google.com · Domains · Slashdot Mirror

Re:Google does the same by gnick · 2012-01-16 06:52 · Score: 2 · on Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico

Google is taking data that users are providing them, and doing statistical analysis on that data. There's no issue with this, because it's not leaving Google.

Umm... Sure it is. In fact, you can go look at anonymized aggregate search trends from Google yourself. For free.

I am a huge Google fan, but don't think that anything you do with them is kept private unless they specifically tell you so.

Re:Google does the same by gnick · 2012-01-16 06:52 · Score: 2 · on Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico

Google is taking data that users are providing them, and doing statistical analysis on that data. There's no issue with this, because it's not leaving Google.

Umm... Sure it is. In fact, you can go look at anonymized aggregate search trends from Google yourself. For free.

I am a huge Google fan, but don't think that anything you do with them is kept private unless they specifically tell you so.

Google does the same by TechGuys · 2012-01-16 06:39 · Score: 5, Informative · on Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico

Even the article mentions it:

This is similar to the way Google offers reports on search trends based on its users’ aggregate search activities.

In fact, all of this is public information too. You can look at search amounts for specific searches here.

It's just numerical data. Facebook seems to do this analysis by searching all the posts that mention candidate's name and if the associated words are positive or negative.

The comparison to anonymized data in the summary is stupid. Facebook publishing any of those messages, they're just doing analysis on them. There would be good point in this article if they actually published those messages because then anonymizing doesn't work, but it's a moot point because they aren't making anything public. Only the aggregated search amounts.

Re:"... can't be fooled again!" ? by J'raxis · 2012-01-16 04:01 · Score: 1 · on White House Opposes Key SOPA Provisions

In Reversal of Promised Veto, Obama Expected to Sign Military Detention Bill.

Top Google result for "NDAA veto promise." Google has 1,390,000 other results for you to choose from if you feel like "correcting" someone with incorrect information again.

Re:U.S. needs to get rid of software patents by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-16 03:58 · Score: 2, Informative · on Google Patents Caching MLK Day Search Results

Companies like Google and Apple are collectively abusing the system and patenting every single thing they can think of, most of which are outright obvious.

Google isn't abusing the system. They're trying to protect themselves from people who are abusing it, like Apple and Microsoft. The patents that they have filed and acquired are solely for defensive purposes. Google has never used a software patent offensively, and is very outspoken about the need for patent reform: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=google+patent+reform

Re:Storing passwords (not as easy as you think) by fliptout · 2012-01-15 19:34 · Score: 0 · on Zappos Hacked: Internal Systems Breached

Python wrapper for bcrypt. Looks like what I need for my project:

http://code.google.com/p/py-bcrypt/

Re:now called “low-energy nuclear reactions& by deadbeefcafe · 2012-01-15 11:12 · Score: 1 · on Can NASA Warm Cold Fusion?

Watch the SRI talk linked in the comments above. I'd hardly call 90 sigma "barely statistically significant".
link

A perpetual need for self-renewal at all levels by Paul+Fernhout · 2012-01-15 09:21 · Score: 1 · on DHS Monitors Social Media For 'Political Dissent'

Actually, many of them were essentially self-employed farmers and craftspeople, so they had flexible schedules:
"Noam Chomsky: Wage Slavery = Chattle Slavery"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oztdRo9GLLk

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
"However, self-employment became less common as the artisan tradition slowly disappeared in the later part of the 19th century. In 1869 The New York Times described the system of wage labor as "a system of slavery as absolute if not as degrading as that which lately prevailed at the South""

Wonder why that fact was not emphasized in your history class? NYS Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto says:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/16a.htm
"I'll bring this down to earth. Try to see that an intricately subordinated industrial/commercial system has only limited use for hundreds of millions of self-reliant, resourceful readers and critical thinkers. In an egalitarian, entrepreneurially based economy of confederated families like the one the Amish have or the Mondragon folk in the Basque region of Spain, any number of self-reliant people can be accommodated usefully, but not in a concentrated command-type economy like our own. Where on earth would they fit? In a great fanfare of moral fervor some years back, the Ford Motor Company opened the world's most productive auto engine plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. It insisted on hiring employees with 50 percent more school training than the Mexican norm of six years, but as time passed Ford removed its requirements and began to hire school dropouts, training them quite well in four to twelve weeks. The hype that education is essential to robot-like work was quietly abandoned. Our economy has no adequate outlet of expression for its artists, dancers, poets, painters, farmers, filmmakers, wildcat business people, handcraft workers, whiskey makers, intellectuals, or a thousand other useful human enterprises -- no outlet except corporate work or fringe slots on the periphery of things. Unless you do "creative" work the company way, you run afoul of a host of laws and regulations put on the books to control the dangerous products of imagination which can never be safely tolerated by a centralized command system."

We have not just lost what we had. We have lost the memory of what we had...

