I'm a proud liberal, I support abortion rights; but I was horrified to hear that around a fifth of all pregnancies end in abortion (I should thank a right wing zealot for pointing that out by the way). No-one supports that. I don't happen to support criminalizing women for having abortions, but it does not mean that I consider fetuses to be "low value". I just wish we could concentrate on reducing the abortion rate rather than debating how harshly pregnant women "of the wrong sort" should be treated.
Quite frankly I've heard nothing constructive from either side of the abortion debate, they just want to drive the wedge deeper to fire up their respective bases. It seems to me at times that politicians on both sides would most profit if the abortion rate went up.
That seems to me to point more to the shameful progressive widening of the income gap between rich and poor than to "running the country on the backs of the wealthy".
What I don't get is why now ? The debt has piled up in good times and bad under administrations of both stripes. The purpose of the debt is to bridge the gap between the nations income and the nations expenditures and right now the income is reduced and the expenditures inflated by a confluence of a recession and a couple of wars. The time to be talking about debt reduction is in good times not bad. The whole discussion seems to be being brought to bear right now because there is a rush to take advantage of a crisis.
sell more DVDs than anyone else for a bunch of reasons other than that they have the best DVDs available. The concept that content is king will be more important online than it is for stacking DVDs high and selling them cheap.
is he saying that if the hardware he made was, say, 20% more power hungry and 10% more expensive it would have rendered Google's business idea unworkable. I'm not sure I buy it. Maybe it allowed him to scale up with less capital, but I think a 20% slower google would still have won hearts and minds during the period it was being created.
Perhaps care is hard to engender, but with some education perhaps it would be possible to convince some of the less "out there" parents to water down their hostility.
I absolutely agree with your post, but dammit I want partnership from the school too. I want my kids to have a rich experience socially artistically and academically while they are at school and I rely on the school staff and resources deliver the things that I am not qualified to deliver for their education. I expect the principal to know who I am and who my children are (he does) and to actively manage my children's school experience to make it as fruitful as possible.
I agree with much of what you write, but I'm not convinced that this alone would make much difference in whether some parents give a damn about their kids' education. I'm sure the Gates foundation has a lot of clever people looking at this problem and I'm hardly likely to come up with an answer they did not explore, but if it were me I would have done more to reach out to intransigent parents. At my kids' school, crappy parenting seems to be the most insurmountable of a child's disabilities.
I like a command line for my own use too, but it sucks for talking someone through something over the phone and recently I've seen a whole bunch of IT services being devolved to the end users (eg software installation) using a document full of screenshots for users to follow. To my mind, one advantage of GUI over cli is that it is more acceptable to users to be given instructions spanning several pages of color pictures than it would be to tell them to type even a few simple unfamiliar commands into a command line even where the user is a reasonable person. I think that may stem from there being fewer choices. After all once can type any idiotic or misheard thing at a command line especially if at least one person on the call is talking in a language other than their native tongue. User choices are more limited with forms and if you go with forms one may as well have pretty GUI forms as fast/businesslike curses forms.
I think you can crank start some diesel engines by activating a decompression lever, it basically lets you release the pressure in some or all of the cylinders so that you could get the engine spinning manually and then throw it the other way to allow each cylinder to compress and the engine to operate. I'm sure I've seen that done on small marine diesel engines.
that it is somehow immoral to charge $8 to fetch an out-of-copyright article. I don;t see it that way at all. The publisher has a legitimate right to cover the costs of hosting the material and making it available, it's similar to buying an copy of "Treasure Island" I would expect to pay for a printed copy of it at a bookshop even though the content is in the public domain..
