Want to use your over-the-air antenna? Enter special code from the internet. Why wouldn't they do it with cars too?
Well they do it with cars, when the feature is a service. Think Sirius Radio and GPS Maps and traffic updates. But physical parts of the car are a different thing. You take title to the car. You own it.
I don't think you can sell seat warmers as a service, unless it can't exist without an outside source.
Yes, stupid Idea. Since I own the car, I own everything in the car, including anything I have to hack to make it work.
I doubt there is legal precedent for this in the consumer market that would survive in court these days, unless they hung it on DMCA lockouts of some kind.
There is legal precedent in the computer industry:
My university owned a Control Data 3200 computer back in the day. They wanted to upgrade it to the next model up, which was a lot faster. They paid a huge price. The technician from CDC walked in, yanked 8 cards out of the back and restarted it. It was instantly faster.
The card were delay lines. Physical devices that slowed down data movement at key places. The Data Center director exploded on the spot! The University threatened legal action. CDC pointed to contract terms, and the University decided not to peruse it. Computer was replaces with IBM gear shortly there after.
I suppose it depends on your approach, and your local regulations.
Cable companies often put their connections in continuous (often brightly colored) conduit. However for a small subdivision you might be able to use armored fiber-optic cable.
Also depends on how much disruption the neighbors will tolerate. You pretty much end up trenching everybody's lawn, tunneling every driveway. Depending on subdivision layout it might be easier to do a back-yard trench. Less utilities to interrupt, less pavement to cut. Take down fence, trench through, put up fence again.
Your examples of a NATed interface may apply for large households, but I don't live in a large household, and even though I have multiple devices, they ALL still log into the same accounts at the same time. So whether I'm out and about on my Cell phone, (on my carrier's IP) or on a Linux machine in my house, its still the same set of multiple Gmail Accounts connecting in rapid succession.
Rather than obfuscating identities, if anything, there is more than enough information there to allow Google (or any one interested) to may your internal network.
What's more, I have a static IP, and most people on cable modems have essentially the same, just by virtue of the way DHCP servers work (always trying to issue the same IP to the same MAC address).
Still I like your point about NATed IPV6. Everyone seems to think IPv6 is going to solve all problems, but it also leaks way more information, and pushes some tasks directly through to the individual workstation that could better be handled centrally at the NAT. With IPv6 you may have to run a firewall on your refrigerator, and your TV.
Nothing comes close to Google maps. And don't even bother mentioning Open street maps. Just don't.
Let's face it, the EU is looking for a money grab, trying to extort Google back to an unworkable privacy model with every service having its own rules and its own sign up. Yet this is not what EU citizens want. Those that do have already closed their Google accounts and exported all their data (something no other service even offers). All 6 users that couldn't abide by googles integrated sign on have left.
Everyone else likes it and uses it to their advantage. The EU is working against the wishes and against the interests of its citizens.
Nope. I've often suspected we, the US tax payer indirectly purchased Skype to get it into cooperative hands. EBay couldn't handle the task. Microsoft played ball. They got Skype for free, a platform they didn't need, haven't a clue what to do with, and haven't improved. But they did add tracking of meta data by routing all directory services through their servers. And any call they are interested in, surprise, gets special routing, because Microsoft controls all the directory nodes.
Someday the Edward Snowden of Microsoft will step forward and we will all be wiser.
Yes, it sure would suck for EU tech companies to suddenly have a few hundred million customers with a well-defined and established need in a market where the incumbent dominant player has just decided to quit. I am sure that their bank managers would complain about them putting more into their accounts than they were expecting and their politicians would be very upset by all of that money flowing in their economies instead of going to the US.
Except the part where the EU has nothing waiting in the wings that comes anywhere near to the package Google offers. Lets face it, Google cutting off the EU would bring the continent to its knees for months and months.
Yandex couldn't possibly scale fast enough, and the EU threatening Yandex with silly fines could see great segments of the EU suddenly without enough gas to warm a teapot.
Google's privacy troubles all started when they consolidated them into ONE manageable control panel, rather than 10 or 12 individual policies that were unworkable.
I suffer from MPD (mutlipe personality disorder) and I want to know which of me is the real one and yes, I'm as serious as a heart attack folks yet Google has never been able to answer this question to my satisfaction.
Google is polite enough not to answer that question. Believe me they already know.
They simply don't want to become the arbiter of your internal problems.
But here's a good solution: Move to the EU, or even South America. MPD(DID) is largely a creation of the North American psychiatric professionals, and is openly scoffed at in other parts of the world. Even the majority of psychiatrists are beginning to doubt the whole thing.
Pretty soon people will correlate creditworthiness etc to the distribution of known friends and their credit scores.That algo will mark you as loner, possibly a loser.
