consumption purely for the sake of consumption is our biggest problem.
I whole-heartedly agree with you. However a capaitalistic market will not correct this. I recently looked a a book "Your call is important to us", which gives an illuminating discussion about companies such as WalMart.
Capitalism has many good traits. It encourages efficient production of (fairly) high-quality products. It provides incentives for the seller to match the demands of the buyer.
However, when viewed in terms of an "optimization problem", it is not an unbiased solution. The general public lacks the knowledge and motovation to demand the things necessary to cure today's problems. *Most* people would rather pay $5 less per shirt than spend a few hours researching how it was made and then choosing to purchase a more expensive (non-sweatshop) produced one.
In terms of cars. Are you going to buy your wife/spouse a moped just to save the environment? Well, not if you live in an area populated by 18wheelers, SUVs, and Hummers.
And what about advertising? Consumers don't really mind mass unsolicted postal mail and newspaper ads. Advertisers like them because they don't have to pay for the environmental costs (other than the low price of purchasing the paper). Do you see what I'm getting at? Capitalism is not helping these things.
According to Cornell's lawyers, the DMCA was not a concern because navigation data is not, and cannot be, copyrighted.
Whoa!
Does this mean that the data files to Microsoft Streets and Trips can be published freely?
Does this mean that online maps can be used without any type of license/permission from the "owner"?
Yes, I understand I cannot copyright my mailing address. But what about a collection of addresses? What about a collection of addresses, and roads? what about a collection of addresses, roads, and landmarks? What about any of these collections displayed in graphical form?
Look at the companise that exist solely by selling atlases. Their works aren't copyrighted? Whoohooo!
Freedom of speech implies a freedom to read what you want.
I would like to believe you, but I'm not sure about your statement. (IANAL)
Also, the terms of the DMCA seem to suggest that even **talking** or **publishing** ways to read encrypted signals (for purposes of breaking copyprotection) is illegal (The importation of such technology is forbidden).
Now if the owners of the european satellites can claim that the contents of their signals are protected by copyright, (and they seem to be charging a fee for some types of access), then I can see a good case for them using the US DMCA against the researchers.
Although academic cryptology research is permitted under the DMCA, but I'm not sure if open publishing/disclosure of discovered methods to break it are permitted).
At the university that I attend (which is a really big one), I've noticed the EULA for the M$ software is somewhat strange. (We have the deep discount program where software can be "purchased" much more cheaply than the "academic" versions, with some restrictions.)
For something like ~$50, students can "license" Microsoft Windows/Office under the EULA until one of the following occur: 1) They quit the university (they can't use the software anymore) 2) They graduate (Then they get to keep it) 3) The school-specific contract/EULA expires!
My school representatives and the Microsoft contacts I have emailed (which happened to be located in India), assure me that #3 isn't a problem. It should also be noticed that the Microsoft representatives I contacted refused to give me an electronic copy of the regular Academic software EULAs, citing it was not available online [I later found it on microsoft.com]. However the actual terms of the 'contract' spell out that the terms are with respect to a particular *version* of the contract.
Thus, even if the school renews the contract (which I can only assume would get a new version), the licenses granted under the old (expired) contract would appear to be invalid. They may/may not be the intent, but it clearly is implied by the letter of the document.
Which means more $$$ for Microsoft! Darn!
And for me, since #3 will occur before #2 [and I'm almost done], it means anyone who pays money to Microsoft right now will be technically screwing themselves.
have their security restrained enough so it would be difficult to get much out of it. With ports blocked all over the place, it'll take a lot of effort to get a piece of software running hidden that will send off your information.
What !?!?!
Let me introduce you to my good friend, Mr. TCP Port 80 and his cousin, Mr. TCP Port 443.
Would you happen to have the name of a reputable scientist that claims solar output variation is responsible for global warming, by any chance? Note that even over the 14-year sunspot cycle the variation is less than 1%.
You do realize that the Earth doesn't need to receive double the radiation to go from 30F to 60F, right?
