clip gives a higher power density measurement than direct contact, This is normally down to two factors.
The wavelength of the band and the fact that most clips have a metal spring. This spring can have a coupling affect and change the radiation pattern of the phone.
Actually, there should not be any phones transmitting at 3 watts.
The highest in the US is GSM in the 850 MHz band. That is 2 watts, or 33 dBm.
Of course, nowadays most phones are using either UMTS or LTE.
So, in the same band, or any band for that matter will have a maximum output power of 24 dBm or 251 mW. Of course, by law you can transmit up to 7 Watts in some bands, but the networks do not allow for these high power class devices, so 24 dBm is the highest you will see as a consumer.
Wrong!
You cannot "boost the radio" to get better reception. Reception is a function of the receiver and not one of output power. This is dictated by the gain of the antenna and receiver sensitivity. Depending on the band in use, that would be around -103 dBm TIS (Total Isotropic sensitivity).
Of course, this is an average in free space measured in a sphere. There will certainly be angles at which the performance is poor relative to the peak sensitivity.
Seriously, this is utter nonsense.
Is SAR testing performed in body worn configuration using the belt clip? Sure it is. It is also done and various angles.
It is also tested against the head. It is also tested with a 1-5 mm separation distance. It is also tested with direct contact, and against the head, and extremities.
SAR is tested in a lot of configurations. Belt clips are just one of them.
Also, the author of the article clearly does not understand waveforms.
Putting a phone in your pocket does NOT mean that your exposure is higher than when using a belt clip having an 8mm separation distance. In fact, it is very often the case that the slight separation yields a higher power density than direct contact. This is of course due to the wavelength of that particular frequency.
Nuclear isn't evil at all. Heavy water nuclear reactor are however, stupid. Totally stupid.
There are several nuclear designs which produce a fraction of the waste, cannot melt down and are non-proliferation. I expect that last item is exactly why they are not used.
We do not need more heavy reactor plants.
Have you ever used a Mac?
They are famous for not giving two F's about compatibility from a previous version.
Windows on the other hand has always been plagued by this hanging on to compatibility. So much so that there OS is huge. Much bigger than it needs to be.
While I agree that this time around they are all very, very slow, it is important for people to understand that in the US, the phone manufacturers cannot just "release" new software when ever they want.
Nearly all carriers in the US are members PTCRB. When you update the software, you need to test and re-certify it. You need to update your SVN number as well.
This takes time.
Grants, not as long as it is taking. Unless of course, there are some fundamental issues which cause the protocol tests to fail.
Seriously, why is this guy's comment flamebait? Apple does this. They move billions of euros through Ireland to avoid paying any taxes.
I find it curious that so many Slashdoters have no problem when a company uses all the advantages of society and yet refuses to contribute to keeping the society going. In this case, literally racking in billions upon billions in profit while barely contributing to the tax base.
Why do you think this is a good thing?
I work for a small company. We have only about 80 people. So, while we may not make as many jobs as Apple does we do pay our taxes. We also still have a profit.
Hey, you guys remember that time that the US government was so corrupt and greedy that they allowed the two worst companies in America to combine into one mega company and literally destroy the internet as we knew it?
That was awesome.
Wow, that app must be exactly like Harry Potter's marauders map! Cops automatically appear on the map, no matter what. All cops too. Not just the ones reported by people in speed traps.
I hope the terrorist don't get a hold of this!
And...is China tiny?
The internet in China is way faster on average than in the US. And the just started!.
Americans seem to be unable to wrap their heads around this simple fact...
Without a strong broadband service, your entire economy will be overtaken in time. You people do the same thing with education. All these stupid morons with no kids...derp derp, why should I have to pay taxes for education derp derp?? They never seem to understand that an uneducated country is a dead country. A country of mcdonalds workers.
Two words.
Bull Shit.
The reason is greed. Pure and simple.
I travel to China all the time for work. Even remote places in China have faster internet than the US major cities. China, in case you didn't know it is also pretty damn large.
Where the hell in Germany are you living??
I am in Essen and paying 48€ with unitymedia.
I literally didn't know it was possible to get that shitty of a connection here. At least in Essen, I am pretty sure you would need to special order such a crap connection.