FOG is a PXE cloning solution. http://www.fogproject.org/ Install FOG and storage where you want backups, setup PXE IP on network, and input all MAC addresses you want backed up. Through web interface to clone all. When done backing everything up, put a.img file of DBAN on the FOG server. http://www.dban.org/ Configure it in the FOG PXE boot menu, and make it an option but NOT default. Add appropriate start up flags for the level of wiping you want. Restart all computers you want to wipe, and select wipe option after PXE boot menu comes up.
I suggest you set that option with a password, since it will be available on all computers, not just the one's with the MAC address since only the FOG boot authenticates to MAC, not DBAN.
The remote book removal was 2 years ago, and helped shape Amazon (and much of the mobile tech industry) to be extremely weary of using kill switches. Frankly, I'm glad it happened. It immediately stopped the usual slow creep of increased user control.
I don't think this helps "gain back supporters", but I do think it reinforces Amazon as a company moving in their new direction since then. I like the Amazon model which tries to take the best of Google and the best of Apple, and throw out the worst parts. Tight product integration, but if you want to hack it, why bother stopping you.
That's a great system that the United States will never adopt. Between the tin foil hats and the Apocalypse believers, we're thoroughly terrified against any type of secure identity verification cards. Because, after all, it's a slippery slope to reading your brain, watching you have sex with your wife using satellite x-ray vision, and tattooing 666 on your forehead.
So... "no need to understand how it works"? I see you've not encountered sheer stupidity in its raw, unbridled form. Welcome to the United States!
Running down 65 floors is a pain in the arse. Running UP 65 floors to the surface is a whole other story!
There'll be people hoping a sewage line breaks before they have a heart attack running up stairs.
Stories like these come along every few years about underground building. And everyone says, "Gee, that's a good idea. Why aren't we doing that already?"
Then you tell them about fires, cave ins, flooding, etc. and that good idea doesn't look so hot anymore. Christ, has nobody watched Resident Evil? You don't need monsters, you just need to lose power, lights, and air ventilation and you'll be have a nice uphill riot on your hands. Those glass walls probably don't work to well on a cloudy day or night down near the bottom.
Let's just go ahead and name this the Umbrella Corporation building.
I live in America dude, the bigger a piece of shit / asshole / degenerate you are, the more females like you increasing the chance of reproduction, so what you said but backwards. Success in life results in career work that leaves ppl w inept social skills and no time to use their limited ones, ah corporate America, controlling the population one peon at a time.
Haha, yeah. The advantage to our social meme is that unlike DNA, we're actually good at manipulating it. Advantage for... whom? Not us.;)
That's great, which means someone will leak a key (or it will get cracked, because I doubt the can change often if an entire state uses it), and police will be more candid while base station scanners will stream decrypted audio streams of the entire state online. All it takes is one police radio with the correct key to crack the entire system.
As a network administrator, getting people to not write their VPN passwords on a post it or text file on their desktop is hard. I doubt an entire state of law enforcement and emergency services is going to do much better. All it takes is one freedom minded cop to post the passkey to a message board, and the entire state would have to change. Possibly a centralized sync tech to allow state capital servers to set the keys would mitigate this.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2541160&cid=38152056 - Laid out here. It can lead developers to spot problem applications, that, though popular enough now, may be relying on a few key dying dependencies... a sort of hidden death that without enough developers, the software, though popular, could quickly deteriorate and die.
I'd use an example, but I'll inevitably piss someone off if I mention any packages.
Let me see if I can put this on context for you: Life doesn't debug, debian does.
It's called reproduction. Failure in life results in decreased chance of reproduction, including the ultimate decreased chance, death.
Dependencies compete for limit resources called developers. Just look at all the various sound systems Linux has gone through. They, and the software that depends on them fight to gain more users to thus draw more developers. And, they either live and reproduce, or die.
