Given that the guy's a NJ tattoo artist, he probably associates with a culture that does consider the anchors normal and usual, and the added ability to hold devices turn something rather ordinary into an extra capability. While it's an iPod for a tattoo artist today, it could be an Android tablet for doctors tomorrow, a network monitor for IT staff, or sheet music for a piccolo player...
So Anonymous first defines itself as being the collective voice of everybody (with a disproportionate representation of 4chan), then claims it's the most powerful organization in the world. Good for you, guys, really... Now you can take on the Tautology Club.
Unfortunately, I've just formed my own organization, called "Irresponsible", and everybody who doesn't know they're a part of Irresponsible is also a part of it! Because they're irresponsible in knowing what groups they're a part of, see? Since geological processes also don't take responsibility for their actions, they're also part of the organization. Who's the most powerful now, huh?
Now, Irresponsible! Scream at a wall! Tear down posters! Show how mad you are at everything that doesn't appease you by inconveniencing others!
I would like to convert to Gamemakerdom, as I believe it to be preferable to PHP, but I cannot acquire the money for the license. If you buy it for me, I will join the bliss of Gamemakerful Nirvana.
A company maintaining a huge amount of information on a nation's citizens has its security compromised... perhaps they should go to that nation's security administration, or something like that, for help in preventing a recurrence.
That can be part of the communication. In previous braking maneuvers, the car monitors how its speed decreases with braking force. That gives the computer an estimate of (brake condition + vehicle weight + occupancy + road condition), which can be broadcast to cars it travels with. Those cars can then apply less force than usual to accommodate a slower-stopping car. Effectively, your little red sports car will reduce itself to the stopping rate of the dog-toting SUV.
Now, these things I speak of are theoretical, of course... I know there were some tests in the 90's and early 2000's of such systems mounted in disparate vehicles on closed courses, but I don't know if features like this are realistic expectations for Google or others in the near future, as I've been out of touch with that field.
Don't forget that automated cars with vehicle-to-vehicle networks can also monitor their own braking performance, and communicate that with other cars in their group, so they can all brake at the rate of the slowest one. They can also plan maneuvers ahead of time, so there are fewer surprises to react to.
I'm sure someone just handed you a free PC when you decided to program for Windows or Linux.
My last Linux dev box was pulled from a dumpster by a friend, and was handed to me. I wiped the Windows XP installation off, installed Debian, and happily started coding, so, um... yes.
I'm inclined to think otherwise. There's a booming market for cheap insurance, so insurers will jump at anything they can do to charge lower rates and still turn a profit, just to stay competitive.
Automated vehicles are a godsend, because it reduces the biggest source of unexpected claims. Add on ancillary features like monitoring your adherence to speed limits, the crime rate where your car is parked for long periods, and the time between maintenance checkups, and the insurer has a nice way to identify their safest clients to offer a well-advertised discount, and their riskiest drivers to raise their premiums.
Europe has tons of cities which aren't planned like that
When London, Beijing, Cairo, and most other ancient cities were first laid out, their main roads connected little groups of buildings, in whatever way was convenient at the time. Maps didn't exist commonly, let alone a postal service, so the only important measure of efficiency was transit time on foot. With nothing else around them, those roads could be made straight, bending only around geographic features. This is clearly evident in rural Africa, where the roads between farms are generally straight, but run at odd angles.
Newer cities (including all the ones in America, which were all built in the last 500 years) were designed for people and postmen. Cities were expected to have a high population density, so their roads are designed to make the biggest buildings possible: rectangles. Their addressing was designed for efficiency, to the extent where cities like Salt Lake City, Utah have primarily numbered streets, with names being used only for main routes. There are still many odd angles, but they're generally old major routes that the city has grown around. Even landscape is getting ignored in favor of efficiency, with roads often stopping at a river's edge and continuing on the other side.
All of this means that outside America, Google Car has little use.
Conveniently, modern routing algorithms have absolutely no problem with any of these designs. Modern algorithms treat the city as a graph of intersections, knowing what intersections connect to what other intersections, how far apart they are (by time, distance, and even traffic density) and knowing what building numbers are between what intersections. The actual placement of those intersections doesn't matter when planning a route, but only when actually making a map for humans to follow.
In fact they would be fatal to others on the road.
