I'm amazed Ceefax was still up. It wasn't even interactive, but it was "digital". There were other systems from that era, such as Prestel (UK, a flop), Minitel (France, a big success), and NAPLPS (North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax), still used by some gambling terminals that need to send graphics over slow dedicated lines).
None of the pre-PC era stuff ever caught on in the US. France Telecom deployed dial-up Minitel service in the US, but it was used by few Americans. QUBE, a cable TV based system, was deployed in Columbus, OH. But that was about it until the PC era.
Minitel was a big success as far as I remember as people were given minitel terminals.
From wikipedia:
"Millions of terminals were handed out free to telephone subscribers, resulting in a high penetration rate among businesses and the public. In exchange for the terminal, the possessors of Minitel would not be given free "white page" printed directories (alphabetical list of residents and firms), but only the yellow pages (classified commercial listings, with advertisements); the white pages were accessible for free on Minitel, and they could be searched by a reasonably intelligent search engine; much faster than flipping through a paper directory."
You require people by law to retain all comm for N years on their own machines at their own expense. You require them by law to install a tool which indexes and reports the info back to the command center. You make versions available for Windows and Mac.
Then you just imprison anyone who doesn't comply (terrorists). Problem solved.
What about linux?;) You are now a terrorist if you have linux or some other operating system.
I am gonna right a new book called 2084 - a future projection - and just cut and paste what roman_mir just said:) and step 5:profit
Of-course this proposal concerns all those, who are concerned about the real-time communications of everybody.
The proposal is this: all of those, who are so concerned about the real time communications and all other forms of communications and thoughts and actions of other people, the concerned need to be protected.
The proposal is to protect those, who are so afraid and are looking for protection, because obviously, there will never be enough done, in their eyes, to protect them. Clearly real time monitoring of all communications is not enough. Eventually everybody will have to have devices built into them, that can monitor everybody's real-time activities, and eventually read their real time thoughts with the long term goal of projecting thoughts in real time into everybody, so that nobody could ever even think something that the concerned individuals would be afraid of.
"So the proposal is to protect these poor souls from the rest of us by isolating them into a well guarded facility, where they could really have real time monitoring of all communications that are internal to that facility and monitor each other (I suppose they are paranoid enough to want to do that).
For those, who believe it is not enough protection, they should be isolated within that facility from the rest in well suited, very well protected rooms (and they should have extra set of locks they could use from the inside), and all of them need to be given all sorts of weapons they need to keep safe as well.
I believe it is at the point right now, where those, who believe they are in need of protection and will not stop until everybody is a mechanised food processor without any original thoughts, that these people need to get the protection they so desire so that the rest of us can carry on, having terrible thoughts and killing each other they way we do - left, right and centre." Roman_mir
Nick Pickles, director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, called the move "an unprecedented step that will see Britain adopt the same kind of surveillance seen in China and Iran". Conservative MP Dominic Raab said it was "a plan to privatise Big Brother surveillance" which "fundamentally changes the nature of the relationship between the state and the citizen" and turns every individual "into a suspect". Fellow Tory David Davis warned that until now anyone wishing to monitor communications had been required to gain permission from a magistrate, but the planned changes would remove that protection.
What do internet service providers say?
Trefor Davies, a board member at the UK's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA), told the BBC that the technological challenge of collating and storing such vast levels of data would be huge. Although a large amount of data about us is already collected for billing and other purposes - such as who we call and when - ISPs do not currently store detailed data on what websites we visit, or details about the emails we send. Mr Davies said: "The email stuff isn't straight forward, and neither is the web. Those aren't bits of information that traditionally we keep. We don't keep backups of deleted emails. Think of all the spam people get," Mr Davies added. "We delete it, but under the new rules would we be allowed to?"
And what does it matter? Is my refrigerator a walled garden because it's hard to get into and fix? Is my dishwasher a walled garden? How about my car? My car now has a fancy computer that needs a special adapter and software to interface, is that a walled garden?