You are thinking of predator-prey wrong. It's not about eating by about parasitic relationships. And biology is very good at that. What this can show a developer is, based on known algorithms of life and chances of survival, which pieces of software are most in danger of extinction. And that's not always obvious. A music app might be facing extinction because of a particular reliance on a codec dependency that is slowly losing support in favor of another. It let's the developer see further down the road.
Once again, people versed in one discipline apply their skills to another with results that sound fancy and expensive, while really are just nonsense.
Not really. Trial and error is at the heart of evolution which can apply just as easily to living organisms, memes, or software (which is actually a form of meme). It just happens to work quicker on the latter. Predator-Prey relationships are merely an extension of evolution, and is all about inter-dependance. If a package depends on another, one could be considered predator, and the other prey. If development slows on that which is depended on, then the predator must find new prey or face lower numbers and/or extinction.
The greater mistake is a myopic view of disciplines, thinking that nobody else can contribute to the understanding of another discipline except those who specialize in it.
-Open Source Community Donates Flex SDK to Goodwill -Goodwill Donates Flex SDK to Salvation Army -Salvation Army Donates Flex SDK to Jerry's Kids -Jerry's Kids Donates Flex SDK to Haiti -Haiti Donates Flex SDK to Somalia -Somalian Pirates Use Flex SDK to Attack Passing Ships
I finally broke down and purchased one last night. And let me tell you, they are hard as hell to find. I had to check the entire state I'm in.
But it's like the Kindle Fire. What we want are cheap polished devices... or we want Apple. At least, until the market has real competition. It's not that way with phones now, but at one time it was. That's the fight Amazon thinks it can win. Get in cheap, then polish, polish, polish. I think TVs will go the same way. Only this time, Apple doesn't have a successful product.
But from my point of view, I don't *want* a new TV. I already have a 65" HD TV that is 3D ready. I'm sure as heck not going purchase a new TV. But will I drop $99 on something that has at least a browser, Netflix, Amazon streaming, Youtube, Pandora, and turns my smart phone into a universal remote? Yes. Can they improve it? Yes. But at $99, I can't complain. But if it was $999 Apple device, it better have more than Siri. Using my phone as the remote, I can click the voice input and talk searches into my TV. And I think Apple knows that they had better have a 100% polished device if they want to compete against a $99 good-enough device.
Sony thinks they can integrate into TVs. That's fine for people who purchase a new 27-35" every year. For those of us with a 65" with more bells and whistles than we'll ever use (I'm not buying that overpriced 3D crap), Sony is just shit outta luck until that thing breaks, and I already have a 27" HD in the bedroom, and I have a BluRay with Netflix on it on top of regular broadcast, which is all it really needs. Honestly, I think people are more likely to by a fully integrated Apple TV. That with some Siri might actually justify the cost. Maybe throw in DVR, because Apple loves to charge by the GB. Still, I own a DVR already.
It's like a MMORPG character. You've built the character up with certain attributes. Do you really want to start from scratch, or tweak what you already have. The uphill for Apple is that they are end-to-end, meaning they want you to start from scratch.
And before you all start the hate mail on what I purchased, I completely agree, they can do more. But again, for $99, it is my humble opinion that this beat the Roku the moment I bookmarked YouTube Leanback http://www.youtube.com/leanback which only really works if you have a keyboard.
Anyways, I know I'm not most consumers, and I'll learn the ins and outs of a more complex system. But then again, like most consumers, I'm poor, and a $99 price target wins any day of the week with us. How'd a poor guy get a 65" TV? The trick is, find a woman with a better job who already has one. I'm not afraid to admit I have a sugar mama.;)
By losing $50 per device, it will be a massive loss leader for Amazon. The more they sell, the more money they lose, with hopes of making it back on Amazon Prime subscriptions for streaming content.
However, I do respect that Amazon is playing a long term game here. And that's why nobody has taken on the iPad. Apple is playing the long term game, but until now, nobody else really has accepted that challenge.
IANAL, but I've heard that renegotiating salary under threat of termination is in itself illegal. That certainly sounds good, but are there any lawyers that can give us some insight?
