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This will be my final broadcast in the Patriot bunker until after Labor Day, but it's sure to be a memorable one. I will be on the air with today's edition on The Closer from 1:00 until 3:00 pm Central Time.
In a bittersweet development, Miss Minneapolis 2014 Julia Schliesing will be making her final appearance as a regular contributor to the show.
Me and Julia at the Miss Minnesota 2014 pageant
As she calls in for her 1:30 segment, Julia will fill us in on the next great adventure in her life. Of course with her platform Out of the darkness and into the light: stopping suicide with prevention, Julia will likely weigh in on the death of entertainer Robin Williams.
For the 2:00 hour, in what has become an annual tradition, my friend, fellow blogger and NFL rube Mark Heuring will join the show as we conduct our prognostication of the NFC North division. Since I am a Vikings fan and Mark is a Packer backer, it's the only division that really matters to us.
In the non-guest segments, I will likely give one final recap of the MN primary election results from this past Tuesday as well as share my own thoughts on Williams' passing.
So please give us call at (651) 289-4488 if you'd like to discuss any of the topics we plan on addressing. You can also text comments/questions to (651) 243-0390.
You can listen live in the Twin Cities at AM 1280 on your radio dial. In and out of the Minneapolis-St Paul area, you can listen to the program on the Internet by clicking this link, or check us out via iheart radio.
Even though I have a face for radio, there is a UStream channel where you can watch the broadcast, if you so desire. Check it out here.
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How to back up SBS 2011 in Hyper-V
I'm building out a new Small Business 2011 server using hyper-V and I'm trying to understand how to properly install Backup Exec 2012 sp1. I have purchased the premium Small Business Server license that allows me the main SBS server and an extra Windows 2008 R2 server. I have one physical host with the extra Windows 2008 R2 server running as a hyper-v host only. It has 2 VMs, one is the SBS server and one is the extra Windows 2008 R2 server (Microsoft lets you use the extra server license for 1 host and 1 guest).
I have purchaseda Backup Exec 2012 small business edition license and a licence for the small business edition agent for Windows. When I began to install Backup Exec 2012 on my hyper-v host, I entered my license key but the licensing page said that the hyper-v agent was unavailable. Given that, I'm not sure how to backup the guest VMs.
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That license would only apply for SBS, not full-blown Windows.
What are you trying to backup too? Disk or tape? If disk, you can see about presenting disk to your SBS VM and then loading BE on that. Create a job to backup to disk which should work.
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With BE 2012 SBE License you can backup a maximum of 3 physical server or VM or a combination of both to a total of 3 servers/machines can be licenses for protection.
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Refer to the Licensing guide which mentions this information (in the PDF file)
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH178479 : Symantec Backup Exec (TM) 2012 Portfolio Licensing Guide
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To backup the SBS virtualized server using that edition of BE you install the agent for window software on the SBS server and back it up in a traditional way - as far as I know that edition of Backup Exec does not come with the Virtual Agents license so you cannot do a Hyper-V backup wuthout adjusting your licenses. If you need to confirm this or get more detail then talk to the customer care (licensing team) who unfortunately do not monitor these forums


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Sparked in a moment of generousity and possibly insanity I have started offering tech support to new Ubuntu users in return for conversion stories, in an effort to encourage fellow users to convert friends and family I want to do my part.
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The 11th anunual summer musicξconservatory for middle, junior high and high-school aged musiciansξis inξit's final week.ξ There are several concerts this week including one ofξthe festival's biggest closing affairs, the ChoralξCelebration, which happens tomorrow night at 7:00 at ξSouth Main Baptist Church. Another of this week's highlights includes the annual World Premieres Showcase, which features new dance pieces, choreographed and performed by young dancers from Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy, accompanied by original scores created byξAFA student composers. MichaelξRemson is the Executive Director of the American Festival for the Arts, Shelly Power is Associate Director of teh Houston Ballet Academy and Dr. Kenneth Fulton, Professor of Choral Studies and Chair of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting at Louisiana State University, directs the AFA Chroal Department. They all spoke with KUHF's Alison Young. Audio here.ξξ
The hardy souls participating in KUHF's Summer Arts and Performance Tour of Russia and Finland have completed the first leg of their trip, having experienced - over the last two nights - performances of two very different kinds of authentically Russian music at the fabled White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. TFR Producer Bob Stevenson talked with the program's regular host Dean Dalton by phone this morning to find out how he and his intrepid travelers have been doing. Audio here.ξ
For information about KUHF's upcoming Arts and Performance tour to the Balkans click here.
Some of the most heralded movies in the motion picture history have been the epic costume dramas set in Ancient Rome. In spite of some of those film's visual excesses, script deficiencies and the actors' undisguised New York and British accents, many of them were surprisingly accurate in their depiction of the look, culture and history of the Roman empire in it's glory days. . .that's the assesment of Dr. Louis Markos, Prof. of English at Houston Baptist University. He'll discuss Roman Portraits: Ancient Rome on Film, and show clips from the movies he's talking about, in this month's Artful Thursday program tomorrow evening in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Mr. Markos spoke with KUHF's Eric Ladau. Audio here.ξ
He emerged out of the Great Dust Bowl at age 23 in 1935, another unemployed "Okie" who joined the migration westward to California. But this lanky, curly-haired young man had a set of special gifts: an empathy for millions of hi fellow Americans who were suffering under privation of the Depression, a tendency toward populist politics, a way with words, and some facility at playing the guitar and the harmonica. And so Woodrow Wilson Guthrie became the musical voice of teh Average Joes, the acknowledged godfather of four generations of folk singers who have pleaded for a fair break for their fellow human beings. This evening, PBS, as part of it's American Masters series, premieres a new documentary about Woody Guthrie. It was produced, written and directed by award-winning, 25 year veteran film-maker, Peter Frumkin, who spoke by phone with KUHF's Bob Stevenson. They where joined in the conversation by Woody Guthrie's daughter, Nora, co-founder and manager of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives. Audio here.ξ


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Unity Church of Peace to hear talk on self-compromise
WALLA WALLA - Walla Walla - Unity Church of Peace, 810 C. St., will present Matt Quistberg speaking on "Stop Self-Compromise" at 10 a.m. today
For more information on events at Unity Church of Peace, call 509-520-1915 or email to email@example.com or go to unitychurchofpeace.net.
Two Walla Walla Churches offer lunch two days a week
WALLA WALLA - Two area churches offer a soup lunch two days each week. The lunches are open to anyone at no charge, as follows: Mondays, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pioneer United Methodist Church, 209 E. Birch St., at the corner of Birch and Colville streets. Enter from the Birch Street parking lot. Information: 509-525-1870.
Thursdays, 11:30 to 1 p.m., at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 323 Catherine St. Information: 509-529-1083.
Walla Walla Healing Rooms to be open for prayer Tuesday
WALLA WALLA - The Walla Walla Healing Rooms will be open for prayer at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Grace Christian Center, 49 Wallula Ave., Suite A.
For more information, call the Rev. Mikki Jones at 509-876-1397 or go online to www.wallawallahealingrooms.com.
Ingle Chapel Church plans 'Operation Overboard' VBS
MILTON-FREEWATER - Ingle Chapel Church, 85372 Highway 339, will have a Vacation Bible School from 9-11 a.m. Monday through Friday.
The theme will be "Operation Overboard." The VBS is open to children ages 5-11.
Register online at inglechapel.com or by calling Gail Braun at 541-938-5079.
For more information or questions, call 541-938-7002 or 541-938-5079.
New Joy Foursquare plans worship, potluck in park
WALLA WALLA - New Joy Foursquare Church, 3 S. Colville, will hold a special worship service called Church in the Park at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 5 at the gazebo in Pioneer Park. There will be modern worship music and the Rev. Tim Johnson will preach a relevant message.
Child-care will be provided. A potluck luncheon will follow the worship service.
For more information, contact the church at: 509-525-0733 or visit www.newjoychurch.org
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Your cell phone is about to become a sell phone. (Picture from Philips.)
Near Field Communication is a communications protocol that can work with a variety of short-range technologies -- Bluetooth, 802.11, RFID. The key is that commerce is defined within the protocol. It's not so much a communications engine as a commerce engine.
