Among the myriad reasons... Those that bother with encryption on anything other than a shopping cart are generally perceived to have nefarious intentions. As the old saying goes... "what do you have to hide if you're not doing anything wrong?" Beyond that:
Government arms can compel you to produce the key or face obstruction charges...so what the point. Espionage business or personal isn't really on peoples minds. Survey people around you and see how many know anything about the Google-China deal.
Encryption technology was/is banned from export. Distribution of software with out of the gate support while satisfying relevant laws is a pain/expensive.
[En/de]cryption is processor intensive. Servers have to have significantly more power to handle the same number of people.
People are oblivious to the information they're making available and the ramifications there of. Take Facebook/MySpace for example, both are a dataminer's/identity thief's candy store.
Authority signed security certificates are expensive. Self-signed certificates produce wonderfully scary messages in web browsers and are vulnerable to MIM attack. No certificate (unencrypted) sites are displayed in the browser as if everything was perfectly alright, safe, and secure.
SpaceX is being positioned to replace NASA-ISS resupply. SpaceX is also working towards manned flight capabilities. I wouldn't doubt that the slack in NASA's manned capabilities will be temporarily if not permanently replaced by them--we'll see how Ares goes...
If only I had mod points... Intentional or otherwise I consider your comment dead on insightful. The world is far too accommodating with respect to disjointed persons. Whether by mind, matter or both the world should not be held captive by unreasonable accommodations of such persons. If by some reason I breathed not air but ammonia I should be the one to don the EV suit not those around me.
Whether one field of math comes up or not depends upon what you plan on doing as a programmer/software engineer. There are certainly easy paths through which you can run your career, but there are plenty of the opposite as well. Anecdotally I've found those that choose to take the hard path find their jobs far more satisfying.
One of the biggest advantages of taking advanced math courses isn't that they will necessarily be directly applicable. But what a satisfying feeling when it does and you can solve the problem. Rather, much like those who choose to get off the couch to exercise and strengthen their physical body so too the math workout strengthens your mind. You'll learn new ways to look at problems and their solutions and gain the raw mental horse-power necessary to do the heavy lifting.
One word of caution though. Watch the grades. Getting a C in Advanced Calc II needs to be buffered against a whole bunch of B+ and A grades in the rest of your classes. Your GPA is regrettably inversely proportional to the degree of difficulty you will have landing your first job out of college. If your GPA is lackluster you won't get a chance to explain how unlike your peers you took the road less traveled, kicked a** and chewed bubble gum.
I'm not dismissing you entirely but if you're going to make specific claims it'd be a good idea to include citations. Doing a more specific search will net a number of hits but the best you can say from them is that a number of groups are looking at the subject and while some preliminary results are in with some very vocal advocates, there are conflicting data and definitely no consensus.
P.S. you must have a pretty sucky search engine as I got 387,000,000 results.
Medical IT began more than 25 years ago when ACR and NEMA decided it'd be a grand idea to get together a band of inept folks to come up with what would become the standard for handling/communicating medical data. Completely vacant of knowledge pertaining to the engineering of standards/protocols, especially those involving software this group came up with a poorly scoped, self-conflicting, and outrageously cumbersome to implement standard eventually known as DICOM. At the time, hospitals and clinics were forced to either pick a single modality (device) vendor and be locked-in for life or have a host of devices that couldn't talk to one another. DICOM was supposed to enable cross-vendor interoperability. It failed. Vendors lobbied the standards committee heavily having the expected results. Adoption was slow, incomplete, and/or simply inaccurate. As well, the DICOM standard allowed proprietary communication to still take place. While you got your image, that CT scan just never was the same once it left vendor X's equipment.
With the conversion of most of Europe and now a push for computerization in the U.S. movement is afoot through organizations such as IHE to finally mature this industry after some 25 years of infancy. However, doing so will be tough and doubtless protracted. For hospitals, replacing multi-million dollar equipment even in a good economy isn't easy and vendors are expected to remain consistent in their nature. The open-source community has been stepping up to the plate where they can and this might net some interesting results on the software side down the road but glue and viewers will only go so far. Archival (PACS) software could achieve much but is well beyond the reach of unorganized hobbyists.
Energy consumption == polution. There is a reason.
Further, these regulations do NOT ban big screen televisions. If you cared to RTFA you would have noted that the regs. 1. do not affect >58" 2. thousands of HDTVs aready meet the 2011 standards with several hundred the 2013 3. encourages adoption and thereby quantities of scale on better technology (ie. LED LCDs) thus making them cheaper. The only thing these regs really put a crimp on are the energy hogging plasma TVs--a technology that in general usually has a poorer quality image anyway.
We must decide... Will we remain Luddites or join the hive mind? Attempting to both leverage technology and leverage privacy is an exercise in futility. Those choosing to straddle the fence rather than embracing one or the other will eventually find that someone else has already decided for them.