He got one of those pop-up lawyers that have now been hounded. He paid up £600 (if memory serves), he has a house though and was worried about losing thousands. I have nothing so it would have been interesting for them to try to sue me - although I have a wife so hmmm:)
Although the six degrees of separation doesn't work in the way that most people think. There is generally a couple of really well connected people in the network. I find this to be true with my friends where most people have a few other friends(less actual close friends) and one person who knows and keeps in contact with say 50ish. He collects friends.
This is what happened in the original experiment with the letters.
"In an experiment in which 160 letters were mailed out, 24 reached the target in his Sharon, Massachusetts home. Of those 24, 16 were given to the target person by the same person Milgram calls "Mr. Jacobs", a clothing merchant. Of those that reached him at his office, more than half came from two other men.[5]"
They can also apparently pull you if you have a similar in any way plate. try diff make of car and dark blue vs yellow. very embarrassing in a professional situation.
The police in the UK have pulled me whilst i was stationary. Overzealous special police office.
Do not trust the police they are in the main, like traffic warden.
Allow disabled people to use a computer without a keyboard
Sending email or a text message without even having to use equipment like a cell phone (for example "call my lawyer, I'm being arrested for looking Arabic!").
Technology enabled telepathy
Man... the 21st century is gonna be so cool!
Except after reading that - my lawyer would be now being called and he would be wondering about the Arabic part;)
Nerds seeking a feeling of control in their lives turn to computers. They hate the idea of appliances, because the feeling of mastery over something gives them a sense of control that they lack in their daily lives.
I think some of the Apple hatred stems from the fact that many techies absorb themselves in computers because it gives them a feeling of control that they lack in their daily lives. Mastering a system is gratifying on many levels.
I think the cause of reactions like yours is that some people don't have control in their lives, so they seek it in PCs, because mastering the upkeep required for a PC gives you that missing feeling of control. Having that feeling taken away from you by non-PCs threatens you on a core level, reminding you of the lack of control in your real life, so you snap back to protect it.
You don't even really try, do you?
Thanks for that. I thought that I had heard that sentiment on Slashdot a couple of times and it was bugging me.
"as it attempts to beat the likes of Apple and Google"
A strange choice of words. I think "as it attempts to compete with the likes of..." would be more accurate and desirable - the last thing the technology market needs these days is a single, clearcut winner (at least, if you're a consumer). That aside, as a Canadian I'd like to see RIM survive on its own and if this helps to shake things up then it's a welcome move; I don't fancy the thought of the Samsung chaebol gaining even more power than it already has.
"Chaebol (from chae: wealth or property + pl: faction or clan)[1] refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate. They are global multinationals owning numerous international enterprises. The term is often used in a context similar to that of the English word "conglomerate". The term was first used in 1984.[1]"
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) (often pronounced/dkss/) is an international telecommunications standard that permits the addition of high-speed data transfer to an existing cable TV (CATV) system. It is employed by many cable television operators to provide Internet access (see cable Internet) over their existing hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) infrastructure.
Slashdot Mirror
What's the dual use for the theory of gravity?
defenestration
Such a great and underused word, well done. Although I suppose people going out of windows is not that common in most people's experience.
Where am I supposed to go now if I want to find cheap flights abroard!?!?
:)
I am still amazed that people look at this nonsense waiting for it to change page. Its like Luddite heaven.
I'm amazed Ceefax was still up. It wasn't even interactive, but it was "digital". There were other systems from that era, such as Prestel (UK, a flop), Minitel (France, a big success), and NAPLPS (North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax), still used by some gambling terminals that need to send graphics over slow dedicated lines).
None of the pre-PC era stuff ever caught on in the US. France Telecom deployed dial-up Minitel service in the US, but it was used by few Americans. QUBE, a cable TV based system, was deployed in Columbus, OH. But that was about it until the PC era.
Minitel was a big success as far as I remember as people were given minitel terminals.
From wikipedia:
"Millions of terminals were handed out free to telephone subscribers, resulting in a high penetration rate among businesses and the public. In exchange for the terminal, the possessors of Minitel would not be given free "white page" printed directories (alphabetical list of residents and firms), but only the yellow pages (classified commercial listings, with advertisements); the white pages were accessible for free on Minitel, and they could be searched by a reasonably intelligent search engine; much faster than flipping through a paper directory."
