This. Isn't there no limit to the number of times steel can be recycled? Also, chassis shouldn't be replaced that often, no? Why are we wasting effort on the longest lasting, most sustainable portion of the computer?
Exactly. The one part that can be used over and over again (due to hard won standardization) is now likely to succumb to the first sprinkler system accident.
Meanwhile the mother boards and add-in cards need nasty and toxic methods of resource recovery, usually carried out in place that have no environmental controls.
Why not come up with a mother board substrate that you simple heat at moderate temperatures to leave a flow of of recoverable molten substrate, with components and circuitry left sitting like a ship in dry-dock?
Biodegradability is not all that desirable. Ease of recycling is. These people conflate the two, perhaps due to their "throw it away and get a new one" upbringing.
It was probably up and running all of 47 seconds before the obligatory Frist Post arrived.
NASA points out the distinction between this network and the internet:
From NASA: "The core of the DTN suite is the Bundle Protocol (BP), which is roughly equivalent to the Internet Protocol (IP) that serves as the core of the Internet on Earth. While IP assumes a continuous end-to-end data path exists between the user and a remote space system, DTN accounts for disconnections and errors. In DTN, data move through the network "hop-by-hop." While waiting for the next link to become connected, bundles are temporarily stored and then forwarded to the next node when the link becomes available.
It seems they are paying attention to security, planning for compromised networks, and non-trusted segments, and it is designed to include a number of applications including: sensor networks, mobile devices, use of data mules, military communications which involve stressed disconnected and disrupted networks, along with space-based store-and-forward networks.
That store and forward bit is key, and would be very nice to have here on Earth, if one could find a way to bolt it onto the existing internet. Currently the closest we have is Email and Cellular Text Messages for this type of stuff. Having been cut off from a remote server due to storm damage with only intermittent contact, I can see where it would be nice to have such capability. (To say nothing about political turmoil where governments try to shut down the net.)
If I'm going to go with one big evil super corporation with ties to government agencies and concerns about privacy and yadda yadda, I might as well use the one I've used for years that is between free and super cheap and way less bloated -- Google Voice.
Google Voice is a internet based Answering Machine. It does not support Video.
Google Talk is a slightly proprietary Jabber (XMPP) client that includes Voice and Video streams on some devices.
How is it a problem, again? Something bad happened, it got fixed right quick. I fail to see how it's a call to arms for anything. or anybody. If idiots keep broadcasting bad routes, then other networks will be more rigorous about their filtering. This doesn't need a committee.
Something bad happened, it got fixed right quick. This Time.
What about next time, when the whole mess is run by the UN?
If idiots are currently accepting bad routes from idiots that broadcast them, then it surely does need fixing. Why would you rely on bottom-up security?
In my opinion, HTC has dramatically fallen out of favor among the enthusiast community due to heavy lockdown and closed source drivers. This is in fact the reason I have sworn off ever buying another HTC phone again. That might be spilling over to the regular consumers.
In my case it has, because I've recommended to everybody that I have talked to android about to stay away from HTC.
But you are talking about one one hundredth of one percent of the Android user base. In relative terms, that issue matters to nobody. The vast majority of android users never give that a second thought.
Further, you place the blame on the wrong party. Blame the carriers.
I went through the same evaluation and looked at the fact that i had never even once swapped batteries in any phone I've ever owned.
I found a $50 external battery pack that can recharge the phone four times on a single 5 hour recharge. Then i found the phone gets 18 hours of run time on a single charge, so the number of times I would actually need the battery pack were vanishingly small.
So I dismissed all the swappable battery posers, bought the HTC One X, and it is the best phone I've ever seen. Battery swapping is seldom necessary, and when you do need more power an external battery pack make way more sense. It has a lot of other uses.
HTC is on lean times because it doesn't have the marketing clout of Samsung. Not because their phones are inferior.
Component failures in a fail over designed world are no big deal. So what if your $80 cpu halts 6 additional times per cpu year? Toss that puppy in the scrap bin and slap in a new one. Commodity components used in massively parallel installations have different economics than the million dollar central processors used in the 80s.
Tree huggers telling an IT manager it's OK for his servers to burn up so save a baby seal.
Well, Google has already started running their data center much warmer than many data centers of the past, apparently with no ill effect.
