Posts by Mage 9273 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Nov 2007
In reality
1) They like any content that gets page views, they'll only take it down if likely to be sued or prosecuted.
2) They only do PR, nothing else.
Google statements only designed to placate customers. Note that YouTube viewers are not customers.
Why was Google allowed to buy YouTube?
Or Amazon allowed to buy Goodreads, IMDB, BookDepositry and others?
Yes, it's been problematic swapping an EXISTING install to to a different vendor's ARM system, in comparison with basic BIOS, then ACPI, then EFI based boot commodity x86-64 motherboards or even laptops.
This also is the route not just for servers but ARM based convertible tablets (with keyboards) or ultrabook style ARM running iOS to replace MAC OS, or Linux to replace Windows. At present it's trivial to download and install Linux from a USB stick to an x86-64 based laptop, but needs rather more planning and customisation to install Linux instead of iOS / Windows / Android / Chrome on an ARM based tablet, or Linux based OpenWRT on a router.
I look forward to the day of being able to customise a Linux distro for TVs instead of the garbage inflicted on users called "Android TV".
Great article.
Suggest they should make ethical investments.
Comparing Google with FAST is a red herring.
It's not about Google funding terrorism, but being prepared to make money for adverts, anywhere, with any partner for anything unless there are loud objections.
Taking down after the fact or dropping partners after the fact shows that Google is more interested in making money than proper governance of their operations.
Why does Google do ANY adverts on dubious websites?
Why does Google serve ads for illegal products and scams on "ordinary" web sites?
For a start, ban them from ads on Search and rigging their search.
They are NOT primarily a Search or Tech company but an Advertising agency + billboard company that's unregulated compared to roadside billboards.
"anti-ageing cream that is so effective"
E45 and other creams (many prescribed)) investigated by BBC and report on R4 and 5Live Extra. I was listening to the horror stories just before lunch. They are causing many deaths a year as they are too flammable. People have died from lighting a fag. Or burnt to death in bed, because the bedding is contaminated.
So there are worse things than wearables. I saw a photo and review of the Hushme on a UK paper website, I think it might be a great present for some press secretaries. Perhaps with a tube of super glue packaged as "anti-ageing" cream
Curiously this may be relevant for visitors to the USA.
Manning
Snowdon
CIA tools
POTUS Tweets etc.
There is a reason I don't believe the moon landings faked, or Area 51 had Aliens, or CIA killed Kennedy. No organisation can keep secrets that long, especially today if the files are digitally stored.
If true, it would prove either that Marketing are geniuses or too many consumers are dumb.
But then it might be an improvement over low budget soaps, reality TV and such.
Shouldn't all of these be illegal under EU privacy directives, especially German ones? It's not the same as switching on Commercial Radio.
Despite the name in the UK, (Virgin, and bizarre re-name to Virgin in Ireland) Liberty Global's UK and Irish Cable operations have more now in common with UPC (their Dutch cable Co), though Liberty is a USA outfit.
After massive upgrade after purchase of Chorus (total junk) and NTL (not so bad) in Ireland, Liberty rebranded it all with UPC and the Tulip logo. Then after buying the UK Virgin Cable (and RENTING the Virgin name) they rebranded UPC in Ireland as Virgin (bizarre!) with Richard Branson appearing at a launch and many silly Irish media thought Virgin had bought UPC, when in fact the reverse was true.
Three here is rubbish because they sell data too cheap and don't build enough masts. Unlike UK, Three was allowed to take over O2 Ireland (Spanish Telefonica owned), despite all is outsourced and Three was not meeting licence conditions for years.
The Vodafone in Ireland isn't the cheapest, but where there is coverage, it works. Here in Ireland Vodafone partners with ESB for Fibre and took over all BT's retail (from BT's take over of ESAT).
All this telecoms stuff is complicated.
Pretty simple to change desktop without dataloss or re-install. Harder to switch distro, (say Linux Mint with Mate) without fresh install, but switching to a later Linux distro than Ubuntu 12.04 is painless compared to XP to Vista, Win7 (bug fixed Vista), mad Win8.x or especially Train-wreck Win10
Dos User from 1981 to Dos 6.22
CP/M 80 from 1980 to 1992
Unix family from 1984
Linux seriously since 1999
Windows 3.0, 3.x, 95, 98
NT from 3.5 to XP (server 2003) and supporting evil Vista, Win8 Win 10 (mostly replacing last 3)
Supporting some Win7 still.