If you're reading this in Asia this is not news. You've been able to buy even expensive trinkets with Near Field for years.
But it's finally coming to America. The result will be a revolution. We're accustomed to think of wireless purchasing in terms of cheap goods. We hear about using our mobile phone to buy a Coke from a vending machine, or a game from a Web site.
But NFC will enable you to buy plane tickets, meals, anything in fact, simply by waving your phone at a port and pressing a button.
Wired has a story this week accenting the fear side of this technology equation. If you devote yourself to Near Field (or NFC) purchasing, your carrier would know exactly where you were, what you were doing, your whole pattern of behavior. All they would have to do is combine GPS technology with NFC, and voila.
Well, so what? Once we establish in law that the data you create belongs to you, and cannot be shared without your consent, this fear should dissipate. (Should doesn't mean won't.)
History buffs will recall that Sun Microsystems began in the 1980s with one goal, to put the power of an engineer's minicomputer onto his desktop. (Picture from The Register.)
As Moore's Law proceeded this ideal seemed to die away. After all, couldn't Intel chips, running Windows, provide all the power the average engineer needed? Over time, in fact, Windows-based machines did indeed reach, and then exceed, the capabilities of SPARC-based Sun designs.
But perhaps Sun just wasn't using its imagination.
Over at AMD, they're rolling out their first "dual-core" processors. (The image is from AMD's press site.)
A dual-core chip is actually two chips in one, so products with them can run multiple tasks at the same time.
AMD is pushing the dual core idea, which it's been working on for five years, in part to extend the life of the 90 nm process technology. Dual core lets you boost performance without actually shrinking transistors, much as RISC technology did in an earlier time.
It's yet another example of how Moore's Law doesn't just apply to gate size (although that was what Moore was writing about in 1964). Moore's Law proceeds because exponential improvements can happen in many different directions. Even as we reach the limits of gate size (as we approach the atomic scale) new advances in the design of chips, in the material used to make chips, and in the way we put systems together will keep the improvements coming.
All of which makes this beat very cool indeed....
It's always comforting when the nay-sayers are once again proven wrong on Moore's Law. (This, believe it or not, is a Japanese Screensaver.)
Things really can get better and better faster and faster.
Intel said this week it has perfected 65 nanometer technology. That means it can get 33% more transistors in the same space than with the 90 nm technology now going into production.
All the Moore's Law advantages apply. As the new chip goes into production new application spaces will be created that don't exist today. All that 90 nm stuff can indeed become cheap as chips.
Of course, this was a close-run thing
Continue reading "Moore's Law Marches On"
Over at The Feature Mike Masnick asks a question that has occurred to me many times.
Today a cellular handset serves two purposes. It's your voice interface, with the speaker and microphone. It's your computer interface, with its buttons and (perhaps) a touchscreen.
Those are completely different things, aren't they?
The BBC reports on a series of events meant to boost Open Source software held recently throughout East Asia. (That's Linus Torvalds himself, from 2003, as pictured in the BBC story.)
The events, held on August 28, were organized by the UN's International Open Source Network (IOSN) and were called the first annual Software Freedom Day.
Of course the Linux operating system was featured, but so were applications like OpenOffice, the Mozilla web browser and e-mail project, mySQL database and the Apache web server.
Click through for the stuff that's really giving Gates the willies:
Continue reading "Bill Gates' Nightmare"
From Marc Canter (pictured from his blog) comes a new concept that he says originated with Ross Mayfield -- Open Listings.
Here is how it works. An ad goes on a Web site. Next to it you have terms and conditions. I want to be on this kind of site, and I'll pay this much for each clickthrough.
Sites download the code (as on AdSense), they paste it on their pages, and trackbacks handle the rest. The ad runs until the money runs out, and then it disappears. Or the owner can re-load it with more budget.
Continue reading "Open Listings"
Why is anyone surprised, let alone outraged, by Microsoft's announcement that its "Longhorn" version of Windows will be short key features? (The shorthorn pictured was originally a cigar label, and went for $75 at this fine online store.)
They've been doing this for 20 years. They announce something great, they back off key claims, then they ship something lousy that gradually becomes acceptable.
This has been true since Windows started.
Continue reading "No Surprise With Shorthorn"
This piece by Juan Cole is being ignored by all the political blogs, so I offer it here.
Cole, who works at the University of Michigan and has become a "go to guy" for Iraq war criticism, charges that Israel has taken over U.S. foreign policy and the current hoop-de-doo over an analyst's passing of documents to a pro-Israel lobby is just the tip of the iceberg.
Pro-Likud intellectuals established networks linking Defense and the national security advisers of Vice President Dick Cheney, gaining enormous influence over policy by cherry-picking and distorting intelligence so as to make a case for war on Saddam Hussein. And their ulterior motive was to remove the most powerful Arab military from the scene, not because it was an active threat to Israel (it wasn't) but because it was a possible deterrent to Likud plans for aggressive expansion (at the least, they want half of the West Bank, permanently).
But wait, there's more.
Continue reading "The Present Danger"
This blog doesn't have that millions of readers, but it does have fans.
Among those fans I'm highly credible. I work hard with every piece to justify that faith, and when I fall down they let me have it.
This transparent relationship is at the heart of blogging credibility. J.D. Lasica tried to explain this to the "media industry" in a recent OJR piece. (The illustration of transparency is from a cool Shodor.Org entry on Fractals and Chaos Theory.)
Continue reading "Transparency Makes Blogs Believable"
Mia Hamm, who ended her career today in a 2-1 win over Brazil for her second Olympic gold medal, was the most important athlete of her time. (Image from womensoccer.com.)
She was not the best athlete. That would be Lance Armstrong. She was not the best soccer player. That would be Pele. She may not even be the best athlete in her house, since she recently married Nomar Garciaparra.
But history will write that she was more important than all of them.
The 802.11 standards are moving far ahead of Moore's Law. (Image from Linksys.Com.)
The first 802.11 standard ran at 1 Mbps. The second, 802.11b, ran at 11 Mbps. The third, 802.11a, ran at 54 Mbps. And now we have the 802.11n proposal, which promises service at up to 100 mbps.
While all these standards are backward-compatible, your speed will be that of the slowest component. Thus, the current moves to embed 802.11 into PC motherboards may be premature.
When people say "I Got Wi-Fi" they're not used to asking "what kind."
Continue reading "A Better Definition of Better"
Silicon has unique properties. It can act as a conductor of electricity or an insulator. Burn it, oxidize it, and the silicon oxide becomes a circuit, magic.
But it's not perfect. Run it too hot and it breaks down. It's not perfectly efficient. You've got to be careful with voltages. It's vulnerable to radiation.
But nothing forms such a perfect, and perfectly thin crystal. Nothing has, until now.
In what may be the most important chemical discovery since silicon itself, Toyota researchers have found a way to create uniform crystals with silicon and carbon, silicon carbide.
We're reaching the limits of chemistry. (Buy your poster of Mighty Mouse here.)
One vital point few commentators mention today is that fewer new chemical compounds are coming to market against disease. This is one of the problems that's fueling the drug industry's consolidation.
The future lies in manipulating genes themselves. We've seen stories just in the last weeks about scientists creating mice that have more endurance and are stronger, even cattle that are leaner and more muscular.
You got a problem with that?
Continue reading "Of Mighty Mouse And Men"
I have written several times about how antiquated computing is in the area of health care.
Politicians are starting to take notice of the same thing. (Registration Required)
Fortunately this is a bipartisan recognition. The Post comment above is written by the Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist (right, from CNN), and a leader of the minority Democrats, Hillary Clinton.
But what are they really proposing?
Continue reading "Health Care Technology Standards Needed Stat"
Philip Agre of UCLA has put out a provocative essay attacking conservatism at its core and proposing what should be done.
Its long. Its pedantic. Its the kind of thing an information studies professor at UCLA would write. (Well, he is an information studies professor at UCLA.) But it wont get you on The Daily Show or even Meet The Press
For that we need a shorter Agre. Here goes:
Continue reading "Shorter Agre"
Since taking over Motorola former Sun COO Ed Zander has been hitting on all cylinders, grabbing market share and building alliances.
