I'll give you credit for "this used to be true" back in the day when a computer was a 486 on a modem. It's absolutely not true any more.
Govt is Big Brother, and they Like it. And they absolutely have the resources to do it.
Why? Because all they need to do is a Red Flag system. Joe Average doesn't really produce that much data per day all by himself, and.gov isn't trying to perfectly reproduce the entire activity. They just need to know if something is getting juicy.
"Look! Here's a 12 Gig file of Joe's activity for the month! Control-F and search for the words "Music" and "Movie" and "Copy".
Lights out.
The part you are glossing over is how much help they are getting from nice Corps. ISPs, Telecoms, Facebook, and Google.
So to play the "nah, don't worry" line is completely misleading.
"Privacy advocates will be cheering - and here is a PDF of their current locations, expected future locations, and good sniper shot dat plus political weaknesses."
The really funny part is that the Bible itself says that it uses allegory! (Trivia question! Name a word which occurs exactly once in the entire Bible!)
AC wrote : "This may be an ignorant question but with the caps being implemented by the ISPs won't this just eat into my monthly allotment faster? I mean, will it mean one less movie to watch each month? Will I need to leave laptop running all the time to reduce data flow (I normally restart four or five times a day or at least every morning)? This was my concern when the whole cloud thing was announced. I know the caps screwed up my online backup."
Not ignorant at all, AC. You have caught on to one of the related points I've posted on for a little while now. If you squeeze data caps from one end and push more data on the other, it will absolutely crash in the middle - to the profit of the Telcos!
The point of POD is that you have your library of electronic books, but you want the Old School feel if holding a book - you print the one you need. You can certainly give the file to the POD operator in the store.
Slashdot has spent a lot of mindshare on the evils of the Music biz, but not too far behind that the book industry was pretty nasty too.
However I will go out on a limb and say that Borders deserved to croak for missing the boat TWICE. Not only did they goof giving the online side to Amazon, but they missed the REASON Amazon was beating them - centralized selection. But come on gang, can we admit to ourselves how totally crappy it is to order a book on amazon and have to wait for it to be delivered?!
What Borders missed the chance for, and the media blanked the stories about, is Print On Demand. It's been carefully slammed as "eew, why would you do that?". But books are digital, right? All Borders (or Barnes & Noble - they should have had a vision meeting and worked on it *Together!*) had to do, was invest in a beautiful untouchable-quality POD system. "Can't find that obscure book that only did a 7,000 copy small press run? We'll print it for you in an hour!" (You do need the hour, getting a book that doesn't fall apart does need time for the pages to be cut and fit and glued right.)
The shelf selection would be a Lead-In sample, just to get people thinking of what they want. The POD could also fix gaps in series etc. On and on. And yes, the systems are here - Harvard University Bookstore has one. In my hand are three sample Google-Books editions of some very rare Buddhist books, one of which answered a theory question I had for five years. A year ago they had some cover art licensing gaps, so it has only a blue white text cover, but that's irrelevant. The book is REAL, and equal quality to standard paperbacks.
So THIS is the true casualty of the Intellectual Property bickering. But the forces that be missed the chance. POD is coming, and the first company to nail it will re-write publishing.
"Hi. I'm a Mac." "And I'm a P.C. Hi Mac, what are you up to today?" "I have this picture I need to scale." "Really!? That's neat. Do you have a nice little utility like Paint where you can just change the scale?" "Uh... no..."
I came for this theme but I'll raise it up a positive level.
There are some severe downsides to be sure, but we are teaching ourselves slowly, painfully, to be racially smarter. The Flynn Effect is a lagging representation of us getting "ten steps farther in the idea flow" within days rather than weeks or even months. For example it's in general way harder for con artists to snowball people. Not counting brilliant psychological exploits like Facebook, the garden variety cons don't work anymore. If you see something suspicious, you visit a smart forum and post a note. Basically within a day, you have reasonably good proof whether it's remotely legit or not. As a funny example, the internet busted Phone-a-Friend on the gameshow Millionaire.
I believe you mentioned this before too, so (for reasons I could not place an hour ago) I checked the timing and I noticed the turbo-post too. I mirrored your sentiment above.
Zget sounds like a MS liaison, maybe a couple circles of indirection away from being an employee.
