RIM has made it known that they are giving the encryption keys to BlackBerry communications to various governments
Citation needed.
I know I would not trust or use a form of communications for what I want to keep private if government, any government, was able to read messages. People have already complained they don't want Indian government employees giving Indian businesses that compeat access to their communications. And where government has that access someone can buy access as well.
Sorry, but US demands EU and a lot of other countries to give them access to their peoples banking, financial and all kind of other data, and don't get me even started on the NSA listening devices and backdoors on major ISP's backbones. Why is it so weird when other countries in turn demand the same kind of access? If US wants to promote privacy of citizens, at least start doing it yourself first.
I'm glad to say you're wrong. Many Americans oppose what their government does. In quite a few of my own posts I state how I oppose what government does.
These days, there are few people (in the West anyway) who know how to create a 'punching' as it is called, and fewer who are interested in learning.
TFA mentions this, "What do young people want to come into this trade for, especially at the manufacturing end - because it's so dirty, you know". Yet there are young people getting into it and Etsy provides them a sells outlet.
Strangely, the remnant of my father's business is just starting to get orders from Asia, so maybe 'Free Trade' is finally coming around to the point where manufacturing costs in the US are competitive with Asia in this regard
Free trade does that, as there's more trade people demand more pay from their employers. China is seeing more suicides, which is going too far, because employers won't give them raises they demand, though employers are giving some raises. China's middle class is rising afterall and there are now 64 Chinese billionaires on Forbes list. The same is seen in India. Free Trade raises everybody's boat.
Of course China doesn't have free trade, the Chinese currency isn't allowed to float, but trade is more open there now than it has been.
There's something more that the article did not mention. It's not as if 19th century technology has been forgotten already.
If there is a market for it, you can be sure someone will build a modern machine to do it better, faster, and cheaper than those old machines do.
You've missed the point. There are people who want to hand make things, such as Makers. And there are others who want what they make. Etsy is a market for both. Other links from my bookmarks are for handspinning or making your own threads and yarn, weaving and knitting for turning those threads and yarns into cloth, and Making Cordage By Hand.
You're looking at this from a users perspective. I'm looking at it from a webmasters perspective.
Even webmasters can choose what they use. Not only that but they can even choose to use more than one search engine and provider of advertising. Actually if I were an employer and my webmaster wasn't using more than one provider then I wouldn't want to pay their salary. Sure right now Google has the major market position but that is likely to change. For instance Microsoft handles Facebook's ads as well as other high traffic websites. Until the end of August Google handled News Corp's MySpace ads however in July News Corp was in discussion with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo for ad placement. Marketing is growing on other social networking websites as well, and Google doesn't do ads on all of them.
How many people install their own OS?
Well, I do. My daughters use Linux.
Did you install Linux for your daughters, or did they install it themselves?
How many buy Macs?
Well, I do. My wife uses a Mac.
So do I, I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro. I also have 2 Linux PCs, both of the tower PCs under my desk have Linux installed. One is a really old one I ordered from Microway with two HDDs, one with NT4 and the other with Redhat Linux, so I can dualboot. The other I bought with Linspire preinstalled. I also plan to install Ubuntu on my Mac. But most people buy and use Windows PCs.
How many buy PCs with Linux preinstalled?
I would say, enough to make it a venture that's profitable enough that manufacturers keep doing it.
But how many people can easily switch to Linux? Without a Linux guru it is difficult for most people to switch. Distros like Linspire attempted but Ubuntu is doing successfully is making it easier but there's still a long way to go before Linux is as easy to use for normal people as Windows, heck even Macs, is to use.
I also noticed this: Always when I enter search terms in Google, I always get Google search results. Not a single time did I get results from Bing or Altavista.:-)
There have been tymes I googled something and got results from another search engine. For instance googling Monte Verde archaeology returns About's webpage on Monte Verde in 4th place. It used to be first place.
I would say that it's easier to stop using Microsoft. There are numerous free and non-free alternatives. Google, however, has become the de-facto premiere search engine.
Really? It's easier to stop using Microsoft? How many people install their own OS? How many buy Macs? How many buy PCs with Linux preinstalled? I, and anyone else, can easily use another search engine. Of course the quality of results might not be good. While I use Google mostly, because it gives me the best result most of the tyme, I also use Altavista, About.com, Mooter, and Teoma, now Ask.com. I use them when their results are better. I don't even use gmail, instead I use Yahoo! mail.
If you have to spend all day building links, maybe you should look at your website's content/service first. That could be where the problem lies.