I was getting them every other day a few months ago, then switched off again. I think it's because at the time, I was pulling in a couple +5 Insightfuls a week, and now, I pull a few +0 Trolls a month, lol.
You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but sometimes you can't please/. mods at all.;)
I wrote a blog post on my site on how to mirror the Wikileaks website on your smart phone anonymously using some simple tools. Jacob Appelbaum tweeted about this, and we followed each other. Then shortly after, this all happened with the Twitter info and the stops at the border. I watched his live tweeting with a bit of worry for myself.
Why do agencies want Twitter and email information? Appelbaum is a smart guy, part of the Tor project, so you can bet anything that is sensitive is encrypted. What they want are connections. And that disturbs me when it comes time to spread blame.
In the UK, they sent people to prison for Facebook posts. I really don't want to get locked up like Bradley Manning for a damn blog post on how to mirror a website using your phone: http://i8-d.com/2010/12/05/mirror-wikileaks-anonymously-on-your-android-phone/ Then again, some might say, "Well, then you shouldn't have written it." To that I say, even if it meant going to prison, I'm glad to have stood up for free speech.
Not that I'm totally idealistic. Prison is not my idea of a neat-o claim to fame. I have a family, a son, and a good job. Who the hell wants to put "Felony conviction - Federal conviction for accessory to treason," or whatever strange and trump up charges they are trying to come up for these people, on their resume?
On the other hand, if nobody stands up to corporate censorship, what kind of world will my son grow up in?
The chances are probably low that they'd come after me for not actually doing anything illegal, but when has that stopped them before? In the search for a scapegoat, any goat will do.
In high school my math teacher organised us into pairs and encouraged us to work together on the problems. It's can be very enlightening to see a situation from someone elses point of view. And teamwork is also a skill that has to be learned, preferably in school.
That's annoying as hell for the smart kids paired with kids who just don't get it. Being one of those kids that didn't like "showing my work", I would have spent 50 minutes of a 60 minute class teaching my partner how I got the solutions. Conversely, there were kids smarter than me, and I didn't want them giving away the answer before I'd figured it out on my own. People need to learn how to solve problems on their own. In my humble opinion, math is only a team sport for anyone going above Calculus. I don't believe in that one for all, all for one junk in school. Let's save the teamwork for Phys-Ed.
Sounds like a great way for the teacher to make other students do the job of the teacher. I certainly don't want my son going to school and spending the majority of his time teaching rather than learning something new under some false assumption that they can all be winners. As the kid who always held the class record for math speed tests in elementary school, its a shitty teacher that would make that me spend most of my time helping other students on rudimentary problems when I could have instead moved on to something more challenging.
If that kid's parents want to pay me for after school tutoring, that's fine! Heck, I paid another student for music lessons over a summer in high school. He was a first chair, and I was 5th. My money resulted in him being paid for a valuable service that helped me make second chair the next year. But should he become the instructor of all the kids below him? Hell no, he was allowed to shine on his own. This guy went on with a music scholarship, and the rest of us just have band camp memories. Why hold him back? Why hold back excellence? I can only imagine someone like modern Einstein in high school wasting time trying to explain chemical bonding to a kid who will grow up to flip burgers. That's a far out analogy, but it highlights the problem, at least until later years of college where classes aren't just large groups of kids lumped together not by knowledge, but simply by age and geography.
I want kids to go to school to learn, not teach remedial topics to their classmates.
Yeah, it's bold faced socialism, but having subsidized guaranteed Internet for as many as possible is the best plus for people. The other issues matter, but the access issue, even to a heavily regulated connection, is better than nothing. This is why I think the change from rural telephone access to rural broadband access is the real win for everyone.
I've long since abandoned the idea of "Neutrality". Net Neutrality is all about dividing up never increasing pie into larger and smaller pieces. It's about market share of something artificially set up as a limited resource.
