It was many moons ago, 1st grade, the teacher's boyfriend was a telecom tech. He brought about 6ft of 100 pair cable, chopped up to the right size for all the kids in class to make bendy wire things out of (rings, soldiers etc.) Not long after that I was introduced to a volt meter. By 9 I was 'fixing' (destroying) televisions. Visual aid material is important.
SysAdmins make it possible for people to share ideas and information as well as use computer based tools. When you think of it like that, you should be able to find a way to get the kids to share etc. and compare this to what you do. Two kids drawing rocket parts, putting drawing in an envelope (packetize it) and pass it along the 8 kids acting like a network to another 'engineer' who is designing a different part of the rocket. An estes model rocket (in pieces) for them to use as a guide to draw from would be good. Make the network kids on the ends hold a nic card in their hand. cat 5 cables between the other network kids etc. Make the kids 'part' of the networked system. Just a few thoughts.
The trouble with using Occam's Razor here is that we are talking about how matter and energy interact over very long distances. The scale of it is larger than seems probable for choosing simplest answers. It seems agreed that something is distorting our measurement of how things are working, but what that is may be difficult to discern while remaining within it's distortion field.
If indeed we are in a matter/gas/dust free bubble of space, it would rule out dark matter as the 'cataract' in the eyes of our science. Dark matter doesn't seem to be explaining everything either. A classic case of 4 blind men and an elephant.
Of course, if those are not acceptable, we can go with the fact that we see what we do because that is how the FSM wants it to be. Either that or the aliens are creating this illusion so they can keep studying us.
I'm tired of sending money out in the form of taxes and seeing shit in return for it. Yes, I know I get stuff, but there is so much that doesn't make sense that it seems a waste.
As far as zip codes go, clue: they mail you a bill with that 9 digit zip code on the address. There should be NO overhead incurred in using it for reporting. Reporting with a finer grained filter on who has broadband where will help regulators adjust how licenses are granted or retained. The complaint is that ISPs report they have X percent of users with "broadband" coverage, which is a failed description at this point. In truth, the license says they have to have y% of users in a given geographic area covered with "broadband" to keep the license. So the metro areas are covered... anyone out of town is fucked. When they find it financially acceptable, whole neighborhoods can be ignored and they still meet their requirements for licensing.
The current definition of broadband was created when DSL was bleeding edge. It needs redefined in order to force acceptable pricing models in the marketplace.
The idea is to close the loophole that ISPs and telecom operators have used for decades to keep their licenses while not having to serve those areas that are financially unrewarding to serve with the same service.
In all honesty, knowing something about the business, this is stuff that they SHOULD have been doing all along, even if they reduced the granularity afterwards for reports sent to the FCC.
Businesses in the USA are broken with regard to how they handle data. I don't see the EU doing much better as a whole, but this is about the US. Data breaches, security issues, lack of reporting/archiving etc. Over the last 5-7 years, CIOs have gained more power in general, but they still do NOT have control of their data. This is one thing that excites me about Google... DATA is their entire business.... well, more or less. They are branching out, but they still seem quite focused on the data. Handling data is not easy, or cheap, and businesses try to use both of those routes when handling data: easy and cheap. I hope that this will cause them to be a bit more cogent with their data and what they can do with it.
I'd like to see Congress and the Senate Slashdotted handily for every bill up for a vote, well at least the really big ones. I don't really care if the bill is just about congressional medals or something similar.
When it becomes common in the House and Senate for a legislator to take the floor and start off by saying "my constituents have been very clear on this matter via email and telephone..... I vote xyz" then we might consider that we have representative government.
You beat me to it. Such a process is used for every RF spectrum. It is NOT news. "Lowering the cost" - makes me wonder wtf they were thinking to not use this in the first place? RF engineering is an old profession.
* There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend â" Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3 (1594)
(Their can be understood equally well as referring to each man considered one at a time, or to all of them collectively.)[citation needed]
In this example, *his* would have been appropriate as gender is implied in the context of the writing, whereas 'user' is generic, and NOT gender specific. Using the pronoun 'her' instead of 'his' is as sexually discriminatory as using simply 'his' has been judged to be in the past. Therefore, I submit that 'their' is appropriate as user refers to one of any number of possible users, and not a single user of specific gender.
