The US accounts for ~100 million smartphone sales, about the same as Western Europe IIRC
The problem is only about one percent of those sales are in the windows 7 ecosystem according to figures I've read.
Its like trying to release a new flavor of Nutella... Its mostly going to sell to current customers... so do you do that in Italy or Wyoming... I'm thinking... not the US.
And every time they get caught thruout history doing something horrifying its always the same "we're more ethical now and we'll never do that again" followed by, you guessed it, doing that again.
I will admit that this is almost certainly just a money grab, with a side effect of possibly accidental medical benefits, but...
Windows seems to have carved quite a niche in systems that are neither power or latency critical.
Sickeningly enough, windows is popular in the CNC machine tool environment, where latency is critical. Lots of crying about machine crashes, and a CNC machine crash means scrapped parts, damaged tools, and sometimes hurt operators. Personally I use EMC2 on linux to run my milling machine, its a heck of a lot easier and more reliable.
The whole point of my post was, at least for those purchases above, I am not in any way trying to keep them secret. Just don't care. If it can somehow be made optional, or there is some way I can tell if a purchase is about to be public, then 99% of the time I'm cool with that.
The/. assumption is its all gonna be hospital bills paid by Visa HIPPA violations and sex toy purchases. What if I don't really care about keeping a certain subset private, say "books" or "anything I bought at amazon.com"?
OK/. here is a list of stuff I purchased recently using a CC:
I ebayed a HP (made back when HP was "cool") WR-42 waveguide frequency meter for a ham radio 24 GHZ thing I'm working on (thats twenty four GHZ not two point four) I bought a quantity of tapioca maltodextrin to experiment with edible oil sands (tastier than it sounds). With the idea of making a sandy italian salad, if that makes any sense. I know its hydrophillic, I guess I'll find out if its deliquescent soon enough... Sitting on my desk unread is a Stephen Wolfram paperback of all his comp sci papers. Glance thru looks interesting. I enjoyed ANKOS. Hoping for a rainy, reading filled weekend filled with cellular automata. Or maybe next week, who knows. Nature Publishing Group had an "impact" sale where you can subscribe for the impact number of the journal rather than the list price. No way in Fing hell I'm paying $299 or whatever it is for Nature Physics paper journal. But I'll subscribe for $18 or whatever it was exactly. I suppose just the gasoline to drive to the library every month will pay for this... I'm not sure how they're even keeping up with postage costs at $18.
Does anyone, myself,/., or the NSA, really care about any of this or find any actionable info in this?
Rather than hiding behind the fact that they probably won't do that, why don't you put your money log where your mouth is and post a history of all your credit card purchases in response to this post? Include times and locations.
I'm not trying to get in the middle of your specific spat or privacy terror, but isn't there an extremely practical problem now that MC and Visa can be used to pay medical bills, vs HIPPA and all that?
I'm sure they can figure out which billers to filter out, but it does bring up the point that its not just a tinfoil hat thing but a possible HIPPA legal violation.
I guarantee this will become an extreme sport within a year. Either a special olympics event or perhaps horse jockeys. Or maybe full size physically healthy people doing some kind of ultra extreme surfing thing.
Would I run down a hill as fast as I can on my own two feet? No thats crazy, I would twist an ankle or a knee, maybe permanent damage... But if that were a robot ankle or robot knee, and I had enough dollars for sponsorship not to worry about it...
There are also military defense issues. If you could make them cheap enough to be disposable, any time you're pinned down on a hill you airdrop a thousand or so of them, and you have an excellent distractor for your escape. Heck put an anti-personnel charge in the decoys while you're at it.
The latest greatest new language always promises to allow either normal people to be programmers, or one programmer to do the work of ten.
With either of these, there's eventually no need for hack programmers knocking out business logic programs. Just a few OS level guys maintaining everything else.
