There are no leftists in Washington. If there are, then they are hiding in a corner waiting for the right moment to strike (pun intended?). The people who are there are corporatists--for lac of a better word. It matters not, who or what struck this down, only that they serve concentrated interests and that we are arguing over a ruse.
Right now there is shit storm brewing because I added a bunch of wait-listed students to a course. The only thing is, I deleted them after adding them. Guess what, wait-listed students are logging in. FUCK!! Blackboard admin, oh the fun.
My guess, the Blackboard application will be the one getting killed in the future. Many states are in the process of trying to get students on a single-login-for-life and I can't see everyone standardizing on a proprietary closed-source system housed within the gates of a single company. Moodle is a better choice since it is open-source. Let the community build it, test it, and Blackboard can make their own mods and specialize in support and content. It is not like most schools can even begin to implement their own LMS even if it is FOSS. Blackboard costs a fortune to setup and maintain properly, so something has to give. Nonetheless, the Blackboard corp will become a dominating force in whatever transpires.
They have not been purchasing and killing, it is more like purchase and integrate.
A transaction in which I gain something of value to me, in return for something of value to the other person, which I value less than the goods I receive is the fundamental bedrock of economics.
This is not the bedrock of economics, it is the bedrock of societal decline. Trade is an exchange where both parties benefit equally. What you describe is not trade, it is hucksterism. Healthy economics is based on TRADE.
The loss of privacy over time may not affect you so much as it *will* affect generations to come. Your childrens' children will be manipulated in ways that we cannot imagine. All because our generation didn't think of the consequences of letting soulless, artificial creations access to all our private thoughts. Individually it is no big deal, but aggregated together over the entire population and over a few generations it will become the dominate tool for control of entire nations of people.
On some level I've recognized this very thing you mention, yet it took reading it from someone else for the full magnitude to dawn. The part about being the "dominate tool for control of entire nations.." rings particularly true. We have just tripped over the art and science of data mining and informatics. Most people have no idea what is about to take place with the vast sea of information that is just beginning to undulate. Much like the physical sea, it is going to have a great impact on our evolution.
It is the other way around man. Facebook is much more intrusive and connected to you r life than Google ever will be. You, my friend, are either trolling or just defunct of critical thinking skills.
Blah blah blah...I think nature will handle your "cautious manner" consideration. So what if cougars are stalking me, or bears jump out in front of my car. I'd say you need a quick education on the state of industrial pollution, nuclear proliferation, and human rights if you need something to worry about.
...impact on other species, disease, imbalances in the flora, etc
I'm so sick of hearing this crap. The same can be argued in opposition to preserving a waning species. Nature will take care of the impact, it has successfully done so for a long time now.
You've already pointed out one major unintended consequence, and there are sure to be plenty more... some good and some bad.
Yeah, bear poop.
I loathe hippies and can't stand the thought of a cougar attacking one of my kids, but your POV is stupid.
Uh....a measly 30k in debt? Not enough to end your life, he obviously had other issues. Next to my life and happiness I do not care one iota about my credit card bills.
I'm going to have to side with the 1/10th thing. The non-pedants are wrong in this case. I guess that means they are trying to be pedantic about the pedantry. Slashdot, who would have known?
You think we're bitching about Metro? Wait till it lands in front regular users. I had people freaking out because their desktop looked a little different in Windows 7. They're going to have a fucking aneurysm when 8 hits. Also, people are talking about touch-screen monitors like it is something we are going to have on our desktops. I can see using the TSI for some off-hand UI stuff, but most use is going to have to be mouse driven. It sounds great until you have to lift your hand up to actuate the UI, after a couple of times it gets real old. We have had touch screens employed for their optimal uses for many many years now, the desktop is not one of them.
Yeah, they really jumped the shark here. I can sense what they are aiming for, the aesthetic of less to the point of having nothing and forcing the user to jump through hoops so the designers can revel in a blank desktop.
Indeed, most of my users are not in the US. When I first launched in 2007 I designed for a US user-base (desktop based software). The rest of the English speaking world had different plans! I had to write a lot of code to handle all kinds of currency and tax issues. I get calls from CC processing companies all the time asking me to integrate their service into my software. First question: "Can you process international payments?" Answer: "No, no we can not." My reply: "Sorry, no can do." If you are online you better be ready to support the entire English speaking world--and then some.
It isn't magic, but things do get spooky when you start hooking together disparate systems (none of them have ANY bugs, right?) and interdependencies. From my point of view "cloud" is a marketing strategy of large corporations aimed at managers and generally non-technical people. Microsoft has been pushing for subscription based software as soon as they determined the internet wasn't a fad. Sure, there are some neat cloud services and APIs available (Amazon, Google, FB, Twitter, etc...), but considering them for mission critical status is a whole other ball of wax. If it is not magical like a shiny iPhone then control-freak business owners and executives are not going to be interested in giving up control of their infrastructure. No magic == no deal.
I keep remembering the Google applications that keep disappearing. Data is one thing, application providers going out of business or discontinuing a service is another issue entirely. Hopefully the competition still stands and you can migrate your applications over to their service.
"We should study [these unrecognised risks] before our socioeconomic fabric becomes inextricably dependent on a convenient but potentially unstable government model."
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That is most likely why this bill did not pass, they didn't want cascade of consumer privacy laws erupting. By they, I mean the donors.
Agreed, this law was not needed. FB accounts are already protected by employment law.
1) Give it to them
2) let them see your post about how Jesus is great
3) file suit
3.5) witness HR drones getting fired
4) profit
There are no leftists in Washington. If there are, then they are hiding in a corner waiting for the right moment to strike (pun intended?). The people who are there are corporatists--for lac of a better word. It matters not, who or what struck this down, only that they serve concentrated interests and that we are arguing over a ruse.
