Posts by Ian Michael Gumby 4454 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Apr 2006
US Civilians living in 1 of 34 states where Class III weapons are allowed would have to file the proper paperwork (with background checks, etc... ) can own a fully automatic rifle provided it was manufactured prior to 1986.
Plan to spend more than the 20-30K that you would for a prop.
Full auto weapons tend to be more expensive although depending on the make/model, you could get one for a little as 20k.
AR-15 rifles tend to start around $1500 and go up based on quality and customization.
Not worthy of a down vote, but not completely correct.
The key issue of hydrocarbons (petrol) is that you have a relatively simple engine which can turn the potential energy of the petrol in to mechanical / kinetic energy, albeit not all that efficient where a lot of energy is given off as waste heat and pollutants.
Now if I could find an energy source which is cleaner... e.g. nuclear energy ... and I could then create a model of being able to store the energy for later use (batteries) and then be able to recharge the batteries on demand quickly... I would be able to replace the needs for petrol engines.
Considering that most vehicle travel less than 50 miles in a day.... lets say I created a car that ran on electricity and had a decent range so that I could travel daily and recharge overnight, I would be able to replace a lot of the cars on the road. If we increase the range of the electric car to that of a tank of petrol (~300 miles) then the differences become less. If I can also decrease the time to recharge the battery so that if someone needed to extend their range, it would make the car also more viable. If the cost of the electricity is less than the cost of the petrol... even better. Less moving parts, less maintenance, lower TCO.
Tesla does that, if you're comparing a luxury car to the Tesla S sedan.
So if we go towards Nuclear Energy, work on fusion energy... better storage solutions make the electric car more viable. What's interesting is that FORD did a lot of earlier work on electric cars which for some reason they haven't capitalized on. They could in fact make cars for Uber or taxi fleets but that's a different conversation.
The point is that the better storage (battery) the more viable the electric car becomes.
@Tom,
No, you wouldn't.
He who patents first wins. So you may have something that if documented would make it prior art and then invalidate the patent, yet you would lose too.
You would be better off setting FRAND and then work on licensing agreements that were more than just cash, but equity in their company and a share of any derivative patents they may create. You end up taking on some of the risk, but you will also end up with a larger war chest when you die.
Look at the FOSS model. Companies like Google like it because it means that when people join the Googleplex or Chocolate Factory, they are familiar with the ideas and concepts. Read: faster onboarding and less costs to train up staff. Facebook? They fund 5 engineers, Yahoo! funds 5 engineers, etc ... so that Facebook gets to use technology from 100s of people yet they are only funding 5. Cost of development goes down. So they win. Companies like Cloudera, Red Hat, etc ... again make money from selling support licenses where they pay for only a fraction of the support costs to the code base.
Again, we can see winners who play in the community.
So you're better off patenting your derivative process, license the graphene base patents and then working with others.
You got down voted because your post doesn't make sense when you apply game theory to it.
If you're the patent holder and you're charging too much to license your patent, bad things could happen.
1) You could in theory lose your patent. (Extreme case where the courts would decide for the greater good.
2) You could be forced to accept FRAND. That is the courts would decide what would be a reasonable royalty payment.
3) You patent it to protect your rights so that you can make money, so you want people to use it and expand on products that could use it. You set the licensing fees (royalties) somewhat above what some would consider FRAND or you come up with a deal where you have a stake in their innovation.
All things run counter to your argument.
The truth is that its still not commercially viable yet.
Now if you could master a way to perform 3D printing using graphene and lay down ultra thin layers and then bond them... Now you have something that would be worth Billions! Hundreds of billions a year if fully exploited.
No, I'm not saying it can't be done.
What I am saying is that what they are doing isn't 100% secure and that it will work using your data plan and not voice.
What I also said was that it would be very easy for the Telcos to drop your phone to 2G and that will kill your ability to use the app. (Try using data over a 2G connection... it doesn't work. Especially for a streaming app.)
What I also said was that its possible to go with a different tech and deliver more secure text communications that will work regardless of the data rates.
The idea is that you are encrypting the communication data to be sent over a public channel.
So that your conversation is 'safe' because the tech required to decrypt the communication would require the budget of the NSA and a bit of time.
Here's a major problem.
You had better have a good data plan and always be near a wi-fi hotspot.
Telcos can drop data rates to 2G in high traffic areas... ( you can figure out the implications to that.)
And if you're on a public wi-fi, how secure is that?
There are better ways ... Read more secure ways to encrypt written traffic...
As to voice... Best use a land line if you are paranoid enough to consider this tech.
Both?
This is one of the reasons I decided to upgrade my home WI-FI to something more commercial grade where I can create multiple SSIDs and put the insecure stuff on a separate SSID and it will not have any ability to impact the rest of my network.
Also I can set up alerts to see who connects to that network... as well as limit the connections to a white list. (So you can see the network, learn the password, but can't easily connect to the network. )
So...
How does the author or their estate get paid when they don't know that a book sale had occurred? Remember that Google is digitizing out of print books that were 'orphaned' even though they still had active copyrights in place.