This is his biggest yet. (Oh, and word to Motorola PR. Why are all the best pictures of your CEO still on the Sun site?)
Motorola is going to make phones for DoCoMo, Japan's leading cellular provider.
DoCoMo isn't just big. DoCoMo is smart. They have the best reputation in the world for commercializing data applications. The rest of the world is at least three years behind DoCoMo.
And now Motorola will be in the forefront of trying to solve DoCoMo's biggest problem, how do you make all that fast data functionality usable in the tiny form factor of a cell phone.
Despite a regulatory regime that is impossible to obey (isolating data traffic that's to be turned into voice on a network with trillions of transactions going through it each second) hardware makers are going ahead with the production of Voice Over IP (VOIP) hardware.
Linksys and Netgear are the latest to say that voice support will become part of their residential gateways Real Soon Now. (For more on VOIP, buy O'Reilly's VOIP book, right.)
In this case, however, the Feds will be glad to know there's actually less here than meets the eye.
Continue reading "VOIP Hardware Go-Ahead"
If every nation enjoys remote jurisdiction on the worldwide network, then the only functions available are those legal in every jurisdiction. (Tipped justice scales from Glad.Org.)
Yet that's apparently what the U.S. Court of Appeals thinks should happen. The court ruled that Yahoo.Com, a U.S. site, cannot be protected against French enforcement of French rules regarding what can-and-can't-be-sold.
Continue reading "World Law Of Minimal Freedom"
New confirmation that the U.S. remains the world spamming leader comes from Sophos. Sophos, which gets its data from spam-attracting "honeypots," said 43% of the world's spam comes from the U.S., 27% combined comes from China and Korea. (The caricature is from Sophos' French site.)
Earlier this month, readers of this blog will remember, we reported on a CipherTrust study that 86% of the spam it collects at client sites comes from U.S. addresses, although many spoof foreign addresses.
Continue reading "New Confirmation: We Spam Like Mad"
I don't know about US out of the UN, but I know one thing for sure.
Microsoft out of the UN. (Illustration from UN/Cefact.)
Microsoft has quit UN/Cefact, the UN's standards-making effort for e-commerce, via e-mail. It cited "business reasons."
What it means is that the standards body wanted protection for patents on technologies thrown into the pot. Microsoft wouldn't give it.
Continue reading "Another Defeat For Microsoft"
Cingular and AT&T finally settled the outstanding issues resulting from the Baby Bell cellular's acquisition of Ma's cellular assets.
The deal was beginning to confuse even me, given the extensive advertising of the AT&T Wireless brand during the Olympics.
I am coming to believe the American press is biased...toward stupidity. (Illustration by the marvelous Danny Filippone. Every doctor's office should have a poster of this one, don't you think?)
Here's a perfect example of bad reporting, a bylined report on a medical Web site about one-third of Americans having high blood pressure.
Read the story all the way through. Is there any definition of high blood pressure, or the correct way to measure it? No.
Fact is the American press has become so dumbed-down by low salaries and publishers' agendas that most paid reporters can't even read a press release, let alone ask a decent question based on one, or report accurately on what they read.
Continue reading "Bad Reporting Raises Blood Pressure"
By announcing she was under consideration as the next Chair of the FCC, the Bush Administration has drawn a ton of telecommunications industry money into the uphill race of Becky Armendariz Klein, running in a heavily Democratic district against a five-term incumbent.
Some questions:
Just asking.
This is much bigger news than you think.
Cisco's purchase of p-Cube for $200 million (the logo image is from p-Cube's home page) is important because of what p-Cube does, and what it has been unable to do. It makes boxes that control Internet content and messaging at the center of the network (as opposed to the edge) and until now it has been unable to sell its boxes to U.S. ISPs who fear being charged with "censors" by both users and rivals.
But what happens when that box says Cisco, instead of p-Cube?
InterContinental Hotels last week decided to stop listing its properties with Expedia and instead list exclusively with Travelocity. (Travelocity logo from the BBC.)
Few people noticed it, but it's an important event in the evolution of e-commerce, especially as travel is concerned.
Continue reading "Extorting The Marketplace"
It's said that the creator of Pokemon got the idea from watching insects around his home, creating complex imaginary societies. This sort of thing is common in Japan, where space is tight, and so the eye is drawn to the small in order to imagine big things. (A lot of kids elsewhere do the same thing -- I did as a kid -- but we tend to grow out of it faster.)
Anyway this preoccupation is leading to real advances in robotics, here in the real world. And here's the latest. It's a tiny helicopter -- less than a half-ounce in size -- that can be programmed to take short flights and send back pictures.
I supported Howard Dean, and opposed John Kerry, because there is one Dean and two Kerrys.
Howard Dean opposed the War in Iraq before it began. One John Kerry supported that war, while a second now calls it poorly executed and offers no realistic plan to do better.
I haven't joined the cheering over the 9th Circuit decision upholding the DMCA's compromise position that software makers (like Grokster) can't be held liable for copyright violations performed with their software.
It's the plain language of the law. And it's in line with previous precedent, specifically the Betamax decision. (We'll get to the why of that picture soon, but meanwhile, if you like it, it's $4.99 from JDHodges.Com.)
The problem is that the Betamax decision itself is under unprecedented attack in the Congress. Vast sums are being spent on passing law that would directly overturn that decision.
Key to this is a notion called "intellectual property," which has no previous standing in law, but which is used by the copyright industries in every press release and utterance they make.
Continue reading "Hold The Celebration"
Most tax hikes come with a return address. (Image from CNN.)
That is, there's a public process involved, and thus public pressure can be brought to bear. You can question where the money is going and at least shout "hey" when it's being extracted from your pocket.
That's not true with phone taxes. The causes to which they're put are private and so is the process through which they're assessed.
So if any politician tells you this year that they are against raising all taxes put their feet to the fire and refer them to this. It's a plan, privately negotiated, that is now before the FCC, a plan which will raise the cost of every phone line to $10/month, and start imposing similar taxes on your cable of telephone broadband service as well.
All for the convenience of SBC.
Continue reading "The SBC Tax Hike"
Wired did a story recently about how TidBits, a Mac-oriented newsletter, had stumbled on a way to profit from the Web by creating fast-turnaround e-books.
The e-books, dubbed Take Control, are PDF files priced at $5-10 each and they come with free updates. Theyre laid out to print out on home printers, and have lots of links. Most important, theyre very timely. Engst says he has total sales of $20,000, and pays out a hefty percentage of that to his authors. His transactions are handled by eSellerate. Advertising is free the TidBits mailing list is about 50,000 names long.
This is all great stuff. There just one problem. Its not new at all. ClickZ did this, back in the 1990s, and I know others who did the same thing.
Despite everything -- despite the Playboy interview, despite the lowered valuation, despite the stupid allocations, despite the Yahoo deal -- despite everything, Google changed the world today.
By going public through a Dutch auction, and stiffing the investment banking community out of much of its usual fees, Google has changed the face of the stock marketplace forever.
Peter Thiel (right, from Clarium Capital), co-founder of Paypal and now a manager at Clarium, a hedge fund firm, tried to explain this to those slaves of Wall Street at CNBC this morning. They looked at him like he had lost his mind, but his point was dead-on.
The rules of the IPO game have changed.
Continue reading "What Hath Google Wrought?"
These ladies aren't discussing the battle between Real Networks and Apple. But there's an important Clue to be derived here nonetheless.
The dispute between Real Networks and Apple Computer over getting Real songs onto the iPod is a business dispute, even a legal dispute. It's not supposed to be about politics or religion. (The illustration, from the Portland Tribune, is from a political rally.)
Customer loyalty, usually a wonderful thing, can be turned into passion that looks very political indeed. And when Real tried to make this political, through a petition, the backlash began.
Continue reading "A Political Struggle"
Spam's dirtiest secret is that so-called "legitimate" businesses are footing the bills. (That's CipherTrust's Paul Judge, one of the "good guys" in the anti-spam fight, at right. Read more on him here. And if you see him, buy him a beer, or whatever he wants.)