He had his big First Post up really fast aka it was prepped either when he saw the article coming through the pipeline or pulled from his supplies of prewritten info.
I used to avoid them as well, for reasons lost in the mist... but somehow FF5 or so suddenly went into a big cleanup mode after shutting down on my home machine. ("FF is still open.... "). Total showstopper because of my habit of close&speed-reopening the browser after a task. So I drifted into some of the FF spinoffs like Pale Moon to buy time.
However someone's comment that they are indeed working on the memory footprint bit is mostly true, so I grabbed a nightly just now and I think it or another one will fix that problem. So maybe to get the "old feel of a nice set of features per release" I might just park on this Nightly, let the world turn, then "one day wake up and install FF8". By then the Nightly will prob be FF11 or something.
AC below has key points, but I am responding to you in a different vein.
I'll let you have your 18 billion to build it, but it's the "leading edge" of another 100 billion in support industries. "A Cable to lift what? To where?"
Nah, the author and submitter made a valiant attempt but the real reason is that we are "satisfied" to just release stuff and let the general public be un/underpaid debug labor.
If all that debug was properly full-costed these companies would lose years of profits.
Yes, you read my tone mostly right - I put things in quotes that are a dramatically amplified version of a serious point.
Not only are security forces camera shy, if you *do* get your own footage for your protection they then push even harder and game the system to make that an adjunct crime.
Slashdot Mirror
Bring on the Furries!
I'll give you credit for "this used to be true" back in the day when a computer was a 486 on a modem. It's absolutely not true any more.
Govt is Big Brother, and they Like it. And they absolutely have the resources to do it.
Why? Because all they need to do is a Red Flag system. Joe Average doesn't really produce that much data per day all by himself, and .gov isn't trying to perfectly reproduce the entire activity. They just need to know if something is getting juicy.
"Look! Here's a 12 Gig file of Joe's activity for the month! Control-F and search for the words "Music" and "Movie" and "Copy".
Lights out.
The part you are glossing over is how much help they are getting from nice Corps. ISPs, Telecoms, Facebook, and Google.
So to play the "nah, don't worry" line is completely misleading.
It's xkcd's wrench again. (paraphrased). "Hi. Here is a wrench. I will beat you on the head with it in 4 4 time until you give me the passkeys."
"Addendum. If you encrypt anything that means you have something to hide and are therefore a terrorist. End of Line."
No really!
"Privacy advocates will be cheering - and here is a PDF of their current locations, expected future locations, and good sniper shot dat plus political weaknesses."
+1 MCP!
50% left turn here.
Why didn't AOL slam dunk this back in the day when the Web was fresh and new? (cue Sunset Boulevard theme music).
Facebook consists of a profile and some, what, 30 games? No chat rooms? No affiliate stuff?
Why did we decide ten years later we pined to look at profiles?
It even had Meg Ryan.
The really funny part is that the Bible itself says that it uses allegory! (Trivia question! Name a word which occurs exactly once in the entire Bible!)
http://scripturetext.com/galatians/4-24.htm
Which things are an allegory...
AC wrote : "This may be an ignorant question but with the caps being implemented by the ISPs won't this just eat into my monthly allotment faster? I mean, will it mean one less movie to watch each month? Will I need to leave laptop running all the time to reduce data flow (I normally restart four or five times a day or at least every morning)? This was my concern when the whole cloud thing was announced. I know the caps screwed up my online backup."
Not ignorant at all, AC. You have caught on to one of the related points I've posted on for a little while now. If you squeeze data caps from one end and push more data on the other, it will absolutely crash in the middle - to the profit of the Telcos!
Lin Yutang once wrote that if you gave leaders a good meal and a comedy show, they wouldn't get into wars.
The point of POD is that you have your library of electronic books, but you want the Old School feel if holding a book - you print the one you need. You can certainly give the file to the POD operator in the store.
You are quite right!
Slashdot has spent a lot of mindshare on the evils of the Music biz, but not too far behind that the book industry was pretty nasty too.
However I will go out on a limb and say that Borders deserved to croak for missing the boat TWICE. Not only did they goof giving the online side to Amazon, but they missed the REASON Amazon was beating them - centralized selection. But come on gang, can we admit to ourselves how totally crappy it is to order a book on amazon and have to wait for it to be delivered?!
