I thought that in 2008 until McCain picked Palin and I saw (as in I knew personally) die-in-the-wool conservatives actually announce they were supporting Obama this time.
McCains VP choice was simply misunderstood. The role of the vice president is to be a spare. McCains young but clueless choice made sense if the VP was viewed as spare parts.
Romney comes across as a moderately competent political moderate
From his venture-capital experience he's had practice at seeking out what profits him while avoiding risk. So when he knows that revealing his tax returns or saying more about owning 9% of a Chinese electronics appliance manufacturer that many U.S. companies outsource to, he knows to clam up. (That is also a lesson some learned from Richard Nixon, whose approval rating went down every time he spoke publicly). McCain had full access to Romney tax returns and went with Palin instead. That says something. Romney also heavily panders or at least pays momentary lip service to whatever group he's targeting at a particular moment. It's not moderate to be unwilling to publicly support any restrictions on assault weapons, it's pandering. He comments and actions later often don't agree. Ask any log-cabin Republican about that. Saying whatever profits or otherwise suits him, he cannot be trusted. His non-scripted comments in the EU down he's not very good on his feet. Unless you're impressed with him not even remembering a British officials name and calling him Mr. Leader. While he promised transparency and press access including to fund raisers on the way, but he denied them access in Israel. Policy comments made relating to Iran were reckless. Describing the differences in quality of life between Israelis and Palestinians as "cultural advantages" with no mention of settlements or occupation could best be viewed as Palinism.
He only answered three questions for the press traveling with him, and a Romney representative actually said "Kiss my ass" and "shove it" to the press while in Poland.
And, in catering to older confused Republicans that think the cold war is still going, he names Russia as number 1 geopolitical foe. This as Russia grants NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. (A bunch of supply trucks coming from Pakistan were blown up recently).
I wonder what he thinks of the Swedish Teddy Bear invasion.
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It's not Windows hatred per se, although that certainly is a healthy attitude. It's just that everytime a Microsoft-related article pops up, a brand new user starts blindly praising whatever Microsoft's been doing this time around. It's getting old, Microsoft.
Do they realize that shilling actually fosters more hatred of them? I wonder where they outsource the shills from.
I thought we all agreed that a desktop OS was a terrible idea on a tablet. OSX doesn't even have the touch amenities that Windows 7 does.
I'm not talking a commercial product, just a hack that would be interesting to see. Certainly the desktop OSes won't scale down to smartphones well. But I suspect that whatever experiments Steve passed over in the labs would still be interesting, and probably more fun/functional than what the other guys will ship. Access to OS X apps on something that wouldn't get used otherwise would be a fun twist. Apple has done quite a bit with multi-touch. They could likely apply it in new places, maybe toggling it on for sections of the screen or a flat KB.
Look at history to predict the future. Back in the late 80s and most of the 90s each computer OEM had their own take on what a computer should look like till we entered the beige box era. History will repeat itself again.
This is nothing like the early PC era. There are very few OSes. No one seems to be lean and considering small market share viable. Where are the small startups or other NEW players? If products were sufficiently differentiated with significant useful new added or alternative functionality, new entrants could fetch high enough prices to be viable. With most products attempting a me-too of Apple functionality or appearance, they're doomed to fetch lower prices if they can't quite reach the same bar.
If many do manage to come up with the tablet counterpart of beige-boxes, there won't be much profits in them. It'd just be the netbook situation revisited.
Competing with many players to make a low-margin commodity product is risky. If someone else innovates, you're hurting. If you're outsourcing and a disaster hits your supplier, good luck.
300 million people in 7 states of northern India were without power over a solar storm that barely registers on the radar. (M-class flares with the background near C level). Some should enjoy auroras tonight, but not as intense as earlier this month. I can't believe that no one connected the X flare and CME with the sudden melt in Greenland. At least our lights stayed on. China got some nasty flooding though.
Could a wedding help? Whatever happened to the ancient idea of a princess from one country marrying a price from another and then all the conflicts or religious differences being set aside? (the modern movie version might have two princes, but whatever works?)