They seldom do this directly. Mostly it's through "affiliate marketing" agreements, often created by re-sellers. The legitimate companies put stuff into their channel. The re-sellers are part of the channel. If the affiliate gets busted for spam it's "Mission Impossible" -- the secretary disavows any knowledge of their actions.
This is why, not that spam has swallowed the legitimate business of e-mail marketing, it's becoming seasonal. You get sex spam in the summer, financial scams in the fall.
This could, if someone were clever, create a way in which to reduce the spam problem.
Continue reading "Spam's Dirtiest Secret"
The power of Windows lies in your ability to create and market profitable applications using it.
Yes, there's a limit. Once Microsoft decides it wants your market, your cost of defending the market will likely exceed any incremental sales from that effort.
But Linux lacks Windows' ability to make software profitable. And that is why Windows, not Linux, will lead the next evolution in cellular equipment.
Continue reading "The Power of Windows"
SSEYO has announced miniMIXA, an audio mixer for Windows smartphones.
As part of the roll-out a Reading, England arts festival will use it this weekend to mix what is being played on-the-fly..
This could do to the cell phone market what programs like Musicmatch did to PCs.
The impact could be massive. Ringtones could be created at concerts, and sold right after the show. On the other hand, concert-goers could potentially bootleg the same concert and offer better mixes, free, within hours after the show.
This leads to Dana's Law of Creativity Software.
The cheaper it is, the more people can use it, and the lower the premium paid for poor results.
If you want to see what this thing is capable of, check out these sample mixes for yourself. Or, if you don't have a Windows cell phone, get a taste for the technology by downloading Sseyo's PC plug-in.
I'm on my own blacklist.
My e-mail address has been falsified or "spoofed" on so many spams and viruses over the years that when I get e-mail from myself I automatically set it to be deleted.
This is not uncommon. Anyone who has had their address for some time, especially if they're written articles against spam, faces the same problem.
But now there's hope.
Continue reading "Sue A Spoofer"
Denny Strigl is president of Verizon Wireless. There are millions of dollars, maybe billions, he doesn't even know he has. They're locked away in a nascent cellular data market.
All this makes Greg Wilfahrt (right, from his Web site) into Geraldo Rivera. Wilfahrt, co-founder of SMS.AC, has gotten the key to this vault, in the form of a "premium billing agreement." He's gotten similar keys from most of the world's carriers, so he's opened the vault. He's even gotten a taste of the fortune inside.
But only a taste. The fortune, you see, has yet to be made.
Every day, it seems, I see more and more people trying to use the blogging metaphor to make money. (The image, naturally, comes from business-blog.com.)
The question remains whether blogging will become subsumed into other media (lots of high-tech publishers, like Business 2.0, now have things they call blogs), whether new journalism businesses can be built on blogging, and whether blogging will be an individual or community endeavor.
Following are some Clues to this future:
Continue reading "More Thoughts On The Blogging Business"
The New York Times recently featured a (rather tortured) story on the attempt by Warner Music to influence blogging.
The headline summed up the paper's attitude -- Warner's Tryst With Bloggers Hits Sour Note.
But the story revealed more about the Times' relationship to blogging, and the nature of blogging as journalism, than it did about the Warner case study. (I love O'Reilly covers, and I'm sure their book on blogging is quite good.)
Continue reading "PR Blogging"
There is minimal pressure to raise taxes from cellular in the U.S. The land-line industry still generates enormous tax revenue. And the same tricks that serve to "hide" those taxes from consumers (and allow government to keep raising them) can be used on cellular bills.
In advanced cellular markets (with minimal land-line infrastructure) it's not so easy. So I thought it would be fun this morning to highlight the battle over taxes taking place in one such market, the Philippines.
(The Philippine map here is from the CNN International site.)
Continue reading "Coming Attractions: Philippine Cell Tax Battle"
Is this an instance where Verizon is on the side of the angels? (You can buy this little angel for your favorite Verizon executive (or anyone else) here, at Folkmanis Puppets.)
I've hammered Verizon Wireless often on this blog. They're control freaks. That's preventing the development of a unified cellular data market, and we're less than a year away from phones and networks that can indeed be part of the computing mainstream.
But in the case of cellular 411, consumer advocates say, Verizon's proprietary, protective attitude may be a good thing.
In an advanced cellular market (not the U.S., I said an advanced market) how often do consumers change out their phones?
Every 16 months, according to a Korean survey. (The flag is from Wong Fleming, a U.S. law firm which does business in South Korea.)
There are some other nuggets here as well:
You can still buy a .com name, at the regular price, that gets your point across, that's memorable, and that gives you a platform for what you want to do.
OK, the name may be a bit long....
The media, the digirati, even some government figures are laughing today at the East Buchanan Telephone Co-op of Winthrop, Iowa.
They laugh because the co-op has threatened to cut-off cellular calls from Qwest on Monday, claiming it's not being paid for their termination.
The town bought a device that can distinguish between cellular calls and landline calls coming in over Qwest's long distance service. Qwest has won an injunction halting the shut-off for two weeks.
Most reaction has been that the town is crazy, that it doesn't stand a chance.
But they don't know the rest of the story.
Continue reading "Qwest and Winthrop: Casualties Of Moore's Law"
You read that right, kids.
Think of it as Moore's Law in action.
This isn't some funky, proprietary, phony Wi-Fi, either. The 802.11n standard is being proposed by chip-makers Texas Instruments, STMElectrtonics and Broadcom, along with Airgo Networks, Bermai, and Conexant Systems Inc.
The group calls itself WWISE, and plans to submit this as a proposed standard to the IEEE. (WWISE is where the image came from. It's cute.)
The standard can go to 540 Mbps, but the group says it's really only going to claim 100 Mbps because, as they say, your mileage may vary.
A new study from CipherTrust gives new support to the theory that spam could be greatly reduced by finding, and jailing, a few hundred Americans. (Picture from USA Today.)
Gregg Keizer writes for Information Week that, rather than put up a "honeypot" aimed at attracting spam, CipherTrust measured the actual spam it intercepted for its clients.
Dmitri Alperovitch, a research engineer at CipherTrust, explained that "some spammers are actually targeting specific companies with messages that the honey pots wouldn't see."
Continue reading "New Support for Spam Kingpin Theory"
I have been rather unkind to Robert Cringely over the years. It was nothing personal. I just had some disagreements.
But the dude can write. He has sources. And today he has come up with a masterpiece. (Picture from the Bitwaste blog.)
The story is on the U.S. sentencing guidelines, and a study showing they wouldn't work which was performed, then buried in 1982. Had the results of this scientific study been accepted, rather than rejected for political reasons, he writes, hundreds of thousands of people might be out of prison, contributing to society, and crime might indeed be lower.
But read the piece yourself and make your own decision. As writing, I want to point to this snap ending:
Continue reading "Cringely's Masterpiece"
Space Transport Corp. made its play for the Ansari XPrize yesterday, launching its Rubicon I at the edge of the Olympia peninsula in Washington state.
The launch was...a complete disaster. (Picture from eBay.)
But, no matter. John Anderson, whose property the boys were using as their Cape Canaveral, had a cunning plan. He reportedly suggested, "Hey, why not put it on eBay?"
Continue reading "Heroes Of Capitalism"
If H-P Chairman Carl Fiorina had to report a bad quarter, which he could blame on one group, and if he then sacked the heads of that group, we'd call Carl one tough hombre.
But the H-P Chair's name is Carly, not Carl. (Actually, it's Carleton.) So guess what you were thinking when you read the news? (Picture from PBS.)
Yes, indeed, sexism is alive and well, even after you break through the glass ceiling.
Continue reading "Basic (Executive) Instinct"
The Google IPO is officially a fiasco.
People were "accidentally" given options that weren't accounted for. The company suddenly gave a big hunk of itself to its chief rival. People who've used the automated system for accessing the IPO find themselves shut out, and they're not told why.
And now, Google's founders have accidentally "broken" their quiet period, with a Playboy interview (given months ago) that was published just as the public stock is ready for release.
The paranoid might ask questions.