The problem could also be because it's a new website. How do new websites get links without spending tyme letting people know about the site and requesting them? It's not like "create a great website and they'll come."
but I blame that on the voters who decided, shortsightedly, that there was probably no reason taxes should ever go up
California's fiscal problems are not due to low taxes. Nor are they due to not raising taxes. CA's fiscal problems can be traced to the 1990s when while CA's economy was roaring the state increased spending just as fast. When tax revenue dropped the state didn't drop spending too. Hell, look at the Taj Mahal of public schools. While teachers are being laid off LA spends more than half a billion dollars on a new school. And as TFA says, that's not the only school costing hundreds of millions of dollars in CA.
FTP sites generally were not indexed by search engines
Sure FTP servers were indexed and searched. Archie indexed FTP archives starting in 1990. And Jughead and Veronica searched Gopherspace. At one tyme or another I used all of them.
That's not only off topic but ignoring the point. I've explained my point several times to others who said exactly what you did, so if you want an answer, check those. Otherwise, if you want to continue burying your head in the sand just so you can feel like you know what you're talking about, that's your business and the place where I'm left with nothing left to say to you.
If you can't have a civilized discussion that's your problem. When I ask a question you have to make off the wall remarks about burying my head. It's you who buried his or her head.
if you think I've no taste for violence, I'd be more than happy to school you on the truth. It's a myth that liberals are sissier than you throwbacks, we just don't need it to settle an argument.
If you think you're a liberal you're wrong. Liberals abhor government and want it limited, not want more of it. Rights are individual not collective.
Murdering politicians isn't equivalent to a right to have weapons. That's just one more reason why the tea party is viewed so poorly by sane people.
And exactly what politician has been killed, or was physically threatened, by someone from the Tea Party? Or is this an attempt to deflect protests or put protesters in a bad light? I oppose some of what Tea Party advocates call for but making shit up to shut them up is wrong. If you have to resort to that then it goes to show how constructive you are, not constructive at all.
Most (all?) of these types of people would totally freak if you took away their government backed roads, police/fire departments, etc.
Most roads are local or state not federal. The Constitution of the USA does allow states to build them, hell it even allows the feds to build some roads.
Hell , most of them probably couldn't even take having their American Idol or YouTube disappearing because the government no longer regulated the infrastructure upon which they are built.
Oh, you mean the same governments that gave monopolies away? American Idol? Guess where it's viewed... On licensed broadcasting stations. Big media wants licensing to be required to broadcast over the airwaves. And businesses want their monopoly on the use of rights of way or easements to build the infrastructures, whether for cable, electricity, fiber, or telephone.
A smart grid that uses an isolated command and control network would be perfectly OK; It wouldnt use the public internet as it's backbone
No network is perfectly safe, not one. Go ask Kevin Mitnick.
The legislation wouldnt prevent you from having a home automation server; it would just make it illegal for it to be controllable/configurable across the internet.
In other words, the grid would be just as stupid as it is now. And you want to limit what I can be with my own equipment? This is supposed to be the Land of the Free, if you don't like it move, say to Cuba or Zimbabwe. Don't force others to live the way you want.
Storms don't mess with repair efforts? You have to be joking. Just ask anyone who's had to make repairs in bad weather. Hell bad weather can interfere with normal work, ask most any construction worker that works outdoors. When I worked in construction we sometimes stopped work because of rain.
As for terrorists, if dispatchers know the repairmen then there should not be a problem. If they don't then maybe there's a bigger problem.
But all are unencrypted channels that anyone can use, so you can't do secure business on them like you can with a phone.
Secure communications are not needed to repair outages, all that's needed is relatively clear and understandable communications. That's how is was done for many, many years, without cellphones. Having grown up in Florida where we'd have bad storms knock out power and phone lines, that's what we did and it worked fine.
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True but information gathered that way can not be trusted. Even if they know nothing people being tortured will say anything to end the torture.
Falcon
RIM has made it known that they are giving the encryption keys to BlackBerry communications to various governments
Citation needed.
I know I would not trust or use a form of communications for what I want to keep private if government, any government, was able to read messages. People have already complained they don't want Indian government employees giving Indian businesses that compeat access to their communications. And where government has that access someone can buy access as well.
Falcon
Sorry, but US demands EU and a lot of other countries to give them access to their peoples banking, financial and all kind of other data, and don't get me even started on the NSA listening devices and backdoors on major ISP's backbones. Why is it so weird when other countries in turn demand the same kind of access? If US wants to promote privacy of citizens, at least start doing it yourself first.
