The governments already built the pipe, the taxpayers paid for it several times over. Wireless is a boondoggle because of the bandwidth limitations and losses. Copper and fiber both have bandwidth well beyond the current necessities. What needs to happen is that our governments need to ask where our money went and mandate the last decade of profits to be spent in the network. This needs to happen for all utilities that have been privatized. Foreign corporations are profiting while the entire US electric, gas, water and digital utilities lie in shambles.
My point was that all that stuff we are made out of is abundant in the Universe. Silicon isn't nearly as abundant therefore the likelihood of stuff happening with it is less likely. How would we even know what to look for with "standing waves of energy"? If what we are has happened elsewhere in the Universe, it would've happened a lot. Perhaps with silicon, perhaps with energy but it's more likely to have happened with carbon and hydrogen.
"Life as we know it" aka intelligent life requires an enormous amount of energy. We can't measure the output of a pool of bacteria on other planets, only of full ecosystems. To sustain full ecosystems as we know it, we need water. It makes sense because hydrogen is a very common product in space as is carbon. Water has some very specific properties that sustain life (frozen water rises, if it didn't, our oceans would be a frozen wasteland) Although evolution without hydrogen and carbon is probably possible, there is less 'other stuff' out there so it's less likely something happened with the less abundant stuff.
1) Diesel enjoys great tax breaks all over Europe. If you gas up with diesel, the government receives a smaller share than with Gasoline. Diesel cars are a LOT cheaper to own and operate in Europe. From my experience with the EU, this may be mandated and thus may not be able to be fixed by individual states. 2) Gasoline cars are harder to repair at home and break down more often and sooner. Fixing a diesel, especially the older ones, is easier but that is a lot less profitable to either business or government. 3) Many people in Europe skip the Diesel taxes all together by (illegally) driving on "red" home fuel diesel or avoid the markup by having their own tanks of 'white' diesel at home. Truckers sometimes have a switch installed that allows them to temporarily switch from 'red' to a reserve of 'white' for check points. 4) You can make a diesel car (especially the old 70/80's VW, Mercedes, Jeep and other 'tanks') run on several kinds of oil including old filtered frying oil, skipping taxes and duties all together.
Depending on your local laws but if the company or a government inspectors hasn't complained about it in >24mo around here, then it's supposed to be 'grandfathered' in.
Because, that's what SPAM is intended to do, only a fraction of a percentage of the people have to give them money (even if it's as a joke, opposite research or any reason whatsoever) for them to be profitable.
These sites are literally auto-generated for any field you can think of (I work in association with physicists, biologists and neurologists, they have at least a dozen journals across these fields). I get daily spams from at least 5 of them. The websites are identical (replacing the $field), the journals look identical and they're auto-generated. It is potentially a one-person operation having these half-wit professors publishing close to $3000/month/journal + advertising pages for what is an entirely electronic "journal".
There are similar sites offering help writing your papers, offering help getting NIH/NSF/whatever funding. A small team could easily lift close to $1M/month in a self-enclosed, self-propagating ecosystem of 'products and services'; everything from the creation to the publishing of an entire study.
The problem is not necessarily that these people are doing that (after all, it's a great idea to create an entirely fake ecosystem), the problem is that our public resources (in the form of government and tuition sourced grant money) are being used to publish these professors in fake, non-peer reviewed journals. Universities and government institutions actually accept these fake journals as 'credentials' because being published in a number of official-sounding journals trumps quality research for the beancounters.
Ever been to DC? One could 'attack' the White House with an RPG, a short-range rocket or any number of short-medium range military equipment and do serious damage. The problem is there is not 'really' anything there to kill or damage, the true leaders are dispersed in offices on Wall Street.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines has sought to ban land mines culminating in the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, although this treaty has not yet been accepted by a number of countries including the USA. Matter of fact, the US is one of the largest producers of land mines.
Why do you bother voting, even if nobody voted, the results would be the same. Tom Wheeler was an executive for the same companies he is now supposed to police...
The same reason they don't go after people that fake the e-mail headers to be referring to legitimate domains, including the USPS and their own (fbi.gov) I get on a regular basis. There is no profit for them to investigate and it only affects small business and individuals.
