The site is now useful again to me since I don't have to scroll a million pages on my cell phone anymore when viewing multiple comments (which are the really great thing about this site).
Off-the-Record messaging already provides encryption of chat messages, works on top of existing IM services, and you get the bonus that you can get the warm fuzzy feeling from sticking it to the man by using a company's service (like Google talk) that tries to log/mine data, but they can't use your data.
Maybe the customers can get around supporting an open source replacement for Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop. On the other hand, all the examples listed were not end-user software, but infrastructure-type software (= something that helped a company make money by building something on top) with tech-savvy employees. So I guess, there won't be a big open source move for replacements of Photoshop and Acrobat.
PS: Yes, I know about gimp, darkroom, inkscape, etc. While I can accomplish the task with them, they lack usability, stability, and speed.
At the Toronto General Hospital they have a full lung living outside the body. They talked about it in this short TED segment. Ex Vivo Lung: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2EmuyHoMAI
As long as these online teaching systems cannot eliminate cheating, the earned credits worthless for attesting a basic education (in contrast to extended learning). As a straightforward exploit, one person can register multiple times with different identities and then blindly copy&paste the answers for the questions. While the cheater will still learn more compared to just failing or not taking the course it is questionable whether this method will allow the cheater to learn the required minimum to earn the credit.
Just sign up some 70+ grandpa or grandma and pay for their link. Then, download all the songs via their accound. Until the RIAA finds out about this and starts suing, it's likely that grandpa is already dead. And in an "abundance of sensitivity" they might then drop the case.
'The sustainability and restoring of our environment are providing opportunities in many fields of small business,' John Stayton, co-founder and director of the Green MBA program at San Francisco's New College of California.
Well, he already found his way to make money with his "Green MBA program". Although, I guess it's not really in the spirit of the message.
In general the idea of competition and prizes is good, however, as the number of 'challenges', 'races', and 'prizes' increase, I don't see a similar increase in traditional funding of basic research.
As a person working in research at a university, who will be paying my expenses for material and labor (=graduate student and tuition fees, I'm not counting my summer). There are two ways for me:
1) I take the full risk and hope to win the prize or 2) I screw a funding agency and use some of their grant money to compete here as well.
Clearly 2) is the way to go. Moreover, I even have to rip them off even more, since I won't win the prize each time I seriously compete and have to compensate these losses.
Again, don't get me wrong. Competition is good, prizes and challenges are good, however, not at the expense of traditionally funded basic research. Unfortunately, that's what's happening, since it moves the risk from the sponsor to the researcher and that just looks good in the public.
That doesn't help. I'm pretty sure you get the "same" cookie if you log in from a different IP. Also if you delete your cookie, you will get the "same" cookie as long as you don't change IP. With "same" cookie, I mean that they store a relationship between the old cookie and the new one you get.
Given today's world of a 1:1 relationship between users and computers (mostly laptops), there is basically no way to escape the tracking unless you really block the cookies.
Lego looks pale and boring in comparison to fischertechnik. VW even built a complete plant using fischertechnik to verify their plan design (see here, it's towards the end). They offer a driver in C, PASCAL, etc. They have IO extensions. Everything's there.
Windows XP is quite expensive from the OEM's. For example this supplier sells PCs with Windows and Linux. The Linux ones are 82 Euros (about $100) cheaper.
Given that you can buy PCs for $350, this is about 1/3 of the price.
Here is a funny story about eBay "fraud". Somebody did not read the whole text and paid that much money for a picture of the xbox 360. I did put fraud in quotes, because it may not be fraud, since the item was correctly described.
In Germany, it's normal that any company has some terms & conditions (TNC) to which other businesses have to agree, if they do business with them.
It's time that end users also create a software TNC for their computer. If your software runs on my computer, using my resources, then it will have to comply to the following rules:
- It has to use the resources to my direct(!) benefit. - It has to give me full control over it's behavior (e.g., uninstall possible)
That's all. Simple, but powerful.
It would be interesting to really put this in a written legal letter and send it to the businesses. Then *I* could sue the spyware companies.
It's quite simple to make money out of this: In Spains tourist lots, the restroom is looked by a numer key lock. The access code is changing on a regular basis (e.g., hourly). If you want to use the restroom, you have to buy something, because the code is automatically printed on the receipt.
They will do the same for the wireless access. They print the current access code (user & pass) on the receipt and reset the system every 30 mins. Btw. if you think, you just buy something small, that's exactly where McD has huge margins. So a Coke or ice cream every 30 mins for surfing generates enough money for maintaining the WiFi net.
However, it will be fun to see all gamers run for an ice cream at the same time every 30 mins:-)
Yes, because TCP/IP is an 'add-on' to IP (Internet protocol). So what? IP is transport layer agnostic. You can use token ring or anything else. And applications are IP agnostic, or did you ever pack your Ethernet frame and your IP header in it yourself? It is no more and no less than a driver in the OS.