When did we start inventing stuff again? I thought we ended that fad back in the 60's. Last I knew we bought our innovations from S. Korea, our cheap from China, and our government mandated U.S. goods from local companies that out-source to Mexico.
Frankly I'm glad someone is doing their job. DOJ certainly hasn't been. MySQL has been a thorn in Oracles a** for quite some time and that's exactly where it needs to stay. It was bad enough that they were allowed to acquire Innobase back in 2005.
You know, this has the potential to get rather interesting...
Sony is being sued by a blind fellow for not making their PS3 ADA compliant. Amazon was threatened with a lawsuit by the Authors Guild for making their Kindle ADA compliant. Now Intel is taunting the Authors Guild by making a device with the express purpose of giving blind and otherwise visually impaired access to written works.
The summary is trying to make hay. There are other tests already on the board between now and the 2014 Ares I-Y test flight. Project managers simply decided that the objectives of that particular test fly could be achieved by other means (test flights) thereby saving the program unnecessary expenses. A very helpful thing considering their already tight budget.
This has been standard and expected functionality in Linux for years; practically as long as wi-fi cards have been supported. Why the hell is this news? Microsoft didn't even complete the support, it's a third party hack... This is worse than the claim that Aero Glass was revolutionary.
A GPS device is in every cell phone in accordance with US law. Of course people will use that instead if they're permitted. Why carry a separate and often bulky device?
The only solution I see to this is to ban access to the built in device to all but emergency responders... If we don't write some protection laws quickly we'll surely see the end of companies like Garmin.
Backbone and last-mile providers are already crying about filesharers overburdening the infrastructure, especially here in the U.S.. ISPs in the U.S. typically devote well more than 95% of capacity to downstream traffic to try and cope. The modern graphics card works on a bandwidth spoken in terms of GB/s. There's no way a 50 FPS+ 1080p or better video feed from a rendering farm could be supported for every console user. While not needing as high of resolution, mobile devices communicate off of cellular networks that make in-ground network capacity problems seem petty. Even if these could be remedied, the latency involved in even a same city rendering farm would still make for a lack-luster experience.
In theory that might be a good idea. However, in practice, forks only have two realistic outcomes. Either they're just plain ignored--as is the case with present MySQL forks, or they divide and segregate the user base. The consequences of the later could potentially prove the undoing of the project. Relying upon products with an unstable and uncertain future make management types nervous...
As far as I can tell Microsoft isn't horribly concerned about the FTC or their analogs. I don't think upfront discomfort in the form of fines and/or legal maneuvers aren't horribly important to them if they can sway public opinion in favor of their products.
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SpaceX is being positioned to replace NASA-ISS resupply. SpaceX is also working towards manned flight capabilities. I wouldn't doubt that the slack in NASA's manned capabilities will be temporarily if not permanently replaced by them--we'll see how Ares goes...
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If only I had mod points... Intentional or otherwise I consider your comment dead on insightful. The world is far too accommodating with respect to disjointed persons. Whether by mind, matter or both the world should not be held captive by unreasonable accommodations of such persons. If by some reason I breathed not air but ammonia I should be the one to don the EV suit not those around me.
Whether one field of math comes up or not depends upon what you plan on doing as a programmer/software engineer. There are certainly easy paths through which you can run your career, but there are plenty of the opposite as well. Anecdotally I've found those that choose to take the hard path find their jobs far more satisfying.
One of the biggest advantages of taking advanced math courses isn't that they will necessarily be directly applicable. But what a satisfying feeling when it does and you can solve the problem. Rather, much like those who choose to get off the couch to exercise and strengthen their physical body so too the math workout strengthens your mind. You'll learn new ways to look at problems and their solutions and gain the raw mental horse-power necessary to do the heavy lifting.
One word of caution though. Watch the grades. Getting a C in Advanced Calc II needs to be buffered against a whole bunch of B+ and A grades in the rest of your classes. Your GPA is regrettably inversely proportional to the degree of difficulty you will have landing your first job out of college. If your GPA is lackluster you won't get a chance to explain how unlike your peers you took the road less traveled, kicked a** and chewed bubble gum.
Hmm. I'm on Google search page 40 and there's been only one mention of how cell phone radiation may make rats more susceptible to the "ooh, shiny..." phenomenon. I did however manage to find articles on:
I'm not dismissing you entirely but if you're going to make specific claims it'd be a good idea to include citations. Doing a more specific search will net a number of hits but the best you can say from them is that a number of groups are looking at the subject and while some preliminary results are in with some very vocal advocates, there are conflicting data and definitely no consensus.
P.S. you must have a pretty sucky search engine as I got 387,000,000 results.
It's the American way...
If they stood really close...
That's kind of funny since the last two Crapcast boxes I've had have what appears (through the vent holes) to be a CableCard stashed inside...