Continue reading "The Latest Playboy Interview"
Jeffrey Lee Parson pled guilty yesterday to creating a variant of the Blaster worm and now faces up to three years in prison. (Picture from the Sydney Morning Herald.)
The reaction of many in the computing world is he got off lightly. Hang him high, they say. Make an example of him.
Continue reading "Hang 'im High?"
A trojan virus allegedly put inside a cellular game written for Symbian phones (which is most of them, including Nokia's) was, it turns out, actually a copy protection scheme.
Word of the cellular virus spread around the world, and millions of customers are now being told that their phones are no safer than their Windows PCs.
F-Secure, which first reported on this virus, continues to classify it as one.
And it is.
Microsoft's attempt to sell a "crippled" version of Windows XP in markets where Linux is a serious threat reminds me of a story. (The illustration is from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's analysis in eWeek.)
My first Comdex, in 1983, featured many attempts to deal with what was then a big problem. Ashton-Tate dominated the market with its dBase II database, but dBase II was tough to use. It was powerful, but few used all its power.
So there were many attempts that year to create a simpler, easy to use, but less powerful alternative. One I remember most fondly was called Knoware.
Its slogan was: I'm Going Knoware Fast.
Continue reading "Going Knoware Fast"
One of our big problems today is that we can't really "mold" our local networks. (Image from CNN.)
You set up an 802.11 (WiFi) system in your home and the signal goes anywhere it can. You push out enough amps to get it through internal walls and, when it hits an external wall, it flies -- far and wide.
Sure, you can encrypt your whole network. You can add security. But that doesn't solve the whole problem. It doesn't address the fact that your network now interferes with that of your neighbor. When he gets WiFi, his signals are coming your way.
Fortunately, solutions are coming.
Internet Week is featuring a couple of profiles on hotspot business models. (The illustration, from a Portuguese wireless company, shows coverage areas of several hotspots, and how they overlap.)
There are two ways to go. One way is to broaden network coverage in order to make it valuable, as David Haskins says SBC is doing. Another way is to let your pastries do the talking, as Panera Bread is doing.
Which way works best?
Continue reading "Hotspots Want To Be Free (With A Sticky Bun)"
Over at Freedom to Tinker, Edward Felton has taken a close look at the FCC's proposed rules on digital wiretapping. (This software isn't mentioned in the new rules, but if you want it, here it is, come and get it.)
Felton's verdict: it could be worse.
The question of whether to wiretap isn't on the table, he notes, because the requirement is explicit in law. What the FCC had to do, in thise case, was find rules that would enable the law, rules that might not be too burdensome to network operators.
How did they do? Not bad, he says:
With very little fanfare, technology stocks are crashing again.
Following a disappointing earnings outlook from Cisco (a fearful view shared by other tech heavyweights) the "tech-heavy" NASDAQ average has plunged to about 1760. (The chart is from TA Professional, a German magazine specializing in technical analysis of stock trends.)
How much lower might it go?
Continue reading "The Second Tech Crash?"
Each time a member of my family needs any type of medical care I'm frustrated. (The image is from the good people at Tympanitis.com, fighting the good fight against otitis media, and is used here completely out of context.)
Mainly I'm frustrated by paperwork and waste. I'm frustrated with filling out forms, and dealing with bureaucratic clerks.
I'm frustrated because it's all so expensive, and all so unnecessary. There are technologies available today that will cure this problem, solutions that can be implemented now.
If big insurers gave clients smart cards, and insisted that all members of their networks take smart card readers, it would be a big start. Entire medical histories, and biometric identification, could be mounted on the cards cheaply. Read the card and the doctor's network automatically knows what it needs to do, about the patient and the billing.
Why hasn't this happened yet? In a word, privacy.
Continue reading "Medicine's Luddite Lobby"
There's a lot of talk now about quickie "computer degree mills" like Northface, a for-profit school that aims to turn ordinary people into computer geeks within 28 months, at a cost of about $60,000.
I believe Northface could be a very good thing indeed, if it were offering master's degrees instead of a bachelor's. Once someone has learned all they can at a B.A. or B.S. level, a graduate program focused on a chosen profession can deliver someone with both skills and flexibility. You don't see doctors or lawyers going straight to their profession from high school. Why should first-rate computer experts be any different?
I have to question the motives of the big corporations backing this play -- Microsoft and IBM among them. They need leaders, not drones, and if you cut off general education at high school, then go directly into professional training, you're left with someone who lacks flexibility. They'll be good for maybe 10 years, then you dump them and get someone with a newer skill set.
My view, however, is based on personal experience, and the best computer programmer I know.
I happen to know her intimately.
Continue reading "Getting Into The Trade"
Business method patents should not exist.
It should not be possible to patent a way of doing business and force everyone else who wants to do business in that way to pay you for the privilege.
That is an obscenity.
But that obscenity is the law, and that obscenity has given Yahoo what may end up being a controlling interest in Google.
Continue reading "Gross Injustice"
Last week, as you may recall I spent some time dumping on the new Danger box. I have also been working with documentation from a wide variety of todays cell phones. (The illustration is from the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and first appeared in 2002.)
What I have learned is that todays phones have a wide list of options, in terms of what theyre going to be.
Continue reading "The Cellular Interface"
Lycos was just sold for 111.1 billion!
Happy days are here again!
(Oh, that's 111.1 billion Korean won. It's just $95.2 million in U.S. dollars.)
Never mind.
Just because a U.S. firm is pushed under by U.S. law, and the efforts of copyright police, does not mean that the technology they create disappears.
There are lots of Russians who can count to 321.
IP stands for Intellectual Property. Under the Constitution it is not like other property, like land or a tractor (or this kite, which you may buy here.) . It is not yours forever, and you don't have absolute control over it.
Because the Internet and other digital technologies make IP so easy to pass around, however, the industries that own IP are trying, in our time, to make IP just like land or tractors. (Dan Gillmor is among many all over this story.)
There are two tracks to this effort.
Continue reading "Tyranny of the Mouse"
The most politically subversive movie of the year is not Fahrenheit 911*.
It's I, Robot. (Image of the poster from AMEInfo in the UAE.)
My 13-year old son dragged me to see this Will Smith vehicle today. It tells the story of an evil, soulless corporation (check) whose creatures seek to destroy freedom in the name of security (double check).
But wait, it gets better. (Of course, if you click you'll learn the whole plot, so consider this your spoiler alert.)
Continue reading "I, Robot (I, Subversive)"
The New York Times has reviewed the new Danger cell phone, under the name of T-Mobile, the cellular operator that will offer it this fall. (The illustration comes from the Times' story.)
The new device carries the name Sidekick II, and the Times likes it.
I don't. Here's why.
Continue reading "Danger Review"
Michael Eisner would you please go now?
Disney has announced it is entering the PC market. (The illustration is from the Times' story.)
There are so many things wrong with this, on so many levels. I hardly know where to begin.
Continue reading "Disney's PC"
The Canadian DaVinci Project has a launch date -- October 2. (Picture from the BBC.)
On that date, a balloon will lift off from Kindersley, Saskatchewan bearing, among other things, the logo of the GoldenPalace.Com Internet casino and a rocket called Wild Fire.
If all goes well, the rocket will be released at 80,000 feet, fire, go up an additional 230,000 feet (roughly), then re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and land, ready to do it again within two weeks.
Meanwhile, of course, the American favorite, SpaceShipOne, will have already launched on September 29 carrying the weight of three men. It will have landed, and it will be be sitting on the ground in California, waiting for the October 4 repeat launch that will secure it the X-Prize.
You can't make this kind of stuff up.
Continue reading "Meanwhile, in Saskatchewan"
What began as an attempt to de-fang the wolves of Wall Street has descended into a Silicon Valley farce.
The problem with Google's IPO delay does not lie in the technical glitches of the system. And it doesn't lie in the really silly price being quoted -- $110 per share.
It lies in the great scandal of the 1990s -- stock options.
Continue reading "Google Gets Scammy"
This is not news.
On the other hand it is big news. (One more reason to love O'Reilly is at left. They do better parodies of themselves than any rival can.)
