OK, everyone just sit down, lean back, and don't do a God damn thing the next two years. _Then_ I'll bet the Net will be broken. But until there is absolutely no monetary or practical value to using the Net, that's not gonna happen. It's really that easy.
I think the Really Hard Nut To Crack is not going to be technological, but sociological and political.
Yeap, so to speak. You cannot expect humans to be any different because of the technology. We have proven far too many times that technological advances make us no less assholes and idiots.
What we need to do is start with the problem, not the technology. If a current (or near future) technology can do the job, fine! But technology should never be the goal.
Seriously, it's the people who have been too lazy when things like the US coup of 2000 can happen without any reaction whatsoever. How about getting off your asses (and drag your neighbor with you) and vote? By the way, calling a two-party election "democratic" is just ridiculous. Look at Norway, where no party has had absolute majority in at least 20 years, and which has been at the top of the UN Human Development Index since 2001!</rant>
The solution for anyone with a brain: SFTP or the like. Then you'd have to do some serious cracking to find the "real criminals" instead of those sending massive amounts of home-made pictures and videos to friends and family.
Persistent client interactivity, who would have thought that was possible with cookies? Apparently only the brilliant minds at Amazon (and the dim bulbs at the Patent Office).
Yep, Einstein must be spinning in his grave from seeing how plain stupid some of the patents are.
Sure, and then you join three views based on a substring of a value which is not even a key, and all hell is loose. Then there is decrypting the view to extract exactly those substrings which you need, and break the purpose of the view because you want your statement to finish in less than 30 minutes, goddammit!</rant>
But, consider cloning the EU/EC Media Player bundling case for IE, and voilá! I believe this will happen as soon as government agencies all over the world start realizing the security and productivity risk IE poses. And when non-power users have to manually download and install a browser, IE will be in the ß#!7:)
CERN is well worth a try for people who want some experience with working in other countries. AFAIK you need to be started on undergraduate studies in physics, engineering, or computing, and be good at English OR French. First time engagements are normally between two months and three years. The recruitment website explains most of what you need to know. See you here!
Check out the spam to "good" email ratio at CERN http://mmmservices.web.cern.ch/mmmservices/. When I started there in January, I seem to remember that it was something like 55%...
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OK, everyone just sit down, lean back, and don't do a God damn thing the next two years. _Then_ I'll bet the Net will be broken. But until there is absolutely no monetary or practical value to using the Net, that's not gonna happen. It's really that easy.
What, I can't vote more than +6?
Yeap, so to speak. You cannot expect humans to be any different because of the technology. We have proven far too many times that technological advances make us no less assholes and idiots.
What we need to do is start with the problem, not the technology. If a current (or near future) technology can do the job, fine! But technology should never be the goal.
Now hush, or Amazon are gonna have /.ers by the balls!
Seriously, it's the people who have been too lazy when things like the US coup of 2000 can happen without any reaction whatsoever. How about getting off your asses (and drag your neighbor with you) and vote? By the way, calling a two-party election "democratic" is just ridiculous. Look at Norway, where no party has had absolute majority in at least 20 years, and which has been at the top of the UN Human Development Index since 2001!</rant>
The solution for anyone with a brain: SFTP or the like. Then you'd have to do some serious cracking to find the "real criminals" instead of those sending massive amounts of home-made pictures and videos to friends and family.
Sure, and then you join three views based on a substring of a value which is not even a key, and all hell is loose. Then there is decrypting the view to extract exactly those substrings which you need, and break the purpose of the view because you want your statement to finish in less than 30 minutes, goddammit!</rant>
But, consider cloning the EU/EC Media Player bundling case for IE, and voilá! I believe this will happen as soon as government agencies all over the world start realizing the security and productivity risk IE poses. And when non-power users have to manually download and install a browser, IE will be in the ß#!7 :)
CERN is well worth a try for people who want some experience with working in other countries. AFAIK you need to be started on undergraduate studies in physics, engineering, or computing, and be good at English OR French. First time engagements are normally between two months and three years. The recruitment website explains most of what you need to know. See you here!
Check out the spam to "good" email ratio at CERN http://mmmservices.web.cern.ch/mmmservices/. When I started there in January, I seem to remember that it was something like 55%...