One big difference I see is that the Japanese were competing on production techniques where they had created more efficient technologies for production. In the current situation, India is competing on the fact that they have a lower cost of living and there fore have a readily avilable cheap input that is not available in the US and can't be duplicated domestically.
There's no mention of physical checkpoints for rail and bus stations. There is a mention of checking names against a database for international flights, which the pretty much are doing now. There's also a call for increased screening of baggage on such flights for explosives and the like. Maybe you should try getting involved in your governmental process for yourself and not just relying on "journalists" like McCullagh. Read a bill sometime, dig a little deeper and don't just accept the story given to you by anyone. Everyone adds some spin, one direction or the other.
I loved doing proofs in my High School math classes. I even had my own book of axioms, thereby cementing my destiny to be reading/. someday. I didn't become a mathematician, but the merger of logic and creativity was so appealing. I wish I had been able to take it further, but unfortunatly calculus came along and whipped my but, so instead of an engineer, I became a programmer. Go figure.
This seems perfectly reasonable. If you leave one gaping hole in US border patrol, like the entire northern border, then you may as well not patrol the other borders. Yes it's possible to forge a passport, but with 50 differnet formats and much lower security, dirvers licenses are much easier to get and to forge. This will certainly cut down on tourism on both sides of the border, but without it the border patrol is really missing a big loophole.
And for those of you who say "What next?! Papers at the state border?" Give me a break this is nowhere near that extreme and you should know it.
How does this in any way ignore the Consitution. It's basically providing ISPs a list of content for them to block when people request it. Sure it costs the ISPs a little extra software, but they probably already have that software and this way they can't get sued when a site slips past the list. As for requiring site builders to rate their site. It requires professional web content providers to stick a meta tag or something into their code. For 99% of us, that means we add it to the template that "this site is rated E for everyone" and we move on. There are very few people who would rate their site differently and they will probably stick the same meta tag in their code but it will say "X for eXplicit" or whatever. And they will probably welcome this change as well since those kids eating up their bandwidth to look at the free previews don't have a credit card anyway.
One of the best things about the Internet is that it can lead you to unexepcted places. Anytime you begin researching one thing you can be taken in a whole different direction at to sites that you would never have known existed. Whitelists are worse than blacklists. They presume to know were all of the "good" content is and tells me that anything else must be trash. The last thing I want my kid doing is only seeing things from my persepctive. Of course I will aly down the law when it comes to him drooling over online porn, when I can help it.
Anything can be a "content provider." Actually, if you read your own post a little closer, is sats that companies that post electronic data FOR PROFIT. Do you make money from your blog? More importantly, do you make a profit?! This is not a draconian law. It requires professional web content providers to stick a meta tag or something into their code. For 99% of us, that means we add it to the template that this site is rated E for everyone and we move on. There are very few people who would rate their site differently and they will probably stick the same meta tag in their code but it will say X for eXplicit or whatever. And they will probably welcome this. Now the onus is even more on the consumer to monitor what their kids see. While this is pretty much unenforcable, I don't think it's the kind of smack down you're making it out to be.
We have an architect working for our small web company and he's been picking up bits and pieces of the coding and network management, but sometimes I feel that he doesn't quite get the overall concepts. What would the best approach to getting him into a programming mindset? Obviously we don't want to force him into something he doesn't want to do, but we really like his work ethic and hope to be able to use him for some more areas like programming and networking. Any ideas?
Something mentioned in the summary is that these test don't take into account progressive table loading. If you figure that 90% of the websites out there use tables for layout (I totally made that up). Having the table load as the content is available instead of waiting for the entire table to load can make a huge difference. I would much rather have the entire page load in.5 a second but be able to see the majority of the page sooner.
The store also reports 0% of such transactions being fraudulent.
OK, so a voluntary system that requires you to submit your fingerprint and no criminals have tried it out, even for malicious purposes? That's incredible! I hardly think that this counts as an endorsement of this technology. If it were to become more widespread it might be worthwhile for the "bad guys" to come up with ways to defeat it, but as it is they will just go down the road to the place that uses the good old credit cards they can get out of a stolen wallet.