Upgrade of a server recently from Linux Mint 17 to Mint 18.3 was painless. Without any data loss or re-install. Try that on NT4.0 to Server 2003 or Server 2003 to later?
So really only windows left is 7, no comparison between XP hold outs and older Linux version users.
Close Twitter and Facebook
Force Google to divest YouTube and make search advert free.
Regulate and forbid most takeovers.
Perhaps make YouTube subscription based. No adverts on it.
Adverts make Search and YouTube owners dishonest.
Facebook type operations, privacy exploiting and funded 100% by adverts are bound to ignore content that generates adverts. So forbid it.
Regulate any media on Internet to same standard as print and broadcast.
Yes I know all impossible, but no-one in the West is even trying!
Actually LESS broadband (=Wifi) to Mobile integration is needed. TEN years ago it was figured how to roam from 3G to WiFi for Data, VOIP and even native 3G voice. But 3G, 4G or 5G femto cells replacing WiFi remove the need for that complex back end software and application / stack on the smart phone as the 3.5GHz 250MBps femto cell functions just like a 800MHz or 2.6GHz 4G mast.
While we are at it, forbid Mobile from deploying 4G/LTE on WiFi bands. That's just spectrum theft and a way to charge users for use of spectrum that should be WiFi.
1) Nothing to do with real broadband.
2) 5G is about mobile operator server integration and Mobile Network suppliers selling new kit, not broadband/mobile integration.
3) 5G will have almost no impact on real mobile, you need x3 to x10 more basestations.
4) The only significant aspect of 5G for speed is replacing nearly free to use WiFi with 5G femto cells using bands useless for real mobile.
Fixed broadband needs fibre period. High speed wireless links are well established and nothing to do with 5G, they are where fibre is uneconomic, which now is nearly nowhere as fibre is easily delivered any place that has mains sewerage, or mains water or mains electricity or mains gas.
Decent speed mobile masts also need fibre.
This is a nonsense statement
"far tighter integration between fixed and wireless connectivity in 5G than ever before"
doors, sensors, lights.
None of that needs the Internet.
Plenty of simple boxes / boards / routers etc with ethernet or wifi can securely connect the controller(s) of little things. That's the only sensible architecture, though in most cases don't connect sensors or controllers to the internet.
Such cheap controllers / kits are THIRTY years old.
They are more interested in money than sensible oversight.
Countries, org gov edu com net info biz is plenty. More just makes scamming easier and it's a way to raise revenue from big companies.
A pity though that some are really just extra USA domains. Possibly .gov should not have existed as a TLD.
DDOS Ping of Death is what your auditors are thinking of.
I agree, there are more serious issues if your device is advertising a host name on Internet. I advise people not to use a Mobile modem directly but one with a firewall and then wifi/usb/ethernet to laptop.
However phones, watches, tablets etc that connect direct to Internet via mobile are a problem and often have no firewall.
I just handed back another laptop, unwanted Win10 from Win7.
I fixed it by putting on Linux Mint + Mate with customised "Redmond Theme", Noscript + Classic Theme restorer in Firefox (disabled PDF view in browser), and I took pity and changed most of the sillier defaults in Libre Office (though they arn't as silly as Windows defaults for last 25 years).
Added Skype and Wine and Mono.
The PDF viewer works better than Foxit or Adobe (the save page as image is nice).
How many ordinary folk use more than browser, email, basic "office" features, PDF viewer, image viewer etc?
(I also made Caps Lock be both shift keys and Caps Lock Key be "compose").
" ... would Google want to move Android to Switft, when it's using Java syntax?"
Android is the OS built on a Linux kernel. DAVIK is equivalent to a JVM. The source language for applications on Android is essentially Java using Android APIs.
Google promotes "Go" rather than "Swift". I'd expect Android consists of many components and drivers written in various languages.
I agree,
#1 Need good programmers
#2 Decent management
#3 Choice of language nearly irrelevant provided the platform/application is suitable for it. Obviously maintaining legacy code is a separate issue.