You require people by law to retain all comm for N years on their own machines at their own expense. You require them by law to install a tool which indexes and reports the info back to the command center. You make versions available for Windows and Mac.
Then you just imprison anyone who doesn't comply (terrorists). Problem solved.
What about linux? ;) You are now a terrorist if you have linux or some other operating system.
1984 anyone?
I am gonna right a new book called 2084 - a future projection - and just cut and paste what roman_mir just said :) and step 5:profit
Of-course this proposal concerns all those, who are concerned about the real-time communications of everybody.
The proposal is this: all of those, who are so concerned about the real time communications and all other forms of communications and thoughts and actions of other people, the concerned need to be protected.
The proposal is to protect those, who are so afraid and are looking for protection, because obviously, there will never be enough done, in their eyes, to protect them. Clearly real time monitoring of all communications is not enough. Eventually everybody will have to have devices built into them, that can monitor everybody's real-time activities, and eventually read their real time thoughts with the long term goal of projecting thoughts in real time into everybody, so that nobody could ever even think something that the concerned individuals would be afraid of.
"So the proposal is to protect these poor souls from the rest of us by isolating them into a well guarded facility, where they could really have real time monitoring of all communications that are internal to that facility and monitor each other (I suppose they are paranoid enough to want to do that).
For those, who believe it is not enough protection, they should be isolated within that facility from the rest in well suited, very well protected rooms (and they should have extra set of locks they could use from the inside), and all of them need to be given all sorts of weapons they need to keep safe as well.
I believe it is at the point right now, where those, who believe they are in need of protection and will not stop until everybody is a mechanised food processor without any original thoughts, that these people need to get the protection they so desire so that the rest of us can carry on, having terrible thoughts and killing each other they way we do - left, right and centre."
Roman_mir
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17590363
What do critics say?
Nick Pickles, director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, called the move "an unprecedented step that will see Britain adopt the same kind of surveillance seen in China and Iran". Conservative MP Dominic Raab said it was "a plan to privatise Big Brother surveillance" which "fundamentally changes the nature of the relationship between the state and the citizen" and turns every individual "into a suspect". Fellow Tory David Davis warned that until now anyone wishing to monitor communications had been required to gain permission from a magistrate, but the planned changes would remove that protection.
What do internet service providers say?
Trefor Davies, a board member at the UK's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA), told the BBC that the technological challenge of collating and storing such vast levels of data would be huge. Although a large amount of data about us is already collected for billing and other purposes - such as who we call and when - ISPs do not currently store detailed data on what websites we visit, or details about the emails we send. Mr Davies said: "The email stuff isn't straight forward, and neither is the web. Those aren't bits of information that traditionally we keep. We don't keep backups of deleted emails. Think of all the spam people get," Mr Davies added. "We delete it, but under the new rules would we be allowed to?"
"Now why on Earth did you access this terrorist website?"
"For the last time, it's called trolling, you goddamn noob!"
I am not sure I would be so brave whilst sitting in my orange jumpsuit.
Might make a great Tango advert though. (tango the orangey fizzy drink not the dance).
I'll take all your royalties on the use of the word 'a' please.
I would rather an 'e'. The most common letter in English. Or in Chinese 'de'
And what does it matter? Is my refrigerator a walled garden because it's hard to get into and fix? Is my dishwasher a walled garden? How about my car? My car now has a fancy computer that needs a special adapter and software to interface, is that a walled garden?
I fixed my washing machine using espares.com and youtube. I want more open source things like the open source coffee machine on kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-controlled-espresso-machine I want to fiddle about if I feel like it.
They will take your wife and sell her into slavery. But you knew that, right?
I sold her already. You do know we are in a recession.
He got one of those pop-up lawyers that have now been hounded. He paid up £600 (if memory serves), he has a house though and was worried about losing thousands. I have nothing so it would have been interesting for them to try to sue me - although I have a wife so hmmm :)
Although the six degrees of separation doesn't work in the way that most people think. There is generally a couple of really well connected people in the network. I find this to be true with my friends where most people have a few other friends(less actual close friends) and one person who knows and keeps in contact with say 50ish. He collects friends.