Presumably the manufacturers of the FPGA would provide parts for dev kits (or for customers that don't care) that will accept any self-signed certificate. They already provide devices with lots of different options, the certificate options would only add a few more {xilinx CA, any CA acceptable, customer-1 CA, customer2 CA} etc. with parts accepting customerX CA only available to customer X. For all I care, they could provide them for programming by anything with a verisign certificate if they wanted to or any combination of different CAs. The acceptable CA descriptions, like the certificate revocations don't take up much room and one can fit a lot of ROM on a die
gives a reasonable description of what all of this means, but it seems to me that xilinx are approaching this wrongly. They should create a chain of trust and sign vendors certificates (or for large production runs allow purchasers to do so). The FPGA would only accept a signed bitstream that can be traced back to a particular vendor. All new FPGAs should have a burned in CRL and a burned in xilinx-signed certificate in ROM. That would allow mutual authentication at least. you can layer encryption on top of that if you wish, it is, after all, an FPGA, especially a high-end FPGA like a virtex is an expensive programmable device. I see no reason why the new FPGAs should differ in pinout or other specs aside from fixing their crypto algorithms to make them less susceptable to DPA, so this problem will eventually become obsolete as new boards use the new parts with no hardware re-design.
If I'm wearing sunglasses my irises are not in plain sight. It's a well known fact that all criminals wear sunglasses even when it's dark. At least, the blues brothers did.
The FCC could apply a "bid multiplier" for bids that plan to make the spectrum open access. It might even be a good thing if someone were to buy the rights and make the spectrum open to all except mobile license holders. Quite frankly I'm a little fed up of seeing unlicensed bands crowded with services by the big players who already own licensed spectrum for mobile applications.
or... Why do business in the EU. No-one forced Microsoft to provide a cloud service in the EU, perhaps a local competitor will emerge that in not patriot-act encumbered.
That's because it's seen as being an effective way to woo business to set up in the UK instead of elsewhere in the EU, rather like corporate tax breaks only with less hit to the exchequer. UK citizens are literally selling their freedom and there will be less fuss over it than there was over similar scams like relaxed pollution controls, looser banking regulation etc. because I'm sure that most people value these freedoms less than the alternative things that government has to offer as enticement to business. In return, IP-based businesses will design their structure such that they can quickly and cheaply hop from nation to nation as it suits them to seek out the loosest regulatory environment. Rather like IP suits have found themselves a home in East Texas. Perhaps Lichtenstein will emerge as a prison state where none of its inhabitants have any rights at all but is "home" to 90% of all EU tech companies.
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Now the only question is did they release raw data, or the "adjusted" data...
Exactly; I want to see the data's birth certificates.
Quite frankly I've heard nothing constructive from either side of the abortion debate, they just want to drive the wedge deeper to fire up their respective bases. It seems to me at times that politicians on both sides would most profit if the abortion rate went up.
That seems to me to point more to the shameful progressive widening of the income gap between rich and poor than to "running the country on the backs of the wealthy".
What I don't get is why now ? The debt has piled up in good times and bad under administrations of both stripes. The purpose of the debt is to bridge the gap between the nations income and the nations expenditures and right now the income is reduced and the expenditures inflated by a confluence of a recession and a couple of wars. The time to be talking about debt reduction is in good times not bad. The whole discussion seems to be being brought to bear right now because there is a rush to take advantage of a crisis.
sell more DVDs than anyone else for a bunch of reasons other than that they have the best DVDs available. The concept that content is king will be more important online than it is for stacking DVDs high and selling them cheap.
is he saying that if the hardware he made was, say, 20% more power hungry and 10% more expensive it would have rendered Google's business idea unworkable. I'm not sure I buy it. Maybe it allowed him to scale up with less capital, but I think a 20% slower google would still have won hearts and minds during the period it was being created.
Perhaps care is hard to engender, but with some education perhaps it would be possible to convince some of the less "out there" parents to water down their hostility.
I absolutely agree with your post, but dammit I want partnership from the school too. I want my kids to have a rich experience socially artistically and academically while they are at school and I rely on the school staff and resources deliver the things that I am not qualified to deliver for their education. I expect the principal to know who I am and who my children are (he does) and to actively manage my children's school experience to make it as fruitful as possible.
I agree with much of what you write, but I'm not convinced that this alone would make much difference in whether some parents give a damn about their kids' education. I'm sure the Gates foundation has a lot of clever people looking at this problem and I'm hardly likely to come up with an answer they did not explore, but if it were me I would have done more to reach out to intransigent parents. At my kids' school, crappy parenting seems to be the most insurmountable of a child's disabilities.
a heartwarming story about the good that viruses do, instead of the constant bad press...