The only one who will make money from this is google. I can think of half a dozen ways they can make money even if they allow access for free.
Sorry, but if you actually believe in this mythical 'good corporate citizen', I've got some swamp land in Florida I need to unload.
Seriously, most if not all good acts are done for the benefit of the company.
There is no altruism, especially if the company is publicly traded or is sucking on the teat of a VC firm.
How much do you want to spend?
I went with Meraki (now owned by Cisco)
It wasn't cheap, but it has better security and I can set it up to take advantage of better security and isolating things like my TV and other consumer wi-fi appliances away from my corporate world.
I don't know if I would recommend it for a consumer unless they were doing things like banking, investing, or corporate work from the home office.
Which 'commercial' routers are vulnerable?
The truth is that these routers that are the most vulnerable are the consumer grade routers.
I made the serious investment into Meraki hardware when I got a call from my local ISP that my wi-fi router was pawned while I was working overseas.
Now I couldn't fix it right away, but I was able to locate a vendor and purchase the kit so it was at my SOHO when I got home on my leave. Is it perfect? No, but it also let me find every other pawned routers in the area that was clogging up the airwaves.
The bottom line, when you run a SOHO, you need to take things like security a bit more seriously.
I think that several of the charges are no longer viable because of the statutes of limitations on those charges and then the Swedish Government may be rethinking if they want to continue to pursue Assange on the remaining charge(s).
So if he escapes... he leaves the country, to never return, and will probably leave Europe all together since there's still the EAW and then a second one from the Brits once he 'leaves' since he jumped bail there....
So Assange goes on the run, because he's too much a prat to face the music for raping those two girls.
How do you know that the Brits really did pull their police because they knew Assange would think this to be a trap since as you say the Brits are rather transparent?
So that because Assange suspects that it is a trap the Brits can pull the police coverage back and save some money while Assange stays in the embasssy?
Not that funny...
But if I were Ass-n-hat err I mean Assange, I would have to wonder if this was a trap.
Think about it... the plods are pulled back.
No sign of any new surveillance cameras so it looks to be safe for him to make his escape... You know a quick drive to the coast to an awaiting boat to take him off shore and on to some other country ...
Only that its a trap where the Ecuadorian Embassy staff are in part behind it as a way to get him to leave. Once out the door, they lock it behind him. Or the boat gets stopped in the harbor or something like that.
No Mister Assange, I expect you to think this a trap so that while I reduce the cost of securing you in the Embassy, you're too frightened to run away!
"HP will contribute its Memristor technology and expertise, while SanDisk will provide non-volatile ReRAM memory technology, not that we knew it had any, and manufacturing and design expertise."
How soon does El Reg forget the whole lawsuit ? google Diablo Netlist lawsuit...
Not really much of a flame, but using similar packaging and most of the device drivers should help get a product to market faster than not. Assuming you have similar densities to competitors... you could probably fit 1 to 2 TB per DIMM slot. (My estimates)
Be careful what you put online and don't use FB or other Social Media websites....
I don't have a FB account.
I do have a linkedIn acct, however, it only has public information that I want out there for business related tasks.
Of course, FB is still on shaky legal grounds in other areas of privacy too. Suppose I get tagged in a photo a friend took without my knowledge. Does FB have, as they claim, the right to use my image without my approval?
I don't have a FB account so how do they have my agreement to their ToS?
Yet FB doesn't make that distinction.
If its not AWS then your second provider isn't sharing. Although since AWS is multi homed, and your other provider is multi homed, you may end up using the same network provider.
The issue many forget is the costs involved in shipping data from AWS to another source. Very expensive.
Actually what the yank says is correct.
But there is more.... Joe actually is going to be portrayed as right of HRC so he's not going to fit the left leaning progressives. This would be a good thing because he will appeal more to the independents and the conservative democrats.
And Joe is also someone Obama believes that will continue his legacy. So he will get Obama's blessing.
The reason he hasn't entered the race is that they are trying to build the hype on one hand, while on the other look like the DNC party's savior.
This goes beyond Benghazi.
We already have 15 emails from her best buddy and confidant Seymore Butts (that would be Sekret Agent Sidney Blumenthal that was on the Clinton Foundation's payroll ), who under subpoena gave them to the US Government while HRC did not and testified that she gave them everything. So you already have some level of obstruction which can be punishable by prison time.
But the real kicker is that she mishandled classified files. Regardless of what her campaign says, some of these docs were 'classified at birth'.
Oh her goose is cooked.
When Joe Biden enters the race, you can bet HRC will be charged.
The only question is how far will this go?
The fall of the Clinton Foundation(s) on the one hand.
On the other... will VJ take the fall for Obama?
This is HRC's own doing.
There are two well know laws... Official Records Act, which in 1996 under Bill Clinton as POTUS, emails were included in required documents that key senior officials must keep and turn over.
The other deals with mishandling classified information.
If you have a doc which may not be classified today, but could be classified tomorrow and you have to keep it... you'll be breaking one or both of the laws when said doc's material is determined to be classified.
Then you have communications which are classified at birth so you end up being screwed because you will have broken the law.