Of course, it will break some applications, but that's not what you get. You get a web-terminal running firefox and all the other nice Google products, which hooks up to the local Google WLAN spot. You have mail, instant messaging, VoIP, web, and a lot of other applications, which use a standard IP library. It's for the masses and not the industry.
Btw. a nice benefit, you shut out all the competitors, because the terminals are yours.
During their A.M. Turing award lecture, Vint and Bob discussed and mentioned several times that it is virtually impossible to change parts of the Internet's underlying structures (e.g., the IP protocols), because the industry and standards are too strong. They mentioned that their luck was at the beginning to be left alone and be able to do anything they want. The standards came afterwards.
Now guess what:
Vinton Cerf works for Google now. Google wants to become a provider and they buy their own communication cables for an alternate internet. Ergo, Google will allow Vint to create a new Inernet protocol, which will have a number of features, which will make AOL/Microsoft cannot provide.
Of course, AOL/Microsoft can buy the market share, but if Google's protocols and Internet is the next generation, then Google will get its market share. And there is nothing that AOL/Microsoft can do about that.
1) 4G is far far away (especially from the US, also from Europe, which still struggles to implement 3G)
2) It heavily depends on the protocol on top of the multiplexing: 3G allows high bandwidth, because a single phone can be served by multiple base stations (=masts). However, as we already saw with GPRS and WAP, if the protocol is bad (voice had more priority than data packets; hand overs between base stations could not treat data connections very well too), the whole service will die (=no more WAP).
3) It heavily depends of the number of cell phones per cell. All these test drives show the optimal case (just remember that 3G promised 384 kBit/s, but if you are in a car, you have only less than 100 kb/s left). Data has (an probabily will still have) less priority than voice calls. So your porn download will be stalling, because your neighbour has phone sex;-)
4) Who really needs that stuff? My country is one of the no 1 test markets in the world (a target market of 6 Mio people and 5 mobile telephony providers!!), we have a lot of different services, phoning is almost free of charge. Virtually nobody uses 3G now, everybody uses the phone for voice connections and short messages. Only a very small number uses the phone for data connections (btw. also multi-media short messages did not catch on yet).
However
Japan is different. When NTT Docomo get in the market, land line internet access was very expensive. Many people used the phone as primary private internet access. That's one reason for the huge success. (Though I, and also the available surveys about that topic, don't understand, why people in Japan pay that much money for phone screen savers;-)
First, they delayed the aid troops, to get rid of some of the poorest and most miserable (black) people in New Orleands, and now they are using them as guinea pigs and are trying out new weapons against them!!
What I do not understand, why nobody comes up with an mp3 player that lends music, i.e., the original source is not able to play that one song, while another person listens to it. After all it is legal to convert your CDs into MP3 and it is legal to lend your CD to other people (e.g., friends).
Given the number of p2p users, there would be plenty of music to lend. Given that a lot of them have at least a DLS connection, streaming would work, too.
And you do not even have to pirate it then.
PS: I know, it's not going to be on your ipod, but then simply buy it.
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The site is now useful again to me since I don't have to scroll a million pages on my cell phone anymore when viewing multiple comments (which are the really great thing about this site).
Many clients already support OTR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Native
Many clients have plugins for OTR: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
PS: Yes, I know about gimp, darkroom, inkscape, etc. While I can accomplish the task with them, they lack usability, stability, and speed.
At the Toronto General Hospital they have a full lung living outside the body. They talked about it in this short TED segment. Ex Vivo Lung: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2EmuyHoMAI
As long as these online teaching systems cannot eliminate cheating, the earned credits worthless for attesting a basic education (in contrast to extended learning). As a straightforward exploit, one person can register multiple times with different identities and then blindly copy&paste the answers for the questions. While the cheater will still learn more compared to just failing or not taking the course it is questionable whether this method will allow the cheater to learn the required minimum to earn the credit.
http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2012/05/28/1205446109.DCSupplemental/SM01.mp4
Cheers.
Just sign up some 70+ grandpa or grandma and pay for their link. Then, download all the songs via their accound. Until the RIAA finds out about this and starts suing, it's likely that grandpa is already dead. And in an "abundance of sensitivity" they might then drop the case.
Quite sarcastic, but it's free music after all.
harhar
Well, he already found his way to make money with his "Green MBA program". Although, I guess it's not really in the spirit of the message.
In general the idea of competition and prizes is good, however, as the number of 'challenges', 'races', and 'prizes' increase, I don't see a similar increase in traditional funding of basic research.
As a person working in research at a university, who will be paying my expenses for material and labor (=graduate student and tuition fees, I'm not counting my summer). There are two ways for me:
1) I take the full risk and hope to win the prize or
2) I screw a funding agency and use some of their grant money to compete here as well.
Clearly 2) is the way to go. Moreover, I even have to rip them off even more, since I won't win the prize each time I seriously compete and have to compensate these losses.