As John Gardner says, every generation must learn again for itself what the words on the monuments mean...
"Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society"
http://books.google.com/books?id=U5hXpnwUmW4C

Re:yea by unity100 · 2012-01-15 09:07 · Score: 1 · on Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&site=webhp&source=hp&q=mexican%20gulf%20dead&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&fp=76147c48b2eb760f&ion=1&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=6fc20344b7104202&biw=1181&bih=892&ion=1

Re:Not again? by dj245 · 2012-01-15 04:15 · Score: 5, Informative · on Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power

The turbines are produced by Halliburton — I've seen the red Halliburton truck dragging one up Bottle Rock Rd. on a massive flatbed.

Sorry but no. Most of the Geysers turbines were manufactured by Toshiba Corp (sorry, PDF), with the exception of 2 turbines which were manufactured by GE (these may be retired now). New or replacement turbines are definitely competitively bid, since my company bids on them. Halliburton doesn't make steam turbines. If indeed you have seen Halliburton at the geysers, they must have been a transportation contractor or something like that.

As for the "superfund site", I can't find anything on this that is less than 15 years old. And this report from 1983 says there is nothing hazardous at the Geysers. I'll agree it is a very old report and standards have changed since then, but the only other EPA document available is in 1995- they seem to have capped some wells that had the potential of a hydrogen sulfide explosion. Hardly the "drums full of toxic chemicals" that you are implying.

Re:I'm not an electrician, but... by gottabeme · 2012-01-15 03:58 · Score: 1 · on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget

Here: https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+flashlight

Re:I have enjoyed following the new Sweden account by Per+Wigren · 2012-01-15 02:29 · Score: 2 · on Sweden Experiments With Public Twitter Takeover

Sweden is a beautiful country from late june to early august. The rest of the year, not so much unless you plan on going skiing.
Nature-wise it pales compared to Norway though, and I say that as a swede.

Re:Mission accomplished by ozmanjusri · 2012-01-14 13:56 · Score: 2 · on DHS Monitors Social Media For 'Political Dissent'

http://www.google.com/search?q=social+media+marketing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&lr=lang_en

Re:This is a growing global problem by Paul+Fernhout · 2012-01-14 11:16 · Score: 3, Interesting · on The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred

I also mention three other aspects that are important too besides a basic income (a gift economy, improved subsistence, and improved planning). More on all that by me:
"Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY

If you look at the hard data yourself, you will see that US governments (federal, state, local) together spend about US$600 per month per capita on welfare, unemployment, and schooling. If that money was given directly to every citizen, a family of four would be getting US$2400 per month (tax free) which for many would be enough to live on and homeschool in an area of the country with a low cost of housing (especially as both parents could still do additional work or subsistence gardening activities and would have time to be frugal and would have less stress leading to recreational shopping therapy).
http://www.whywork.org/action/lifestyle/jobfree.html

With more involved parenting, and more neighbors with free time for being involved in their communities, most neighborhoods will be much better place to grow up in, and there will be less juvenile delinquency and fewer kids wanting to act out by hurting others. See also:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/towards-a-post-scarcity-new-york-state-of-mind.html

The graph you point to, indicating rising government over the next few decades up to about one-half the GDP, is pretty meaningless in the sense that it must depend on a lot of unstated assumptions all subject to political action. Also, some things like health spending may drop greatly as people understand health better; see the links I assembled here:
http://www.changemakers.com/discussions/discussion-493#comment-38823

Besides, what is wrong with redistributing one half the GDP as a basic income (and health insurance)? That would amount to about US$2000 per month as a right of citizenship right now (more if the economy grew more), and to make up for the effective enclosure of the land and of the copyright commons and for pollution suffered from industry and so on. I think that could make a lot of sense, and so do many others:
http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/aboutbasicincome.html

The remaining half of the GDP would be about as big as the total US GDP around 1995, which seemed big enough to motivate anyone who needed motivating by money back then. :-)

Alaska has something called a Permanent Fund that is somewhat like that (Sarah Palin helped grow it):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

Also, right now the US governments spend more per capita for medical care than other countries require to give all their citizens generally better health care outcomes than in the USA.

So, the numbers easily work out. It is the ideology that is the problem. See:
"The Mythology of Wealth"
http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/402
"Justifications for elites and social hierarchy goes all the way back to the pharaohs. ..."

The fact is, our current socioeconomic system is falling apart (see other links I've posted in this thread) -- and one consequence of that is increased domestic violence and increased warfare. I have collected more details here:
http://knol.google.com/k/beyond-a-jobless-recovery

So, the status quo is failing, and increasingly at risk from WMDs from alienated people. We ne

ur mum's FACE're going to regret you by MichaelKristopeit487 · 2012-01-14 11:03 · Score: 1 · on Chinese Lab Speeds Through Genome Processing With GPUs

having sex without consent is being a party to rape. you claimed, in quotes, that it was your "job"... who said it was your job? are you a registered sex worker? did you have a pimp? either you consented, and stated your desire to engage in wanted sexual contact, and later lied about it; or you were raped. are you a liar?