Are you aware of any real implementations for this? I see so many hurdles that making this happen "swiftly" is probably not going to happen. For instance:
How do you ensure all nodes have a unique IP address routeable from every other node?
How do you maintain reliable name services?
How do you bootstrap a project like this? Without a huge majority of users moving, with no guarantees, almost simultaneously. This concept couldn't handle a sparse array.
I'm sure there are theoretical solutions to all of these problems, but anything realistic?

That would also keep passengers from using their devices, including people in taxis, trains and buses. It'll never fly. You take away one of the top use cases for mobile devices in urban areas.

Beg to differ, but the Risk officer should definitely not be the CFO, nor report to the CFO. In a large org, ideally the Chief Risk Officer should report to the Board, and should be independent from the CEO, CFO and CIO, where significant amounts of risk lie. The purpose of the CRO is to make risk assessments and corrections independent of the other officers, who each have different priorities and reasons to ignore risk. Of course, in reality, the CRO often reports to the CEO, but having the CRO be the CFO or report to the CFO can cause a huge conflict of interest.

I know what you mean, my monthly fees for Google Search, Google Maps, and GMail are *killing* me.

Not sure why you're so worried about protecting your real name, Ron, considering you link straight from your Slashdot profile to your personal website with your name and photo. Are you really that concerned about your privacy, or is this just privacy theater?

You're right, I'll be she can barely scrape together the money make the payment on her $20 Million house in Malibu, or her two ~$4 Million apartments in Mahnattan. I just don't know how she survives.

I guess you didn't actually see the movie. That specific point is taken care of very well in the movie. I think the foreshadowing done at the end of the movie provides for a very nice transition from the world we know to the world of Planet of the Apes.

There are lots of people here hating this movie on spec. That's fine, I guess, if you don't want to see it. But please don't comment about plot holes or other issues if you haven't bothered to see the damn thing.

This comment has several spoilers, so be warned.

I was surprised to not see any comments on /. about the portrayal of science in general, and medical research companies specifically. The biomed company portrayed in this film has to be the worst company with some of the worst practices and leadership ever shown in a movie. I was amazed at the incompetency of the company. Some incredible items were:

- Immediately ending a very expensive and potentially profitable research product because of one unexpected result (the chimp's rampage at the beginning), apparently without any attempt to locate a root cause.

- Not tracking their medication samples so researchers can just steal medication for home trials (REALLY?)

- Completely inadequate security measures

- This isn't the company, but Franco's character shows a complete lack of respect for proper testing procedure, for medical ethics or for anything else that a good researcher would be very careful about.

Overall, science and technology companies really got the short end of the stick in this movie. That said, I can pick nits with almost every film. It was entertaining and fun. Definitely worth seeing in my opinion.

That's true, and there have been many discussions here (and on other sites) about the "loudness war". Let me give you a counter-argument about why dynamic range compression is happening, and a use case for it.

35 years ago, if you listened to music, you were probably listening to it at home. There were almost no portable music devices, and most cars had radios. Home is a great place to listen to nuanced music, as you have a lot of control over the ambient sound levels. You could enjoy both the softest whispers and the loudest crashes just fine.

Now the situation is very different. I'd guess that most music listening is done in cars or using portable players. Now these recordings with great dynamic range are harder to listen to. Take, for instance, my SACD of the Mahler 2nd Symphony. When the choir comes in in just a whisper in the 5th movement, the effect at home is simply chilling. However, when I play my CD of the same recording in my car, I'm constantly having to adjust the volume up or down to be able to hear the soft parts without the loud parts causing my brain to explode. While the overall effect wouldn't be as awesome as it is at home on the SACD, listening to the recording while mobile would be actually easier (and probably more enjoyable) if there were some dynamic range compression thrown in.

There is plenty of money in the Alternative Medicine industry. Have you been seen what they charge for useless homeopathic medicines? Tell you what, why don't you put some of your money into just a few peer-reviewed scientifically sound research projects that don't rely on anecdotal evidence to prove their conclusions. Once you get something that proves your basic approach to medicine is sound, then we'll start throwing money at you. Until that, why should you get any more money than astrologists, psychics, or perpetual motion "inventors"?

Right. It's a ridiculous statement on the surface, and the concept of everyone using mobile payments is also ridiculous. My mom won't use a debit card, and refuses to purchase anything online. She also uses a basic phone with almost no features. Unless he's planning on knocking my mom off in the next four years, his prediction isn't going to come true.

It certainly is, but that's not really the point. People are people, and they exhibit stupid, careless and random behavior. Even careful people make mistakes.

Good security design assumes that people do things they shouldn't and designs around it. That was never the case with most implementation of USB drive stacks, which errs quite clearly on the side of ease-of-use over security. I'd like to see this change, but there's a lot of market inertia on the ease-of-use side. You can get software that locks down USB mass storage, any many companies have it, but there are almost always usability issues with those solutions.

Facebook already has this functionality and it works quite well. You can get an export of your wall and all of your photos. It comes as an HTML-formatted document and a folder of the pictures. Building a parser to grab the HTML document into a database or spreadsheet would be trivial.

Just because someone doesn't like this, or doesn't think this is a good idea doesn't mean their imagination is limited. I can imagine lots of uses for this, and in some limited areas it might have an application. But would I ever install a system like this in my home? Probably not. I just don't think it would lead to an improvement in my enjoyment of a movie or TV show.

I see this as somewhat akin to 3D technology. Yeah it's there, and some people like it. Personally I hate 3D and don't see movies in 3D, and never plan to view movies in 3D at home. Doesn't mean I lack imagination, just means I have my own preference.