I'm glad to say you're wrong. Many Americans oppose what their government does. In quite a few of my own posts I state how I oppose what government does.
Falcon
These days, there are few people (in the West anyway) who know how to create a 'punching' as it is called, and fewer who are interested in learning.
TFA mentions this, "What do young people want to come into this trade for, especially at the manufacturing end - because it's so dirty, you know". Yet there are young people getting into it and Etsy provides them a sells outlet.
Strangely, the remnant of my father's business is just starting to get orders from Asia, so maybe 'Free Trade' is finally coming around to the point where manufacturing costs in the US are competitive with Asia in this regard
Free trade does that, as there's more trade people demand more pay from their employers. China is seeing more suicides, which is going too far, because employers won't give them raises they demand, though employers are giving some raises. China's middle class is rising afterall and there are now 64 Chinese billionaires on Forbes list. The same is seen in India. Free Trade raises everybody's boat.
Of course China doesn't have free trade, the Chinese currency isn't allowed to float, but trade is more open there now than it has been.
Falcon
There's something more that the article did not mention. It's not as if 19th century technology has been forgotten already.
If there is a market for it, you can be sure someone will build a modern machine to do it better, faster, and cheaper than those old machines do.
You've missed the point. There are people who want to hand make things, such as Makers. And there are others who want what they make. Etsy is a market for both. Other links from my bookmarks are for handspinning or making your own threads and yarn, weaving and knitting for turning those threads and yarns into cloth, and Making Cordage By Hand.
Falcon
'... PUNCH!' at the end of your posts, and imagine you striking down those who disagree with you.
Nope, I'm non-violent like Henry David Thoreau, who wrote Civil Disobedience, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Where I differ is that if it came to it, such as with the NAZIs, I would not hesitate to bare and use firearms.
There are four boxes of liberty: soapbox, ballot box, jury box, and ammo box. Use in that order.
Falcon
You're looking at this from a users perspective. I'm looking at it from a webmasters perspective.
Even webmasters can choose what they use. Not only that but they can even choose to use more than one search engine and provider of advertising. Actually if I were an employer and my webmaster wasn't using more than one provider then I wouldn't want to pay their salary. Sure right now Google has the major market position but that is likely to change. For instance Microsoft handles Facebook's ads as well as other high traffic websites. Until the end of August Google handled News Corp's MySpace ads however in July News Corp was in discussion with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo for ad placement. Marketing is growing on other social networking websites as well, and Google doesn't do ads on all of them.
How many people install their own OS?
Well, I do. My daughters use Linux.
Did you install Linux for your daughters, or did they install it themselves?
How many buy Macs?
Well, I do. My wife uses a Mac.
So do I, I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro. I also have 2 Linux PCs, both of the tower PCs under my desk have Linux installed. One is a really old one I ordered from Microway with two HDDs, one with NT4 and the other with Redhat Linux, so I can dualboot. The other I bought with Linspire preinstalled. I also plan to install Ubuntu on my Mac. But most people buy and use Windows PCs.
How many buy PCs with Linux preinstalled?
I would say, enough to make it a venture that's profitable enough that manufacturers keep doing it.
But how many people can easily switch to Linux? Without a Linux guru it is difficult for most people to switch. Distros like Linspire attempted but Ubuntu is doing successfully is making it easier but there's still a long way to go before Linux is as easy to use for normal people as Windows, heck even Macs, is to use.
Falcon
I also noticed this: Always when I enter search terms in Google, I always get Google search results. Not a single time did I get results from Bing or Altavista. :-)
There have been tymes I googled something and got results from another search engine. For instance googling Monte Verde archaeology returns About's webpage on Monte Verde in 4th place. It used to be first place.
Falcon
I would say that it's easier to stop using Microsoft. There are numerous free and non-free alternatives. Google, however, has become the de-facto premiere search engine.
Really? It's easier to stop using Microsoft? How many people install their own OS? How many buy Macs? How many buy PCs with Linux preinstalled? I, and anyone else, can easily use another search engine. Of course the quality of results might not be good. While I use Google mostly, because it gives me the best result most of the tyme, I also use Altavista, About.com, Mooter, and Teoma, now Ask.com. I use them when their results are better. I don't even use gmail, instead I use Yahoo! mail.
Falcon
Google's exclusive license to the Pagerank algorithm expires in 2011.
One, that does not mean they have to release the algorithm. And two, Google is constantly altering and tweaking the algorithm to make it "better".
Falcon
If you have to spend all day building links, maybe you should look at your website's content/service first. That could be where the problem lies.
