Plain 'ole Android, never looked into the Google options, they just are what they are by default.
I'm driving home from work when I get an alert on the phone. I don't talk on the phone on the highway for more than a minute, but I glanced at it. It was informing me of an accident ahead of me, but at that point I was upon the accident related traffic having to slow down very quickly. It showed the incident on a map.
Looking at it as I entered the Stop zone on the interstate was a mistake. Had I received it two minutes earlier it would have been very useful, and safer to check.
The accident was cleared by the time traffic started moving (20 minutes). This would indicate that I came upon it a bit after it occurred (I see enough accidents being cleaned up as it is).
If it isn't considered private, it should all be released to the public, maybe with a month delay to account for national security needs.
They claim the data isn't blanket searched. First of all, I don't have trust in the messenger at this point. Second, the systems they have are considerably more powerful/expansive than I had imagined. By the looks of it, it's a global communication catcher with no reasonable limits (whatever that would mean).
Because the Stanford project doesn't have a list of suspected/confirmed terrorist/criminals it may be try to associate you with. Unless they are asking such a question (Are you a criminal?), which would be awesome.
There's a previous and more mathematically detailed analysis of the same data here (the author above didn't know about this analysis until after publishing, but the link above is a much easier read): http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/ps269/han.pdf
I realize, given the article this is tied to, that it isn't worthwhile to go on, but I feel the need (and the kids are in bed).
On education. The fact of the matter is that different children have different intelligence (among types of intelligence) and trying to box everyone into a standardized education is not possible. I can't find the passage, but Danial Quinn (Ishmael/Beyond Civilization) had an idea of a school designed to allow children to delve into what they were interested in (I believe it may have been referred to as a circus). Obviously there are some basic requirements around Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. But promoting self-interested learning is a fantastic idea. Take a video game addict for example. Have them evaluate/estimate the rules of a game they like. What do they like about it, and how does it work. My almost 4-years olds can do this, but they don't realize it (the Angry Birds franchise makes good games, and children pick them up quickly). Our educational system needs a rework, from the ground up.
Concepts should be the core. Memorization for basic skills at most (although geography combined with history is important, different kids will find different topics of interest). Let kids explore with guidance among the subjects they like. Very easy to promote science in my opinion.
I wish I was in a position to home-school. Economics trumps me.
I hope the women had different physical responses other than "soiled their seats". I don;t think anyone would associate that with "appreciation" (excepting those having taken a laxative, and even then I imagine "using a toilet" would be a better outcome).
Sandra Bullock was in "The Net" and "Speed". "The Net" is my personal "Manos: Hands of Fate" (not the MST3K version). And in "Gravity" she is a medical officer who also seems to be an engineer (she must be very busy with all of the training).
I can't stand her. But I will watch Gravity once it arrives in the local Red-Box at Walgreens.
Want some quality recent sci-fi, check out Europa Report. No name actors (well played in my opinion), and better than average effects. Much more thrilling than I was expecting.
I'm a left libertarian. Here are some of my views.
For social. Society should, at a minimum, provide the poor and homeless with the level of care that prisoner's receive. Maybe prisoner's should receive less care, so be it. But at least respect the unfortunate, they suffer. Obviously our drug enforcement culture needs to end.
For politics. Possibly only use public funds for political campaigns. How would it work? I have no idea. But prevent, 100%, campaign donations from companies and dissolve all PACs. They are poison to the system. Possibly use a different Federal level voting system, we need more parties in contention badly. Make lobbying illegal, if a business wants to talk directly to a government official, that's fine, but no external parties being funded. Enact a balanced budget amendment (goodbye Military Industrial Complex, but so be it).
For business. Reform the patent system (how? I'm not sure, there are others that know more than I, but I can spot a failed/failing system). Gut the Fed. Reduce "barriers to entry", gut Sarbanes-Oxley and other "established business benefit programs".
For legal. Reform the entire thing, businesses control the system to their whims. RIAA, MPAA, you are who I'm referring to, at least to start with.
