See that ethernet port on the back of your tv? don't plug anything in to it.
Your tv have wireless (snazzy!) don't give it your wireless password.
Your tv secretly connecting to the 3g cellular network to report back information? A. who cares it doesn't know who you are anyway and B. start up a class action lawsuit... or C. search the web until you find www.sonytv-hacks.com and follow their instructions to load custom firmware on your tv that lets you use the secret 3g connection as a tether'd internet connection and subsequently torrent anonymously to your heart's connent.
TL;DR: you have nothing to worry about.
See that bidirectional HDMI cable to your set-top box? Wonder what it's talking about.
If by that you mean get rid of copyright and patent law, you are absolutely right. The negatives of those two sets of laws far far outweigh the benefits (even ignoring all the stupid lawsuits over them).
Copyright and patent laws will need to go the way of the dinosaur eventually if human civilization is to continue to advance. The sooner we do it, the better.
and of course you would remember to spoof your mac address? wear a mask when you pass the parking lot security camera? put stolen license plates on your car? wear gloves the whole time?
There are a lot more traces left than just Windows log files.
I've seen "studies" where a consultant has just flat-out asked the person who hired him what conclusion he wanted, then wrote a report justifying the conclusion. Hiring a consultant is a common way to get your idea approved in a large company. The RAND study looks like it was used to justify a slum-clearing plan already decided on by the city.
The Minuteman Bikeway in Massachusetts is heavily used for commuting. If you only allow people to bike on the streets, then fewer people will do it; but if you create a choice then more people will bike. It costs a lot of money to build separate paved bikeways, but still much less than paved roads.
It's the reverse of the RAND study. You can force shrinkage by removing services or you can add people who want bikeways by building them. Studies have shown that property near bikeways sells in half the time and at slightly higher value than the average.
I wrote an article on someone who's career predated the internet, had published several books and published groundbreaking research with Nobel prize winners. Deleted for "lack of notability" because there isn't much about him on the internet. Meanwhile, there are 50 articles on Pokemon, an article on every NBA player, and an article on every town in America. Note: Ever been to Harpster, Ohio? Not notable.
I think he compares latency and dropped packets based on whether the source IP in the packet is A or B with everything else unchanged. If they're different, then it is not neutral.
Because law enforcement will use vaguely worded laws intended for something else, like "misusing a computer system" or "unauthorized access" against you if they decide you are a bad guy. And they decide you are a bad guy depending on who complains.
These days the car companies aren't bribing the government. The government is bribing them to stay in business. What other sector is the government giving $500M of free research to? Birth control? Feeding the poor? Improving schools? Sorry - not priorities.
Hate to tell you this but Obama favors increased government powers for law enforcement -- just look at his voting record in the Senate. He abstained from the wiretap vote during his run for pres. because he knew that it was unpopular, but since signed the Patriot Act extension. No surprise that a Dem favors more government as a solution just as a Rep. favors more police control over the criminal masses. In the current two-party scheme there is no voice advocating for civil rights.
The US could introduce a goods and services tax at the federal level and pass the revenue to state (and ultimately) local governments.
Businesses that have offices in multiple states are already used to filing lots of state paperwork. There's no reason to get the fed involved - just charge sales tax for goods shipped to the states that collect it. Its not a very big lookup table. Then the businesses send a form and a check to each state every quarter - that's potentially 200 extra items of work per year. Nothing for Amazon. Software and services to handle this for small businesses would appear overnight if it was to much work to do by hand.
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"just one camera" - wooh
Does anyone else believe that Apple should have put one decent camera in the iPad instead of two crappy ones? Here's a review:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/just-how-bad-is-the-ipad-2-camera/
See that ethernet port on the back of your tv? don't plug anything in to it.
Your tv have wireless (snazzy!) don't give it your wireless password.
Your tv secretly connecting to the 3g cellular network to report back information? A. who cares it doesn't know who you are anyway and B. start up a class action lawsuit... or C. search the web until you find www.sonytv-hacks.com and follow their instructions to load custom firmware on your tv that lets you use the secret 3g connection as a tether'd internet connection and subsequently torrent anonymously to your heart's connent.
TL;DR: you have nothing to worry about.
See that bidirectional HDMI cable to your set-top box? Wonder what it's talking about.
Author doesn't know the difference between languages intended for system programming and application programming.
So Linus is saying that they should have one central authority decide what's right for everyone? ** head asplodes **
http://adventuregamesonline.org/bloons
Many errors have been pointed out in the Florida election, but this one was the most startling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volusia_error
It shows that the electronic systems do not do even the simplest sanity checking.