It has nothing to do with hugging trees, simply hard nosed economics. If 5 degrees induces 3 more mother board failures in X number of months and you already have the fail-over problem handled it only takes a few seconds on a hand held calculator to figure out that trees have nothing to do with it.
The rules were written, as the article explaines, based on little if any real world data, designed for equipment that no longer exists, built with technology long since obsolete. It was probably never justified, and even if it was back in thr 70s and 80s, it isn't any more.
Google and Amazon and others have carefully measured real world data talen from bazillions of machines in hundreds of data centers. They know how to do the math.
When you consider how fast the switch to x.org from xfree86 took place in three Linux world, any clearly superior x-like implementation with fully compatible APIs and without unacceptable license encumbrances could be adopted in very short order. If the functionality requires every program and every library to be reworked, then it will probably never happen.
Not having ANY real Wayland knowledge, I can only hope it is not another change in Linux for change's sake.
If You had the sim deactivated, the phone can still be usable by simply putting in a new sim, and perhaps jail breaking the phone. The phone still has value. When IMEI numbers of stolen phones are universally banned, stolen phones have no value. See the difference?
IMEI blacklists are widely used in Europe. The problem is that, at least in Norway, few people actually bother to have the IMEI blacklisted if the phone is stolen.
In the US the vast majority of phones are purchased thru carriers. They already have your IMEI on file.
The FCC has finally gotten the four big carriers to start blocking IMEI numbers of stolen phones. You simply go back to your carrier and tell them you need a new phone because your old one was stolen. They will automatically add the stolen phone to t a nation wide database of stolen phones. It takes no effort on the users part.
While new IMEIs can be programmed into stolen handsets, the thieves don't have the skills to do this, (if they did they would be in a safer more profitable line of work). They just use the stolen phone till it dies and then steal a new one. I suppose some thieves work for rings exporting their wares to foreign countries.
The only reason we would go to Mars before we can live there is if we found life.
Or to seed life.
Just sayin... Sooner or later, even if we find primitive life, we should start thinking about what can be done with the planet, even if it takes 1000 years to get something to live there.
You've hit on probably the last desperate justification for a paid peer reviewed journal: Weeding out the web of wackos.
If the Universities at least made sure that the research was in fact done at their university by real honest to god faculty or research staff, and THEN posted the papers on their.EDU domain, you might have a running chance of separating Dr. Joe Krakpot from some real scientist.
But since anyone can put up a web server, muddying the waters with a lot of crap science is going to be an increasing problem, taking hours just to weed the chaff of charlatans from serious science.
In the long run, copyrights on scientific research are going to either die or become irrelevant, that's why. That is all that the middle of the road approach has going for it.
If all these pay walls do is provide funding to keep the pay wall afloat, then yes there is no point to them.
On the other hand: Does Dr. Joe Researcher make any money selling papers? Do the institutions that employ Dr. Joe? Does any of the money flow back to the source of funding?
There's a basic rule in English of "i before e except after c"; so if you're going to get things wrong, I'll accept accidentally writing "ie" instead of "ei" on loanwords, but the other way around like this is just fucked up.
Excellent pedantry sir, thank you for the education. Knowing you is just like going to college.
But this "loadwords" idea is a bit of a stretch. English is eclectic, and it borrows nothing, and steals everything. You may have thought these words were on loan from the German, but, like that moldering library book, you took out when you were in highschool, they are not going to be returned.
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Having been cut off from a remote server due to storm damage with only intermittent contact, I can see where it would be nice to have such capability.
So that when you do get connectivity back you spend the next 24 hours getting all the backlogged spam that got dropped?
Since email is already Store and Forward, I fail to see your point here. You are going to get that anyway.
This. Isn't there no limit to the number of times steel can be recycled? Also, chassis shouldn't be replaced that often, no? Why are we wasting effort on the longest lasting, most sustainable portion of the computer?
Exactly. The one part that can be used over and over again (due to hard won standardization) is now likely to succumb to the first sprinkler system accident.
Meanwhile the mother boards and add-in cards need nasty and toxic methods of resource recovery, usually carried out in place that have no environmental controls.
Why not come up with a mother board substrate that you simple heat at moderate temperatures to leave a flow of of recoverable molten substrate, with components and circuitry left sitting like a ship in dry-dock?
