Why not rethink and remake it completely. In Argentina 33 miners will be delivered to the surface by a capsule moving in a 600 meters tube.
Why not to make a completely automated network of such underground tubes, coming right into our apartments, offices, etc. One just enters into a capsule, types in a destination, and off it goes.
Such a system could be used for deliveries too, but only if a receiver accepts an arrival of a capsule, for security reasons.
Since the tubes run underground, the surface could be used for parks, alleys, stadiums, etc.
The most effective solar and wind power device is drying clothing outside. It not only saves electricity, but actually cooling down an environment.
The problem is that it may look unaesthetic, unless a nice looking dryer is invented. Meanwhile drying clothing in the air is forbidden in many districts and even entire cities.
The effectiveness of drying is 100%. No energy is being lost. And the volume is enormous, - billions of people wash and dry clothing everyday.
Production of dryers does not involve any toxic material and is not expensive. But if clothing is dried in electrical driers then a lot, a lot of electrical energy is being used.
I would argue that the problem of global warming would be solved, if drying outdoors would be not forbidden, but promoted. Of course, after an invention of a aesthetic outdoor drier.
If it were not for free software the PhotoShop would cost not 999 USD, 9999 USD, IIS would cost about 100 grands, etc.
We would have to perform computing with permission of high priests by a code resembling liturgies.
Debatably the free software is not as sophisticated as commercial software, but it is straightforward.
There is a historical parallel. In 30s the FBI was relatively small in numbers, and not that well trained. They've made a lot of errors, but still they could win over gangsters because they did not take bribes; they were honest and straightforward.
Wouldn't it be nice if such balloons were hanging above a megalopolis, attached by a light but strong carbon cord. And wide-angle HD cameras were transmitting real-time high definition images of the megalopolis from above.
Cameras may become in future very small, especially if the water-lenses technology succeed. Such a camera could be lifted by a small balloon. Vibration is not an issue if a photo taken at the 1/1000 second shutter speed.
These images could be assembled on the server by the software into a real time map of the city from above.
And if images are really HD by that time, this map could be zoomed in to have a look at even very small objects on streets, in parks, etc. The images would not be hampered by tens of miles of atmospheric gases as the satellite images inevitably are.
Why IE tabs are so ridiculously enormous and take that much space for nothing? We do have sites where there are interesting things, believe it or not, and we do not need 7% of the screen taken by empty gray space.
In the Soviet Union the dissidents were claimed to be mentally ill.
Nowadays the tendency seems to be to involve sexual misdeeds. Probably because there is more tolerance of mental illnesses. And probably because it is easier to film secretly or eavesdrop.
I do not trust neither all Russians, nor all Americans. There are good people honest in Russia and there are good people in the USA, and there is an eternal undecided struggle between good and evil in both nations.
A Russian poet Nikolay Nekrasov wrote about such people. Something like: "Mother Nature, if from time to time you have not sent such people to the world, the field of Life would be exhausted."
Capital punishment is ineffective and very expensive. What salary would one want to work as a executioner? Would one like to have an office in a building where people are killed? Would one want to work as a hanging judge and meet begging for a life relatives before his/her office building?
Besides it closes the whole thing down, while people sometimes start to talk after some years, after they get older, change. Killing a criminal may forever hide the whole picture of a crime.
Nowadays locking up for good reliably is quite technologically possible. The reinforced concrete, automatic doors, video and audio surveillance make it possible.
I would like to buy Linux netbook but the 3G-modem from the ISP probably would not install on it.
On the other hand, having not even a monopoly, but a global monoculture is dangerous. It is enough to recall what happened when a fungus hit a monoculture of that time (potato) in Ireland.
I think an international law is needed to oblige hardware producers do write drivers with a standardized open programming interface.
The same about software. It should be produced in such a way that allows easy native adaptation for any OSs. I can not use company's VPN client on Linux because it does not exist for Linux. It means that I am locked to Windows via drivers and business software.