When viewed on the Kelvin scale, I would suspect the temperature variation due to global warming is MUCH LESS than 1%.
Yes, but are you saying that his early management/efforts (technical & nontech) didn't help sustain his prediction?
(How did he benchmark himself?)
And even after others took over his duties, I don't see why they would be eager to break the "tradition" nor argue why such a departure should be acepted.
Perhaps they did sustain his prediction with little effort. But I'm arguing that he could have made a somewhat different prediction and it would have been sustained in the same way.
The problem I see with projects like BG/L is one of two things a happen:
1) Software is implemented by CS majors who have little understanding of the math and physics involved. They probably implement highly computationally intensive (inefficent) algorithms well (i.e. no bubblesort).
2) Software is implemented by Physics majors who although knowing the syntax of C/fortran, don't understand how to write good programs. Their implementations are numerically correct, but highly inefficient [e.g. they use non-scalable algorithms on huge systems]. They seem to have no clue of Amdahl's law....
So even if they proudly exclaim that they wrote a program that uses 100 Terraflops, I suppose the same result could have been found using several orders magnitude fewer operations (with better written software).
microprocessor or controller design business has at least a 20 years to survive according to Gordon Moore's projection
Well, don't forget which company he founded.... I feel his "law" is nothing more than a mission statement that managers and investors took as their basis for evaluating the industry. Because they (managers/investors) believe in it, it will either happen or Intel will be punished. (e.g. has group X maintaned the law, okay they get a check on their annual progress report). Otherwise it has little to do with reality.
Gordon Moore will be last to admit when general purpose CPUs are dead.
Forget about new accounts. With one's SSN, name, address, etc, evildoers can wreak havoc on your existing accounts.
What info is required when you call a broker by phone? Exactly.
And how does your #1 stand with respect to governmental organizations? Its great that all corps are doing Sarbares-Crap, but what about the governments??? What is the recourse when they make an entire state's taxpayer info public on the web?
Tell them that if you don't get your credit card watched, you're going to burn the place down. Burn it to the ground, and then take a vacation in some far off tropical place.
"We've got a Destination Cuba, I repeat, we've got a Destination Cube on our hands."
They typical person may have a EV capable commute, but odds are they also make a few trips a year that are outside the range of the car. That alone makes them a no go for most people.
Unknowingly, you point out one of the greatest problems in the USA (and probably the rest of the world).
People buy cars that cover 100% of their "needs", rather than an economical (and energy efficient car) that covers 99% of their needs.
For those of you that aren't convinced, look around during the morning/afternoon commutes. It is rare to see any passengers (other than the driver). A single person driving a "Ford Excursion", etc, etc.. Despite efforts, most people do not carpool.
And this is their daily pattern for 5/7 the days in the week. Yes, a few times a year they might want to move furniture or haul a BBQ. They could rent a truck from Enterprise/Uhaul for ~$20-$40 for that occasion.
Instead we have extended cab 4x4 luxury pickup trucks on the roads...
1. Create a small image/program/text file w/ a Copyright notice. 2. ZIP/TAR/ISO the work of #1 3. Convert the result of #2 to a number using a "arbitrary integer" library.
The resulting long "number" will acutally be an encoding/derivative of the copyrighted work.
You can publish and license (for a fee) the use of this "number" to anyone. You might even be able to invoke the DCMA if you are clever... Or you can call up the FBI on those who use your "number" without permission. You might even be able to sucessfully sue/imprision those who use similar numbers, especially if such are easily derivable from your own.
Now, although 0x7f is a very short number, it could easily be a program of a very simple computer ( 2 bit instructions ). Now this "program" may not do anything useful, but it still can be copyrighted/sold/licensed/etc. I think it would still enjoy the protections of the copyright laws....
If the beginning of every REISERFS filesystem included a ZIP file of Win 3.1, Microsoft would sure as hell care (even if the image was only used as a "magic number" like 0x7f ). So yes, I think 0x7f can be copyrighted and licensed.
