Why, broadband will be a thing of the past when wireless neuro-implants are in place! Why go to a clunky machine when you could can simply download everything to your head?
14.4k was for the rich, and we were lucky enough to even own a computer! Harrumph, these techie-wizbang whipper snappers...downloading everything in sight, always wanting things FASTER and FASTER!. Harrumph I say.
I mean, if all you do is dial up for 5 minutes each day to download your email, I guess a 5 buck a month service suffices. But I imagine that in 15 years, such a meager usage would be almost unimaginable.
Most likely 100Gbit will run on Fiber Cables, which have MUCH more bandwidth than their copper-based equivelents (Cat6,etc.)Wikipedia says that they have the potential to carry terabits of data per second.
For the ethernet cables, according to wikipedia, Cat6 is reliable up to 1Gbit connections. However, Category 7 cables have been developed for 10Gbit connections. It seems to me that it might be possible to push ethernet cables up to 100Gbit. But that is a BIG if, as I don't know how much further the standard RJ-45 cables can be pushed beyond Cat7.
It would seem to me that big-wig companies would have a fairly hefty internet bill for the amount of sheer traffic that goes through their lines. It seems to me like this is similar to renting out a leased car. You are already paying your monthly fee to the dealer, but you take advantage of the situation and rent your car out to people for a fee. Then the dealer comes back saying you can't use their car for rentals.
DETROIT -- Super Bowl XL comes with a guarantee: Every football -- all 120 of them -- will be dropped. That is, each will be marked with a drop of synthetic DNA to thwart potential counterfeiters who might be tempted to sell phony "game-used" Super Bowl footballs, which can be worth thousands of dollars. Exposed to a specific laser frequency, the DNA glows to a bright green. "The ball can change hands a thousand-plus times, but it will never lose that DNA," said Joe Orlando, president of PSA/DNA Authentication Services, a division of Santa Ana-based Collector's Universe Inc., which for the sixth consecutive year marked the Super Bowl footballs. "The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion, so it's virtually impossible." The NFL has prepared 10 dozen Wilson footballs for Sunday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks and plans to use a new one on every play of the first half, before going to a 12-ball rotation after halftime. It's something the league has done for several Super Bowls, donating some to charity auctions, setting aside others for selected players, coaches and officials, and sending the one used on the opening kickoff to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "You have to guard that one like your life depends on it," said Mike Pereira, supervisor of NFL officials. Some players said they would be holding on a little extra tight too. Steeler receiver Antwaan Randle El was caught off guard when informed about the continuous shuttle of new pigskin. "Every play? I didn't know that," he said Wednesday. "That's not good. "It's slick, it's slippery. Even when you go to tuck it, the ball's prone to come out a little more often than normal." Added quarterback Charlie Batch, backup for Steeler starter Ben Roethlisberger: "If they're not broken in, that could present a problem. But it shouldn't be a problem for Ben because he wears a glove. I don't think that necessarily would affect him, but that could affect anybody [else] who has to touch the ball. It's a little more slick and the laces aren't broken in." And the grip is a concern even for those who don't catch or carry the ball. "You get those new balls that are right out of the bag, that's an issue," said Greg Warren, Pittsburgh's long snapper, whose job it is to accurately hike the ball back on field-goal attempts, conversion kicks and punts. "You just have to make sure you stay focused. Because if that ball slips just a little bit, it makes a big difference. "For me, if the ball slips out too soon, I'm going to get a real low snap. So I have to be aware of that. But I don't want to grip it too hard, because if you grip it too long it's going to go high." Said Carolina receiver Steve Smith, who played in the Super Bowl two years ago: "It's no big deal. You can't even tell. We play with new balls all the time." But New England tight end Christian Fauria, who played in the last two Super Bowls, says of the balls: "Quarterbacks and kickers definitely know the difference between a good one and a bad one.... It's like handing a pitcher a brand-new baseball after every pitch. They like to scuff it up." To break in the footballs, the NFL uses a machine similar to an electric golf-shoe buffer. It's quicker and more effective than rubbing each by hand. "They really take the rain protectant off of them, which kind of acts like Vaseline at times," Seattle kicker Josh Brown said. "But as much as we play in bad weather and the rain up there in Seattle, it shouldn't be a problem." New footballs, old footballs, Seahawk receiver Darrell Jackson said he doesn't have a preference. "My job is to catch it," he said. "Doesn't matter if it's slick, or if it's wet, or if it doesn't have enough grip on it. Whatever ball's out there, I'll just hold on tight." Teammate Robbie Tobeck, a center, doesn't seem worried either: "We use new balls every game. I haven't had a problem with it at all." NFL kickers and punters always have
Symantec and Norton antivirus and security packages (on machines I have experience with) use an absurd amount of memory and processor resources. Any hope that this will change someday?