Good programmers can learn any new language in a few days, though the libraries might take a month.
Bad programmers write buggy, insecure code no matter what language they use.
Depressing that THIRTY YEARS after C++ was ported to PC/DOS, Amiga, Xenix etc, that C is still number 2. (I learnt C++ in Glockenspiel, before doing any major C project, oddly.)
Maybe it's code maintenance or people writing drivers (though you can write drivers in C++). Ditto, Assembler. I don't even use assembler on PIC Micro Controllers.
It feels like the 1980s, but with a load of new names. Why are so many people using VB.net instead of C#? Real VB ended with VB6.
A few dollars per moving part fits sensors (even if just load sense on actuators) to "see" is something going to be in the way.
Seems like saving a few hundred dollars, in once off cost, is more important than operators or maintenance workers lives.
ANY automated system should stop if something that shouldn't be there is there. You don't even need software, though that makes it easier and cheaper.
I made a prototype machine with a rotating drum with an aperture. The prototype had a "knife" sharp edge and wouldn't even nip a finger tip, it would reverse as soon as the travel was restricted. It could cut pencils in half without the sensor.
So yes, sue everyone, this is a completely avoidable death, even if was a late 1930s automated machine.
A fun enjoyable tale (As is the sequel). However the "lasers" are probably physically impossible (power and beam divergence) and it's just a nice story, not science.
Though a light sail does work, it's only any use for low acceleration outward from a star then coasting.
See Kardashev scale
Someone reads too much SF. I even write the stuff and I've read it for 50 years. However while it might work as a plot device in a story, my money is on a natural explanation.
Motive: Why is someone going to build a massive generator and power a sail? Crazy Eddie is fictional.
Means: There is no evidence that such so called "Advanced" civilisations exist or that the Kardashev scale is any more than EE "Doc" Smith style "Skylark" extrapolation.
I hope much of this is killed. EU does not need to help USA mega corps to make more money by exploiting consumers.
[* If the NAFTA is killed by Trump, who knows. They do have a trade deal with EU, recently agreed and are an Associate Member of the largely Franco-German ESA. Not all EU members are in ESA, some European members are not in the EU, though EU does do some ESA funding]
Bubble memory actually made it as a real (though niche) product. Maybe it could be re-born at much higher capacity (petabytes?)
This is wonderful research. It may or may not ever be in a real product.
20 years after Bubble memory (static wafer), the MO spinning discs were wonderful.
The holographic storage that was supposed to replace it, never really left the lab, Flash grew and replaced both static RAM with a coin cell and smaller HDD.
Now we are promised various kinds of "better than flash" solid state memory from IBM, Intel, HP etc, that always seem 6 months away.
So will it be a spinning disk type device or a card like device?
My SF stories devices obviously must have Holmium based storage on their sapphire substrate wafer scale integration "circuit" boards.
Yes
Too much reality TV, chasing ratings, and propaganda of various curious types. I don't think "left" or "right", it's more complicated.
Too much fake science now.
However BBC content and governance is a separate problem to TV licence. Here in Ireland we have a TV Licence (which applies if TV works, even if it's Analogue or 405 lines, or no aerial historically because of UK reception, Cable TV and MMDS. They nearly brought in TV licence in 1950s though Irish TV started late night 31st Dec 1961, basically 1962). Even RTE radio is dire, unless less you want what is on Lyric FM or the pop on 2FM.
RTE is full of overpaid managers, overpaid cult of presenters and nearly no useful content. Irish people have Adverts on RTE *AND* have to pay TV licence even if TV is only used for Netflix. If it's a computer, it's liable for TV licence if it can get live TV.
Careful what you wish for, it might be what Murdoch or Silicon Valley wants.
Indeed the petition and demand to abolish the TV licence seems lacking in a plan. It would totally play into the pockets of Amazon, Netflix, Sky/Fox, so called Virgin (really UPS/Global Liberty) all of whom produce little content and content of a low common denominator, they are nearly parasites. YouTube (Google) is a content parasite.
Certainly the present "enforcement regime" is totally wrong.
Which content providers do they want to see taxed?
P.S. I wondered was I on wrong thread. (Speeding etc)
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