For security. Gut it all. Restore the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. NSA and TSA need to be shuttered, as good first steps.
"I have a dream" (TM, Martin Luther King Jr.), but I have little to no optimism regarding true progress under the current system. We have one national party split into two sects, divided primarily by social values. Reality is a voracious destroyer of dreams. I get by.
I was wondering this as well. If the patents in question are valid under the system today, then the fees could be valid. Do we know which patents? If not, shouldn't that be public as patents are public?
If the patents in question are being used by MS then they are not trolling. They are just charging licensing fees which is very common, especially in the mobile market. Rounded corners is another story altogether...
Given MS will make $2 billion, or $2 per device. This isn't much on high end phones and tablets (under 1%, a bit higher for the Google phones and their very reasonable prices). However, $2 for a much cheaper tablet/phone would be a higher percentage.
If the patents provide utility and MS uses them, and regardless of your perspective on software patents, then the situation is fine.
I'm not really in favor of software patents, but the system is what the system is.
This is why I always request a full manual search (person and bags) at the airport. If 5% of people that are flying did this the system would immediately come to a halt. I take 10-15 minutes of one/two person's time (includes drug testing my baby powder, which I explain is for my bum - I even offer to prove it since I already have some applied).
I'm assuming you were trying to be offensive, but no offense taken. STL is a good "live in" city, better than So Cal (where your 2nd job is sitting in traffic and the state/federal officials seem to be... out of touch with reality - watch out for cancer!!!). Better than Phoenix as well (summer sucks and I prefer "character" rather than a 15 square mile suburb). Same for Vegas on the suburb. All are nice for visiting, but not for living, unless you have millions to spend/waste. Washington state is probably nicer...
I live in a walkable neighborhood (food, drinks, entertainment, groceries, frozen yogurt) in a house that was built in 1885. Built to last, which time has proven. I do commute to the boring suburbs for work, such is reality (against traffic). Soulard is my home.
East St. Louis is hell, that is for sure. But where I'm at I can walk a couple of minutes and get almost any type of food and listen to bands from Ireland almost any night of the week (McGurk's - fantastic).
And it's where my family is. Which is important, having kids (people who like to take the kids over the weekend - coming up this weekend in fact).
It's also a very good market for software developers, it's a job seeker's market right now.
Hey, I have to take every chance I get to promote my hometown, and that's where this company is based.
A coworker for mine knows someone that used to work for the company, it sounds like they used a custom (homebrew) encryption scheme for the passwords. This could be incorrect, the guy hasn't worked there in a couple of years.
Anyway, we didn't win the World Series, but apparently we can give you Tom Hanks credit card info...
The US system, it's the only one I am familiar with. Although the other Slashdot post about the 1st grade math test will lead me to read about Singapore's approach to education. I'd love to home school but do not have the opportunity. Instead I spent 19 nights camping in 2013 with my kids, teaching them about nature and clouds.
The current US education system seems to be focused on "put the X in the correct spot".
He's exposing things we all figured were true and then some.
And the release order is also well thought out, expose the US's complete global surveillance operation, wait for EU leaders to react, and then release that those EU leaders are effectively doing the same thing.
Given the level of surveillance, which at this point makes conspiracy theorist's claims seem conservative, this seems to be THE chance for actual change.
I doubt it though, Newspeak will be provided - "We are no longer monitoring you", while the truth will be that they are. Everyone will still be.
The real question will be whether people buy into the "open" future, seek to protect their privacy, or just don't give a shit.
The real problem is that most people just won't give a shit. This is the result of an educational system that doesn't promote thinking. The masters have won the game.
Churches have many benefits such as counseling and food banks. I volunteered at a food bank for several years before my twins arrived (I was the interviewer, having to hear people's problems first hand, I prayed with many of them when they needed the solace).
My twins attend a church related preschool (little to no religion related stuff, I can handle a bit of Noah's ark, and they did get blessed - but not converted...).
