Biz owns media.. biz owns govt. Its not good business to try and limit biz. You will always hear about how much more we need and never in good terms how much less we need.
This will merely speed the process. I had a domain I was going to use as a sales site..I bought it and let it set for a while before doing the whole ecom thing. In the meanwhile, a company in a completely unrelated industry offered me some crumbs for the domain..I replied with what I thought was fair, then began receiving the lawyer letters, trademark litigation, and eventually had the domain ICANNed away. The bottom line is, unless you have the legal team, any domain you own can be taken away. Period.
This may become long and drawn out..but I am speaking from a different perspective than most I would think.
I have been a PC tech/web developer for around 15 years. I kept up with the latest gizmos and gadgets, technology and toys for a long, long time. My last stint was support at a University. My wife and I got the "get back to basics" fever, quit our jobs, bought some raw land and are homesteading 4 acres on the outskirts of nowhere.
In that change also came a paradigm shift about technology. While we have to use our laptops for our web business, more and more we are wandering away from the screens and towards the dirt. What I find is that the less time you spend with "a screen" the more you come to understand and envelope yourself with the real world..the world of dirt, the world of nature, the real world you cant touch on flickr and cant smell on facebook.
We as a society are evolving into a clinically sterile, see here is nature on the screen, whats a shovel people.
I am not arguing that technology is bad, merely making the observation that reality is changing for most people. That we as a group are living our lives more and more through screens and by dilution less and less in the sun. While the irony of me posting this here does not elude me, I will be shoveling up some garden and doing some garden work shortly. I hope you would have some real world to balance off "the screens" as well because to me, the human condition is not a clinically sterile parade of screens and gizmos.. it is about the sights, smells, grit, efforts and rewards you can only get once you run out of batteries.
So what if they know (whatever).. I hear a lot of this.. well.. how about this.. stocks and politics are driven by public sentiment. Being able to monitor, inject, and control these instruments allow for manipulation at levels never before possible. Simply creating algorithms to judge public sentiment can create opportunities that are at a scale that we will never see while we hide our heads in the sand that no one cares about our dinner at Chilis. This doesnt even touch the social tracking and potential for abuse. Make no mistake. FB is a very very bad thing in many ways. It is also social crack that the mindless masses are hopelessly addicted to. I see it as one of multiple facets on controlling and monitoring the masses. So.. keep posting about dinner..
I think it is inevitable and probably already happening that service like Netflix and Hulu become throttled or limited by bandwidth... it would seem a logical business move for these type high throughput services to just skip the Comcasts and Time Warners and just start their own ISP services. THAT would be some competition...
The assumption here is that higher education is for..educating. In my experience working at a University it would seem higher education is for making money, getting as many students signed up for loans as possible and getting grants. The paper they push is secondary to the goal of adding to enrollment and turning more bucks every year.
This guy lives next door to me. He probably wouldnt understand the questions on an IQ test much less get any right. He is also a home builder/contactor. He is like a damn idiot savant with a nail gun and wood. I can rank in the 150's pretty regular on IQ tests. My friend makes me look like a moron when I get him to help me building and framing my house.
Who is smarter...well.. I guess that depends..
Seems like we here in the US would suffer a lot more than Iran from cyber-terrorism.. While it may feel good today to digitally attack them, I fear that the eventual reprisals might be much worse than what we are simply stalling.
My first thought was wondering how much of a cloud of this would be wandering around.. I know wind and dissipation and such.. but working in the A/C industry for a while taught me to be very cautious of flooding places with gasses.. that whole asphyxiation thing kinda ruin your day.
My dad taught me chess when I was around 10 and we played regularly until I was out of high school. In 11th-12th grade we played 2-3-4 hour games almost nightly. I eventually won more than I lost before I moved out.
Of all the things, I think it taught me how to think many steps ahead on projects and tasks and improved my analytical thinking immeasurably.
Kudos for Armenia on this..there is nothing bad about it.
The final industry you missed is financial, which includes stocks, banks and insurance. Unfortunately, it doesnt take 300M brokers and bankers and thats just too bad for a lot of people looking to do anything tangible.
So.. you go to a site.. it says "please allow us to store cookies to enhance your experience" yada yada.. you say no.. next time..you get the same message...lather, rinse, repeat until you say yes because **there is no other way to maintain the persistent state of the selection**.
People will simply not go to the sites eventually or say yes after the umptienth time to get away from having to click no.
I know.. and agree.. it is still a support nightmare when there are multiple flavors of the same browser running around.. Im just whining I guess.. I am just so tired of designing and developing for multiple browsers.. the web dev nightmare since Netscape/IE.. I was there...and I wasnt amused then..and Im still not.
As if having to support 3 major browsers wasnt a web design nightmare enough..now to support multiple versions of each..yay. I can hear it now.. well.. it looks ok to me, but I got a support email that it looked like (random crap) for this person, looked like (wierd problem) to my other friend and this (random thing) didnt work for one of my friends at work.. see about that will you? Oh.. they all said they used FireFox if that helps.
Slashdot Mirror
2-3 stolen songs worth? (RIAA scale) phhht.
It only takes a couple hundred years to go from tyranny to freedom and then back to tyranny.
They were only a few hundred miles off with the HAARP this time.. We'll quake you up yet NK...
Biz owns media.. biz owns govt. Its not good business to try and limit biz. You will always hear about how much more we need and never in good terms how much less we need.
Nothing personal..its just biz.