Why yes, you can solve this problem today! Simply get a dual-core system, and voila! One core for the all-in-one anti-virus, firewall, automated secure dohicky, bloated security suite; and the other core for the rest of your stuff! It will feel as if you aren't running it at all!
When this hits a cresendo, I'll feel better knowing that this isn't simply a David vs Goliath, Internet users vs Telcos, but rather: David and an army of pit-bull technology lawyers vs Goliath.
for the RoboAdmin! Yes! You can have your very own fully automated system administrator, and now New and IMPROVED with automated security checks! If you ever need help with your IT issues, simply chat with the RoboAdmin chat bot and you will start feeling better in no time!
arg, bad tags. here is the properly formatted citation:
"A giant pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore salmon migration.
The incident was caught on the ROV's video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of the cable with the ROV's manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus launched an attack.
With tentacles 'as thick as man's arm' and a bite that he believed can exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.
Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the manipulator arm, revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling fragments drove it away.
The giant pacific octopus, octopus dofleini, is the largest species of octopods and although it grows to an average weight of 50 to 90 lbs with a span of 16 ft, a monster 600 lbs one has been recorded. They are intelligent creatures who can negotiate mazes and learn to unscrew jars to remove food. No problem disassembling an ROV then."
A link to the original video can be found on this page (video is 2.9Mbyte.mpg file). Also, a mirror of the video can be found here. The link above to the video page has a detailed summary of what happened:
A giant pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore salmon migration.
The incident was caught on the ROV's video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of the cable with the ROV's manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus launched an attack.
With tentacles 'as thick as man's arm' and a bite that he believed can exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.
Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the manipulator arm, revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling fragments drove it away.
The giant pacific octopus, octopus dofleini, is the largest species of octopods and although it grows to an average weight of 50 to 90 lbs with a span of 16 ft, a monster 600 lbs one has been recorded. They are intelligent creatures who can negotiate mazes and learn to unscrew jars to remove food. No problem disassembling an ROV then.
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Around the year 2000 there was a website that was setup by a teenager who wanted to see NASA send a space probe to Pluto. The website was www.plutomission.com, and it helped start an online petition that gained well over 50,000 signatures. It also started a huge upsurge of public support for a Pluto mission, and in the end helped persuade NASA into making a real mission out of it. Amazing what a simple website can do.
From the article:Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.
I would say that this is much more than simply asking about specific queries. The government is asking for a complete search query dump, which in your analogy would be like the police officer asking for a minute-by-minute update of every single thing that had happened in your life for a week period, down to the tiniest of happenings. Now I am not saying that they shouldn't be able to use highly targeted, specifically targeted searches. What I am saying is that the DoJ does not need EVERY single query from an entire week, or other such massive amounts of logs just to figure out if a site is trying to lure minors.
It is interesting how many of the other search engines outside of google bowed down to this. The reason for the search engine logs seems quite shady to me, and seems like a ruse just to get access for some other purpose. I have a feeling Google probaby detected this and has decided that the intent of the log request is much deeper and shadier than it looks.
But over the long term, the music industry says, Congress should find a way to regulate these new digital radio networks so labels can get paid when consumers keep copies of songs
Isn't it considered "fair use" to record a broadcast for personal use? This is exactly like someone recording a TV show with their VCR. Nor is it any different then hooking up a radio to a tape recorder and recording favorite music. I guess the RIAA bigwigs fear anything that makes it "convenient" to record a broadcast.
In light of that, I sure hope they don't start pushing Congress to put DRM chips in every audio recording device out there like MPAA's anti-"analog hole" chip push.
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And it happens to reside *right* in front of the camera! Oh Darn, poor me.
Why, broadband will be a thing of the past when wireless neuro-implants are in place! Why go to a clunky machine when you could can simply download everything to your head?
14.4k was for the rich, and we were lucky enough to even own a computer! Harrumph, these techie-wizbang whipper snappers...downloading everything in sight, always wanting things FASTER and FASTER!. Harrumph I say.
I mean, if all you do is dial up for 5 minutes each day to download your email, I guess a 5 buck a month service suffices. But I imagine that in 15 years, such a meager usage would be almost unimaginable.
Well?
Damn, that's got to be some tiny implant!
...and the Comrades marched rank and file into their working facility, while the Big Brother telescreen carefully scanned each implanted chip...
Most likely 100Gbit will run on Fiber Cables, which have MUCH more bandwidth than their copper-based equivelents (Cat6,etc.)Wikipedia says that they have the potential to carry terabits of data per second.