Best to stay away from those sections of religious texts where people do bad things to non-believers, and even their animals. Someone wrote about the section of the bible the other day, but got the spelling wrong "Dude Iran N' Me"
A while back Bill Moyers had a guest on with a different insightful perspective on evolution of religious beliefs and some things done bridging differing cultures. He has a book. He compares some behavior using gaming theory (zero sum acts versus not)
I'm hoping for gas price shocks high enough to halt importation for a while.. or perhaps China could start invading neighboring countries. Talk about excitement!
If you look at South America and other places around the world, you'll see that China has some large operations extracting resources. There's some conflict over them cutting exports of rare-earths / metals needed for many high tech products, and some territorial conflicts as well. Japan, China, Vietnam and others are finding island / ocean areas with precious resources suddenly very important. And even though there has been a great deal of isolation of North Korea, they're talking with the South over mining those important materials. Watch news from foreign outlets (streamed, on some public stations, on free-to-air satellite, and on some paid satellite/cable)
Through two corporations he owns, Mitt Romney owns about 9% of a major Chinese electronics manufacturer that many former US appliance manufacturers outsource from. If you've bought a Mr. Coffee coffee maker, he's made money on it IN CHINA. So it's not just profiting from labor cuts in the U.S., but having a stake in profits from where the work went as well. (This is from BEFORE the period when his people claim he left and wasn't in control his corporations even with 100% of the stock)
The recent successful efforts to keep the U.S. auto industry healthy were important not just for the direct employment, but all of that at the many related suppliers. But in the electronics industry, just try setting up an operating manufacturing something. Even if you have a high-enough margins to handle U.S. labor costs, or robotics to trim those, good luck finding many components made in the U.S. to use. Even Japan, which has had multiple electronics companies merge into single entities for such things as RAM production, has seen dangerously high loses that aren't sustainable for long.
Some new reports are claiming that the wealth held in offshore banks and corporations such as those operating out of the Cayman islands adds up to the total GNP of the U.S. and Japan combined . If the extremely wealthy in the U.S. can't pay at Reagan era tax levels, they could at least invest in developing in U.S. production instead of profiting from its demise.
We've lost most component manufacturing ability, it's not surprising to see the same thing happening to tooling. Search for something on Ebay and see what shows up these days. It's mostly new from China, or surplus from someone in the U.S. who went bankrupt.
Stop the purchasing of elected officials. Ban paid radio/tv political advertising.
Beware of any WSJ stories posted here. If the Murdock/News corp/ Fox News blood and the wonder of Wall Street and the economy aren't enough to make one expect serious misinformation from the WSJ, check out some previous stories.
A Classic is "There's no such thing as nuclear waste" It's almost as warm and fuzzy as when James Watt of the Reagan administration bragged about material being so harmless he could sprinkle it on his cereal. (It was something like polonium, the stuff that may have killed Arafat)
We? None for me to share, sorry. Maybe the question should be what undocumented features may be in them already? It goes downhill from there. Most microwaves are too small for applying my joke fix, and some side effects could be expected.
We really ought to require source with everything we buy. Many products invite problems if not containing them already. We should not just enabled but encouraged to inspect, fix, and innovate.
Old tech would seem more secure, but even 25 years ago there were fruity PS printers that could be bricked by data.
While I understand governments sometimes having legitimate needs for added capabilities, I believe that the exposure of knowingly leaving unpluged if not adding numerous holes in many things for their convenience has resulted in us experiencing massive damage. Security through insecuring everything and everyone? And then where's the transparency? An informed democracy works better. 25th out of 30 rank among modern nations in math? Dumbing down the masses is good for who exactly? Please, do away with the business people or leaders betting heavily against the U.S. from offshore operations..
Build it into something above a waste can like a shredder. While you're at it, make a shredder that is also a scanner. Getting it to work when fed multiple sheets at once would be the and-one-more-thing feature.
Guard the beaches and power plants? If electric fields control their motion, they may be swimming/marching around soon. They'll build a secret base out of floating tsunami debris.
I wonder what they'll do when high on drugs? I think there might be some student-movie plot material in the digital jellyfish border patrol.