90% of my online accounts are fake, even this one. I create new accounts with new names to preserve my privacy,
First, let me point out that anyone who has even one facebook account, let alone multiple, is probably staring at an empty barn and marveling at how clean it smells after all the horses have run away.
I too use multiple accounts, but not to preserve my privacy, simply my sanity. Gmail/Hotmail/Yandex are all smart enough to figure out that its all the same person. (Something about the fact that they come from the same IP addresses, I suppose)...
Its not a privacy issue, its a preserve my sanity issue. Last thing I need to do is have my brokerage accounts mixed in with my work accounts and my/. account. I don't really care that each of these companies know I'm the same dude.
But I never allow myself to believe I'm pulling any wool over anyone's eyes.
Yeah, I've seen the request for re-authorization pop up after expanding ram too. The first time, I groaned, because it meant a trip through the closet of despair looking for the original Cert Tag. And further, I go through this every time I increase the memory on one of my virtual windows machines.
But you know what? Nothing needed entering. It found everything by itself. It was literally a "click through." Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
* Stolen money from the accounts (you didnt use it before expiration) * Centralize the traffic (no more P2P) * Screwed client for Linux * Removed "Now Llstening to..." status...Go go Power Rangers, this year will be the year of Jabber on the desktop
Its not clear just what Microsoft did with the traffic. Their page still insists they are using P2P for traffic but a centralized directory. I don't know how much I believe that.
The centralized directory is probably forced on them for CALEA compliance, so that the NSA can track who calls who. The Business Case for Microsoft to buy Skype never made any sense at all, and especially not at the price they paid. I suspect the NSA paid the entire bill to get Skype into someone's hands that could impose a level of tracking on it that met their needs. They had to get it out of Ebay's hand, because they were incompetent. Microsoft was the only company willing to play ball, add the tracking, preserve an appearance of security and fake encryption, and in return for doing that, they get a platform for free, bought by government funds, washed through Microsoft's opaque accounting.
There still exist Skype clients for Linux, but I don't know a single self respecting knowledgeable Linux user who would put that crap on their machine.
But seriously, Now Listening to? Do you really think anyone cares what you are listening to? Once you get past your Narcissism, you'll get over scrobbling addiction.
Well the 3DS and 2DS are new enough that their sales figures probably aren't included in the quarter being reported, but their development costs probably are included.
Grandkids got these for Christmas, and I was amazed at how quickly they had found all the cool features of these gaming devices. Soon the gaming was secondary to all the other things they do. They are making movies on them, recording sound, distorting images, and putting snapshots of their friends into the games as characters.
Game play is but one aspect of these devices. You can pass some games and game tools to there players as you pass them on the street, (creepy) and if you visit some place those other friends have been (McDonalds for instance). Very Amazing little devices.
These are totally new devices with quite a bit more included besides simple game play.
It depends on who owns the underground infrastructure.
In many places who ever did the subdivision originally, deeded all of that underground wire or piping to the city, or to the home owners association (if there is one) or to who ever they contracted for putting tin the original DSL. (AT&T apparently). If those owners won't allow use of the in ground infrastructure for a new purpose, you have to build new parallel plumbing.
In that event, the cost of permitting, call before you dig, trenching, tunneling under driveways, etc can be so expensive they would never get payback, and the risk of destroying everything already in the ground is significant Everything from street lamp wiring, gardens, sprinkler systems, water pipes, etc.
I've seen it done, but there usually has to be a city wide project to get this to happen. Enough work to make it worth employing a professional crew and providing months of work.
You might have better luck getting all 22 homeowners to go on on a private conduit installation, with a bigger than needed conduit (or maybe just armored fiber) to each premises, all terminating at some common (and accessible) location. You'd have to pay for the trenching and materials, but it isn't that expensive, especially if you cover the liability aspects.
All it takes is one hold-out to prevent a complete plan.
Entirely possible, and its the leading alternate theory.
If that proves true, its firggin lucky the rover had moved away and then returned, because it would have been in the way, based on its position, the scuff position and the final resting place.
One of the linked articles suggests they have analized the make up of the rock and find it quite different from the surrounding rocks, so some weight is given to the theory that it maybe it bounced in from impact, maybe miles away.
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Want to use your over-the-air antenna? Enter special code from the internet. Why wouldn't they do it with cars too?
Well they do it with cars, when the feature is a service. Think Sirius Radio and GPS Maps and traffic updates.
But physical parts of the car are a different thing. You take title to the car. You own it.
I don't think you can sell seat warmers as a service, unless it can't exist without an outside source.
Yes, stupid Idea. Since I own the car, I own everything in the car, including anything I have to hack to make it work.
I doubt there is legal precedent for this in the consumer market that would survive in court these days, unless they hung
it on DMCA lockouts of some kind.
