I'm trying really hard to think of a reason, after confiscating the cell phones, to actually open them up and start checking all of their pictures. That's some pretty severe invasion of privacy, and also rather creepy.
Bluntly stated -- does this guy give two sh*ts about consumer interests?
The guy pretty much wrote Obama's tech plan, the motto of which is "Open Government, Open Networks, Open Market." And he's an advocate for 'Net Neutrality.
The FCC isn't charged with creating standards and products, it's about policy. Technology policy, but policy nonetheless. It is a regulatory body. Nothing more, nothing less.
I know it's the cool thing today to be cynical about Obama's decisions, and I haven't agreed with many of them lately as well, but this is a good pick.
Moneybomb the EEF? You know, if the feared power of Slashdotting can offline unprepared servers, the same should be possible with cash and unconstitutional laws.
The global ramifications of this stance are more nuanced than that. It would be a sign of good faith if the Russian government were to prosecute the parties responsible for an attack on a foreign military body. Conversely, it is a sign of complacence if they do not.
Basically, the problems that the network can create are too many and too serious for the governments of the world to ignore. This doesn't mean 'Net Neutrality is impossible, but it means security reforms is going to have to happen sooner than later. Otherwise, the government will see no other option but to own the tubes.
Well, let's look at the example at hand, with Yahoo and Microsoft. What happens if the will of the shareholders ("Say yes! Get bought out!") goes directly against the best interests of the company in the long term ("Microsoft will ruin everything we hold dear and laugh")? The shareholders were begging for Yahoo to take an action that works great in the short term but destroys the future of the company.
No, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm actually curious. It looks like a case of madmen at the helm.
This line of thinking needs to die in a fire. The company exists to serve the employees. As in, the people whose livelihoods depend on the company doing well. Sure, the shareholders have a stake, but they'll move on. Lose your employees, and your company is toast. Thinking that you serve some invisible group of people has caused plenty of CEOs to act against their companies' interests.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that going public, despite the giant bags of money it brings in, is never a good idea in the long run. It puts your company at the helm of know-nothings like Carl Icahn.
I think it's on-topic enough. Spring is _amazing_, and ahead of its time. If I were the guy at GPG looking for new partnerships, I'd tap those guys rather than looking to Square Enix.
Consider that the current administration lost a ton of emails due to crappy closed proprietary software and shoddy data retention policies. Having somebody at the top who believes in sensible computing is actually rather important. I'm not saying he'll be pushing Ubuntu onto the office desktops, but the basic philosophy is very refreshing.
The stock firmware on the iRiver H10 requires Windows Media Player in order to sync correctly. As a Linux user, this was a major bummer. There are hacks to mount it as Universal Mass Storage, however, and with RockBox (or EasyH10) I can refresh the database without having Windows do it for me.
Same thing happened to me yesterday, two DVDs showed up which were somewhat overdue (would have arrived by Tuesday based on previous experience). They were correct, but I had no notice that they had shipped. Strange.
Nailed it on the head. The post and story describe the facility as a"home chemistry lab" but don't go any father into further details.
What chemicals did he possess? How much of it was he storing? What were the storage conditions? What were the end results of his experimentation?
We don't have any of this information, so I have no reason to call this a "nanny state" issue. Especially since it was a town the conducted the search, not the state or federal governments.
Man's contribution to "greenhouse gases" are largely due to the burning of hydrocarbons, typically fossil fuels. Soot that is blamed for poor air quality is produced by a combination of uncombusted hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and other debris that are side effects of incomplete combustion. In the end, it all links back to the same source: burning organic matter for energy.
We should see the pushes for clean air, energy independence/sustainability, and greenhouse gas reduction as different approaches to the same problem, just with different groups of people working with different data.
Also, try not to look at the call for so-called "green" technology as a push to "cripple our economies." Eventually, inevitably, the fossil fuels will run out, and all the infrastructure we created to mine, refine, and utilize them will be worthless. If we are not prepared for that, then our economies will be crippled. It's good to see CO2 emissions as an indicator of not just global warming, but dependence on a transient source of energy.