The beginning of World War II had a tremendous positive effect on the American economy and helped in large part to pull the country out of the depression. In an age where most of the US military's weaponry is created by a few companies and is largely automated, does a war actually help an economy or simply overburden it with the cost of production without the offsetting abundance of jobs?
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This is slightly off topic, but there was a line in the article about getting customized news: if all your information is tailored to what you want to know, you may miss that which you don't know you want to know, and should. I often worry about this from reading slashdot too much. (Am I really becoming just a paranoid liberal geek?) The problem that I have is that I can't find news sources that are evenly balanced. All of the news sources seem to be so focused on telling people what they want to hear that you can't find out what you should be hearing. Wether it's conservative vs liberal, Microsoft vs Open Source, this company or that company. Every news source seems to have an agenda and I have to pick my sources based on the least of all evils or read 10 different sources to get the news. It may be lazy, but I shouldn't have to work this hard to get a balanced source of news.
Anyway, anyone else feel this way and have some options?
This may be true, but the fact that UI integration and being able to change the color of your buttons is key to corporate infiltration is a sad statement on the level of the work being done (or the users doing the work) in corporations today. Although if pretty pictures are all it takes to dethrown MS Office then this should be a piece of cake.
Well, it certainly does sound like you know more about this than I do. What do you mean by "SA"? Are the satellites really that old that they don't incorporate a fix for the "restart" problem? I thought that the average life of a sattelite was 4-5 years. I guess you can't just "flash the bios" or something to fix the problem. Somewhere in the article they talked about a plan to take out the "other GPS services" which could mean the Russians' and the EU's systems. Is that likely or easy to do without taking down the satelites?
Whoa whoa there cowboy. You made the leap from a plan to disable the GPS system in targeted areas to the politicians are not working for the tax payers? I'm not saying there aren't problems with the governmental system we have, but I think you're letting your paranoia get ahead of your replicanoia. I'm sure that someone in the Whitehouse has heard that GPS is very important to may areas of life and maybe that's why they're getting a well defined plan together in case they need to shut parts of it down, rather than just pulling the plug on it when the shit hits the fan.
As far as satelites being shut down and not coming back up, again I'd like to know about that now and not later. The GPS system by it's very natures is wholey redundant so if something is not going to respond well to standard commands, let's test it now and replace the bird if it's not performing to full snuff.
As for the timing element, I'm sure that some system can be worked out to let the power company know, with relative accuracy, what time it is without giving 1 meter resolution to everyone in a defined area for a short amount of time.
Any rate. Let's have a little more thought before your mouth runneth over with drivel again.
I really doubt that that they're going to just turn it off with no notice. Besides, do you really want a pilot flying you around that couldn't land if the GPS receiver went out on the plane? Maybe this will increase training in non-GPS assisted landings for airlines which I can see as a good thing.
Yes a terrorist could do lots of things to geta round this precaution. But with this possibility in place, it makes terror more expensive and harder to plan than if we did nothing. I know that it may give the general populace a false feeling of security, but not doing anything is worse still.
The article mentioned that some of the planning was classified, and so I'd guess that there is some provision in there to allow the military to still access the data that they need. The US military may be dominering at times, but they're not stupid when it comes to tactical planning.
The machine type described are good for prototyping and custom parts, but there are usually better mass production methods.
If everyone could afford one of these things then you wouldn't have to mass produce the items, only the fabricators. Then you could producea s many as you needed at home!
I think that you're confusing the midwest with the south. There are some that don't have running water in the midwest, but that is nothing when compared to the south.
Tornados are very hit and miss and only occasionally hit major population areas. Due to the fact that we've got all that open space with nothing but roads, as you so helpfully pointed out, most times tornados do little to no damage. When was the last time you saw the president or some other federal figure helicoptoring over a tornado path, now how about a hurricane flood plain?