The material benefits won't be as easily accessible, but your life will be infinitely more enjoyable, because you'll actually have some control over it.
Just curious, how does one retire at 42 working in a small company?
So to summarise, they've said that Linux gets just over 364 days of uptime per 365 days whilest Windows gets 437 days of uptime per 365 days. I want one of those windows servers that can accumulate well over a year's worth of uptime in a year.
Simple. The Windows machine probably had a dual-core CPU.
I think it is unreasonable for anyone to believe that the US government is intent on storing the complete genetic profile all 300 million US citizens much less being able to do anything useful with that information. Besides, 99.9% of all of those profiles would be more or less identical and a total waste to store!
You must be new around here...
DO you think computers are not capable of handling this much data?
IBM sells a computer named "BlueGene". It can contain up to 65536 processors, linked via very very fast network connections. I think it costs only a few million dollars.
300 million / 65536 = 4577.
So even if you used a really dumb searching algorithm (one that checked ALL of the entries), 65536 nodes operating in parallel would each only have to look at 4577 people -- a highly trivial number irregardless of how much data was associated with each.
And also consider that there is currently a massive amount of research work in universities (department of defense-sponsored) in the area of Data Mining. I don't think the DoD is using this to find a better target for their "Army of One" advertisments (marketing).....
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consumption purely for the sake of consumption is our biggest problem.
I whole-heartedly agree with you. However a capaitalistic market will not correct this. I recently looked a a book "Your call is important to us", which gives an illuminating discussion about companies such as WalMart.
Capitalism has many good traits. It encourages efficient production of (fairly) high-quality products. It provides incentives for the seller to match the demands of the buyer.
However, when viewed in terms of an "optimization problem", it is not an unbiased solution. The general public lacks the knowledge and motovation to demand the things necessary to cure today's problems. *Most* people would rather pay $5 less per shirt than spend a few hours researching how it was made and then choosing to purchase a more expensive (non-sweatshop) produced one.
In terms of cars. Are you going to buy your wife/spouse a moped just to save the environment? Well, not if you live in an area populated by 18wheelers, SUVs, and Hummers.
And what about advertising? Consumers don't really mind mass unsolicted postal mail and newspaper ads. Advertisers like them because they don't have to pay for the environmental costs (other than the low price of purchasing the paper). Do you see what I'm getting at? Capitalism is not helping these things.
According to Cornell's lawyers, the DMCA was not a concern because navigation data is not, and cannot be, copyrighted.
Whoa!
Does this mean that the data files to Microsoft Streets and Trips can be published freely?
Does this mean that online maps can be used without any type of license/permission from the "owner"?
Yes, I understand I cannot copyright my mailing address. But what about a collection of addresses? What about a collection of addresses, and roads? what about a collection of addresses, roads, and landmarks? What about any of these collections displayed in graphical form?
Look at the companise that exist solely by selling atlases. Their works aren't copyrighted? Whoohooo!
Freedom of speech implies a freedom to read what you want.
I would like to believe you, but I'm not sure about your statement. (IANAL)
Also, the terms of the DMCA seem to suggest that even **talking** or **publishing** ways to read encrypted signals (for purposes of breaking copyprotection) is illegal (The importation of such technology is forbidden).
Now if the owners of the european satellites can claim that the contents of their signals are protected by copyright, (and they seem to be charging a fee for some types of access), then I can see a good case for them using the US DMCA against the researchers.
Although academic cryptology research is permitted under the DMCA, but I'm not sure if open publishing/disclosure of discovered methods to break it are permitted).
At the university that I attend (which is a really big one), I've noticed the EULA for the M$ software is somewhat strange. (We have the deep discount program where software can be "purchased" much more cheaply than the "academic" versions, with some restrictions.)
For something like ~$50, students can "license" Microsoft Windows/Office under the EULA until one of the following occur:
1) They quit the university (they can't use the software anymore)
2) They graduate (Then they get to keep it)
3) The school-specific contract/EULA expires!
