Honestly, I believe they are worried about the Tamil Tigers, and I am not immediately aware of their particular religious affiliation, though I do know they like to blow things up in southern Sri Lanka.
So.... the Indian government wants RIM to figure out a way to decrypt every email - from all those CrackBerries, without any keys (RIM doesn't have the keys) and store them all on a local server - and somehow RIM is also supposed to magically know that the hardware is in India (they operate independent of location). India, I have bad news. It isn't going to happen. On the upside, this may set a precedent for other companies to reject a governments calls for access to emails without warrants (US companies, take note, you could learn from your neighbor to the north).
why don't we go beat up some Commies Thats just silly - everyone knows that there aren't any commies left (except the ones that are our very good friends in China). The foreigners we gotta beat up now are terrrists. Which are a lot like obscenity now that I think of it, cause ive no idea what the hell a terrrrist is, but I know one when I see one.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin scheduled a vote on rules for another major spectrum auction, one that would encompass 25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz advanced wireless services band and require the winning bidder to offer free broadband service under an aggressive build-out schedule. The article linked above isn't nearly as good as this one on the details of what spectrum is actually on the block here
So far everyone has been focusing on the bad - but let me break it down -
The Good: Free Internet access over an add supported public channel - at what should be fairly good speed - that alone is a significant move in the right direction toward improving access for rural areas, and reducing the broadband divide The Ugly: One Company - gets to try to make this work. I find this troubling only for one reason - it is clear now that ISP's have no problem filtering the internet not just for obscene content, but for any content they don't particularly care for (Comcast and BT?) - regardless of whether it is on one protocol or another. And whats more, they will not be challenged when they engage in such practices.
This is the problem with market collusion. The carriers all agree to create a big barrier to leaving their service (275$ charge to quit). Even if they remove that barrier (as they may have to soon) - they are still in collusion and will probably continue to screw us all (think SMS, it costs what 4000% more than data even though its on the same network?)
For anyone curious, the link feeds you straight to a fairly convincing data set which would lead me to the opposite conclusion. Indeed since 2002 it would appear there has been a slight increase in the area of the Antarctic sea ice, here is a neat graph. 6 years does not a significant trend make my friend. Additionally, the overwhelming theme of the data is the significant loss multi-year sea ice - the stuff that sticks around in the summer. How precisely did you interpret this data to draw the conclusion that the ice caps are not melting, and that the Antarctic is in growth?
While the SnoMotes are expected to pass their first real field test in Alaska next month, a heartier, more cold-resistant version will be needed for the Antarctic and other well below zero climates, Howard said. These new rovers would include a heater to keep circuitry warm enough to function and sturdy plastic exterior that wouldnâ(TM)t become brittle in extreme cold. So yes. Yes indeed a warmer will be necessary when going to the Antarctic, but not for the Arctic. On a not quite completely unrelated note, I wonder if they could strap a little wind power generator to these suckers - it could really extend their usability in the field.
And what advantage would this offer over a hard drive? Cost? I seriously doubt a writer and the disk could be procured for less than the cost of 1TB HDD (around a couple hundred right now, and undoubtedly significantly less by the time this comes out). Personally I don't see the draw for these types of optical storage, other than the mobility of a disk vs. a HDD (which is negligible) What would the advantage to this be? (not trolling, if anyone has any ideas please reply)
more archival friendly Well...
Call/Recall also intends to use the technology for the enterprise market for the archiving of corporate information. It would appear that is one of the applications they are aiming at. Since this is WORM I would suspect it would be handy for archival, but not much else - you can only write this stuff once.
Hey, give them some credit - at least they've figured out the right price point. Now they just have to fix the distribution model (i.e. no rental - you own the song and can listen when and where you want).
Re:Why wouldn't there be disjoint partitions?
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Those aren't linked from any other articles - but they link to other wikipedia articles. Since its a directional graph he's using (from what I gathered) it would appear to me that these would only be disjoint in a one way sort of style. I.E. You can get from A to B in a finite number of steps but you cannot get from B to A - he appears to measure the minimum distance. - However I was able to get thies -
Shortest path from Agassaim to bananas
No path found However that is not always the case for "orphaned" pages - Shortest path from Aldous to Gould
Aldous Aldous Huxley 1949 Western Pacific Railroad Gould
4 clicks needed And since he is using a directional graph - Shortest path from Gould to Aldous
No path found
Did you bother to read the notes on how he parsed the data, or how he used group theory, or how he used distributed computing? While not particularly newsworthy in their own right. I thought that was pretty interesting even if the result should be expected. Also the little shortest path search is pretty fun to play with.