I see plenty of forks of open source software even small fish. Look at Linux, X, KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu. Heck, look at a random Github project and someone has forked it.
Pacific Bell == AT&T. AT&T is the Ma Bell of our century, they are practically Ma Bell since they've taken over all the Baby Bell's less a few small holdings except now they don't any oversight or requirements.
PostgreSQL isn't the only kid on the block anymore, there are some great implementations to be made in other engines that could outperform Oracle for specific datasets. The problem is that Oracle (as said) is easy to 'certify' which usually means a beancounter can check off a box that means absolutely nothing in the real world.
So should we tax cars extra because of the cost of drive-by's or vehicular homicide? Should we tax gas extra to combat arsonists? Should we tax computers extra to combat hackers? Who even makes up the reported cost of these crimes?
We pay taxes so we have a system in place that could potentially prevent these crimes by having better (mental) health care, better school officials that take care of victims of bullying or a more efficient, less militarized police force or even by educating the public and the media that glorifying these shooters actually increases the likelihood of copycats.
This system costs a similar amount of money than having a good psychologist at each school which students could consult for free. This is just the investment cost, there will be recurring maintenance (probably at close to $1k anytime a student decides to disconnect one and $10k for a replacement device when a student decides to destroy one), insurance ($50k/year just in case it fails to do anything) and licensing costs (which you know this won't be less than $5k/device).
It was written in the 19th century, we're in the 21st, does any of his family even claim to remember who he was? Because I sure as hell don't know anyone who lived at the turn of the last century.
In the black community it is the ADULTS (parents, family etc) making these (ignorant) comments. It's not another kid calling them a geek or a nerd, it's their support network at home, in their communities, their parents, their grandparents, aunts and uncles, their pastors etc.
Even though your hick dad may give you a hard time once in a while for doing such a sissy job, most white parents (even ignorant ones) are glad and make a big deal of it with their drinking buddies when their kids get a better education or job than they themselves do. Black parents are frequently ashamed and ostracized for 'letting their kids act white' instead of contributing the money and time spent within their own (local) community (aka doing drugs and running shady businesses).
Disclaimer: I am the parent of a mixed (African-American and European) child and this is how the black side of the family and a large portion of the black community involved react to wanting a good education or a good job for the child.
a) Full User Data Encryption b) Striping c) Full Local Data Encryption
There will only be part of your data on any particular server/location and when the User encrypts his data, it's pretty much impossible to recover when you only have part of the data. When the provider then encrypts their systems as well, you'll have a hell of a time breaking all forms of encryption unless you can get access to all the keys and all the stripes.
Amazon is making a shitload of profit, they're just shifting the profits around by having their holdings that doesn't pay these taxes charge them a 'fee' to reduce the amount of profit they 'have'.
Instead of DIY, just go out and buy a commercial solution. Or go to Russia and go find an abandoned light house or submarine and take the nuclear battery.
The market tells you what is fair and what is not.
Let's say: If I have 1 really large attic-room and 2 small bedrooms for rent, I could (locally) ask probably $350-450 per small room including utilities. For the large room even though it's 500sqft vs 150 sqft for the small bedroom, I can't ask >$600, because once you get closer to 800-1000, they may as well rent an entire house and sublet the bedrooms (although they would have to pay utilities).
The poorer person may want the bigger room because they also have dogs and work from home, the richer person may only need a place to crash while going to college. Both of them think they got a fair deal although per square footage, $400 is a heck of a lot of money for such a small room and $600 is very cheap for what amounts to a studio apartment (with a shared kitchen and bathroom). As the homeowner I pay $1000 between mortgage and utilities and thus it is objectively not "fair" for me to collect more than the amount I spend while living in the same house.
Yet that is what the market offers for the price points selected.
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The governments already built the pipe, the taxpayers paid for it several times over. Wireless is a boondoggle because of the bandwidth limitations and losses. Copper and fiber both have bandwidth well beyond the current necessities. What needs to happen is that our governments need to ask where our money went and mandate the last decade of profits to be spent in the network. This needs to happen for all utilities that have been privatized. Foreign corporations are profiting while the entire US electric, gas, water and digital utilities lie in shambles.