It would likely be more fitting for pride month festivities than for a religious event, but it would be different to have a holiday with colorful auroras to watch. In that spirit, maybe an event should last a Carrington rotation instead of a month?
Techno / disco beach resort at the north pole after the ice melts?
First you decry the loss of ad revenue to cable systems, and then say that broadcast stations should be handing out free airtime. Which is it?
It's both. Locally sold advertising funds the station operations, hopefully including news, and unlike ads on satellite, may help local non-chain businesses reach customers too. Broadcasters also already provide free public affairs programming time, public service announcements and various types of programs etc. There's no reason they couldn't fairly allocate an amount of that time of their own choosing for candidate statements, debates, community comments or other appropriate programming to inform the public before elections. Ideally more local station ownership, and fewer stations consolidated under a common owner in a market, would help insure diversity and fairness in political conversation and in news coverage. Diverse local ownership would also create more exposure opportunities for local and emerging musicians.
Only the PAID political time would be done away with. We wouldn't get the endless repetitive hours of negative ads, candidates would be on a more equal footing, and no candidate would be placed in the position of accepting money from sources attempting to buy influence. As it is now, a candidate that turns away all those tainted dollars could be unfairly disadvantaged by less exposure. Since stations would not take money from you or me as well as the corporations, there'd be no discrimination against so-called corporate free speech.
The corruption isn't so much with the broadcast stations (beyond perhaps not being able to be unbiased and critical enough of the hands that feed them). The real problem is the buying of government influence through campaign contributions. Way too much money is involved. Attempts at controlling contributions weren't effective, and now with the so-called freedom of speech of corporations, huge amounts of money is being piled in from who knows where.
Sidestepping the completely failed approach at regulating contributions, and not involving election code at all, FCC changes could go a long way to solve this serious problem.
Stations are supposed to operate in ways that serve the public interest including promoting education, an awareness of events and issues essential to a informed democracy, and profitably advertising in ways that help local businesses prosper while meeting community needs. Local businesses create better jobs, personal wealth, and fuel less economic leakage. More of the dollars people spend should stay in their local economies. National account ad sales on satellite tv, or across networks are efficient for the huge chains, but put local businesspeople at a serious disadvantage. Even if cable or satellite carries your local stations, they generally won't carry all of them, and all of the digital sub-channels.
I'm not that familiar with NTIA and will work to learn more. They definately do have some involvement with commercial operations. I saw they were providing reimbursement grants for digital tv transmission equipment upgrades to broadcasters in some smaller markets. (application deadline ended this month)
Adding the NDA really fuels the Streisand effect behind that too. It suggests that the app does something, or comes too close to doing something, too powerful... They don't want an app out there that could sniff in-app purchase transaction data. The apps really ought to be totally fire-walled from each other, especially if whatever it monitored can be mirrored to a 3rd party remote location as well as reported to the user. It didn't say whether it just detected system calls or read actual data. I'm assuming the list of app activity entries were sent from users. Hmmmm. That might suggest a built-in potential to pass along everything to somewhere?? The OS should never allow that kind of access. It could be a added feature to look-alike versions of apps.
Maybe someone working via WiFi could sniff and tell what it, and anything else there too with similar capabilities, is doing. Some things might be time shifted.
Satellite services don't use the public right of way. They deliver the signal via airwaves, which is a different right of way that isn't mappable.
The GP was essentially talking about wanting to measure resources taken by those profiting as data path providers. Airwaves are a public resource. All spectrum should be used in ways that serve the public interest. It is a limited resource that could be put to other uses and it certainly has value. Assigning frequency segments is equivalent to mapping it out.
How does paying a cable company for service "siphon off" any money the local "news operation" would have? Do you imagine that if you didn't pay the cable company you'd somehow be giving that money to the local TV station?