The problem could also be because it's a new website. How do new websites get links without spending tyme letting people know about the site and requesting them? It's not like "create a great website and they'll come."
Falcon
but I blame that on the voters who decided, shortsightedly, that there was probably no reason taxes should ever go up
California's fiscal problems are not due to low taxes. Nor are they due to not raising taxes. CA's fiscal problems can be traced to the 1990s when while CA's economy was roaring the state increased spending just as fast. When tax revenue dropped the state didn't drop spending too. Hell, look at the Taj Mahal of public schools. While teachers are being laid off LA spends more than half a billion dollars on a new school. And as TFA says, that's not the only school costing hundreds of millions of dollars in CA.
Falcon
There are legitimate reasons to consider a "kill switch." As in the ability to take the nation off the internet at a moment's notice,
There are no legitimate reasons to disconnect the nation from the internet. It's all about censorship or fear of the unknown.
Falcon
FTP sites generally were not indexed by search engines
Sure FTP servers were indexed and searched. Archie indexed FTP archives starting in 1990. And Jughead and Veronica searched Gopherspace. At one tyme or another I used all of them.
Falcon
As the Security Week article suggests this sounds like the lying the military told about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
Falcon
That's not only off topic but ignoring the point. I've explained my point several times to others who said exactly what you did, so if you want an answer, check those. Otherwise, if you want to continue burying your head in the sand just so you can feel like you know what you're talking about, that's your business and the place where I'm left with nothing left to say to you.
If you can't have a civilized discussion that's your problem. When I ask a question you have to make off the wall remarks about burying my head. It's you who buried his or her head.
Falcon
I know, but as I said about 3 hour commutes: "Hell that sounds like some people's daily commute."
Falcon
if you think I've no taste for violence, I'd be more than happy to school you on the truth. It's a myth that liberals are sissier than you throwbacks, we just don't need it to settle an argument.
If you think you're a liberal you're wrong. Liberals abhor government and want it limited, not want more of it. Rights are individual not collective.
Falcon
Murdering politicians isn't equivalent to a right to have weapons. That's just one more reason why the tea party is viewed so poorly by sane people.
And exactly what politician has been killed, or was physically threatened, by someone from the Tea Party? Or is this an attempt to deflect protests or put protesters in a bad light? I oppose some of what Tea Party advocates call for but making shit up to shut them up is wrong. If you have to resort to that then it goes to show how constructive you are, not constructive at all.
Falcon
Most (all?) of these types of people would totally freak if you took away their government backed roads, police/fire departments, etc.
Most roads are local or state not federal. The Constitution of the USA does allow states to build them, hell it even allows the feds to build some roads.
Hell , most of them probably couldn't even take having their American Idol or YouTube disappearing because the government no longer regulated the infrastructure upon which they are built.
Oh, you mean the same governments that gave monopolies away? American Idol? Guess where it's viewed... On licensed broadcasting stations. Big media wants licensing to be required to broadcast over the airwaves. And businesses want their monopoly on the use of rights of way or easements to build the infrastructures, whether for cable, electricity, fiber, or telephone.
Falcon
Outlaw lobbying? So goes the First Amendment.
Falcon
Did you not pay attention to what I said?
A smart grid that uses an isolated command and control network would be perfectly OK; It wouldnt use the public internet as it's backbone
No network is perfectly safe, not one. Go ask Kevin Mitnick.
The legislation wouldnt prevent you from having a home automation server; it would just make it illegal for it to be controllable/configurable across the internet.
In other words, the grid would be just as stupid as it is now. And you want to limit what I can be with my own equipment? This is supposed to be the Land of the Free, if you don't like it move, say to Cuba or Zimbabwe. Don't force others to live the way you want.
Falcon
There are numerous situations where a 3 hour wait can be lethal, or at least seriously debilitating
And that's one fit for telesurgery, when tyme is of the essence.
Falcon
do.
Storms don't mess with repair efforts? You have to be joking. Just ask anyone who's had to make repairs in bad weather. Hell bad weather can interfere with normal work, ask most any construction worker that works outdoors. When I worked in construction we sometimes stopped work because of rain.
As for terrorists, if dispatchers know the repairmen then there should not be a problem. If they don't then maybe there's a bigger problem.
Falcon
But all are unencrypted channels that anyone can use, so you can't do secure business on them like you can with a phone.
Secure communications are not needed to repair outages, all that's needed is relatively clear and understandable communications. That's how is was done for many, many years, without cellphones. Having grown up in Florida where we'd have bad storms knock out power and phone lines, that's what we did and it worked fine.
Falcon