Forgot to mention, that the money taken from the broadband fund would always have strict Net Neutrality rules attached it it. ISP's could get rid of the rules by paying back the money, with interest, into the fund. Thus the fund it's self would be perpetual.
The problem with Net Neutrality is the last mile. Thus instead of adding more regulation in the form of Net Neutrality, the government needs to address the issue of government granted monopolies on the last mile. Once that is addressed, Net Neutrality issues will fade away. But Net Neutrality can be used as a stick to get more competition in the last mile.
What needs to happen is the Federal government needs to tally up how much tax payer money has gone to the telecoms, add interest, and then tell the telecoms that they need to pay back X billion dollars, once they have done that, they will own outright their own network. The money paid back to the government goes into a fund available to other ISP's that want to lay their own fiber.
Local municipalities would build, if they haven't already, a pipe in the right of ways in front of every house, going to every house. This pipe is what competing ISP’s would use to lay cable in, instead of having to dig separate trenches themselves. The local government would charge a minimal maintenance fee to any ISP who wants to lay cable in the pipe. The telecoms would also pay the same fee, even if they are not using the pipe, which would be for access to the right of way in front of, and through people’s property. This way the construction and maintenance of the pipe is guaranteed without any higher taxes.
A monopoly can not exist with out the government getting involved. "IP" or Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, etc are a form of a (supposed) limited grant of monopoly power over a particular idea. If we equate less government with getting rid of "IP", then there would be no monopolies because Corporations wouldn't have the Government around to act as their police.
iirc, Rogers in Canada uses the same spectrum allocation as at&t here in the US. Thus you could get a G1/G2 unlocked from Canada and use it on at&t's network.
When Youtube ditches flash and goes full html5, they'll find it more convenient to install a plugin, which they where already conditioned to do for flash, then to install a whole new browser.
Rocket's will never get us very far out of the Earth's gravity well. Nuclear is the only way we are going to explore outside of Earth's gravity well efficiently. Unfortunately, Greenpeace has everyone worried that nuclear is the enemy.
More of a reason to switch to Chrome, or if you are privacy sensitive, SRWare Iron. Running the dev channel means I can get extensions, which allows for the opportunity for ad block.
Firefox is just to damned slow. Maybe if they speed the whole damn browser up I'll look at it, sense Firefox's extensions are still better, but by the time Firefox 4 comes out, Google should have extensions very working well.
Yes, Microsoft has patented the ribbon interface, and you need a license to use it. Microsoft will not allow "clone products" to be licensed, which means sense Firefox is a "clone product" to IE (in Microsoft's eyes) then Microsoft will not give Mozilla a license.
Oh and the reason the American death age is 1 year lower than EU rates has *nothing* to do with the government. Correlation =/= causation. The real cause is that we eating fatty foods that clog arteries & shorten lifespans. Like this ice cream I'm eating for breakfast.;-)
an unhealthy lifestyle is only part of the reason we have a lower lifespan in the US. A major contributing factor is violent deaths (especially in the inner city) are much higher here than in the EU, which drag down the numbers quite a bit. If you eliminate violent deaths from the lifespan number, then we would actually have a higher lifespan than the EU.
Giving us 10,000 years is very kind. To be honest I don't see us surviving the next 100 years. As you mentioned there are way too many crazies that are in the process of, or have nuclear weapons.
This is why we need to get off this rock asap. Yes, space is hostile, but it is about to get just as hostile here in a short amount of time.
We should put nukes in the hands of atheists, who have no sense of an afterlife. Having them in the hands of Christian fundamentalists (USA) or Muslim fundamentalists (Iran, Pakistan) is not a good idea.
What are you talking about 7, I'm sure we can cram 536 (Congress 534 + President and Vice President) politicians on the last shuttle flight, and then have it explode.
536, cause I think it is safe to say most/.ers would want to keep Ron Paul around...
I switched to Chrome from Firefox because 3.5 was much slower in comparison. Sites like Slashdot would pause for 20 seconds while the js loaded, where as with Chrome it was almost instantaneously. I am using the dev version of Chrome, so I get extensions, plugins, and bookmark sync (though bookmark sync hasn't showed up in the Linux port yet).
The Firefox guys need to get it together, and clean up their code. Until then, more people are going to migrate away from Firefox. I wouldn't say Firefox is the new IE, though it is not as standard supporting as Chrome, and Safari (WebKit based browsers), but it is starting to look that way...
Are there any non-apple routers that support IPv6 out of the box? Upgrading from 802.11b/g/a to n would be the perfect opportunity to make sure the consumer router market is ready for IPv6.
The Copyright and Patent laws of 1790 are, imo, is sufficient enough to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;".
14 year copyright, with a 14 year extension, and 17 years for a patent is enough. Authors and Inventors shouldn't be allowed to rest on their laurals for the rest of their lives, but actually contribute to society, which is what the original copyright and patent laws provided for.
Slashdot Mirror
This tells us nothing more than we knew before. Stop using WPA/TKIP and switch to WPA2/AES
Forgot to mention, that the money taken from the broadband fund would always have strict Net Neutrality rules attached it it. ISP's could get rid of the rules by paying back the money, with interest, into the fund. Thus the fund it's self would be perpetual.