It's not simply the cable bill dollars that are diverted from the local economy, but advertising revenue that is diverted away from local radio, tv, and print. Some take a sizable chunk of national ad account dollars. Cable can also take local advertiser ad dollars. With no local announcers or news departments to fund, ads sold by cable companies are often priced so low enough that they drive down ad rates not only for local television, but even radio. The problem is especially severe in smaller more isolated areas where there's less local tv, high penetration by cable/satellite, and low ad rates already due to the smaller population. I know of one case where a local tv station carrying two major networks fired a dozen news people with only a reporter or two left, and the news coming from another station they own 150 miles away. Low radio ad rates left them vulnerable to corporate/venture-capital groups taking them over and consolidating them when the FCC essentially dropped ownership limitations. (That's in spite of an FCC study, ordered destroyed, that showed it would damage local news reporting and diversity). Cable, satellite, and consolidated distant corporate ownership of radio/tv have severely crippled local radio, tv and print news operations.
The NTIA controls government spectrum, which you aren't going to be using anyway.
That's a bit of double-talk since one could call any frequency regulated by the government a government frequency.. Government agencies (police etc) license through the FCC. The NTIA is part of the Department of Commerce, so they really function more like lobbyists/advocates for business (at least that's how it seems, much the way some view the FD&A and the drug companies). The NTIA is certainly not pushing for any spectrum the public could use directly for free or nearly so. Things needn't be so damn expensive, but that's how it is in the U.S. Healthy business is great, but sometimes the public would be better served without AT&T, Verizon and other big players making large profits on everything we do. Broadband and telephone services are faster or cheaper of both in places like South Korea than the U.S. because of the way we've done things. We were lied to about the need to take so much tv spectrum taken away. Very little was needed for emergency communications, a narrow-band application. And they've been piling other commercial users into tv spectrum. (white space etc)
Spectrum is being treated too much like oil leases with the same results. And we wonder why some countries nationalized oil company operations.
Profits above all else has had a devastating effect on broadcasting and overall news operations in the U.S. It's so bad the U.S. government is subsidizing the BBC to fill some of the void. Our ability to compete and the functioning of democracy suffer when we're poorly informed and poorly educated. The changes in broadcasting contribute to both.
Paid political ads in broadcasting should be terminated. The funds raised to pay for them are a primary source of corruption. That chain can be cut. Free community service time can be provided to candidates.
I keep wondering who will be responsible for cleaning up the thousands or millions of pc's that get infected (or re-infected) years after a "cyber" war is over.
Oh, that's a simple one. No need to worry about "after", just assume it'll never be over.
The worst things can't be fixed. A restore won't make your corporate discoveries secrets again. Your system use experience might even remain as delightful as ever with you left unaware that anything has happened.
It's a bit silly to talk about maintenance issues when the real consequences are from data compromise or from the malfunction of something that matters.
We should ask if we are secure, or do we just maintain an illusion to make us feel better? If it won't work against the unknown, it doesn't work. It's best not to pretend otherwise. Really. Sometimes too late really is too late. If one bullet gets you, dodging 999 out of 1000 doesn't mean much. We functioned before there were networks. Maybe some things should still be that way.
I could be wrong, maybe you just need a newer version of Windows.
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I thought that in 2008 until McCain picked Palin and I saw (as in I knew personally) die-in-the-wool conservatives actually announce they were supporting Obama this time.
McCains VP choice was simply misunderstood. The role of the vice president is to be a spare. McCains young but clueless choice made sense if the VP was viewed as spare parts.
Romney comes across as a moderately competent political moderate
From his venture-capital experience he's had practice at seeking out what profits him while avoiding risk. So when he knows that revealing his tax returns or saying more about owning 9% of a Chinese electronics appliance manufacturer that many U.S. companies outsource to, he knows to clam up. (That is also a lesson some learned from Richard Nixon, whose approval rating went down every time he spoke publicly). McCain had full access to Romney tax returns and went with Palin instead. That says something. Romney also heavily panders or at least pays momentary lip service to whatever group he's targeting at a particular moment. It's not moderate to be unwilling to publicly support any restrictions on assault weapons, it's pandering. He comments and actions later often don't agree. Ask any log-cabin Republican about that.
Saying whatever profits or otherwise suits him, he cannot be trusted.