I'm glad you cleared this up.
Right now there is shit storm brewing because I added a bunch of wait-listed students to a course. The only thing is, I deleted them after adding them. Guess what, wait-listed students are logging in. FUCK!! Blackboard admin, oh the fun.
My guess, the Blackboard application will be the one getting killed in the future. Many states are in the process of trying to get students on a single-login-for-life and I can't see everyone standardizing on a proprietary closed-source system housed within the gates of a single company. Moodle is a better choice since it is open-source. Let the community build it, test it, and Blackboard can make their own mods and specialize in support and content. It is not like most schools can even begin to implement their own LMS even if it is FOSS. Blackboard costs a fortune to setup and maintain properly, so something has to give. Nonetheless, the Blackboard corp will become a dominating force in whatever transpires.
They have not been purchasing and killing, it is more like purchase and integrate.
A transaction in which I gain something of value to me, in return for something of value to the other person, which I value less than the goods I receive is the fundamental bedrock of economics.
This is not the bedrock of economics, it is the bedrock of societal decline. Trade is an exchange where both parties benefit equally. What you describe is not trade, it is hucksterism. Healthy economics is based on TRADE.
The loss of privacy over time may not affect you so much as it *will* affect generations to come. Your childrens' children will be manipulated in ways that we cannot imagine. All because our generation didn't think of the consequences of letting soulless, artificial creations access to all our private thoughts. Individually it is no big deal, but aggregated together over the entire population and over a few generations it will become the dominate tool for control of entire nations of people.
On some level I've recognized this very thing you mention, yet it took reading it from someone else for the full magnitude to dawn. The part about being the "dominate tool for control of entire nations.." rings particularly true. We have just tripped over the art and science of data mining and informatics. Most people have no idea what is about to take place with the vast sea of information that is just beginning to undulate. Much like the physical sea, it is going to have a great impact on our evolution.
Thank you for the info. I guessed as much. Should we not refute their mouth poop with facts?
It is the other way around man. Facebook is much more intrusive and connected to you r life than Google ever will be. You, my friend, are either trolling or just defunct of critical thinking skills.
Blah blah blah...I think nature will handle your "cautious manner" consideration. So what if cougars are stalking me, or bears jump out in front of my car. I'd say you need a quick education on the state of industrial pollution, nuclear proliferation, and human rights if you need something to worry about.
...impact on other species, disease, imbalances in the flora, etc
I'm so sick of hearing this crap. The same can be argued in opposition to preserving a waning species. Nature will take care of the impact, it has successfully done so for a long time now.
You've already pointed out one major unintended consequence, and there are sure to be plenty more... some good and some bad.
Yeah, bear poop.
I loathe hippies and can't stand the thought of a cougar attacking one of my kids, but your POV is stupid.
In other news....the grass is green and the sky is blue!
No, it was mandated loans AND the fruits of deregulation.
None of the states have an under-funded pension.
Uh....a measly 30k in debt? Not enough to end your life, he obviously had other issues. Next to my life and happiness I do not care one iota about my credit card bills.
What do they care about MY finances?
I'm going to have to side with the 1/10th thing. The non-pedants are wrong in this case. I guess that means they are trying to be pedantic about the pedantry. Slashdot, who would have known?
Indeed, they are somewhere between those laptops you find in Wal-Mart and a Lenovo Thinkpad.
You think we're bitching about Metro? Wait till it lands in front regular users. I had people freaking out because their desktop looked a little different in Windows 7. They're going to have a fucking aneurysm when 8 hits. Also, people are talking about touch-screen monitors like it is something we are going to have on our desktops. I can see using the TSI for some off-hand UI stuff, but most use is going to have to be mouse driven. It sounds great until you have to lift your hand up to actuate the UI, after a couple of times it gets real old. We have had touch screens employed for their optimal uses for many many years now, the desktop is not one of them.
Yeah, they really jumped the shark here. I can sense what they are aiming for, the aesthetic of less to the point of having nothing and forcing the user to jump through hoops so the designers can revel in a blank desktop.
Indeed, most of my users are not in the US. When I first launched in 2007 I designed for a US user-base (desktop based software). The rest of the English speaking world had different plans! I had to write a lot of code to handle all kinds of currency and tax issues. I get calls from CC processing companies all the time asking me to integrate their service into my software. First question: "Can you process international payments?" Answer: "No, no we can not." My reply: "Sorry, no can do." If you are online you better be ready to support the entire English speaking world--and then some.
It isn't magic, but things do get spooky when you start hooking together disparate systems (none of them have ANY bugs, right?) and interdependencies. From my point of view "cloud" is a marketing strategy of large corporations aimed at managers and generally non-technical people. Microsoft has been pushing for subscription based software as soon as they determined the internet wasn't a fad. Sure, there are some neat cloud services and APIs available (Amazon, Google, FB, Twitter, etc...), but considering them for mission critical status is a whole other ball of wax. If it is not magical like a shiny iPhone then control-freak business owners and executives are not going to be interested in giving up control of their infrastructure. No magic == no deal.
I keep remembering the Google applications that keep disappearing. Data is one thing, application providers going out of business or discontinuing a service is another issue entirely. Hopefully the competition still stands and you can migrate your applications over to their service.
"We should study [these unrecognised risks] before our socioeconomic fabric becomes inextricably dependent on a convenient but potentially unstable government model."
Indeed, I'm still locked in an internal debate over a new Mercedes or a 1972 Ford Pickup.