There is legal precedent in the computer industry:
My university owned a Control Data 3200 computer back in the day.
They wanted to upgrade it to the next model up, which was a lot faster. They paid a huge price.
The technician from CDC walked in, yanked 8 cards out of the back and restarted it. It was instantly faster.
The card were delay lines. Physical devices that slowed down data movement at key places.
The Data Center director exploded on the spot! The University threatened legal action.
CDC pointed to contract terms, and the University decided not to peruse it. Computer
was replaces with IBM gear shortly there after.
I suppose it depends on your approach, and your local regulations.
Cable companies often put their connections in continuous (often brightly colored) conduit.
However for a small subdivision you might be able to use armored fiber-optic cable.
Also depends on how much disruption the neighbors will tolerate. You pretty much end up trenching everybody's lawn,
tunneling every driveway. Depending on subdivision layout it might be easier to do a back-yard trench. Less utilities to
interrupt, less pavement to cut. Take down fence, trench through, put up fence again.
Your examples of a NATed interface may apply for large households, but I don't live in a large household, and even though I have multiple
devices, they ALL still log into the same accounts at the same time. So whether I'm out and about on my Cell phone, (on my carrier's IP) or on a Linux machine in my house, its still the same set of multiple Gmail Accounts connecting in rapid succession.
Rather than obfuscating identities, if anything, there is more than enough information there to allow Google (or any one interested) to may your internal network.
What's more, I have a static IP, and most people on cable modems have essentially the same, just by virtue of the way DHCP servers work (always trying to issue the same IP to the same MAC address).
Still I like your point about NATed IPV6. Everyone seems to think IPv6 is going to solve all problems, but it also leaks way more information, and pushes some tasks directly through to the individual workstation that could better be handled centrally at the NAT. With IPv6 you may have to run a firewall on your refrigerator, and your TV.
Nothing comes close to Google maps.
And don't even bother mentioning Open street maps. Just don't.
Let's face it, the EU is looking for a money grab, trying to extort Google back to an unworkable privacy model with every service having its own rules and its own sign up. Yet this is not what EU citizens want. Those that do have already closed their Google accounts and exported all their data (something no other service even offers). All 6 users that couldn't abide by googles integrated sign on have left.
Everyone else likes it and uses it to their advantage. The EU is working against the wishes and against the interests of its citizens.
Nope.
I've often suspected we, the US tax payer indirectly purchased Skype to get it into cooperative hands. EBay couldn't handle the task.
Microsoft played ball. They got Skype for free, a platform they didn't need, haven't a clue what to do with, and haven't improved.
But they did add tracking of meta data by routing all directory services through their servers.
And any call they are interested in, surprise, gets special routing, because Microsoft controls all the directory nodes.
Someday the Edward Snowden of Microsoft will step forward and we will all be wiser.
Yes, it sure would suck for EU tech companies to suddenly have a few hundred million customers with a well-defined and established need in a market where the incumbent dominant player has just decided to quit. I am sure that their bank managers would complain about them putting more into their accounts than they were expecting and their politicians would be very upset by all of that money flowing in their economies instead of going to the US.
Except the part where the EU has nothing waiting in the wings that comes anywhere near to the package Google offers.
Lets face it, Google cutting off the EU would bring the continent to its knees for months and months.
Yandex couldn't possibly scale fast enough, and the EU threatening Yandex with silly fines could see great segments of
the EU suddenly without enough gas to warm a teapot.
Google's privacy troubles all started when they consolidated them into ONE manageable control panel, rather than
10 or 12 individual policies that were unworkable.
How much does the EU want for free?
Still sucks over dedicated buttons.
Your hand are always in the way.
But the smartphone is a miserable gaming platform.
I suffer from MPD (mutlipe personality disorder) and I want to know which of me is the real one and yes, I'm as serious as a heart attack folks yet Google has never been able to answer this question to my satisfaction.
Google is polite enough not to answer that question. Believe me they already know.
They simply don't want to become the arbiter of your internal problems.
But here's a good solution: Move to the EU, or even South America. MPD(DID) is largely a creation of the North American psychiatric professionals, and is openly scoffed at in other parts of the world. Even the majority of psychiatrists are beginning to doubt the whole thing.
Pretty soon people will correlate creditworthiness etc to the distribution of known friends and their credit scores.That algo will mark you as loner, possibly a loser.
Too late. That ship has sailed.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/2...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
90% of my online accounts are fake, even this one. I create new accounts with new names to preserve my privacy,
First, let me point out that anyone who has even one facebook account, let alone multiple, is probably staring at an empty barn and marveling at how clean it smells after all the horses have run away.
I too use multiple accounts, but not to preserve my privacy, simply my sanity. Gmail/Hotmail/Yandex are all smart enough to figure out that its all the same person. (Something about the fact that they come from the same IP addresses, I suppose)...