His non-scripted comments in the EU down he's not very good on his feet. Unless you're impressed with him not even remembering a British officials name and calling him Mr. Leader. While he promised transparency and press access including to fund raisers on the way, but he denied them access in Israel. Policy comments made relating to Iran were reckless. Describing the differences in quality of life between Israelis and Palestinians as "cultural advantages" with no mention of settlements or occupation could best be viewed as Palinism.
He only answered three questions for the press traveling with him, and a Romney representative actually said "Kiss my ass" and "shove it" to the press while in Poland.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/mitt-romney/9441636/Mitt-Romney-aide-in-new-kiss-my-ass-gaffe.html
And, in catering to older confused Republicans that think the cold war is still going, he names Russia as number 1 geopolitical foe. This as Russia grants NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. (A bunch of supply trucks coming from Pakistan were blown up recently).
I wonder what he thinks of the Swedish Teddy Bear invasion.
It's not Windows hatred per se, although that certainly is a healthy attitude. It's just that everytime a Microsoft-related article pops up, a brand new user starts blindly praising whatever Microsoft's been doing this time around. It's getting old, Microsoft.
Do they realize that shilling actually fosters more hatred of them?
I wonder where they outsource the shills from.
No, seriously, the landings were faked, but they were filmed on the moon. We've had a base up there since 1958.
Research has been uncovered that dates back to 1953
http://archive.org/details/Cat_Women_of_the_Moon
I thought we all agreed that a desktop OS was a terrible idea on a tablet. OSX doesn't even have the touch amenities that Windows 7 does.
I'm not talking a commercial product, just a hack that would be interesting to see. Certainly the desktop OSes won't scale down to smartphones well. But I suspect that whatever experiments Steve passed over in the labs would still be interesting, and probably more fun/functional than what the other guys will ship. Access to OS X apps on something that wouldn't get used otherwise would be a fun twist.
Apple has done quite a bit with multi-touch. They could likely apply it in new places, maybe toggling it on for sections of the screen or a flat KB.
Who'll be first to get it to run on an x86 Surface tablet?
At $99 fire sale prices, those would be pretty decent with Lion added.
Zoom the menus for touch with the magnify routines the dock uses?
Look at history to predict the future. Back in the late 80s and most of the 90s each computer OEM had their own take on what a computer should look like till we entered the beige box era. History will repeat itself again.
This is nothing like the early PC era. There are very few OSes. No one seems to be lean and considering small market share viable. Where are the small startups or other NEW players? If products were sufficiently differentiated with significant useful new added or alternative functionality, new entrants could fetch high enough prices to be viable. With most products attempting a me-too of Apple functionality or appearance, they're doomed to fetch lower prices if they can't quite reach the same bar.
If many do manage to come up with the tablet counterpart of beige-boxes, there won't be much profits in them. It'd just be the netbook situation revisited.
Competing with many players to make a low-margin commodity product is risky. If someone else innovates, you're hurting. If you're outsourcing and a disaster hits your supplier, good luck.
300 million people in 7 states of northern India were without power over a solar storm that barely registers on the radar. (M-class flares with the background near C level). Some should enjoy auroras tonight, but not as intense as earlier this month. I can't believe that no one connected the X flare and CME with the sudden melt in Greenland. At least our lights stayed on. China got some nasty flooding though.
How about one that'll spot potential embarrassing political candidates?
You're in England, and want to show off your skills and leave a lasting impression. What do you do?
1) tell the locals you have no faith in their ability to put on an event
2) complain about the traffic
3) raise funds from law-breaking foreign troubled bankers while there
4) brag about promoting Mormon business in Utah using huge government subsidies
5) reveal talks with MI-6 that weren't supposed to be mentioned
6) Refer to the senior official as "Mr. Leader" because you forgot his name
7) All of the above!
Maybe it will start playing white wedding then?
Could a wedding help? Whatever happened to the ancient idea of a princess from one country marrying a price from another and then all the conflicts or religious differences being set aside?
(the modern movie version might have two princes, but whatever works?)