Biodegradability is not all that desirable. Ease of recycling is. These people conflate the two, perhaps due to their "throw it away and get a new one" upbringing.
It was probably up and running all of 47 seconds before the obligatory Frist Post arrived.
NASA points out the distinction between this network and the internet:
From NASA: "The core of the DTN suite is the Bundle Protocol (BP), which is roughly equivalent to the Internet Protocol (IP) that serves as the core of the Internet on Earth. While IP assumes a continuous end-to-end data path exists between the user and a remote space system, DTN accounts for disconnections and errors. In DTN, data move through the network "hop-by-hop." While waiting for the next link to become connected, bundles are temporarily stored and then forwarded to the next node when the link becomes available.
It seems they are paying attention to security, planning for compromised networks, and non-trusted segments, and it is designed to include
a number of applications including: sensor networks, mobile devices, use of data mules, military communications which involve stressed disconnected and disrupted networks, along with space-based store-and-forward networks.
That store and forward bit is key, and would be very nice to have here on Earth, if one could find a way to bolt it onto the existing internet. Currently the closest we have is Email and Cellular Text Messages for this type of stuff. Having been cut off from a remote server due to storm damage with only intermittent contact, I can see where it would be nice to have such capability. (To say nothing about political turmoil where governments try to shut down the net.)
The court judgement of 700,000 is less than 1/20th of the hourly intake of AT&T.
They had revenue of 126,723,000,000 in 2011.
The number of customers affected by this is also very small in relation to their regular customers.
So this was a nothing issue, and still is. They have no need to write off any of this, they spend more on advertising every day of the week.
If I'm going to go with one big evil super corporation with ties to government agencies and concerns about privacy and yadda yadda, I might as well use the one I've used for years that is between free and super cheap and way less bloated -- Google Voice.
Google Voice is a internet based Answering Machine. It does not support Video.
Google Talk is a slightly proprietary Jabber (XMPP) client that includes Voice and Video streams on some devices.
Neither is exactly like Skype.
How is it a problem, again? Something bad happened, it got fixed right quick. I fail to see how it's a call to arms for anything. or anybody. If idiots keep broadcasting bad routes, then other networks will be more rigorous about their filtering. This doesn't need a committee.
Something bad happened, it got fixed right quick. This Time.
What about next time, when the whole mess is run by the UN?
If idiots are currently accepting bad routes from idiots that broadcast them, then it surely does need fixing.
Why would you rely on bottom-up security?
You don't need a battery pull to force a reboot.
In my opinion, HTC has dramatically fallen out of favor among the enthusiast community due to heavy lockdown and closed source drivers. This is in fact the reason I have sworn off ever buying another HTC phone again. That might be spilling over to the regular consumers.
In my case it has, because I've recommended to everybody that I have talked to android about to stay away from HTC.
But you are talking about one one hundredth of one percent of the Android user base.
In relative terms, that issue matters to nobody. The vast majority of android users never give that a second thought.
Further, you place the blame on the wrong party. Blame the carriers.
I went through the same evaluation and looked at the fact that i had never even once swapped batteries in any phone I've ever owned.
I found a $50 external battery pack that can recharge the phone four times on a single 5 hour recharge. Then i found the phone gets 18 hours of run time on a single charge, so the number of times I would actually need the battery pack were vanishingly small.
So I dismissed all the swappable battery posers, bought the HTC One X, and it is the best phone I've ever seen.
Battery swapping is seldom necessary, and when you do need more power an external battery pack make way more sense. It has a lot of other uses.
HTC is on lean times because it doesn't have the marketing clout of Samsung. Not because their phones are inferior.
Component failures in a fail over designed world are no big deal. So what if your $80 cpu halts 6 additional times per cpu year? Toss that puppy in the scrap bin and slap in a new one. Commodity components used in massively parallel installations have different economics than the million dollar central processors used in the 80s.
Tree huggers telling an IT manager it's OK for his servers to burn up so save a baby seal.
Well, Google has already started running their data center much warmer than many data centers of the past, apparently with no ill effect.
It has nothing to do with hugging trees, simply hard nosed economics. If 5 degrees induces 3 more mother board failures in X number of months and you already have the fail-over problem handled it only takes a few seconds on a hand held calculator to figure out that trees have nothing to do with it.