As I'm sure has been pointed out by others by now, this is ridiculous. An automated car can be just as sensitive as any human-driven car, and often moreso. An automated car has cameras and laser sensors on it, that can poll thousands of points each second to construct a map of the world. Unlike humans, the sensors don't suffer from blindness, distraction, or optical illusions. If there's an elephant in front of the car, the car will know that there's an elephant-shaped object in front of it, and it will recognize the turning lights on its ass. the moment they come on.
Also unlike humans, an automated car is capable of communicating with other automated cars on the road. Despite what the summary says, they can tailgate, and they can cut each other off. The difference is that they'll be in constant communication at the time, so that if one car needs to stop, it will give plenty of notice to other cars, who will all apply their brakes at the same time at different strengths, so they will decelerate in unison. Cars traveling a half-meter apart on the highway will stop a half-meter apart, too.
With this communication, it's fully possible for a car to see around corners. Not only are there sonar sensors capable of making a decent guess as to what's approaching, but there are also projects to make stationary sensors, to be placed near intersections. These would watch for regular old dumb cars (and people, cats, dogs, and elephants, too), monitor their position and velocity, and send reports to automated cars in the area, which can then make fully-informed decisions about what to do.
I doubt Google has thought of this and they will be in for a big surprise when nobody but Americans can use them.
I can assure you that Google has thought of this. That's why Google Maps works for routes outside the United States, and why self-driving robots have been a major field of research for a few decades.
Do they need an IS service dept that resorts in connecting these utilities to the net? What for?
With summer coming up, who's going to go drive to all the properties and run through the process to turn it down, since they won't need as much heating? And when winter comes, who's going to turn it up again, and every day, check that they're all in working order?
Would that checking be less expensive than securing a network connection? I doubt it.
A housing authority housing (probably... too lazy to look up numbers) thousands of families, and probably tracking financial information on them all, across several hundred separate locations? No, they don't need an IS department at all. They can use Excel, right?
The ruling itself wouldn't apply out of state, but in another state where there is no clear precedent, I believe a lawyer can say "New York already discussed this at length, and came to this conclusion. Whaddya say we save time and money and you just agree with New York, your honor?"
Even outside NY, I believe (though IANAL) the ruling can be used as precedent, and can be referred to in other cases to persuade the judge to come to the same conclusion.
As I recall, Google's terms (and most that I've read) specifically say that the creator keeps ownership, but they perpetually keep a license to use, reproduce, etc. that information.
This ruling's also likely a good thing for them, as Google itself doesn't need to do anything. If child porn shows up on their servers through normal operations, they didn't make any action to specifically obtain it, so they're likely free and clear... though as a private entity they are under no obligation to respect users' privacy (except as detailed in their privacy policies and other documents that may be considered legal contracts) and can choose to turn over identification information about any user that uploads anything questionable.
Because they bought a whole slew of patents in a portfolio, and this happened to be included?
Despite the headline, it seems Google has nothing to do with the invention, or the patenting. They just hold the IP now, and have done a whopping total of nothing with it.
Exactly. All government spending is just returning money to the public, in one form or another. It doesn't "create" jobs, it doesn't "subsidize" anything in the long run.
My point is that arguments about all the things the money could do are equally ridiculous. The one thing the money should do is never be collected from the public in the first place, but it's too late for that.
That is $90 million that could be towards STEM promotion in education. That is $90 million that is money that could have been used as an incentive or subsidy to get businesses to hire more employees (if you believe in trickle down) or applied to the people directly (if you believe in trickle up). That $90 million could pay ~5500 people to work for one year at minimum wage.
Because IE's implementation of a given function might be different from WebKit's, so a designer has to resort to more painful workarounds to get a perfect design. It's easier to just duplicate the same detail with different prefixes (and slightly different parameters, as needed), and know that the directive will be ignored by browsers that don't do exactly what the designer wanted.
It's like back in the bad old days of web design, where websites ran JavaScript to detect what browser was in use, so the page elements could be repositioned on the fly as needed, and the right objects would be used in other scripts.
You know... since we could spend the $90 million on hiring subsidies that will really just fund companies that would be hiring anyway, or giving a single dollar to one third of the country's population, why not spend it elsewhere, like supporting America's technology industry? We could be funding the software and other engineers who are needed to fix the machines.