My school representatives and the Microsoft contacts I have emailed (which happened to be located in India), assure me that #3 isn't a problem. It should also be noticed that the Microsoft representatives I contacted refused to give me an electronic copy of the regular Academic software EULAs, citing it was not available online [I later found it on microsoft.com]. However the actual terms of the 'contract' spell out that the terms are with respect to a particular *version* of the contract.
Thus, even if the school renews the contract (which I can only assume would get a new version), the licenses granted under the old (expired) contract would appear to be invalid. They may/may not be the intent, but it clearly is implied by the letter of the document.
Which means more $$$ for Microsoft! Darn!
And for me, since #3 will occur before #2 [and I'm almost done], it means anyone who pays money to Microsoft right now will be technically screwing themselves.
The world is filled with morons and shouldn't be driving a car.
But the general public blames the cell phones.
have their security restrained enough so it would be difficult to get much out of it. With ports blocked all over the place, it'll take a lot of effort to get a piece of software running hidden that will send off your information.
What !?!?!
Let me introduce you to my good friend, Mr. TCP Port 80 and his cousin, Mr. TCP Port 443.
Would you happen to have the name of a reputable scientist that claims solar output variation is responsible for global warming, by any chance? Note that even over the 14-year sunspot cycle the variation is less than 1%.
You do realize that the Earth doesn't need to receive double the radiation to go from 30F to 60F, right?
When viewed on the Kelvin scale, I would suspect the temperature variation due to global warming is MUCH LESS than 1%.
Yes, but are you saying that his early management/efforts (technical & nontech) didn't help sustain his prediction?
(How did he benchmark himself?)
And even after others took over his duties, I don't see why they would be eager to break the "tradition" nor argue why such a departure should be acepted.
Perhaps they did sustain his prediction with little effort. But I'm arguing that he could have made a somewhat different prediction and it would have been sustained in the same way.
3) ... While some people prefer steak and eggs, I like steak and steak. Or oatmeal.
... ...
You forgot the most important side dish to "steak-and-steak"
STEAK!
The problem I see with projects like BG/L is one of two things a happen:
1) Software is implemented by CS majors who have little understanding of the math and physics involved. They probably implement highly computationally intensive (inefficent) algorithms well (i.e. no bubblesort).
2) Software is implemented by Physics majors who although knowing the syntax of C/fortran, don't understand how to write good programs. Their implementations are numerically correct, but highly inefficient [e.g. they use non-scalable algorithms on huge systems]. They seem to have no clue of Amdahl's law....
So even if they proudly exclaim that they wrote a program that uses 100 Terraflops, I suppose the same result could have been found using several orders magnitude fewer operations (with better written software).
But hey, what is their competition?
I think BG/L only has something like 256MB ram per node... And with no hard disk and no video card!
But could it run Linux? Yep, it does!
microprocessor or controller design business has at least a 20 years to survive according to Gordon Moore's projection
Well, don't forget which company he founded.... I feel his "law" is nothing more than a mission statement that managers and investors took as their basis for evaluating the industry. Because they (managers/investors) believe in it, it will either happen or Intel will be punished. (e.g. has group X maintaned the law, okay they get a check on their annual progress report). Otherwise it has little to do with reality.
Gordon Moore will be last to admit when general purpose CPUs are dead.
Forget about new accounts. With one's SSN, name, address, etc, evildoers can wreak havoc on your existing accounts.
What info is required when you call a broker by phone? Exactly.
And how does your #1 stand with respect to governmental organizations? Its great that all corps are doing Sarbares-Crap, but what about the governments??? What is the recourse when they make an entire state's taxpayer info public on the web?
Tell them that if you don't get your credit card watched, you're going to burn the place down. Burn it to the ground, and then take a vacation in some far off tropical place.
"We've got a Destination Cuba, I repeat, we've got a Destination Cube on our hands."
independency?
Perhaps the people at N3P should Open a Dictionary!