I'm behind the idea of an Internet policy of "no person left behind". I'm less concerned about Comcast giving preferential treatment to Netflix than I am to rural school children and their parents having competitively priced broadband in the first place. We also need a national policy standard on speed the same way we have a national policy standard on gas mileage.
We are falling drastically behind other countries that have fiber as their last mile. At 1000Mb+, throttling for most services approaches irrelevancy. The highest total bandwidth service currently, Netflix, is insignificant traffic on fiber.
Rather than arguing over dividing up low bandwidth, we need to push to increase bandwidth by upgrading aging last mile networks.
"For example, why are tiny bananas suddenly strewn about in some play sequences and not in others? Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence? Why is the game's play space showing a cross section of underground rocks and dirt?"
Sorry, nuclear is no longer "green". The public won't accept it. Instead, solar sails beaming microwaves to the ground.
Yeah, giant mirrors in space. Maybe we can aim them at the polar ice caps just to get it over with faster.
I'll say it again, Thorium. It's the safest and cleanest alternative that is actually doable as a 100% energy replacement. It's not a matter of if, but when. Any extra-planetary colonization, be it on the moon or mars, will use Thorium. Nothing competes with it in terms of cost per kWh once you leave earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon#Energy And it's the same with Mars, where many factors rule out fuels and solar cells. Thorium seems to be the only real constant, and we will eventually use it.
The public doesn't accept giving up their SUVs still, nor do they accept electric vehicles, and in most of the world doesn't accept gay marriage. I could personally give fuck all what the public accepts. When they start running out of drinking water and gas is $10, they'll accept whatever is put in front of them.
Unlike the Nook Color, the Kindle Fire is part of a successful ecosystem.;) In all seriousness, I wonder how much Amazon Prime and the rest of the ecosystem, such as book lending, will impact this.
If the Kindle Fire turns out to be a Fire Hose, then there's no comparison.
Slashdot Mirror
FOG is a PXE cloning solution. http://www.fogproject.org/ Install FOG and storage where you want backups, setup PXE IP on network, and input all MAC addresses you want backed up. Through web interface to clone all. When done backing everything up, put a .img file of DBAN on the FOG server. http://www.dban.org/ Configure it in the FOG PXE boot menu, and make it an option but NOT default. Add appropriate start up flags for the level of wiping you want. Restart all computers you want to wipe, and select wipe option after PXE boot menu comes up.
I suggest you set that option with a password, since it will be available on all computers, not just the one's with the MAC address since only the FOG boot authenticates to MAC, not DBAN.
The remote book removal was 2 years ago, and helped shape Amazon (and much of the mobile tech industry) to be extremely weary of using kill switches. Frankly, I'm glad it happened. It immediately stopped the usual slow creep of increased user control.
I don't think this helps "gain back supporters", but I do think it reinforces Amazon as a company moving in their new direction since then. I like the Amazon model which tries to take the best of Google and the best of Apple, and throw out the worst parts. Tight product integration, but if you want to hack it, why bother stopping you.
That's a great system that the United States will never adopt. Between the tin foil hats and the Apocalypse believers, we're thoroughly terrified against any type of secure identity verification cards. Because, after all, it's a slippery slope to reading your brain, watching you have sex with your wife using satellite x-ray vision, and tattooing 666 on your forehead.
So... "no need to understand how it works"? I see you've not encountered sheer stupidity in its raw, unbridled form. Welcome to the United States!
Running down 65 floors is a pain in the arse. Running UP 65 floors to the surface is a whole other story!
There'll be people hoping a sewage line breaks before they have a heart attack running up stairs.
Stories like these come along every few years about underground building. And everyone says, "Gee, that's a good idea. Why aren't we doing that already?"
Then you tell them about fires, cave ins, flooding, etc. and that good idea doesn't look so hot anymore. Christ, has nobody watched Resident Evil? You don't need monsters, you just need to lose power, lights, and air ventilation and you'll be have a nice uphill riot on your hands. Those glass walls probably don't work to well on a cloudy day or night down near the bottom.
Let's just go ahead and name this the Umbrella Corporation building.
