This is a twitch in the right direction for the credit system... it makes more accessible what was entirely a monolithic (trilithic?), black-box setup.
However, the internal workings are still not entirely known. The algorithms for calculating the credit score are guarded like launch codes, and you still have to pay even to see what that code is. Not to mention that the companies are free to use the website as a marketing venue for their other services, as long as they don't impede your ability to get your report. Think of it as ad-supported software.
Hopefully, this will allow people to more easily find and correct mistakes that would otherwise ruin their lives. But there are still a lot of practices in the credit world that need to be corrected.
Google's trying to bring TV to the Web the same way they're bringing books to the Web
This is a weird way to describe what Google does... if they bring anything to the Web, it's the Web itself!
But here's the best part of the entire article, IMHO:
Google has been working with National Public Radio and others to index transcripts of audio already on the Internet so that clips can be searchable from its news search engine.
Personally, I would use the video search engine only occasionally... but there is an unbelievable amount of high-quality content that NPR provides on its website, going back years -- interviews, shows, projects, special reports, hell, even Car Talk. The radio thing is a real gem, and I can't wait to use it.
How will the music-sharing function of Peer Impact differ from peer-to-peer (P2P) sites and paid music download sites?
Peer Impact is a proprietary, patent-pending business model that will not be announced to the public until the Fall of 2004.
There are so many things wrong with this that I can't bear to go on...
What if cell malware like Skulls could be used to cause the battery to explode? Perhaps by modifying the firmware to overcharge or overload the battery? A well-written worm would have them going off like popcorn...
Actually, they keep bringing it up... I've done the whole rundown several times for a couple of them. Yes, I do want high-speed at their place when I visit, but it's more that they are constantly (and vocally) struggling with how long it takes to do anything.
I didn't know of an AOL service like that... I'll check it out; it might be the tipping point. Thanks
I've repeatedly offered to help many family members get broadband set up... I break down the price of the modem, router/AP, service costs, all versus their current phone and internet bills, show them how much faster it is, offer to completely install everything for them, and tell them I'll fix their computers while they sleep via RDP... and what screws it all up? They want to keep their AOL e-mail address. And they can't afford to keep AOL with broadband thrown in. Sigh.
At 19 I could barely figure out how to roll out of bed before 11:00AM, much less reinvent the concept of a web browser and start my own consulting company. I guess now that I'm 25, I'm doomed to watch teenagers innovate my career out from under me and die sad and alone.
Maybe you could use this to create overlapping grids of nanoscale photoelectric cells and LEDs or similar, and create the effect of light being passed through your body to the other side... if not making you completely invisible, at least sort of ghostly or insubstantial-seeming. Or, alternately, an effect of reflecting all light that hits you, or any number of visual effects. Sort of like a walking Photoshop.
I once stole a stack of soon-to-be-assigned reading packets off a teacher's desk when he stepped out for coffee. Of course, I was in the eighth grade. Grow up already! Take it like a man!
The fact you think this is the federal governments job means you should move to a socialist nation and try your hand there.
Yeah, I've considered it. But I can also try to change the system... I'm not trying to push anything on anyone, and I know mine is a minority opinion. But I still like it here, so I'm not giving up yet... I'll just keep voting and talking to anyone who'll listen:)
I would like a rocket sled though.:)
You're right, SP2 seems a big step forward... but I've seen Windows struggle with some multi-AP setups; of course it's hard to know how much of that is Windows, and how much is the hardware. I'll backpedal:) But, as a larger point, universal WiFi does need to have a high standard -- you should *never* have to think about it. It needs to be seamless, secure, fast, compatible, reliable... not sure we're 100% there yet.
I'm not sure I'd want it to be my primary net connection. Still seems somehow up in the air (no pun intended. Really!) with security standards, new 802.11x's, device incompatibility, poor Windows functionality, and weak Linux support for many chipsets. That said, this is really how it ought to work... ubiquitous, cheap access can only be achieved with wireless because of the infrastructure savings. This is a good start. Now let's nail down the standards.