At the DefCon show in Las Vegas, a few weeks ago, a speaker from Avaya noted that DNS, the Internet's "white pages," makes it inherently easy to attack. At another conference in the same town a speaker noted that the best tool for hackers is...Google.
Shock. Consternation. Anger.
What should we do about this?
Continue reading "The Internet Is Inherently Insecure"
The secret to turning a blog into a financial success lies in the word community.
Community is what lets a blog scale from one person spouting off into a true online service, with enough traffic to pay the bills with advertising.
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (left, from his site) revealed this today on his site, Daily Kos, but I am NOT making a political point here. The most successful conservative sites, from FreeRepublic to Lucianne.Com to Andrew Sullivan, all do the exact same things.
What do they do?
Continue reading "Secrets of Blog Success"
Once again we have to relearn one of those great Internet truths.
On a global network national law is a local ordinance.
With the ominous words, "the hammer drops on VOIP," and other allusions to FCC chairman Michael Powell, Brock Meeks reported today on a 5-0 FCC vote that the CALEA law applies to the technology. All providers of Voice Over IP (VOIP) services must provide "back doors" through which government can tap into the conversations.
So once again we're back to Phil Zimmerman (right, from his own Web site). Back in the 1990s Zimmerman created Pretty Good Privacy, an encryption scheme for which police would have no key. After winning his own liberty (the government arrested him for "distributing" the code by posting it on the Internet) Zimmerman took his technology to Ireland, where it became part of Hushmail. When the heat died down he came back.
The encryption war was won by the market, not the government.
So it will be again.
Continue reading "Encryption Wars, Back Again"
Alvarion (the logo is from their Web site) has always intrigued me, because the company's strategy is to maintain good, sound business relationships with Wireless ISPs, even if that means charging relatively high prices for product.
What professional WISPs want, more than anything, is service. Alvarion delivers service. Alvarion charges for service.
In contrast, Proxim has worked to build a complete product line, spanning the LAN and WAN sides of the 802.11 area, and vertically integrating from the chip to the board to the device. Compared to Alvarion gear, Proxim gear is usually a bargain.
Guess which company has won the war?
Continue reading "Alvarion Dominating 802.11"
This is an important Always-On story.
Intel has announced its first "agile radio" chip.
This means you can have a device that supports multiple networks, and the chip will tune itself to whatever is available.
This is one step toward Always-On, but others are needed. We need agile radio chips that not only tune to the right frequency, but deliver just the right power to reach another chip in the network, and no more. We need agile radios whose antennas can point to other agile radios and not spread radio waves in every direction. When we have that we can "mold" local wireless networks to just the coverage area they need to have, no more.
But that is coming.
It's the devices, and the fact that cellular networks have absolute control over which devices work on their networks.
So it doesn't matter if someone announces a box that works on both 802.11 and cellular. (Oh, and this is beyond the question of whether said box is any good.) Unless a carrier allows the device to go onto their network, it doesn't exist.
It also doesn't matter if Avaya and Motorola have technology to allow 802.11 roaming. If it is not supported, then it does not exist.
You almost never hear from IBM anymore, except once a quarter when they announce record earnings.
It's time they got some proper respect. It's time they got their props. (Image from the BBC.)
This year IBM will bring in $4.66 in profit for each share of common stock, currently worth about $85. It has sales of almost $93 BILLION per year now, and brings $8 billion of that to the bottom line. (By contrast Microsoft, which claims it has run out of ideas, has one-third the sales, albeit nearly the same level of profit.)
Ah, yes, you say, but what has IBM done for me lately?
Continue reading "When Will IBM Get Its Props?"
Remember The Population Bomb? This was Paul Ehrlich's Mathusian nightmare scenario from 1968, the idea being that population was growing so fast the Earth would be unable to sustain it.
Well, a funny thing has happened on the way to Armageddon. While the world now has nearly twice the population it did when Ehrlich wrote his book, the rate of growth worldwide is slowing. Some places are even de-populating.
That's the conclusion of Nicholas Eberstadt, of the American Enterprise Institute (from which the picture was taken). And it's not just happening in Japan and Europe, either.
Continue reading "Population Bomb Defused?"
A very important political story snuck by us last week. I blame John Kerry for it.
The story is the new push by Intel for 802.16 WiMax spectrum.
While there are lots of high frequency bands in which WiMax could live, the inescapable fact is that the lower your frequency the farther your waves can travel. That's why AM stations can be heard across the country (when conditions are right) while FM stations have trouble being heard across town.
Intel executive vice president Sean Maloney (above, from the Intel site) is lobbying China, the UK and the U.S. to open up space in the 700 MHz band, frequencies UHF TV stations will be abandoning as they move to digital broadcasting, for unlicensed use as WiMax transmission bands.
Continue reading "Spectrum: The New Frontier"
The biggest problem we have with Moore's Law is that we think of it linearly. (That's the man himself, from the BBC.)
Chips get faster and faster, faster and faster. That's the short form for Moore's Law, as Moore himself wrote it back in the 1960s.
But there are other ways for chips to get better other than by just getting faster. RISC made chips better. Low power technology makes chips better. FPGA makes chips better. Technologies like IBM's new "chip morphing" make chips better.
So I'm going to do something really big here. I'm going to re-state Moore's Law, for the 21st Century, as companies like Intel and IBM now understand it.
Chips get better and better, faster and faster.
I hope Mr. Moore' will approve.
Continue reading "Chip Morphing"
I've been looking at Microsoft from the inside and outside, and I have finally figured out the company's big problem. (Photo from the BBC.)
It's a lack of entrepreneurs.
Microsoft hires smart people, who have good ideas. But Microsoft has just one entrepreneur. His name is Bill Gates. Everyone else is a manager.
This is why Microsoft is looking more and more like IBM. This is precisely what happened to IBM itself, as Tom Watson Jr. exhausted his Last Big Idea (the IBM 360), suffered some heart problems (he recovered), and left the company in 1971, aged 55.
IBM, in the 1970s, became bureaucratic, it became backward-looking, it devoted itself wholly to the interests of its big customers. It became vulnerable to the first kid to come along with a Clue.
How can Microsoft solve its mid-life crisis?
Continue reading "The Real Problem With Microsoft"
Dan Bricklin, as usual, has it exactly right.
Last week was a test. It was not a final exam.
Charles Cooper was among those quick to call the Boston blogging experiment a failure, based mainly on the fact that some bloggers failed to perform as journalists, while some journalists given blogging tools did rather well.
That's not the point. I'm going to have to repeat a great truth here, and I expect Cooper to finally "get it."
Continue reading "The Blogging Of The President 2004"
I don't know what else to call this, a story that claims Linux "violates" 283 patents, none of which has yet held up in court. (Buy this image and more, at Cartoonfreak.nl.)
Fact is there are many types of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). There is Microsoft FUD, there is Political FUD, there is Security FUD. Then there is the kind of FUD that is so transparent, so ridiculous, and (at bottom) so howlingly funny you can only call it (with apologies to the good people at Warner Brothers and in tribute to the late, great Chuck Jones) Elmer FUD.
That's what we got here.
There is great angst, trepidation, even an anticipation of tsuris (not to mention a lot of Vertruckete), surrounding the Republican National Convention in New York later this month.
The GOP fears terrorism. Mayor Bloomberg fears demonstrations. Democrats fear that something will get out of hand and give their opponents a big boost. (Think Chicago in 1968.)
Well, former Grateful Dead lyricist (and, he adds, former Republican) John Perry Barlow has what the British might call "a cunning plan."
Continue reading "John Perry Barlow's Cunning Plan"
For all the hoo-ha over blogging it's important to put the "industry" into its proper perspective.
A recent item at Daily Kos, one of the more popular political Web sites, did this very neatly.
The purpose of the chart was to show Kos edging past a rival site, Instapundit. But for our purposes it's more illustrative to look at the left side of the scale, unique visitors per month.
Continue reading "Blogging In Perspective"
There are many bloggers, of many types.
Lately many "professionals," that is people with jobs, have started blogging. Like the estimable Jeff Cornwall, who holds the Jack Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship at Belmont College in Nashville.
Recently, Professor Cornwall did a piece advising entrepreneurs on what to do about all these terror alerts, which was sent to me by a reader.