Heck, why not just dump it all in the ocean, then?
I'm sensing a flaw in an ocean dumping theory. Is it a problem of quantity?
I live in America dude, the bigger a piece of shit / asshole / degenerate you are, the more females like you increasing the chance of reproduction, so what you said but backwards. Success in life results in career work that leaves ppl w inept social skills and no time to use their limited ones, ah corporate America, controlling the population one peon at a time.
Haha, yeah. The advantage to our social meme is that unlike DNA, we're actually good at manipulating it. Advantage for... whom? Not us. ;)
That's great, which means someone will leak a key (or it will get cracked, because I doubt the can change often if an entire state uses it), and police will be more candid while base station scanners will stream decrypted audio streams of the entire state online. All it takes is one police radio with the correct key to crack the entire system.
As a network administrator, getting people to not write their VPN passwords on a post it or text file on their desktop is hard. I doubt an entire state of law enforcement and emergency services is going to do much better. All it takes is one freedom minded cop to post the passkey to a message board, and the entire state would have to change. Possibly a centralized sync tech to allow state capital servers to set the keys would mitigate this.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2541160&cid=38152056 - Laid out here. It can lead developers to spot problem applications, that, though popular enough now, may be relying on a few key dying dependencies... a sort of hidden death that without enough developers, the software, though popular, could quickly deteriorate and die.
I'd use an example, but I'll inevitably piss someone off if I mention any packages.
Let me see if I can put this on context for you: Life doesn't debug, debian does.
It's called reproduction. Failure in life results in decreased chance of reproduction, including the ultimate decreased chance, death.
Dependencies compete for limit resources called developers. Just look at all the various sound systems Linux has gone through. They, and the software that depends on them fight to gain more users to thus draw more developers. And, they either live and reproduce, or die.
You are thinking of predator-prey wrong. It's not about eating by about parasitic relationships. And biology is very good at that. What this can show a developer is, based on known algorithms of life and chances of survival, which pieces of software are most in danger of extinction. And that's not always obvious. A music app might be facing extinction because of a particular reliance on a codec dependency that is slowly losing support in favor of another. It let's the developer see further down the road.
Once again, people versed in one discipline apply their skills to another with results that sound fancy and expensive, while really are just nonsense.
Not really. Trial and error is at the heart of evolution which can apply just as easily to living organisms, memes, or software (which is actually a form of meme). It just happens to work quicker on the latter. Predator-Prey relationships are merely an extension of evolution, and is all about inter-dependance. If a package depends on another, one could be considered predator, and the other prey. If development slows on that which is depended on, then the predator must find new prey or face lower numbers and/or extinction.
The greater mistake is a myopic view of disciplines, thinking that nobody else can contribute to the understanding of another discipline except those who specialize in it.
-nt-
-Open Source Community Donates Flex SDK to Goodwill
-Goodwill Donates Flex SDK to Salvation Army
-Salvation Army Donates Flex SDK to Jerry's Kids
-Jerry's Kids Donates Flex SDK to Haiti
-Haiti Donates Flex SDK to Somalia
-Somalian Pirates Use Flex SDK to Attack Passing Ships
I finally broke down and purchased one last night. And let me tell you, they are hard as hell to find. I had to check the entire state I'm in.
But it's like the Kindle Fire. What we want are cheap polished devices... or we want Apple. At least, until the market has real competition. It's not that way with phones now, but at one time it was. That's the fight Amazon thinks it can win. Get in cheap, then polish, polish, polish. I think TVs will go the same way. Only this time, Apple doesn't have a successful product.
But from my point of view, I don't *want* a new TV. I already have a 65" HD TV that is 3D ready. I'm sure as heck not going purchase a new TV. But will I drop $99 on something that has at least a browser, Netflix, Amazon streaming, Youtube, Pandora, and turns my smart phone into a universal remote? Yes. Can they improve it? Yes. But at $99, I can't complain. But if it was $999 Apple device, it better have more than Siri. Using my phone as the remote, I can click the voice input and talk searches into my TV. And I think Apple knows that they had better have a 100% polished device if they want to compete against a $99 good-enough device.
