If the guy in Haiti had access to update his Fbook status, and was able to send and receive sms - why didn't he just contact the State Department directly?
This story isn't about technology, it's about personal access.
Guy in Haiti didn't have it - so he sends the equivalent of a smoke signal, and is lucky enough that someone notices it and does have access.
This all sounds really contrived, and I'm not impressed.
He's a private party negotiating with another private party.
He objects to his customers cannibalizing his business through unfair competition.
At no point does TFA make any sort of reference to him trying to outlaw anything.
Amazon is putting downward pressure on book prices, and since Murdoch - like most slashdotters - expects old style book publishing to remain a viable business, it makes sense for him to want to resist long term devaluation of his product.
There isn't anything to ramp up. The tech and the infrastructure is already here.
We're talking large propellers, and big generators.
Fact is that there is no tech gap at all.
China's "lead" in this imaginary race is in terms of units produced - which is a simple business decision based on demand - not any sort of technological lead.
It wouldn't take 30 years to "catch up" - more like 3 months.
About the same lead time you would see if you wanted a large increase in aircraft production.
When I was a kid, we were told smoking marijuana would cause birth defects.
When we realized how badly our parents lied to us, we spent the next couple of decades assuming everything they said was a lie.
Environmentalists are in the same boat now.
Environmentalism cleaned up my air and water, then went on to spin so many lies that an awful lot of people are mistrustful of them - and rightly so.
The tech is simply not there to support movement from theorizing about anti asteroid systems to developing them.
The risk analysis of such endeavors is a massive fail.
It's insane to propose multiple systems with little chance of effectiveness, but which are so expensive that engaging in them would throw us back to the Dark Ages in terms of quality of life.
There is no hard decision here.
It's an easy one, and we've already decided "No - not at this time - check back with us in a century or so."
The new rb750 routes my 30mb connection at work just fine, and one night when comcast must have been dicking with something, it was routing in excess of 100mbs at home.
If I were buying one, I'd probably go with the G model, just to avoid any annoyance with thunking between gig-e to 100bt and back to gig e if I were bridging the ports.
One is my uberstrong password, the other is for everything else.
Not having them written down anywhere is a big security plus, which I think makes it stronger than changing them so often that you have to "manage" them.
Flash is "ok" on a windows platform, though it's still too resource intensive.
The biggest issues are on other operating systems.
While *nix implementations have improved, they still bork on a frequent basis.
Availability on OS's designed for smartphones and "net devices" remains a serious issue.
If a company does significant business online, there is a good chance than many of it's customers are early adopters of mobile tech.
My employer had to do a fairly expensive web site redesign to eliminate flash entirely, as the inability of many of our customers to navigate the flash version was depressing our sales.
Whether or not my judgment is correct does not negate the fact that my abilities fall somewhere on a spectrum, and my risk will be higher or lower than the average.
You're making a common mistake in applying statistics to an individual.
It doesn't really matter to my personal survival what is the death rate per mile for the entire population.
My risk assessment takes into account my own personal driving skills, the vehicle I drive and it's relative merits in it's current operating environment and a multitude of other factors.
My reaction times aren't what they were when I was a teenager, but my ability to detect and avoid dangerous situations is much better than most people. That much is obvious to me when I'm a passenger.
The average driver is only minimally engaged with his vehicle.
So I'd say that generally speaking, my odds are better than most people's are when I'm driving.
OTOH - my odds are probably better than most people in an air crash that's not immediately fatal to all on board, as I'm perfecting willing to claw my way over women and children to get to an egress point.
Users with Office installed seem to end up documents infected with a macro virus.
While the Macs are themselves unaffected, they pass along the infection to windows boxes.
That's usually the point where they are found and removed, but the general lack of av for Mac (few choices and most lack functionality/accuracy) along with the perception of macs as immune means that av is rarely installed on macs.
When it is, AV_App_X doesn't detect the malware, whereas AV_App_Y detects, but can't clean, and AV_App_Z has no realtime scanning.
I think what irks me is that this guy wants to make money off content that is essentially news and at one time considered a responsible representation of reality. Its not artistic what his organizations create, but a rendering in text and images of something that really happened, that is not anyones' property.
That's silly.
If I write something something original, what I right belongs to me.
Originality doesn't mean you had to invent what you are describing.
What have you been smoking - and how much for an oz?
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I find your summation brilliantly succinct, and perfect for someone like me.
Not a rocket scientist - but a former rocket operator.
Why have I been getting 15 mod points a day lately, and have none when I need 'em.
If the guy in Haiti had access to update his Fbook status, and was able to send and receive sms - why didn't he just contact the State Department directly?
This story isn't about technology, it's about personal access.
Guy in Haiti didn't have it - so he sends the equivalent of a smoke signal, and is lucky enough that someone notices it and does have access.
This all sounds really contrived, and I'm not impressed.
Price fixing is when multiple producers of a similar product collude to fix the price at which all of them will sell.
That's essentially what Amazon is trying to do.
It's not price fixing to sell to your wholesale customers in a contractual arrangement that includes a retail price floor.
This is called business.
If anyone actually READ TFA....
He's a private party negotiating with another private party.
He objects to his customers cannibalizing his business through unfair competition.
At no point does TFA make any sort of reference to him trying to outlaw anything.
Amazon is putting downward pressure on book prices, and since Murdoch - like most slashdotters - expects old style book publishing to remain a viable business, it makes sense for him to want to resist long term devaluation of his product.
And then "end user" would become a verb as it should be.
There isn't anything to ramp up.
The tech and the infrastructure is already here.
We're talking large propellers, and big generators.