I mean, sure, when people from Seattle try to patent fundamental logical constructs, it has to be MS, but the only time they are mentioned by name is in the context of the patent being applicable to their compilers and languages (among others). Does a patent typically go in the name an employee of a corporation, and if so, who really owns it?
As an American, I'd gladly pay 60% income tax if it meant I could get health care, good schools, low crime, lots of vacation, decent maternity leave for my wife, cheap higher education, and a social safety net if something should go wrong. Or I could just move to Germany.
But you're right, this tax shouldn't go through... not necessarily because of general overtaxation, but just because the costs of good access keep rising, and are subject to lots of miscellaneous fees already.
Point taken. But given that, as someone mentioned, newspapers allow library patrons to search their archives for free but charge on their website, one could argue that they are only charging to recoup the hosting costs. So if the Library of Congress would host it for them, they might be willing to make even the most recent material practically public domain -- applying only the same restrictions that pertain to viewers at a brick-and-mortar library.
It looks like the rooftops of the White House and the buildings next to it have had things drawn over them. Too bad... I wanted to check out the rumor I've always heard that there are anti-aircraft guns on the roof of 1600.
Newspapers need to waive their copyright restrictions for this particular project. They have a right to control their content, but copyright should not be an impediment to archiving this information. Maybe there's a way to apply the copyright to the end user (i.e. whoever is viewing this content online) without completely excluding the stuff from being indexed. An 80-year blind spot practically ensures irrelevance.
Yep, this kind of all-encompassing approach does have some negative connotations, not the least of which is getting all of your information from one (corporate/non-public) source. I almost called it 'innovation,' which it's not. It's just plain old 'initiative.'
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This is a twitch in the right direction for the credit system... it makes more accessible what was entirely a monolithic (trilithic?), black-box setup.
However, the internal workings are still not entirely known. The algorithms for calculating the credit score are guarded like launch codes, and you still have to pay even to see what that code is. Not to mention that the companies are free to use the website as a marketing venue for their other services, as long as they don't impede your ability to get your report. Think of it as ad-supported software.
Hopefully, this will allow people to more easily find and correct mistakes that would otherwise ruin their lives. But there are still a lot of practices in the credit world that need to be corrected.
YOU try getting proper tabs in a /. post :)
Google's trying to bring TV to the Web the same way they're bringing books to the Web
This is a weird way to describe what Google does... if they bring anything to the Web, it's the Web itself!
But here's the best part of the entire article, IMHO:
Google has been working with National Public Radio and others to index transcripts of audio already on the Internet so that clips can be searchable from its news search engine.
Personally, I would use the video search engine only occasionally... but there is an unbelievable amount of high-quality content that NPR provides on its website, going back years -- interviews, shows, projects, special reports, hell, even Car Talk. The radio thing is a real gem, and I can't wait to use it.
How will the music-sharing function of Peer Impact differ from peer-to-peer (P2P) sites and paid music download sites?
Peer Impact is a proprietary, patent-pending business model that will not be announced to the public until the Fall of 2004.
There are so many things wrong with this that I can't bear to go on...
What if cell malware like Skulls could be used to cause the battery to explode? Perhaps by modifying the firmware to overcharge or overload the battery? A well-written worm would have them going off like popcorn...
Quick! Somebody patent the idea of government-enforced copyright protection!
Actually, they keep bringing it up... I've done the whole rundown several times for a couple of them. Yes, I do want high-speed at their place when I visit, but it's more that they are constantly (and vocally) struggling with how long it takes to do anything.
I didn't know of an AOL service like that... I'll check it out; it might be the tipping point. Thanks
I've repeatedly offered to help many family members get broadband set up... I break down the price of the modem, router/AP, service costs, all versus their current phone and internet bills, show them how much faster it is, offer to completely install everything for them, and tell them I'll fix their computers while they sleep via RDP... and what screws it all up? They want to keep their AOL e-mail address. And they can't afford to keep AOL with broadband thrown in. Sigh.