Read this... and shut the fuck up Very elegant indeed, but if you're going to make claims it's your responsibility to back them up. Now you have quite a nice map there, but lets look at the top 20 "needy" states: (http://www.nemw.org/fundsrank.htm)
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Of these, I think that Oklahoma and Missouri qualify as "Midwest" states. Looking at the other end of the spectrum, the 20 most "generous" states:(http://www.nemw.org/fundsrank.htm)
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Of these I'd say Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsoin, Colodado, Minnesota, and my own state of Illinois would be considered midwest.
Sure NY and CA give more than they get overall. There are many more people there and no matter how efficient a state is, there is a certain amount of overhead wether you have 200,000 people of 20 million. Let's look at the federal money spent per capita in the midwest versus your beloved NY and CA. (http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm) NY $6,733 CA $5,878 Midwest Avg. $5,614
But, since you seem intent on claiming that you're dragging our good for nothing ass along for the ride, let's see what you're getting for that. If we look at the top trade surplus products in the US you'll see (http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/usfth/agg regate/H03T25.html) that in the top 5, only 2 have significantly increased their surplus in the last 4 years. Those would be Cereals and Cereal Perparation and Oil Seeds and Oleaginnous. Translated to "city speak" that would be cotton, wheat, corn, and soybeans.
I think that you've made a very common mistake of "coast dwellers". You've confused the midwest with the south. Oh, and just in case your superior mind didn't catch them those things I placed in parens next to my claims, those are URIs and you'll find them very handy for backing up your point without making people search for them.
And there are many, possibly more, family farms that are very successful. I have farmers on both sides of my family as well as several neighbors and I know that they are all doing very well. They've moved beyond the idea that you have to own the land that you work and have been able to make a comfortable living renting land and coming up with other agreements with land owners as well as marketing themselves to further owners. The family farm is not dying as some would have us believe, but it is changing. Those that refuse to change will not survive and those that embrace change will thrive. And yes, you can thrive at farming without becoming a behemoth corporate farm operation.
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One big difference I see is that the Japanese were competing on production techniques where they had created more efficient technologies for production. In the current situation, India is competing on the fact that they have a lower cost of living and there fore have a readily avilable cheap input that is not available in the US and can't be duplicated domestically.
look at this.
There's no mention of physical checkpoints for rail and bus stations. There is a mention of checking names against a database for international flights, which the pretty much are doing now. There's also a call for increased screening of baggage on such flights for explosives and the like. Maybe you should try getting involved in your governmental process for yourself and not just relying on "journalists" like McCullagh. Read a bill sometime, dig a little deeper and don't just accept the story given to you by anyone. Everyone adds some spin, one direction or the other.
I loved doing proofs in my High School math classes. I even had my own book of axioms, thereby cementing my destiny to be reading /. someday. I didn't become a mathematician, but the merger of logic and creativity was so appealing. I wish I had been able to take it further, but unfortunatly calculus came along and whipped my but, so instead of an engineer, I became a programmer. Go figure.
This seems perfectly reasonable. If you leave one gaping hole in US border patrol, like the entire northern border, then you may as well not patrol the other borders. Yes it's possible to forge a passport, but with 50 differnet formats and much lower security, dirvers licenses are much easier to get and to forge. This will certainly cut down on tourism on both sides of the border, but without it the border patrol is really missing a big loophole.
And for those of you who say "What next?! Papers at the state border?" Give me a break this is nowhere near that extreme and you should know it.
How does this in any way ignore the Consitution. It's basically providing ISPs a list of content for them to block when people request it. Sure it costs the ISPs a little extra software, but they probably already have that software and this way they can't get sued when a site slips past the list. As for requiring site builders to rate their site. It requires professional web content providers to stick a meta tag or something into their code. For 99% of us, that means we add it to the template that "this site is rated E for everyone" and we move on. There are very few people who would rate their site differently and they will probably stick the same meta tag in their code but it will say "X for eXplicit" or whatever. And they will probably welcome this change as well since those kids eating up their bandwidth to look at the free previews don't have a credit card anyway.