I like a command line for my own use too, but it sucks for talking someone through something over the phone and recently I've seen a whole bunch of IT services being devolved to the end users (eg software installation) using a document full of screenshots for users to follow. To my mind, one advantage of GUI over cli is that it is more acceptable to users to be given instructions spanning several pages of color pictures than it would be to tell them to type even a few simple unfamiliar commands into a command line even where the user is a reasonable person. I think that may stem from there being fewer choices. After all once can type any idiotic or misheard thing at a command line especially if at least one person on the call is talking in a language other than their native tongue. User choices are more limited with forms and if you go with forms one may as well have pretty GUI forms as fast/businesslike curses forms.
Isn't that what diesel originally ran his engines on.
I think you can crank start some diesel engines by activating a decompression lever, it basically lets you release the pressure in some or all of the cylinders so that you could get the engine spinning manually and then throw it the other way to allow each cylinder to compress and the engine to operate. I'm sure I've seen that done on small marine diesel engines.
that it is somehow immoral to charge $8 to fetch an out-of-copyright article. I don;t see it that way at all. The publisher has a legitimate right to cover the costs of hosting the material and making it available, it's similar to buying an copy of "Treasure Island" I would expect to pay for a printed copy of it at a bookshop even though the content is in the public domain..
Presumably the manufacturers of the FPGA would provide parts for dev kits (or for customers that don't care) that will accept any self-signed certificate.
They already provide devices with lots of different options, the certificate options would only add a few more {xilinx CA, any CA acceptable, customer-1 CA, customer2 CA} etc. with parts accepting customerX CA only available to customer X. For all I care, they could provide them for programming by anything with a verisign certificate if they wanted to or any combination of different CAs. The acceptable CA descriptions, like the certificate revocations don't take up much room and one can fit a lot of ROM on a die
gives a reasonable description of what all of this means, but it seems to me that xilinx are approaching this wrongly.
They should create a chain of trust and sign vendors certificates (or for large production runs allow purchasers to do so). The FPGA would only accept a signed bitstream that can be traced back to a particular vendor. All new FPGAs should have a burned in CRL and a burned in xilinx-signed certificate in ROM. That would allow mutual authentication at least. you can layer encryption on top of that if you wish, it is, after all, an FPGA, especially a high-end FPGA like a virtex is an expensive programmable device.
I see no reason why the new FPGAs should differ in pinout or other specs aside from fixing their crypto algorithms to make them less susceptable to DPA, so this problem will eventually become obsolete as new boards use the new parts with no hardware re-design.
now what ?
If I'm wearing sunglasses my irises are not in plain sight. It's a well known fact that all criminals wear sunglasses even when it's dark. At least, the blues brothers did.
Maybe I should make it a giant tinfoil hat, then I can take mine off when I'm indoors.
I could probably put a white tarp over it in Summer and pull it off int he Winter, it might even stop the moss growing on the shingles.
The FCC could apply a "bid multiplier" for bids that plan to make the spectrum open access. It might even be a good thing if someone were to buy the rights and make the spectrum open to all except mobile license holders. Quite frankly I'm a little fed up of seeing unlicensed bands crowded with services by the big players who already own licensed spectrum for mobile applications.
your use of the term Anti-news Corp really summed it up for me. I think they should change their name to that.
What evidence do you have that taxes are going up in the USA ? I found this pretty quickly and it shows the opposite.
or... Why do business in the EU. No-one forced Microsoft to provide a cloud service in the EU, perhaps a local competitor will emerge that in not patriot-act encumbered.
That's because it's seen as being an effective way to woo business to set up in the UK instead of elsewhere in the EU, rather like corporate tax breaks only with less hit to the exchequer. UK citizens are literally selling their freedom and there will be less fuss over it than there was over similar scams like relaxed pollution controls, looser banking regulation etc. because I'm sure that most people value these freedoms less than the alternative things that government has to offer as enticement to business.
In return, IP-based businesses will design their structure such that they can quickly and cheaply hop from nation to nation as it suits them to seek out the loosest regulatory environment. Rather like IP suits have found themselves a home in East Texas. Perhaps Lichtenstein will emerge as a prison state where none of its inhabitants have any rights at all but is "home" to 90% of all EU tech companies.