They typical person may have a EV capable commute, but odds are they also make a few trips a year that are outside the range of the car. That alone makes them a no go for most people.
Unknowingly, you point out one of the greatest problems in the USA (and probably the rest of the world).
People buy cars that cover 100% of their "needs", rather than an economical (and energy efficient car) that covers 99% of their needs.
For those of you that aren't convinced, look around during the morning/afternoon commutes. It is rare to see any passengers (other than the driver). A single person driving a "Ford Excursion", etc, etc.. Despite efforts, most people do not carpool.
And this is their daily pattern for 5/7 the days in the week. Yes, a few times a year they might want to move furniture or haul a BBQ. They could rent a truck from Enterprise/Uhaul for ~$20-$40 for that occasion.
Instead we have extended cab 4x4 luxury pickup trucks on the roads...
Plus one thing corporations do that governments don't do is pay you to shut up.
I'd rather have the money.
When the govt wants someone to shut up, the recipent gets something much worse than money.
it's basically a super-intuitive CAD program for quickly getting 3D ideas down on paper.
Wow! Now that's progress. A program that can write/draw on PAPER!
And all this time, I've been using a ball-point pen for that... Silly me.
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4427007044615115050034854648525685871587 / 1409160108506276783085718440252375099653
What kind of sig is THAT?
I think the parent is a bit confused....
People make forcasts to predict what WILL happen in the future.
The parent seems to be predicting what WON'T happen in the future.
Silly gowen...
How to 0WN a number:
1. Create a small image/program/text file w/ a Copyright notice.
2. ZIP/TAR/ISO the work of #1
3. Convert the result of #2 to a number using a "arbitrary integer" library.
The resulting long "number" will acutally be an encoding/derivative of the copyrighted work.
You can publish and license (for a fee) the use of this "number" to anyone. You might even be able to invoke the DCMA if you are clever... Or you can call up the FBI on those who use your "number" without permission. You might even be able to sucessfully sue/imprision those who use similar numbers, especially if such are easily derivable from your own.
Now, although 0x7f is a very short number, it could easily be a program of a very simple computer ( 2 bit instructions ). Now this "program" may not do anything useful, but it still can be copyrighted/sold/licensed/etc. I think it would still enjoy the protections of the copyright laws....
If the beginning of every REISERFS filesystem included a ZIP file of Win 3.1, Microsoft would sure as hell care (even if the image was only used as a "magic number" like 0x7f ). So yes, I think 0x7f can be copyrighted and licensed.
The material benefits won't be as easily accessible, but your life will be infinitely more enjoyable, because you'll actually have some control over it.
Just curious, how does one retire at 42 working in a small company?
I recently noticed that even Blockbuster lists the "SSN" as a *OPTIONAL* field on an rental application form.
WTF!?!! If it isn't required, then why even list it?
So to summarise, they've said that Linux gets just over 364 days of uptime per 365 days whilest Windows gets 437 days of uptime per 365 days. I want one of those windows servers that can accumulate well over a year's worth of uptime in a year.
Simple. The Windows machine probably had a dual-core CPU.
I think it is unreasonable for anyone to believe that the US government is intent on storing the complete genetic profile all 300 million US citizens much less being able to do anything useful with that information. Besides, 99.9% of all of those profiles would be more or less identical and a total waste to store!
You must be new around here...
DO you think computers are not capable of handling this much data?
IBM sells a computer named "BlueGene". It can contain up to 65536 processors, linked via very very fast network connections. I think it costs only a few million dollars.
300 million / 65536 = 4577.
So even if you used a really dumb searching algorithm (one that checked ALL of the entries), 65536 nodes operating in parallel would each only have to look at 4577 people -- a highly trivial number irregardless of how much data was associated with each.
And also consider that there is currently a massive amount of research work in universities (department of defense-sponsored) in the area of Data Mining. I don't think the DoD is using this to find a better target for their "Army of One" advertisments (marketing).....