If by that you mean get rid of copyright and patent law, you are absolutely right. The negatives of those two sets of laws far far outweigh the benefits (even ignoring all the stupid lawsuits over them).
Copyright and patent laws will need to go the way of the dinosaur eventually if human civilization is to continue to advance. The sooner we do it, the better.
Most likely it would fry a switch, which would shut down the company network until it was replaced.
Back in the day of a single thick ethernet cable connected to every machine, this would have been really spectacular.
Caps lock was added so that enraged AOL users could conveniently type their manifestos for Usenet.
If emacs was good enough for Leonardo da Vinci then it's good enough for me.
(BTW - that's a true statement!)
and of course you would remember to spoof your mac address? wear a mask when you pass the parking lot security camera? put stolen license plates on your car? wear gloves the whole time?
There are a lot more traces left than just Windows log files.
I've seen "studies" where a consultant has just flat-out asked the person who hired him what conclusion he wanted, then wrote a report justifying the conclusion. Hiring a consultant is a common way to get your idea approved in a large company. The RAND study looks like it was used to justify a slum-clearing plan already decided on by the city.
The Minuteman Bikeway in Massachusetts is heavily used for commuting. If you only allow people to bike on the streets, then fewer people will do it; but if you create a choice then more people will bike. It costs a lot of money to build separate paved bikeways, but still much less than paved roads.
It's the reverse of the RAND study. You can force shrinkage by removing services or you can add people who want bikeways by building them. Studies have shown that property near bikeways sells in half the time and at slightly higher value than the average.
http://www.americantrails.org/resources/adjacent/dellapennasales.html
http://thelegalwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/01/capacious-crimes-and-creative.html
http://www.scn.org/ccapa/pa-article.html
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/articles/02/12/08/2244247.shtml
http://www.indypressny.org/nycma/voices/486/news/news_2/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110716/01290815117/vague-law-vindictive-law-enforcement-hide-your-veggies.shtml
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-unbearable-vagueness-of-%E2%80%9Chonest-services-fraud%E2%80%9D/
It also doesn't balance the count with 4400 US deaths in Iraq due to a desire for more oil.
I wrote an article on someone who's career predated the internet, had published several books and published groundbreaking research with Nobel prize winners. Deleted for "lack of notability" because there isn't much about him on the internet. Meanwhile, there are 50 articles on Pokemon, an article on every NBA player, and an article on every town in America. Note: Ever been to Harpster, Ohio? Not notable.
I think he compares latency and dropped packets based on whether the source IP in the packet is A or B with everything else unchanged. If they're different, then it is not neutral.
Because law enforcement will use vaguely worded laws intended for something else, like "misusing a computer system" or "unauthorized access" against you if they decide you are a bad guy. And they decide you are a bad guy depending on who complains.
has designed that oversight to tough to escape.
I think the ISP must be scrambling the words from this web page.
These days the car companies aren't bribing the government. The government is bribing them to stay in business.
What other sector is the government giving $500M of free research to? Birth control? Feeding the poor? Improving schools? Sorry - not priorities.
Hate to tell you this but Obama favors increased government powers for law enforcement -- just look at his voting record in the Senate. He abstained from the wiretap vote during his run for pres. because he knew that it was unpopular, but since signed the Patriot Act extension. No surprise that a Dem favors more government as a solution just as a Rep. favors more police control over the criminal masses. In the current two-party scheme there is no voice advocating for civil rights.
It may power them for a while, but the power is coming from the unit's batteries. Just factor battery life in when you look at the choices.
I'm sure this will start an arms race with the malware writers, but I still wouldn't bet against Google.
The US could introduce a goods and services tax at the federal level and pass the revenue to state (and ultimately) local governments.
Businesses that have offices in multiple states are already used to filing lots of state paperwork. There's no reason to get the fed involved - just charge sales tax for goods shipped to the states that collect it. Its not a very big lookup table. Then the businesses send a form and a check to each state every quarter - that's potentially 200 extra items of work per year. Nothing for Amazon. Software and services to handle this for small businesses would appear overnight if it was to much work to do by hand.
>is there any other 30-year-old technology still present in current computers?
Yup it is called SCSI. Now in both parallel (going away) and its serial form (SAS).
and FCP (SCSI on fibre channel) is still the main enterprise storage environment, although gradually being replaced by iSCSI (SCSI on ethernet).