I'm with you on the chimney thing... semi-submerged 'tents' for collection should not be *that* difficult to build/maintain, as it is in cold water already, capturing it cold (deeper than surface) might be an even more attainable goal. Once containerized, getting it to the surface should be rather easy. I think the trick would be to containerize it as deep as possible, then ship to be used for generating power. A floatilla of light weight containers shouldn't cost to much to ship to a local-ish power generation station as an auxiliary energy source for the generation process. You can find interesting information here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=googleabout&btnG=Search+our+site&q=energy%20density%20methane
Who is to say that Russian authorities are not using this coder as a cover for much more malicious activities? All we know is that there is a virus that encrypts your data. What is it that we don't know yet?
The council says it is "deeply concerned" by the news, but is confident that "multiple layers of security have prevented access to systems and data.""
but is confident that "multiple layers of security have prevented the council from knowing if anyone has had or does have access to systems and data.""
That's exactly what I was thinking. This is a patent end game 2 yard line play. Once it's obvious what patents don't exist, all patents are then obvious with or without prior art! Game over!
Or someone that needs a liver, or heart, or something else. Somehow, they'll find lab animals in this kind of need. But you're right, that's the next step into perfecting the 'grow a new organ' process. Hopefully they get it right soon. I look forward to being able to rely on that in the future.
Damn, that did kind of sound elitist. Anyone with ideas on how to educate the general population? I'm in the group that is lamenting societies ability to ignore people who do understand. Worse, I also lament about political figures who ignore good advice on purpose. No wonder people drink!
A lot of people said it, long ago. DRM won't work for this very reason (and many others) and now those who were legal, and honest, and bought DRM'd content have to suffer AGAIN. It's not just Wal-Mart, how many other content providers also shut down, or screwed their customers by dropping or changing the DRM.
Me? I'm still sitting back, waiting for the industry to calm down and pull their heads out. Punishing the customer won't stop the criminals, never will. Now that the US Dollar is about to be worth... next to nothing, they will have to kiss customer's asses to get them to spend money. We'll see how this all plays out. Even the DOJ doesn't like the **AA's game plan. It's falling apart on them. Wal-Mart is NOT a small retailer. This is a large nail in the coffin that DRM will be put to rest in.
Maybe they move away at that point, but you've already got some pretty serious problems.
Yes, and if you're using plain text password transmission, game over.
The door lock to security analogy of this goes: When the thief twists your door knob to see if it's locked, if you didn't lock it, game over. From the street or some distant spot on the network, everything looks the same. It's ONLY when you attempt to open the door or look at the packets that you find out whether the locks are in use.
Getting to the point that they can see your packets (for many hackers) is as easy as walking up to your front door. On the Internet, it's as easy to walk up to your front door as it is to walk up to the front door of someone in another country. In fact, some hackers walk up to a LOT of front doors to find one that is not locked.
The analogy still works. Those serious problems that you are talking about have always been there. Every cable subscriber in the USA probably has 14 people looking at their front door to see if it's locked. Remember, hackers are not all script kiddies. It only takes one trojan to sit there and monitor the whole neighborhood looking for somewhere else to live and scoop passwords. Aunt Ethel on the corner doesn't know much about computer security, so her pc is the one monitoring your packets. See how this goes?
In this case, you do lock the doors because you are ALWAYS expecting people to try to get in. period. that's juts how it is.
Andy Dodd's post was the funniest of the whole page!! I was thinking the same thing. Some of this sounds like it was ripped from an existential angst ridden teen's MySpace page.
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User tracking can't be good. The information gleaned from 15 million users can be. Imagine if you could see every search for political terms from anywhere. Those Google trends charts start to be more meaningful than they already are. Perhaps a researcher might want to know what level of exposure there is to cellular radiation among pre-teens? There are thousands of statistics that might probably be useful if everyone allowed tracking. Nobody wants big brother following them around town, or listening to their conversations. The dangers are imminent, and the idea that a health care provider might in the future refuse treatment of a skin tumor on your cheek because of recorded cellular usage is frighteningly real.
The desire of big brother to want to be able to track anyone anytime is also a great danger. The bad guys will always thwart such efforts and only the innocent will be harmed.
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It was many moons ago, 1st grade, the teacher's boyfriend was a telecom tech. He brought about 6ft of 100 pair cable, chopped up to the right size for all the kids in class to make bendy wire things out of (rings, soldiers etc.) Not long after that I was introduced to a volt meter. By 9 I was 'fixing' (destroying) televisions. Visual aid material is important.