To be honest, I actually I do find the posts somewhat entertaining. If this kid were writing a novel rather than trolling, I'd expect a pretty decent piece of literature to result. There's a nice blend of imagination, misdirection, and vocabulary that just appeals to me. I greatly prefer this to the post immediately below (as I write this) which includes "jason has a firm grip on shitstick".
You mean the "java update" icon in the taskbar? The one that wants to update every few months?
Yeah, I ignore it, too... It seems every update is a few hundred megabytes, and I don't really want to pay attention to it long enough to tell it to install, then come back to follow up on it. Between all of the "time-tested" self-updaters for Windows, Adobe, Apple, Google, and a dozen more I could track down if I cared to, I'm sick of the whole self-updating thing. Why the hell don't we use RSS (or equivalent) for this yet, and be able to group all the updates together in a single interface, with a single "update now" button?
I guess that'll still be a Linux-only thing for another decade or so...
By issuing bonds, governments can create money and debt. Both get traded around, allowing more exchanges to take place. In the long run, a reasonable level of debt means the economy grows enough that people are wealthier, and their increased tax income covers the interest on the debt. That works perfectly fine until a major recession hits, and the wealth (and taxes) generated by a strong economy disappear suddenly.
To a family, having an extra few hundred dollars around for a few months might mean having a safety net for car repairs, any medical expense, et cetera, while still having the XBox in time for the kids' summer break. Having that extra cash might save a low-income family more than $75 in the long run, making it financially worthwhile.
In both cases, debt is only bad when its amount exceeds what is expected to be gained through its use. When you get a loan for a car to take you to a well-paying job, then lose that job... you're screwed.
Well, yeah... the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a federal agency, so the Pauls obviously think anything they do is unconstitutional, evil, and wrong.
It should please you to know that all of my websites are already amenable to wiretapping, and my networks are all designed to allow you to insert your sniffer wherever you want. Please do note, however, that most of my internal support services communicate via the pDonkey protocol, where all data is encoded as a series of pictures of donkeys copulating.
It will be left to you to decode messages transmitted in this manner, as the protocol is intended to send a clear message to any eavesdro[ppers on our secure systems. The message is "Fuck you, jackass".
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in body piercing they are very common
Given that the guy's a NJ tattoo artist, he probably associates with a culture that does consider the anchors normal and usual, and the added ability to hold devices turn something rather ordinary into an extra capability. While it's an iPod for a tattoo artist today, it could be an Android tablet for doctors tomorrow, a network monitor for IT staff, or sheet music for a piccolo player...
So Anonymous first defines itself as being the collective voice of everybody (with a disproportionate representation of 4chan), then claims it's the most powerful organization in the world. Good for you, guys, really... Now you can take on the Tautology Club.
Unfortunately, I've just formed my own organization, called "Irresponsible", and everybody who doesn't know they're a part of Irresponsible is also a part of it! Because they're irresponsible in knowing what groups they're a part of, see? Since geological processes also don't take responsibility for their actions, they're also part of the organization. Who's the most powerful now, huh?
Now, Irresponsible! Scream at a wall! Tear down posters! Show how mad you are at everything that doesn't appease you by inconveniencing others!
I would like to convert to Gamemakerdom, as I believe it to be preferable to PHP, but I cannot acquire the money for the license. If you buy it for me, I will join the bliss of Gamemakerful Nirvana.
A company maintaining a huge amount of information on a nation's citizens has its security compromised... perhaps they should go to that nation's security administration, or something like that, for help in preventing a recurrence.
That can be part of the communication. In previous braking maneuvers, the car monitors how its speed decreases with braking force. That gives the computer an estimate of (brake condition + vehicle weight + occupancy + road condition), which can be broadcast to cars it travels with. Those cars can then apply less force than usual to accommodate a slower-stopping car. Effectively, your little red sports car will reduce itself to the stopping rate of the dog-toting SUV.
Now, these things I speak of are theoretical, of course... I know there were some tests in the 90's and early 2000's of such systems mounted in disparate vehicles on closed courses, but I don't know if features like this are realistic expectations for Google or others in the near future, as I've been out of touch with that field.
Don't forget that automated cars with vehicle-to-vehicle networks can also monitor their own braking performance, and communicate that with other cars in their group, so they can all brake at the rate of the slowest one. They can also plan maneuvers ahead of time, so there are fewer surprises to react to.
We live in exciting times.
I'm sure someone just handed you a free PC when you decided to program for Windows or Linux.