I know for a fact that's been around since the earliest COBOL years, but does anyone know if that marketing spin was spinning during the unit record equipment era (essentially between the world wars) ? I've got a feeling if we do a binary search pattern we'll find this spin began right around the first vacuum tube IBM mainframes, just after the unit record gear and just before transistorized systems (right before the famous system/360)
If it takes 3 hours to do what it used to take 8 hours, they're not going to be happy with that same level of productivity; they're going to insist you stay for the other 8 hours,
surfing the web, talking sports with coworkers, taking smoke breaks, and sitting in pointless meetings?
I will say that the higher the technology level, the less "work" required and the more "panic". Broom pushers and fruit pickers work all shift. My current "real" job is either relax or panic nothing in between.
People have asked me if I'm afraid about open source ruining my software job.... I could give someone all the software they ask for one day and come back the next day only to have them asking me for more software.
Are we in the same boat? I think so.
I could summarize my (our?) experience as "for almost a decade and a half, at a couple places, I've used open source "stuff" to develop very closed source non-distributed complete vertical market systems for internal use only"
The real money is in complete systems development not software development. Can I personally make money writing yet another SNMP trap catcher or yet another relational database? Not really. Can I personally make money by putting the two together, along with some email and web based reporting, and lots of work configuring the SNMP senders, and a data warehouse-ish thingy and some other stuff, all using business intelligence and experience in my specific vertical market? Uh, yeah, fat stacks of cash, yeah.
I'm just not freaked out. My father's generation had guys who made money writing and selling assembly language compilers. Just move on up a bit. Maybe my kids, if I can't talk them out of a STEM field, will make cash psychoanalyzing misbehaving artificial intelligences, or beachcombing neural networks or whatever.
...is a new version of the Amish where they shun all technology developed after, say, 2010. That way I can keep my job as a software developer, but I don't have to learn any of these newfangled technologies.
That's called working for a giant corporation, where that new fangled "php" thing is considered new and cutting edge, Excel is the corporate database management system where table joins are done by hand by interns.
Relationship of time to creation / discovery. I can't discover the LCD display because someone else already did. America wasn't created in 1492... there were plenty of non European people who knew about it. Even discovered is a kind of weird phrase since plenty of people knew about it, both here and abroad.
It boils down to a past civilization / alien life form argument. Hard to imagine an even moderately advanced human or alien civilization that doesn't know about DeMorgan's theorem. Clearly only one ancient civilization / alien civilization gets credit for that first creation and its probably not gonna be DeMorgan. This probably applies for all math, or at least all math we've figured out so far...
Then again, our probably unusual abundance of indium which is/was kinda required for LCD panels means we Might literally be the creators of modern LCD panels in this universe. Probably not, but I think it possible.
A sliding scale, with purely theoretical stuff like math and old inventions on the far scale of discovered, and modern and weird ideas possibly being created here by us.
You'd think we've exhausted something simple like the search space of all six-bar mechanical linkages. Then Klann comes up with his walking linkage in just a couple years back in 1994. Or the new Delta linkage robot of the 1980s. Invented? Discovered? Created? Not clear.
I was amazed at the opposition to HPV for vaccines.
The odds of corruption and payoffs being involved approach 100%, as seen w/ governor Katie Perry of Texas and his little scandal.
There is a possibility, maybe even a good possibility, that there are accidentally medical benefits as a side effect of profits.
Then again, there is a long tradition of govts doing truly horrific and unethical things WRT medical care and especially STDs, always explained away each time as "we're more ethical now". I'm sure they are, I'm sure they are.
They were probably meaning that in light if the fact that ipv4 addresses are easily typed with only one hand on the numpad whereas ipv6 requires using shift and hitting colon.
And the letters a thru f, most of the time.
I suppose a standard for ipv6 addresses using octal digits and dash - as spacer could work, but it'll be hard to share with the 16 bit boundaries of "standard hex". I'm thinking the only way to make those people happy, is a standard like this:
http colon slash slash 11111110110101001010101... 128 bits of binary... 101010101000111/index.htm (gotta be a.htm extension for these types)
or SCTP, or TIPC, or RDS. There are lots of message-based protocols out there. Why use TCP if you don't want streams?