One of the best things about the Internet is that it can lead you to unexepcted places. Anytime you begin researching one thing you can be taken in a whole different direction at to sites that you would never have known existed. Whitelists are worse than blacklists. They presume to know were all of the "good" content is and tells me that anything else must be trash. The last thing I want my kid doing is only seeing things from my persepctive. Of course I will aly down the law when it comes to him drooling over online porn, when I can help it.
Anything can be a "content provider."
Actually, if you read your own post a little closer, is sats that companies that post electronic data FOR PROFIT. Do you make money from your blog? More importantly, do you make a profit?! This is not a draconian law. It requires professional web content providers to stick a meta tag or something into their code. For 99% of us, that means we add it to the template that this site is rated E for everyone and we move on. There are very few people who would rate their site differently and they will probably stick the same meta tag in their code but it will say X for eXplicit or whatever. And they will probably welcome this. Now the onus is even more on the consumer to monitor what their kids see. While this is pretty much unenforcable, I don't think it's the kind of smack down you're making it out to be.
We have an architect working for our small web company and he's been picking up bits and pieces of the coding and network management, but sometimes I feel that he doesn't quite get the overall concepts. What would the best approach to getting him into a programming mindset? Obviously we don't want to force him into something he doesn't want to do, but we really like his work ethic and hope to be able to use him for some more areas like programming and networking. Any ideas?
Something mentioned in the summary is that these test don't take into account progressive table loading. If you figure that 90% of the websites out there use tables for layout (I totally made that up). Having the table load as the content is available instead of waiting for the entire table to load can make a huge difference. I would much rather have the entire page load in .5 a second but be able to see the majority of the page sooner.
The store also reports 0% of such transactions being fraudulent.
OK, so a voluntary system that requires you to submit your fingerprint and no criminals have tried it out, even for malicious purposes? That's incredible! I hardly think that this counts as an endorsement of this technology. If it were to become more widespread it might be worthwhile for the "bad guys" to come up with ways to defeat it, but as it is they will just go down the road to the place that uses the good old credit cards they can get out of a stolen wallet.
Last time I checked MS didn't have an MP3 player on the market.
The beginning of World War II had a tremendous positive effect on the American economy and helped in large part to pull the country out of the depression. In an age where most of the US military's weaponry is created by a few companies and is largely automated, does a war actually help an economy or simply overburden it with the cost of production without the offsetting abundance of jobs?
This is slightly off topic, but there was a line in the article about getting customized news: if all your information is tailored to what you want to know, you may miss that which you don't know you want to know, and should. I often worry about this from reading slashdot too much. (Am I really becoming just a paranoid liberal geek?) The problem that I have is that I can't find news sources that are evenly balanced. All of the news sources seem to be so focused on telling people what they want to hear that you can't find out what you should be hearing. Wether it's conservative vs liberal, Microsoft vs Open Source, this company or that company. Every news source seems to have an agenda and I have to pick my sources based on the least of all evils or read 10 different sources to get the news. It may be lazy, but I shouldn't have to work this hard to get a balanced source of news.
Anyway, anyone else feel this way and have some options?
This may be true, but the fact that UI integration and being able to change the color of your buttons is key to corporate infiltration is a sad statement on the level of the work being done (or the users doing the work) in corporations today. Although if pretty pictures are all it takes to dethrown MS Office then this should be a piece of cake.
Well, it certainly does sound like you know more about this than I do. What do you mean by "SA"? Are the satellites really that old that they don't incorporate a fix for the "restart" problem? I thought that the average life of a sattelite was 4-5 years. I guess you can't just "flash the bios" or something to fix the problem. Somewhere in the article they talked about a plan to take out the "other GPS services" which could mean the Russians' and the EU's systems. Is that likely or easy to do without taking down the satelites?
Whoa whoa there cowboy. You made the leap from a plan to disable the GPS system in targeted areas to the politicians are not working for the tax payers? I'm not saying there aren't problems with the governmental system we have, but I think you're letting your paranoia get ahead of your replicanoia.
I'm sure that someone in the Whitehouse has heard that GPS is very important to may areas of life and maybe that's why they're getting a well defined plan together in case they need to shut parts of it down, rather than just pulling the plug on it when the shit hits the fan.