Best to stay away from those sections of religious texts where people do bad things to non-believers, and even their animals. Someone wrote about the section of the bible the other day, but got the spelling wrong "Dude Iran N' Me"
A while back Bill Moyers had a guest on with a different insightful perspective on evolution of religious beliefs and some things done bridging differing cultures. He has a book. He compares some behavior using gaming theory (zero sum acts versus not)
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07172009/profile.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JisN9t504IU
something different than a hit tune, musically political
Gil-Scott Heron (passed away May 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHOq8i5Pyk
Well there's really nothing to fear until people start getting Rick-rolled
I'm hoping for gas price shocks high enough to halt importation for a while.. or perhaps China could start invading neighboring countries. Talk about excitement!
If you look at South America and other places around the world, you'll see that China has some large operations extracting resources. There's some conflict over them cutting exports of rare-earths / metals needed for many high tech products, and some territorial conflicts as well. Japan, China, Vietnam and others are finding island / ocean areas with precious resources suddenly very important. And even though there has been a great deal of isolation of North Korea, they're talking with the South over mining those important materials. Watch news from foreign outlets (streamed, on some public stations, on free-to-air satellite, and on some paid satellite/cable)
Through two corporations he owns, Mitt Romney owns about 9% of a major Chinese electronics manufacturer that many former US appliance manufacturers outsource from. If you've bought a Mr. Coffee coffee maker, he's made money on it IN CHINA. So it's not just profiting from labor cuts in the U.S., but having a stake in profits from where the work went as well. (This is from BEFORE the period when his people claim he left and wasn't in control his corporations even with 100% of the stock)
The recent successful efforts to keep the U.S. auto industry healthy were important not just for the direct employment, but all of that at the many related suppliers. But in the electronics industry, just try setting up an operating manufacturing something. Even if you have a high-enough margins to handle U.S. labor costs, or robotics to trim those, good luck finding many components made in the U.S. to use. Even Japan, which has had multiple electronics companies merge into single entities for such things as RAM production, has seen dangerously high loses that aren't sustainable for long.
Some new reports are claiming that the wealth held in offshore banks and corporations such as those operating out of the Cayman islands adds up to the total GNP of the U.S. and Japan combined . If the extremely wealthy in the U.S. can't pay at Reagan era tax levels, they could at least invest in developing in U.S. production instead of profiting from its demise.
We've lost most component manufacturing ability, it's not surprising to see the same thing happening to tooling. Search for something on Ebay and see what shows up these days. It's mostly new from China, or surplus from someone in the U.S. who went bankrupt.
Stop the purchasing of elected officials. Ban paid radio/tv political advertising.
The Zune was a flop, but this juice-sharing thing sounds like an opportunity for Zune Squirt power supplies?
Hopefully data to/from the power supply could not include malware.
Condolences to her family.
And condolences to her partner of 27 years, Dr. Tam E. O'Shaughnessy
Sadly even hero status didn't bring the right to legal marriage during their time together
Beware of any WSJ stories posted here. If the Murdock/News corp/ Fox News blood and the wonder of Wall Street and the economy aren't enough to make one expect serious misinformation from the WSJ, check out some previous stories.
A Classic is "There's no such thing as nuclear waste"
It's almost as warm and fuzzy as when James Watt of the Reagan administration bragged about material being so harmless he could sprinkle it on his cereal.
(It was something like polonium, the stuff that may have killed Arafat)
https://www.google.com/search?q=there's+no+such+thing+as+nuclear+waste+William+Tucker
It seems there's been an effort to flood Slashdot with misinformation for a while.
And you thought propaganda was illegal in the U.S.
That's at least once per household, right?
We? None for me to share, sorry. Maybe the question should be what undocumented features may be in them already? It goes downhill from there. Most microwaves are too small for applying my joke fix, and some side effects could be expected.
We really ought to require source with everything we buy. Many products invite problems if not containing them already. We should not just enabled but encouraged to inspect, fix, and innovate.
Old tech would seem more secure, but even 25 years ago there were fruity PS printers that could be bricked by data.