Medical IT began more than 25 years ago when ACR and NEMA decided it'd be a grand idea to get together a band of inept folks to come up with what would become the standard for handling/communicating medical data. Completely vacant of knowledge pertaining to the engineering of standards/protocols, especially those involving software this group came up with a poorly scoped, self-conflicting, and outrageously cumbersome to implement standard eventually known as DICOM. At the time, hospitals and clinics were forced to either pick a single modality (device) vendor and be locked-in for life or have a host of devices that couldn't talk to one another. DICOM was supposed to enable cross-vendor interoperability. It failed. Vendors lobbied the standards committee heavily having the expected results. Adoption was slow, incomplete, and/or simply inaccurate. As well, the DICOM standard allowed proprietary communication to still take place. While you got your image, that CT scan just never was the same once it left vendor X's equipment.
With the conversion of most of Europe and now a push for computerization in the U.S. movement is afoot through organizations such as IHE to finally mature this industry after some 25 years of infancy. However, doing so will be tough and doubtless protracted. For hospitals, replacing multi-million dollar equipment even in a good economy isn't easy and vendors are expected to remain consistent in their nature. The open-source community has been stepping up to the plate where they can and this might net some interesting results on the software side down the road but glue and viewers will only go so far. Archival (PACS) software could achieve much but is well beyond the reach of unorganized hobbyists.
Energy consumption == polution. There is a reason.
Further, these regulations do NOT ban big screen televisions. If you cared to RTFA you would have noted that the regs. 1. do not affect >58" 2. thousands of HDTVs aready meet the 2011 standards with several hundred the 2013 3. encourages adoption and thereby quantities of scale on better technology (ie. LED LCDs) thus making them cheaper. The only thing these regs really put a crimp on are the energy hogging plasma TVs--a technology that in general usually has a poorer quality image anyway.
Why would they need a back door? Windows? Get it? Access is already implied...
We must decide... Will we remain Luddites or join the hive mind? Attempting to both leverage technology and leverage privacy is an exercise in futility. Those choosing to straddle the fence rather than embracing one or the other will eventually find that someone else has already decided for them.
When did we start inventing stuff again? I thought we ended that fad back in the 60's. Last I knew we bought our innovations from S. Korea, our cheap from China, and our government mandated U.S. goods from local companies that out-source to Mexico.
Frankly I'm glad someone is doing their job. DOJ certainly hasn't been. MySQL has been a thorn in Oracles a** for quite some time and that's exactly where it needs to stay. It was bad enough that they were allowed to acquire Innobase back in 2005.
You know, this has the potential to get rather interesting...
Sony is being sued by a blind fellow for not making their PS3 ADA compliant. Amazon was threatened with a lawsuit by the Authors Guild for making their Kindle ADA compliant. Now Intel is taunting the Authors Guild by making a device with the express purpose of giving blind and otherwise visually impaired access to written works.
The summary is trying to make hay. There are other tests already on the board between now and the 2014 Ares I-Y test flight. Project managers simply decided that the objectives of that particular test fly could be achieved by other means (test flights) thereby saving the program unnecessary expenses. A very helpful thing considering their already tight budget.
This has been standard and expected functionality in Linux for years; practically as long as wi-fi cards have been supported. Why the hell is this news? Microsoft didn't even complete the support, it's a third party hack... This is worse than the claim that Aero Glass was revolutionary.
ahem... ge ography
You clearly haven't been paying attention to the bottled water market...
A GPS device is in every cell phone in accordance with US law. Of course people will use that instead if they're permitted. Why carry a separate and often bulky device?
The only solution I see to this is to ban access to the built in device to all but emergency responders... If we don't write some protection laws quickly we'll surely see the end of companies like Garmin.
Backbone and last-mile providers are already crying about filesharers overburdening the infrastructure, especially here in the U.S.. ISPs in the U.S. typically devote well more than 95% of capacity to downstream traffic to try and cope. The modern graphics card works on a bandwidth spoken in terms of GB/s. There's no way a 50 FPS+ 1080p or better video feed from a rendering farm could be supported for every console user. While not needing as high of resolution, mobile devices communicate off of cellular networks that make in-ground network capacity problems seem petty. Even if these could be remedied, the latency involved in even a same city rendering farm would still make for a lack-luster experience.
In theory that might be a good idea. However, in practice, forks only have two realistic outcomes. Either they're just plain ignored--as is the case with present MySQL forks, or they divide and segregate the user base. The consequences of the later could potentially prove the undoing of the project. Relying upon products with an unstable and uncertain future make management types nervous...
Users aren't the best at tracking problems to the source for the purpose of casting blame...
As far as I can tell Microsoft isn't horribly concerned about the FTC or their analogs. I don't think upfront discomfort in the form of fines and/or legal maneuvers aren't horribly important to them if they can sway public opinion in favor of their products.