Much of it comes from the frustration of purchasing an app only to find out within the first few seconds of using it that it was a waste of money. (I was thinking specifically about business and productivity apps, but it applies to games and entertainment as well.)
To expand on that a bit, take a look at http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/07/14/0058200/ask-slashdot-building-a-personal-foss-cloud
There has always been this much Dotcom-dislike on
With that said, we still want him to win, because there are so many things wrong with the whole affair, such as shutting down a multi-million dollar business without a trial.
The frightening aspect of this is that population may expand its genetic diversity to fill the 'fit enough" gene pool. Then it will overflow the "fit enough" gene pool by creating mutations that can't survive even with health care, bringing survival back down, albeit with increased genetic variety such that many can't survive without constant medical treatment.
That is to say, we will evolve to require medical treatment.
He's lucky he is getting a case at all. Traitors should be subject to summary execution during wartime.
"Congress shall have power to
- http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html
I don't recall seeing any Congressional declaration of war.
I prefer a razor knife instead of a utility knife, but YMMV.
Also, a tone generator can be quite handy. If you're only responsible for the 50 servers in the server room, it's probably overkill, but it can sort out a complex cabling situation in seconds. Fluke has one that can be used on live ethernet. (Although it would take a big chunk out of your budget.)
http://www.flukenetworks.com/datacom-cabling/copper-testing/IntelliTone-Pro-Toner-and-Probe
I've heard that one of the more difficult aspects of working in a level 4 lab is learning not to catch things that are falling, such as scalpels, and that when the scientists go home after work, they don't catch tableware and glasses and such, leading to much domestic strife.
(I don't know how true it is, but it seems to make sense.)
Have a listen to the Rasputin cover by Boiled in Lead. It's
At the risk of getting off-topic, what laptops do you like?
There is a VOIP aspect to it. It isn't intended to be a telephone service, but can be used as one (which I think is against the tos). It is intended that you can call a Google voice number and hit someone's IM app.
The distance from NZ to the USA is about 12500 km (7800 miles).
(12 500 kilometers) / the speed of light = 41.6955119 milliseconds
So, about 42 ms. is your lower bound on latency. If you add the routers and such into the mix, you're probably looking at about 100 ms. Not bad, but not great.
(Ballpark figures -- not rigorous, but enough for discussion.)
In an attempt to lock in the 2.25% at a lower price.
For example, let's say Apple were to create a company named Apple Phone Sales Inc., and then Apple would sell phones to Apple Phone Sales Inc. for $100 each, to which Apple Phone Sales Inc. turns around and sells them to distributors and the retail market for their current ~$500ish prices. Apple could then argue that they were only required to pay $2.25 on the $100 sale price. I'm sure there are other principles at work, but the short version is that is doesn't work like that.
Regardless of terminology, a massive attack on the virtual infrastructure is a different class of attack and requires a different class of defense. The term 'cyber Pearl Harbor' is ridiculous and disrespectful to those who were at the real Pearl Harbor. Also, DHS is probably the worst department to be in charge of, well, pretty much anything. The NSA would be a much better choice.
With that said, I think it's not too bad of an idea once you realize what the proper response is to a massive attack on the entire Internet. Technical support. Calling up (or visiting in person) millions of users and sysadmins and walking them through the process of securing their systems. A phone call might not do it, because you can't flash a badge over the phone, so (rightfully) nobody would trust you.
OTOH, targeted attacks such as "break into a wastewater treatment plant, use the SCADA controls to prematurely dump a tank of sewage into the clean water intake" mentioned by the AC, are yet another class of attack, and you don't need the extra manpower of a reserve force in order to deal with the technical fallout of such an action.
And, of course, if someone were to find something a new class of bug similar to SQL injection, wherein the only solution would be to update huge amounts of code all over the Internet, well, even a reserve force might not be enough to fix that kind of problem. Look at how long it took to resolve Y2K.
Personally, I would consider signing up for this type of "cyber-reserve", but I would hesitate doing so under the DHS. Also, I wouldn't sign up unless I knew ahead of time what was expected of me, and that there would be no bait and switch.
As Apple would be the one licensing the patent, it would be 2.25% of the price Apple charges. And following the principle of patent exhaustion, whoever buys it from Apple can resell it without needing to re-license the patents. And to jump further ahead, reselling to yourself may be fine if judges were computers, but they aren't, so they tend to see through that sort of thing.
Actually, Silicon Valley is one of the places where this is *least* true. After the Google IPO, an increasing number of tech companies have gone public with voting structures that deliberately deprive the shareholders of any say in the operation of the company, and with binding IPO statements that specifically warn shareholders that the company does not intend to focus on continuous growth and year on year profit if it conflicts with long-term growth and with the good of their users.
That is very interesting. Can you provide some references? I had difficulty Googling it up and a starting point would help me figure out what kind of search fodder it requires.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