His advice: panic.
Continue reading "The Unpatriotic Entrepreneur"
A lot of people were shocked over the weekend to learn that the University of Wisconsin has as many CEOs among its alumni as Harvard, and more than anyone else. (And, yes, they're including the campus at Green Bay. Image from Chunder.Com.)
Here's how they do it:
I've written before that, when all is said and done, the most valuable asset phone companies have today are their rights of way, and the poles that now hold their wires.
But it turns out even this can be replaced.
New York City has signed deals with a number of wireless carriers to use traffic lights as wireless antenna points. (This cool photo of a New York traffic light is from Laki Sideris.)
This won't work in cities like Atlanta, where not every corner has a light. But there's nothing to stop cities from erecting "unused" poles and renting them out, or leasing that space to private companies who can erect the poles.
So long as the phone and cable operators don't buy those companies, even this last mile of their monopoly can be replaced.
Over at The Feature Mike Masnick has a little piece asking whether mobile phones are a black hole for the chip industry. (This drawing passes for Mike's picture over at The Feature.)
On the surface the charge is silly. Chip makers make chips, phones use chips. Phones are quickly replaced, which means the industry sells more chips. If by "black hole" you mean something that sucks up all the industry's capacity, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
But there is danger here, and it's based on the nature of the phones now being produced.
Continue reading "The Chip Danger In Cell Phones"


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Stand UP is my opportunity to unite with other Jewish teens from around the world and make a greater impact on the issues we care about. With Stand UP, I am able to mobilize my community, chapter, region, and every BBYO teen to make a difference. The Stand UP initiative challenges the next generation of Jewish leaders and change agents to put our words into action and fulfill the mitzvah of tikkun olam, repairing the world.
— Paul Felder, Tampa, Florida, North Florida Region
When I first joined BBYO, I honestly really wasn't sure of the point. Yes, I got to spend time with friends, and yes, it was always a lot of fun, but I didn't get the purpose of what we were doing. Everything changed when I was introduced to the Stand UP initiative. I realized that there were teens from across our Order who were not only willing to do volunteer work, but also genuinely excited and truly passionate about giving back to the community. My brother Alephs and sister BBGs are some of the most caring, compassionate people I have ever met, and Stand UP is a way for them to act locally and impact globally through this organization that we all love.
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High speeds, a loud noise and then a van plunges into the Ala Wai Canal.
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The early morning drama left a man in serious condition and under arrest.
Police lights and street lights were the only way to see what was happening in the murky Ala Wai canal in the early morning hours.
Witnesses heard the first sign of trouble at about 4 a.m.
"We didn't hear any screeching or anything. We heard a big bank I think when he was coming over the curb and then we heard a splash," said Ryan Barrett, a Waikiki resident. "From our point of view it didn't sound like he slammed on the breaks."
People nearby saw the 29-year-old driver swim out of the Dodge Caravan on his own before it sank to the bottom of the canal.
Rescue divers dove into the water to make sure no one else was left inside.
Witnesses say the van was speeding at around 80 miles per hour down the Ala Wai when it hit this tree --and lost a tire before it launched into the canal.
The tow company tried several times to fish the van out.
Oil leaked out of the vehicle, so Department of Health workers enlisted a boom and sorbent material.
"With a vehicle, we don't know how much oil is in there," said Liz Galvez of the state DOH. "We are out here doing protective measures and trying to contain any oil that may come out of the vehicle."
Residents say they heard the driver claim he got in a fight with his girlfriend, leaving her at a bar before taking off.
The driver is under arrest on suspicion of auto theft, driving under the influence and without a license and is currently on probation for robbery, drug violations and resisting arrest.
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Coca-Cola Amatil buys San Miguel bottling plant in Indonesia
Indonesia - Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has acquired the PT San Miguel Indonesia Food and Beverages non-alcoholic beverage bottling assets in Jakarta, Indonesia, following the Philippines brewer's decision earlier this year to exit the production of non-alcoholic beverages in the city
Commissioned in 2006, the assets include a 20,000 square meters purpose-built beverage production facility which includes a high speed PET bottling line and a 5,000 square meters warehouse. In addition, the 100,000 square meters land parcel acquired provides a valuable land bank for future expansion.
CCA says it expects to spend approximately US$ 46.7 million (A$ 45 million) on the acquisition of the existing San Miguel facilities and on expenditure to further develop site capacity over the next 12 months. The company plans to install an additional carbonated soft drink PET line at the facility, increasing its Indonesian PET production capacity by 20% over the next 12 months.
CCA's Group Managing Director, Terry Davis said, "The acquisition of this large and modern facility is a very important acquisition for CCA as it fast tracks our expansion plans for the Jakarta region, providing a well located complement to our Cibitung manufacturing operations."
Editor´s note: The facility has the potential to add a further three beverage production lines which could increase Indonesian PET capacity by a further 35-40%. This is a way of providing the business with an immediate low cost expansion option in the key densely populated West Java region of Indonesia, from which approximately 40% of CCA's Indonesian revenue is derived.
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1) What tools, meters, specialty tools, etc. do you carry with you in your vehicles & why these in particular?
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Posted 28 April 2013 - 11:09 AM
1) What tools, meters, specialty tools, etc. do you carry with you in your vehicles & why these in particular?
2) Have you had need of a spare more than once in a short time?
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Posted 28 April 2013 - 03:37 PM
I keep many spare meters, spare crimpers, sh*t load of spare flashlights.. And spare non contacted voltage checker is always great to have as well... and I am about to get another steamer to have as a spare. I burn through those things fast and hate for it to happen in the midst of a job. But with the extra steamer I'm also working on and developing a style that may rival the legendary Buddha's Palm and the deadly Drunken Monkey fighting styles.....I call it the "two-handed steamer defrost technique." Scroll and video to be available as soon as I've mastered it.
Although it may seem a simple suggestion, we tend to forget but always keep loads of spare batteries...aa aaa 9 volts and any watch style battery your tools may need.
Posted 28 April 2013 - 05:02 PM
I have 1 analog & 3 digital meters, 2 small shop vacs, 1 wet & 1 dry, lots of flashlights, 2 that are tripodal & run on 3 to 9 AA batteries. Plenty of assorted 1.5v batteries, 9 volt battery, did not think about watch batteries. Have extra fuses for analog meter, Always busting fuse, forget to switch from ohms to Vac. Maybe ought to get another steamer, only because hate to be in middle of meltdown & it quit working. I use only distilled water so I have a extra gallon of it.
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Posted 28 April 2013 - 05:48 PM
Thanks for reminding me.. I forgot I should use distilled water in my steamer. But if you take them apart, at least the Euroshark, you will find a little control board inside the water compartment and it is wrapped in a plastic bag. I guess that's some cheesy form of waterproofing. Therefore it is important to remove water after finish using it as well as not fill it past the line. The last one I bought was from Macy's, it went bad in less than 2 months. They have a no questions asked return policy so i returned it and the new one is on order. I couldn't wait for the new one so I got a refurbished one from amazon for $35 which came in two days. Works great....hence I will have two by this week. Being ambidextrous, I plan on using both at the same time for extreme frost ups and for speed.
btw The salesman at Macy's told me I should replace the steamer on day 364 and get a free new one under their 1 year warranty policy. I told him I am using it commercially and would probably not be covered. He said it doesn't matter. I will take him up on it but something tells me my conscience will get the best of me.
Which shop vacs do you use? I need to get a smaller portable one.
Posted 28 April 2013 - 06:00 PM
This is the steamer I use, same as samurai. http://www.amazon.co...nd held steamer
Shopvacs are smallest ones they make. I got them at Lowes, 2 gallon size, about $30, I have seen them at Walmart & Home Depot also.
I am looking to get a fluke meter, to add to my aresonal. Which would you recommend, 116 or 87?
Edited by Patricio, 28 April 2013 - 06:07 PM.
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Posted 28 April 2013 - 06:48 PM
I use the 116 fluke and the fieldpiece sc77 clamp meter. The fluke 87 is a great meter but I aint there yet with regards to my electronics knowledge to take advantage of what it has to offer. I find myself using the 116 and a killowatt meter the majority of the time. If budget allows, I would imagine the 87 is the way to go.