The rules were written, as the article explaines, based on little if any real world data, designed for equipment that no longer exists, built with technology long since obsolete. It was probably never justified, and even if it was back in thr 70s and 80s, it isn't any more.
Google and Amazon and others have carefully measured real world data talen from bazillions of machines in hundreds of data centers. They know how to do the math.
When you consider how fast the switch to x.org from xfree86 took place in three Linux world, any clearly superior x-like implementation with fully compatible APIs and without unacceptable license encumbrances could be adopted in very short order. If the functionality requires every program and every library to be reworked, then it will probably never happen.
Not having ANY real Wayland knowledge, I can only hope it is not another change in Linux for change's sake.
CDMA phones have an equivalent id, called a MEID.
If You had the sim deactivated, the phone can still be usable by simply putting in a new sim, and perhaps jail breaking the phone. The phone still has value.
When IMEI numbers of stolen phones are universally banned, stolen phones have no value.
See the difference?
IMEI blacklists are widely used in Europe. The problem is that, at least in Norway, few people actually bother to have the IMEI blacklisted if the phone is stolen.
In the US the vast majority of phones are purchased thru carriers. They already have your IMEI on file.
The FCC has finally gotten the four big carriers to start blocking IMEI numbers of stolen phones. You simply go back to your carrier and tell them you need a new phone because your old one was stolen. They will automatically add the stolen phone to t a nation wide database of stolen phones. It takes no effort on the users part.
While new IMEIs can be programmed into stolen handsets, the thieves don't have the skills to do this, (if they did they would be in a safer more profitable line of work). They just use the stolen phone till it dies and then steal a new one. I suppose some thieves work for rings exporting their wares to foreign countries.
Why does it have to have 3g or edge?
All that is needed is photo evidence, not real time monitoring.
Try this: http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=1325725
$5000? come on, why give the trash dumpers something to steal?
200 bucks is affordable, and hide-able, and silent and uses Infra Red flash.
You can strap it to a tree, and no one would notice.
I find it odd that the best solution is mentioned right in the question.
The only reason we would go to Mars before we can live there is if we found life.
Or to seed life.
Just sayin...
Sooner or later, even if we find primitive life, we should start thinking about what can be done with the planet, even if it takes 1000 years to
get something to live there.
Exactly.
You've hit on probably the last desperate justification for a paid peer reviewed journal: Weeding out the web of wackos.
If the Universities at least made sure that the research was in fact done at their university by real honest to god faculty or research staff, and THEN posted the papers on their .EDU domain, you might have a running chance of separating Dr. Joe Krakpot from some real scientist.
But since anyone can put up a web server, muddying the waters with a lot of crap science is going to be an increasing problem, taking hours just to weed the chaff of charlatans from serious science.
The journals do NOT pay for peer review.
I was just going to ask that.
Wouldn't you have to be peer reviewed just to get into the journals?
Do peer reviewers ever get paid? And if so by who? Wouldn't paying for a review taint the review?
In the long run, copyrights on scientific research are going to either die or become irrelevant, that's why. That is all that the middle of the road approach has going for it.
If all these pay walls do is provide funding to keep the pay wall afloat, then yes there is no point to them.
On the other hand:
Does Dr. Joe Researcher make any money selling papers? Do the institutions that employ Dr. Joe?
Does any of the money flow back to the source of funding?
There's a basic rule in English of "i before e except after c"; so if you're going to get things wrong, I'll accept accidentally writing "ie" instead of "ei" on loanwords, but the other way around like this is just fucked up.
Excellent pedantry sir, thank you for the education. Knowing you is just like going to college.
But this "loadwords" idea is a bit of a stretch. English is eclectic, and it borrows nothing, and steals everything.
You may have thought these words were on loan from the German, but, like that moldering library book, you took out when you were in highschool, they are not going to be returned.
Sounds to me like you slept thru economics 101.
Continue your education here:
http://www.datarecoverylabs.com/government-can-seize-your-laptop.html
I can't believe you are still ignorant of this issue. Its been featured in Slash Dot or years.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/14/0312257/challenge-to-us-government-over-seized-laptops
http://slashdot.org/story/06/10/24/2028215/laptops-searched-and-confiscated-at-us-border
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/1628233/appeals-court-affirms-warrantless-computer-searches
Pulse encoded serial numbers might also help.