This will merely speed the process. I had a domain I was going to use as a sales site..I bought it and let it set for a while before doing the whole ecom thing. In the meanwhile, a company in a completely unrelated industry offered me some crumbs for the domain..I replied with what I thought was fair, then began receiving the lawyer letters, trademark litigation, and eventually had the domain ICANNed away. The bottom line is, unless you have the legal team, any domain you own can be taken away. Period.
This may become long and drawn out..but I am speaking from a different perspective than most I would think.
I have been a PC tech/web developer for around 15 years. I kept up with the latest gizmos and gadgets, technology and toys for a long, long time. My last stint was support at a University. My wife and I got the "get back to basics" fever, quit our jobs, bought some raw land and are homesteading 4 acres on the outskirts of nowhere.
In that change also came a paradigm shift about technology. While we have to use our laptops for our web business, more and more we are wandering away from the screens and towards the dirt. What I find is that the less time you spend with "a screen" the more you come to understand and envelope yourself with the real world..the world of dirt, the world of nature, the real world you cant touch on flickr and cant smell on facebook.
We as a society are evolving into a clinically sterile, see here is nature on the screen, whats a shovel people.
I am not arguing that technology is bad, merely making the observation that reality is changing for most people. That we as a group are living our lives more and more through screens and by dilution less and less in the sun. While the irony of me posting this here does not elude me, I will be shoveling up some garden and doing some garden work shortly. I hope you would have some real world to balance off "the screens" as well because to me, the human condition is not a clinically sterile parade of screens and gizmos.. it is about the sights, smells, grit, efforts and rewards you can only get once you run out of batteries.
Nobody has a score that low on minesweeper...
And my modpoints just expired.. sigh..
This is almost in its entirety the whole of mass media in a nutshell. Kudos on the post.
So what if they know (whatever).. I hear a lot of this.. well.. how about this.. stocks and politics are driven by public sentiment. Being able to monitor, inject, and control these instruments allow for manipulation at levels never before possible. Simply creating algorithms to judge public sentiment can create opportunities that are at a scale that we will never see while we hide our heads in the sand that no one cares about our dinner at Chilis. This doesnt even touch the social tracking and potential for abuse. Make no mistake. FB is a very very bad thing in many ways. It is also social crack that the mindless masses are hopelessly addicted to. I see it as one of multiple facets on controlling and monitoring the masses. So.. keep posting about dinner..
I think it is inevitable and probably already happening that service like Netflix and Hulu become throttled or limited by bandwidth... it would seem a logical business move for these type high throughput services to just skip the Comcasts and Time Warners and just start their own ISP services. THAT would be some competition...
The assumption here is that higher education is for..educating. In my experience working at a University it would seem higher education is for making money, getting as many students signed up for loans as possible and getting grants. The paper they push is secondary to the goal of adding to enrollment and turning more bucks every year.
This guy lives next door to me. He probably wouldnt understand the questions on an IQ test much less get any right. He is also a home builder/contactor. He is like a damn idiot savant with a nail gun and wood. I can rank in the 150's pretty regular on IQ tests. My friend makes me look like a moron when I get him to help me building and framing my house. Who is smarter...well.. I guess that depends..
Seems like we here in the US would suffer a lot more than Iran from cyber-terrorism.. While it may feel good today to digitally attack them, I fear that the eventual reprisals might be much worse than what we are simply stalling.
My first thought was wondering how much of a cloud of this would be wandering around.. I know wind and dissipation and such.. but working in the A/C industry for a while taught me to be very cautious of flooding places with gasses.. that whole asphyxiation thing kinda ruin your day.
My dad taught me chess when I was around 10 and we played regularly until I was out of high school. In 11th-12th grade we played 2-3-4 hour games almost nightly. I eventually won more than I lost before I moved out.
Of all the things, I think it taught me how to think many steps ahead on projects and tasks and improved my analytical thinking immeasurably.
Kudos for Armenia on this..there is nothing bad about it.
Actually the best minds are working on High Frequency Trading.. with a side-order of social/web media manipulation.
The final industry you missed is financial, which includes stocks, banks and insurance. Unfortunately, it doesnt take 300M brokers and bankers and thats just too bad for a lot of people looking to do anything tangible.
This is a preview of how accelerating technologies will allow us to monitor anything, anywhere, in realtime.
Although to a degree I suppose this is already happening for the most part.
So.. you go to a site.. it says "please allow us to store cookies to enhance your experience" yada yada.. you say no.. next time..you get the same message...lather, rinse, repeat until you say yes because **there is no other way to maintain the persistent state of the selection**.
People will simply not go to the sites eventually or say yes after the umptienth time to get away from having to click no.
I know.. and agree.. it is still a support nightmare when there are multiple flavors of the same browser running around.. Im just whining I guess.. I am just so tired of designing and developing for multiple browsers.. the web dev nightmare since Netscape/IE.. I was there...and I wasnt amused then..and Im still not.
As if having to support 3 major browsers wasnt a web design nightmare enough..now to support multiple versions of each..yay. I can hear it now.. well.. it looks ok to me, but I got a support email that it looked like (random crap) for this person, looked like (wierd problem) to my other friend and this (random thing) didnt work for one of my friends at work.. see about that will you? Oh.. they all said they used FireFox if that helps.
You haven't seen my desktop.
If they are douchy enough to ask for that crap.. you should probably move on.. srsly..
Who's there?
Lottery Commission.
DOH!
From wiki.. Kepler-11 is a star in the Kepler spacecraft field of observations and is roughly 2000 light years away from our Solar System.
So only a few thousand generations and we are so there...