Again, don't get me wrong. Competition is good, prizes and challenges are good, however, not at the expense of traditionally funded basic research. Unfortunately, that's what's happening, since it moves the risk from the sponsor to the researcher and that just looks good in the public.
That doesn't help. I'm pretty sure you get the "same" cookie if you log in from a different IP. Also if you delete your cookie, you will get the "same" cookie as long as you don't change IP. With "same" cookie, I mean that they store a relationship between the old cookie and the new one you get.
Given today's world of a 1:1 relationship between users and computers (mostly laptops), there is basically no way to escape the tracking unless you really block the cookies.
Cheers.
Lego looks pale and boring in comparison to fischertechnik. VW even built a complete plant using fischertechnik to verify their plan design (see here, it's towards the end). They offer a driver in C, PASCAL, etc. They have IO extensions. Everything's there.
Windows XP is quite expensive from the OEM's. For example this supplier sells PCs with Windows and Linux. The Linux ones are 82 Euros (about $100) cheaper.
Given that you can buy PCs for $350, this is about 1/3 of the price.
Here is a funny story about eBay "fraud". Somebody did not read the whole text and paid that much money for a picture of the xbox 360. I did put fraud in quotes, because it may not be fraud, since the item was correctly described.
In Germany, it's normal that any company has some terms & conditions (TNC) to which other businesses have to agree, if they do business with them.
It's time that end users also create a software TNC for their computer. If your software runs on my computer, using my resources, then it will have to comply to the following rules:
- It has to use the resources to my direct(!) benefit.
- It has to give me full control over it's behavior (e.g., uninstall possible)
That's all. Simple, but powerful.
It would be interesting to really put this in a written legal letter and send it to the businesses. Then *I* could sue the spyware companies.
It's quite simple to make money out of this: In Spains tourist lots, the restroom is looked by a numer key lock. The access code is changing on a regular basis (e.g., hourly). If you want to use the restroom, you have to buy something, because the code is automatically printed on the receipt.
:-)
They will do the same for the wireless access. They print the current access code (user & pass) on the receipt and reset the system every 30 mins. Btw. if you think, you just buy something small, that's exactly where McD has huge margins. So a Coke or ice cream every 30 mins for surfing generates enough money for maintaining the WiFi net.
However, it will be fun to see all gamers run for an ice cream at the same time every 30 mins
Of course, it will break some applications, but that's not what you get. You get a web-terminal running firefox and all the other nice Google products, which hooks up to the local Google WLAN spot. You have mail, instant messaging, VoIP, web, and a lot of other applications, which use a standard IP library. It's for the masses and not the industry.
Btw. a nice benefit, you shut out all the competitors, because the terminals are yours.
Now guess what:
Vinton Cerf works for Google now. Google wants to become a provider and they buy their own communication cables for an alternate internet. Ergo, Google will allow Vint to create a new Inernet protocol, which will have a number of features, which will make AOL/Microsoft cannot provide.
Of course, AOL/Microsoft can buy the market share, but if Google's protocols and Internet is the next generation, then Google will get its market share. And there is nothing that AOL/Microsoft can do about that.
Just feed Eliza some random input from an irc channel and pipe its output into ATT&T TTS system and then into the phone for the telemarketer.
Option 2)
And if you are really lucky (and spammed), team up two telemarketers with each other, just as we saw with skype here.
2) It heavily depends on the protocol on top of the multiplexing: 3G allows high bandwidth, because a single phone can be served by multiple base stations (=masts). However, as we already saw with GPRS and WAP, if the protocol is bad (voice had more priority than data packets; hand overs between base stations could not treat data connections very well too), the whole service will die (=no more WAP).
3) It heavily depends of the number of cell phones per cell. All these test drives show the optimal case (just remember that 3G promised 384 kBit/s, but if you are in a car, you have only less than 100 kb/s left). Data has (an probabily will still have) less priority than voice calls. So your porn download will be stalling, because your neighbour has phone sex ;-)
4) Who really needs that stuff? My country is one of the no 1 test markets in the world (a target market of 6 Mio people and 5 mobile telephony providers!!), we have a lot of different services, phoning is almost free of charge. Virtually nobody uses 3G now, everybody uses the phone for voice connections and short messages. Only a very small number uses the phone for data connections (btw. also multi-media short messages did not catch on yet).
However
Japan is different. When NTT Docomo get in the market, land line internet access was very expensive. Many people used the phone as primary private internet access. That's one reason for the huge success. (Though I, and also the available surveys about that topic, don't understand, why people in Japan pay that much money for phone screen savers ;-)
Outrageous!
Given the number of p2p users, there would be plenty of music to lend. Given that a lot of them have at least a DLS connection, streaming would work, too.
And you do not even have to pirate it then.
PS: I know, it's not going to be on your ipod, but then simply buy it.
That's a good (only) reason to buy this version, since you get the media player with the next automated update anyways ;-)