Industry standard for the past 20 years has been to try and run every freaking thing over TCP port 80, often thru a proxy and a NAT. Some scummy companies try to claim something that limited actually is "internet access". And everyone is loudly trying to bend over backwards to reimplement that in ipv6. Sometimes a bad idea just needs to get chopped but no one wants to admit it.
Everyone who uses it immediately creates some sort of scheme to divide the stream into messages.
If its small, stick it in a single UDP packet instead of TCP, if its just one message if you can standardize on one message per TCP session its easy, so if its big and multiple messages in a stream isn't that still just one line of perl? I know its more work with every other language, but...
You can find much worse problems with TCP/IP if you want.
The biggest problem with TCP was having to implement big windows on top of it a decade or two ago to handle long latency high bandwidth links. TCPv6 or whatever should be cleanly designed from the start with big, heck, giant, window pointers. So you can send email to Mars using off the shelf devices...
Also the socket space is an awkward middle ground with some complaining its way too small and some complaining its way too large. I suppose safest to go large... 32 bit socket space would be nice.
A designed-in-at-the-start standard header compression system would be nice.
As would an embedded public key crypto infrastructure inside the TCP system supporting multiple protocols. And multiple selection of hash checking protocols. Lets make setting a md5 hash at the BGP level obsolete?
Being a stream is pretty small potatoes as far as problems go.
If you don't want global addrs, don't use them. Use link local addrs inside and have everyone talk thru a proxy. Its Just Not A Big Deal.
If you don't want world wide access to your local printer, put it on a vlan thats not running radvd handing out global addrs...
Basically your "private" web browsing clients will get inet access via "squid" instead of "iptables nat". The industry has been moving toward "everything over port 80" anyway for a decade or two now.
Static DNS is dead/dying/soon no longer usable. Will that be a change? Yeah. So start changing now, so you're not trying to do dyndns and ipv6 at the same time. Dynamic for global and simple multicast DNS for internal. Yes multicast DNS is an unholy pain between VLANs, but it can be (carefully) done.
We "need" a way to actively repeatedly quickly renumber DNS because our ISP "needs" to shuffle their precious resource of tiny little/20's around to different POPs because there is an intense shortage of ipv4 space. So we can't roll out ipv6 until it supports the intense address churn required by ipv4. Err, wait a second, we don't need that administrative load of address renumbering with ipv6, thats kinda the whole point. Standard/. car analogy is we can't roll out automobiles because we are having a production problem at the horse harness factory and the customers have always needed horse harnesses with our coaches so lets not roll out "the car" until we have a guaranteed scalable horse harness factory, otherwise what would our customers use to harness their new cars?
At some point, randomly renumbering people in ipv6 is going to be considered red in the face screaming into the phone "contract breaking time" not just business as usual another day at the office ho hum. Maybe you should expect a faxed/emailed maint notification for ipv6 renumbering?
The tornado sirens and local EBS are tested Friday mornings at precisely 9:30 am. I'm sure no one wants to hear tornado sirens at 2am unless there is a real tornado.
Mostly EBS is used locally to as a weapon in custody disputes. One parent wants to get the other in trouble, so if there's a traffic jam or kids soccer game runs late or whatever, the ex-spouse decides to have some fun and call in a child abduction.
Humorously EBS is utterly useless, because the locals go into stormageddon mode whenever there's anything more than light rain, and the endless custody disputes make people ignore or mute all EBS.
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The US accounts for ~100 million smartphone sales, about the same as Western Europe IIRC
The problem is only about one percent of those sales are in the windows 7 ecosystem according to figures I've read.
Its like trying to release a new flavor of Nutella... Its mostly going to sell to current customers... so do you do that in Italy or Wyoming... I'm thinking... not the US.
And every time they get caught thruout history doing something horrifying its always the same "we're more ethical now and we'll never do that again" followed by, you guessed it, doing that again.
I will admit that this is almost certainly just a money grab, with a side effect of possibly accidental medical benefits, but...
Windows seems to have carved quite a niche in systems that are neither power or latency critical.