I will be posting a video shortly as to why I like the euroshark steamer
Posted 07 May 2013 - 09:30 AM
Being a former Boy Scout I take the motto seriously. Backup meters, analog and digital. Spare flashlights and batteries. Cordless drills and batteries. Large toolbox with mini and large hacksaws and blades and duplicate handtools. Milkcrate full of adhesives, lubricants, caulk, tapes of all kinds, putty and weatherstrip. Cans and boxes of "floor sweepings", screws/clips/brackets/springs/fittings/connectors etc. Another milkcrate with all things automotive, oil, transmission/brake/power steering fluid, and several cans of FixaFlat. Even carry roll of toilet paper for "emergencies". Also pack a cooler full of small packs of crackers and cookies as well as a jug of water in case I drive into a ditch and trapped for several days.
"It's not paranoia if they're really after you".
Posted 07 May 2013 - 05:51 PM
lol roll of toilet paper.....Empty 64oz gatorade bottle comes in really handy as well.
Posted 08 May 2013 - 02:28 AM
Even carry roll of toilet paper for "emergencies".
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Posted 08 May 2013 - 07:35 AM
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First and foremost, my mom. She totally rocks. She took me to the hospital, stayed with me until I kicked her out Monday night and then took care of me at her house for the rest of the week. She rocks!! I didn't lift a finger. All of my meals were prepared, clothes washed, and prescriptions filled. She checked on me throughout the night to make sure I was pain free and medicated, not too warm or not too cold and she always heated the bathroom before I went in to shower. She even put lotion on my legs and feet. Yep - she rocks!
My neighbor and friend, Sally doesn't read my blog but I think she still deserves a shout-out for taking Emma to and from school everyday. Thank so much, Sally!! What would I do without you?
Helen and Lisa both helped tremendously with the girls and the week went on without a hitch!
Jim told me several times while I was recovering how easy it was to take care of 3 kids. Boy, that really got on my nerves!!
The surgery went well, nothing unexpected, easy peasy! I was feeling good after surgery and the nurse came in and gave me some more meds in my IV and so I really felt great all night. I slept most of the night without interruption and later found out my doctor had given orders to drug me, drug me good and let me get some much needed rest. I love him! Tuesday I was still feeling pretty good until the pain meds went away but nothing I couldn't handle. Wednesday night I had the worst headache of my life and thought I was going to die!! The doctor thought it was from my ovaries being in shock from the surgery so my hormone levels were all wacky but I found out later that 2 of my aunts get terrible migraines from Hydrocodone and that was what I was taking at the time. It was a very bad night but once we got rid of the headache, I stopped taking the Hydrocodone and all had been good. I'm still taking some Tylenol or Aleve for pain and Tylenol PM at night but will probably be able to stop all meds by tomorrow.
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The Florida Media Market (FMM) was created to fortify the Media industry in South Florida by serving as a bridge between the media culture of South Florida and those of Hollywood, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In more specific terms, FMM was created to be an outlet for South Florida independent Filmmakers to meet with executives, producers, production companies, distributors, TV Networks & Stations that are actively seeking content, either by producing, co-producing or purchasing. FMM is also designed to serve as a meeting place where new filmmakers can gain valuable insight from industry veterans and established companies. To that end FMM has created both an annual market, and an online platform, for buyers and sellers of film, documentary, television, and new media content to gather in order to teach, learn, inspire and do business together.
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IUCN's support to the IPBES process
IUCN recognizes the need to strengthen the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and therefore strongly supports ongoing discussions related to IPBES.
2009 - 2010
In 2009 - 2010, IUCN mainly worked to ensure that multi-stakeholder perspectives are voiced in the inter-governmental discussions about the establishment of IPBES. IUCN, supported by the French Government, the Swiss Government and UNEP, collaborated with its partners to ensure that IPBES considered the perspectives of the scientific community and civil society. Additionally, IUCN continued to raise awareness within these communities on IPBES potential functions, form, and opportunities to engage in the future.
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- Encouraging and supporting participation of IUCN Members at regional consultations on IPBES;
- Raising awareness at the CBD SBSTTA , WGRI meetings and COP10 conference;
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- Assessing the value-add of IUCN and civil society participation in the governance of IPBES;
- Ensuring civil society perspectives were considered at the 3rd IPBES meeting.
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In 2011 - 2012, launching period of IPBES, IUCN can play a critically important role to ensure that IPBES will take in the perspectives of civil society. Furthermore, IUCN will act to raise awareness within civil society of the need of IPBES and of the benefits of cooperation with IPBES – so that all stakeholders can take full advantage of its work.
- Engage the multi-stakeholder community in the development and implementation of IPBES;
- Support the ongoing negotiations during the IPBES development;
- Encourage IUCN, Members, Commissions and partners participation in the implementation and future work of IPBES.
IUCN contribution to the 2nd Plenary Session to Build IPBES
16-21 April 2012, Panama City, Panama
Click here to read the IUCN Position Paper and a number of other documents prepared for this meeting.
Side event, proposed jointly by IUCN, GBIF and UNEP WCMC to illustrate how existing initiatives can help support IPBES - 18 April 2012.
Second IPBES Stakeholders' Day, hosted by UNEP prior to the plenary meeting and co-facilitated by IUCN and ICSU - 15 April 2012.
IUCN support and contribution to the intersessional work ahead of the Second Plenary Session to Build IPBES
October 2011 - April 2012
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IUCN contribution to the 1st Plenary Session to Build IPBES
3 -7 October 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
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IUCN support to the discussions on IPBES at the CBD COP 10
18-29 October 2010, Nagoya, Japan
- The IUCN's Information paper on the agreed Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides background information on the IPBES process so far and highlights some key issues regarding the impacts of the establishment of IPBES for civil society.
- 21 October 2010: Side event on IPBES, hosted by the Ministry of Environment of Japan, DIVERSITAS, IHDP, ICSU and IUCN. This event provided an update on the IPBES decisions, the next steps in the IPBES process, and considered some of the possible implications of IPBES for the scientific and policy communities addressing biodiversity and ecosystem services – in the context of the CBD and beyond.
IUCN at the 3rd Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on IPBES
7-11 June 2010, Busan, Republic of Korea
IUCN statement during the Opening of the 3rd IPBES Meeting can be accessed here.
To support the 3rd Meeting on IPBES:
- IUCN developed and disseminated its Position Paper, which lays out IUCN's vision for the function and form of IPBES that would deliver the most effective and improved science-policy interface:
IUCN's Vision for IPBES
Vision de l'UICN pour l'IPBES
La visión de la UICN para PIDBSE
- The working document prepared for the meeting proposed possible options on the forms and functions of IPBES. IUCN document on preferred options lays out the options for an efficient and cost-effective multistakeholder platform.
- Other IUCN documents prepared for the meeting include:
IUCN potential contributions to IPBES
Assessement of multi-stakeholder involvement in IPBES governance
WBCSD-IUCN statement on business involvement in IPBES
- IUCN supported the engagement of civil society in the meeting.
IUCN support to the preparation of the 3rd Intergovernmental and Multistakeholder Meeting on IPBES
To support the preparation of the 3rd Meeting on IPBES, IUCN:
- Engaged civil society in Regional Consultations, in particular through the co-organization of the North America consultation.
- Raised awareness on IPBES at the CBD SBSTTA meeting, 10-21 May 2010, Nairobi Kenya: A side event on IPBES was co-organized by Diversitas, ICSU, IHDP and IUCN on 14 May 2010. Find the full programme here.
- Assessed the value of civil society in IPBES governance. Click here to access the report.
IUCN support to the 2nd Intergovernmental and Multi-stakeholder Meeting on IPBES
5-9 October 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
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Born 1807 of Peterborough, Hillsboro, New Hampshire Gender Female Died 29 Apr 1887 Notes
- spouse named in History of Peterboro, by Smith, p. 215. Father listed as Bartholomew Persons.
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Family George Nay, b. 22 Apr 1802, Peterborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire Married 10 Mar 1820 Notes
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