Fact is that there is no tech gap at all.
China's "lead" in this imaginary race is in terms of units produced - which is a simple business decision based on demand - not any sort of technological lead.
It wouldn't take 30 years to "catch up" - more like 3 months.
About the same lead time you would see if you wanted a large increase in aircraft production.
TFE was pure garbage.
The monetary gain would be that I could gain more copyrighted material faster, and time is money.
The monetary gain is in gaining the materials without having to pay for them.
Uploading increases the rate of gain, yielding a greater overall gain for a given period of time.
Lawyers are pretty much required by statute to be full of crap.
When I was a kid, we were told smoking marijuana would cause birth defects.
When we realized how badly our parents lied to us, we spent the next couple of decades assuming everything they said was a lie.
Environmentalists are in the same boat now.
Environmentalism cleaned up my air and water, then went on to spin so many lies that an awful lot of people are mistrustful of them - and rightly so.
The tech is simply not there to support movement from theorizing about anti asteroid systems to developing them.
The risk analysis of such endeavors is a massive fail.
It's insane to propose multiple systems with little chance of effectiveness, but which are so expensive that engaging in them would throw us back to the Dark Ages in terms of quality of life.
There is no hard decision here.
It's an easy one, and we've already decided "No - not at this time - check back with us in a century or so."
The new rb750 routes my 30mb connection at work just fine, and one night when comcast must have been dicking with something, it was routing in excess of 100mbs at home.
If I were buying one, I'd probably go with the G model, just to avoid any annoyance with thunking between gig-e to 100bt and back to gig e if I were bridging the ports.
Among other things, I manage public access points for my employer.
If someone wanted to track a poster back to my provider, all the provider would be able to give them is our static ip.
IF I wanted to cooperate, I could give them the time and a non routable ip that was in use at the time.
The mac address isn't logged.
What - someone is going to ask if anyone has seen someone on a laptop at a coffee shop?
But they are ones I'll never forget.
And no one else would ever guess.
One is my uberstrong password, the other is for everything else.
Not having them written down anywhere is a big security plus, which I think makes it stronger than changing them so often that you have to "manage" them.
Flash is "ok" on a windows platform, though it's still too resource intensive.
The biggest issues are on other operating systems.
While *nix implementations have improved, they still bork on a frequent basis.
Availability on OS's designed for smartphones and "net devices" remains a serious issue.
If a company does significant business online, there is a good chance than many of it's customers are early adopters of mobile tech.
My employer had to do a fairly expensive web site redesign to eliminate flash entirely, as the inability of many of our customers to navigate the flash version was depressing our sales.
You're safe - no one wastes mod points on an AC.
they'll be deemed "olfactory cryptology" and will require end user certification before export outside the US.
Since when did slashdotters get concerned about their right to use deodorant?
It shipped with a zenith 286 which was top of the line at the time.
I forget exactly the windows version - .98 or something.
It was useful only for playing Othello.
There was no Solitaire, as I recall.
It came with dbase3 or 4.
And Paradox.
I've never heard of a 2.0 in the wild.
The windows version was pretty useless.
I'd load it every 6 months or so just to see if it was still useless.
It's not that uncommon.
A cell carrier I used to work for accepted obits in lieu of a death certificate when terminating account.
Whether or not my judgment is correct does not negate the fact that my abilities fall somewhere on a spectrum, and my risk will be higher or lower than the average.
It would look like a mandelbrot set
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You're making a common mistake in applying statistics to an individual.
It doesn't really matter to my personal survival what is the death rate per mile for the entire population.
My risk assessment takes into account my own personal driving skills, the vehicle I drive and it's relative merits in it's current operating environment and a multitude of other factors.
My reaction times aren't what they were when I was a teenager, but my ability to detect and avoid dangerous situations is much better than most people. That much is obvious to me when I'm a passenger.
The average driver is only minimally engaged with his vehicle.
So I'd say that generally speaking, my odds are better than most people's are when I'm driving.
OTOH - my odds are probably better than most people in an air crash that's not immediately fatal to all on board, as I'm perfecting willing to claw my way over women and children to get to an egress point.
For pilots to be able to effectively intercede in an autopilot situation, they first have to be awake and paying attention.
For them to only begin situation assessment when alerted would make them nearly useless.
It all depends on what sort of site you're talking about.
I have several apps at work that are only used maybe 3 or 4 days a month.
They could be cloud based and called from an internal portal as needed.
That would make it 0.11*8*6 for me.
$5.28 per month.
To get an annoying app up out of my way.
Gotta think about that
Users with Office installed seem to end up documents infected with a macro virus.
While the Macs are themselves unaffected, they pass along the infection to windows boxes.
That's usually the point where they are found and removed, but the general lack of av for Mac (few choices and most lack functionality/accuracy) along with the perception of macs as immune means that av is rarely installed on macs.
When it is, AV_App_X doesn't detect the malware, whereas AV_App_Y detects, but can't clean, and AV_App_Z has no realtime scanning.
Just because it has the same form factor doesn't make the chargers compatible.
Output power makes a huge difference.
I have chargers going from 300 to 1000 milliamps, and the low powered charges don't work well in higher power draw devices.
Moto nerfed the chargers for some of it's phones by adding a resistor that allows the phone to recognize an "unauthorized" charger.
I think what irks me is that this guy wants to make money off content that is essentially news and at one time considered a responsible representation of reality. Its not artistic what his organizations create, but a rendering in text and images of something that really happened, that is not anyones' property.
That's silly.
If I write something something original, what I right belongs to me.
Originality doesn't mean you had to invent what you are describing.
What have you been smoking - and how much for an oz?