I could install Skype on Linux, but my web-cam does not ignite on Ubuntu Linux. Why? Why should it be that way? Frankly, I have an impression that very smart cunning people just found a way to lock people to their product via such small things (tricks).
These stories are going to influence many Russians working abroad and who has nothing to do with an espionage.
Reputation of being from Eastern Europe is not a joke in itself. It is no surprise and in a way deserved since indeed there are a lot of criminals and vagabonds, who moved to the West and are noticeable. By the way, we also do not like the same criminals at the East ourselves.
But now after these spy stories people are just scared and confused when they hear a Russian name in a business context. Seeing and feeling it many Russians are going probably to decide to return back to Russia. Why not, if a "glass ceiling" moves lower and there is no future at the West for them?
In a rich and developed country the departure of several thousand Russian specialists probably will not be even noticeable for the economy, but for Russian economy the arrival of these thousands of specialists with real experience of Western companies would be a major event.
It is not "secrets" what are important, sometimes it is just setting a company website, e-mail system. They will bring with them understanding, habits and know-hows and will influence their new companies.
On some laptops it is not possible to reset a BIOS or hard dis password anymore with a jumper. This is an answer from producers to the growing number of stolen laptops.
Using this security feature would make the theft of laptops less attractive. It means less laptops stolen.
Once I had my bag stolen while walking with a child in a park. I left a bag on a bench. There was a dictionary, in form of a paper book, in this bag, rather expensive. But I found it 20 meters from a bench where I left the bag. A thieve threw it out because he/she did not need it.
A laptop with the security password set would not be needed to a thieve either.
If not, it means that he did not used security features and had to state it clearly at the beginning of the article, before blaming police, the US state, etc.
He had to start like this:
"My laptop was stolen... I did not used security features, which engineers included into this laptop, and in the development of which they invested a lot of labor and talent, and I am sorry for that."
I mean we know that crime and criminals exist. Right? Do we have to lock doors and set passwords? I think we have to. Acting otherwise would be a bit naive.
So he was naive. Ok. But state it clearly, make the article useful for other people.
I live in a large city. The price of an apartment or a house here is so high that I could built the same size apartment from new LCD TV sets.
I mean walls and roof from the flat TVs.
The plumbing can be done nowadays practically with bare hands from metal-plastic tubes, which are not that expensive. In the past such things had to be welded on the spot and it was long and expensive.
A phone cable I do not need, I can use wireless 3G network for Internet and telephone.
I do not understand why the housing keeps being that expensive.
What I mean is that even inside complicated mathematical algorithms there could be mathematical back doors. That all this probably should not only be understood, but verified rigorously.
The most effective solar and wind power device is drying clothing and linen outdoors, as opposite of drying in electrical dryers.
During drying water changes physical state, turning from liquid to vapor. Changing physical state means a lot of energy.
In some districts and even in entire cities drying outdoors is forbidden not to spoil views of nice houses. So in these districts and cities a huge amount of energy is being used in electrical driers.
But in other poorer districts and cities there will be installed immense wind mills and vast solar panel fields, even more reducing a value of housing in these areas.
Instead he had to ban forbidding outdoor drying and invest in development of outdoor driers. Outdoor drying not only saves energy, it cools down the planet, as billions of pieces of clothing and linen is being washed and dried every day around the globe.
Unfortunately, this fashion on vanilla fences and Barby-houses is spreading on such countries and India, China, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, etc., where the growing middle class is also moving into gated communities, where outdoor drying is forbidden.
So the social problem is to be solved, not a technical problem. A solar panel is weak and unreliable in comparison with an outdoor drier, which uses energy of sun and wind most effectively, without any loses, without expensive and polluting manufacturing.
I do not even mean the Linux OS, as Linus Torwalds is also working now in the same country. And to look through millions of lines of code is unrealistic. Besides the compiler is also an issue. What is inside of a compiler?
So, to have a safe secure computing the computer revolution probably is to be started from the beginning.
I think we are facing a serious problem and the Indian government's concerns are well justified.