Churches are the social manifestation of religion, and many function externally in a non-denominational way (internally, not such much). One of the coolest things I've seen was a 1920's silent movie with a live church organ score (at a church of course, the one where I was volunteering).
Of course I'm referring to the moderate Christian churches, the "hey! want to go to church and hang out with people" ones as compared to the "obey!!!!" types.
I'd prefer the churches didn't have the religion, but such is life. The death of almost all fraternal organizations leaves little choice in terms of "general" social organizations outside of church (Modern Woodmen for example, a farm related organization I witnessed as a child).
I have family members that will find this very interesting; finding competent local mental health professionals has been difficult for a couple of them.
Hear hear, the local rock station regularly plays Iron Maiden as part of regular programming. Such bands would only get played on the radio during "heavy metal" night back in the early 1990s. It's weird hearing Maiden's Run to the Hills next to Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin...
I would alter your basic idea to note that the most difficult parts should be addressed first. Things like integrations.
The most difficult parts are those that are most likely to cause time and budget overruns. Taking care of them early makes things much easier in the long run. I call the hard part "pillars", things upon which a system is built.
And if one can't determine the "pillars" (or understand why they are what they are), one shouldn't be involved...
Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of those type of details regarding the production side (everything I know about Bitcoins I learned on Slashdot, I would say it's been a decent education...).
What happens if/when dedicated hardware (ASIC I believe, might have the order wrong) the mining of bitcoins becomes a losing effort (energy costs exceed the value)?
Will 21 million Bitcoints ever be produced? How expensive will the last ones be?
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Plain 'ole Android, never looked into the Google options, they just are what they are by default.
I'm driving home from work when I get an alert on the phone. I don't talk on the phone on the highway for more than a minute, but I glanced at it. It was informing me of an accident ahead of me, but at that point I was upon the accident related traffic having to slow down very quickly. It showed the incident on a map.
Looking at it as I entered the Stop zone on the interstate was a mistake. Had I received it two minutes earlier it would have been very useful, and safer to check.
The accident was cleared by the time traffic started moving (20 minutes). This would indicate that I came upon it a bit after it occurred (I see enough accidents being cleaned up as it is).
If it isn't considered private, it should all be released to the public, maybe with a month delay to account for national security needs.
They claim the data isn't blanket searched. First of all, I don't have trust in the messenger at this point. Second, the systems they have are considerably more powerful/expansive than I had imagined. By the looks of it, it's a global communication catcher with no reasonable limits (whatever that would mean).
Third, in August they admitted to "2,776 incidents of 'unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications" in the preceding twelve months' ":
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/nsa-violated-privacy-law-thousands-of-times.html
Seems public enough to me to truly be public.
Because the Stanford project doesn't have a list of suspected/confirmed terrorist/criminals it may be try to associate you with. Unless they are asking such a question (Are you a criminal?), which would be awesome.
And you are correct, No...
This post titled Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere is very insightful (and very basic in terms of collected data compared to phone metadata):
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
There's a previous and more mathematically detailed analysis of the same data here (the author above didn't know about this analysis until after publishing, but the link above is a much easier read):
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/ps269/han.pdf
Thanks for the reply, it is appreciated.
So are we running in 2016? I'd prefer to be the VP, looks like a pretty cush job...
I realize, given the article this is tied to, that it isn't worthwhile to go on, but I feel the need (and the kids are in bed).
On education. The fact of the matter is that different children have different intelligence (among types of intelligence) and trying to box everyone into a standardized education is not possible. I can't find the passage, but Danial Quinn (Ishmael/Beyond Civilization) had an idea of a school designed to allow children to delve into what they were interested in (I believe it may have been referred to as a circus). Obviously there are some basic requirements around Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. But promoting self-interested learning is a fantastic idea. Take a video game addict for example. Have them evaluate/estimate the rules of a game they like. What do they like about it, and how does it work. My almost 4-years olds can do this, but they don't realize it (the Angry Birds franchise makes good games, and children pick them up quickly). Our educational system needs a rework, from the ground up.