Sorry, done it myself a few times but I can't resist this. A post about a LaTeX book without proper formatting? Classic.
You can go to http://ipspy.metropipe.net/, for example, to test whether it's working... the IP it displays should be the IP of the SSH server.
At 19 I could barely figure out how to roll out of bed before 11:00AM, much less reinvent the concept of a web browser and start my own consulting company. I guess now that I'm 25, I'm doomed to watch teenagers innovate my career out from under me and die sad and alone.
Maybe you could use this to create overlapping grids of nanoscale photoelectric cells and LEDs or similar, and create the effect of light being passed through your body to the other side... if not making you completely invisible, at least sort of ghostly or insubstantial-seeming. Or, alternately, an effect of reflecting all light that hits you, or any number of visual effects. Sort of like a walking Photoshop.
... a USDA meat-packing plant inspector?
I once stole a stack of soon-to-be-assigned reading packets off a teacher's desk when he stepped out for coffee. Of course, I was in the eighth grade. Grow up already! Take it like a man!
The fact you think this is the federal governments job means you should move to a socialist nation and try your hand there. :)
:)
Yeah, I've considered it. But I can also try to change the system... I'm not trying to push anything on anyone, and I know mine is a minority opinion. But I still like it here, so I'm not giving up yet... I'll just keep voting and talking to anyone who'll listen
I would like a rocket sled though.
You're right, SP2 seems a big step forward... but I've seen Windows struggle with some multi-AP setups; of course it's hard to know how much of that is Windows, and how much is the hardware. I'll backpedal :) But, as a larger point, universal WiFi does need to have a high standard -- you should *never* have to think about it. It needs to be seamless, secure, fast, compatible, reliable... not sure we're 100% there yet.
I'm not sure I'd want it to be my primary net connection. Still seems somehow up in the air (no pun intended. Really!) with security standards, new 802.11x's, device incompatibility, poor Windows functionality, and weak Linux support for many chipsets. That said, this is really how it ought to work... ubiquitous, cheap access can only be achieved with wireless because of the infrastructure savings. This is a good start. Now let's nail down the standards.
I mean, sure, when people from Seattle try to patent fundamental logical constructs, it has to be MS, but the only time they are mentioned by name is in the context of the patent being applicable to their compilers and languages (among others). Does a patent typically go in the name an employee of a corporation, and if so, who really owns it?
yep :)
As an American, I'd gladly pay 60% income tax if it meant I could get health care, good schools, low crime, lots of vacation, decent maternity leave for my wife, cheap higher education, and a social safety net if something should go wrong. Or I could just move to Germany.
But you're right, this tax shouldn't go through... not necessarily because of general overtaxation, but just because the costs of good access keep rising, and are subject to lots of miscellaneous fees already.
Point taken. But given that, as someone mentioned, newspapers allow library patrons to search their archives for free but charge on their website, one could argue that they are only charging to recoup the hosting costs. So if the Library of Congress would host it for them, they might be willing to make even the most recent material practically public domain -- applying only the same restrictions that pertain to viewers at a brick-and-mortar library.
It looks like the rooftops of the White House and the buildings next to it have had things drawn over them. Too bad... I wanted to check out the rumor I've always heard that there are anti-aircraft guns on the roof of 1600.
Newspapers need to waive their copyright restrictions for this particular project. They have a right to control their content, but copyright should not be an impediment to archiving this information. Maybe there's a way to apply the copyright to the end user (i.e. whoever is viewing this content online) without completely excluding the stuff from being indexed. An 80-year blind spot practically ensures irrelevance.
Yep, this kind of all-encompassing approach does have some negative connotations, not the least of which is getting all of your information from one (corporate/non-public) source. I almost called it 'innovation,' which it's not. It's just plain old 'initiative.'