As far as satelites being shut down and not coming back up, again I'd like to know about that now and not later. The GPS system by it's very natures is wholey redundant so if something is not going to respond well to standard commands, let's test it now and replace the bird if it's not performing to full snuff.
As for the timing element, I'm sure that some system can be worked out to let the power company know, with relative accuracy, what time it is without giving 1 meter resolution to everyone in a defined area for a short amount of time.
Any rate. Let's have a little more thought before your mouth runneth over with drivel again.
I really doubt that that they're going to just turn it off with no notice. Besides, do you really want a pilot flying you around that couldn't land if the GPS receiver went out on the plane? Maybe this will increase training in non-GPS assisted landings for airlines which I can see as a good thing.
Yes a terrorist could do lots of things to geta round this precaution. But with this possibility in place, it makes terror more expensive and harder to plan than if we did nothing. I know that it may give the general populace a false feeling of security, but not doing anything is worse still.
Yes, you are.
The article mentioned that some of the planning was classified, and so I'd guess that there is some provision in there to allow the military to still access the data that they need. The US military may be dominering at times, but they're not stupid when it comes to tactical planning.
The machine type described are good for prototyping and custom parts, but there are usually better mass production methods.
If everyone could afford one of these things then you wouldn't have to mass produce the items, only the fabricators. Then you could producea s many as you needed at home!
Those crazy Time Warner guys. Not wanting to get into a market were you give your software away for free with no tie-ins. What dunces.
That's great, will it run on windows? No, didn't think so. We need an outlook replacement, not a windows replacement.
I think that you're confusing the midwest with the south. There are some that don't have running water in the midwest, but that is nothing when compared to the south.
Tornados are very hit and miss and only occasionally hit major population areas. Due to the fact that we've got all that open space with nothing but roads, as you so helpfully pointed out, most times tornados do little to no damage. When was the last time you saw the president or some other federal figure helicoptoring over a tornado path, now how about a hurricane flood plain?
Read this ... and shut the fuck up
g regate/H03T25.html) that in the top 5, only 2 have significantly increased their surplus in the last 4 years. Those would be Cereals and Cereal Perparation and Oil Seeds and Oleaginnous. Translated to "city speak" that would be cotton, wheat, corn, and soybeans.
Very elegant indeed, but if you're going to make claims it's your responsibility to back them up. Now you have quite a nice map there, but lets look at the top 20 "needy" states: (http://www.nemw.org/fundsrank.htm)
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Of these, I think that Oklahoma and Missouri qualify as "Midwest" states. Looking at the other end of the spectrum, the 20 most "generous" states:(http://www.nemw.org/fundsrank.htm)
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Of these I'd say Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsoin, Colodado, Minnesota, and my own state of Illinois would be considered midwest.
Sure NY and CA give more than they get overall. There are many more people there and no matter how efficient a state is, there is a certain amount of overhead wether you have 200,000 people of 20 million. Let's look at the federal money spent per capita in the midwest versus your beloved NY and CA. (http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm)
NY $6,733
CA $5,878
Midwest Avg. $5,614
But, since you seem intent on claiming that you're dragging our good for nothing ass along for the ride, let's see what you're getting for that. If we look at the top trade surplus products in the US you'll see (http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/usfth/ag
I think that you've made a very common mistake of "coast dwellers". You've confused the midwest with the south. Oh, and just in case your superior mind didn't catch them those things I placed in parens next to my claims, those are URIs and you'll find them very handy for backing up your point without making people search for them.
And there are many, possibly more, family farms that are very successful. I have farmers on both sides of my family as well as several neighbors and I know that they are all doing very well. They've moved beyond the idea that you have to own the land that you work and have been able to make a comfortable living renting land and coming up with other agreements with land owners as well as marketing themselves to further owners. The family farm is not dying as some would have us believe, but it is changing. Those that refuse to change will not survive and those that embrace change will thrive. And yes, you can thrive at farming without becoming a behemoth corporate farm operation.