My last Linux dev box was pulled from a dumpster by a friend, and was handed to me. I wiped the Windows XP installation off, installed Debian, and happily started coding, so, um... yes.
I'm inclined to think otherwise. There's a booming market for cheap insurance, so insurers will jump at anything they can do to charge lower rates and still turn a profit, just to stay competitive.
Automated vehicles are a godsend, because it reduces the biggest source of unexpected claims. Add on ancillary features like monitoring your adherence to speed limits, the crime rate where your car is parked for long periods, and the time between maintenance checkups, and the insurer has a nice way to identify their safest clients to offer a well-advertised discount, and their riskiest drivers to raise their premiums.
Europe has tons of cities which aren't planned like that
When London, Beijing, Cairo, and most other ancient cities were first laid out, their main roads connected little groups of buildings, in whatever way was convenient at the time. Maps didn't exist commonly, let alone a postal service, so the only important measure of efficiency was transit time on foot. With nothing else around them, those roads could be made straight, bending only around geographic features. This is clearly evident in rural Africa, where the roads between farms are generally straight, but run at odd angles.
Newer cities (including all the ones in America, which were all built in the last 500 years) were designed for people and postmen. Cities were expected to have a high population density, so their roads are designed to make the biggest buildings possible: rectangles. Their addressing was designed for efficiency, to the extent where cities like Salt Lake City, Utah have primarily numbered streets, with names being used only for main routes. There are still many odd angles, but they're generally old major routes that the city has grown around. Even landscape is getting ignored in favor of efficiency, with roads often stopping at a river's edge and continuing on the other side.
All of this means that outside America, Google Car has little use.
Conveniently, modern routing algorithms have absolutely no problem with any of these designs. Modern algorithms treat the city as a graph of intersections, knowing what intersections connect to what other intersections, how far apart they are (by time, distance, and even traffic density) and knowing what building numbers are between what intersections. The actual placement of those intersections doesn't matter when planning a route, but only when actually making a map for humans to follow.
In fact they would be fatal to others on the road.
As I'm sure has been pointed out by others by now, this is ridiculous. An automated car can be just as sensitive as any human-driven car, and often moreso. An automated car has cameras and laser sensors on it, that can poll thousands of points each second to construct a map of the world. Unlike humans, the sensors don't suffer from blindness, distraction, or optical illusions. If there's an elephant in front of the car, the car will know that there's an elephant-shaped object in front of it, and it will recognize the turning lights on its ass. the moment they come on.
Also unlike humans, an automated car is capable of communicating with other automated cars on the road. Despite what the summary says, they can tailgate, and they can cut each other off. The difference is that they'll be in constant communication at the time, so that if one car needs to stop, it will give plenty of notice to other cars, who will all apply their brakes at the same time at different strengths, so they will decelerate in unison. Cars traveling a half-meter apart on the highway will stop a half-meter apart, too.
With this communication, it's fully possible for a car to see around corners. Not only are there sonar sensors capable of making a decent guess as to what's approaching, but there are also projects to make stationary sensors, to be placed near intersections. These would watch for regular old dumb cars (and people, cats, dogs, and elephants, too), monitor their position and velocity, and send reports to automated cars in the area, which can then make fully-informed decisions about what to do.
I doubt Google has thought of this and they will be in for a big surprise when nobody but Americans can use them.
I can assure you that Google has thought of this. That's why Google Maps works for routes outside the United States, and why self-driving robots have been a major field of research for a few decades.
Do they need an IS service dept that resorts in connecting these utilities to the net? What for?
With summer coming up, who's going to go drive to all the properties and run through the process to turn it down, since they won't need as much heating? And when winter comes, who's going to turn it up again, and every day, check that they're all in working order?
Would that checking be less expensive than securing a network connection? I doubt it.
A housing authority housing (probably... too lazy to look up numbers) thousands of families, and probably tracking financial information on them all, across several hundred separate locations? No, they don't need an IS department at all. They can use Excel, right?
The ruling itself wouldn't apply out of state, but in another state where there is no clear precedent, I believe a lawyer can say "New York already discussed this at length, and came to this conclusion. Whaddya say we save time and money and you just agree with New York, your honor?"
(IA(also)NAL, just a learning geek as well)
Even outside NY, I believe (though IANAL) the ruling can be used as precedent, and can be referred to in other cases to persuade the judge to come to the same conclusion.