Concepts should be the core. Memorization for basic skills at most (although geography combined with history is important, different kids will find different topics of interest). Let kids explore with guidance among the subjects they like. Very easy to promote science in my opinion.
I wish I was in a position to home-school. Economics trumps me.
I hope the women had different physical responses other than "soiled their seats". I don;t think anyone would associate that with "appreciation" (excepting those having taken a laxative, and even then I imagine "using a toilet" would be a better outcome).
I believe that is a reasonable toilet joke...
Sandra Bullock was in "The Net" and "Speed". "The Net" is my personal "Manos: Hands of Fate" (not the MST3K version). And in "Gravity" she is a medical officer who also seems to be an engineer (she must be very busy with all of the training).
I can't stand her. But I will watch Gravity once it arrives in the local Red-Box at Walgreens.
Want some quality recent sci-fi, check out Europa Report. No name actors (well played in my opinion), and better than average effects. Much more thrilling than I was expecting.
I'm a left libertarian. Here are some of my views.
For social. Society should, at a minimum, provide the poor and homeless with the level of care that prisoner's receive. Maybe prisoner's should receive less care, so be it. But at least respect the unfortunate, they suffer. Obviously our drug enforcement culture needs to end.
For politics. Possibly only use public funds for political campaigns. How would it work? I have no idea. But prevent, 100%, campaign donations from companies and dissolve all PACs. They are poison to the system. Possibly use a different Federal level voting system, we need more parties in contention badly. Make lobbying illegal, if a business wants to talk directly to a government official, that's fine, but no external parties being funded. Enact a balanced budget amendment (goodbye Military Industrial Complex, but so be it).
For business. Reform the patent system (how? I'm not sure, there are others that know more than I, but I can spot a failed/failing system). Gut the Fed. Reduce "barriers to entry", gut Sarbanes-Oxley and other "established business benefit programs".
For legal. Reform the entire thing, businesses control the system to their whims. RIAA, MPAA, you are who I'm referring to, at least to start with.
For security. Gut it all. Restore the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. NSA and TSA need to be shuttered, as good first steps.
"I have a dream" (TM, Martin Luther King Jr.), but I have little to no optimism regarding true progress under the current system. We have one national party split into two sects, divided primarily by social values. Reality is a voracious destroyer of dreams. I get by.
I was wondering this as well. If the patents in question are valid under the system today, then the fees could be valid. Do we know which patents? If not, shouldn't that be public as patents are public?
If the patents in question are being used by MS then they are not trolling. They are just charging licensing fees which is very common, especially in the mobile market. Rounded corners is another story altogether...
Total Android device sales are expected to be over a billion this year.
Given MS will make $2 billion, or $2 per device. This isn't much on high end phones and tablets (under 1%, a bit higher for the Google phones and their very reasonable prices). However, $2 for a much cheaper tablet/phone would be a higher percentage.
If the patents provide utility and MS uses them, and regardless of your perspective on software patents, then the situation is fine.
I'm not really in favor of software patents, but the system is what the system is.
This is why I always request a full manual search (person and bags) at the airport. If 5% of people that are flying did this the system would immediately come to a halt. I take 10-15 minutes of one/two person's time (includes drug testing my baby powder, which I explain is for my bum - I even offer to prove it since I already have some applied).
I'm assuming you were trying to be offensive, but no offense taken. STL is a good "live in" city, better than So Cal (where your 2nd job is sitting in traffic and the state/federal officials seem to be... out of touch with reality - watch out for cancer!!!). Better than Phoenix as well (summer sucks and I prefer "character" rather than a 15 square mile suburb). Same for Vegas on the suburb. All are nice for visiting, but not for living, unless you have millions to spend/waste. Washington state is probably nicer...
I live in a walkable neighborhood (food, drinks, entertainment, groceries, frozen yogurt) in a house that was built in 1885. Built to last, which time has proven. I do commute to the boring suburbs for work, such is reality (against traffic). Soulard is my home.