Interestingly enough, the MBTA isn't really a public organization. It's a private institution that is supported by taxpayer dollars. I know that sounds oxymoronic, but it is. From Wikipedia: A turning point in funding happened in 2000. Prior to July 1, 2000, the MBTA was reimbursed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for all costs above revenue collected (net cost of service). Beginning on that date, the T was granted a dedicated revenue stream consisting of amounts assessed on served cities and towns, along with a dedicated 20% portion of the 5% state sales tax. The MBTA now must live within this "forward funding" budget.
The end result is that the T is expected to largely pay for itself. To make matters worse, when this transition happened, the MBTA was also shouldered with the debt from several Big Dig renovation projects. As far as I know, it's been in the red ever since. So, it not only needs fares to sustain itself but also dig itself out of debt.
As much as I love my homestate, Massachusetts is a good example of civic planning gone very, very wrong. At any rate, this makes state's restraining order on behalf of the MBTA even more complex, since it isn't a state department anymore.
I'm against this gag order, but the case about First Amendment rights seems to be weak. Under your argument, it would be fine if I posted your Social Security and credit card numbers on the internet, as long as I'm not the one stealing anything from your accounts.
What I want to know is why these students didn't give a presentation to the MBTA itself or the MA state government. Seems like they're willing to pay attention.
I thought about it myself when they first implemented it. The point of the CharlieCard is that it allows one to quickly board trains and buses at any point. Thus, if the card simply stored a pointer to the account, all the buses in town would have to be wirelessly networked to perform a lookup on the account, and the subsequent deduction if a fare is taken.
I guess that was a little to hard to implement, so they went with the simple solution of making the RFID chip read-writable and storing the data locally. The MBTA is ridiculously strapped for cash, so an expensive networking solution that would not make them any more money didn't appear to be worthwhile.
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Steven Chu's appointment has been approved by the Senate, so that should count as a +1 to the Science crowd.
I'm trying really hard to think of a reason, after confiscating the cell phones, to actually open them up and start checking all of their pictures. That's some pretty severe invasion of privacy, and also rather creepy.
Bluntly stated -- does this guy give two sh*ts about consumer interests?
The guy pretty much wrote Obama's tech plan, the motto of which is "Open Government, Open Networks, Open Market." And he's an advocate for 'Net Neutrality.
The FCC isn't charged with creating standards and products, it's about policy. Technology policy, but policy nonetheless. It is a regulatory body. Nothing more, nothing less.
I know it's the cool thing today to be cynical about Obama's decisions, and I haven't agreed with many of them lately as well, but this is a good pick.
Well, we solve that problem by paying farmers not to grow food. Thus, no rotting in the fields.
That doesn't surprise me, they have a lot of work ahead of them. The thing won't even run on Firefox yet; it requires Windows with IE. So lame.
Moneybomb the EEF? You know, if the feared power of Slashdotting can offline unprepared servers, the same should be possible with cash and unconstitutional laws.
Sound.
The global ramifications of this stance are more nuanced than that. It would be a sign of good faith if the Russian government were to prosecute the parties responsible for an attack on a foreign military body. Conversely, it is a sign of complacence if they do not.
Basically, the problems that the network can create are too many and too serious for the governments of the world to ignore. This doesn't mean 'Net Neutrality is impossible, but it means security reforms is going to have to happen sooner than later. Otherwise, the government will see no other option but to own the tubes.
Does it runs Limux?
Last time I checked, SCO doesn't make wooden arrows for children. DENIED.
Senator Palin?
No thanks.
Well, let's look at the example at hand, with Yahoo and Microsoft. What happens if the will of the shareholders ("Say yes! Get bought out!") goes directly against the best interests of the company in the long term ("Microsoft will ruin everything we hold dear and laugh")? The shareholders were begging for Yahoo to take an action that works great in the short term but destroys the future of the company.
No, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm actually curious. It looks like a case of madmen at the helm.
This line of thinking needs to die in a fire. The company exists to serve the employees. As in, the people whose livelihoods depend on the company doing well. Sure, the shareholders have a stake, but they'll move on. Lose your employees, and your company is toast. Thinking that you serve some invisible group of people has caused plenty of CEOs to act against their companies' interests.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that going public, despite the giant bags of money it brings in, is never a good idea in the long run. It puts your company at the helm of know-nothings like Carl Icahn.