Sickeningly enough, windows is popular in the CNC machine tool environment, where latency is critical. Lots of crying about machine crashes, and a CNC machine crash means scrapped parts, damaged tools, and sometimes hurt operators. Personally I use EMC2 on linux to run my milling machine, its a heck of a lot easier and more reliable.
sure until some asshole decides to broadcast advocacy for terrorism from his ham radio
Obviously you've never listened to the idiots on 75 meters and 20 meter sideband
all of a sudden fit the description of a domestic terrorist due to information being available that would otherwise have required warrants to collect
Ham radio licenses are public record.
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAmateur.jsp
Also http://www.qrz.com/ and about a zillion other places.
Don't confuse government sharing, which is nearly total, and govt publicity which is also pretty wide open, with this new idea of advertiser sharing.
The whole point of my post was, at least for those purchases above, I am not in any way trying to keep them secret. Just don't care.
If it can somehow be made optional, or there is some way I can tell if a purchase is about to be public, then 99% of the time I'm cool with that.
The /. assumption is its all gonna be hospital bills paid by Visa HIPPA violations and sex toy purchases. What if I don't really care about keeping a certain subset private, say "books" or "anything I bought at amazon.com"?
OK /. here is a list of stuff I purchased recently using a CC:
I ebayed a HP (made back when HP was "cool") WR-42 waveguide frequency meter for a ham radio 24 GHZ thing I'm working on (thats twenty four GHZ not two point four)
I bought a quantity of tapioca maltodextrin to experiment with edible oil sands (tastier than it sounds). With the idea of making a sandy italian salad, if that makes any sense. I know its hydrophillic, I guess I'll find out if its deliquescent soon enough...
Sitting on my desk unread is a Stephen Wolfram paperback of all his comp sci papers. Glance thru looks interesting. I enjoyed ANKOS. Hoping for a rainy, reading filled weekend filled with cellular automata. Or maybe next week, who knows.
Nature Publishing Group had an "impact" sale where you can subscribe for the impact number of the journal rather than the list price. No way in Fing hell I'm paying $299 or whatever it is for Nature Physics paper journal. But I'll subscribe for $18 or whatever it was exactly. I suppose just the gasoline to drive to the library every month will pay for this... I'm not sure how they're even keeping up with postage costs at $18.
Does anyone, myself, /., or the NSA, really care about any of this or find any actionable info in this?
If I don't sign up to get blocked, but do use an ad blocker in firefox ... so I know that they know that I know they know, which means I don't care?
If they have private information that they can't use against me, then are they doing anything bad?
Its a lot simpler to post a link to your blippy profile
There are people who volunteer for this. Financial equivalent of exhibitionism, or conspicuous consumption carried out to its logical conclusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blippy
Rather than hiding behind the fact that they probably won't do that, why don't you put your money log where your mouth is and post a history of all your credit card purchases in response to this post? Include times and locations.
I'm not trying to get in the middle of your specific spat or privacy terror, but isn't there an extremely practical problem now that MC and Visa can be used to pay medical bills, vs HIPPA and all that?
I'm sure they can figure out which billers to filter out, but it does bring up the point that its not just a tinfoil hat thing but a possible HIPPA legal violation.
A real /.-er would use stardates. Negative integers if necessary, but stardates.
I guarantee this will become an extreme sport within a year. Either a special olympics event or perhaps horse jockeys. Or maybe full size physically healthy people doing some kind of ultra extreme surfing thing.
Would I run down a hill as fast as I can on my own two feet? No thats crazy, I would twist an ankle or a knee, maybe permanent damage... But if that were a robot ankle or robot knee, and I had enough dollars for sponsorship not to worry about it...
There are also military defense issues. If you could make them cheap enough to be disposable, any time you're pinned down on a hill you airdrop a thousand or so of them, and you have an excellent distractor for your escape. Heck put an anti-personnel charge in the decoys while you're at it.
CE stands for Common Era, which is the preferred notation now a days. And BCE for the years before that.
Its also the wrong notation. Excellent arguments at the link below by Wilson, Delaney, Panikkar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era#Opposition
The latest greatest new language always promises to allow either normal people to be programmers, or one programmer to do the work of ten.