While I understand governments sometimes having legitimate needs for added capabilities, I believe that the exposure of knowingly leaving unpluged if not adding numerous holes in many things for their convenience has resulted in us experiencing massive damage. Security through insecuring everything and everyone?
And then where's the transparency? An informed democracy works better. 25th out of 30 rank among modern nations in math? Dumbing down the masses is good for who exactly? Please, do away with the business people or leaders betting heavily against the U.S. from offshore operations..
Build it into something above a waste can like a shredder. While you're at it, make a shredder that is also a scanner. Getting it to work when fed multiple sheets at once would be the and-one-more-thing feature.
Would you be impressed if it fits in your electric meter?
Your power strip looks a little damp.
Better dry it out in the microwave.
Guard the beaches and power plants? If electric fields control their motion, they may be swimming/marching around soon. They'll build a secret base out of floating tsunami debris.
I wonder what they'll do when high on drugs? I think there might be some student-movie plot material in the digital jellyfish border patrol.
It would likely be more fitting for pride month festivities than for a religious event, but it would be different to have a holiday with colorful auroras to watch. In that spirit, maybe an event should last a Carrington rotation instead of a month?
Techno / disco beach resort at the north pole after the ice melts?
http://www2.gi.alaska.edu/images/plot_ace.png
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anakin1814/7578749634/in/photostream/
First you decry the loss of ad revenue to cable systems, and then say that broadcast stations should be handing out free airtime. Which is it?
It's both. Locally sold advertising funds the station operations, hopefully including news, and unlike ads on satellite, may help local non-chain businesses reach customers too. Broadcasters also already provide free public affairs programming time, public service announcements and various types of programs etc. There's no reason they couldn't fairly allocate an amount of that time of their own choosing for candidate statements, debates, community comments or other appropriate programming to inform the public before elections. Ideally more local station ownership, and fewer stations consolidated under a common owner in a market, would help insure diversity and fairness in political conversation and in news coverage. Diverse local ownership would also create more exposure opportunities for local and emerging musicians.
Only the PAID political time would be done away with. We wouldn't get the endless repetitive hours of negative ads, candidates would be on a more equal footing, and no candidate would be placed in the position of accepting money from sources attempting to buy influence. As it is now, a candidate that turns away all those tainted dollars could be unfairly disadvantaged by less exposure. Since stations would not take money from you or me as well as the corporations, there'd be no discrimination against so-called corporate free speech.
The corruption isn't so much with the broadcast stations (beyond perhaps not being able to be unbiased and critical enough of the hands that feed them).
The real problem is the buying of government influence through campaign contributions. Way too much money is involved. Attempts at controlling contributions weren't effective, and now with the so-called freedom of speech of corporations, huge amounts of money is being piled in from who knows where.
Sidestepping the completely failed approach at regulating contributions, and not involving election code at all, FCC changes could go a long way to solve this serious problem.
Stations are supposed to operate in ways that serve the public interest including promoting education, an awareness of events and issues essential to a informed democracy, and profitably advertising in ways that help local businesses prosper while meeting community needs. Local businesses create better jobs, personal wealth, and fuel less economic leakage. More of the dollars people spend should stay in their local economies. National account ad sales on satellite tv, or across networks are efficient for the huge chains, but put local businesspeople at a serious disadvantage. Even if cable or satellite carries your local stations, they generally won't carry all of them, and all of the digital sub-channels.
I'm not that familiar with NTIA and will work to learn more. They definately do have some involvement with commercial operations. I saw they were providing reimbursement grants for digital tv transmission equipment upgrades to broadcasters in some smaller markets. (application deadline ended this month)
We have no choice but to speculate.
Adding the NDA really fuels the Streisand effect behind that too. It suggests that the app does something, or comes too close to doing something, too powerful... They don't want an app out there that could sniff in-app purchase transaction data. The apps really ought to be totally fire-walled from each other, especially if whatever it monitored can be mirrored to a 3rd party remote location as well as reported to the user. It didn't say whether it just detected system calls or read actual data. I'm assuming the list of app activity entries were sent from users.