What Borders missed the chance for, and the media blanked the stories about, is Print On Demand. It's been carefully slammed as "eew, why would you do that?". But books are digital, right? All Borders (or Barnes & Noble - they should have had a vision meeting and worked on it *Together!*) had to do, was invest in a beautiful untouchable-quality POD system. "Can't find that obscure book that only did a 7,000 copy small press run? We'll print it for you in an hour!" (You do need the hour, getting a book that doesn't fall apart does need time for the pages to be cut and fit and glued right.)
The shelf selection would be a Lead-In sample, just to get people thinking of what they want. The POD could also fix gaps in series etc. On and on. And yes, the systems are here - Harvard University Bookstore has one. In my hand are three sample Google-Books editions of some very rare Buddhist books, one of which answered a theory question I had for five years. A year ago they had some cover art licensing gaps, so it has only a blue white text cover, but that's irrelevant. The book is REAL, and equal quality to standard paperbacks.
So THIS is the true casualty of the Intellectual Property bickering. But the forces that be missed the chance. POD is coming, and the first company to nail it will re-write publishing.
"Hi. I'm a Mac."
"And I'm a P.C. Hi Mac, what are you up to today?"
"I have this picture I need to scale."
"Really!? That's neat. Do you have a nice little utility like Paint where you can just change the scale?"
"Uh... no..."
Hello.
Your Car of the Decade Club used to entitle you to a Camry. However, management has decided it only entitles you to Corolla now.
Best Wishes,
--Toyota
"Hi. I see you are watching "HalfBreeds Gone Wild. Would you like to subscribe to "Obama's Adult Fan Club?"
(Not making this up! Hulu already does this!)
Found it!
If you no longer even own your full OS and require "pushed OS code at boot time" the Cloud Scam will be complete!
I came for this theme but I'll raise it up a positive level.
There are some severe downsides to be sure, but we are teaching ourselves slowly, painfully, to be racially smarter. The Flynn Effect is a lagging representation of us getting "ten steps farther in the idea flow" within days rather than weeks or even months. For example it's in general way harder for con artists to snowball people. Not counting brilliant psychological exploits like Facebook, the garden variety cons don't work anymore. If you see something suspicious, you visit a smart forum and post a note. Basically within a day, you have reasonably good proof whether it's remotely legit or not. As a funny example, the internet busted Phone-a-Friend on the gameshow Millionaire.
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Instant For The Loss!
Hallo.
I believe you mentioned this before too, so (for reasons I could not place an hour ago) I checked the timing and I noticed the turbo-post too. I mirrored your sentiment above.
Zget sounds like a MS liaison, maybe a couple circles of indirection away from being an employee.
He had his big First Post up really fast aka it was prepped either when he saw the article coming through the pipeline or pulled from his supplies of prewritten info.
It looks like a Spanish copy of CNet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softonic
Hallo.
I used to avoid them as well, for reasons lost in the mist... but somehow FF5 or so suddenly went into a big cleanup mode after shutting down on my home machine. ("FF is still open .... "). Total showstopper because of my habit of close&speed-reopening the browser after a task. So I drifted into some of the FF spinoffs like Pale Moon to buy time.
However someone's comment that they are indeed working on the memory footprint bit is mostly true, so I grabbed a nightly just now and I think it or another one will fix that problem. So maybe to get the "old feel of a nice set of features per release" I might just park on this Nightly, let the world turn, then "one day wake up and install FF8". By then the Nightly will prob be FF11 or something.
AC below has key points, but I am responding to you in a different vein.
I'll let you have your 18 billion to build it, but it's the "leading edge" of another 100 billion in support industries. "A Cable to lift what? To where?"
Nah, the author and submitter made a valiant attempt but the real reason is that we are "satisfied" to just release stuff and let the general public be un/underpaid debug labor.
If all that debug was properly full-costed these companies would lose years of profits.
Yes, you read my tone mostly right - I put things in quotes that are a dramatically amplified version of a serious point.
Not only are security forces camera shy, if you *do* get your own footage for your protection they then push even harder and game the system to make that an adjunct crime.