I think it's on-topic enough. Spring is _amazing_, and ahead of its time. If I were the guy at GPG looking for new partnerships, I'd tap those guys rather than looking to Square Enix.
Consider that the current administration lost a ton of emails due to crappy closed proprietary software and shoddy data retention policies. Having somebody at the top who believes in sensible computing is actually rather important. I'm not saying he'll be pushing Ubuntu onto the office desktops, but the basic philosophy is very refreshing.
And I'd mod you up, but I don't have any mod points.
They were stolen by Chinese hackers.
The stock firmware on the iRiver H10 requires Windows Media Player in order to sync correctly. As a Linux user, this was a major bummer. There are hacks to mount it as Universal Mass Storage, however, and with RockBox (or EasyH10) I can refresh the database without having Windows do it for me.
Trying to find the double entendres in this is hurting my brain.
Same thing happened to me yesterday, two DVDs showed up which were somewhat overdue (would have arrived by Tuesday based on previous experience). They were correct, but I had no notice that they had shipped. Strange.
Nailed it on the head. The post and story describe the facility as a"home chemistry lab" but don't go any father into further details.
What chemicals did he possess? How much of it was he storing? What were the storage conditions? What were the end results of his experimentation?
We don't have any of this information, so I have no reason to call this a "nanny state" issue. Especially since it was a town the conducted the search, not the state or federal governments.
Man's contribution to "greenhouse gases" are largely due to the burning of hydrocarbons, typically fossil fuels. Soot that is blamed for poor air quality is produced by a combination of uncombusted hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and other debris that are side effects of incomplete combustion. In the end, it all links back to the same source: burning organic matter for energy.
We should see the pushes for clean air, energy independence/sustainability, and greenhouse gas reduction as different approaches to the same problem, just with different groups of people working with different data.
Also, try not to look at the call for so-called "green" technology as a push to "cripple our economies." Eventually, inevitably, the fossil fuels will run out, and all the infrastructure we created to mine, refine, and utilize them will be worthless. If we are not prepared for that, then our economies will be crippled. It's good to see CO2 emissions as an indicator of not just global warming, but dependence on a transient source of energy.
Interestingly enough, the MBTA isn't really a public organization. It's a private institution that is supported by taxpayer dollars. I know that sounds oxymoronic, but it is. From Wikipedia:
A turning point in funding happened in 2000. Prior to July 1, 2000, the MBTA was reimbursed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for all costs above revenue collected (net cost of service). Beginning on that date, the T was granted a dedicated revenue stream consisting of amounts assessed on served cities and towns, along with a dedicated 20% portion of the 5% state sales tax. The MBTA now must live within this "forward funding" budget.
The end result is that the T is expected to largely pay for itself. To make matters worse, when this transition happened, the MBTA was also shouldered with the debt from several Big Dig renovation projects. As far as I know, it's been in the red ever since. So, it not only needs fares to sustain itself but also dig itself out of debt.
As much as I love my homestate, Massachusetts is a good example of civic planning gone very, very wrong. At any rate, this makes state's restraining order on behalf of the MBTA even more complex, since it isn't a state department anymore.
I'm against this gag order, but the case about First Amendment rights seems to be weak. Under your argument, it would be fine if I posted your Social Security and credit card numbers on the internet, as long as I'm not the one stealing anything from your accounts.
What I want to know is why these students didn't give a presentation to the MBTA itself or the MA state government. Seems like they're willing to pay attention.
I thought about it myself when they first implemented it. The point of the CharlieCard is that it allows one to quickly board trains and buses at any point. Thus, if the card simply stored a pointer to the account, all the buses in town would have to be wirelessly networked to perform a lookup on the account, and the subsequent deduction if a fare is taken.
I guess that was a little to hard to implement, so they went with the simple solution of making the RFID chip read-writable and storing the data locally. The MBTA is ridiculously strapped for cash, so an expensive networking solution that would not make them any more money didn't appear to be worthwhile.
My first order? A 3D printer.