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As I recall, Google's terms (and most that I've read) specifically say that the creator keeps ownership, but they perpetually keep a license to use, reproduce, etc. that information.
This ruling's also likely a good thing for them, as Google itself doesn't need to do anything. If child porn shows up on their servers through normal operations, they didn't make any action to specifically obtain it, so they're likely free and clear... though as a private entity they are under no obligation to respect users' privacy (except as detailed in their privacy policies and other documents that may be considered legal contracts) and can choose to turn over identification information about any user that uploads anything questionable.
Some would argue that French is a simplified form of Zarcbuklioidian, but they'd probably be ignored.
Because they bought a whole slew of patents in a portfolio, and this happened to be included?
Despite the headline, it seems Google has nothing to do with the invention, or the patenting. They just hold the IP now, and have done a whopping total of nothing with it.
Exactly. All government spending is just returning money to the public, in one form or another. It doesn't "create" jobs, it doesn't "subsidize" anything in the long run.
My point is that arguments about all the things the money could do are equally ridiculous. The one thing the money should do is never be collected from the public in the first place, but it's too late for that.
That is $90 million that could be towards STEM promotion in education. That is $90 million that is money that could have been used as an incentive or subsidy to get businesses to hire more employees (if you believe in trickle down) or applied to the people directly (if you believe in trickle up). That $90 million could pay ~5500 people to work for one year at minimum wage.
Because IE's implementation of a given function might be different from WebKit's, so a designer has to resort to more painful workarounds to get a perfect design. It's easier to just duplicate the same detail with different prefixes (and slightly different parameters, as needed), and know that the directive will be ignored by browsers that don't do exactly what the designer wanted.
It's like back in the bad old days of web design, where websites ran JavaScript to detect what browser was in use, so the page elements could be repositioned on the fly as needed, and the right objects would be used in other scripts.
You know... since we could spend the $90 million on hiring subsidies that will really just fund companies that would be hiring anyway, or giving a single dollar to one third of the country's population, why not spend it elsewhere, like supporting America's technology industry? We could be funding the software and other engineers who are needed to fix the machines.
To be honest, I actually I do find the posts somewhat entertaining. If this kid were writing a novel rather than trolling, I'd expect a pretty decent piece of literature to result. There's a nice blend of imagination, misdirection, and vocabulary that just appeals to me. I greatly prefer this to the post immediately below (as I write this) which includes "jason has a firm grip on shitstick".
You mean the "java update" icon in the taskbar? The one that wants to update every few months?
Yeah, I ignore it, too... It seems every update is a few hundred megabytes, and I don't really want to pay attention to it long enough to tell it to install, then come back to follow up on it. Between all of the "time-tested" self-updaters for Windows, Adobe, Apple, Google, and a dozen more I could track down if I cared to, I'm sick of the whole self-updating thing. Why the hell don't we use RSS (or equivalent) for this yet, and be able to group all the updates together in a single interface, with a single "update now" button?
I guess that'll still be a Linux-only thing for another decade or so...
By issuing bonds, governments can create money and debt. Both get traded around, allowing more exchanges to take place. In the long run, a reasonable level of debt means the economy grows enough that people are wealthier, and their increased tax income covers the interest on the debt. That works perfectly fine until a major recession hits, and the wealth (and taxes) generated by a strong economy disappear suddenly.
To a family, having an extra few hundred dollars around for a few months might mean having a safety net for car repairs, any medical expense, et cetera, while still having the XBox in time for the kids' summer break. Having that extra cash might save a low-income family more than $75 in the long run, making it financially worthwhile.
In both cases, debt is only bad when its amount exceeds what is expected to be gained through its use. When you get a loan for a car to take you to a well-paying job, then lose that job... you're screwed.
Of course... with a word after them, they become "channels".
Well, yeah... the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a federal agency, so the Pauls obviously think anything they do is unconstitutional, evil, and wrong.
Dearest agents of the FBI,
It should please you to know that all of my websites are already amenable to wiretapping, and my networks are all designed to allow you to insert your sniffer wherever you want. Please do note, however, that most of my internal support services communicate via the pDonkey protocol, where all data is encoded as a series of pictures of donkeys copulating.
It will be left to you to decode messages transmitted in this manner, as the protocol is intended to send a clear message to any eavesdro[ppers on our secure systems. The message is "Fuck you, jackass".
Sincerely,
Sarten X