What If the Recession Does Turn Into a Depression? (11)
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It’s far from certain — it’s even a fairly remote possibility — but the possibility of an economic depression is being discussed more and more these days. As is to be expected, the discussion tends to be centered around how much of what we’re used to having could be destroyed. As worthwhile as it is to brace for the damage an economic depression could wreak, this is Thanksgiving weekend — a time to reflect on ...
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tstitt said:
“The Depression was, famously, a boom time for movies.” As the current recession deepens, online video is already providing a contemporary equal in Hulu and other sources of free content."
Intel rethinks Netbooks: 'Fine for an hour' but... | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News (6)
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The smallish designs may not be the next big thing after all. Intel, whose Atom chip powers most Netbooks, says it now foresees mostly incremental gains. Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Nanotech - The Circuits Blog.
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HH said:
valtoztathato meretu kijelzot!
Trailer Park 2.0: Where All Your Data Lives (7)
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The prospect of outsourcing servers and storage to the cloud has an irresistible lure of operational simplicity and cash efficiency for today’s application developers. Cloud computing vendors help operate social networking applications, micro-blogging sites, global gaming networks and a plethora of applications that we use everyday. Yet, as successful and economically desirable as clouds have been for many organizations, outsourcing servers and storage causes a serious emotional and operational dilemma for the hardened breed of ...
Twitter Kills SMS in Canada (19)
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Citing changes to its billing and costs that are doubling every month, Twitter announced that it will no longer support outbound SMS to Canadians. Twitter’s searching for a business model (and a Business Product Manager to help out), and in the meantime it has to curtail costs — but it doesn’t help that Canadian carriers are trying to charge huge fees for text messaging, resulting in consumer lawsuits. Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice called the ...
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px said:
it's going downhill. SMS is a losing overpriced tech.
Unwinding secrecy -- how far? (1)
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One of the things that I've gradually come to believe in is that secrecy in anything is more likely to be a danger to you and yours than a help. The reasons for this are many, but include: hard to get anything done your attacker laughs! ideal cover for laziness, a mess or incompetence There are no good reasons for secrecy, only less bad ones. If we accept that proposition, and start unwinding the secrecy ...
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silpol said:
"One of the things that I've gradually come to believe in is that secrecy in anything is more likely to be a danger to you and yours than a help. The reasons for this are many, but include: hard to get anything done your attacker laughs! ideal cover for laziness, a mess or incompetence There are no good reasons for secrecy, only less bad ones. If we accept that proposition, and start unwinding the secrecy so common in organisations today, there appear to be two questions: how far to open up, and how do we do it?"
Braun/Hogenberg, Cities of the World (1)
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25th anniversary program: more amazing deals (1)
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Unwinding secrecy -- busting the covert attack (1)
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Have a read of this. Quick summary: Altimo thinks Telenor may be using espionage tactics to cause problems. Altimo alleges the interception of emails and tapping of telephone calls, surveillance of executives and shareholders, and payments to journalists to write damaging articles. So instead of getting its knickers in a knot (court case or whatever) Altimo simply writes to Telenor and suggests that this is going on, and asks for confirmation that they know nothing ...
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silpol said:
" Have a read of this. Quick summary: Altimo thinks Telenor may be using espionage tactics to cause problems. Altimo alleges the interception of emails and tapping of telephone calls, surveillance of executives and shareholders, and payments to journalists to write damaging articles. So instead of getting its knickers in a knot (court case or whatever) Altimo simply writes to Telenor and suggests that this is going on, and asks for confirmation that they know nothing about it, do not endorse it, etc. Who ya bluffin? ...Andrei Kosogov, Altimo's chairman, wrote an open letter to Telenor's chairman, Harald Norvik, asking him to explain what Telenor's role has been and "what activity your agents have directed at Altimo". "
Who would judge a contest for voting machines? (1)
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In a previous entry I suggested creating an AES-style competition for automated voting systems. The idea is to throw the design open to the world's expertise on complex systems, including universities, foundations and corporates, and manage the process in an open fashion to bring out the best result. Several people said "Who would judge a contest for voting machines?" I thought at first blush that this wasn't an issue, but others do. Why is that? ...
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silpol said:
"In a previous entry I suggested creating an AES-style competition for automated voting systems. The idea is to throw the design open to the world's expertise on complex systems, including universities, foundations and corporates, and manage the process in an open fashion to bring out the best result. Several people said "Who would judge a contest for voting machines?" I thought at first blush that this wasn't an issue, but others do. Why is that?"