SysAdmins make it possible for people to share ideas and information as well as use computer based tools. When you think of it like that, you should be able to find a way to get the kids to share etc. and compare this to what you do. Two kids drawing rocket parts, putting drawing in an envelope (packetize it) and pass it along the 8 kids acting like a network to another 'engineer' who is designing a different part of the rocket. An estes model rocket (in pieces) for them to use as a guide to draw from would be good. Make the network kids on the ends hold a nic card in their hand. cat 5 cables between the other network kids etc. Make the kids 'part' of the networked system. Just a few thoughts.
Try searching for 'sarah palin' or 'conspiracy theory' for a few minutes of fun
Now you'll see why snapshots are good :)
The trouble with using Occam's Razor here is that we are talking about how matter and energy interact over very long distances. The scale of it is larger than seems probable for choosing simplest answers. It seems agreed that something is distorting our measurement of how things are working, but what that is may be difficult to discern while remaining within it's distortion field.
If indeed we are in a matter/gas/dust free bubble of space, it would rule out dark matter as the 'cataract' in the eyes of our science. Dark matter doesn't seem to be explaining everything either. A classic case of 4 blind men and an elephant.
Of course, if those are not acceptable, we can go with the fact that we see what we do because that is how the FSM wants it to be. Either that or the aliens are creating this illusion so they can keep studying us.
http://mailman.mcmaster.ca/mailman/private/cdn-nucl-l/0712/msg00004.html or did we find more to use in microscopes and other things, like balloons?
I'm tired of sending money out in the form of taxes and seeing shit in return for it. Yes, I know I get stuff, but there is so much that doesn't make sense that it seems a waste.
As far as zip codes go, clue: they mail you a bill with that 9 digit zip code on the address. There should be NO overhead incurred in using it for reporting. Reporting with a finer grained filter on who has broadband where will help regulators adjust how licenses are granted or retained. The complaint is that ISPs report they have X percent of users with "broadband" coverage, which is a failed description at this point. In truth, the license says they have to have y% of users in a given geographic area covered with "broadband" to keep the license. So the metro areas are covered... anyone out of town is fucked. When they find it financially acceptable, whole neighborhoods can be ignored and they still meet their requirements for licensing.
The current definition of broadband was created when DSL was bleeding edge. It needs redefined in order to force acceptable pricing models in the marketplace.
The idea is to close the loophole that ISPs and telecom operators have used for decades to keep their licenses while not having to serve those areas that are financially unrewarding to serve with the same service.
In all honesty, knowing something about the business, this is stuff that they SHOULD have been doing all along, even if they reduced the granularity afterwards for reports sent to the FCC.
Businesses in the USA are broken with regard to how they handle data. I don't see the EU doing much better as a whole, but this is about the US. Data breaches, security issues, lack of reporting/archiving etc. Over the last 5-7 years, CIOs have gained more power in general, but they still do NOT have control of their data. This is one thing that excites me about Google... DATA is their entire business.... well, more or less. They are branching out, but they still seem quite focused on the data. Handling data is not easy, or cheap, and businesses try to use both of those routes when handling data: easy and cheap. I hope that this will cause them to be a bit more cogent with their data and what they can do with it.
I desire only that the voice of the common man is heard as loudly as that of paid lobbyists... or something to that effect.
Complete awesomeness!!!
I'd like to see Congress and the Senate Slashdotted handily for every bill up for a vote, well at least the really big ones. I don't really care if the bill is just about congressional medals or something similar.
When it becomes common in the House and Senate for a legislator to take the floor and start off by saying "my constituents have been very clear on this matter via email and telephone..... I vote xyz" then we might consider that we have representative government.
You beat me to it. Such a process is used for every RF spectrum. It is NOT news. "Lowering the cost" - makes me wonder wtf they were thinking to not use this in the first place? RF engineering is an old profession.
And from your link:
Generic they has indeterminate number:
* There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend â" Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3 (1594)
(Their can be understood equally well as referring to each man considered one at a time, or to all of them collectively.)[citation needed]
In this example, *his* would have been appropriate as gender is implied in the context of the writing, whereas 'user' is generic, and NOT gender specific. Using the pronoun 'her' instead of 'his' is as sexually discriminatory as using simply 'his' has been judged to be in the past. Therefore, I submit that 'their' is appropriate as user refers to one of any number of possible users, and not a single user of specific gender.
The final trick: preloading desktop environment files while waiting for the user to type her password."
Has it gotten so bad that we are unable to use proper English in case we upset someone?
It *SHOULD* read:
The final trick: preloading desktop environment files while waiting for the user to type their password."