No argument the Skype, Gmail, Microsoft's products, etc. are very good software. Excellent software. A lot of money and talent was invested in it. I would say even too much. No other software can compete with it at all.
But we do not know what is inside of this compiled or cloud soft. We know that at least some of this global software was created with the financial and organizational input of one government, actively representing interests of a limited group of people.
This software is getting overwhelming global recognition and usage. It may well be that agents of this one and only government can do at will a search not only in the communication messages, but at the local hard disks globally, just as we do search at the websites.
Encryption algorithms are also developed by this body and may have invisible mathematical and code back doors too.
Nothing bad is happening at the moment, as this government is good and benevolent. But what if this changes?
Would not it be too risky to put all eggs in a proverbial basket? Not to have a fail-safe protection at all?
Recent cases show that no other government cannot even remotely compete with this global information prowess of this one country (I repeat very good country, at the moment, no argument about this). Messages are being intercepted and read even before they are sent, even mathematically unbreakable encryption is broken in no time.
Recent famous cases of information access hands-down superiority stunned and reeled some other governments. I guess it may cause new interest in creating their own operating systems, office and communication software, encryption algorithms, networks, and even hardware.
Not to step on the same rake again it all should be open source and communicate between countries and regions also via open source protocols.
Anna Kuschenko (Chapman) was owning and running a successful real estate business http://www.domdot.ru/ . Colleagues say that she was thinking and working on it 7/24.
It is a successful business on the international scale. She was selling apartments and houses in Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, UK, Russia, USA, etc. She was making it big time. They say it is growing like a Second Google.
It is a pity that this nice girl is being sacrificed by priests and patricians on the altar of Greed via this fabricated story. Placing such a girl in a disease infested prison is like killing.
Ia a Russian is not cleaning than he/she is a spy or in money-laundering.
I feel it on myself all the time. Once I was flying in a business class on an international flight and a man from a western country started to blame me openly. He looked at me and asked loudly: "Mafia?" Then continued: "People are dying from hunger in your country and you are flying in business class!"
I just answered to him that the most serious massive health problem nowadays in my country is not a hunger, but overeating and being overweight. And tried not to notice him anymore.
Google has offices in many cities in Russia. They use a secretive encryption for communication (SSL - https), pass cash secretively (as anyone has to in Russia due to high crime rate), collect a lot of information of people, so they must be the US spies. But seriously, this logic is absurd.
The FBI agent (Roman) provoked Anna. I wish that the US authorities would let go our nice girl, Anna Kuschenko (Chapman) and stop this political poor-show.
There is no animosity towards the USA in Russia. On the contrary, people in RF try to learn first hand how the modern US economy and political system work.
A lot of people in Russia learn English language, try to get an education in the USA, at least for their children. Maybe this curiosity went too far in this case. Indeed, using falsified passports does not look good.
But, I think that these people were not trying to harm the USA. At least, this is what I hope, because otherwise I would not approve these my compatriots' actions.
Learn from the leading world economy, yes, learn how in reality the political system works, yes, harm the American people, no.
Though, I realize that for American people this activity may seem disgusting, I do not fail to notice a bravery of these people. Knowing that some turncoat generals moved to the West and work for the western secret services, they still worked for the Russian government. Frankly, it seems rather unlikely to me.
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Why not rethink and remake it completely. In Argentina 33 miners will be delivered to the surface by a capsule moving in a 600 meters tube.
Why not to make a completely automated network of such underground tubes, coming right into our apartments, offices, etc. One just enters into a capsule, types in a destination, and off it goes.
Such a system could be used for deliveries too, but only if a receiver accepts an arrival of a capsule, for security reasons.
Since the tubes run underground, the surface could be used for parks, alleys, stadiums, etc.
One has to understand the the USSR scientific potential was the one of the former Soviet Union countries plus current Israel.
The stupid "socialist" enthusiasm was a result of an ugly massive civil war, which had roots in 19th century's deep social conflicts.
