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Yet both the iPad nor the iPhone were manufactured in China. Hence, I'm curious why Steve Jobs reversed an opinion he previously worked so hard to support, as evidenced by the article.

"In Mr. Jobs's view, the factory testifies to the fact that the United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer when it sets its mind to the task."

I suppose he has changed his position?

By machines, he mostly means simulated brains. I've always thought that a robotic singularity would result in an concentration of income in the hands of the capitalist/owner/shareholder since demand for human labor would diminish.

But I think he is saying that it's likely these robotic-simulated-brain-people would multiply rapidly and would displace us fleshy-brain-people, much like humans displaced their humanoid for-bearers.

More details: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/industry/library/ind-watso...

This seems like a cool service, but only until FaceBook Music comes out (which seems inevitable).

Is there an OSS package for automating checks for such practices? Ie, security lint checker?

It seems like someone clever could easily turn this policy against itself by reporting popular facebook pages for DMCA violations. Not that I would encourage or condone such activities.

I don't think it's nonsense. I'm quite surprised that (say) my calculator app could control my password manager. My password manager encrypts file storage, and automatically locks itself after usage, but is likely vulnerable to this attack.

Even if you trust the programs you run, they can have their own unintended vulnerabilities.

Yes, better support for running in multiple regions is clearly needed. There needs to be native support for transferring snapshots between regions (at the user's expense, of course).

Interesting quote from a company providing such services:

"The Remote Health Monitoring System is the IT backbone that supports HealthFrontier’s entire portfolio of solutions, including the ecg@home™ and the microtel™/ecgAnywhere™. It captures data transmitted by the patient through USB, Bluetooth, or trans-telephonically. The RHMS™ then stores the information in a database, which can be accessed by the patient’s doctor through a web-based interface. Benefits include:

Cloud computing: The RHMS is hosted on a network of servers across the US, which increases reliability and eliminates the need for a large capital investment in on-site hardware and maintenance."

http://www.healthfrontier.com/rhms.php

How many other companies provide home ECG monitoring which report over the web? I'm looking but having a hard time finding more. I will update this post as I do.

[UPDATE] Other Home-based ECG monitoring services:

Medtronic CareLink: http://www.medtronic.com/your-health/heart-failure/device/ca...

[UPDATE] A more complete listing: http://www.medcompare.com/matrix/1475/Outpatient-Cardiac-Mon...

Well, I think it is clear that increased productivity due to improvements in information technology has resulted in slower job growth during this recovery compared with past ones. Corporations have been able to achieve top line growth with minimal hiring.

But there are other factors at play. Too much of the US labor force was dedicated to housing, and those people are going to take a long time to either retrain or find new work with their existing skills. They are not being replaced by software (yet).

However, I essentially agree with the article. Software and robots will make it easier for corporations to grow profits with out hiring people, and that this increases the threat of income inequality.

Is Cyc/OpenCyc dead?

http://blog.cyc.com/ - last post Nov 2009

http://www.cycfoundation.org/ - last post Nov 2008

http://cyc.com/cyc/company/press - last post Sept 2009

If Cycorp is dead, what is Doug Lenat up to now?

Why is the federal government's involvement necessary? We have a (mostly) workable PKI system for SSL certificates. Why does a consumer-focused PKI require government coordination?

I think the lack of a widely deployed PKI for authenticating consumer's identities is an indicator that a novel approach is required, but what can the federal government do that an independent (perhaps multi-national) organization could not?

Having built a non-trivial production system, I have a love-hate relationship with AWS. I love the possibilities and potential, but I'm deeply disappointed when it fails to live up to the hype.

It's just a matter of alternatives. There's frankly no other IaaS out there that can match the features of EC2 (eg, EBS, elastic IP). These guys are unstoppable, they come out with more features every week.

Source?

Now, start a business that lets you rent these per minute. You get to set the way points and receive all the photos/video via your browser or smartphone.

It may not be this exact device, but I predict such a service within 3 years.

I can handle suffering, but completely freezing?

I've also seen highly variable io performance (ie, slow/stuck) on EBS volumes. Sometimes, all reads/writes block for several second or minutes, with iowait going to 100% on an m1.small.

example: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?...

However, I've decided that the other benefits of EBS volumes are just to important to give up on (snapshotting, lazy-load, re-attachment). Instead, I plan to monitor for such situations and blow away the node when I detect it.

But really, I don't understand why Amazon doesn't fix this. It's happened to me 3-4 times in a relatively small installation. Surely their monitoring can detect this?

Who is responsible for crafting these procedures, I.E., requiring the body scans or alternative opt-out procedures? Do they have a name besides "Homeland Security"?

As per the announcement: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_announcement

This is the first release to include official ec2 images. However, I'm having trouble finding them, anyone know the ami?

If it's so obvious, can you at least link to some backup data?

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RHEL doesn't follow mainline, so Oracle will almost always have a more modern kernel. As another commenter pointed out, most of the improvments are just from this one point.

Because they compete with Red Hat and want to steal their customers. And now they can claim they have a superior product because they are using a modern kernel. Red Hat needs to release RHEL 6 ASAP.

So they have a two pronged approach:

1. Encourage customers to adopt this kernel to run Oracle workloads. Saying it's the only "recommended" kernel for Oracle software helps greatly. Oh and it's 75% faster.

"The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is now the only Linux kernel Oracle recommends for use with Oracle software."

2. Still "support" Red Hat's older kernel for other ISV workloads (really Red Hat is supporting it anyway).

"Oracle Linux continues to include Oracle’s existing Red Hat Compatible Kernel. Customers can choose to run the Red Hat Compatible Kernel if they prefer strict Red Hat compatibility over a system optimized to run Oracle and other enterprise software."

Unbreakable Linux didn't really present any huge advantages before. Now it does. Why wouldn't you choose it now?

"No one, in my view, solved the financial problems of consumers. No one even got close. "

Completely disagree. Mint's easy budgeting tools helped me cut expenses and start an aggressive savings plan. That, plus INGDirect's multiple sub-accounts.

Related: "2010 acquisitions--Microsoft: 0, Google: 23" http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-20017823-62.html

These two data points put together make me think something is Seriously Wrong in Redmond. They both speak to uncoordinated business unit strategy and paralysis in executive management. Perhaps Balmer is finally on his way out, resulting in this lack of focus.

Yes, this seems like a major surrender in the consumer space which brings into question any of their other consumer-focused web properties.

I'm helping to build a similar service at http://cloudbees.com. It's basically a Hudson as a Service, so you can build pretty much whatever you want. Hudson build machines are dynamically attached to your Hudson master, and removed when the build is done. We plan to support most Hudson plugins.

So it sounds like Quantum cryptography is only useful for data being transmitted between two points, and would not apply to data at rest? Or is this a false distinction?