With either of these, there's eventually no need for hack programmers knocking out business logic programs. Just a few OS level guys maintaining everything else.
I know for a fact that's been around since the earliest COBOL years, but does anyone know if that marketing spin was spinning during the unit record equipment era (essentially between the world wars) ? I've got a feeling if we do a binary search pattern we'll find this spin began right around the first vacuum tube IBM mainframes, just after the unit record gear and just before transistorized systems (right before the famous system/360)
If it takes 3 hours to do what it used to take 8 hours, they're not going to be happy with that same level of productivity; they're going to insist you stay for the other 8 hours,
surfing the web, talking sports with coworkers, taking smoke breaks, and sitting in pointless meetings?
I will say that the higher the technology level, the less "work" required and the more "panic". Broom pushers and fruit pickers work all shift. My current "real" job is either relax or panic nothing in between.
People have asked me if I'm afraid about open source ruining my software job.... I could give someone all the software they ask for one day and come back the next day only to have them asking me for more software.
Are we in the same boat? I think so.
I could summarize my (our?) experience as "for almost a decade and a half, at a couple places, I've used open source "stuff" to develop very closed source non-distributed complete vertical market systems for internal use only"
The real money is in complete systems development not software development. Can I personally make money writing yet another SNMP trap catcher or yet another relational database? Not really. Can I personally make money by putting the two together, along with some email and web based reporting, and lots of work configuring the SNMP senders, and a data warehouse-ish thingy and some other stuff, all using business intelligence and experience in my specific vertical market? Uh, yeah, fat stacks of cash, yeah.
I'm just not freaked out. My father's generation had guys who made money writing and selling assembly language compilers. Just move on up a bit. Maybe my kids, if I can't talk them out of a STEM field, will make cash psychoanalyzing misbehaving artificial intelligences, or beachcombing neural networks or whatever.
...is a new version of the Amish where they shun all technology developed after, say, 2010. That way I can keep my job as a software developer, but I don't have to learn any of these newfangled technologies.
That's called working for a giant corporation, where that new fangled "php" thing is considered new and cutting edge, Excel is the corporate database management system where table joins are done by hand by interns.
Back then it was expected that in the future the normal work day would shrink from 8 hours to something more like 3 hours as workers
began to spend most of their working day on facebook, ebay, pr0n sites, (unintentionally on) phishing sites, and /.
Relationship of time to creation / discovery. I can't discover the LCD display because someone else already did. America wasn't created in 1492... there were plenty of non European people who knew about it. Even discovered is a kind of weird phrase since plenty of people knew about it, both here and abroad.
It boils down to a past civilization / alien life form argument. Hard to imagine an even moderately advanced human or alien civilization that doesn't know about DeMorgan's theorem. Clearly only one ancient civilization / alien civilization gets credit for that first creation and its probably not gonna be DeMorgan. This probably applies for all math, or at least all math we've figured out so far...
Then again, our probably unusual abundance of indium which is/was kinda required for LCD panels means we Might literally be the creators of modern LCD panels in this universe. Probably not, but I think it possible.
A sliding scale, with purely theoretical stuff like math and old inventions on the far scale of discovered, and modern and weird ideas possibly being created here by us.
You'd think we've exhausted something simple like the search space of all six-bar mechanical linkages. Then Klann comes up with his walking linkage in just a couple years back in 1994. Or the new Delta linkage robot of the 1980s. Invented? Discovered? Created? Not clear.
I was amazed at the opposition to HPV for vaccines.
The odds of corruption and payoffs being involved approach 100%, as seen w/ governor Katie Perry of Texas and his little scandal.
There is a possibility, maybe even a good possibility, that there are accidentally medical benefits as a side effect of profits.
Then again, there is a long tradition of govts doing truly horrific and unethical things WRT medical care and especially STDs, always explained away each time as "we're more ethical now". I'm sure they are, I'm sure they are.
The problem with .here is there are so many "rfc1918 like dns names".
Off the top of my head some standard ones are ".localnet" (as in localhost.localnet) and .local as in mdns/bonjour
I don't think creating another tld is going to solve the problem of why people would not / will not use the previous "local" tlds.