For the ethernet cables, according to wikipedia, Cat6 is reliable up to 1Gbit connections. However, Category 7 cables have been developed for 10Gbit connections. It seems to me that it might be possible to push ethernet cables up to 100Gbit. But that is a BIG if, as I don't know how much further the standard RJ-45 cables can be pushed beyond Cat7.
It would seem to me that big-wig companies would have a fairly hefty internet bill for the amount of sheer traffic that goes through their lines. It seems to me like this is similar to renting out a leased car. You are already paying your monthly fee to the dealer, but you take advantage of the situation and rent your car out to people for a fee. Then the dealer comes back saying you can't use their car for rentals.
The DNA they are using glows at a very specific light frequency. I imagine they don't share and tell exactly what that frequency is, though.
Symantec and Norton antivirus and security packages (on machines I have experience with) use an absurd amount of memory and processor resources. Any hope that this will change someday?
Why yes, you can solve this problem today! Simply get a dual-core system, and voila! One core for the all-in-one anti-virus, firewall, automated secure dohicky, bloated security suite; and the other core for the rest of your stuff! It will feel as if you aren't running it at all!
When this hits a cresendo, I'll feel better knowing that this isn't simply a David vs Goliath, Internet users vs Telcos, but rather: David and an army of pit-bull technology lawyers vs Goliath.
To be honest, this isn't far off. My RAM dealer has been waaaay to expensive lately, and I am looking to switch to a better service.
Find a self-inflicting sadist, and voila!
for the RoboAdmin! Yes! You can have your very own fully automated system administrator, and now New and IMPROVED with automated security checks! If you ever need help with your IT issues, simply chat with the RoboAdmin chat bot and you will start feeling better in no time!
arg, bad tags. here is the properly formatted citation:
"A giant pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore salmon migration.
The incident was caught on the ROV's video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of the cable with the ROV's manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus launched an attack.
With tentacles 'as thick as man's arm' and a bite that he believed can exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.
Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the manipulator arm, revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling fragments drove it away.
The giant pacific octopus, octopus dofleini, is the largest species of octopods and although it grows to an average weight of 50 to 90 lbs with a span of 16 ft, a monster 600 lbs one has been recorded. They are intelligent creatures who can negotiate mazes and learn to unscrew jars to remove food. No problem disassembling an ROV then."
A link to the original video can be found on this page (video is 2.9Mbyte .mpg file). Also, a mirror of the video can be found here. The link above to the video page has a detailed summary of what happened:
A giant pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore salmon migration.
The incident was caught on the ROV's video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of the cable with the ROV's manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus launched an attack.
With tentacles 'as thick as man's arm' and a bite that he believed can exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.
Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the manipulator arm, revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling fragments drove it away.
The giant pacific octopus, octopus dofleini, is the largest species of octopods and although it grows to an average weight of 50 to 90 lbs with a span of 16 ft, a monster 600 lbs one has been recorded. They are intelligent creatures who can negotiate mazes and learn to unscrew jars to remove food. No problem disassembling an ROV then.
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Around the year 2000 there was a website that was setup by a teenager who wanted to see NASA send a space probe to Pluto. The website was www.plutomission.com, and it helped start an online petition that gained well over 50,000 signatures. It also started a huge upsurge of public support for a Pluto mission, and in the end helped persuade NASA into making a real mission out of it. Amazing what a simple website can do.
From the article: Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.
I would say that this is much more than simply asking about specific queries. The government is asking for a complete search query dump, which in your analogy would be like the police officer asking for a minute-by-minute update of every single thing that had happened in your life for a week period, down to the tiniest of happenings. Now I am not saying that they shouldn't be able to use highly targeted, specifically targeted searches. What I am saying is that the DoJ does not need EVERY single query from an entire week, or other such massive amounts of logs just to figure out if a site is trying to lure minors.
It is interesting how many of the other search engines outside of google bowed down to this. The reason for the search engine logs seems quite shady to me, and seems like a ruse just to get access for some other purpose. I have a feeling Google probaby detected this and has decided that the intent of the log request is much deeper and shadier than it looks.
we will see you in court.
Yes.
Isn't it considered "fair use" to record a broadcast for personal use? This is exactly like someone recording a TV show with their VCR. Nor is it any different then hooking up a radio to a tape recorder and recording favorite music. I guess the RIAA bigwigs fear anything that makes it "convenient" to record a broadcast.
In light of that, I sure hope they don't start pushing Congress to put DRM chips in every audio recording device out there like MPAA's anti-"analog hole" chip push.