That's why there is no law prohibiting setting up your own server. You'd be prosecuted not for setting it up, but for using it.
As to picking a good candidate? Look at Kasich. He's a straight shooter and a stand up guy.
It was supposed to be HRC not HPC.
You could say it was a typo, but realistically the leg on the letter R rusted off because Hillary is such a toxic person....
HRC == Hillary Rodham Clinton
The black ops helicopter because HRC's minions are pure evil and will do everything to discredit or destroy anyone perceived to be an enemy of the Clintons.
(And even some of their friends too)
Actually, they are 'private'.
AWS will, for its larger customers will carve out areas within their networks that contain servers that are only used to host software for said customer. You really don't have to worry about a noisy neighbor unless its from a different group within your company. Expand the reserved space by increasing the VNs and servers on the VN.
So yes, its 'private'.
Today the term 'cloud' is the key buzzword. If you don't use that term in describing your infrastructure, the pointy haired executives and bean counters question your IT knowledge.
Private Cloud is another term for a leased data center w leased equipment maintained by the DC.
But vendors who want to make their leased DC options sound 'hip' and 'modern' have latched on to the term 'private cloud'.
Of course that's also what you get when you have AWS carve out a niche of servers solely for a single customer too. So Caveat Emptor.
I can say that I got 7 years out of my UPS that I had sitting at the bottom of my rack cabinet. (No server room, except that it was my second bedroom in my apartment and I only had 4-5 4U boxes in the rack...)
As to cooling. When I was back in High School, the school built a 'server room' (One PDP vaxen) and put a home unit window air conditioning unit to cool the room down. It worked and the drip pan was on the outside of the room. So you can do that today, if you're only talking about a rack and you have ample air flow around the rack.
You can look at it a couple of ways...
1) Its 'bling' for the man
2) Its a status symbol
3) It represents a lot of mechanical engineering and is complex... (Can you take one apart AND put it back together in working order? )
Seriously... Some are works of art that you can own and wear on your wrist.
To your point,
I agree. Most of the time, the older banner ads and page ads were pretty much ignored. I mean I didn't block them, They just never registered in my brain. (I learned to ignore them on site.)
And of course the biggest issue is the security concern... but hey, we all know that advertisers are the most ethical lot on the net. (SPAM anyone?)
What, you mean all that risk cross scripting issues?
or did you mean that someone has embedded a nasty virus that attempts to take over my PC and then extort money?
Or did you mean the flash security holes?
:-P
Yes, agree 100%. What I find funny is the following:
"“Sorry ad-blockers, I assume you mean well and you have a point about page-load times and ads junked up with tracking tools and Trojan horses and the like,” wrote Advertising Age editor Ken Wheaton, recently. “But theft is still theft, even if it's dressed up as some sort of digital Robin Hood act. You're not just interfering with pixels, you're interfering with business.”"
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There is no theft here. If there was value in the content, we'd pay for it. I have a WSJ account because I find value in the articles. Watching some silly cat video someone sent? Really?
If you don't like it, change your business model. Ooops! That comment was from the guy who's business model goes to pot when they shift away from ads.
The simple truth is that its cheaper to take the head count hit, the financial hit short term and then hire new staff with the required skills as they retool. You could retrain the existing employees but that's an expensive prospect and will take longer.
Don't shoot the messenger. Its just common sense because they can use the split and re-org as cover.
Don't get me wrong, I want to see this tech in place. However, to take advantage of Crosspoint / Crossbar NVReRam, there has to be a disruptive change in the PC/Server motherboard.
As a stopgap measure, you could put these in to DRAM slots and then let the Bios figure out which DDR slots are RAM and which are NVReRAM. Which also makes things interesting in how they are controlled and would also create some interesting issues for the OS. (But solvable w new drivers for storage.)
The costs of the chips will go down. How long that takes depends on demand and their ability to create the chips.
With non voltile resistive ram (NVRe Ram) on the fringe ... we can see the end of the spinning rust.
I remember starting out with my Ohio Scientific 3A and 2 double sided drives that stored 256K per 8" floppy back in the late 70's. So sorry, I will not miss the spinning rust, but welcome the advancement of new tech. smaller, faster and using less energy.
I think you missed his point.
Yes its a question of the old supply and demand curve pricing model.
You raise your prices too high and then you will find that demand for the product drops.
However, assume that there's a finite demand for a book. That is to say that the book only appeals to 100,000 people so then setting the price to capture the optimum market share is a bit harder than just setting the price.
The issue is how to capture the attention of the marketplace so that they will want to buy the book.
Amazon could have easily just not recommended the publisher's book during this period. Or as some have pointed out... I'm willing to pay $5.00 for that, but not $10.00
The only place you don't see book prices falling is in the classroom. Here you have a captured market.
This has a lot of legs....
Suppose you, like me don't have a FB account.
Someone tags your face in a photo. Or a couple of photos.
Now they collected your biometric information without your consent. They have no way to get your consent.
As such, I'd say this lawsuit has wings, however... without an account... how do you know if they have collected your biometric information?
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