The most effective solar and wind power device is drying clothing outside. It not only saves electricity, but actually cooling down an environment.
The problem is that it may look unaesthetic, unless a nice looking dryer is invented. Meanwhile drying clothing in the air is forbidden in many districts and even entire cities.
The effectiveness of drying is 100%. No energy is being lost. And the volume is enormous, - billions of people wash and dry clothing everyday.
Production of dryers does not involve any toxic material and is not expensive. But if clothing is dried in electrical driers then a lot, a lot of electrical energy is being used.
I would argue that the problem of global warming would be solved, if drying outdoors would be not forbidden, but promoted. Of course, after an invention of a aesthetic outdoor drier.
If it were not for free software the PhotoShop would cost not 999 USD, 9999 USD, IIS would cost about 100 grands, etc.
We would have to perform computing with permission of high priests by a code resembling liturgies.
Debatably the free software is not as sophisticated as commercial software, but it is straightforward.
There is a historical parallel. In 30s the FBI was relatively small in numbers, and not that well trained. They've made a lot of errors, but still they could win over gangsters because they did not take bribes; they were honest and straightforward.
Wouldn't it be nice if such balloons were hanging above a megalopolis, attached by a light but strong carbon cord. And wide-angle HD cameras were transmitting real-time high definition images of the megalopolis from above.
Cameras may become in future very small, especially if the water-lenses technology succeed. Such a camera could be lifted by a small balloon. Vibration is not an issue if a photo taken at the 1/1000 second shutter speed.
These images could be assembled on the server by the software into a real time map of the city from above.
And if images are really HD by that time, this map could be zoomed in to have a look at even very small objects on streets, in parks, etc. The images would not be hampered by tens of miles of atmospheric gases as the satellite images inevitably are.
Why IE tabs are so ridiculously enormous and take that much space for nothing? We do have sites where there are interesting things, believe it or not, and we do not need 7% of the screen taken by empty gray space.
In the Soviet Union the dissidents were claimed to be mentally ill.
Nowadays the tendency seems to be to involve sexual misdeeds. Probably because there is more tolerance of mental illnesses. And probably because it is easier to film secretly or eavesdrop.
Always truthful and honest, them Russians.
I do not trust neither all Russians, nor all Americans. There are good people honest in Russia and there are good people in the USA, and there is an eternal undecided struggle between good and evil in both nations.
The US politicians will soon learn that such people as Julian Assange are part of eternal human struggle for more liberal and fair sosciety.
Julian Assange is part of human history already, the same as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, or Andrey Sakharov, or Mahatma Gandhi.
He is a giant and they are dwarfs (in comparison with him), they just did not get it yet.
I would like to thank Stuart Parmenter, director of Firefox development Mike Beltzner, manager of Firefox's front-end-features team Johnathan Nightingale and Firefox principal engineer Vladimir Vukievi. Here is the photo: http://www.webmonkey.com/2009/11/after_five_years_on_the_web__firefox_preps_for_the_next_round/
and certainly the Mozilla Foundation chairwoman, the great Mitchell Baker. Here is the photo: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Firefox-and-Codecs-Face-of-Mozilla-at-Will-of-Community
A Russian poet Nikolay Nekrasov wrote about such people. Something like: "Mother Nature, if from time to time you have not sent such people to the world, the field of Life would be exhausted."
Capital punishment is ineffective and very expensive. What salary would one want to work as a executioner? Would one like to have an office in a building where people are killed? Would one want to work as a hanging judge and meet begging for a life relatives before his/her office building?
Besides it closes the whole thing down, while people sometimes start to talk after some years, after they get older, change. Killing a criminal may forever hide the whole picture of a crime.
Nowadays locking up for good reliably is quite technologically possible. The reinforced concrete, automatic doors, video and audio surveillance make it possible.
So you have now your own samizdat ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat ). Just like in good old times...
I would like to buy Linux netbook but the 3G-modem from the ISP probably would not install on it.