Hmmmm. That might suggest a built-in potential to pass along everything to somewhere?? The OS should never allow that kind of access. It could be a added feature to look-alike versions of apps.
Maybe someone working via WiFi could sniff and tell what it, and anything else there too with similar capabilities, is doing. Some things might be time shifted.
Satellite services don't use the public right of way. They deliver the signal via airwaves, which is a different right of way that isn't mappable.
The GP was essentially talking about wanting to measure resources taken by those profiting as data path providers. Airwaves are a public resource. All spectrum should be used in ways that serve the public interest. It is a limited resource that could be put to other uses and it certainly has value. Assigning frequency segments is equivalent to mapping it out.
How does paying a cable company for service "siphon off" any money the local "news operation" would have? Do you imagine that if you didn't pay the cable company you'd somehow be giving that money to the local TV station?
It's not simply the cable bill dollars that are diverted from the local economy, but advertising revenue that is diverted away from local radio, tv, and print. Some take a sizable chunk of national ad account dollars. Cable can also take local advertiser ad dollars. With no local announcers or news departments to fund, ads sold by cable companies are often priced so low enough that they drive down ad rates not only for local television, but even radio. The problem is especially severe in smaller more isolated areas where there's less local tv, high penetration by cable/satellite, and low ad rates already due to the smaller population. I know of one case where a local tv station carrying two major networks fired a dozen news people with only a reporter or two left, and the news coming from another station they own 150 miles away. Low radio ad rates left them vulnerable to corporate/venture-capital groups taking them over and consolidating them when the FCC essentially dropped ownership limitations. (That's in spite of an FCC study, ordered destroyed, that showed it would damage local news reporting and diversity). Cable, satellite, and consolidated distant corporate ownership of radio/tv have severely crippled local radio, tv and print news operations.
The NTIA controls government spectrum, which you aren't going to be using anyway.
That's a bit of double-talk since one could call any frequency regulated by the government a government frequency.. Government agencies (police etc) license through the FCC. The NTIA is part of the Department of Commerce, so they really function more like lobbyists/advocates for business (at least that's how it seems, much the way some view the FD&A and the drug companies). The NTIA is certainly not pushing for any spectrum the public could use directly for free or nearly so. Things needn't be so damn expensive, but that's how it is in the U.S.
Healthy business is great, but sometimes the public would be better served without AT&T, Verizon and other big players making large profits on everything we do. Broadband and telephone services are faster or cheaper of both in places like South Korea than the U.S. because of the way we've done things.
We were lied to about the need to take so much tv spectrum taken away. Very little was needed for emergency communications, a narrow-band application. And they've been piling other commercial users into tv spectrum. (white space etc)
Spectrum is being treated too much like oil leases with the same results. And we wonder why some countries nationalized oil company operations.
Profits above all else has had a devastating effect on broadcasting and overall news operations in the U.S. It's so bad the U.S. government is subsidizing the BBC to fill some of the void. Our ability to compete and the functioning of democracy suffer when we're poorly informed and poorly educated. The changes in broadcasting contribute to both.
Paid political ads in broadcasting should be terminated. The funds raised to pay for them are a primary source of corruption. That chain can be cut. Free community service time can be provided to candidates.
I keep wondering who will be responsible for cleaning up the thousands or millions of pc's that get infected (or re-infected) years after a "cyber" war is over.
Oh, that's a simple one. No need to worry about "after", just assume it'll never be over.
The worst things can't be fixed. A restore won't make your corporate discoveries secrets again. Your system use experience might even remain as delightful as ever with you left unaware that anything has happened.
It's a bit silly to talk about maintenance issues when the real consequences are from data compromise or from the malfunction of something that matters.
We should ask if we are secure, or do we just maintain an illusion to make us feel better? If it won't work against the unknown, it doesn't work. It's best not to pretend otherwise. Really. Sometimes too late really is too late. If one bullet gets you, dodging 999 out of 1000 doesn't mean much. We functioned before there were networks. Maybe some things should still be that way.
I could be wrong, maybe you just need a newer version of Windows.
It's too bad fish can't talk
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/climate-change/july-dec12/swinomish_07-18.html