Sony thinks they can integrate into TVs. That's fine for people who purchase a new 27-35" every year. For those of us with a 65" with more bells and whistles than we'll ever use (I'm not buying that overpriced 3D crap), Sony is just shit outta luck until that thing breaks, and I already have a 27" HD in the bedroom, and I have a BluRay with Netflix on it on top of regular broadcast, which is all it really needs. Honestly, I think people are more likely to by a fully integrated Apple TV. That with some Siri might actually justify the cost. Maybe throw in DVR, because Apple loves to charge by the GB. Still, I own a DVR already.
It's like a MMORPG character. You've built the character up with certain attributes. Do you really want to start from scratch, or tweak what you already have. The uphill for Apple is that they are end-to-end, meaning they want you to start from scratch.
And before you all start the hate mail on what I purchased, I completely agree, they can do more. But again, for $99, it is my humble opinion that this beat the Roku the moment I bookmarked YouTube Leanback http://www.youtube.com/leanback which only really works if you have a keyboard.
Anyways, I know I'm not most consumers, and I'll learn the ins and outs of a more complex system. But then again, like most consumers, I'm poor, and a $99 price target wins any day of the week with us. How'd a poor guy get a 65" TV? The trick is, find a woman with a better job who already has one. I'm not afraid to admit I have a sugar mama. ;)
By losing $50 per device, it will be a massive loss leader for Amazon. The more they sell, the more money they lose, with hopes of making it back on Amazon Prime subscriptions for streaming content.
However, I do respect that Amazon is playing a long term game here. And that's why nobody has taken on the iPad. Apple is playing the long term game, but until now, nobody else really has accepted that challenge.
IANAL, but I've heard that renegotiating salary under threat of termination is in itself illegal. That certainly sounds good, but are there any lawyers that can give us some insight?
I was getting them every other day a few months ago, then switched off again. I think it's because at the time, I was pulling in a couple +5 Insightfuls a week, and now, I pull a few +0 Trolls a month, lol.
You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but sometimes you can't please /. mods at all. ;)
I wrote a blog post on my site on how to mirror the Wikileaks website on your smart phone anonymously using some simple tools. Jacob Appelbaum tweeted about this, and we followed each other. Then shortly after, this all happened with the Twitter info and the stops at the border. I watched his live tweeting with a bit of worry for myself.
Why do agencies want Twitter and email information? Appelbaum is a smart guy, part of the Tor project, so you can bet anything that is sensitive is encrypted. What they want are connections. And that disturbs me when it comes time to spread blame.
In the UK, they sent people to prison for Facebook posts. I really don't want to get locked up like Bradley Manning for a damn blog post on how to mirror a website using your phone: http://i8-d.com/2010/12/05/mirror-wikileaks-anonymously-on-your-android-phone/ Then again, some might say, "Well, then you shouldn't have written it." To that I say, even if it meant going to prison, I'm glad to have stood up for free speech.
Not that I'm totally idealistic. Prison is not my idea of a neat-o claim to fame. I have a family, a son, and a good job. Who the hell wants to put "Felony conviction - Federal conviction for accessory to treason," or whatever strange and trump up charges they are trying to come up for these people, on their resume?
On the other hand, if nobody stands up to corporate censorship, what kind of world will my son grow up in?
The chances are probably low that they'd come after me for not actually doing anything illegal, but when has that stopped them before? In the search for a scapegoat, any goat will do.
In high school my math teacher organised us into pairs and encouraged us to work together on the problems. It's can be very enlightening to see a situation from someone elses point of view. And teamwork is also a skill that has to be learned, preferably in school.