On the other hand, having not even a monopoly, but a global monoculture is dangerous. It is enough to recall what happened when a fungus hit a monoculture of that time (potato) in Ireland.
I think an international law is needed to oblige hardware producers do write drivers with a standardized open programming interface.
The same about software. It should be produced in such a way that allows easy native adaptation for any OSs. I can not use company's VPN client on Linux because it does not exist for Linux. It means that I am locked to Windows via drivers and business software.
I could install Skype on Linux, but my web-cam does not ignite on Ubuntu Linux. Why? Why should it be that way? Frankly, I have an impression that very smart cunning people just found a way to lock people to their product via such small things (tricks).
These stories are going to influence many Russians working abroad and who has nothing to do with an espionage.
Reputation of being from Eastern Europe is not a joke in itself. It is no surprise and in a way deserved since indeed there are a lot of criminals and vagabonds, who moved to the West and are noticeable. By the way, we also do not like the same criminals at the East ourselves.
But now after these spy stories people are just scared and confused when they hear a Russian name in a business context. Seeing and feeling it many Russians are going probably to decide to return back to Russia. Why not, if a "glass ceiling" moves lower and there is no future at the West for them?
In a rich and developed country the departure of several thousand Russian specialists probably will not be even noticeable for the economy, but for Russian economy the arrival of these thousands of specialists with real experience of Western companies would be a major event.
It is not "secrets" what are important, sometimes it is just setting a company website, e-mail system. They will bring with them understanding, habits and know-hows and will influence their new companies.
On some laptops it is not possible to reset a BIOS or hard dis password anymore with a jumper. This is an answer from producers to the growing number of stolen laptops.
Using this security feature would make the theft of laptops less attractive. It means less laptops stolen.
Once I had my bag stolen while walking with a child in a park. I left a bag on a bench. There was a dictionary, in form of a paper book, in this bag, rather expensive. But I found it 20 meters from a bench where I left the bag. A thieve threw it out because he/she did not need it.
A laptop with the security password set would not be needed to a thieve either.
If not, it means that he did not used security features and had to state it clearly at the beginning of the article, before blaming police, the US state, etc.
He had to start like this:
"My laptop was stolen... I did not used security features, which engineers included into this laptop, and in the development of which they invested a lot of labor and talent, and I am sorry for that."
I mean we know that crime and criminals exist. Right? Do we have to lock doors and set passwords? I think we have to. Acting otherwise would be a bit naive.
So he was naive. Ok. But state it clearly, make the article useful for other people.
Did you have a BIOS and hard disk passwords set on your laptop? I mean those that are requested immediately as the computer switched on?
On some brands, I hear, these passwords are final. No way to bypass them as an OS's password.
I live in a large city. The price of an apartment or a house here is so high that I could built the same size apartment from new LCD TV sets.
I mean walls and roof from the flat TVs.
The plumbing can be done nowadays practically with bare hands from metal-plastic tubes, which are not that expensive. In the past such things had to be welded on the spot and it was long and expensive.
A phone cable I do not need, I can use wireless 3G network for Internet and telephone.
I do not understand why the housing keeps being that expensive.
Good points.
What I mean is that even inside complicated mathematical algorithms there could be mathematical back doors. That all this probably should not only be understood, but verified rigorously.
The most effective solar and wind power device is drying clothing and linen outdoors, as opposite of drying in electrical dryers.
During drying water changes physical state, turning from liquid to vapor. Changing physical state means a lot of energy.
In some districts and even in entire cities drying outdoors is forbidden not to spoil views of nice houses. So in these districts and cities a huge amount of energy is being used in electrical driers.
But in other poorer districts and cities there will be installed immense wind mills and vast solar panel fields, even more reducing a value of housing in these areas.
Instead he had to ban forbidding outdoor drying and invest in development of outdoor driers. Outdoor drying not only saves energy, it cools down the planet, as billions of pieces of clothing and linen is being washed and dried every day around the globe.