They were probably meaning that in light if the fact that ipv4 addresses are easily typed with only one hand on the numpad whereas ipv6 requires using shift and hitting colon.
And the letters a thru f, most of the time.
I suppose a standard for ipv6 addresses using octal digits and dash - as spacer could work, but it'll be hard to share with the 16 bit boundaries of "standard hex". I'm thinking the only way to make those people happy, is a standard like this:
http colon slash slash 11111110110101001010101 ... 128 bits of binary ... 101010101000111/index.htm (gotta be a .htm extension for these types)
or SCTP, or TIPC, or RDS. There are lots of message-based protocols out there. Why use TCP if you don't want streams?
Industry standard for the past 20 years has been to try and run every freaking thing over TCP port 80, often thru a proxy and a NAT. Some scummy companies try to claim something that limited actually is "internet access". And everyone is loudly trying to bend over backwards to reimplement that in ipv6. Sometimes a bad idea just needs to get chopped but no one wants to admit it.
Everyone who uses it immediately creates some sort of scheme to divide the stream into messages.
If its small, stick it in a single UDP packet instead of TCP, if its just one message if you can standardize on one message per TCP session its easy, so if its big and multiple messages in a stream isn't that still just one line of perl? I know its more work with every other language, but...
You can find much worse problems with TCP/IP if you want.
The biggest problem with TCP was having to implement big windows on top of it a decade or two ago to handle long latency high bandwidth links. TCPv6 or whatever should be cleanly designed from the start with big, heck, giant, window pointers. So you can send email to Mars using off the shelf devices...
Also the socket space is an awkward middle ground with some complaining its way too small and some complaining its way too large. I suppose safest to go large... 32 bit socket space would be nice.
A designed-in-at-the-start standard header compression system would be nice.
As would an embedded public key crypto infrastructure inside the TCP system supporting multiple protocols. And multiple selection of hash checking protocols. Lets make setting a md5 hash at the BGP level obsolete?
Being a stream is pretty small potatoes as far as problems go.
If you don't want global addrs, don't use them. Use link local addrs inside and have everyone talk thru a proxy. Its Just Not A Big Deal.
If you don't want world wide access to your local printer, put it on a vlan thats not running radvd handing out global addrs...
Basically your "private" web browsing clients will get inet access via "squid" instead of "iptables nat". The industry has been moving toward "everything over port 80" anyway for a decade or two now.
Static DNS is dead/dying/soon no longer usable. Will that be a change? Yeah. So start changing now, so you're not trying to do dyndns and ipv6 at the same time. Dynamic for global and simple multicast DNS for internal. Yes multicast DNS is an unholy pain between VLANs, but it can be (carefully) done.
We "need" a way to actively repeatedly quickly renumber DNS because our ISP "needs" to shuffle their precious resource of tiny little /20's around to different POPs because there is an intense shortage of ipv4 space. So we can't roll out ipv6 until it supports the intense address churn required by ipv4. Err, wait a second, we don't need that administrative load of address renumbering with ipv6, thats kinda the whole point. Standard /. car analogy is we can't roll out automobiles because we are having a production problem at the horse harness factory and the customers have always needed horse harnesses with our coaches so lets not roll out "the car" until we have a guaranteed scalable horse harness factory, otherwise what would our customers use to harness their new cars?
At some point, randomly renumbering people in ipv6 is going to be considered red in the face screaming into the phone "contract breaking time" not just business as usual another day at the office ho hum. Maybe you should expect a faxed/emailed maint notification for ipv6 renumbering?
The tornado sirens and local EBS are tested Friday mornings at precisely 9:30 am.
I'm sure no one wants to hear tornado sirens at 2am unless there is a real tornado.
Mostly EBS is used locally to as a weapon in custody disputes. One parent wants to get the other in trouble, so if there's a traffic jam or kids soccer game runs late or whatever, the ex-spouse decides to have some fun and call in a child abduction.
Humorously EBS is utterly useless, because the locals go into stormageddon mode whenever there's anything more than light rain, and the endless custody disputes make people ignore or mute all EBS.