I'm with you on the chimney thing... semi-submerged 'tents' for collection should not be *that* difficult to build/maintain, as it is in cold water already, capturing it cold (deeper than surface) might be an even more attainable goal. Once containerized, getting it to the surface should be rather easy. I think the trick would be to containerize it as deep as possible, then ship to be used for generating power. A floatilla of light weight containers shouldn't cost to much to ship to a local-ish power generation station as an auxiliary energy source for the generation process. You can find interesting information here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=googleabout&btnG=Search+our+site&q=energy%20density%20methane
Who is to say that Russian authorities are not using this coder as a cover for much more malicious activities? All we know is that there is a virus that encrypts your data. What is it that we don't know yet?
Could this be used to drive electric plants? Is it recoverable? Anyone have a match? A really fucking big match?
The council says it is "deeply concerned" by the news, but is confident that "multiple layers of security have prevented access to systems and data.""
but is confident that "multiple layers of security have prevented the council from knowing if anyone has had or does have access to systems and data.""
There.. that's better
That's exactly what I was thinking. This is a patent end game 2 yard line play. Once it's obvious what patents don't exist, all patents are then obvious with or without prior art! Game over!
Or someone that needs a liver, or heart, or something else. Somehow, they'll find lab animals in this kind of need. But you're right, that's the next step into perfecting the 'grow a new organ' process. Hopefully they get it right soon. I look forward to being able to rely on that in the future.
+3 funny
+3 informative
+3 True but sad
+3 Good idea
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+12 good comment
Somebody should mod that funny
Damn, that did kind of sound elitist. Anyone with ideas on how to educate the general population? I'm in the group that is lamenting societies ability to ignore people who do understand. Worse, I also lament about political figures who ignore good advice on purpose. No wonder people drink!
A lot of people said it, long ago. DRM won't work for this very reason (and many others) and now those who were legal, and honest, and bought DRM'd content have to suffer AGAIN. It's not just Wal-Mart, how many other content providers also shut down, or screwed their customers by dropping or changing the DRM.
Me? I'm still sitting back, waiting for the industry to calm down and pull their heads out. Punishing the customer won't stop the criminals, never will. Now that the US Dollar is about to be worth ... next to nothing, they will have to kiss customer's asses to get them to spend money. We'll see how this all plays out. Even the DOJ doesn't like the **AA's game plan. It's falling apart on them. Wal-Mart is NOT a small retailer. This is a large nail in the coffin that DRM will be put to rest in.
Maybe they move away at that point, but you've already got some pretty serious problems.
Yes, and if you're using plain text password transmission, game over.
The door lock to security analogy of this goes: When the thief twists your door knob to see if it's locked, if you didn't lock it, game over. From the street or some distant spot on the network, everything looks the same. It's ONLY when you attempt to open the door or look at the packets that you find out whether the locks are in use.
Getting to the point that they can see your packets (for many hackers) is as easy as walking up to your front door. On the Internet, it's as easy to walk up to your front door as it is to walk up to the front door of someone in another country. In fact, some hackers walk up to a LOT of front doors to find one that is not locked.
The analogy still works. Those serious problems that you are talking about have always been there. Every cable subscriber in the USA probably has 14 people looking at their front door to see if it's locked. Remember, hackers are not all script kiddies. It only takes one trojan to sit there and monitor the whole neighborhood looking for somewhere else to live and scoop passwords. Aunt Ethel on the corner doesn't know much about computer security, so her pc is the one monitoring your packets. See how this goes?
In this case, you do lock the doors because you are ALWAYS expecting people to try to get in. period. that's juts how it is.
Andy Dodd's post was the funniest of the whole page!! I was thinking the same thing. Some of this sounds like it was ripped from an existential angst ridden teen's MySpace page.
Try looking at Motorola? http://www.good.com/
Oh, stop it... they're using the VxWorks spellchecker. It's very real time, and very fast.
User tracking can't be good. The information gleaned from 15 million users can be. Imagine if you could see every search for political terms from anywhere. Those Google trends charts start to be more meaningful than they already are. Perhaps a researcher might want to know what level of exposure there is to cellular radiation among pre-teens? There are thousands of statistics that might probably be useful if everyone allowed tracking. Nobody wants big brother following them around town, or listening to their conversations. The dangers are imminent, and the idea that a health care provider might in the future refuse treatment of a skin tumor on your cheek because of recorded cellular usage is frighteningly real.
The desire of big brother to want to be able to track anyone anytime is also a great danger. The bad guys will always thwart such efforts and only the innocent will be harmed.