Unfortunately, this fashion on vanilla fences and Barby-houses is spreading on such countries and India, China, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, etc., where the growing middle class is also moving into gated communities, where outdoor drying is forbidden.
So the social problem is to be solved, not a technical problem. A solar panel is weak and unreliable in comparison with an outdoor drier, which uses energy of sun and wind most effectively, without any loses, without expensive and polluting manufacturing.
I do not even mean the Linux OS, as Linus Torwalds is also working now in the same country. And to look through millions of lines of code is unrealistic. Besides the compiler is also an issue. What is inside of a compiler?
So, to have a safe secure computing the computer revolution probably is to be started from the beginning.
I think we are facing a serious problem and the Indian government's concerns are well justified.
No argument the Skype, Gmail, Microsoft's products, etc. are very good software. Excellent software. A lot of money and talent was invested in it. I would say even too much. No other software can compete with it at all.
But we do not know what is inside of this compiled or cloud soft. We know that at least some of this global software was created with the financial and organizational input of one government, actively representing interests of a limited group of people.
This software is getting overwhelming global recognition and usage. It may well be that agents of this one and only government can do at will a search not only in the communication messages, but at the local hard disks globally, just as we do search at the websites.
Encryption algorithms are also developed by this body and may have invisible mathematical and code back doors too.
Nothing bad is happening at the moment, as this government is good and benevolent. But what if this changes?
Would not it be too risky to put all eggs in a proverbial basket? Not to have a fail-safe protection at all?
Recent cases show that no other government cannot even remotely compete with this global information prowess of this one country (I repeat very good country, at the moment, no argument about this). Messages are being intercepted and read even before they are sent, even mathematically unbreakable encryption is broken in no time.
Recent famous cases of information access hands-down superiority stunned and reeled some other governments. I guess it may cause new interest in creating their own operating systems, office and communication software, encryption algorithms, networks, and even hardware.
Not to step on the same rake again it all should be open source and communicate between countries and regions also via open source protocols.
Anna Kuschenko (Chapman) was owning and running a successful real estate business http://www.domdot.ru/ . Colleagues say that she was thinking and working on it 7/24.
It is a successful business on the international scale. She was selling apartments and houses in Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, UK, Russia, USA, etc. She was making it big time. They say it is growing like a Second Google.
It is a pity that this nice girl is being sacrificed by priests and patricians on the altar of Greed via this fabricated story. Placing such a girl in a disease infested prison is like killing.
Next time it may be another business, say, yours.
Ia a Russian is not cleaning than he/she is a spy or in money-laundering.
I feel it on myself all the time. Once I was flying in a business class on an international flight and a man from a western country started to blame me openly. He looked at me and asked loudly: "Mafia?" Then continued: "People are dying from hunger in your country and you are flying in business class!"
I just answered to him that the most serious massive health problem nowadays in my country is not a hunger, but overeating and being overweight. And tried not to notice him anymore.
Google has offices in many cities in Russia. They use a secretive encryption for communication (SSL - https), pass cash secretively (as anyone has to in Russia due to high crime rate), collect a lot of information of people, so they must be the US spies. But seriously, this logic is absurd.
The FBI agent (Roman) provoked Anna. I wish that the US authorities would let go our nice girl, Anna Kuschenko (Chapman) and stop this political poor-show.
These people were in the USA since 90s.
There is no animosity towards the USA in Russia. On the contrary, people in RF try to learn first hand how the modern US economy and political system work.
A lot of people in Russia learn English language, try to get an education in the USA, at least for their children. Maybe this curiosity went too far in this case. Indeed, using falsified passports does not look good.
But, I think that these people were not trying to harm the USA. At least, this is what I hope, because otherwise I would not approve these my compatriots' actions.
Learn from the leading world economy, yes, learn how in reality the political system works, yes, harm the American people, no.
Though, I realize that for American people this activity may seem disgusting, I do not fail to notice a bravery of these people. Knowing that some turncoat generals moved to the West and work for the western secret services, they still worked for the Russian government. Frankly, it seems rather unlikely to me.