Its not a privacy issue, its a preserve my sanity issue. Last thing I need to do is have my brokerage accounts mixed in with my work accounts and my /. account. I don't really care that each of these companies know I'm the same dude.
But I never allow myself to believe I'm pulling any wool over anyone's eyes.
Yeah, I've seen the request for re-authorization pop up after expanding ram too.
The first time, I groaned, because it meant a trip through the closet of despair looking for the original Cert Tag.
And further, I go through this every time I increase the memory on one of my virtual windows machines.
But you know what? Nothing needed entering. It found everything by itself. It was literally a "click through."
Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
* Stolen money from the accounts (you didnt use it before expiration) ...Go go Power Rangers, this year will be the year of Jabber on the desktop
* Centralize the traffic (no more P2P)
* Screwed client for Linux
* Removed "Now Llstening to..." status
Its not clear just what Microsoft did with the traffic.
Their page still insists they are using P2P for traffic but a centralized directory. I don't know how much I believe that.
The centralized directory is probably forced on them for CALEA compliance, so that the NSA can track who calls who.
The Business Case for Microsoft to buy Skype never made any sense at all, and especially not at the price they paid. I suspect the NSA paid the entire bill to get Skype into someone's hands that could impose a level of tracking on it that met their needs. They had to get it out of Ebay's hand, because they were incompetent. Microsoft was the only company willing to play ball, add the tracking, preserve an appearance of security and fake encryption, and in return for doing that, they get a platform for free, bought by government funds, washed through Microsoft's opaque accounting.
There still exist Skype clients for Linux, but I don't know a single self respecting knowledgeable Linux user who would put that crap on their machine.
But seriously, Now Listening to? Do you really think anyone cares what you are listening to?
Once you get past your Narcissism, you'll get over scrobbling addiction.
Well the 3DS and 2DS are new enough that their sales figures probably aren't included in the quarter being reported, but their development costs probably are included.
Grandkids got these for Christmas, and I was amazed at how quickly they had found all the cool features of these gaming devices. Soon the gaming was secondary to all the other things they do. They are making movies on them, recording sound, distorting images, and putting snapshots of their friends into the games as characters.
Game play is but one aspect of these devices. You can pass some games and game tools to there players as you pass them on the street, (creepy) and if you visit some place those other friends have been (McDonalds for instance). Very Amazing little devices.
These are totally new devices with quite a bit more included besides simple game play.
You forgot the Network optimization. Moving from essentially a 10meg nic to a gigabit with drivers in Vmware Tools.
Yeah, I've seen Stargate too.
It depends on who owns the underground infrastructure.
In many places who ever did the subdivision originally, deeded all of that underground wire or piping to the city, or to the home owners association (if there is one) or to who ever they contracted for putting tin the original DSL. (AT&T apparently). If those owners won't allow use of the in ground infrastructure for a new purpose, you have to build new parallel plumbing.
In that event, the cost of permitting, call before you dig, trenching, tunneling under driveways, etc can be so expensive they would never get payback, and the risk of destroying everything already in the ground is significant Everything from street lamp wiring, gardens, sprinkler systems, water pipes, etc.
I've seen it done, but there usually has to be a city wide project to get this to happen. Enough work to make it worth employing a professional crew and providing months of work.
You might have better luck getting all 22 homeowners to go on on a private conduit installation, with a bigger than needed conduit (or maybe just armored fiber) to each premises, all terminating at some common (and accessible) location. You'd have to pay for the trenching and materials, but it isn't that expensive, especially if you cover the liability aspects.
All it takes is one hold-out to prevent a complete plan.
I'm pretty sure they were talking about Conjugated linoleic acid. After all, that is the number one hit in google.
Probably not rocks of this size, but there is plenty of evidence that mars winds can move a lot of material.
http://redplanet.asu.edu/?p=24...
There are some hellatious dust storms on mars, some of nearly planet covering size.
Not to mention the Warp Drive, the least reliable propulsion system in history, and the nut job that compensated for that by adding a holo deck.
So you're going with Horta then?
"Dammit Jim, I'm a DOCTOR, not a stone mason!"
Entirely possible, and its the leading alternate theory.
If that proves true, its firggin lucky the rover had moved away and then returned, because it would have been in the way, based on its position, the scuff position and the final resting place.
Agreed. All reasonable assumptions.
One of the linked articles suggests they have analized the make up of the rock and find it quite different from the surrounding rocks, so some weight is given to the theory that it maybe it bounced in from impact, maybe miles away.
By the way, to get a better size perspective of the rock, check out this show from the front Hazcam:
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/f/3540/1F442454318EFFCAEOP1214L0M1.JPG
You can easily see that this object could have been tossed by the wheels when you see the size comparison to the wheels.