The problem with Net Neutrality is the last mile. Thus instead of adding more regulation in the form of Net Neutrality, the government needs to address the issue of government granted monopolies on the last mile. Once that is addressed, Net Neutrality issues will fade away. But Net Neutrality can be used as a stick to get more competition in the last mile.
What needs to happen is the Federal government needs to tally up how much tax payer money has gone to the telecoms, add interest, and then tell the telecoms that they need to pay back X billion dollars, once they have done that, they will own outright their own network. The money paid back to the government goes into a fund available to other ISP's that want to lay their own fiber.
Local municipalities would build, if they haven't already, a pipe in the right of ways in front of every house, going to every house. This pipe is what competing ISP’s would use to lay cable in, instead of having to dig separate trenches themselves. The local government would charge a minimal maintenance fee to any ISP who wants to lay cable in the pipe. The telecoms would also pay the same fee, even if they are not using the pipe, which would be for access to the right of way in front of, and through people’s property. This way the construction and maintenance of the pipe is guaranteed without any higher taxes.
A monopoly can not exist with out the government getting involved. "IP" or Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, etc are a form of a (supposed) limited grant of monopoly power over a particular idea. If we equate less government with getting rid of "IP", then there would be no monopolies because Corporations wouldn't have the Government around to act as their police.
iirc, Rogers in Canada uses the same spectrum allocation as at&t here in the US. Thus you could get a G1/G2 unlocked from Canada and use it on at&t's network.
Chronoskimmer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6eU_148uI
Ya, I can't wait till domains are revoked for holocaust denial, or for "hate speech" against any kind of minority!
whoops, meant to post the above to the GP
Oh, yes, cloud computing. Maybe this is a good time to mention that GMail went down again today, the second time in a month?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10360729-264.html
When Youtube ditches flash and goes full html5, they'll find it more convenient to install a plugin, which they where already conditioned to do for flash, then to install a whole new browser.
Rocket's will never get us very far out of the Earth's gravity well. Nuclear is the only way we are going to explore outside of Earth's gravity well efficiently. Unfortunately, Greenpeace has everyone worried that nuclear is the enemy.
More of a reason to switch to Chrome, or if you are privacy sensitive, SRWare Iron. Running the dev channel means I can get extensions, which allows for the opportunity for ad block.
Firefox is just to damned slow. Maybe if they speed the whole damn browser up I'll look at it, sense Firefox's extensions are still better, but by the time Firefox 4 comes out, Google should have extensions very working well.
Yes, Microsoft has patented the ribbon interface, and you need a license to use it. Microsoft will not allow "clone products" to be licensed, which means sense Firefox is a "clone product" to IE (in Microsoft's eyes) then Microsoft will not give Mozilla a license.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx
Oh and the reason the American death age is 1 year lower than EU rates has *nothing* to do with the government. Correlation =/= causation. The real cause is that we eating fatty foods that clog arteries & shorten lifespans. Like this ice cream I'm eating for breakfast. ;-)
an unhealthy lifestyle is only part of the reason we have a lower lifespan in the US. A major contributing factor is violent deaths (especially in the inner city) are much higher here than in the EU, which drag down the numbers quite a bit. If you eliminate violent deaths from the lifespan number, then we would actually have a higher lifespan than the EU.
Giving us 10,000 years is very kind. To be honest I don't see us surviving the next 100 years. As you mentioned there are way too many crazies that are in the process of, or have nuclear weapons.
This is why we need to get off this rock asap. Yes, space is hostile, but it is about to get just as hostile here in a short amount of time.
We should put nukes in the hands of atheists, who have no sense of an afterlife. Having them in the hands of Christian fundamentalists (USA) or Muslim fundamentalists (Iran, Pakistan) is not a good idea.
What are you talking about 7, I'm sure we can cram 536 (Congress 534 + President and Vice President) politicians on the last shuttle flight, and then have it explode.
536, cause I think it is safe to say most /.ers would want to keep Ron Paul around...
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/
Somebody else has actually seen this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera
I switched to Chrome from Firefox because 3.5 was much slower in comparison. Sites like Slashdot would pause for 20 seconds while the js loaded, where as with Chrome it was almost instantaneously. I am using the dev version of Chrome, so I get extensions, plugins, and bookmark sync (though bookmark sync hasn't showed up in the Linux port yet).
The Firefox guys need to get it together, and clean up their code. Until then, more people are going to migrate away from Firefox. I wouldn't say Firefox is the new IE, though it is not as standard supporting as Chrome, and Safari (WebKit based browsers), but it is starting to look that way...
Are there any non-apple routers that support IPv6 out of the box? Upgrading from 802.11b/g/a to n would be the perfect opportunity to make sure the consumer router market is ready for IPv6.
The Copyright and Patent laws of 1790 are, imo, is sufficient enough to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;".
14 year copyright, with a 14 year extension, and 17 years for a patent is enough. Authors and Inventors shouldn't be allowed to rest on their laurals for the rest of their lives, but actually contribute to society, which is what the original copyright and patent laws provided for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Act_of_1790
Well, your governor has already been there, he should know the way back.
Orgazmo in space? Trey Parker I am looking at you!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/
We really don't want to give Obama any ideas, now. Next thing you know, every American who reaches 65 will be off to Mars.
The one good part about that plan is that we can roll SS and Medicare into NASA's budget...
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."