This is what happened in the original experiment with the letters.
"In an experiment in which 160 letters were mailed out, 24 reached the target in his Sharon, Massachusetts home. Of those 24, 16 were given to the target person by the same person Milgram calls "Mr. Jacobs", a clothing merchant. Of those that reached him at his office, more than half came from two other men.[5]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment
All over again.
Green lights all the way with my greenlightduino.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_person
You would have a job doing that as she is dead. :)
They can also apparently pull you if you have a similar in any way plate. try diff make of car and dark blue vs yellow. very embarrassing in a professional situation.
The police in the UK have pulled me whilst i was stationary.
Overzealous special police office.
Do not trust the police they are in the main, like traffic warden.
If you are born completely deaf, what language do you think in?
English - its the standard language - Just shout loud enough and even deaf people will understand. :)
Man... the 21st century is gonna be so cool!
Except after reading that - my lawyer would be now being called and he would be wondering about the Arabic part ;)
Look at this list of infected apps.
iApps7 Inc Counter Elite Force Arcade & Action
iApps7 Inc Counter Strike Ground Force Arcade & Action
iApps7 Inc CounterStrike Hit Enemy Arcade & Action
iApps7 Inc Heart Live Wallpaper Entertainment
iApps7 Inc Hit Counter Terrorist Arcade & Action
iApps7 Inc Stripper Touch girl Entertainment
Ogre Games Balloon Game Sports Games
Ogre Games Deal & Be Millionaire Sports Games
Ogre Games Wild Man Arcade & Action
redmicapps Pretty women lingerie puzzle Photography
redmicapps Sexy Girls Photo Game Lifestyle
redmicapps Sexy Girls Puzzle Brain & Puzzle
redmicapps Sexy Women Puzzle Brain & Puzzle
These are all Facebook type games that idiots play.
O for my mod points +6 funny :)
AC writes:
Nerds seeking a feeling of control in their lives turn to computers. They hate the idea of appliances, because the feeling of mastery over something gives them a sense of control that they lack in their daily lives.
bonch writes:
I think some of the Apple hatred stems from the fact that many techies absorb themselves in computers because it gives them a feeling of control that they lack in their daily lives. Mastering a system is gratifying on many levels.
Overly Critical Guy writes:
I think the cause of reactions like yours is that some people don't have control in their lives, so they seek it in PCs, because mastering the upkeep required for a PC gives you that missing feeling of control. Having that feeling taken away from you by non-PCs threatens you on a core level, reminding you of the lack of control in your real life, so you snap back to protect it.
You don't even really try, do you?
Thanks for that. I thought that I had heard that sentiment on Slashdot a couple of times and it was bugging me.
"as it attempts to beat the likes of Apple and Google"
A strange choice of words. I think "as it attempts to compete with the likes of..." would be more accurate and desirable - the last thing the technology market needs these days is a single, clearcut winner (at least, if you're a consumer). That aside, as a Canadian I'd like to see RIM survive on its own and if this helps to shake things up then it's a welcome move; I don't fancy the thought of the Samsung chaebol gaining even more power than it already has.
I thought you had made a typo with chaebol but no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
"Chaebol (from chae: wealth or property + pl: faction or clan)[1] refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate. They are global multinationals owning numerous international enterprises. The term is often used in a context similar to that of the English word "conglomerate". The term was first used in 1984.[1]"
If anyone is going to be using this tool they need to learn how to be completely anonymous with docsis technology...
Why would one want to learn about docsis?
I looked it up and its about cable tv and fibre connections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) (often pronounced /dkss/) is an international telecommunications standard that permits the addition of high-speed data transfer to an existing cable TV (CATV) system. It is employed by many cable television operators to provide Internet access (see cable Internet) over their existing hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) infrastructure.
I am still using EGA, you insensitive clod!
I am still using EGA, you insensitive clod!
ega I am still using cga - get off my lawn :)
I thought flash was about to die for the mobile.
This is is why i used phonegap for my app. Then a previous comment suggests that phonegap is a liability. arggggh
Many of us have torrents and like Us crime dramas without ads.:) (probably)