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If you follow the best route in all cases, it takes an average of 4.573 clicks to get from any Wikipedia article to any other. It would appear there aren't any. Why? I haven't the slightest, however, since editors can add to many seemingly disjoint articles, it would seem that could help - though I'm not sure if the method used here would take that into account.
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Honestly, I believe they are worried about the Tamil Tigers, and I am not immediately aware of their particular religious affiliation, though I do know they like to blow things up in southern Sri Lanka.
So.... the Indian government wants RIM to figure out a way to decrypt every email - from all those CrackBerries, without any keys (RIM doesn't have the keys) and store them all on a local server - and somehow RIM is also supposed to magically know that the hardware is in India (they operate independent of location). India, I have bad news. It isn't going to happen. On the upside, this may set a precedent for other companies to reject a governments calls for access to emails without warrants (US companies, take note, you could learn from your neighbor to the north).
Does this mean there gonna build the BFG?
The foreigners we gotta beat up now are terrrists. Which are a lot like obscenity now that I think of it, cause ive no idea what the hell a terrrrist is, but I know one when I see one.
From TFA - they were gonna give the spectrum away to a company for no upfront costs.
So far everyone has been focusing on the bad - but let me break it down -
The Good: Free Internet access over an add supported public channel - at what should be fairly good speed - that alone is a significant move in the right direction toward improving access for rural areas, and reducing the broadband divide
The Ugly: One Company - gets to try to make this work. I find this troubling only for one reason - it is clear now that ISP's have no problem filtering the internet not just for obscene content, but for any content they don't particularly care for (Comcast and BT?) - regardless of whether it is on one protocol or another. And whats more, they will not be challenged when they engage in such practices.
Hey, its gonna do just fine till the sex robots from japan get here.
This is the problem with market collusion. The carriers all agree to create a big barrier to leaving their service (275$ charge to quit). Even if they remove that barrier (as they may have to soon) - they are still in collusion and will probably continue to screw us all (think SMS, it costs what 4000% more than data even though its on the same network?)
Just for you, i'm closing my browser and opening the page in idle with urllib.
And python, I have on my screen a web app based on python, a serial port comm program written in python and IDLE. :)
You can help - and make cash - Bounties! for bootie!
More importantly wouldn't it be better to state that the weren't Viking Funerals?
Oh and a bunch of pot.
Oh no.... You mean, that guy wasn't Honest Abe? And here I thought my tech support service number was a mystical gateway to the past!
For anyone curious, the link feeds you straight to a fairly convincing data set which would lead me to the opposite conclusion. Indeed since 2002 it would appear there has been a slight increase in the area of the Antarctic sea ice, here is a neat graph. 6 years does not a significant trend make my friend. Additionally, the overwhelming theme of the data is the significant loss multi-year sea ice - the stuff that sticks around in the summer. How precisely did you interpret this data to draw the conclusion that the ice caps are not melting, and that the Antarctic is in growth?
Read my sig. Resistance is futile.
And what advantage would this offer over a hard drive? Cost? I seriously doubt a writer and the disk could be procured for less than the cost of 1TB HDD (around a couple hundred right now, and undoubtedly significantly less by the time this comes out). Personally I don't see the draw for these types of optical storage, other than the mobility of a disk vs. a HDD (which is negligible) What would the advantage to this be? (not trolling, if anyone has any ideas please reply)
Hey, give them some credit - at least they've figured out the right price point. Now they just have to fix the distribution model (i.e. no rental - you own the song and can listen when and where you want).
Those aren't linked from any other articles - but they link to other wikipedia articles. Since its a directional graph he's using (from what I gathered) it would appear to me that these would only be disjoint in a one way sort of style. I.E. You can get from A to B in a finite number of steps but you cannot get from B to A - he appears to measure the minimum distance. - However I was able to get thies -
Shortest path from Agassaim to bananas No path found
However that is not always the case for "orphaned" pages -
Shortest path from Aldous to Gould Aldous Aldous Huxley 1949 Western Pacific Railroad Gould 4 clicks needed
And since he is using a directional graph -
Shortest path from Gould to Aldous No path found
Did you bother to read the notes on how he parsed the data, or how he used group theory, or how he used distributed computing? While not particularly newsworthy in their own right. I thought that was pretty interesting even if the result should be expected. Also the little shortest path search is pretty fun to play with.