My point was that all that stuff we are made out of is abundant in the Universe. Silicon isn't nearly as abundant therefore the likelihood of stuff happening with it is less likely. How would we even know what to look for with "standing waves of energy"? If what we are has happened elsewhere in the Universe, it would've happened a lot. Perhaps with silicon, perhaps with energy but it's more likely to have happened with carbon and hydrogen.
"Life as we know it" aka intelligent life requires an enormous amount of energy. We can't measure the output of a pool of bacteria on other planets, only of full ecosystems. To sustain full ecosystems as we know it, we need water. It makes sense because hydrogen is a very common product in space as is carbon. Water has some very specific properties that sustain life (frozen water rises, if it didn't, our oceans would be a frozen wasteland) Although evolution without hydrogen and carbon is probably possible, there is less 'other stuff' out there so it's less likely something happened with the less abundant stuff.
1) Diesel enjoys great tax breaks all over Europe. If you gas up with diesel, the government receives a smaller share than with Gasoline. Diesel cars are a LOT cheaper to own and operate in Europe. From my experience with the EU, this may be mandated and thus may not be able to be fixed by individual states.
2) Gasoline cars are harder to repair at home and break down more often and sooner. Fixing a diesel, especially the older ones, is easier but that is a lot less profitable to either business or government.
3) Many people in Europe skip the Diesel taxes all together by (illegally) driving on "red" home fuel diesel or avoid the markup by having their own tanks of 'white' diesel at home. Truckers sometimes have a switch installed that allows them to temporarily switch from 'red' to a reserve of 'white' for check points.
4) You can make a diesel car (especially the old 70/80's VW, Mercedes, Jeep and other 'tanks') run on several kinds of oil including old filtered frying oil, skipping taxes and duties all together.
Depending on your local laws but if the company or a government inspectors hasn't complained about it in >24mo around here, then it's supposed to be 'grandfathered' in.
Because, that's what SPAM is intended to do, only a fraction of a percentage of the people have to give them money (even if it's as a joke, opposite research or any reason whatsoever) for them to be profitable.
These sites are literally auto-generated for any field you can think of (I work in association with physicists, biologists and neurologists, they have at least a dozen journals across these fields). I get daily spams from at least 5 of them. The websites are identical (replacing the $field), the journals look identical and they're auto-generated. It is potentially a one-person operation having these half-wit professors publishing close to $3000/month/journal + advertising pages for what is an entirely electronic "journal".
There are similar sites offering help writing your papers, offering help getting NIH/NSF/whatever funding. A small team could easily lift close to $1M/month in a self-enclosed, self-propagating ecosystem of 'products and services'; everything from the creation to the publishing of an entire study.
The problem is not necessarily that these people are doing that (after all, it's a great idea to create an entirely fake ecosystem), the problem is that our public resources (in the form of government and tuition sourced grant money) are being used to publish these professors in fake, non-peer reviewed journals. Universities and government institutions actually accept these fake journals as 'credentials' because being published in a number of official-sounding journals trumps quality research for the beancounters.
Ever been to DC? One could 'attack' the White House with an RPG, a short-range rocket or any number of short-medium range military equipment and do serious damage. The problem is there is not 'really' anything there to kill or damage, the true leaders are dispersed in offices on Wall Street.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines has sought to ban land mines culminating in the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, although this treaty has not yet been accepted by a number of countries including the USA. Matter of fact, the US is one of the largest producers of land mines.
But, but, ... it's the CLOUD.
Off course you will spend more, you have to account for the overhead (sales, marketing, support) of the hosting companies and their profit.
Why do you bother voting, even if nobody voted, the results would be the same. Tom Wheeler was an executive for the same companies he is now supposed to police...
http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...
And self-defense against an oppressive government isn't?
The same reason they don't go after people that fake the e-mail headers to be referring to legitimate domains, including the USPS and their own (fbi.gov) I get on a regular basis. There is no profit for them to investigate and it only affects small business and individuals.