East St. Louis is hell, that is for sure. But where I'm at I can walk a couple of minutes and get almost any type of food and listen to bands from Ireland almost any night of the week (McGurk's - fantastic).
And it's where my family is. Which is important, having kids (people who like to take the kids over the weekend - coming up this weekend in fact).
It's also a very good market for software developers, it's a job seeker's market right now.
Why did I type so much...
Hey, I have to take every chance I get to promote my hometown, and that's where this company is based.
A coworker for mine knows someone that used to work for the company, it sounds like they used a custom (homebrew) encryption scheme for the passwords. This could be incorrect, the guy hasn't worked there in a couple of years.
Anyway, we didn't win the World Series, but apparently we can give you Tom Hanks credit card info...
The US system, it's the only one I am familiar with. Although the other Slashdot post about the 1st grade math test will lead me to read about Singapore's approach to education. I'd love to home school but do not have the opportunity. Instead I spent 19 nights camping in 2013 with my kids, teaching them about nature and clouds.
The current US education system seems to be focused on "put the X in the correct spot".
He's exposing things we all figured were true and then some.
And the release order is also well thought out, expose the US's complete global surveillance operation, wait for EU leaders to react, and then release that those EU leaders are effectively doing the same thing.
Given the level of surveillance, which at this point makes conspiracy theorist's claims seem conservative, this seems to be THE chance for actual change.
I doubt it though, Newspeak will be provided - "We are no longer monitoring you", while the truth will be that they are. Everyone will still be.
The real question will be whether people buy into the "open" future, seek to protect their privacy, or just don't give a shit.
The real problem is that most people just won't give a shit. This is the result of an educational system that doesn't promote thinking. The masters have won the game.
I do not believe you understand the meaning of the word "pooching". Nor do I, but I'm assuming it is a despicable act...
Do this every time. And pack a large foot powder (for the drug screening, takes 5 minutes!).
Slow the system down. Always request to be manually searched.
I do.
Churches have many benefits such as counseling and food banks. I volunteered at a food bank for several years before my twins arrived (I was the interviewer, having to hear people's problems first hand, I prayed with many of them when they needed the solace).
My twins attend a church related preschool (little to no religion related stuff, I can handle a bit of Noah's ark, and they did get blessed - but not converted...).
Churches are the social manifestation of religion, and many function externally in a non-denominational way (internally, not such much). One of the coolest things I've seen was a 1920's silent movie with a live church organ score (at a church of course, the one where I was volunteering).
Of course I'm referring to the moderate Christian churches, the "hey! want to go to church and hang out with people" ones as compared to the "obey!!!!" types.
I'd prefer the churches didn't have the religion, but such is life. The death of almost all fraternal organizations leaves little choice in terms of "general" social organizations outside of church (Modern Woodmen for example, a farm related organization I witnessed as a child).
I have family members that will find this very interesting; finding competent local mental health professionals has been difficult for a couple of them.
Thank you Slashdot.
Hear hear, the local rock station regularly plays Iron Maiden as part of regular programming. Such bands would only get played on the radio during "heavy metal" night back in the early 1990s. It's weird hearing Maiden's Run to the Hills next to Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin...
Good stuff.
I would alter your basic idea to note that the most difficult parts should be addressed first. Things like integrations.
The most difficult parts are those that are most likely to cause time and budget overruns. Taking care of them early makes things much easier in the long run. I call the hard part "pillars", things upon which a system is built.
And if one can't determine the "pillars" (or understand why they are what they are), one shouldn't be involved...
Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of those type of details regarding the production side (everything I know about Bitcoins I learned on Slashdot, I would say it's been a decent education...).
What happens if/when dedicated hardware (ASIC I believe, might have the order wrong) the mining of bitcoins becomes a losing effort (energy costs exceed the value)?
Will 21 million Bitcoints ever be produced? How expensive will the last ones be?
And with a public defender it's more about minimizing time in prison than any guilty/not guilty court related stuff.
Public defender = Lets seek a plea deal.
Fixed that for you. My tin foil hat is a steel Spartan helmet, lined with aluminum of course...