That's annoying as hell for the smart kids paired with kids who just don't get it. Being one of those kids that didn't like "showing my work", I would have spent 50 minutes of a 60 minute class teaching my partner how I got the solutions. Conversely, there were kids smarter than me, and I didn't want them giving away the answer before I'd figured it out on my own. People need to learn how to solve problems on their own. In my humble opinion, math is only a team sport for anyone going above Calculus. I don't believe in that one for all, all for one junk in school. Let's save the teamwork for Phys-Ed.
Sounds like a great way for the teacher to make other students do the job of the teacher. I certainly don't want my son going to school and spending the majority of his time teaching rather than learning something new under some false assumption that they can all be winners. As the kid who always held the class record for math speed tests in elementary school, its a shitty teacher that would make that me spend most of my time helping other students on rudimentary problems when I could have instead moved on to something more challenging.
If that kid's parents want to pay me for after school tutoring, that's fine! Heck, I paid another student for music lessons over a summer in high school. He was a first chair, and I was 5th. My money resulted in him being paid for a valuable service that helped me make second chair the next year. But should he become the instructor of all the kids below him? Hell no, he was allowed to shine on his own. This guy went on with a music scholarship, and the rest of us just have band camp memories. Why hold him back? Why hold back excellence? I can only imagine someone like modern Einstein in high school wasting time trying to explain chemical bonding to a kid who will grow up to flip burgers. That's a far out analogy, but it highlights the problem, at least until later years of college where classes aren't just large groups of kids lumped together not by knowledge, but simply by age and geography.
I want kids to go to school to learn, not teach remedial topics to their classmates.
Yeah, it's bold faced socialism, but having subsidized guaranteed Internet for as many as possible is the best plus for people. The other issues matter, but the access issue, even to a heavily regulated connection, is better than nothing. This is why I think the change from rural telephone access to rural broadband access is the real win for everyone.
I've long since abandoned the idea of "Neutrality". Net Neutrality is all about dividing up never increasing pie into larger and smaller pieces. It's about market share of something artificially set up as a limited resource.
I'm behind the idea of an Internet policy of "no person left behind". I'm less concerned about Comcast giving preferential treatment to Netflix than I am to rural school children and their parents having competitively priced broadband in the first place. We also need a national policy standard on speed the same way we have a national policy standard on gas mileage.
We are falling drastically behind other countries that have fiber as their last mile. At 1000Mb+, throttling for most services approaches irrelevancy. The highest total bandwidth service currently, Netflix, is insignificant traffic on fiber.
Rather than arguing over dividing up low bandwidth, we need to push to increase bandwidth by upgrading aging last mile networks.
"For example, why are tiny bananas suddenly strewn about in some play sequences and not in others? Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence? Why is the game's play space showing a cross section of underground rocks and dirt?"
Add another proof to the Connoisseur conjecture - http://xkcd.com/915/
They have an app for Android and iOS phones, no reason they wouldn't make a Windows or OSX app if they really wanted to.
Sorry, nuclear is no longer "green". The public won't accept it. Instead, solar sails beaming microwaves to the ground.
Yeah, giant mirrors in space. Maybe we can aim them at the polar ice caps just to get it over with faster.
I'll say it again, Thorium. It's the safest and cleanest alternative that is actually doable as a 100% energy replacement. It's not a matter of if, but when. Any extra-planetary colonization, be it on the moon or mars, will use Thorium. Nothing competes with it in terms of cost per kWh once you leave earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon#Energy And it's the same with Mars, where many factors rule out fuels and solar cells. Thorium seems to be the only real constant, and we will eventually use it.
The public doesn't accept giving up their SUVs still, nor do they accept electric vehicles, and in most of the world doesn't accept gay marriage. I could personally give fuck all what the public accepts. When they start running out of drinking water and gas is $10, they'll accept whatever is put in front of them.
As long as it makes that E-Trade baby cry, I'm all for it.
Only diasporate people.
Unlike the Nook Color, the Kindle Fire is part of a successful ecosystem. ;) In all seriousness, I wonder how much Amazon Prime and the rest of the ecosystem, such as book lending, will impact this.
If the Kindle Fire turns out to be a Fire Hose, then there's no comparison.