So... what's wrong with that? If I teach you how to shoot a person, is that illegal? If so, then you should close most shooting ranges out there.
Free speech includes speech that is against the establishment, and given the Founding Fathers of the US' viewpoints on thing, quite by design.
I see plenty of forks of open source software even small fish. Look at Linux, X, KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu. Heck, look at a random Github project and someone has forked it.
Pacific Bell == AT&T. AT&T is the Ma Bell of our century, they are practically Ma Bell since they've taken over all the Baby Bell's less a few small holdings except now they don't any oversight or requirements.
PostgreSQL isn't the only kid on the block anymore, there are some great implementations to be made in other engines that could outperform Oracle for specific datasets. The problem is that Oracle (as said) is easy to 'certify' which usually means a beancounter can check off a box that means absolutely nothing in the real world.
So the government receives $25.6M/year and spends $30M/year fighting out how to best spend it...
So should we tax cars extra because of the cost of drive-by's or vehicular homicide? Should we tax gas extra to combat arsonists? Should we tax computers extra to combat hackers? Who even makes up the reported cost of these crimes?
We pay taxes so we have a system in place that could potentially prevent these crimes by having better (mental) health care, better school officials that take care of victims of bullying or a more efficient, less militarized police force or even by educating the public and the media that glorifying these shooters actually increases the likelihood of copycats.
This system costs a similar amount of money than having a good psychologist at each school which students could consult for free. This is just the investment cost, there will be recurring maintenance (probably at close to $1k anytime a student decides to disconnect one and $10k for a replacement device when a student decides to destroy one), insurance ($50k/year just in case it fails to do anything) and licensing costs (which you know this won't be less than $5k/device).
It was written in the 19th century, we're in the 21st, does any of his family even claim to remember who he was? Because I sure as hell don't know anyone who lived at the turn of the last century.
In the black community it is the ADULTS (parents, family etc) making these (ignorant) comments. It's not another kid calling them a geek or a nerd, it's their support network at home, in their communities, their parents, their grandparents, aunts and uncles, their pastors etc.
Even though your hick dad may give you a hard time once in a while for doing such a sissy job, most white parents (even ignorant ones) are glad and make a big deal of it with their drinking buddies when their kids get a better education or job than they themselves do. Black parents are frequently ashamed and ostracized for 'letting their kids act white' instead of contributing the money and time spent within their own (local) community (aka doing drugs and running shady businesses).
Disclaimer: I am the parent of a mixed (African-American and European) child and this is how the black side of the family and a large portion of the black community involved react to wanting a good education or a good job for the child.
a) Full User Data Encryption
b) Striping
c) Full Local Data Encryption
There will only be part of your data on any particular server/location and when the User encrypts his data, it's pretty much impossible to recover when you only have part of the data. When the provider then encrypts their systems as well, you'll have a hell of a time breaking all forms of encryption unless you can get access to all the keys and all the stripes.
Amazon is making a shitload of profit, they're just shifting the profits around by having their holdings that doesn't pay these taxes charge them a 'fee' to reduce the amount of profit they 'have'.
Instead of DIY, just go out and buy a commercial solution. Or go to Russia and go find an abandoned light house or submarine and take the nuclear battery.
The market tells you what is fair and what is not.
Let's say:
If I have 1 really large attic-room and 2 small bedrooms for rent, I could (locally) ask probably $350-450 per small room including utilities. For the large room even though it's 500sqft vs 150 sqft for the small bedroom, I can't ask >$600, because once you get closer to 800-1000, they may as well rent an entire house and sublet the bedrooms (although they would have to pay utilities).
The poorer person may want the bigger room because they also have dogs and work from home, the richer person may only need a place to crash while going to college. Both of them think they got a fair deal although per square footage, $400 is a heck of a lot of money for such a small room and $600 is very cheap for what amounts to a studio apartment (with a shared kitchen and bathroom). As the homeowner I pay $1000 between mortgage and utilities and thus it is objectively not "fair" for me to collect more than the amount I spend while living in the same house.
Yet that is what the market offers for the price points selected.